Michael Allen

Professor • Boise State • International Relations • Focus: War, FoPo, Basing, and Troop Deployments • Nerd: scifi, gaming, methods. RT ≠ Endorsement

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My new book, The Gamer's Guide to International Relations, is now out.

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Wake up…(au:JimKB)

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This week’s pulls.

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Wait a minute, Galaxy Quest is basically the same story as the Three Amigos…

I wonder if the Three Amigos holds up, I haven’t seen it in over three decades.

[Trade Diversion (Jonathan Dingel) @TradeDiversion]

Today is the submission deadline for the Urban Economics Association meeting in Chicago, September 25-26. Please send your best urban-related work for our program committee to consider.

https://t.co/9VbCdSgr8h
@UrbanEconomics

[William Shatner @WilliamShatner]

I know nothing about it. 🤷🏼 I do hope it’s a real @wizards_magic deck. 🤨Though they should redo the card as he looks like he didn’t have his @KelloggsUS #RaisinBran that morning and will have some trouble boldly “going”! 🚽😉🤣

[Michael Allen @michaelallen]

@Evilsquash301 @HiThereJosh Claude designed spaces look very similar unless the user goes out of their way to get away from the default templating it uses. However, someone using Claude to implement a good idea that they could otherwise code seems like a good use case of ai that helps the community.

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A brief discussion about U.S. troops in Germany.

[The Conversation U.S. @ConversationUS]

Overseas US military bases are integral to combat operations and can burnish the country’s image to advance its foreign policy goals.
https://t.co/rHs35E8Qns

[Peyman Milanfar @docmilanfar]

being wrong is the best way to get cited a lot

[Brian Graham 🦬 @iroasmas]

me as i read 40% of what claude wrote back and type in “continue”

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Writing a bit about the high rate of stockpile consumption in Iran:

https://t.co/2cVbLXbNU2

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Obviously, there is a wide gap between the two quotations and offers space to discuss what is and is not good social science.

I think this little tidbit is amusing, and I have used it in the classroom and with colleagues to think a bit deeper about our quantitative evidence.

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Hi @TalkNerdy_Pod, found the pod through SGU a long time ago.

The original quote, "The plural of anecdote is data," predates the negation by a few years and was written by a political scientist! https://t.co/ftogHimWLM.

Negative form: https://t.co/f1qolo7zyN

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NATO’s internal cohesion is being threatened (again) – but in pushing for support on Iran, Trump may risk eroding US influence on the alliance:

https://t.co/SfBf4OjVRF

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This better not awaken anything inside of me.

https://t.co/ZTUKQFArMj

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@LukevVonderland @ink_decks @IllumineerCL Since the data is untracked on inkdecks, it would be neat to know what is beating what in the ICL

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If you encounter any issues, let me know.

The landing page (which will be updated with future tools) is here: https://t.co/fgJ9Cl5ym5 (7/7)

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A suite of Lorcana tools for competitive play: https://t.co/fgJ9Cl5ym5 (1/7)

#lorcana #lorcanatcg

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Deck swap (https://t.co/8GCMSzaRi2): post two lists and know what you need to cut/add to change your deck. Also, post two different lists to figure out what cards you need to swap from deck to deck if you have only a playset of each card (thanks, purple). (6/7)