Excellent thread on the critique of LLMs and its sociology.
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Excellent thread on the critique of LLMs and its sociology.
Go to the cinema if you can!
Happy to agree with Bradshaw after some time.
www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...
Quoted in this excellent article by Heather Stewart in The Guardian on dollar dominance and the slow drift towards a more multipolar currency order.
Quick reactions after learning that no, nobody could stop him. 1/ goodauthority.org/news/trump-m... 1/
To be fair he did say international law was over.
The strikes on Iran are blatantly illegal. I explained in June why the strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities were unlawful under US and international law. Everything I wrote then is true today, but this is a far larger assault with far graver consequences.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/o...
I loved it. Hope you enjoy it – and let me know your thoughts!
Finally saw 'The Secret Agent' – beautiful, hilarious, smart, moving.
2025 was the best film year in over a decade.
Last Tuesday, I joined an excellent panel of economists to discuss a pressing question: are we moving towards de-dollarisation, and, if so, what will this mean for trade?
Great discussions at the Centre for Inclusive Trade Policy (CITP)'s annual UK Trade Policy Forum in London.
The Looming Taiwan Chip Disaster That Silicon Valley Has Long Ignored www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/t...
Once, Latin Americans imagined international social rights far more ambitiously than today.
My new piece, published in ICON (Open Access), builds on Nehal Bhuta's erudite history of social rights to recover that forgotten Latin American horizon.
academic.oup.com/icon/advance...
In light of some of the news this past week about U.S. coercion of Minneapolis and Venezuela, I am posting an unpublished talk I gave @brooklynlawschool.bsky.social that draws on the work of @himself.bsky.social @abenewman.bsky.social @harlangcohen.bsky.social. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
In a political moment when the left sounds like the right with slightly better manners, Pedro Sánchez suggests trying something unfashionable: policy.
'Western nations must choose between becoming closed and impoverished societies, or open and prosperous ones.'
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/o...
International Law and Diplomacy in a Changing World
Join Dr Francisco J. Quintana in conversation with Mario Oyarzábal on international law, diplomacy, and law-making in a changing global order.
🗓 Fri 6 Feb 2026 | ⏰ 13:00–14:00 | 📍 Old College
Find out more and register: https://edin.ac/49Ufy2x
Saw No Other Choice, by Park Chan-wook. Made me think a lot about the tension between having a vocation and having a job in the present context. Hard not to connect that to academia (and Marina's post below) right now.
Looking forward to hosting a conversation with Mario Oyarzábal on how the day-to-day work of international law continues even as the international order appears to be fracturing.
Join us, in person, at Edinburgh Law School, next Friday February 6:
www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...
'Fighting for a seat at a table that is on fire': great post by Marina on early career academia.
'If Europe wants to retain its independence, it needs to commit to action. The anti-coercion instrument, for all its faults, is the best option that Europe has.'
@himself.bsky.social for @nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/o...
The EU really does not understand the state of the world.
The U.S. cannot afford not to care: a massive dump of U.S. Treasuries would seriously harm the dollar. Of course, it’s very likely that Europe would be similarly harmed.
A slower, progressive diversification away from U.S. assets should be underway, though - and harm the U.S. in the medium term.
I spoke with BBC Mundo about the Drago Doctrine: a Latin American pushback against using force to collect public debts.
Latin America's early history of decolonisation helped make it a champion of non-intervention, a key principle that now looks increasingly fragile.
www.bbc.com/mundo/articl...
This is excellent. Congratulations.
Regarding United States Action in Venezuela
"[...] "planetary" has emerged as conceptual alternative to the "global", which had itself emerged as an alternative to the "international". Yet these semantic shifts remains superficial if they do not grapple with the deeper conceptual question: How is the earth written, by whom, and to what ends?"
Great stuff! Honestly I hadn't read a single mention of Guyana yet. I do think it'll soon be acknowledged as a key factor.
This is the best explanation I've seen about the role of Guyana's oil in what just happened in Venezuela—something @fjquintana.com also alluded to on here yesterday. I still think that only gets you about 40-60% of the way to invasion without Rubio or Miller manipulating Trump for their own ends.
US attacks on Venezuela and the abduction of Nicolás Maduro raise profound legal and geopolitical concerns, with implications well beyond Venezuela itself. In a new post co-authored with Julian Arato, we examine the attack and its broader consequences under international law.