Nuclear Fusion Will Not Give Us Infinite Power Table of Contents How Nuclear Power Works Why It Will (Not) Fail Conclusion, or Rather a Punchline Energy is perhaps the most important input of industrial society. Ever since the taming of fire, mankind has in some sense dreamt of a infinite source of fuel that could...

Or the Liberating Fear of Betrayal What is trust? Choosing to trust is a decision that is much ridiculed today. It is in many cases easy to see with the benefit of hindsight that it was foolish to trust someone, but doing so in advance is of course much harder. In general we are moving in the direction of trusting...

Russia is not a great power. It is in no way a contender for the title, and treating it as one of the “power brokers” of the world benefits no one except the autocratic regime that hinges its legitimacy on it but that has simultaneously suppressed the abilities of the Russian people to attain such a status. One of...

Thus was written for Chinatalk’s Essay Contest on Economic Security, and was originally submitted in 2026-02-24 AD (and thus before the Iran war). The original submitted pdf can be found here. Introduction Back in 2024 I was part of the first class of a new course at the Swedish Defence University titled Economic...

One of the first use-cases I found for LLMs back when ChatGPT first released was automating the creation of citations, or rather the transformations of citations structured in one way into .bib-files that can be used to create a wide variety of uniform citations in \(\LaTeX\) documents. LLMs are fantastic for this...

This post contains spoilers for Apple TV’s Pluribus, a really great show that you should ideally watch without having read anything about it. Pluribus — the newest show by Vince Gilligan (of Breaking Bad fame) — is a show that is refreshingly new in its ideas. After finishing it discussed its themes with some of my...

Writing this in 2026 AD (234 AdR), crypto is solidly in a “winter”. As valuations have fallen, so has the intensity of the debate surrounding the topic. I therefore feel it apt to use this opportunity to briefly write down my thoughts and opinions regarding this otherwise contentious topic. First of all I should...

Table of Contents Introduction Early Developments and the Dictatorship The Totalitarian State Fascism and Totalitarianism Socialism Democracy Religion Conclusion Introduction The spirit of the age that we currently finds ourselves in is one of rapid change (and often times decline) in the economic, political, and...

Table of Contents Introduction Human Development The (Fourth?) Industrial Revolution Conclusion Introduction The subject of artificial intelligence (AI)1 is one that has become hotly debated in recent years. That the growth of AI’s capabilities has been partly driven by what is becoming increasingly clear financial...

Table of Contents Introduction Fonts Microtypograhy Improving the footnotes Embellishments Initials Ornaments Colours Paper format Conclusion Introduction As a political science student, writing is a daily activity. And like any serious writer who cares about the their writing, I care about the presentation and look...

Table of Contents What are the qualities of text? Text and visual media Consciousness through text Programming Conclusion What are the qualities of text? Text, as a system of recording symbolic representation for communication across time and space, is likely one of the most important inventions of mankind — second...

Table of Contents The Map and the Territory Moving around Hold Move Support Convoy Turns Country Strategies England France Turkey Russia Austria Italy Germany I am hosting a new game of the board game Diplomacy, as usually hosted on Backstabbr, for students of the bachelor’s programs at SEDU. Since there are new...