Out: begging students to not write their assignments with AI In: including invisible instructions for the copy-pasters

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This summer, the Nolan team held focused interviews with current + former leaders across the nuclear enterprise. What we heard, along with our long view on the potential needs of various nuclear strategies, reveals smart ways to shore up strategic advantages and reap benefits beyond just weapons.

My brain every time there's an actual deadline looming

This is some neat experimentation but not super relevant for a country starting from megaton-class warheads on big goofy missiles and only recently working down. + If you've got the delivery system to put 6x 5kt bombs around a target, you already have the means to just put one right on the spot.

$850 billion a year, increasingly directed—today, explicitly—against the American people. If it feels insane to be doing regular defense policy work right now, it is. We need to expand our arguments quite a bit just to hold the stakes and parameters in proper context. But it's worth doing.

Everyone in that room knows that applauding any part of this speech would be welcomed by these guys. There's precisely zero chance they face backlash for caving right now. They aren't because they know it's wrong and because it still matters to them.

Ladies and gentlemen, The Sole Authority

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO

it's not the most important reason for nuclear disarmament, but among the reasons to seek a world with no nuclear weapons is it removes the catastrophic backstop that prevents vainglorious shitheads from ditching bad strategy once it's obviously failed

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Recruit abuse exists, but it is taboo and even US Marine Crops drill instructors are supposed to never lay hands on recruits - rough "posture adjustments" aside, and infractions are handled seriously. Dropping the leash on sadism will turn the USA's armed forces into Russia's - with similar results.

Sea levels are rising because the dudes in dresses are too hot

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The Haters won. But the Table of Success is forever. tableofsuccess.hellgatenyc.com

Learning there are now three types of suburban decorating for Halloween A pumpkin, maybe some lights. Quaint, leafy. Fake cobwebs, some witch or Frankenstein monster like character, maybe it makes noise. Haha fun. CRIME. Stay BACK because there was an actual MURDER, look at how many BODIES.

We're going to get a presidential slop video of bombing Venezuela or something and again I have no idea what to tell IR students anymore

Tonight in 1991, President George H.W. Bush ordered the unilateral elimination of all land-based US nuclear weapons in Europe and South Korea, all nonstrategic naval nuclear weapons, the end of ground alert for all strategic bombers, and the immediate de-alerting of all 450 Minuteman II ICBMs.

Au contraire, hegseth is at the absolute zenith of posting technology. This fox monologue could have been a dod meeting ☑️ This twitter screed could have been a snap convening of top brass ☑️ This hateful slur could have been sent to every American on the emergency alert system

Civ-mil relations isn't exactly my wheelhouse but I'm sure there's a book somewhere that says "don't do this"

repeating the phrase "full books" as I slam my head against my desk until I pass out

re: bluesky, it's interesting to see how much utility can be found on very small platforms. Once you have a trusted network going (and it can be just in the hundreds even), it can serve for news and professional contact just the same as if it was Twitter at peak real-people population.

Maybe my worst opinion in these times is that the overall amount of news average folks consume by any means should drop by about half. I hate this as an avid news consumer / fmr journalist / someone who believes in civic engagement and lifelong reevaluation as a building block of society, but yikes

it is exhausting to be accused of defending a thing you are describing

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The first episode of the Things That Go Boom podcast's new season is here. @tkbarnes.bsky.social does a deep dive into the Utah desert, where Northrop Grumman is building the next generation of intercontinental ballistic missiles with the help of massive state subsidies.

At the cursed Park Slope Hertz An hour+ just to get into the office to check in, still waiting An employee pokes his head in the back door, and the cashier asks him, "Hey you got any cars?" The guy goes, "cars?" She says "yeah, cars" He shakes his head solemnly and goes back through the door

An excellent argument not just against ChatGPT, but in favor of human translators

And my recommendations on how to deny Trump a license to kill. 3/n

And again, why are these agents kitted out like they are going into Mogadishu?

Better than a permission slip

Not great

They don’t have a mandate to do any of this, they just are in power, and every weird, unpopular thing they do is damaging them, not making them stronger

Yeah you know, so I signed up online-

that friendship graphic is freaking me out

1990 BA liberal arts 1991 Officer Candidate School (nuclear engineering) 1991-1996 served as LT on a SSBN 1998 MBA Wharton 2000s investment banker 2023-2025 1-term Rep for NY-22, lost 45-55 to John Mannion No policy background No laboratory background No large bureaucracy background And uhhhh...

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hey so this is insane

This team-up was presumed for a long time when it came to various possible Iran breakout scenarios. But this following Israel attack on Qatar and only a few months after the latest and worst-in-the-nuclear-era fight between India and Pakistan. Not the kind of entanglement you generally love to see.

AP: senior Saudi official…seemed to suggest that Pakistan’s nuclear protection was a part of the deal, saying it “will utilize all defensive and military means deemed necessary depending on the specific threat.” apnews.com/article/paki...

Citibike: 2,835 stations 164,364 rides *per day* in July

having AI and tech be the first issue on their policy page is suuuuuuuuuuuch a tell

Kim Budil, head of Livermore, speaking at @nti.org. Opens by noting the different cultures between Livermore and Los Alamos. Livermore is the smaller kid that focuses on practical applications. Multidisciplinary teams all within 1 square mile.

It will be fun when the next edition of international security has another 4 articles on China and the military balance in east Asia

Not seeing nearly enough realignment among serious defense thinkers on how each and every weapons system or budget request now needs to be weighed against the fact that the president is using these weapons illegally, and potentially against the US itself.

You can see the limits of MAGA in this whole thing. These ideas can only ever seem to have consensus online. They simply do not have the numbers in the real world to do any of this, and the more they push, the more likely it'll end up as a vibe-collapse moment à la the June parade this year. 🧵