the problem really is that, even if you accept their claims about their technologies, it simply doesn't make them experts on politics or the outside world in general

Jeffrey Lewis@armscontrolwonk.bsky.social · last mo.

Along those lines …

This is... insane. The EU spent untold hours of human labor and political effort to create the DSA's intricate system of rules for platforms. And the CJEU is just smashing it, like a toddler.

Steve Peers@stevepeers.bsky.social · 4mo ago

EU, tech law CJEU: Member States can require age verification for porn, and ban rebroadcast of traffic cop information also ***a website that controls what viewers see via an algorithm is liable for the content*** curia.europa.eu/site/upload/...

This is just an invasion by any other name. In a just world, Israel would face the same treatment as Russia.

Saul Staniforth@saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Yesterday Israel ordered the inhabitants of Nabiteh to leave (population of 100,000) They then ordered the inhabitants of Tyre to leave (pop of 200,000). Now they've ordered the entire south to leave - up to 300 towns & villages. Alex Crawford reporting from Lebanon today

Wake up babe, another form of structural power just dropped

Melanie Sauter@melinscribe.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Somewhere Bismarck is looking down in confusion as Germany projects power by sending 4,000 pensioners, 12 buffet stations and a TUI loyalty program through the Strait of Hormuz

#Trump is a window of opportunity to advance new bilateral and regional trade agreements. Promoters of digital regulation should use it to move beyond a defensive posture and pivot toward globalising digital rules. open.substack.com/pub/matteone...

Counterattack: Is It Time to Make Digital Regulation Global?

How Trade Politics Could Globalise Digital Rules

open.substack.com

AI agents discovered trolling, another step towards the superintelligence apocalypse.

I learn this morning that Péter Magyar is neither Leon Trotski nor even Clement Attlee. Horror of horror! That he's not in Putin's pocket and wants to be a normal EU member will do for me, for the moment

Facing the reality that brutality and cruelty also have tradeoffs and are not a secret weapon that facilitates an easy victory, they are furious at being embarrassed by their lessers and seeing their theory of the world publicly discredited (not that they would ever acknowledge that)

We are delighted to welcome seven new fellows to the IWM in April: Khalid Bencherif, Richard Cockett, Naja Dyrendom Graugaard, Milorad Ivanovic, @matteonebbiai.bsky.social, @thomasseifert.bsky.social, and John C. Swanson. 👉 Learn more about their work on our website: www.iwm.at/news/new-fel...

Two of the journalists assassinated in South Lebanon this morning by Israel were Lebanese correspondents Ali Shoeib and Fatima Ftouni. They become the 252nd and 253rd journalists killed by Israel in the last two years. Unprecedented. (📸 Cradle Media)

www.ft.com/content/4f09... Genuinely hard to overstate how much of a strategic defeat it would be for the United States if the war ends with effective Iranian control of the Strait.

www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/con...

Conscious Uncoupling | Phenomenal World

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has declared a "rupture" in the liberal order. Can US allies organize themselves apart from the US?

phenomenalworld.org

1/ Disruptions mean countries will rush to exit US-led oil order Worst case scenario for oil companies (best for rest of us) is that people permanently shift...what they call “demand destruction“ i.e short term pain but Long: Iran war will accelerate ongoing STRUCTURAL shift to solar+EVs+batteries

Put the Strait of Hormuz on the blockchain. by Andrew Yang

we are losing so much talent, progress, and hope for no good reason www.vox.com/future-perfe...

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public. I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are. 1/ Here's what I can share:

North Korea Was Right About Nuclear Weapons open.substack.com/pub/persuasi...

North Korea Was Right About Nuclear Weapons

Yes, really.

open.substack.com

Why the US is facing strategic defeat @policytensor.bsky.social “The Trump administration needs to understand that there are no military solutions here. Talk to the Omanis. Find a diplomatic solution before this brings the whole house down on your heads.” policytensor.substack.com/p/why-the-us...

Why the US is facing strategic defeat

Drone, Missiles, THAAD

policytensor.substack.com

Yusuf@yusufimaadkhan.com · 7mo ago

The Kurdish Stratagem Risks an Israeli-Turkish War - @policytensor.bsky.social “The US already has no theory of victory beyond hurling bombs at Iran. If the US goes ahead with the Kurdish stratagem, it will risk expanding the war dramatically…” policytensor.substack.com/p/the-kurdis...

The government wants to Huawei any company that pursues a radical woke ideology like "no domestic mass surveillance" except it has no legal basis to do so and its rules for compliance are gobbledygook www.wired.com/story/anthro...

"long-range high-precision munitions are completely useless without targeting data: if you don’t know what you need to strike, high-precision is no longer an asset" bindinghook.com/data-really-...

Data really is the new ammo

As Europe aims for defence sovereignty, access to US data remains a thorny topic.

bindinghook.com

"it’s a little disturbing how closely this discourse follows climate-debate patterns set down 20 years ago by the right. Either a man-made phenomenon isn’t happening or, if it is, it’s not important". open.substack.com/pub/transfor...

Problem about the loneliness epidemic is, it's everywhere except in representative survey data. Let's look at where the claim comes from. 1/

Jon Mellon@jonmellon.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Case in point, @pengzell.bsky.social just sent me 5 papers proving that there’s not actually any evidence for a loneliness epidemic. My mind is highly changed

The EV debate in one picture: Even the smallest, most efficient gas car has a higher life-cycle footprint than the largest BEV. Size matters. Power matters. Powertrain matters more. This figure comes from this great paper: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

This effort to curry favor by acting like an insult comic will be forgotten within the Trump administration in a day, but will make headlines and be remembered for decades in the countries being insulted.

Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · 9mo ago

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent: “Denmark’s investment in U.S. Treasury bonds, like Denmark itself, is irrelevant” www.cnbc.com/2026/01/21/b...

Given Trump's mental health status, maybe newspapers are 4D chessing to let Trump believe he actually made that commitment. World order by performativity

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 9mo ago

it's bizarre to see both CNN and CNBC run with chyrons reporting that Trump said he won't "use force" to take Greenland, when the comments in question were clearly a threat to take Greenland by force. How naive are we at this point?

A good explainer of what might happen domestically if Trump chooses the military option on #Greenland

Euronews@euronews.com · 9mo ago

A US military action against Denmark’s arctic territory would be a violation of US law, with potentially massive political consequences. ➡️ https://l.euronews.com/74bx

"Restaurants are opening in DC" - Trump, 2026. "Restaurants are full" - Berlusconi, 2011, right before Italy's debt crisis.

1/Its easy to write off Trump as a mad king on Greenland. But it is as much about Court politics -- Trump and his insiders -- than simply a tantrum. Like any King, it is about makeup (hint: Estee Lauder). www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

How a billionaire with interests in Greenland encouraged Trump to acquire the territory

US president’s friend Ronald Lauder – who first proposed Arctic expansion – is now making deals in the island

theguardian.com

"there's a third possible response to tariffs, one that's just sitting there, begging to be tried: what about repealing anticircumvention law?" pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/3...