Henry Farrell

@himself.bsky.social

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Professor of democracy and international affairs. http://www.henryfarrell.net and newsletter at http://www.programmablemutter.com. Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (Holt, Penguin). https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781250840554. .. more

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Henry Farrell is an Irish-born political scientist at Johns Hopkins University. He previously taught at the University of Toronto and earned his PhD from Georgetown University. His research interests include trust and co-operation; e-commerce; the European Union; and institutional theory. He is an elected member of the Council on Foreign Relations. .. more

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 1h

There are only a couple of media subscriptions where every time they ask for my money I'm like "hell yes" and @theverge.com is one of them

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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 3h

Grateful to The Verge for publishing my essay on why large-language models are not going to achieve general intelligence nor push the scientific frontier.

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Is language the same as intelligence? The AI industry desperately needs it to be

The AI boom is based on a fundamental mistake.

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 14h

The work that they are doing is important.

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 14h

Larger media outlets have wavered since the first Trump term, but we've remained steadfast in our categorical rejection of MAGA in all its aspects and our affirmation of liberal democracy and the principles that it rests on.

In the second Trump term, we are growing: www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...

“Liberal Currents is raising funds to continue its work promoting a principled, humane liberalism: one that refuses to pick and choose whose freedom matters.” —Sharon Kuruvilla

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 22h

Have you read Charles Palliser's The Quincunx? Fallen into obscurity for no good reason, but in principle sounds like your kind of thing. Dickensian but with lots of twistiness.

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Laurent Pech 🇺🇦 @profpech.bsky.social · 1d

Bonus: Paper includes multiple tables contrasting Comm or Council's positive/panglossian assessments with expert assessments. One of paper's key points: increasing politicisation of toolbox comes with increasing gaslighting to hide this politicisation/gap btw EU rhetoric & reality of its (in)action

Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 1d

thank you!

Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 2d

seconded.

Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 2d

Strong recommend

Cover of "There is no anti-memetics division", by qntm

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Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 2d

Strong recommend

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Jonathan Ladd @jonmladd.bsky.social · 2d

I don't think this is a correct description of America's party system.

Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 2d

If anyone has an unpaywalled link to, or PDF of, the Guillou article, would be grateful for it.

Laurent Pech 🇺🇦 @profpech.bsky.social · 4d

An absolute scandal compounded in this case by failure of French government and EU institutions to forcefully react and sanction in turn those who have sanctioned ICC judges and prosecutors. Makes a total mockery of FR/EU's repeated commitment to the rule of law/ICC

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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 4d

Next frontier in AI safety is.....adversarial poetry?

arxiv.org/abs/2511.153...

Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models

We present evidence that adversarial poetry functions as a universal single-turn jailbreak technique for large language models (LLMs). Across 25 frontier proprietary and open-weight models, curated po...

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Lily Mason @lilymasonphd.bsky.social · 4d

New report from us at @snfagora.bsky.social and partnered with @publicagenda.bsky.social finds the GOP evenly divided into 3 main camps: those who think Trump should be able to defy the courts, those who think he shouldn't, and those who aren't sure.
snf-agora.shorthandstories.com/understanding/

Understanding Evolving Republican Attitudes Towards Democracy

Survey from SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins and Public Agenda Pinpoint Distinct Divides Within Republican Party

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Erik Voeten @erikvoeten.bsky.social · 4d

The new neo-royalist world order. Stacie Goddard and
@abenewman.bsky.social explain how cliques are ruling the world. A new @goodauth.bsky.social podcast interview with yours truly based on the new @iojournal.bsky.social open access article that came out today!

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The new neo-royalist world order

Stacie Goddard and Abe Newman explain how cliques are ruling the world.

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Doug Anderson @bayoka.bsky.social · 5d

Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 5d

Have been away from social media for a few days. Completely fair to say that I don't have very specific proposals - I would say that it is not a simple online/offline dichotomy though. There are ways that online could work that are better. Also, I think that things are not as inexorable as all that.

Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 8d

By coincidence, was just reading this bit in Keith Lowe's Naples 1944 yesterday. It would appear that Actual Proper Fascism is a category that excludes Benito Mussolini's regime at the height of its power.

Unrest also simmered just beneath the surface. Even at the height of Fascist power, all the repressive organs of the state could not prevent Communists from handing out anti-Fascist leaflets, and students raising banners in public spaces proclaiming ‘Death to Mussolini’.

Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 8d

Currently reading Naples 1944 on @maxread.info recommendation.

Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 9d

"President Robbins was so well adjusted to his environment that sometimes you could not tell which was the environment and which was President Robbins." press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago...

Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 10d

[yikes!]

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Alucard (悪魔城下町) @akumajoukamachi.bsky.social · 10d

Very important.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 10d

Friends! Here is the first episode of a new podcast i'm hosting. I'm thinking of it as a way of trying to have more of the conversations I have w/ smart ppl about the internet/politics/broken attention economy in public. first guest is the great @hankgreen.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=A492...

Hank Green: It’s Going to Get Worse Before It Gets Better | Galaxy Brain

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 12d

Some of my favorite trying to think listening

Levi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social · 12d

I’m glad to see William Basinski’s Disintegration Loops get some high-profile appreciation. I came to the record long after 9/11 (via a Radiolav episode about repetition in 2014), so it doesn’t have that association for me. For me, it’s about repetition and change, constancy against time.

How ‘The Disintegration Loops’ Saved William Basinski’s Life

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Levi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social · 12d

How ‘The Disintegration Loops’ Saved William Basinski’s Life

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 13d

davekarpf.substack.com/p/every-gene... This by @davekarpf.bsky.social is very, _very_ good. Much traditional media is badly geared to understand movement politics, and often, it helps to actually know stuff!