This is just incredible. Someone made not just a computer, but an *entire working LLM* out of (438 million) minecraft blocks www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

the discussion here is "technology is advancing, some form of this is inevitable, prepare now." this is not really a defensible claim. here is a defensible claim: the *desire* for machine personhood is literally millennia old

fundamentally unserious defense space when we're on what, year 3? 5? 8? of this shit and everyone with two brain cells knows there's one and only one way to solve this (sustained multi-year contracts backed by on time appropriations) and yet everyone across govt refuses to do that

Cyberpunk may have its flaws - fewer, by far, these days - but it made me feel a feel. I felt a feel at the beginning, I felt a different feel at the ending, I felt other, still different feels in the middle. If the game makes you feel a feeling, honestly, you can overlook most of the rest.

Breaking WaPo: Military leaders have raised serious concerns with the Trump admin's new defense strategy — exposing a divide between the Pentagon's political and uniformed leadership. 
The critiques from multiple top officers, including the chairman of the Joint Chiefs.

And yes this is the episode where we talk about everyone becoming a source in the surveillance state.

New Second Breakfast: this week we talk TikTok, info ops, and the future of intelligence with Anthony Vinci. open.spotify.com/episode/07W1...

Last time I was in LA I had a bunch of folks bring up that the industry isn’t doing so hot rn. Tariffs don’t fix the problem that people aren’t spending $$$ on movies. You’re just gonna end up with a lot more green screen slop because that’s the only way to make margin.

‘Renowned roboticist Rodney Brooks has a wake-up call for investors funneling billions into humanoid robot startups: you’re wasting your money.’ techcrunch.com/2025/09/26/f...

Doing a Supernatural rewatch for the 20th anniversary and it’s fun but also does not feel like 20 years.

Our recording of Second Breakfast this week covered a similar topic with a guest that resulted in me asking “isn’t that what the Stasi and KGB wanted?”

With Pete Davidson getting a big check to do the Riyadh Comedy Festival, the Saudis are finally paying reparations for 9/11. And jokes like that aren’t allowed at the Riyadh Comedy Festival.

Your waifu is spying for the commies bro. information-professionals.org/an-introduct...

We're through the looking glass. Neither shooter has any proven links to left wing groups, they appear to be accerationists easily trolling the media and government. However, there is no fact, no piece of evidence, that will de-convince someone of a lie that they want desperately to believe.

Today kids were going to learn about confounding variables.

Ranger Regiment: famously good at escalator maintenance.

Liberal Democracy remains very much worth defending

The fact that I’m working out to AI-generated USAF meme music is a crime but these songs are fire. Thanks @mikeblack114.bsky.social

Breaking: Jimmy Kimmel to return Tuesday.

don't make me tap the sign

CAS is no longer about platforms but TTPs; a well-trained JTAC is more important than the platform characteristics. The A-10 debate is nonsense.

He’s doing the meme:

a fun game to play is to look up the projected A-10 casualty rates against the Warsaw Pact in the late 1970s, then do the math and see how many years have passed since then.

The Philadelphia Eagles have the Mandate of Heaven

Dawg they talk about the POM cycle and NDAA v Defense Appropriations, I’m feasting

Spread the word, new pod for the committed DOD weirdos and the madness-curious layperson alike is out

New Second Breakfast is out: I explain the NDAA process and China hawks, Eric has more colorful pentagon rants. open.spotify.com/episode/4a5c...

second in line from the presidency

boy Josh Shapiro, man...

The warbots have beard seeking technology, obviously.

This might be the dumbest fucking sentence I’ve ever seen

the trump team even admits it and that we're gonna give the PRC access to americans' data to train the algo hahahahAahahhahah ah ah ah ah ha ah ah i give up www.ft.com/content/550e...

There is a very good discussion in this episode about “warrior culture/ethos” and the way the army has “overcompensated for micro scenarios” as @uticaeric.bsky.social put it. I was rewatching warfare last night and man I felt that point, even the best of the best can struggle in a shit scenario

Fantastic. Super fun. Lots of topics I have railed on. Great discussion on the brief case carriers---or as I dubbed them, the smile and nod club.

Listening to Second Breakfast and there's definitely a kind of through-line between current OSC projects investing in supply chains and post-WW1, pre-WW2 mobilization reforms

@uticaeric.bsky.social @tonystark.bsky.social youse got some good shit goin on

Latest episode of Second Breakfast is out: this week we cover the epidemic of briefcase carriers in natsec policy, Once an Eagle and Army leadership PME failures, and how history is driven by a critical mass of grifters. open.spotify.com/episode/5b9G...

Uhhhhhh… Next week might get even weirder than i already thought it was gonna

they are absolutely thirsty for an anti trans crackdown

If he can do the first three things without me having broken the law, he already took away my freedom.

Huge banner that says “get nukes”

A lot of people aren’t necessarily so lonely that they want AI friends, they want their concept of a one-sided friendship without the guilt or emotional demand.

If you literally have any interest in defense policy, this is a mandatory follow and listen!⬇️

We did cover a lot this episode, Sicario, LinkedIn leadership, the difference in value between committee and personal office staff, Eric’s rant on briefcase carriers.

At times like this it’s important to remember that someone can speak with a tone of confidence and be very incorrect. E.g. this is not an anti-fascist symbol or reference to the Iron Front. This is a Helldivers joke.

The thing about Neo-isolationism is try as hard as you want to say you don’t care but the enemy gets a vote too. The threat isn’t going away, NDS rhetoric or no. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/w...

The breadth of China's reported cyber surveillance effort labeled Salt Typhoon is remarkable. I'm surprised more accounts don't make the natural comparison with the Snowden revelations. A highly capable cyber-spying state with a portfolio of intrusions and targets. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/w...