Francis Drake
Pirate, explorer,seaman.
- Enlighting article.
- Reposted by Francis DrakeThe contemporary world order is poorly suited to today's dynamic, changing international system, a disparity that lies at the heart of our current sense of crisis. The future of world order | Francis J. Gavin engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-f...
- Reposted by Francis DrakeGermany has long been a laboratory for political experiments, good and ill. Germany, land of experiments | Daniel Johnson engelsbergideas.com/essays/germa...
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- Reposted by Francis DrakeBellingcat founder @eliothiggins.bsky.social and Cornell University’s @cward1e.bsky.social unpack how disinformation evolved, why trust in institutions is collapsing, and what tools we all need to stay sharp in a world of misinformation. Listen back to last week's Stage Talk: rss.com/podcasts/bel...
- Strange things are happening.
- Katie Miller thinks classical liberalism is woke and leftist—but it’s the “philosophical inspiration for the American Revolution, the Constitution, and the broad civic norms that have shaped American life,” @jonathanbchait.bsky.social argues.
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- Excellent article and very thought provoking.
- Urban warfare is often invoked as an alibi: dense terrain, imperfect intelligence, an embedded adversary. These conditions are real — but they do not explain outcomes. What matters is how commanders allocate risk My new piece in War on the Rocks: warontherocks.com/2026/01/gaza...
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- @marbleliberal.bsky.social something up your alley
- As I've written before, people don’t trust institutions because institutions aren't doing the job. Democracy rests on three pillars: Verification, Deliberation, Accountability, which can be understood as being substantial, performative, and simulated. demos.co.uk/research/ver...
- Excellent article
- The Economics of Attention Loewenstein & Wojtowicz, 2025 "We also identify promising new directions for research, including...the significant role that boredom, curiosity, and other motivational states play in determining how people allocate attention." www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
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- Reposted by Francis DrakeYesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.
- Good 🧵
- Excellent article.
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- Unbelievably incompetent.
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- Vile and disgusting.
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