José Marichal

"Insult comic" diplomacy... We'll see how that works long term

All this is fine (politically, not morally) as long as the US is never in a position to need things from world leaders. Some ppl think the world is all about leverage and power, but dignity and humiliation are also strong motivators.

From Axios:

"The first 100 hours of the war alone are estimated to have cost $3.7 billion dollars"

Iran’s ‘suicide drones’ have sent shockwaves through the global economy This time, the war has come home immediately in terrifying new ways – and the fallout for the financial markets may quickly spin out of control, says Chris Blackhurst

My meta take on war with Iran: there are tactical advantages to being an analog country in a digital world

www.independent.co.uk/voices/iran-...

Jonathan Meades: Architects are the last people who should shape our cities New, shiny buildings are all well and good, says Jonathan Meades, but what architects forget about is a sense of place – and the beauty of wastelands

Love this 2012 essay (even if its a bit polemical). Though it's about architecture, it can as easily apply to our algorithmically curated and surveiled lives:

"Architects cannot ... understand the appeal of untidiness and randomness, and even if they could they wouldn't know how to replicate it."

This feels like when aging rockers try to capitalize on a nostalgia trend and go on tour.... "Neo-con-palooza"

How to Become an Algorithmic Problem José Marichal, author of You Must Become an Algorithmic Problem: Renegotiating the Socio-Technical Contract, joined the Tech Policy Press podcast.

Biggest fear I have is that tech tools have allowed us to create "ontological enclosures" that allow us to curate realities we find unpleasant. So we can ask -- "if a global war breaks out and it doesn't show up in your TikTok feed, did it happen"? I talk a bit about this here

Proofreading is woke

Good stuff Dave! I agree that academic publishing is going to have to change.. maybe this means journals go online only and accepted submissions become "ensembles" of papers, apps, interactive dashboards that highlight the importance of the question... and possibly how the findings can be applied.

You're being much too reasonable for this topic 😁

We've entered a new phase of foreign policy where the affordances and incentives of the social media attention economy drive the norms of geo-politics. From realpolitik to "rant-politik"

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Talking s**t about the rest of the world is an interesting foreign policy appoach.. not "realpolitic" maybe "rant-politic"

This isn't "realist foreign policy" anymore... It's something else

How much could the war with Iran cost the United States? President Donald Trump described the strikes as a “major combat operation” inside Iran and said the objective was to “ensure that Iran does not obtain a nuclear weapon”. He also said of Iran’s militar...

Not the worst part of all this, but worth noting....

"The first 24 hours of Operation Epic Fury cost approximately $779 million, according to estimates cited by officials. "

Stories are how we connect to one another....

Ok:

I see trees of green
red roses too
I see them bloom
for me and for you

Not loving "hold my beer' foreign policy

To everyone just learning about Shahed threat, I suggest you see this video from Ukrainian drone pilot (me) about how and why Russian Shahed / Geran drones are so problematic.

Go watch it.

youtu.be/aZMQ5AMacXM

Something I haven't heard many folks talk about.. it takes a lot more money and time to build an defensive interceptor missile than it does to build a drone... and Iran can supposedly make hundreds of cheap drones a day. At some point soon, I imagine gulf states will burn through their arsenal?

ok but can the UAE keep up this pace.. it costs a lot more to intercept a drone than to launch a drone.. do they have enough interceptor missiles?

Why am I just learning now how good The Comeback was?

Strikes me that, in his mind, he thinks "those stupid politicians couldn't do regime change in the middle east.... But I can because I'm very smart"

Radical Hope by Kevin M. Gannon | Open Library Radical Hope by Kevin M. Gannon, 2020, West Virginia University Press edition, in English

Finally read @thetattooedprof.bsky.social 's _Radical Hope_ a few weeks ago when I was feeling down, and it was all that I'd been wishing for and more.

Starting with a chapter called "Classrooms of Death" & ending with "I Don't Know… Yet", it's one of the best pedagogy books I've read in a while.

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We're about to find out if the practice of shaking down smaller subcontractors in business translates into foreign policy statecraft.

usw.org/billionaire-...

I think this is just a paleo-con version of the Bush admin Straussians.... Use your might to remake the world, but abandon any pretense to international law or mutual benefit

This is what is wish I'd see more of -- what are the potential consequences of this brand of "offensive realism"?

I'd be worried that future administration are going to want to see receipts for a RICO case

Wow! I imagine her saying this with blue face paint on and a Scottish accent 😁

We should treat it for what it is.. an effort to dismantle intentional law and replace it with "might makes right"