The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war

We grieve the worlds we’ve known and what it felt like to live in them.

Yesterday Apple announced a big step towards deploying real AI in their Siri ecosystem. In most ways this is good and inevitable: Siri is one of the world’s most widely-used voice agents, and…

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Move over "Pottery Barn" there is a new maxim in town.

And a few musing on teaching international politics

An Office of Management and Budget FAQ document now states that only excepted employees forced to work without pay are guaranteed backpay at the conclusion of a lapse in appropriations.

Debates elevate the worst aspects of our politics. Let’s try something else.

As I’ve noted occasionally before, one of the most potentially useful things that academics do is preparing syllabi, and hence organizing information about the world.