Luke Stark

it’s not just what he says, it’s the utter boredom with which he says it

this is fucking shocking, and while i know politics journalists think it's cliché to point this out, a democratic president would be impeached for delivering this speech in this way, and rightly so.

if you assume — and i do — that we're going to have to spend the next decade digging out all the ticks that got into this government through the first and, especially, second trump administrations, "how easily can a legislator be corrupted?" becomes an extremely important question to ask

This is a bombshell: "the Pentagon wanted the company to allow for the collection and analysis of unclassified, commercial bulk data on Americans, such as geolocation and web browsing data"

This kind of agenda echoes the defunded Total Information Awareness effort, post-9/11

This is right. And people hate to hear it, but Joe Biden’s single most important task was to Trump-proof the US.

His task was to destroy the Republican Party to punish them for Trump, salt the earth over them, and implement big structural reforms to stop future R minority extremism.
And he failed.

This is a graph of the death of US science.

yeah look man I'm not sure how much benefit of the doubt you can extend like come on

When I talk to students who’ve used AI to cheat (on condition of confidentiality) most describe it as an experience into which they feel pushed, one they don’t like. Yes, some want shortcuts; but most think it would be better to learn, if there was time or circumstance.

Jian Ghomeshi: 8 women accuse former CBC host of violence, sexual abuse or harassment One woman, actor Lucy DeCoutere, alleges she was slapped and choked without her consent.

Seeing people I know post Jian Ghomeshi videos about Iran in the wake of what happened today. I’m realizing now a lot of people outside of Canada don’t know his backstory. I would encourage folks to look him up before posting his content, please

www.thestar.com/news/gta/jia...

I think you can worry about American Islamophobia without minimizing American antisemitism. People literally shoot up synagogues in this country, it’s not an imaginary problem or a matter of microaggressions against bourgeois knowledge workers, which is how I see fellow leftists describing it

on the other hand the fact that they don't is good for figuring out who to mute

The ethical use of AI…. is to not use AI

Hard to see this as anything other than Stelter sucking up to his future bosses over at Paramount

It's really good to check in with Iranian students or co-workers right now.

But don't assume that they care about your hot takes.

International Relations Is Not a Morality Play: What To Expect From the War With Iran The Trump administration has no plan and no path to a good outcome.

"The most relevant question is not 'is this government bad?' or 'do they deserve it?' The most relevant question is 'will this use of military force make things better, enough to be worth the death and suffering it’ll impose?'

It’s hard to see how this will." www.liberalcurrents.com/internationa...

me: "AI" as a public or public-facing technology is primarily oriented toward the performance of plausibility and the post hoc rationalization/justification of a priori assumptions on the part of the user or audience.

cs people: nuh uh!!!

Recognizing the concept of a “sovereign state” is still relatively new in human history, I’m hard pressed to think of any time in that history where decapitation strikes against foreign heads of state was considered acceptable.

Three people who would still be alive today if not for Trumps desire to be seen as a tough guy. Five more whose lives are permanently altered bc of the same thing. There will be more of both and they will all be on Trumps head.

I am, for instance, unsure how our strategic counter-parties react to a reality where - at any time, even in the middle of negotiations - the United States might suddenly decide to blow up your cabinet or abduct your prime minister, with relatively little warning.

Of course it was fucking Saudi Arabia how could it ever not have been

Trump looks at an absolute monarchy held up by foreign slave labor and gets envy hives

Coffee bags, one is Tom of Finland with a Tom of Finland image on it. The other is Moomin with a Moomin leaning on a blueberry. More details: in the photograph of two "Art Roast" coffee bags on the shelf of a store with prices in euros. One of the bags is large and black and says HEAVY DUTY dark roast coffee beans, exclusive blend by Robert [I can't read it, it's in script]. The other is blue and says Blueberry coffee.

ah yes, the two genders

I’m honestly shocked that they’re using Claude to select targets. Not because I don’t think they’re capable of being that stupid, but I just didn’t think we’d get to that point so quickly.

Great thread. To be clear, just about every single component of the humanitarian system that we will likely need in the coming weeks is currently broken.

Oh, but definitely not a lawful target!

It tells you something about the disorientating rate of change underway that nobody is particularly shocked that a head of state has been assassinated by other states, something which has *never happened* in the modern era. Which is illegal under US law. Shed no tears for Khamanei, but still.

1/3

i uh, struggle to see how this is a lawful target under IHL/LOAC

world-altering decisions are being made by a cabal of gambling addicts hell bent on self enrichment no matter the cost to humanity, we should look into that.

Congratulations, America. "Insider trading on bombing" is a thing.

Oh I already know what it is.

Let them live out their lives in misery so that they die faster, as they don't bring economic value to Doug Ford's wealthy friends. (Except as a means to extract their life savings in private long term care homes that over charge and under deliver.)

I really wish it weren’t the case but real world events are making my research uncomfortably relevant. We wrote a paper last year that included a section on some of the concerns about using LLMs in open-ended strategic simulations (aka “wargames”). arxiv.org/abs/2509.17192