Folks want to make PRC-US competition a replay of Athens and Sparta when I find this better represented by the conflict between a declining France and Bismarck’s Germany. The impacts of the one child policy affect this analogy though - countered by US immigration policy.

While my country circles the drain, I'm just going to focus on: 1. My kids. 2. My job. 3. Sports. 4. Alcohol. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

The Hungarian experience - as reflected in the Terror Háza - is very interesting, given Magyar complicity pre-Arrow Cross in the Horthy regime up through Rákosi's Stalinists in 1956. Hungary was a rump state from the remainders post-Trianon, an intensly nationalist state neutered that lashed out.

Me, traveling back to 2000 from 2030: "...and it all changed after the Kimmel Uprising." 2000 me: "The what?" 2030 me: "Jimmy Kimmel. He became a figurehead of the resistance." 2000 me: "The guy from the fucking Man Show?????"

Meat Loaf on the PA at the airport. That’s…. Something.

I feel like the current state of the US is summarized by Nicky Santoro's voice over at the start of Casino: "It should've been perfect... but in the end, we fucked it all up"

Honest question: outside of PRC-focused researchers and similar, what orgs actually give a shit about the GFW data leak? I can maybe see platform or ecommerce entities that are outside PRC curious on findings, but for most orgs focused on internal security, does it move the needle for them at all?

15 years ago: Remember Reach youtu.be/18-_9E0HNY4?...

Meanwhile in NCAA football:

"Civility no longer exists in modern society" The Athenians made Socrates drink hemlock because he was basically a dissident. We've had multiple rounds of inquisitions and jihads since then. Christianity itself was forged out of persecution. We don't live in unique times we're just on the repeat

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Or contemporary history: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/17908/...

And yet geo IP blocking/alerting persists

Just gonna play Operation:Mindcrime (entire album) on repeat today www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAI2...

Can you imagine your child being shot in school, and having the worst day of your life *overshadowed* by a different shooting, whose aftermath somehow will be leveraged to make it more likely more shootings will occur in the future?

“Anything happen last night?”

Trump endorses men’s private right to dominate women in their lives with violence.

Striking piece by a former U.S. Navy captain on Trump’s lethal attack in the Caribbean. www.defenseone.com/ideas/2025/0...

US automakers: "Here's a slight refresh to the F-150" PRC automakers: "Here's an electric SUV with a fukkin roof-mounted drone" www.forbes.com/sites/johnko...

Men are never going to be able to find it.

I know Qatar is not a signatory, but I wonder how those that did sign up to the "Abraham Accords" feel about this www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

Good morning. www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4du...

Everything is shit, going to start a new social movement

The 2025 National Defense Strategy proves once and for all that the GOP China Hawks were who we thought they were: Complete and Total Frauds

In the era of NIL and transfers, it gladdens me to see Rocco Becht hang around ISU and allow that program some continuity and a run of success

I think that it’s bad that the Secretary of Defense is openly trashing the concept of legality regarding military operations.

New project dropped, gonna found a land for former soldiers who want to break free from state control over themselves, who's with me

I'm sure the CDC is working right now with the WHO to coordinate tracking and response to this scenario /s www.afro.who.int/countries/de...

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Given events in Florida, along with whatever the fuck is going on in the US HHS dept under The Logical Endpoint of Kennedys, the following seems appropriate (story if you don't know what I'm talking about: www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...)

🇩🇰🇩🇰🇩🇰 www.reuters.com/business/ene...

I don't know anyone from Obsidian (at least, I'm not aware if i do) but this take is :chef's kiss: spot on accurate and more folks need to recognize this across ecrime, and even state-sponsored ops:

Just another day

Operation Reciprocity has begun

JUST SAY UNC6395 (as shitty as THAT name is, but at least it came out first for the same activity) - what's a fukkin GRUB anyway??????

Good afternoon. www.youtube.com/watch?v=58bw...

the tech right is cool because they'll say "we must build the future and make the US the most innovative country in the world" and also "women should stop getting educated some time in high school so they fuck more"

Happy Labor Day, US. youtu.be/9XEnTxlBuGo?...

IYKYK

If this translated at all to reality, the deep, persistent navel gazing of BSKY lefties would’ve discovered a new species of bacteria by now

I tell myself I’m holding out for the box set but I still would’ve probably bought these if available. Thank you, low print runs, for saving me

Me: *plays Queensyrche’s Operation Mindcrime* A lefty Gen Z’er five minutes in:

Conceptions of CTI involve fusing internal viz with external feeds to arrive at a total view of adversary ops, enabling behavioral analysis and pivoting. But what if part of this-external data-becomes no longer be accessible? Longer form thoughts to be found here: pylos.co/2025/09/01/i...

Quite literally learning about this event just now - quite the set of founding members and a great location, and it looks like CFP closes today (01 September) www.stateofstatecraft.com/about

lol www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/t...

US officials made a claim a month ago that Volt Typhoon-the most concerning threat to US critical infrastructure-had failed. But what does this actually mean? Longer form thoughts follow: pylos.co/2025/08/29/t...

I'd say we might as well go for a gov-run "social credit score" system like PRC (hell with DOGE-Palantir we might be heading there anyway) but after OPM that isn't much more secure anyway. JFC, fuck the credit monitoring cartel. www.theregister.com/2025/08/28/t...

Speaking as a veteran - fuck that cunt, she deserved to be shot, as did many of those with her that day on 06 Jan. What a fucking disgrace, that traitor's ashes should be scattered over a wastewater treatment plant.