I appreciate it can seem pointless to reflect on the specificities of an irrational, broken system when all discussions will lead to the conclusion that the system is irrational and broken, but this question – where do we go? – is an intensely real one for so many postdocs, including myself

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What can Ottoman-themed Turkish TV dramas teach us about IR? How do cultural producers shape national identity and foreign policymaking? Ceren Çetinkaya-Mullin joined Vienna Dialogues to talk about her PhD research on transnational cultural production and circulation: 👉 tinyurl.com/y6asnted

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if companies see that republicans will punish them unless they pony up bribes AND democrats will punish them for ponying up bribes, they will see there is no way to avoid punishment in a system that demands bribes

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“wait! i’m fucked no matter what i do! maybe this whole ‘democracy’ thing wasn’t worth giving up so i could keep on harassing my secretary”

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So I’ve sunk a beer and am procrastinating from other tasks, but: I find the predominant strain of discourse around LLMs—captured in phrases like “bullshit plagiarism machines” —both problematic and (frankly) dispiriting. Not because it fails to perform enthusiasm, but because it reads to me as:

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