Collin Sullivan

Smells Like Teen Spirit: Youth Political Engagement and Issue Adoption in Official Party Platforms

Lightning Crashes: Random Political Shocks and Volatility in Spanish Bond Yields

You Oughtta Know: Prior Beliefs About Issue Knowledge and Negotiation Breakdown in the Paris Climate Talks

Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me: Recruitment, Reward, and Removal in Small Coalition Political Systems

More Than Words: Cheap Talk and Costly Signals in the Cuban Missile Crisis

90s rock songs as political science paper titles:

Only Happy When it Rains: Social Media Sentiment Analysis of Agricultural Subregions Experiencing Drought Using Rainfall as an Instrument

The arbitrary exercise of government power is the signature act of authoritarian regimes

The JCPOA was one of the greatest diplomatic achievements of the 21st century. Multiple nations, several powerful blocks, a ton of oversight and the entire time diplomats were working it out domestic American media & politicians were demonizing it, lying about it, and trying to sabotage it. They won

One of the most important and clear charts you'll ever see.

Jeez, I just saw that the US has bombed Iran and here I am arguing set theory with strangers on the Internet. Ugh. You can have the last word if you'd like. No disrespect and thanks for the conversation.

So when you write that "BONOBO is in both sets A and B," well, it's not present in set B.

This is a union joke (thank a union comedian!)

☝️ That was also a union joke, but a bad one.

In this case, you can make"bonobo" using elements from only set A, or using elements present in *either* set (union), but not elements present in both (intersection), which, again, are only b and o.

That wouldn't make sense for the joke, so it does seem like it is saying, "if you mix Bono and oboe, you get bonobo(e)," which is true when you take the union of the two, but not the intersection (since n is required for bonobo, but only present in one of the component sets).

This is a pretty silly argument to have, but, acknowledging that, if we assume 'elements of unordered sets,' you can spell "bonobo" using only elements in set A, so the bonobo image should just be the whole Bono circle. The overlap from set B would include the o and b, but not the e.

I'm not quite sure how the intersection (which includes only elements that are present in both sets) could include "bonobo" when set B (oboe) has no "n". B and O are the only elements present in both sets. They are not sufficient to spell "bonobo."

But... only the "o" is in *both* sets. ( Bon (o) boe )

Bonobo(e) is the union of the two, not the intersection.

A + B - (intersection of A and B) = Union

Bono + Oboe - o = Bonoboe

(Yes, yes, fun at parties, etc. etc.)

Doesn't even qualify this with references to ostensible violence and disorder, just says protest will be met with force. The authoritarianism is more open and brazen by the day.

@nytdiff.bsky.social shows the way the changes developed (click through to the thread):

bsky.app/profile/nytd...

Sean Evans: You've argued that gender is a performance. Can you elaborate?

Judith Butler: Well gender cannot... *coughs* what the hell is this one?

SE: That's Angel of Death, it's made from Carolina Reaper peppers.

JB: *tears streaming down face* The acts constitute the... *wheezes* the identity

Incidentally, Orwell described doublethink as, "to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them... to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed..."

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They use high environmental and regulatory standards as a reason to believe that US-made products are safer and better-made, while dismantling those very environmental and regulatory standards.

This administration is happy to vary its argument depending on which is most convenient at the time.

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There is no substitute for carefully-gathered evidence of human rights abuses. Unfortunately that evidence is not sufficient for accountability and prevention. But it is *absolutely* necessary. We are losing a key resource, and it's up to us to replace it with something stable and robust.

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The best time to begin this work -- training on journalistic methods and ethics, learning open source investigative tools and techniques, asking people what happened to them and their families and writing it down -- was yesterday. The second best time is today.

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Whereas previously human rights documentation was often used to inform and/or corroborate State Department reports, now it will be an indispensable resource to counter them, to fill in the glaring gaps, and to hold accountable the administration allies who are given a pass on rights abuses.

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One important implication of this change (among a sea of them): Rigorous, corroborated human rights documentation is (somehow) even more important now than it was before. It was already essential, but its role is shifting.

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* serious restrictions to internet freedom
* extensive gender-based violence
* violence or threats of violence targeting people with disabilities
* corruption in government

Long-standing, long-recognized, fundamental human rights.

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* forcibly returning a refugee or asylum-seeker to a home country where they may face torture or persecution
* serious harassment of human rights organizations
* involuntary or coercive medical or psychological practices
* arbitrary or unlawful interference with privacy ...

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The things the reports will no longer highlight include:

* denying freedom of movement and peaceful assembly
* retaining political prisoners without due process
* restrictions on free and fair elections ...

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The Country Reports were already subtly biased toward US allies, but they should now be seen as nothing more than state propaganda.

And this is not about the State Department expressing a culture-war policy preference and refusing to call out a country for, say, not respecting pronouns.

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