Seva @seva.bsky.social · 01/10/2026new piece in Foreign Affairs with @schneier.com on how autocrats are using AI to deal with scheming viziers. free access t.co/4Acu9eQwSE 0217 0
Seva @seva.bsky.social · 23/09/2026kind of op-ed that could have only been written in the innocent days of 2014 8354 0
Seva @seva.bsky.social · 08/08/2026when I leave the airport lounge to go to my gate and it turns out the flight is delayed 1374 0
Seva @seva.bsky.social · 02/08/2026tried to check if anyone else has made this joke, thanks Google AI! 2281 0
Seva @seva.bsky.social · 26/07/2026when one of your last remaining allies says to your face that your war is pointless and must be stopped 3594 0
Seva @seva.bsky.social · 25/07/2026sorry but this is what I feel in my pretentious little heart 9360 0
Seva @seva.bsky.social · 01/06/2026i'm in a small german village that's apparently all about pickles? I ordered a beer and they brought it out with pickles and pig lard 7371 0
Seva @seva.bsky.social · 31/05/2026I've now seen four separate pieces accusing John Burn-Murdoch (Financial Times, you've seen his stuff before) of messing with his data on four separate occasions: 1. isitcredible.com/cases 2. unherd.com/newsroom/the... 3. github.com/James-Traina... 4. blog.albertkuo.me/post/2024-01... 2405 0
Seva @seva.bsky.social · 22/04/2026if nothing else I have to respect the Russian government's total commitment to cyclical theories of history 3627 0
Seva @seva.bsky.social · 02/04/2026just thinking again about this article from a top poli sci journal 8575 0
Seva @seva.bsky.social · 26/01/2026the world’s most powerful states are now ruled by leaders who ignore formal institutions and govern through inner circles of sycophants, making policy based on private fixations rather than national interests. (free access link) www.foreignaffairs.com/guest-pass/r... 27518 0
Seva @seva.bsky.social · 23/01/2026been thinking about this, I think it’s part of a general tradeoff between theory and empirics. Theory always requires generalization, which means moving away from the particulars to highlight key parallels. this is why political scientists and historians don’t get along as much as they should 7698 0
Seva @seva.bsky.social · 19/01/2026- become leader of a declining superpower - promise major changes - dumb policies make the economy worse - allies start to leave the empire - be donald trump - pic unrelated 1548985 0
Seva @seva.bsky.social · 17/01/2026everyone brings up pizza hut but what about gorby's louis vutton ads? at least pizza hut is proletarian slop, shilling luxury handbags is the ultimate capitulation to commodity fetishism 513821 0
Seva @seva.bsky.social · 10/01/2026my theory of 1990s russia is that without this little visit yeltsin would have easily turned away from liberalism and toward populist nationalism his inner hedonist defeated his inner milosevic 7645 0
Seva @seva.bsky.social · 08/01/2026politicians shouldn't swear it sets a bad example for the kids orphaned by ice agents 1253388 0
Seva @seva.bsky.social · 07/01/2026this is exactly who I was looking for. I tweeted about this in 2022 and forgot the name. thank you! 170 0
Seva @seva.bsky.social · 06/01/2026this guy is going to be so mad when I achieve totality of being 51334 0
Seva @seva.bsky.social · 03/01/2026either way, Europe has to step up and statements like these are not giving me much hope 411411 0
