@bhaggart.bsky.social
Professor, Political Science, Brock University Knowledge governance, IPE, Sydney Swans tragic Co-author, with Natasha Tusikov, The New Knowledge: Information, Data and the Remaking of Global Power (Bloomsbury, 2023). Open Access.
Sad to hear of Dennis Cometti's passing. One of the great broadcasters, in footy or any sport. His grasp of metaphor and command of the English language was unmatched. Crucially, his play-by-play was often straight-up hilarious, worth the price of admission on its own.
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That's not my concern here. Bruce Arthur's an honest reporter/columnist. And the questions he's raising are being asked by a lot of Canadians.
04.03.2026 23:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
These two principles cover about 90% of what Carney’s done over the past year.
The more interesting question: Is Carney’s appeasement + economics-only/transactional approach to relationship-building capable of securing greater Canadian independence?
Is it that he’s raising doubts about what he stands for, or we don’t want to acknowledge what he stands for?
Because from where I sit, his actions have been remarkably consistent: economic transactions above all other concerns and don’t ever do anything to upset the US.
This should be the world's response...
04.03.2026 16:05 — 👍 32 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 1
PM Carney needs to come back to Canada and make his case for supporting Trump and Netanyahu to the Canadian people.
He is not a CEO. He is our democratically-elected representative. In this moment of global crisis he must explain his position and take direction from the people.
If you wouldn't ask murderers to make their case for why they didn't commit homicide, you should know better than to ask perpetrators of aggression to make the case of whether they violated international law.
It's not for Israel & the U.S. to decide if they violated int'l law 🤦♂️
I get asked to show up to book clubs, online and offline. Here is why from now on the answer is always "no." If you think this might have something to do with "AI" ruining yet another thing for everyone, you're absolutely 100% correct.
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Why @why.bsky.team Until December of last year I was using LLMs as fancy autocomplete for coding. It was nice for scaffolding out boilerplate, or giving me a gut check on some things, or banging out some boring routine stuff. In the past two months Claude has written about 99% of my code. Things are changing. Fast
in case you ever wondered why bsky breaks all the fuckin time and is increasingly a pile of jank
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#5DebutAlbums8589 Celebrating its 40th anniversary this month, the debut by Pet Shop Boys would become a smash on both sides of the Atlantic and launch the career of one of most influential pop acts of all time #MusicSky
04.03.2026 02:22 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
SCOOP: Anthropic was among the AI companies that submitted a proposal earlier this year to compete in a $100 million Pentagon prize challenge to produce technology for voice-controlled, autonomous drone swarming, acc to people familiar w/ matter.
And everyone is running around praising them for being "ethical"
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If you were Prime Minister and you issued a statement that *many* (including all national media) are taking to mean you support an illegal war started by the person who has been threatening your country, would you issue a clear, unambiguous statement that you do *not* support that war, or nah?
03.03.2026 17:47 — 👍 107 🔁 25 💬 8 📌 0
This Carney statement is puzzling. If, as he says, we must accept "the world as it is" – including the purported failure of previous diplomatic efforts and of the international order – then why call for a diplomatic solution, de-escalation, and respect for international law?
03.03.2026 22:58 — 👍 59 🔁 22 💬 19 📌 11
"Prime Minister Mark Carney says he supported Washington’s strikes on Iran “with regret” over the continued decline of the rules-based international order."
The rules-based international order declines when leaders like Carney fail to stand up for it. He's actively contributing to its decline.
Wonderful news: my university has announced it will stop using X. uwimprint.ca/uw-announced...
And no, this does not violate institutional neutrality, properly understood. Nothing about neutrality in communications requires a university to use any and all platforms.
30 years ago Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club accurately predicted that men under late capitalism, empty consumers who had come to think of themselves as “the middle children of history” with no great wars to fight, would eventually prank and shitpost their way into fascism.
03.03.2026 14:17 — 👍 2215 🔁 440 💬 18 📌 13
As a human being you have the right to be able to understand the world. That is why education is so important.
Any technology that hinders your understanding (even if it seemingly gives you capabilities) is deeply in- and anti-humane.
On day one of the war 165 children were murdered in a terror bombing of a school.
At one time such an atrocity would result in widespread condemnation.
Not any more.
We remain silent at our peril.
My latest piece.
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“Carney has not spoken with reporters in days, and his office cancelled a Monday press conference in India, following his meeting there with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.”
This prime minister is not someone who is bothered by the need to explain himself to his constituents.
The prime minister has been remarkably consistent in his actions and policies over the past year. It’s time to move beyond the *idea* of Carney and start taking his policies seriously, subjecting them to a serious critique. Because the problems with Carney’s actions aren’t bugs. They’re features.
03.03.2026 13:02 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 2And so, instead of fulsome analyses of the Carney Doctrine (trade above all other national interests; don’t ever, ever do anything to offend Trump, no matter the costs to Canadians: see Musk’s CSAM platform; refusing to stand up for int’l law), we get weak exhortations for Carney to act more wisely.
03.03.2026 13:02 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
They’re stuck on their idea of Carney, not on the actual person.
It’s amazing how Carney is simultaneously treated as the smartest, wisest human ever to lead the country while also getting the benefit of the doubt whenever his actions don’t fit his words, or he messes up (eg, re Iran, the DST).
Contra Andrew Phillips, Carney has been *extremely* clear on where he and his government stand both on trading off Canadians’ individual security for an Indian trade deal, and on supporting a Trump’s illegal war. It’s just that Phillips and others don’t want to believe him.
03.03.2026 13:02 — 👍 16 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 1
Me, usually: political scientists would make the worst politicians.
Me, right now: political scientists are the only good politicians.
“If we elevate fighter jets as “strategic” assets but dismiss a functioning education system as “mere aid,” and if we always find money for missiles but not for water or electricity, we are not protecting our societies. We are weakening them”
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At number 12: A perfect song from this Melbourne singer-songwriter (2018). A soft and haunting recollection of a young girl's experiences growing up. It hits hard. There's a video of the single edit, but you'll want to hear the 6 minute version.
#best100 #MusicSky
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First time MP and former international relations prof @willgreavesmp.bsky.social stands on principle.
As someone posted in the last 48 hours, Carney's Davos speech really does seem to have served as an inkblot test, with people interpreting it in different ways.
#CdnPoli
At number 12: A perfect song from this Melbourne singer-songwriter (2018). A soft and haunting recollection of a young girl's experiences growing up. It hits hard. There's a video of the single edit, but you'll want to hear the 6 minute version.
#best100 #MusicSky
youtu.be/G1egX_w_msM?...
Never been a fan of the way USians sounds or looks. Maybe Statesiders?
02.03.2026 19:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
here we go. just for you and @mollyquell.bsky.social
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