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"A Reddit user claiming to be a whistleblower from a food delivery app has been outed as a fake. The user wrote a viral post alleging that the company he worked for was exploiting its drivers and users." techcrunch.com/2026/01/06/a...

This is so incredibly vacuous. It is the equivalent of the water-skiing squirrel...but with the consequences of normalizing the destruction of the world order.

Many bad takes about Thucydides could be avoided if the person reading just a small portion of Thucydides stopped to ask, "wait, and then what happened?" while keeping in mind that Thucydides' intended reader already knows the answer to that question.

Begging Melian Dialogue lovers to see the sweep of the Thucydidean history, from Periclean virtue to an appeal (from virtue) through realism in the Mytilenean dispute, to brutal realism in the Melian Dialogue, to the slave mines of Sicily.

"A patent attorney has apologized to a Kansas federal judge for submitting a court filing with case citations hallucinated by ChatGPT, calling the experience 'shameful and embarrassing' and saying he was in a poor mental state at the time...."

Reuters: The US has seized a Russian flagged tanker in the Atlantic that is linked with Venezuela and is also in the process of pursuing another ship in Latin American waters.

The oil $, the concessions, etc. He's amassing more and more extra-constitutional funds and leverage he can deploy to overturn and bypass the parchment limits on his powers

Government of, by, and for the Online Right. And points to @donmoyn.bsky.social for the terms clicktatorship, LOLviathan, and algothracy.

The set of Venzuelan armed forces most involved in human rights violations is the National Guard. If junior officers think that seniors are selling out to the U.S. led transition, in exchange for immunity that juniors will be denied by the new regime, then there's a chance of mutiny or coup attempt.

I did not say anything about the anniversary of Jan 6 in part because we are living with the aftermath of it…and it’s a horrible reality.

I hope it's clear now how abusive predator behavior in private manifests in public life.

A prediction: Given the administration officials who the President pointed to Saturday don’t seem to want to be “in charge” of Venezuela, soon POTUS will appoint a four-star general and an “envoy”to run the country. They will have some major challenges.

From security guarantor to predator. The language of empire vice partnership. Not what I ever signed up for or was told we do. Like measles, I thought we'd purged this disease from our national character. Credit to the @thebulwark.com , we've downgraded to a regional power not a global power.

The prime minister of Denmark is right to say that “if the United States were to choose to attack another NATO country, the international community, democratic rules, NATO, the world’s strongest defensive alliance—all of that would collapse…” But collapsing NATO is a feature not a bug for Trump.

The phrase "Grok is undressing women" is incorrect. It's mostly men using Grok to undress women. And it's also manmade that Grok obeys to these prompts.

“No one teaches the Western canon anymore!” “Look, Plato’s Symposium is right here on my syllabus!” “Whoa, whoa, whoa—not that!”

This should terrify you - I don’t care where you stand politically. www.rawstory.com/trump-electi...

"One way to make sense of President Donald Trump’s Venezuela actions is to remember one of the most important questions guiding his administration: Is there an opportunity to profit?" writes Allison Morrow. "When the answer is yes, little else seems to matter." | Analysis

Tailyr Irvine is a photojournalist from the Flathead Reservation in Montana focused on nuanced portrayals of life in Native communities. https://to.pbs.org/4suK4ao

On gaza the lack of coherent strategic objectives was downstream of the principal thinking it was still 1973, but even an Obama c. 2015 probably still fucks up Gaza even with a more skeptical principal worldview due to that lack of coherent strategic vision (albeit probably marginally less bad)

good news: every professor on bluesky is about to make you a syllabus

As Republicans celebrate Gov. Walz not running again, Hope tells the Post the threats she and Gus were getting in the wake of the Shirley video became too much and he decided to put his family first

Professor Fired for Charlie Kirk Post Gets $500,000 From School, Is Reinstated

Danish prime minister says a US takeover of Greenland would mark the end of NATO apnews.com/article/denm...

Even the other pedophiles who understand where he's going with this as he narrows it down are like "wait, why not horse girls?"

Kelly: This letter or anything that Hegseth says or does to me is in no way going to affect the way I do my job. His option is he can continue with this kind of bullshit or he can go take a hike. That's his options.

Jesus it's real no-kill zones which are both perfectly responsive to 3rd country management while those same countries also magically have zero foot print, because they can... lease drones? and then just cordon off population centers and rid them of snipers. sure. www.nytimes.com/2012/02/24/o...

My Military Ethics and International Law class is more or less ready to go.

"He did not want to tell them to be peaceful because it was obvious that he was enjoying what he was seeing." Former deputy press secretary @sarahmatthews1.bsky.social was inside Trump’s White House on January 6. She explains what it was like watching the Capitol attack from the West Wing.

Yes, this is Trump. He can only try to “do over” the actions of other presidents. He is a walking anachronism putting himself Forrest Gump-like in political scenarios he saw when he was on the outside looking in.

Really all of them, although I read less than I used to. (Thanks pandemic.)

Men don't date or marry nurses? Don't tell NYPD or FDNY. 😄

"Mark Kelly’s legal counsel has called it an unprecedented and dangerous overreach. From my professional military perspective, based on four decades of experience, I agree."

And immoral! (See #JustWarThinking #EthicsofCare to start)

This. Single mothers too.

Anyway, if I were a Dane at War College I would quietly learn everything I could, listen to the lectures and absorb the culture of where they are. Wrote a milquetoast but passable thesis on AI. Then go home to Denmark with *everything* I have learned.

Happy to occupy several categories!

Please help this person complete their book so we can buy and read it, yes please

it’s a book about where small drones came from, intended as an informative yet entertaining general history (and the One Book someone can pick up if they’re looking to gain general knowledge on what the deal with drones is)

JOHN THUNE on Greenland: “I don't see military action being an option there.” WHITE HOUSE, a few hours later: “President Trump has made it well known that acquiring Greenland is a national security priority of the United States… utilizing the U.S. Military is always an option”

I agree that this administration and the extremists that drive it online have tried to make themselves immune to shame, but their egos are massive and they actively need us to like them, defer to them, laugh at their "jokes". When they start feeling more accountability they'll feel more shame.

We are an Enigma.

Living somewhere with public infrastructure is loopy. Skatepark, pool, ice rink, rec center etc.

There's a nonzero chance that some Lieutenant Colonel is in the White House right now trying to figure out how to sell oil from Venezuela to pay for the purchase of Greenland.

Do it

If there is one lesson that history has taught us, it's that invading a country with a lot of ice and an entire culture built around living in snow always goes well for the invading force

A hypothetical, if a Danish officer at a US war college wanted to write about how DK could reinforce Greenland to raise to cost of a US grab operation, could our faculty advise them? Help them to make their 'how to stop the US' concept better?