[ by Charles Cameron — high risk furniture — a single tweet with linked explanation, plus two sets of tweets I’d like to see further explained, explored and examined ]
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First, a single tweet from Max Fisher with a catchy title and link, where the URL provides free access to the article in question..
You are more likely to be killed by your own furniture than by terrorism or Ebola http://t.co/JDwEaIw7aI
— Max Fisher (@Max_Fisher) October 17, 2014
Single tweets like this with URLs are at the heart of intelligent twitter-use, and twitter #FFs are the curatorial device for honing in on them. But there have also been occasions when a string of tweets sets forth a noteworthy argument or tale, as in:
Jenan Moussa twitterstreams ISIS rules Teju Cole on Nairobi: death and birdsong, death and poetry
Second, here are four tweets from Phil Arena via Adam Elkus:
1. I've come to view referring to leaders as madmen, warmongers, etc, as an example of the tragedy of the commons.
— Phil Arena (@filarena) October 16, 2014
2. Individual expressing that view gains some marginal benefit by signaling their commitment to prevailing norms of propriety.
— Phil Arena (@filarena) October 16, 2014
3. But if too many people do it, we lose the ability to understand behavior. Such arguments border on tautological. They're a public bad.
— Phil Arena (@filarena) October 16, 2014
4. Virtually ever actor who has been described in this manner later became subject of work "revealing" that they were actually strategic.
— Phil Arena (@filarena) October 16, 2014
Fascinating ideation here, that I’d love to see developed.
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And much the same goes for these five diagrammatic tweets from Darin Self via Phil Arena:
Trends in substantive issue area for IR Security articles. Civil war/terrorism hot – weapons systems/bargaining not pic.twitter.com/lyrPqr2RUa
— Darin Self (@darinself) October 16, 2014
Methods within International Security as an issue area. Quant vs. Qual vs. everyone else. pic.twitter.com/UKaBGxY1Mh
— Darin Self (@darinself) October 16, 2014
Major theoretical approaches within international security. pic.twitter.com/eSaxO15a4N
— Darin Self (@darinself) October 17, 2014
Compare to major theoretical approaches within Intl Political Economy pic.twitter.com/P9pqmtjlQA
— Darin Self (@darinself) October 17, 2014
And then to Intl Organizations pic.twitter.com/0QT5vFOS2h
— Darin Self (@darinself) October 17, 2014
These are really on the edge of my comprehension, but then again I quite deliberately read above my pay-grade, believing that old saw of Browning‘s:
A man’s reach should exceed his grasp — or what’s a heaven for?
