Trump's weaponization of "terrorism" hides the administration's own uses of terror and reveals the threat of arbitrary power. Sharing this op ed I wrote for ABC Religion & Ethics www.abc.net.au/religion/jes...

Trump’s weaponisation of the term ‘terrorism’ and the threat of arbitrary power - ABC Religion & Ethics

The Trump administration’s expansive and misleading use of ‘terrorism’ is not just a problem of terminology: rather, it reveals the administration’s blatant disregard of, and even contempt for, extern...

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I always dreamed of getting a PhD so I could spend half my work week struggling to investigate AI use in essays

Beautiful New Zealand 🇳🇿

🚨Just published with @cspjournal.bsky.social: A Civilisational Imaginary of Western Military Technology I look at how narratives of “civilisation” and “The West” distort thinking around the design, regulation, and use of military technology, including military AI www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🚨Just published with @cspjournal.bsky.social: A Civilisational Imaginary of Western Military Technology I look at how narratives of “civilisation” and “The West” distort thinking around the design, regulation, and use of military technology, including military AI www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I don’t think there’s any philosopher who, were they alive today, would have wiser things to say about our current technological condition. Just got hold of this new English translation of Günther Anders.

Completely agree with this. Tech companies need to recognise that for a not insignificant portion of users, AI has become an inferior stand-in for meaningful human connection, and work to lesson the risk. An ethical duty to dehumanise the non-human. thedispatch.com/article/anth...

The Pentagon/Anthropic Clash Over Military AI Guardrails, my latest @opiniojuris.bsky.social together with @elkeschwarz.bsky.social @profbode.bsky.social @zenaassaad.bsky.social and @ncrenic.bsky.social opiniojuris.org/2026/02/26/t...

The Pentagon/Anthropic Clash Over Military AI Guardrails

[Jessica Dorsey is an Assistant Professor of International Law at Utrecht University School of Law; Elke Schwarz is a Professor of Political Theory at Queen Mary University London; Ingvild Bode is …

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If you're looking for a summary of the Anthropic/DoD public debate & the safety, legal & ethical issues @jessicadorsey.bsky.social @elkeschwarz.bsky.social @profbode.bsky.social @ncrenic.bsky.social & I summarised the debate in our @opiniojuris.bsky.social article 👇🏼 opiniojuris.org/2026/02/26/t...

The Pentagon/Anthropic Clash Over Military AI Guardrails

[Jessica Dorsey is an Assistant Professor of International Law at Utrecht University School of Law; Elke Schwarz is a Professor of Political Theory at Queen Mary University London; Ingvild Bode is …

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The Anthropic-U.S. DoD public dispute continues. We have unpacked the latest updates & the safety, legal & ethical concerns in our @opiniojuris.bsky.social article @jessicadorsey.bsky.social @elkeschwarz.bsky.social @profbode.bsky.social @ncrenic.bsky.social opiniojuris.org/2026/03/02/i...

(Ir-)Responsible by Design? Corporate Guardrails and the Governance of Military AI

[Jessica Dorsey is an Assistant Professor of International Law at Utrecht University School of Law; Elke Schwarz is a Professor of Political Theory at Queen Mary University London; Ingvild Bode is …

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🚨 Read my new article, where I share some concerns about AI in war and the endless pursuit of optimisation. Open Access! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🚨 Read my new article, where I share some concerns about AI in war and the endless pursuit of optimisation. Open Access! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

2024: "I'm voting for Trump to lower the cost of eggs" 2026: "your son died a hero in the Greenlandic liberation wars"

I miss the evil billionaires who'd try to buy their way into heaven by funding massive public libraries

If you wrote a book 10 years ago that started with, "...the year is 2026, European leaders scramble to prevent a US invasion of Greenland", the editor would tell you to calm down.

Academics are far too relaxed about writing for two years and having three people read it

Engaging and insightful analysis: "The gross imbalance between the emphasis on perpetrators’ moral character, suffering, and interests, on the one hand, and the devastating moral and physical injuries suffered by the victims of war crimes, on the other, is typically erased by war crime apologia."

Neil Renic@ncrenic.bsky.social · 9mo ago

🚨 My article, with Jessica Wolfendale and Chris Elliott, is now available (open access) with @risjnl.bsky.social. We systematically detail and critique war crime apologism - efforts to excuse, downplay, or even celebrate battlefield atrocity. Give it a read! cup.org/49gmlUi

I wrote some articles this year that i'm proud of - on the themes of war, violence, and technology. Compiled below for your reading convenience:

“What if we made the most morally demented man in America President twice?”

The best thing about American culture war exporters is their literal inability to find places outside the U.S on a map

Morning

Paid fellowship in awesome Hamburg in the field of ethics in international security. Fantastic opportunity for a PhD or new graduate - APPLY!

Just finished - brilliant! A fantastic book, highlighting the powerful, and often dark, work done by terms such as “pre-history”, “civilisation”, and “barbarism” throughout history.

Historians: “in this opening volume, I consider British cavalry innovation from 1817 (January) to 1817 (May)” Economists: “in this blog post, I explain human origins, progress, and decline”

The review process

For a small fee, I will unfairly attack your PhD online, increasing your readership in the resulting backlash

🚨New First View Article🚨 "Dirty hands, savage enemies, and bad apples: A taxonomy of war crimes apologia" by Christopher Elliott, @ncrenic.bsky.social & Jessica Wolfendale is now available #OpenAccess! Check it out here 📄 ➡️ buff.ly/i8OUoL1

Methodology

From mid-November on, before you send an email ask yourself if this is really a 2025 problem

'The logic of algorithms tends to repeat what "works," but art opens up what is possible' - Pope Leo