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Calliope@calliope5431.bsky.social · 2d agoOh, it's much worse than *Nuclear War*, not only does she hopelessly mangle how plague works, but she *also* manages to mangle nuclear weapons disassembly to death as well:
And when she *did* claim to consult people who did, she fabricated quotes outright to fit her narrative.
Andy Craig@andycraig.bsky.social · 3d agoIf it's anything like her book on nuclear war, she has absolutely no idea what she's talking about and didn't consult with anybody who does.
This is a satellite image I commissioned in 2024. It shows more (7) modern destroyers under construction at Bath Iron Works (one of the smaller US military yards) than any single Korean shipyard has ever built.
Alexander Clarkson@aphclarkson.bsky.social · 3w agoIt's not as if this is an unknown crisis www.usni.org/magazines/pr...
I dislike the Cheese boy's takes as much the rest of you but this is simply not true. There are more surface ships under construction at Bath and Ingalls today than the South Korean Navy has bought in the last 15 years. We shit on the Cheese because he is a realist who debases himself for Trump.
Alexander Clarkson@aphclarkson.bsky.social · 3w agoYet the crisis of US shipbuilding is so bad that the US Navy is ordering ships from Korean or Italian firms and US logistics depend on bases among allies Colby is typical for an elite so marinated in myths of its power that it forgot to sustain real structures it needs to survive
Has there perhaps been some event taking place in the last 12 years which might be important for understanding why Europe is militarizing?
Katja Diehl@katjadiehl.bsky.social · 3w agoThe study shows militarisation is a bad economic deal: higher military spending leaves Europe less prosperous, with fewer jobs and lower-quality development. Spending instead on environment, education, and health would boost output and employment more. www.greenpeace.org/static/plane...
Shockingly, the guy who spent his career siding with abusive authoritarian regimes like Russia and Assadist Syria also leaps to his feet to defend rapists. These things are connected. It's all rape culture all the way down.
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 4w ago"she asked for it"
The abolitionist signer of the Declaration of Independence Benjamin Rush said in 1787 that the war was over but the Revolution was not. That the war was only the first act of the great drama of perfecting a new government and preparing its citizens' "principles, morals and manners" for self-rule.
Glonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱 🌹@snarkranger.bsky.social · last mo.Because we are America. Each and every one of us. America means all that is good in us, just as much as it means what's bad in us. I choose to believe that there is more good than bad among us. I choose to believe in us. I choose hope.
When the Federalist Society hits you with that "the age of consent when the Constitution was written was 15" stare
I am also worried about the US becoming a Third World country. That is why it is more important than ever for the USA to reject the Non-Aligned Movement and redouble our commitment to NATO.
Obvious Pseudonym@obviouspseudonym.bsky.social · last mo.I'm concerned about the US becoming a Third World country. That's why I support a movement devoted to personalist rule that rewards rampant bribery and influence peddling.
This is treason to the ideals and the concept of the Republic
Tom Joscelyn@tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · last mo.Much of MAGA is losing it over the Supreme Court’s Birthright Citizenship decision. MAGA ideologues like this guy below hate modern America. They hate multiculturalism. This guy thinks America is for his white children only.
Yeah in case anyone is not clear on it, a significant portion of the modern right actively fantasizes about murdering you. Registered Dem? You. Sociology major? You. Interracial marriage? Definitely you. None of us have the luxury of pretending we are safe. You should have a plan.
molly conger@socialistdogmom.bsky.social · last mo.it goes without saying that it's racist to refer to immigrants as "invaders" who must be met with lethal force, but the 'traitors then invaders' framing here isn't just xenophobia - it's a recurring theme in some of the most violent neonazi propaganda of the late 20th century.
*preps block button* If USAID is the vanguard of American imperialism*, that’s objectively the least deadly the imperialism the world has ever seen, and the world should be grateful for American subtlety and restraint.
Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · last mo.Whenever I hear someone claiming that USAID was evil from a leftist perspective, I hear someone saying “yes, millions ARE dying because Musk and Trump killed USAID, but at least they’ll die free of American imperialism.” Notably it is never the people saying this who are dying.
I NEED QRF TO BE REDCON RIGHT FUCKING NOW THEY’RE SWARMING THE REFLECTING POOL
I would be very hesitant to assign specific blame to either Grok or Maven Smart System, absent specific evidence. There are multiple different points in the targeting process where a mistake could have been made. Remember the school adjoined an IRGCN installation. Bad inputs lead to bad outcomes.
Asha Rangappa@asharangappa.bsky.social · 2mo agoDid DoD just admit in a court filing that it used xAI's Grok Gov Model to hit the girls' school on the first day of the Iran war? Based on some passages flagged by @rgoodlaw.bsky.social in DoD's recent filing in NAACP's case against X, it looks like it did 1/
"why are they even bombing us" is truly one of those questions that, in its context, encapsulates the modern russian mindset
Anton Gerashchenko@antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 2mo ago"Why are they even bombing us? Where is the air defense?" The day of rhetorical questions for Moscow residents.
Iran was strategically on the back foot. Loss of Syrian proxies, inability to restore deterrence against Israel or the US, GCC states slowly accepting Israel in the region, sanctions generally working...and then we put them in a position to gamble for resurrection and boy howdy did they.
"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux@bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 2mo agoOh yeah, this is clearly a defeat. We threw away $30bn+, plus whatever danegeld we're paying, plus 15 American lives, plus a whole bunch of airframes, plus we antagonized a lot of other states, in order to put Iran in a stronger strategic position than they were when we started. Absolute disaster.
no one is ready to really talk about how many of their wholesome chungus leftie faves were witting or unwitting KGB operations lmao
post malone ergo propter malone@proptermalone.bsky.social · 2mo agoa lot of this is strictly downstream of literal Cold War stuff. it's not like the CIA was the only org doing influence ops in adversary countries and it's past time that the American left applied some of the same critical lens to its own lineage.
This was a bad study for many reasons, not least of which that it rigged the results implicitly in favor of nuclear weapons, but the computers behaved relatively typical of human decision makers. Can we stop talking about it please? I don’t want to retype my screed about how awful it was.
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists@thebulletin.org · 2mo agoResearchers gave three commercial AI models an exercise typically used to train human military strategists. Each system played the leader of a nuclear-armed country in a standoff. Across 21 simulations, the models chose to use nuclear weapons in all but one game. Read more from Hiranya Peiris.
Happy Memorial Day everyone. I’m so thankful for the men and women and their families who have sacrifice so much for our great nation.
Ngl, Mike Black getting banned for telling Dort to off himself on Memorial Day is just about one of the funniest things I've ever seen. And I don't even mean that as a dig at Mike.
Bluesky Bans@bskybans.bsky.social · 2mo agoAccount mikeblack114.bsky.social was suspended by moderation.bsky.app The account was 969 days old at the time of banning. #BskyBans #veryOldAccountBan
I always come back to Lincoln on Memorial Day
If Bridge Colby can become USD(P), then I can do anything that I want. Sky is the limit
James@gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 2mo agoFor anyone aspiring to a career in national security after this. Look on the bright side You never have to worry about having imposter syndrome.
Colby is telling everyone he meets that all this military adventures are really about China. That’s not a joke. I’ve confirmed it from two sources.
Now USNI has always printed a lot of bullshit but this is really spectacularly bad. "To maintain the rules-based international order in the Indo-Pacific, the United States and its allies should"... abandon that order preemptively without fighting? Very stupid all around.
U.S. Naval Institute@usni.org · 3mo agoIn a post-Taiwan world, U.S. maritime strategy should focus on the Philippines. https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2026/may/its-philippines-stupid
I'll return to this account's original purpose to both praise and dispute this piece. Why surface from periscope depth on this topic? As one of, if not the, only active posters here who has actually gloved up and done work in the plutonium facility, I have a unique perspective to offer. ☢️🧵
🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️🌈@nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 3mo agoI have written a post about the State of Los Alamos; its inability to substantially accelerate or add new missions; and why trying to do so is a bad idea. Also: don't touch things in Plutonium Facility-4 & I'd stay out of the Basement & away from its mysteries. #PhDLife Free & accessible to all.
This article is fundamentally flawed, paying only lip service to the fundamental strategic and tactical differences between Iran, Ukraine, and Taiwan. The PLA does not need ships to enforce a blockade of Taiwan, and idea the island can field an IADS to deter the PLAAF is delusional in the extreme.
Melissa Chan@melissakchan.bsky.social · 3mo ago🇹🇼 Taiwan has agency here, writes @gideonrachman.bsky.social: "The current wars in Ukraine and Iran underline how foolish it is to assume that a military superpower, like Russia or the US, will always win a war against a smaller country or economy."
