Nicholas Grossman

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International Relations prof at U. Illinois. Editor of Arc Digital. Author “Drones and Terrorism.” Politics, national security, and occasional nerdery.

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Nicholas Grossman·Sep 15

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

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Nicholas Grossman·Sep 10

Political violence is bad. It usually begets more political violence. Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets. Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe. It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.

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Nicholas Grossman·Sep 12

An antisemite shot two kids in Colorado, at least one of whom is Jewish. The White House “fighting antisemitism” doesn’t care, because the shooter was a student radicalized online into far right beliefs, which the regime is cool with, rather than a student verbally criticizing Israeli govt policy.

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This Middle East regional war we've got... The war with fighting and airstrikes, to varying degrees, in Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Kuwait, Bahrain, UAE, Qatar, Oman, Jordan, Israel, Syria, Lebanon, Gaza, and the West Bank... What if we're still in the earlier stages?

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Nicholas Grossman·4h

There should be more like "LLMs are a major and growing disruption to cybersecurity and encryption, that's very risky, almost like anticipating Y2K but not knowing how it'd hit or how to head it off" and less formless "it's gonna kill us all, didn't you see [movie] or consider [imagined thing]."

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Nicholas Grossman·7h

Why is anyone analyzing Trump’s blatant lie about checks as if it’s a real policy or has any chance of happening, thereby advertising fake benefits? If I claimed I could fly to Asia propelled by my own farts, you don’t need multiple pieces like “Grossman’s Plan for Inexpensive Flight—Will it Work?”

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Nicholas Grossman·8h

A major concern in the 2020 and 2024 elections was the possibility the president’s son’s foreign connections could corruptly influence US policy. Despite many investigations into Hunter Biden, no one found any impact on US policy or even appearance thereof. But there could’ve been. Just imagine!

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He defends Russia for helping Iran kill Americans. He defends China for helping Iran kill Americans. He pretends Iran hasn’t killed Americans. And his strategy for the clearly failing war he started is to lie about it. He says Canada is bad, an enemy, while North Korea is good. What can’t he do!

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Tech CEO: I made a public statement that someone should force all my competitors to slow down AI development and once they do then I will slow down too. Credit, please! This clearly warrants public praise. (And give me more money.)

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It’s amazing (extremely negative) how U.S. diplomacy is focused on getting the aggressor a win, trying to find some way to secure gains for Russia that the Russian military has failed — for over 4.5 years and counting! — to achieve on the battlefield. What an awful, consequential, damaging change.

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What if China had reserves of oil and refined petroleum products that they’ve been drawing down in response to the Iran war, rather than secret “we don’t need oil anymore, we just didn’t act on that for reasons” powers? Would people believe me that the global supply crunch is a real problem then?

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Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Dario Amodei calling for AI development to slow down—but not, you know, just doing that at the companies they control—while Donald Trump is president smells like an attempt at regulatory capture.

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We keep telling Ukraine to bow down to Putin, rewarding Russia for its aggression, but they just won’t, explained corrupt non-govt US representative Jared Kushner. It’s very frustrating, he said, I really expected to get paid by now. Asked what Russia must give up for peace, Kushner had no comment.

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