Amazing

The good thing about starting a war with an imaginary opponent ("antifa") is that peace negotiations are so much easier...

LOL

A great way to sabotage any comparative advantage in the growing market for green energy. Kind of like when Japan decided "this trade thingy is not for us" - how did that pan out?

"Democracy is a precondition for lastning peace", well played by the norwegians...

The historically volatile Texas grid was entirely stable this summer, despite extreme temperatures. Grid operators never once had to ask Texans to conserve energy or shut off their air conditioners.

Why? Solar & batteries. Want a stable grid? Try solar & batteries.

Why do authoritarian states charge political opponents with non-political crimes? In our @thejop.bsky.social paper with Jennifer Pan & @yiqingxu.bsky.social, we examine how *Disguised Repression* undermines opponents’ moral authority and mobilization capacity. doi.org/10.1086/7342...

"State Terror: A brief guide for Americans"
Revisiting a piece I wrote in April 2025
"In the history of state terror, the escape from law into coercion takes three forms... the leader principle; the state of exception; and the zone of statelessness."
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror

TERRORISM EXPERT HERE:

This statement is a clear example of what is known as “State Terrorism”: When the dictatorship will order all instruments of its state security & intelligence apparatus against its own citizens to terrorize the population.

This is more or less what the American Revolution was about

Reading this will not make you more stupid

5-4 after giving up a 3-0 lead at halftime (and 4-2 at 88 minutes)! Why make it easy for ourselves... ÖSK great escape is on!

Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...

1000 cites, that's amazing. Thank you everyone using the UCDP Conflict Termination data. BTW, it was updated this summer to now cover 1946-2023.

Agree, and Canada-Mexico joint hosting would be great!

And the conflict ended in 2023 by Azerbajdzjan victory...

On this day 70 years ago, the leadership of KGB Second Chief Directorate (counterintel) met in Moscow.

I located & obtained the meeting transcript from the Lithuanian Special Archives in Vilnius.

I translated it & wrote an analysis for the Wilson Center. ⬇️

www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/...

@cohman.bsky.social is one of two receivers of this year's Oscar Prize at Uppsala University. Grats Carl!

"Carl Öhman's book The Afterlife of Data asks important questions about who should control the data we leave behind us, and by extension, our collective history."

www.uu.se/en/staff/new...

On the one hand, the world is a mess. On the other hand, this view and a beer...

I'm all in favor of impeachment of Trump, but the US have bombed countries multiple times before without clear congress mandate. If/when Iran retaliates, though, ...

In general transparency is a good thing, but this will also make reviewing more work-intense. If reviews become public, then I will feel compelled to explicitly explain and include references backning up my comments rather than assuming the author is aware of the relevant literature.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

The @telegraphnews.bsky.social lies about the causes of the electricity blackout in Spain on April 28th:

It wrongly claims that the official report blames renewables when it does the opposite.

It names negative prices as the main trigger instead of poorly controlled voltage fluctuations.