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Ian Hall

@drianhall.bsky.social
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Professor of International Relations at Griffith University, India’s foreign policy, Indo-Pacific stuff, snakes when I find one. Usual caveats.

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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It could have been worse. It might have been “Trump intelligence” or “Intelligence of America”. But still.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026
Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all
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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Average annual spending as % of US GDP
A chart of percentages of US GDP at various tech splend periods, from canals to AI. AI is outpacing all of them
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David Veit 🇺🇦🌻 @daves-not-here-man.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"His summits are a national hazard precisely because Trump apparently does not understand that he is representing the United States; instead, he seems to think he’s just having a visit with some of the guys in a very cool club of which he’d very much like to be a member."
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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
What are we doing, folks? I mean, really.
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Charles Rusnell @charlesrusnell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Incredible, chilling reporting here via @motherjones.com. ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...
motherjones.com
ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 24/09/2026
Once heavily reliant on Iran for finished weapons, the Houthis are now able to assemble arms — including ballistic missiles and drones — inside Yemen using commercial goods imported from China. Read more in the Big Take: bloom.bg/4h8KNKV 📷: Mohammed Huwais/AFP
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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The military bloat of the massive SUVs on the school run is getting ridiculous. You're there to take a child home for tea, not transport a pallet of shrinkwrapped banknotes through the fall of Basra.
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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Cannot wait to see the uniforms.
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Fergus Ryan @fergus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
What if you could test propaganda on thousands of synthetic Australians, Americans and others before publishing it? Chinese state-linked researchers are trying to do something close to that. My latest:
aspistrategist.org.au
China is building an AI system for tailoring its foreign propaganda | The Strategist
China’s propaganda is often mocked as blunt, loud and tone-deaf. But state-backed researchers are trying to make it more sophisticated. They are building AI systems that model the cultural and political values of foreign audiences, ...
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Ankit Panda @nktpnd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Guessing we'll be seeing a lot of this in the coming months www.wsj.com/tech/ai/hack...
wsj.com
Exclusive | Hackers Used Anthropic’s Claude to Break Into OpenAI
A bug-hunting independent security research team was able to access OpenAI’s internal code system, exposing growing risks in automated cyber threats.
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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Hope to inherit.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 16/09/2026
A recent report out of MIT said A.I. is triggering “cognitive surrender” in students. Many university leaders are embracing the technology with enthusiasm anyway.
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Universities Sound Warnings About A.I. Even as They Embrace It
As A.I. upends education, university leaders have been all over the map about how to respond. It can be very confusing for students.
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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I do wonder why they can’t just agree to put a giant golden Trump sign over the top, with a clear view to pulling it down as soon as he is gone (one way or another).
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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Blimey.
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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Ouch
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Vasabjit Banerjee @vasabjit.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Chaser: foreignpolicy.com/2026/08/25/m...
foreignpolicy.com
A Pact Without Impact
The Mecca Joint Defense Agreement faces all the classic challenges of an alliance with none of the unifying elements.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 11/09/2026
OpenAI agents attacked software service RubyGems before Hugging Face incident, WSJ reports reut.rs/46fRAw7
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OpenAI agents attacked software service RubyGems before Hugging Face incident, WSJ reports
AI agents tested by OpenAI ​launched a cyberattack ‌on software service RubyGems in May, ​two months before ​they hacked Hugging Face, ⁠the Wall ​Street Journal reported ​on Friday, citing AI researchers.
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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 11/09/2026
'A team of Stanford University computer scientists find that SLMs can find the same — or better — answer to the kind of queries that dominate current chat requests almost every time and cut compute and energy costs by between 60 and 80 per cent.' www.ft.com/content/4858...
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Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
SPECIAL REPORT: Russian sources are increasingly relying on AI-generated and AI-altered videos to assert territorial control over areas of Ukraine that Russian forces have not, in fact, seized. 🧵(1/4) Read the full report: isw.pub/RussiaAICamp...
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Min Chao @wordsfromtaiwan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🕯️ Taipei Zoo holds yearly memorial services for deceased animals since the 1920s, including for fallen war beasts like horses in WWII during the Japanese colonial era. This Sept, the zoo honors the memories of the newly passed, such as Wobbuffet the pangolin, Wolf the wolf, and Wolverine the koala.
動物園舉辦「慰靈祭」感念陪伴我們一起走過歲月的動物夥伴

https://www.zoo.gov.taipei/News_Content.aspx?n=BD065B2FA7782989&sms=72544237BBE4C5F6&s=FCE9924CA08E3265Wobbuffet the pangolin

穿山甲「果然翁」Wolf the grey wolf

灰狼「沃夫」Wolverine the koala

無尾熊「金鋼狼」
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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
“Secret of success in mathematics Plagiarize! Let no one else's work evade your eyes Remember why the good Lord made your eyes So don't shade your eyes, plagiarize Let plagiarize, plagiarize Only be sure always to call it please Research…” Tom Lehrer
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Australian Journal of Political Science @ausjpolsci.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
New in @ausjpolsci.bsky.social: why did Labor win so big in 2025? Sarah Cameron & Ian McAllister find a Coalition vote long eroded by generational change and a modern gender gap, then finished off by campaign leaders and issues. doi.org/10.1080/1036...
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 04/09/2026
India will finalize a trade deal with the US once Washington offers tariff terms that give exporters an advantage over competitors, Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal says
bloom.bg
India Says US Trade Deal Hinges on Preferential Tariff Rate
India will finalize a trade deal with the US once Washington offers tariff terms that give exporters an advantage over competitors, Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal said, signaling a key sticking point in protracted negotiations between the two countries.
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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
“…more…”
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Sophie Richardson @sophiedrich.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
A through-the-looking-glass case: Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong pleads guilty to promoting democracy, which isn’t a crime. I agree with Professor Kellogg: the Chinese govt will make up whatever is necessary to keep Wong in jail, possibly for life. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/w...
nytimes.com
Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Activist Joshua Wong Pleads Guilty to Collusion
The pro-democracy dissident was accused of urging Western politicians like Nancy Pelosi and Marco Rubio to pressure Hong Kong by imposing sanctions on the city.
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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Department of Culture War
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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Can’t wait for Xi Jinping to come out and say they’re going to do the same to, for example, the Philippines.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 28/08/2026
The poll underscores concerns about the reliability of US security guarantees after President Donald Trump unilaterally curtailed joint military exercises with Seoul.
bloom.bg
Majority of South Koreans Want Nuclear Arms as Trump Cuts Drills
Nearly two-thirds of South Koreans want the country to have its own nuclear weapons, a poll showed, underscoring concerns about the reliability of US security guarantees after President Donald Trump unilaterally curtailed joint military exercises with Seoul.
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 27/08/2026
🇺🇸 🇷🇺 A highly unusual trip by the CIA director to Moscow this week was to warn Russia against any attack on NATO member states, US media reports, after President Donald Trump sought to downplay the visit. ➡️ u.afp.com/SVgS
CIA Director John Ratcliffe
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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I get these every week now.
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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Oh.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Terrible. "By the time the U.S. began attacking Iran, Central Command, which said it needed a minimum of nine of its 16 [civilian protection] staffers to function, was left with one person...A U.S. airstrike hit a school, killing more than 100 children." www.propublica.org/article/hegs...
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Top Commanders Told Hegseth Not to Cut Civilian Protection Program, Poll Showed. He Did It Anyway.
The U.S. military has killed hundreds of noncombatants since gutting its Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response mission last year. After significant blowback, the Defense Department is considering part...
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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
‘Twas ever thus. I doubt he’ll still be a member by Christmas.
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Social media algorithms do no always reflect our values A new analysis of X finds that posts from accounts that people follow reflect users’ values—but that there is a misalignment between users’ values and the content the algorithm amplifies (in the "For You" feed). www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....
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New York Magazine @nymag.com · 22/08/2026
Are incredibly loud flying wind machines that dump our impulse buys into our swimming pools, like an Amazon delivery drone did in Texas this week, really the future we want?
nymag.com
I Can’t Stop Watching This Amazon Drone Drop Someone’s Package in Their Pool
Are incredibly loud flying wind machines that dump our impulse buys into our swimming pools, like an Amazon delivery drone did in Texas this week, really the future we want?
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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
See also the US-India trade negotiations under Trump 1 and Trump 2.
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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Just extraordinary.
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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Hmmm.
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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Not good.
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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Good luck.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel is stoking anti-Muslim prejudice with juvenile trolling of Britain as "an Islamic Republic", that plays mainly to the American far right www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
theguardian.com
Benjamin Netanyahu describes UK as ‘first Islamic republic to get a nuclear weapon’
Israeli PM criticised by political rival for attacking an international ally and overseeing ‘horrific diplomatic failure’
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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Good grief. Count Binface got almost 9500 votes or 27% of the total. I can see why a peevish and churlish Nigel Farage refused to attend the announcement. www.bbc.com/news/live/c5...
bbc.com
Nigel Farage wins Clacton by-election that major parties boycotted - live updates
The Reform UK leader won 22,239 votes while Count Binface came second with 9,455.
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Ariadne Vromen @ariadnevromen.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Political satire for the win - love that the comedian behind the bin wrote for my favourite show The Thick of it www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Count Binface receives over a quarter of votes in Clacton by-election
The dustbin themed candidate got 9,455 votes and came second to Nigel Farage
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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
My LinkedIn is full of an endless stream of UK diplomats announcing they’ve left govt service. This due to extreme cuts to foreign aid and diplomacy (much of it spearheaded by Olly Robbins). It’s hard to look at the world today and think “this is a good time to be losing experienced diplomats.”
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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
i've been covering national security for decades, on and off. i've never heard of anything like this. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
USS Abraham Lincoln sailors tried to jump overboard amid extended deployment – reports
Aircraft carrier’s crew in ninth month at sea and has spent record 250 days consecutively without making land
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 12/08/2026
⚡️ Russia imports gasoline from India for the first time amid Ukrainian attacks on refineries.
kyivindependent.com
Russia imports gasoline from India for the first time amid Ukrainian attacks on refineries
Nayara Energy Ltd., an Indian oil refining company backed by Russia's largest oil producer, Rosneft, was revealed to be the source of fuel that traveled aboard Russian-linked tankers through Egypt, Bl...
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Ian Hall @drianhall.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Not many locations, I reckon, where you see autographs from these two in the same place.
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Benjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The Chinese government has successfully pressured the government of Nepal into forcing Kathmandu Univ. to cancel the 2026 IATS (Tibetan studies) conference. This is a huge deal, a flashing alarm about the expansion of academic censorship across int'l borders. kathmandupost.com/national/202...
kathmandupost.com
Nepal overruled its own security agencies to cancel Tibetan studies conference under Chinese pressure, officials say
Days after the Home Minister said the seminar would proceed with security vetting, the government’s Chief Secretary personally ordered Kathmandu University to shut it down.
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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Is Russia helping Iran? Duh Is China helping Russia? Duh Is it possible for too many western analysts to live in the delusion that China Russia and Iran can be separated/played against each other? Duh www.reuters.com/world/middle...
reuters.com
EXCLUSIVE: Iran strikes on CIA facilities prompt questions about possible Russian role
Iranian drone attacks on CIA facilities in the Gulf have prompted U.S. intelligence analysts to investigate whether Russia assisted by providing targeting information or ​advanced drone technology, sa...
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