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That question
The question of just war or legitimate violence is continuous with the question of legitimate police force. Politically foreign policy extends, and shifts attention from,the exercise of violence in domestic policy. Technologically & historically the distinction has become blurred & one of reliance.
But has she lost her impunity?
Chart showing in many countries, people see their fellow citizens as morally good.
We asked people around the world to rate the morality and ethics of others in their country.
The U.S. is the only place we surveyed where more adults describe the morality and ethics of others living in the country as bad than good. See our full morality report here: www.pewresearch.org/...
28 scientists say political pressure to remove a chapter on climate science in a manual for judges is a troubling turn for other disciplines, too. @defendpublichealth.bsky.social @standupforscience.bsky.social
sciencepolitics.org/2026/03/02/a...
So turns out Cantor stole the proof that \\(\mathbb{R}\\) is uncountable from Dedekind https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-man-who-stole-infinity-20260225/
AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations
Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases
www.newscientist.com/article/2516...
I have spent the past several months studying the cutting-edge research on modern democracies that have defeated authoritarian leaders.
I've learned that the conventional wisdom on the topic is wrong — in ways that have clear implications for the US going forward
THREAD www.vox.com/politics/479...
New: A comedian set up a fake ICE tip line as a joke. Then 100 calls flooded in: neighbors ratting on neighbors, a teacher reporting a kindergartener. Fans say the viral TikToks revealed deportation's "banality of evil." Conservatives say he should be in prison wapo.st/4kM4qbF
Between enshittification and enschmittification. Ways of the world.
and the baby isn't even getting citizenship
Indeed. The elephant in the discussion is the question of the incentives to sign, but not honor, a new agreement, and, more importantly, to honor, and not just sign, it. All relevant parties don't trust the others on compliance.
How can we best learn about the world? A new paper by SFI's Marina Dubova (@mdubova.bsky.social) and coauthors applies the scientific method to itself, finding that some common strategies that scientists consider gold standards for designing experiments could perform worse than random choice.
the US may drift on, a florid hybrid of fundamentalist sects, woke cults and techno-futurist oligarchs' (John Gray,
The New Leviathans)
The Russian state may morph into a steampunk Byzantium with nukes. China may continue as a high-tech Panopticon (...). The European Union may become an avatar of the Holy Roman Empire, a fading kaleidoscope of shifting principalities and powers.(...)
Not just prestige. One broad reaction to AI competition and takeover will be the extension of the hipster economy (see Gerosa) and its ideology of resistance to academia, especially scholarship.
this is a well executed and interesting study. The conclusions are worrisome, even though the absolute amounts are small for now.
Consider it a red flag if “everybody” online seems to agree. You might be scrolling AI-generated posts by a bot swarm, coordinated to fake consensus, game the algorithm and make fringe ideas look mainstream. buff.ly/CjqxvIP
"Moderna's CEO announced the company will no longer invest in new Phase 3 vaccine trials for infectious diseases: 'You cannot make a return on investment if you don't have access to the U.S. market. Vaccines for Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, and shingles have been shelved.” 9:12 AM Feb 12, 2026 604.8K Views
In terms of what cures are being lost:
- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
In the Greek context one may add the figures of the singular hero, master and athlete, dialectical Socrates embodying all
'Platos's philosopher king and police'
Culture of differentiation and self-differentiation.
and the overlapping economy of credit.
Think also the commercial and inspirational value of film biopics and the wheelchair factor in the same individualistic culture.
But the the history of science as well as the community dynamics of visibility have favored personalist narratives in the sciences in our broader culture of marketing and visibility.
