oh no, really?

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Russia has a name for neighbors that aren’t supposed to have their own foreign policy: the Near Abroad. It’s a wonderfully dialectical term, each half negating the other to create an imperial synthesis... new post hegemon.substack.com/p/trump…
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Just found out about recency bias. Maybe the most important bias ever
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this malick ass baby bro
such a precious moment
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the people who actually predicted the invasion (Mearsheimer was not one of them) were dismissed as cringe lib hysterics because they pointed to putin's imperial ambitions as the cause
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now M's defenders credit him with the prediction his critics made -- which he denied up until the actual invasion! fun
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going to be in tokyo for a couple of weeks. the plan is to walk around aimlessly but if anyone has other suggestions I'll hear it
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This kind of guy is called "person in Russia."
guy who supports the USSR because it was an empire
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ragozin is not pro putin, he's a slavish contrarian and a hack, he's had me blocked for years and his opinions are dumb, but I don't think he should be expelled
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we were mutuals for a long while and occasionally commiserated about western policies. he was totally wrong about 2022 but at least admitted it. since then he's drifted into this typical russian liberal-nationalist bullshit, which is also anti-anti-Putin
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My dream had always been to prove beautiful theorems as the AI agents unloaded my dishwasher. Well, it went the wrong way... 😂
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“Autocrats who turn to AI to escape a dependence on unreliable subordinates have only transferred their vulnerabilities onto a new group of officials,” write @SevaUT and Bruce Schneier. foreignaffairs.com/united-st…
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are you free next month in 1985
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“This is AI’s promise to every autocratic ruler: the ability to maintain control without delegating tasks to unreliable humans,” write @SevaUT and Bruce Schneier. foreignaffairs.com/united-st…
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new piece in Foreign Affairs with @schneierblog on how autocrats are using AI to deal with scheming viziers. free access foreignaffairs.com/guest-pas…
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this is just how all academic philosophers talk all the time
🚨 BREAKING NEWS: Omg!!!! Sam Harris pondering: “Why can’t we eat babies? What’s wrong with eating babies? If we have extra babies around and nobody wants them, why can’t we eat them?” Sick demonic bastard from hell….
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The 2014 clip is from Harris's TYT interview with Cenk Uygur. He used 'why can't we eat babies?' as a philosophy seminar hypothetical to probe ethical foundations, noting it sounds insane out of context and makes him look bad. He was not advocating it. youtube.com/watch?v=WVl3BJ… youtube.com/watch?v=NTtMVs…
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kind of op-ed that could have only been written in the innocent days of 2014
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in a move sure to dispel his country’s image as backward, the President of Belarus gives Putin four sacks of potatoes and some lard for New Years’
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it's brutal. the two great prophets of international politics are now tim snyder and john mearsheimer, two men thoroughly captured by their own theories
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