"The Western Massachusetts Lesbian Bar Scandal" Arlo Guthrie's finest song.
Tony Stark
@tonystark.bsky.social
Author of the novel, EX SUPRA. Buy it here: https://www.amazon.com/Ex-Supra-Tony-Stark/dp/B0B6L9TD6J/ref=nodl_?dplnkId=f9e567ed-9cbb-4a51-9ebe-37646193cff5 Sequel: Duality, coming soon. Substack: Breaking Beijing. Podcast: WarTalk (ChinaTalk)
lol this is wholly wrong: “The hybrid fleet concept is strategically justifiable, but it rests on a deeply technology-centric assumption that conflates pure digital processing with physical robotics.”
Reconstructionist@unavaleable.bsky.social · 5h agosome good shit right here
Remember when he and Putin got caught on a mic and Putin was rambling about how biotechnology was going to let people live forever and Xi was trying to make small talk.
Patrick Chovanec@prchovanec.bsky.social · 23h agoXi Jinping looks like a man who has psychologically prepared himself to hear a lot of bullshit and just ignore it.
“Diverted” Great reminder of the shitton of shenanigans that are ongoing with a real peer threat that we just ignore.
George Pearkes@peark.es · yesterdayhahahahaha INCREDIBLE *CHINA IS HOLDING SENSITIVE F-35 PARTS DIVERTED TO HONG KONG *PENTAGON SAYS IT'S WORKING TO RETRIEVE STEALTHY JET PARTS *UPS FLIGHT WTH PARTS WAS HEADED TO US BEFORE BEING DIVERTED
This is worth everyone’s time to read: www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
The Trouble With the Nuclear-AI Analogy
In humanity’s quest to constrain the dangers from fast-advancing artificial intelligence, many have looked to the most revolutionary technology that preceded it: nuclear weapons.
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Couldn’t waterboard this out of me
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3d agoJust go to therapy, bro.
This is awful. CASI does excellent work and put on the best PLA course in DC.
Will Yale@wayale.bsky.social · 3d agoIt is extremely unfortunate and regrettable that the Department of the Air Force has decided to shutter the China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI). CASI, along with its sister institutions the China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI), China Landpower Studies Center (CLSC), and…
True decisive battle has never been tried
Sam (ABeardedPanda)@abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 4d agoYet another example of "the politics sickos need to read more military theory" is the fact that so many politics sickos seem to be wedded to the idea that a decisive battle is the One Simple Trick that will result in eternal victory
Let me be the first to assure you politics sickos that war sucks shit. It is very much Not Good. Which is all the more reason that you should study it, understand it, prepare for it, and get good at it. Because it will come for you, as sure as the sun rises in the east, and then it will be too late
Sam (ABeardedPanda)@abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 4d agoYet another example of "the politics sickos need to read more military theory" is the fact that so many politics sickos seem to be wedded to the idea that a decisive battle is the One Simple Trick that will result in eternal victory
The cyberpunk part of this is that since his son plays in the league he implicitly wants you to gamble on his son
Cindy aka Mrs. Celtics ☘️@mrsceltics.bsky.social · 4d agoPolymarket partner LeBron James continuing to promote gambling 🤢
Not a lot of “new info” China policy discussion these days but we’ve got some here
Tony Stark@tonystark.bsky.social · 6d agoThis week on WarTalk: @geraldcbrown.bsky.social joins the show to talk the PLA’s 2027 goals, purges, nuclear deterrence, and military doctrine vs reality! open.spotify.com/episode/79qA...
I am simply asking politicians to stop perpetuating the evil bisexual stereotype.
Solomon@solomonrmissouri.com · 6d ago
Was great jumping on China Talk and getting to chat the PLA, Taiwan, bureaucracy, and a whole range of things. Give it a listen if you've got some time.
Tony Stark@tonystark.bsky.social · 6d agoThis week on WarTalk: @geraldcbrown.bsky.social joins the show to talk the PLA’s 2027 goals, purges, nuclear deterrence, and military doctrine vs reality! open.spotify.com/episode/79qA...
This week on WarTalk: @geraldcbrown.bsky.social joins the show to talk the PLA’s 2027 goals, purges, nuclear deterrence, and military doctrine vs reality! open.spotify.com/episode/79qA...
WarTalk: PLA, 2027, Nukes, and the Pivot to Asia Pirouette
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This article is really burying the lede which is not that the AI did anything surprising but that rotten culture and bad operational habits get accelerated at machine speed. “Did you interrogate the analysis before you launched the mission” “Why would we do that” www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...
Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics
The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war
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If there's a common thread to a lot of the people Russia likes to connect with as part of this chud internationale thing, it's that they really like people who hate LGBTQ+ issues
Katelyn Burns@katelynburns.com · last wk.I did not realize that Trump Jr's Russian friend is literally the guy who started the hate campaign against women's Olympic boxer Imane Khalif. Holy shit.
yeah I have been thinking about this a lot I suspect a big focus from the beginning has been to avoid any losses or setbacks at all--which explains the heavy reliance on standoff weapons meant for a Big War. so in this lens, waking up secdef kind of makes sense
Fred, His Enemy Getting a Vote@thefred.bsky.social · 2w agoPutting aside everything else, SecDef should not be awoken in the middle of the night because one fighter got shot down. This is a routine event in a real war that should be handled by local commanders. If this went to SecDef, it is because no one in command is treating this like a real war.
*Castiel swiping through Hinge* “Dean, these women can’t all be the silliest goose.”
Excited to spend the next year at @cfr.org shining a little more light on some of the challenges we face in the Pacific. www.cfr.org/articles/cfr...
CFR Welcomes 2026–27 Class of Visiting Fellows | Council on Foreign Relations
The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) welcomes the 2026–27 visiting fellows to the David Rockefeller Studies Program. Selected fellows have the opportunity to broaden their perspective on foreign aff...
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I hope everyone realizes that they are listening to a dude reciting the plot to the last two Mission Impossible movies, right?
brasidas@brasidas.bsky.social · 2w agoAnthropic's models run on terabytes of VRAM. It's not going to "just copy itself to other computers."
This week on WarTalk: We say goodbye to SECARMY, talk the enduring damage of GWOT optempo to the force, Russian battlefield disinfo, and declining NCO and officer quality. open.spotify.com/episode/30wU...
WarTalk: 9.11, Death of the Army, So Long Dan Driscoll
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For those who are new, Joe DiGenova has spent the last 30 years baselessly accusing Democrats of committing crimes. If he is saying publicly the Trump administration pushed him out because he wouldn’t bring cases because there was no evidence, things are really bad.
Anna Bower@annabower.bsky.social · 2w agoOmg. When you’ve lost Joe DiGenova….
Don’t give the AI nukes. Don’t give it access to decision makers during nuclear C2. Don’t let it inject unchecked bio mods into the ecosystem. There, saved all of us from the “AI” apocalypse.
@thinkingbayonet.bsky.social · 2w agoexactly this the mechanics of the AI apocalypse don't make any sense. even if an AI bent on destroying humanity turned off every networked system on the planet at once, we would survive. "Oh no Claude is trying to kill me" ok watch me use this tungsten drill bit on this server rack real quick
BREAKING: The MAC has reversed its position and is fighting the Big Ten's extra 1 second for Michigan. "The established replay protocol requires that the game clock displayed on the program feed be used in determining whether time remained."
