Seva @seva.bsky.social · 03/10/2026hegemon.substack.comDictators Want to Automate Their Henchmen. Good Luck!our latest in Foreign Affairs 4404
Reposted by SevaForeign Affairs @foreignaffairs.com · 01/10/2026“This is AI’s promise to every autocratic ruler: the ability to maintain control without delegating tasks to unreliable humans,” write @seva.bsky.social and Bruce Schneier.foreignaffairs.comThe AI AutocratHow technology empowers—and imperils—dictators. 0217
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 0207
Seva @seva.bsky.social · 23/09/2026www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/in-...washingtonpost.comOpinion | In the long run, wars make us safer and richerWar may be the worst way imanigible to create peaceful societies but it is pretty much the only way. 161
Seva @seva.bsky.social · 23/09/2026kind of op-ed that could have only been written in the innocent days of 2014 8333
Seva @seva.bsky.social · 22/09/2026did you ever read the Schroeder-Elman debate in IS? it did not make IR look good 120
Seva @seva.bsky.social · 21/09/2026it's going to take another decade for IR people to absorb this 1110
Seva @seva.bsky.social · 21/09/2026it's brutal. the two great prophets of international relations are now tim snyder and john mearsheimer, two men thoroughly captured by their own theories 513912
Seva @seva.bsky.social · 17/09/2026hegemon.substack.comWe’re all going to die? What does IR theory say?global politics in the shadow of existential risk 2183
Seva @seva.bsky.social · 16/09/2026we should let switzerland win one war...just to see...they've been so patient 8230
Reposted by SevaYan Matusevich @ymatusik.bsky.social · 30/08/2026I remember listening to an interview of Laruelle on the Bear Market Brief podcast on whether Putin’s Russia fit the definition of fascism and just ultimately found the “well it’s complicated” answers completely besides the point. It felt like missing the forest for the trees. 1123
Seva @seva.bsky.social · 28/08/2026a blasphemous comparison for some, but that’s part of Laruelle's point: they are two prophets opposed in substance but united in form a clever but unsatisfying analogyhegemon.substack.comDugin and Snyder, Brothers in Arms?one side is genocidal, but the other is very annoying 0161
Reposted by SevaBrian Taylor @bdtaylor-su.bsky.social · 27/08/2026"You can’t entirely strip normative commitments out of cognition. The two process the world with moral certainty, and in that they share a temperament. Only one is a genocidal mystic." On point from Seva. 073
Seva @seva.bsky.social · 27/08/2026NATO condemns nuclear destruction of Berlin as a troubling escalation of Russian hybrid tactics 2455
Reposted by SevaOleksa Drachewych @odrachewych.bsky.social · 26/08/2026NATO nations have supported Ukraine since February 2022 and peace talks have rarely gotten anywhere. Nothing has changed except the war is more present "at home" for Russia. How does one escalate from genocide? Agree with Gabuev that risk of 🇷🇺 using tactical nuke is low. meduza.io/feature/2026...meduza.ioПутин готовится к эскалации войны с Украиной, заявили источники Bloomberg, близкие к Кремлю. Все больше чиновников в России думают, что он может применить тактическое ядерное оружие — MeduzaРоссия готовится к эскалации ударов по Украине, считая, что переговоры о мире зашли в тупик, сообщили источники Bloomberg, близкие к Кремлю. 2169
Seva @seva.bsky.social · 27/08/2026responding to Marlene Laruelle's recent essayhegemon.substack.comDugin and Snyder, Brothers in Arms?one side is genocidal, but the other is very annoying 0140
Seva @seva.bsky.social · 15/08/2026...some forgotten street art from the early aughtshegemon.substack.comBrooklyn Graffiti, a time capsuleIn the summer of 2005, while living in New York as a grad student, I walked around Brooklyn’s Park Slope and took photographs of the graffiti. 070
Reposted by Sevamtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 10/08/2026its kinda insane that marine mammals wound up as the ocean's apex predators. it turns out milk is so good evolutionarily that it trumps breathing water *in the ocean* 231137134
Reposted by SevaNick Kodama 🌳👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 09/08/2026fish: oh hey you're back early mammal: land's haunted 210917
Seva @seva.bsky.social · 09/08/2026imagine the arrogance it takes to be a marine mammal. you crawl out of the vast dark ocean and onto green sunny land and decide to crawl back in again? 1640828
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 1364
Seva @seva.bsky.social · 07/08/2026this one did not work, they got bored with the airport. but a good suggestion 010
Seva @seva.bsky.social · 07/08/2026the apes got 'em. I fast forwarded the heywood floyd talking parts but everything on the ship, they were mesmerized 020
Seva @seva.bsky.social · 07/08/2026looking for movies made for grownups that kids 4-8 would enjoy. things that have worked in the past: 2001 space odyssey fantastic mr fox 400 blows modern times the red balloon yellow submarine the spirit of the beehive others? 20142
Seva @seva.bsky.social · 07/08/2026so tired of living in the ominous first ten minutes of a scifi movie. When do we get to the second act where me and a group of friends have an exciting adventure. 7655
Seva @seva.bsky.social · 06/08/2026about to get controversial. an average pear is worse than an average apple, but a great pear is better than a great apple 18796
Seva @seva.bsky.social · 02/08/2026tried to check if anyone else has made this joke, thanks Google AI! 2281
Seva @seva.bsky.social · 01/08/2026that's the opposite of what I'm saying. Liberalism is unnatural to the reptile brain, which is exactly why it's valuable and worth defending bsky.app/profile/mark... 41468
Seva @seva.bsky.social · 01/08/2026I’ve basically come around to the idea that liberalism is deeply unnatural to human psychology, which evolved in the context of communal living. It's the "delicate fruit of a mature civilization" as Acton put it, and takes constant effort to preserve 832838
Reposted by SevaPatrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Abraham Lincoln had that dawg in him. cc @peark.es @proptermalone.bsky.social @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social 1246235
Reposted by SevaQuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 01/08/2026by contrast, i think one of the most unexpected discoveries about LBJ is that, despite being famous for "the Johnson Treatment", he was very much a physical coward who, in college, would try to intimidate people with his height but then run away if his opponent refused to back down 1673
Seva @seva.bsky.social · 01/08/2026this became clear when he joined the Long Nine in his local legislature and he was the longest 2641
