Steven Curtis
@stevencurtis.bsky.social
Diplomatic Studies | Public & Diaspora Diplomacy | Higher Education | International Relations | Learning & Teaching in Politics | Film | Classical Music & Jazz
Associate Professor of IR at London Metropolitan University | National Teaching Fellow 2011
Associate Professor of IR at London Metropolitan University | National Teaching Fellow 2011
‘Taiwan could use more food diplomacy,’ by Paul Rockower (@levantine18.bsky.social)
#GI7100 #GI5052 #gastrodiplomacy
#GI7100 #GI5052 #gastrodiplomacy
Taiwan could use more food diplomacy - Taipei Times
Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan
www.taipeitimes.com
January 24, 2026 at 6:55 PM
‘Taiwan could use more food diplomacy,’ by Paul Rockower (@levantine18.bsky.social)
#GI7100 #GI5052 #gastrodiplomacy
#GI7100 #GI5052 #gastrodiplomacy
Bullshit machine feeds on bullshit.
A spokesperson for OpenAI is quoted as saying that ChatGPT’s web search function “aims to draw from a broad range of publicly available sources and viewpoints.”
I’d sooner have accurate, honest and truthful information.
A spokesperson for OpenAI is quoted as saying that ChatGPT’s web search function “aims to draw from a broad range of publicly available sources and viewpoints.”
I’d sooner have accurate, honest and truthful information.
Latest ChatGPT model uses Elon Musk’s Grokipedia as source, tests reveal
Guardian found OpenAI’s platform cited Grokipedia on topics including Iran and Holocaust deniers
www.theguardian.com
January 24, 2026 at 6:07 PM
Bullshit machine feeds on bullshit.
A spokesperson for OpenAI is quoted as saying that ChatGPT’s web search function “aims to draw from a broad range of publicly available sources and viewpoints.”
I’d sooner have accurate, honest and truthful information.
A spokesperson for OpenAI is quoted as saying that ChatGPT’s web search function “aims to draw from a broad range of publicly available sources and viewpoints.”
I’d sooner have accurate, honest and truthful information.
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WHO removing Us Flag
January 23, 2026 at 9:45 PM
WHO removing Us Flag
We Are Witnessing the Self-Immolation of a Superpower
We Are Witnessing the Self-Immolation of a Superpower
With Donald Trump’s actions in Greenland, Minneapolis, and Venezuela, a foreign enemy could not invent a better chain of events to wreck the standing of the United States.
www.wired.com
January 23, 2026 at 9:34 PM
We Are Witnessing the Self-Immolation of a Superpower
Mark Carney says Canada must ‘be a beacon to a world that’s at sea’
Mark Carney says Canada must ‘be a beacon to a world that’s at sea’
In post-Davos speech, Canadian PM jabs at Trump, saying the arc of history ‘can still bend towards progress and justice’
www.theguardian.com
January 23, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Mark Carney says Canada must ‘be a beacon to a world that’s at sea’
"Discoveries" lolz
Lmao the bubble is fit to burst, boys
This is a hysterical and insane choice, I hope they follow through!
This is a hysterical and insane choice, I hope they follow through!
January 23, 2026 at 10:59 AM
"Discoveries" lolz
Some interesting considerations for colleagues using games to teach Politics and IR
‘Target mainland’: planned Troubles board game condemned in Northern Ireland
By turning conflict into entertainment US games company is ignoring its living legacy, says victims rights’ group
www.theguardian.com
January 23, 2026 at 8:50 AM
Some interesting considerations for colleagues using games to teach Politics and IR
King’s Spent £35k on Copilot AI as 10 Students Expelled for AI Misuse Since 2022
Exclusive: King’s Spent £35k on Copilot AI as 10 Students Expelled for AI Misuse Since 2022
Following a series of Freedom of Information (FOI) requests, Roar can exclusively reveal that King’s College London has spent £35,013 on Microsoft Copilot licenses since September 2024. King’s purchas...
roarnews.co.uk
January 22, 2026 at 6:12 PM
King’s Spent £35k on Copilot AI as 10 Students Expelled for AI Misuse Since 2022
Great to see @mybisa.bsky.social posting Alexander Borum's list of career and internship opportunities in international affairs on its website
IR career starters - January 2026- Postgraduate Network (PGN) | BISA
- Postgraduate Network (PGN) Working Group
www.bisa.ac.uk
January 22, 2026 at 5:26 PM
Great to see @mybisa.bsky.social posting Alexander Borum's list of career and internship opportunities in international affairs on its website
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Someone f'd up at Davos B&Q mixing that colour
January 22, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Someone f'd up at Davos B&Q mixing that colour
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Like a scene from the Madam Tussauds Chamber of Horrors
January 22, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Like a scene from the Madam Tussauds Chamber of Horrors
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Benjamin Netanyahu can't sign the Gaza Board of Peace agreement in Davos because Switzerland have said they will arrest him if he enters the country.
It is a Board of War Criminals.
It is a Board of War Criminals.
January 22, 2026 at 10:50 AM
Benjamin Netanyahu can't sign the Gaza Board of Peace agreement in Davos because Switzerland have said they will arrest him if he enters the country.
It is a Board of War Criminals.
It is a Board of War Criminals.
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It sure does feel like everyone only ever reads the first chapters.
Hans Morgenthau, of Jewish descent (!), spent a career concerned about how to LIMIT and AVOID whatever Stephen Miller is doing. He'd turn in his grave seeing his name cited as inspiration.
nationalinterest.org/feature/step...
Hans Morgenthau, of Jewish descent (!), spent a career concerned about how to LIMIT and AVOID whatever Stephen Miller is doing. He'd turn in his grave seeing his name cited as inspiration.
nationalinterest.org/feature/step...
Stephen Miller Channels Hans Morgenthau
President Donald Trump’s closest advisor has an intuitive grasp of the hard realities of global power politics.
nationalinterest.org
January 22, 2026 at 1:19 PM
It sure does feel like everyone only ever reads the first chapters.
Hans Morgenthau, of Jewish descent (!), spent a career concerned about how to LIMIT and AVOID whatever Stephen Miller is doing. He'd turn in his grave seeing his name cited as inspiration.
nationalinterest.org/feature/step...
Hans Morgenthau, of Jewish descent (!), spent a career concerned about how to LIMIT and AVOID whatever Stephen Miller is doing. He'd turn in his grave seeing his name cited as inspiration.
nationalinterest.org/feature/step...
Middle powers assemble? Trump disorder prompts talk of new liberal alliances
Middle powers assemble? Trump disorder prompts talk of new liberal alliances
As Mark Carney, Emmanuel Macron and Ursula von der Leyen decide ‘to live in truth’, what will it take for Starmer to call out Trump?
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2026 at 4:23 AM
Middle powers assemble? Trump disorder prompts talk of new liberal alliances
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Trump’s first choice for attorney general:
January 22, 2026 at 3:59 AM
Trump’s first choice for attorney general:
Well, this is quite lovely. Just what I needed this afternoon
January 21, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Well, this is quite lovely. Just what I needed this afternoon
Oh FFS! Do you think if more readers paid the recommended £12 a month in support of The Guardian, we’d no longer have to read nonsense like this?
And people are not “forming relationships” with chatbots. They are simply wanking at their computers
And people are not “forming relationships” with chatbots. They are simply wanking at their computers
January 20, 2026 at 11:15 PM
Oh FFS! Do you think if more readers paid the recommended £12 a month in support of The Guardian, we’d no longer have to read nonsense like this?
And people are not “forming relationships” with chatbots. They are simply wanking at their computers
And people are not “forming relationships” with chatbots. They are simply wanking at their computers
He's just like Soviet, Chinese, Saudi and other authoritarian leaders, who simply don't believe in the existence of independent institutions in the West (or, at least, he's pretending to be)
Trump to NBC: Norway "totally controls" the Nobel Prize committee "despite what they say"
January 19, 2026 at 3:59 PM
He's just like Soviet, Chinese, Saudi and other authoritarian leaders, who simply don't believe in the existence of independent institutions in the West (or, at least, he's pretending to be)
It's hard to quibble with this list. The Noise of Time is Barnes's masterpiece
Sex, death and parrots: Julian Barnes’s best fiction – ranked!
Sex, death and parrots: Julian Barnes’s best fiction – ranked!
As the Booker prize-winning author prepares to publish his final novel at 80, we assess his finest work
www.theguardian.com
January 19, 2026 at 3:57 PM
It's hard to quibble with this list. The Noise of Time is Barnes's masterpiece
January 19, 2026 at 3:50 PM
"I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace": not being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize has really stuck in Trump's loose turkey-neck-like craw
#GI5051 #GI5052 #GI7037 #GI7100
#GI5051 #GI5052 #GI7037 #GI7100
Trump links Greenland dispute to not getting Nobel Peace Prize, in letter to Norway's PM
The US president says he no longer feels obliged to think only of peace, after not being awarded the annual prize.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 19, 2026 at 3:10 PM
Museveni “elected” for a seventh term as president of Uganda. Journalists are currently unable to contact the opposition leader
#GI4059 #africa
#GI4059 #africa
Uganda’s president calls opponents 'terrorists' in victory speech
Yoweri Museveni wins seventh term but poll criticised by observers and rights groups over repression of opposition and internet blackout
www.theguardian.com
January 18, 2026 at 11:10 PM
‘[M]odern technology and the nature of the Chinese threat means that, in the words of one former British intelligence officer, “embassies are less and less relevant”.’
#GI5051 #GI7037 #GI7100 #china #espionage #transnationalrepression
#GI5051 #GI7037 #GI7100 #china #espionage #transnationalrepression
Why a Chinese ‘mega embassy’ is not such a worry for British spies
Politicians are raising the alarm, while MI5 quietly welcomes the prospect of Beijing’s new London facility
www.theguardian.com
January 18, 2026 at 6:08 PM
‘[M]odern technology and the nature of the Chinese threat means that, in the words of one former British intelligence officer, “embassies are less and less relevant”.’
#GI5051 #GI7037 #GI7100 #china #espionage #transnationalrepression
#GI5051 #GI7037 #GI7100 #china #espionage #transnationalrepression
