# nationalism (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 10 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover nationalism. Page: Feed: --- ## [Languages of Nusantaria](https://faroutliers.com/2026/08/22/languages-of-nusantaria/) _2026-08-22 · Joel · Far Outliers_ From Empire of the Winds: The Global Role of Asia’s Great Archipelago, by Philip Bowring (I.B. Tauris, 2018), Kindle pp. 29-31: Language is also a divide between maritime and mainland. The island and peninsula people all speak very similar atonal … Continue reading → ## [Naming ‘Maritime Southeast Asia’](https://faroutliers.com/2026/08/21/naming-maritime-southeast-asia/) _2026-08-21 · Joel · Far Outliers_ From Empire of the Winds: The Global Role of Asia’s Great Archipelago, by Philip Bowring (I.B. Tauris, 2018), Kindle pp. 29-31: This region is often referred to as ‘maritime South East Asia’, with the more general term ‘South East Asia’ … Continue reading → ## [Empire of the Winds Introduction](https://faroutliers.com/2026/08/20/empire-of-the-winds-introduction/) _2026-08-21 · Joel · Far Outliers_ From Empire of the Winds: The Global Role of Asia’s Great Archipelago, by Philip Bowring (I.B. Tauris, 2018), Kindle pp. 27-29: In 1498 the crew of the ships of Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama became the first people known to … Continue reading → ## [Migration into Mindanao](https://faroutliers.com/2026/08/19/migration-into-mindanao/) _2026-08-19 · Joel · Far Outliers_ From The Making of the Modern Philippines: Pieces of a Jigsaw State, by Philip Bowring (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022), Kindle pp. 183-187: The island of Mindanao is the most misunderstood part of the nation. Decades of on and off conflict in its … Continue reading → ## [watermarks of providence](https://profalexreid.com/2026/08/19/watermarks-of-providence/) _2026-08-19 · Alex Reid · Alex Reid, Professor of Digital Rhetoric, Media, and Artificial Intelligence_ with frontier AI's own dream of self-generating code at the forefront. In short, the entirety of AI industry should be watermarked. And from there, this condition flows out across coding and data analysis through every profession that relies heavily on such practices. In other words, we could consider STEM fields, starting with computer science. Simply looking at the money being spent by… ## [Overseas Filipino Workers](https://faroutliers.com/2026/08/18/overseas-filipino-workers/) _2026-08-19 · Joel · Far Outliers_ From The Making of the Modern Philippines: Pieces of a Jigsaw State, by Philip Bowring (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022), Kindle pp. 157-158, 164: Economic and social failures combine with demography to create the issue for which Filipino people are world-renowned – migration. … Continue reading → ## [Duterte’s Response to COVID](https://faroutliers.com/2026/08/18/dutertes-response-to-covid/) _2026-08-18 · Joel · Far Outliers_ From The Making of the Modern Philippines: Pieces of a Jigsaw State, by Philip Bowring (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022), Kindle pp. 109-110: The last two years of Duterte’s presidency were dominated by the pandemic. Although blame for what, at least by the … Continue reading → ## [Christian Nationalism in Strange Places](https://warrenthrockmorton.substack.com/p/christian-nationalism-in-strange) _2026-08-18 · Warren Throckmorton · The Throckmorton Initiative_ Yeshiva University promotes Christian nationalist stories ## [Centralism vs. Federalism in Philippines](https://faroutliers.com/2026/08/15/centralism-vs-federalism-in-philippines/) _2026-08-15 · Joel · Far Outliers_ From The Making of the Modern Philippines: Pieces of a Jigsaw State, by Philip Bowring (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022), Kindle pp. 128-130: The 1987 Constitution was intended to promote ‘maximum decentralization short of federalization’. It was imprecise about decentralization of public finances, Continue reading ## [Decline Under Marcos](https://faroutliers.com/2026/08/14/decline-fall-of-marcos/) _2026-08-14 · Joel · Far Outliers_ From The Making of the Modern Philippines: Pieces of a Jigsaw State, by Philip Bowring (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022), Kindle pp. 73-74: Politically, most of the country was quiet for the first years of martial law. Local politicians were left alone but Continue reading ## [8.1% APY Plus Free Stock (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/krgRMfTmE1V2) _2026-08-14 · **Sponsored**_ Claim 8.1% APY and up to $1,030 in SK hynix and Nvidia stock. ## [Who decided AI will be good for society?](https://profalexreid.com/2026/08/14/who-decided-ai-will-be-good-for-society/) _2026-08-14 · Alex Reid · Alex Reid, Professor of Digital Rhetoric, Media, and Artificial Intelligence_ In 2026, there is consensus among the 38 public AAU universities that AI will provide a social benefit. That provision is often expressed as conditional, of course, on the important role of the university. But AI social benefit will arrive, and the university must invest in that future. I could argue there is little evidence \[…\] ## [The Ruthless Pursuit of Above-Ground Living](https://www.digitalliturgies.net/p/the-ruthless-pursuit-of-above-ground) _2026-08-14 · Samuel D. James · Digital Liturgies_ Reaching the Lost Young Men: Part 2 ## [Who caused this answer? AI agents of post-truth](https://profalexreid.com/2026/08/13/who-caused-this-answer-ai-agents-of-post-truth/) _2026-08-13 · Alex Reid · Alex Reid, Professor of Digital Rhetoric, Media, and Artificial Intelligence_ Last month, I wrote about “context laundering” in AI summarization. Over the last few weeks, this issue has taken on some new dimensions. In June, TIME began delivering Markdown versions of their website. This was done in response to the increase in bots and agents in scraping their website and is part of their larger, \[…\] ## [Saint Petersburg Live (The Case of Igor Zaitsev and Other Navalny Donors)](https://therussianreader.com/2026/08/13/2857/) _2026-08-13 · hecksinductionhour · The Russian Reader_ Just as Russia's fascist police arrest Igor Zaitsev, a Petersburg university lecturer, on criminal felony charges of "financing extremism" (that is, donating tiny amounts of money to the murdered Alexei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation), the Finnish authorities are preparing to deport Valentin Sergienko, a Petersburger whose now-rejected asylum claim in Finland was based on his proven record… ## [Magsaysay Era in the Philippines](https://faroutliers.com/2026/08/13/magsaysay-era-in-the-philippines/) _2026-08-13 · Joel · Far Outliers_ From The Making of the Modern Philippines: Pieces of a Jigsaw State, by Philip Bowring (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022), Kindle pp. 60-62: Magsaysay was dynamic, reorganizing and enlarging the army, improving discipline and reducing corruption. He exuded a man of the people Continue reading ## [Philippines Under Japan](https://faroutliers.com/2026/08/12/philippines-under-japan/) _2026-08-13 · Joel · Far Outliers_ From The Making of the Modern Philippines: Pieces of a Jigsaw State, by Philip Bowring (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022), Kindle pp. 51-54: At least initially, few of the elite saw reason to confront the Japanese. A majority of senators joined the Executive Continue reading ## [Yabloko Is Not the Apple of the Kremlin’s Eye](https://therussianreader.com/2026/08/11/2856/) _2026-08-11 · hecksinductionhour · The Russian Reader_ Yesterday, 10 August 2026, the Russian Supreme Court disqualified the opposition Yabloko party from September's parliamentary elections, presumably for their (mild) antiwar stance. More remarkably, given the times, several hundred mostly young Muscovites showed up to support Yabloko. Deutsche Welle rounded up the reaction of talking heads to yesterday's events, while the ceaselessly amazing… ## [Rise of Religious Nationalism in Philippines](https://faroutliers.com/2026/08/11/rise-of-religious-nationalism-in-philippines/) _2026-08-11 · Joel · Far Outliers_ From The Making of the Modern Philippines: Pieces of a Jigsaw State, by Philip Bowring (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022), Kindle pp. 29-31: The nineteenth century saw a sustained clash between the religious needs of the Filipinos and the colonialist views of the Continue reading ## [Al Mohler Wages War on the Constitution, Part Two](https://warrenthrockmorton.substack.com/p/al-mohler-wages-war-on-the-constitution) _2026-08-10 · Warren Throckmorton · The Throckmorton Initiative_ Southern Baptist Seminary president attacks the founders of his denomination and the nation all at once ## [Manila in Global Trade, 1600s](https://faroutliers.com/2026/08/10/manila-in-global-trade-1600s/) _2026-08-10 · Joel · Far Outliers_ From The Making of the Modern Philippines: Pieces of a Jigsaw State, by Philip Bowring (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022), Kindle pp. 25-26: Despite the best intentions of some Spanish officials and priests, the overall low standard of Spanish rule was exacerbated by Continue reading ## [Your 24/7 AI Media Buyer (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/WMk0NuuJdhqB) _2026-08-10 · **Sponsored**_ Finds placement, geo, and funnel leaks and proposes fixes you approve ## [Modern Philippines: A Jigsaw](https://faroutliers.com/2026/08/09/modern-philippines-a-jigsaw/) _2026-08-09 · Joel · Far Outliers_ From The Making of the Modern Philippines: Pieces of a Jigsaw State, by Philip Bowring (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022), Kindle pp. 1-3: In March 1521 three ships under Ferdinand Magellan (Magalhaes/Magallanes), a Portuguese navigator in the service of the king of Spain, Continue reading ## [Małgorzata Rejmer’s Book Bukareszt](https://faroutliers.com/2026/08/08/malgorzata-rejmers-book-bukareszt/) _2026-08-08 · Joel · Far Outliers_ This week s newsletter from Culture.pl contains some articles about Polish connections with Romania. Here are some excerpts from an article by Mikołaj Gliński titled Everyone Remembers Their Own Past Differently: Małgorzata Rejmer on Romania Albania : The author Małgorzata Rejmer Continue reading ## [Honolulu FBI vs. Mass Internment](https://faroutliers.com/2026/08/07/honolulu-fbi-vs-mass-internment/) _2026-08-07 · Joel · Far Outliers_ From Family of Spies: A World War II Story of Nazi Espionage, Betrayal, and the Secret History Behind Pearl Harbor, by Christine Kuehn (Celadon Books, 2025), Kindle pp. 160-161: There was intense pressure to intern the entire Japanese population of Continue reading ## [Briefly in Defense of The Gospel Coalition's AI Policy](https://www.digitalliturgies.net/p/briefly-in-defense-of-the-gospel) _2026-08-07 · Samuel D. James · Digital Liturgies_ Aim small, miss small. ## [Live at Nooks Gallery & Book Shop in Lancaster, PA](https://warrenthrockmorton.substack.com/p/live-at-nooks-gallery-and-book-shop) _2026-08-07 · Warren Throckmorton · The Throckmorton Initiative_ Philosopher Scott Coley interviewed me at book event on July 30, 2026 ## [when judgment is “too cheap to meter”](https://profalexreid.com/2026/08/06/when-judgment-is-too-cheap-to-meter/) _2026-08-06 · Alex Reid · Alex Reid, Professor of Digital Rhetoric, Media, and Artificial Intelligence_ Frontier AI's value proposition relies on our accepting the AI operation of inference as reasoning itself. For frontier AI's success, inference cannot be simply a proxy for judgement; computational inference must become a judgment machine. The slippage occurs when an inferential output is treated as a judgment, especially when that judgment organizes or directly initiates action. However, if AI… ## [Sandarmokh: The Russian Right Love the Great Terror](https://therussianreader.com/2026/08/05/2855/) _2026-08-05 · hecksinductionhour · The Russian Reader_ The Russian far-right (and their backers in the Kremlin) have a problem with Russians who want to talk in public about Stalin's Great Terror, including at the NKVD's killing fields in the Sandarmokh forest in Karelia, where every year on August fifth the names of the victims are read aloud. ## [Anthony Fauci is Donald Trump](https://www.digitalliturgies.net/p/anthony-fauci-is-donald-trump) _2026-08-05 · Samuel D. James · Digital Liturgies_ Our leaders, populist and elite alike, refuse to admit their mistakes. ## [Dusko Popov vs. J. Edgar Hoover, 1941](https://faroutliers.com/2026/08/04/dusko-popov-vs-j-edgar-hoover-1941/) _2026-08-05 · Joel · Far Outliers_ From Family of Spies: A World War II Story of Nazi Espionage, Betrayal, and the Secret History Behind Pearl Harbor, by Christine Kuehn (Celadon Books, 2025), Kindle pp. 119-120: Special Agent Shivers was convinced the Kuehns were spies; he just Continue reading ## [Russian Embassy Uses Fort Ross State Historic Park and Kashia Band of Pomo Indians to Whitewash Russia’s Bellicose Genocidal Regime with Connivance of U.S. State Department](https://therussianreader.com/2026/08/03/2854/) _2026-08-03 · hecksinductionhour · The Russian Reader_ The former Russian settlement of Fort Ross in Northern California was for many years a fertile beachhead for Putinist soft power and pro-Putinist Russian American meddlers. Their campaign suffered a serious setback when Russia brutally invaded Ukraine, but now that a fascist regime has been installed in the White House, Russian officials have returned to Fort Ross and even inveigled local… ## [Build with the cheapest GPUs (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/tWFfEXHZ37Rh) _2026-08-03 · **Sponsored**_ Deployed a live API in minutes; one user spent under $10. ## [The Jevons’ Wonderland of AI Economics](https://profalexreid.com/2026/08/03/the-jevons-wonderland-of-ai-economics/) _2026-08-03 · Alex Reid · Alex Reid, Professor of Digital Rhetoric, Media, and Artificial Intelligence_ Amidst the talk of AI bubbles, perhaps you’ve encountered the concept of the Jevons Effect. Jevons’ argument has to do with coal, hence the title of his work, The Coal Question. The principle is that an increased efficiency in the use of a resource (e.g., coal) might result in an expanded consumption of that resource. \[…\] ## [How Christopher Nolan's Best Movie Exposes The Odyssey's Flaws](https://www.digitalliturgies.net/p/how-christopher-nolans-best-movie) _2026-08-01 · Samuel D. James · Digital Liturgies_ Plus: Why Gen-Z prefers Snapchat over texting ## [The criti-hype of AI Nationalism](https://profalexreid.com/2026/07/30/the-criti-hype-of-ai-nationalism/) _2026-07-31 · Alex Reid · Alex Reid, Professor of Digital Rhetoric, Media, and Artificial Intelligence_ The basic criti-hype concern in AI nationalism lies in slippages that occur in where the nationalism lies. If we want to argue that the US needs its own AI, for example, then what does that imply about the "always already" ideological process/content of AI? In turn, what does that say about the knowledge produced with these AI? It's almost as if we are suggesting that knowledge is shaped by the… ## [Daniil Belousov: A Political Prisoner’s Son, Sentenced to 7 Years in Prison](https://therussianreader.com/2026/07/29/2853/) _2026-07-29 · hecksinductionhour · The Russian Reader_ In 2023, Oleg Belousov was the first person in Petersburg to be convicted of "disseminating fake news about the Russian army." Today, his son Daniil was sentenced to 7 years in prison for "condoning terrorism." Both Oleg and Daniil are disabled people, a fact that made no difference to their criminal judges. ## [In Conversation with Frank Schaeffer](https://warrenthrockmorton.substack.com/p/in-conversation-with-frank-schaeffer) _2026-07-29 · Warren Throckmorton · The Throckmorton Initiative_ The Christian Past That Wasn't will be October's book club selection ## [You Could Be in Pictures (Russia’s Elite Universities and the War)](https://therussianreader.com/2026/07/29/2852/) _2026-07-29 · hecksinductionhour · The Russian Reader_ The cinematography department of the All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) posted an ad on its VKontakte page about "a special group" being recruited for director and cinematographer Mikhail Agranovich's class. Prospective students are offered free tuition starting in the 2027 academic year, provided they sign a one-year contract with the Russian Defense Ministry for service in UAV… ## [Little Stalin](https://therussianreader.com/2026/07/27/2851/) _2026-07-27 · hecksinductionhour · The Russian Reader_ Roskom who? / We'll do the job ourselves / A little Stalin sits inside each of us / He sits there inside / And says to you: / 'Delete that tweet' / 'Don’t do that—take back that like / Or the investigator will be at your door' / That’s how sweet it’s become to stay mum / A little Stalin lives inside each of us ## [Sacred Liberty in the Washington Post](https://warrenthrockmorton.substack.com/p/sacred-liberty-in-the-washington) _2026-07-27 · Warren Throckmorton · The Throckmorton Initiative_ The Museum of the Bible slants the Bible and the founding era ## [Bringing it All Back Home](https://www.digitalliturgies.net/p/bringing-it-all-back-home) _2026-07-27 · Samuel D. James · Digital Liturgies_ First off, I sincerely want to thank everyone who wrote an email, comment, or text checking on me after the PSA earlier this month. ## [Laura Loomer vs. Lily Lynch](https://therussianreader.com/2026/07/26/2850/) _2026-07-26 · hecksinductionhour · The Russian Reader_ Laura Loomer (left) is an American far-right conspiracist and influencer from Arizona who has suddenly (supposedly) seen the light on Ukraine after actually visiting the country that has endured an unprovoked Russian invasion for the last four and a half years Lily Lynch (right) is a leftyish American foreign affairs writer from California who, apparently, does not need to see a place with her own… ## [Trump's War on American History](https://warrenthrockmorton.substack.com/p/trumps-war-on-american-history) _2026-07-26 · Warren Throckmorton · The Throckmorton Initiative_ He's fighting for a whitewashed view of history ## [Reluctant Peacenik vs. Rough Beast](https://therussianreader.com/2026/07/26/2849/) _2026-07-26 · hecksinductionhour · The Russian Reader_ 1) Tokayev reads Putin the riot act. 2) "\[E\]very other person is ready to kill him." ## [Wildberries and the War](https://therussianreader.com/2026/07/24/2848/) _2026-07-24 · hecksinductionhour · The Russian Reader_ Russian business daily Delovoi Peterburg's dry-as-dust and officialese-laden account of the Ukrainian drone attacks on Wildberries warehouses in the Petersburg area segues into a photo essay about a walk through one of the targeted neighborhoods eleven years ago and the Gray Lady's oddly much more compassionate account of the effects of the attacks on Russia's rank-and-file e-retailers. Look where… ## [The Christian Past That Wasn't in the News](https://warrenthrockmorton.substack.com/p/the-christian-past-that-wasnt-in) _2026-07-24 · Warren Throckmorton · The Throckmorton Initiative_ Secular Spotlight and Disarming Leviathan host discussion of church-state separation ## [Al Mohler vs. The Constitution](https://warrenthrockmorton.substack.com/p/al-mohler-vs-the-constitution) _2026-07-16 · Warren Throckmorton · The Throckmorton Initiative_ Mohler calls the omission of Christian acknowledgement "an error" ## [Should we still be teaching online? From the open web to Platform U.](https://profalexreid.com/2026/07/15/should-we-still-be-teaching-online-from-the-open-web-to-platform-u/) _2026-07-15 · Alex Reid · Alex Reid, Professor of Digital Rhetoric, Media, and Artificial Intelligence_ The generic pedagogical tools of any LMS (discussions, quizzes, etc.) are generally "free to use" elsewhere on the web. The feature set, while necessary in an LMS, is not where the commercial value lies. The value-added of the LMS is that it provides a digital enclosure that demonstrates a university's due diligence in privacy protection, and expands the university's management of learning. The… ## [The reverse centaur productivity machine](https://profalexreid.com/2026/07/14/the-reverse-centaur-productivity-machine/) _2026-07-14 · Alex Reid · Alex Reid, Professor of Digital Rhetoric, Media, and Artificial Intelligence_ The NY Times reports today "U.S. Workers Are More Productive Than Ever. A.I. Isn’t the Key. Companies have been getting more out of employees for several years." Golf clap for companies. What does it mean to "get more out our employees"? The American mythology is that increased productivity makes everyone's life better, but this apparent victory lap suggests something else. It might suggest that… ## [Is the AI Bubble Bursting? Gambling on the AI Forward University](https://profalexreid.com/2026/07/13/is-the-ai-bubble-bursting-gambling-on-the-ai-forward-university/) _2026-07-13 · Alex Reid · Alex Reid, Professor of Digital Rhetoric, Media, and Artificial Intelligence_ The bubble doesn't have to be that bad to bring financial and reputational damage to the AI Forward university. All that really has to happen is that decreased confidence in investment in Frontier AI destabilizes the value proposition of investing in the AI Forward university. The financial damage will be obvious in all the money spent transforming the university to be AI forward. AI-centric… ## [Christian Nationalism and Public Education: The Cost of Disinformation](https://warrenthrockmorton.substack.com/p/christian-nationalism-and-public) _2026-07-09 · Warren Throckmorton · The Throckmorton Initiative_ Texas Board of Education Member Staci Childs Davis joins me to discuss disinformation in public education ## [Context Laundering and the Human Bottleneck in AI Research](https://profalexreid.com/2026/07/08/context-laundering-and-the-human-bottleneck-in-ai-research/) _2026-07-09 · Alex Reid · Alex Reid, Professor of Digital Rhetoric, Media, and Artificial Intelligence_ This research suggests that AI remains dependent on human evaluation as a filter. While our digital experiences are algorithmic, aside from AI slop, the content of the internet is human filtered in the sense that we made it. It is also filtered post-hoc in many human ways. There are moderators on Reddit, Wikipedia, and so on. And there are discourse communities on the web that regularize online…