Ben Mueser
@benwlm.bsky.social
Teach @Harvard
Previously @EUI_EU / @Columbia
History of political thought on land, territory, and state formation. Into the Holy Roman Empire.
Previously @EUI_EU / @Columbia
History of political thought on land, territory, and state formation. Into the Holy Roman Empire.
Reading Simone Weil’s Need for Roots today, wondering if we need to talk more often about boredom as a political concept.
November 6, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Reading Simone Weil’s Need for Roots today, wondering if we need to talk more often about boredom as a political concept.
Hey everyone, just fyi I’m a pretty big deal and they’re devoting whole podcasts to discussing my brilliant ideas.
November 3, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Hey everyone, just fyi I’m a pretty big deal and they’re devoting whole podcasts to discussing my brilliant ideas.
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A short explanation of p-hacking and why it absolutely makes sense to ask HHS to release the study methods of their autism report in advance.
September 6, 2025 at 12:15 PM
A short explanation of p-hacking and why it absolutely makes sense to ask HHS to release the study methods of their autism report in advance.
Boy I hope they liked it.
May 28, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Boy I hope they liked it.
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typical corrupt science
May 17, 2025 at 10:20 PM
typical corrupt science
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I thought my first post on Bluesky should be something positive and motivational
May 4, 2025 at 12:19 PM
I thought my first post on Bluesky should be something positive and motivational
It’s 2025. Sovereignty is winning.
May 3, 2025 at 11:39 PM
It’s 2025. Sovereignty is winning.
The thing is that anarcho-capitalist secretly really love the state.
They already own one of these cities in Honduras (paid for by Thiel, Andreesen, and Altman). They bypass shit tons of different regulations because they have their own govt. Honduras is trying to backtrack and shut them down and they’re gonna bankrupt the country in return.
A Lawsuit From Backers of a ‘Startup City’ Could Bankrupt Honduras
The country faces a wave of claims after it repealed a law allowing for special economic zones. Chief among them is an American company looking to build a semi-autonomous “startup city” called Prósper...
www.wired.com
May 3, 2025 at 1:48 PM
The thing is that anarcho-capitalist secretly really love the state.
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modems screaming at us in the 90s was a warning and we didn't take it
May 3, 2025 at 12:57 AM
modems screaming at us in the 90s was a warning and we didn't take it
No one told me that Ben Affleck played an accountant with a gun named “Christian Wolff”
April 28, 2025 at 1:09 PM
No one told me that Ben Affleck played an accountant with a gun named “Christian Wolff”
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Naval Academy forced, by SECDEF personally, to remove nearly 1000 books seen as promoting diversity from its library, including MLKs autobiography or books about Jackie Robinson.
College students - and faculty - not allowed to read about MLK?
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/u...
College students - and faculty - not allowed to read about MLK?
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/u...
Naval Academy Takes Steps to End Diversity Policies in Books and Admissions
The defense secretary’s office has ordered that some books be removed from circulation in its library, and the academy has ended the use of affirmative action in admissions.
www.nytimes.com
March 29, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Naval Academy forced, by SECDEF personally, to remove nearly 1000 books seen as promoting diversity from its library, including MLKs autobiography or books about Jackie Robinson.
College students - and faculty - not allowed to read about MLK?
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/u...
College students - and faculty - not allowed to read about MLK?
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/u...
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Columbia Ph.D. and faculty member here. Completely gutted by this decision. And as a researcher of autocracy, not challenging these charges in court and in public opinion is a great mistake.
March 19, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Columbia Ph.D. and faculty member here. Completely gutted by this decision. And as a researcher of autocracy, not challenging these charges in court and in public opinion is a great mistake.
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a dog who can read you the newspaper and get 85% of the headlines right is the most important invention in dog history and the least important invention in newspaper history
March 19, 2025 at 6:28 AM
a dog who can read you the newspaper and get 85% of the headlines right is the most important invention in dog history and the least important invention in newspaper history
Follow art historians and journalists. They’re interesting people.
Seems like we're getting another influx of new users, so for all those interested in art and art history I'd highly recommend the Bluesky for Art History starter pack created by @joshuajfriedman.com go.bsky.app/NKHmh87
March 10, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Follow art historians and journalists. They’re interesting people.
When buddy decides the day is over.
March 4, 2025 at 6:52 PM
When buddy decides the day is over.
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From 21 February @royalhistsoc.bsky.social will be closing and archiving its X account.
From this date all updates from the Society - and its promotion of work by fellow organisations for #history and the humanities - will be via BlueSky.
Please encourage colleagues to join us here #skystorians
From this date all updates from the Society - and its promotion of work by fellow organisations for #history and the humanities - will be via BlueSky.
Please encourage colleagues to join us here #skystorians
February 11, 2025 at 7:46 AM
From 21 February @royalhistsoc.bsky.social will be closing and archiving its X account.
From this date all updates from the Society - and its promotion of work by fellow organisations for #history and the humanities - will be via BlueSky.
Please encourage colleagues to join us here #skystorians
From this date all updates from the Society - and its promotion of work by fellow organisations for #history and the humanities - will be via BlueSky.
Please encourage colleagues to join us here #skystorians
Give these fine folks a follow
We've said goodbye to twitter, as @royalhistsoc.bsky.social is very right in weening #SkyStorians off that platform now it's in the state it's in.
We'd still love to rival our followers number that we had on there here though... 🥺
We'd still love to rival our followers number that we had on there here though... 🥺
From 21 February @royalhistsoc.bsky.social will be closing and archiving its X account.
From this date all updates from the Society - and its promotion of work by fellow organisations for #history and the humanities - will be via BlueSky.
Please encourage colleagues to join us here #skystorians
From this date all updates from the Society - and its promotion of work by fellow organisations for #history and the humanities - will be via BlueSky.
Please encourage colleagues to join us here #skystorians
February 21, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Give these fine folks a follow
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A federal judge in Wyoming received a motion citing nine cases. Of the nine, eight don't exist.
When she demanded an explanation, the lawyers said their "artificial intelligence platform ‘hallucinated’ the cases in question."
@courtwatch.bsky.social www.courtwatch.news/p/lawyers-ca...
When she demanded an explanation, the lawyers said their "artificial intelligence platform ‘hallucinated’ the cases in question."
@courtwatch.bsky.social www.courtwatch.news/p/lawyers-ca...
Lawyers Caught Citing AI-Hallucinated Cases Say It’s a ‘Cautionary Tale’ For All Law Firms
The attorneys filed court documents referencing eight non-existent cases, then admitted it was a "hallucination" by an AI tool.
www.courtwatch.news
February 17, 2025 at 7:27 PM
A federal judge in Wyoming received a motion citing nine cases. Of the nine, eight don't exist.
When she demanded an explanation, the lawyers said their "artificial intelligence platform ‘hallucinated’ the cases in question."
@courtwatch.bsky.social www.courtwatch.news/p/lawyers-ca...
When she demanded an explanation, the lawyers said their "artificial intelligence platform ‘hallucinated’ the cases in question."
@courtwatch.bsky.social www.courtwatch.news/p/lawyers-ca...
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So Trump is now saying that the Federal Election Commission, which was an independent regulatory agency, "must be supervised and controlled by the people's elected President."
February 18, 2025 at 10:29 PM
So Trump is now saying that the Federal Election Commission, which was an independent regulatory agency, "must be supervised and controlled by the people's elected President."
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the protein arms race has taken a turn: 45g per protein bar. next thing we know we'll have 17 blade razors
February 12, 2025 at 6:29 PM
the protein arms race has taken a turn: 45g per protein bar. next thing we know we'll have 17 blade razors
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Purging dissent in the security services and giving loyalists power is something we *instantly* recognize in other contexts.
EXCLUSIVE: Candidates for national security roles in the new administration have been posed loyalty questions, such as: Was Jan. 6 an inside job, and Was the 2020 presidential election stolen? They were asked to give straight "yes" or "no" answers. Here's our story.
wapo.st/3EF3aWN
wapo.st/3EF3aWN
U.S. intelligence, law enforcement candidates face Trump loyalty test
Candidates for top intelligence and law enforcement jobs were asked to give “yes” or “no” responses to questions such as: Was Jan. 6 “an inside job?”
wapo.st
February 9, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Purging dissent in the security services and giving loyalists power is something we *instantly* recognize in other contexts.
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Me getting that email from the Chronicle this morning about a useless tool that nobody wants
January 28, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Me getting that email from the Chronicle this morning about a useless tool that nobody wants
I wrote about some recent trends in the law of nations literature and international political thought for History of Euro Ideas, check it out here >> doi.org/10.1080/0191... (msg me for a copy)
The law of nations in international political thought
This review considers what role scholarship on the early modern law of nations (ius gentium) plays in the history of international political thought, which over the last decade has expanded far bey...
doi.org
February 8, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I wrote about some recent trends in the law of nations literature and international political thought for History of Euro Ideas, check it out here >> doi.org/10.1080/0191... (msg me for a copy)