@stevencurtis.bsky.social
Diplomatic Studies | Public & Diaspora Diplomacy | Higher Education | International Relations | Learning & Teaching in Politics | Film | Classical Music & Jazz Associate Professor of IR at London Metropolitan University | National Teaching Fellow (2011)
Thank you, America, for re-electing this lying, corrupt, arsehole Russian-stooge rapist, who completely lacks any moral compass
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As George Ball warned LBJ as he considered escalating US commitment in the Vietnam war, “Once on the tiger's back, we cannot be sure of picking the place to dismount”
If you are out for a walk or just sitting around at home, this is worth 90 minutes of your time. A nice selection of music in different styles about which Saunders speaks engagingly and with great humility
“Just for fun”: the Dumbass Theory of US foreign policy, Trump’s frat-boy reworking of Nixon’s Madman Theory
Accommodation and procedural issues at the #multilateral negotiations leading to the Treaty of Westphalia
#GI5051 #GI5052 #GI7037
Ideally, you’d do that before you started a war
"What lifts us out of nature is the only thing whose nature we can know: language. ... Our first sentence expresses unequivocally the intention of universal and unconstrained consensus.”
Altman, Musk and those other LLM wankers wouldn't understand
war seems to be going to plan!
That’s nothing. I am on a rail-replacement bus for daring to travel at the weekend
How to influence the president’s “thinking”
The fruits of small-group decision making led by “a very stable genius” #GI4059 #GI4055 #Gi5051
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Thank God there was only one
Come on, own up! Who in the hell has been talking up Essex???
‘No clear goal’: lack of Iran war plan has unleashed chaos and could stymie US military for decades, say critics #GI4055 #GI4059
Hello from Minnesota
“AI can never be AI without humans. It is not artificial intelligence. It’s African intelligence...We are training our own death. We train ChatGPT and it’s killing us slowly.”
Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. Now, they're fighting back.
this means it is not open for transit
Trump doing Russian whataboutism on Putin’s behalf
Time to start cloning that nose?
Can this be a solution?
No shit
Nobody has ever been as online as these people. They think they can meme themselves to victory.
As discussed in our #GI4059 class on the #MiddleEast this afternoon, here is the recording of Arafat visibly shaken at the news of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on New York. Clearly he could see it was going to make the situation of the Palestinians even more difficult
i bet this shit sounds magical if you're fucking stupid
At least Saddam’s regime had collapsed when Bush declared “mission accomplished”
Well, that shouldn’t be called beer
#gastrodiplomacy #gastro-antidiplomacy #GI7100 @levantine18.bsky.social
Trump makes Keir Starmer sound like Winston Churchill 😀
