@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.
#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 — 👍 7 🔁 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 — 👍 105 🔁 24 💬 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 — 👍 35 🔁 14 💬 14 📌 8
"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 — 👍 2178 🔁 434 💬 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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So glad sthg like this is finally happening, largely thx to @kristenthomasen.bsky.social. Been ~2.5 years now of layers of disheartenment & sustained moral injury (5 if count covid), and a public discussion focused specifically on Canadian complicity, from a tech /tech law angle, is long overdue.
02.03.2026 15:36 — 👍 23 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 0
As @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social notes, international law isn't a principle to be sacrificed on the altar of hard-headed self-interest: it's a core Canadian national interest, and should be defended as such.
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Like Carney's Davos speech, it could've served as a global rallying cry (Even Canada is opposed!) and a dagger to the heart of Trump's power. It could've struck a blow for the international law Canada needs to survive as an independent country. Instead Carney chose, again, to go along to get along.
02.03.2026 15:45 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Canada's fundamental national interest is in a non-authoritarian US, embedded in the international rule of law. Carney's statement served neither goals.
Imagine the signal it would've sent if Carney had displayed even a modicum of courage and wisdom, and called out the illegality of Trump's war.
Mark Carney's embrace of Trump's illegal, falsehood-based war isn't hard-headed realpolitik: it's a direct enabling of a tyrant wannabe who poses an existential threat to Canada.
As Timothy Snyder argues, only by resisting Trump's lies can the US--and Canada, and the world--hope to get through this.
“We invoke international law and the “rules based international order” when adversaries engage in unlawful actions, but abandon those same rules entirely when it’s the Americans…For a country that depends on law more than force for its own security, that is not realism; it is recklessness.”
02.03.2026 11:53 — 👍 109 🔁 37 💬 0 📌 2
“Mr. Carney in a Mumbai speech Saturday said Ottawa can work with partners even if it sometimes disagrees with them.”
Or even if that country sometimes murders Canadian citizens, on Canadian soil.
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If the rumours are true and the kids and social media consultation opens today, here are two things I think should be banned from
social media:
1) AI bots
2) recommendations algorithms that optimise for time on site
Firm regulation of both of these things is possible and auditable
This is an illegal war breaching international law.
Canadian military cannot be involved in aiding the Trump war.
The Prime Minister must clarify.
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