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There is an amazing array of #wargames on display at Wargaming Initiative in NATO (WIN) 2025. The games explore everything from space warfare, Arctic operations, naval operations, and information & influence operations. #NATO wargaming is growing and entering an exciting chapter.

If a new Epstein File revelation falls in a forest but no one's held accountable, does it make a sound?

MY going-away lunch after a year in Afghanistan (late Sep 2014). I'm still in contact with three of these guys and still have that pakol hat. Don't know if the other two are even still alive.

Took the cats out for a walk with my brother and accidentally created a 90s Britpop album cover

How's everyone's grind going? What are your TTRPG projects looking like?

Eh, not bad for fiddling around for ten minutes. Just a simple, eight-step sequence with some randomized percussion. High frequencies are still a little rough.

ICYMI, this happened over the weekend!

*rolls up sleeves* Now here's a Discourse

I'm streaming Slime Rancher at 7pm EST, but we're going to use the first part of the stream to talk about food pantries and blessing boxes, how to support them, and frequently overlooked items. I used to run a pantry serving 500 families a month in rural AL.

A lesson for econ—don’t get too obsessed with efficiency

In Hamburg, Germany for the German Wargaming Symposium. 😁

The destruction of the East Wing really bums me out in a way that I wasn't expecting. I guess some of it is about the destruction of history. But I think it's mostly about the feeling of helplessness. There's nothing we can do to stop him. Nobody is coming to save us. And it's going to get worse.

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

These moments will be in our history books

The Onion needs an article on ICE getting lost inside Powell's Books

Smiting and vengeance is so much easier than forgiveness and charity

ALPS Now on LinkedIn, and Looking for Classroom Photos – @alpsblog.bsky.social @drpigeon.bsky.social activelearningps.com/2025/10/03/a...

Personalist dictatorship

Mix this message with Pete's. We are lowering the standards with which we behave including rules of engagement With Our enemies are American Democrats.

Congress should be demanding his immediate removal for stating these intentions. He’s just outright saying we’re a pro-war crimes country.

If someone from another country explained that their president could violate their constitution's plain text but that it was completely legitimate because lifetime judges who belong to political parties said he could on the "shadow docket," you would laugh at them because their country is primitive.

At Alleycat Coffee House :-)

We are producing a generation unable and (somewhat) unwilling to think, read and write without relying on tech controlled by some of the most evil people on the planet to tell them what to think, read and write and they don’t seem to see the dangers of this dependency even if we point it out

I expect my shop coffee will be just as tasty tomorrow after the Rapture, but my wait in line should be slightly shorter.

Weekend brain cleanse from politics by making 1970s/1980s synth sounds. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsro...

if you’re an isolated, angsty, strange young man, please know that you can become a Kierkegaard scholar instead of joining fringe online communities

Short clip from a patch I'm setting up for a performance. My intent is to modulate most of the sound manually via MIDI controllers, but for this, I ran a trigger to automate randomizing the bass.

One of my students sent this to me, knowing I have a special needs pet pigeon: www.upi.com/Odd_News/202...

Pritzker succeeding while media failing at this: "We have a bit of a natural experiment here. Compare the tone, quantity and duration of Charlie Kirk coverage with that of the two Dem lawmakers gunned down in their homes in Minnesota 6 months ago. May be revealing." bsky.app/profile/josh...

This may be lost in the news cycle.

I keep these in my office in case a visitor has a sudden and dire need for a rubber chicken.

Me: Anthropic AI settled the copyright lawsuit for $1.5 bn, with each book getting about $3,000. It looks like the AI read at least five of my books! My wife: Well, at least someone read them. Me: (dead on floor, bleeding out)

This is vile, cowardly nonsense. This guy wasted money canceling nearly-finished content for an event beloved by Runescape players and now says it's all for the health of the company. Won't say why Pride is controversial. Says they'll bring it back if "the situation is different" next year. 🤡🤡🤡

Trump is anti-American‼️‼️👇👇🖕🖕 www.theguardian.com/up pls-news/2025/sep/02/fbi-arrest-us-army-veteran-ice-protest

"Emergency" The media and the Republicans are abiding his lies and his abuse of authorities.

I'm not sure I could ever run a Dark Sun scenario or campaign. I read the 2E setting guide a year or so ago and thought, "man, what a bleak and demoralizing setting." But that's just this pigeon. www.wargamer.com/dnd/return-t...

New, from me: America is no longer a functioning democracy. It is a competitive authoritarian system, hurtling rapidly toward authoritarianism. This was a hard piece to write but we can't move forward if we don’t acknowledge where we are. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-author...

With the start of term for many folks here or around the corner, I figured I would share my recently updated syllabus policy for my MSc level course at University of Copenhagen this fall. Please feel free to lift language in whole or in spirit.

Everyday, every time I open a pdf, I lose time by closing the little pop up window asking me if I am on "Short on time? Save it with a quick document summary"

I recently went to a McDonald’s where you don’t interact with anyone, you just go to a kiosk and then they put your order on a rack, and the thing that gets me is that nothing on the menu cost less because of it. No benefit for me! Doubt the people in the kitchen are getting paid better!

With all due respect, there is nothing ethical about AI. Period. End of sentence. You're encouraging artists and creators to build their own guillotines for the promise of pennies. Generative AI needs to die in a fire. It's stealing our creative opportunities and replacing it with horrible crap.