Jason Kikta

@kikta.net

// Somehow a CTO/CISO // JHU SAIS @alperovitch.institute adjunct // @istorg.bsky.social adjunct sr tech advisor // Former CNMF // Retired US Marine Corps // Personal views and invective

AI companies use "tokens" because they know millennials and Gen X all subconsciously pine to recapture their innocence, specifically the wonderment represented by an overflowing cup of rat-faced doubloons at Chuck E. Cheese.

Trump: "We heard in Minnesota there was a cyberattack and they blame it on Iran. I don't think so. I blame it on Minnesota because they're grossly incompetent. Iran's got bigger problems than worrying about Minnesota."

They're probably still posting on alt.religion.ipv6 on some USENET feed running on a original BSD box. I remember a guy at that conference who was trying to sell a thing to the IC to do per-packet ECMP over an IPv6+IPSEC+GRE overlay because something something cryptanalysis defeat. That was weird.

Sources are reporting that James Woolsey’s final words were “Fam I lowkey fell off cuz they zooted me with the Cuba beam”. A U.S. government official, who spoke on condition of anonymity while discussing national security matter, commented “Opps are vicious out here.”

Our big final planning exercise for Expeditionary Warfare School back in 2010 was an amphibious assault on Bandar e Jask, then pushing along the coast up past Minab, with a simultaneous seizure of Qeshm Island. We all joked at the time that the real lesson was “This is a terrible fucking idea.”

ex-Lethality Jane@lethalityjane.bsky.social · 2w ago

Been through a handful of Army Leader Professional Development trainings which could have been titled "why we shouldn't invade Iran" which largely consisted of someone slapping this map on a PowerPoint slide and pointing out that Iran has three times the land and twice the population of Iraq.