Gerry Doyle
@mgerrydoyle.bsky.social
Bloomberg News Global Defense Editor. Novelist, aviation geek, bartender, dad. Ex-NYT, Reuters. Grew up in Midwest, moved to Mideast. Views my own. Wrote a fun book about Chinese missiles: https://tinyurl.com/2p94pay6 Ad astra per aspera
ostensibly it's to destroy iran's ability to fight back and force them to negotiate in reality if that were a thing we could have done, we would have done it already so....
post malone ergo propter malone@proptermalone.bsky.social · 5d agoso does any body know what the objective is of this new bombing campaign
pretty sure there was a period in u.s. history where humans were kept as slaves
Adam Weinstein@adamweinstein.bsky.social · 5d ago"Perhaps there has never been a group of people treated so badly in our Nation's history," the president said today of the insurrectionists who violently stormed the Capitol in an attempt to keep him in power.
pretty embarrassing for the scouts apnews.com/article/scou...
Scouting America drops diversity initiatives from event after pressure from the Pentagon
One of Scouting America’s biggest gatherings has eliminated dedicated spaces for gay youth, women and scouts of color as the organization faces pressure from the Pentagon to pull back diversity effort...
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1. Newer writers, just don't fucking use "AI" for anything, ever 2. How odd that being an established writer with a firm "no 'AI'" stance and ample pre-"AI" IP will become a definite competitive advantage over "new, hot, and possibly copyright compromised" deadline.com/2026/07/ai-q...
AI Questions Spoil Book & Movie Heat On 'Call Me, I'll Hide The Body' Novel
That screeching sound you heard from international publishers and film rights buyers was an abrupt application of the brakes after a fevered pursuit of the unpublished debut novel.
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So CBS and others invested in a pro trump audience that won’t arrive, alienating their actual audience, and trump propagandists are losing audience bc people are souring on Trump. Also helps explain the increased racist shrieking as they try to farm engagement www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/u...
How the Pro-Trump Media Ecosystem Is Splintering Ahead of the Midterms
Once united in support of President Trump, right-wing influencers are embroiled in feuds and losing viewers, creating a problem for Republicans in the midterm elections.
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I really enjoy that even the individual components of fifa are fed up with fifa
another in the continuing series of "despite what you might see on social media, ukraine is not putting all its eggs in one basket" www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Ukraine Aims to Extend the ‘Kill Zone’ and Turn Up Heat on Putin
Ukrainian artillery crews are on track to have access to extended-range shells by the end of the summer — a high-tech tool Kyiv hopes will drastically expand the frontline “kill zone.”
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and as I always chime in, unbidden: maybe the biggest problem is that this war has dramatically destabilized a country and region not known for being stable in the first place. also oil
Alexander Clarkson@aphclarkson.bsky.social · 5d agoA useful counterpoint to those on this and the other site who uncritically echo the Iranian regime's invincibility myths "Iran’s war with the US is not its only conflict as internal crises mount" www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
"escalation conundrum" somewhere schelling is spinning in his grave like a rotisserie chicken www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Trump Faces Escalation Conundrum as Iran War Flares Once Again
After another night of massive strikes on Iran, the US is once again facing a conundrum: escalate the conflict in retaliation for Iran’s attacks on US assets, or focus on restocking strained munitions...
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oh no way, ai screwed up a simple but important task. probably need more data centers to fix this
PBS News@pbsnews.org · 6d agoThe State Department said it takes "full responsibility" for "hastily" altering and then presenting a map of Africa at a global AIDS conference that mislabeled every single country it highlighted. An analysis by Reuters found a watermark in the map image that suggests it was made with OpenAI.
A republic, if you can shake it down www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Exclusive | ‘The Boss Wants This Money’: Inside Trump’s Unprecedented Fundraising Operation
Meredith O’Rourke, nicknamed ‘princess of darkness,’ carries out the president’s desire to wring hundreds of millions from companies for his projects.
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to me what sort of gives away the game here is "support sophie cunningham" without a shred of explanation why. if you're not ashamed to say it, say it
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a baller move might have been to come in with an elaborate design, save hundreds of dollars on a great tattoo, enjoy some cocktails and leave
regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸@ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 6d agooh my god a Y Combinator startup called LemonLime threw a party, brought in a tattoo artist offering free tattoos, and then said they would give an immediate job interview to anyone who got a tattoo of their logo what is wrong with these people.
we could solve the interceptor shortage if we just put nuclear weapons on older Patriot rounds. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
A shrinking weapons stockpile is testing the Pentagon’s sweeping new strategy
The Defense Department is betting on Silicon Valley start-ups to replenish stockpiles amid the Iran war. Now the firms must prove they can manufacture at military scale.
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I'm just glad I post about stuff so outside mainstream discourse that no one tries to misrepresent-dunk on me
According to Bloomberg, the European Commission plans to designate Roblox and OpenAI's ChatGPT as very large online platforms (VLOPS) under the DSA. VLOPS are subject to more stringent reporting rules. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
ChatGPT, Roblox to Fall Under Strictest EU Rules for Platforms
OpenAI’s ChatGPT and video game company Roblox Corp. will be subject to stricter scrutiny and monitoring requirements under the European Union’s content moderation rules after surpassing a threshold o...
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the idea that the u.s. has no cost-effective answer to cheap drones/strike weapons isn't true and hasn't been for a long time. that stuff is out there, integrated into formations etc apkws just one example--a sort of air-to-air jdam, and bae is pumping them out
the f-89 with its car-sized wingtip rocket/missile pods was really something to behold
Wesley Morgan@wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 7d agoThis is the most 1980s-G.I.-Joe-looking aircraft weapons configuration I’ve ever seen
we call this horizontal escalation to me the underlying mistake here is a *literal* textbook example of assuming the enemy does not, in fact, get a vote
Vali Nasr@valinasr.bsky.social · 6d agoI told NYT that in restarting the war Trump thought he could control, limiting the battlefield to where U.S. wants to bomb in Iran.“The Iranian response is to extend the battlefield much, much wider, so the United States has to defend a broader battlefield.” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/u...
The Nasdaq 100 Index closed the day in correction territory, pushing the broader stock market lower as the Federal Reserve refrained from raising interest rates.
Nasdaq Hits Correction Territory as Fed Defers Hike
Get caught up.
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creating a populous failed state in the middle of a region already full of regional tensions seems bad on many levels
Alexander Clarkson@aphclarkson.bsky.social · 7d agoAt some point US frustration will start lashing out more systematically at what remains of Iran's electricity grid. Yet the IRGC will probably even survive state failure and economic collapse in Iran in what could be a kind of Yemenisation scenario.
so although this is true, 100 percent, interestingly the song "the rare ould times" (it's great) deliberately mispronounces it I guess Fare thee well sweet Anna Liffey, I can no longer stay And watch the new glass cages that spring up along the quay
Mockingbird, MPH, CHES@amockingbird.bsky.social · 6d agoI’ll never really understand this, but want to help others by telling you that “quay” is pronounced key, not kway, and that might make things more clear for you. Thank you Carl Hiassen audiobooks.
PrSM, hot off the line, definitely developed with this war in mind
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 6d agoUS ARMY M142 HIMARS LAUNCHERS IN KUWAIT FIRED ATACMS AND PRSM MISSILES AT TARGETS ACROSS SOUTHERN IRAN OVERNIGHT, WITH REPORTED IMPACTS AROUND ABADAN, AHVAZ, BUSHEHR, KISH ISLAND, AND BANDAR ABBAS.