Attendez… mais c’est une énorme entorse à toute déontologie et même à tout conception de l’honneur. Le mec fait des accusations anonymes puis les relaie en tant que « journaliste » ? Il devrait être mis à la porte de tous les médias sérieux.

Olivier Tesquet@oliviertesquet.bsky.social · 2d ago

Le Figaro nous apprend que le mystérieux créateur du compte Balance ton Claude est en réalité Samuel Fitoussi, investisseur dans l’IA et… chroniqueur au Figaro. L’un des premiers a avoir relayé la polémique autour de Thélyson Orélien. www.lefigaro.fr/culture/qui-...

Going from claiming your company is working on technology that might destroy humanity to leaking you’re on track to generate $100 billion in sales this year, just in time for the IPO. Makes it hard to defend the claims that this hasn’t all been a cynical form of marketing and regulatory capture.

I have a new paper out! It looks into the early history of nuclear secrecy and examines how US standards of secrecy diffused toward European allies through coercion and imitation, shaping their domestic practices. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Exporting nuclear secrecy. The transatlantic diffusion of nuclear secrecy practices in the postwar period (1945-1953)

Published in Cambridge Review of International Affairs (Ahead of Print, 2026)

tandfonline.com

A civilian geography professor was fired from West Point for pushing back after department officials barred faculty from teaching that humans contribute to climate change.

West Point professor fired after pushing back on limitations to teaching climate change, lawsuit says

Adam Kalkstein pushed back after department officials barred faculty from teaching that humans contribute to climate change, the lawsuit says.

stripes.com

Paris en Selle@parisenselle.fr · last mo.

Merci à @steinvanoosteren.bsky.social pour sa tribune sur Libération ! 👉 www.liberation.fr/idees-et-deb...

Shilling your book off a bloke's suicide is just so classless wtf, is he not rich enough already!? Bring back shame.

Jonathon Booth@jboothhistory.bsky.social · last mo.

yikes

His comment about becoming "head of the department of eugenics and race science at Harvard" seems to confirm that his whole DEI/race/woke-obsession is just him never having gotten over the fact that he was rejected at Harvard

christ, what a depressing story all round, and what a series of failures of responsibility to get to this.

Chris Berez@chrisberez.bsky.social · last mo.

Holy fucking shit Jason Arday found dead

An opportunity to repost my favorite Hume atheism persecution story

Kevin Zollman@kevinzollman.com · last mo.

Academia was so much better before Woke. Sure, David Hume was never able to secure an academic job because he might have been an atheist. But at least no one made him use the singular "they"

I dunno who needs to hear this (yeah I do it’s Americans) but. multiple countries on this earth have had civil wars. like. a lot of countries

Think twice about when to launch your nuclear war: traffic jam may ruin your day!

Fucking hell.

Matt Pearce@mattdpearce.com · 2mo ago

I’m learning that the people who gamified paragraphs are having trouble reading books. www.axios.com/2026/08/11/r...

honestly, the fact that we have made it through the atomic age *without* another use of nuclear weapons since 1945 is a miracle we don't fully appreciate

Rebecca R Helm@rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Today is the day the story There Will Come Soft Rain is set. An amazing and heartbreaking work of fiction for our modern age. Read it here:

My review of Rebecca Lubot’s book on the (nuclear) history of the US 25th Amendment is out with H-Diplo. It is a timely contribution, highlighting how deterrence constraints shape the institutions of democratic states. I recommend it! networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

In that context: July 23, 2026, was the busiest day for commercial air travel ever, according to data from @flightradar24.com A whopping 153,359 commercial flights were tracked worldwide. This is absurd.

Jason Hickel: "This new study finds that the total death toll in Europe during the June heatwave exceeds 20,000 people." "This result highlights the accelerating threat of mass heat mortality events in Europe despite previous adaptations to heat." Pre-print below.

"What is developing is so far beyond any global climate event that has impacted modern industrial civilization that predicting much of what’s coming is educated guesswork" climatecasino.substack.com/p/some-monst...

Some Monsters are Real

What's coming has never been seen before in the history of modern global industrial civilization ... and it's just getting started.

climatecasino.substack.com

A whole dang story about NATO contemplating resilience at the Port of Rotterdam (a key hub for military logistics in case of a conflict in Europe) without a single mention of sea level rise: www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe...

Ahead of summit, NATO eyes the security of Europe’s ports and bridges

If war breaks out in Europe, the resilience of civilian hubs – such as ports – might be as critical as the size of armies. This will be a major theme of NATO’s annual summit.

csmonitor.com

www.newscientist.com/article/2533...

Collapse of AMOC ocean current may already be locked in

The fate of the Atlantic Ocean current that keeps Europe’s climate warm depends on our carbon emissions and the rate of ice melt from Greenland, but there is a chance that a shutdown is already inevit...

newscientist.com

Quite a bit of convergent sources. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

Back on my bullsh

Un texte qui me semble tout à fait important: critique des orientations du directeur de ScPo Luis Vassy en matière d'études internationales, avec de très bons rappels sur l'efficacité des outils des sciences sociales, y compris pour penser de façon "réaliste" la "puissance" aoc.media/analyse/2026...

Penser le monde d’aujourd’hui avec des idées d’hier : Luis Vassy et l'international - AOC media

Le directeur de Sciences Po a publié dans Le Grand Continent sa vision des études internationales : un retour au réalisme stratégique, une méfiance assumée envers le droit, une approche réduite à ce q...

aoc.media

This is really funny inpreparation.substack.com/p/opinion-i-...

Opinion: I Was Not Allowed To Type Prompts Into ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk And This Is Discrimination

By Dr. Rachel Simmons, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University

inpreparation.substack.com

What is the timeline of this kind of proposals? The UK retired the WE.177 in the 90s. It would probably have to redesign a warhead, or rework existing designs, without the possibility of testing and, presumably, with strained US support (French support maybe?).

Must be nice to live one's life is a fantasy world and still get to claim you are doing science.

"This thing is an environmental nightmare" - @armscontrolwonk.bsky.social on Burevestnik www.npr.org/2026/06/18/n...

Report: Russia's nuclear-powered 'Skyfall' missile is dirty and dangerous

MIT researchers think they've worked out exactly how Russia's Burevestnik nuclear-powered missile flies. "It's almost certainly a terrible idea," one analyst said. "But it's not an impossible idea."

npr.org

A great critique of dangerously irresponsible science journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

journals.sagepub.com

The Journal of American-East Asian Relations has some interesting new articles on the atomic bomb and the end of the Pacific war. brill.com/view/journal...