Andrew Beath

Watching him pull off that accent was a real trip.

I found out yesterday a friend of mine who has ALS is in the ICU with a collapsed lung. Such a cruel disease.

Best news story I’ve read in a while!

“Only one of the 02 unit commanders picked up my call. He’d just arrived in Sacramento, California . . .There is no plan yet for him or his men. They’d been dispersed across the country, “but our skills and abilities are not being utilized and we are jobless.””

“I tried to find out what the U.S. was going to do with all the men it had trained to kill with precision. Would it just dump them into America? Or would it find a new use for them?”

ProPublica did an excellent piece about the 02 unit in Nangarhar: www.propublica.org/article/afgh...

Can development aid counter insurgencies? Lessons from Afghanistan Despite extensive investment in development initiatives aimed at building state legitimacy and countering insurgencies, evidence from Afghanistan suggests that such programmes can reduce violence when...

🆕 Can development aid counter insurgencies? Lessons from Afghanistan

Today on VoxDev, Andrew Beath (World Bank), Fotini Christia (MIT) & Ruben Enikolopov (@upf.edu) discuss the impact of state building and counterinsurgency initiatives: voxdev.org/topic/instit...

It seems that this is AI. He called the behavior “unacceptable” in the press conference, but don’t think he said he wouldn’t play in the US again.

Great episode, Ward! Wonderful to see it come together.

I feel strangely reassured by more evidence that our most advanced chatbot is a manipulative dork.