especially on a platform like bluesky that doesn't penalize including links that go outside of bluesky

Can we all just collectively agree we won't signal boost accounts (like this one) that harvest eyeballs by posting other outlets' work without linking to them?

Anything Mareike writes with reading. This, on an area my team is also watching, is very good.

May post a little more about this later today, but this is the FT source article, and an animation of the March 13 overhead pass of KSA that probably did the imaging for Iran's March 14 strike on the base www.ft.com/content/1fdd...

I see that my most annoying undergrad classmates who swore the Iraq invasion passed the just war sniff test are back at it again

Whenever the time comes for a blockade of Taiwan China should just air drop copies of this post over American cities

Throwing out some Friday night bluesky DSA Angleton clique chum

Today years old when I found out Meryl Streep and Martin Short are dating

BREAKING: in March 2026, *every single one* of the 1,341 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans: In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 4,496 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...

Vijay Prashad has a long piece devoted to Xinjiang genocide denialism in the latest Monthly Review. This is useful, because I can now see which of my contacts are campist idiots and block them.

That is exactly what this is, bullshit old school European foreign policy built on whims and aristocratic networks. Imperialism would imply some degree of success.

Wouldn’t it be so amazing if the US has a two chamber body, representing the public, who had the authority (and gumption) to step in when the President threatens nuclear war???? We could call it ✨Congress✨

Not going to make the front pages given *gestures* everything, but a very clear signal of which way the broader winds are blowing nonetheless www.reuters.com/world/china/...

Since Artemis will orbit the moon today, sharing one of the all-time great Chinese propaganda posters, in which the moon rabbit gives a bouquet to the world’s most cherubic astronaut. The late scholar Stefan Landsberger used this as the cover of his wonderful book of Chinese posters.

opposable force of fuck ai slams into immovable object of network engineers earnestly trying to explain routing protocols

>upstream service provider shits itself and dies >half this site: "HAHAHAHAHAHA SEE IT'S BECAUSE YOU FUCKERS ARE *VIBE CODING*" I wish these people would just leave. They contribute less than nothing to the site at large at this point.

Claude is down :/ so I’m just running my sink

Man I wish the louvre of bluesky was still around

I don't think people appreciate how much support there is in the base for using nukes. Have heard my parents multiple times talk about how we should "glass" whichever country we happened to be bombing at the time.

Quite an extraordinary Xinjiang apologia here from a recently retired Canadian senator

Pls help spread the word: "Scholarships are open to investigative reporters & editors living & working in Africa, Latin America (Central & S. America & the Caribbean), and Asia." journalism.columbia.edu/summer-inves... (And, yes, I'll be teaching the Reasoning About Risk & Security session.)

NASA's Artemis II tracker site a bit clunky but it's still rad www.nasa.gov/missions/art...

Guys, the President was literally threatening to invade the territory of a NATO country earlier this year, to the point where they had to deploy troops to deter it. That has consequences.

It would almost make sense to consolidate this kind of global engagement in some center within the state department

Andy my man

This happening with anyone else trying to sign up for the attie wait-list?

Weir is gonna pull a Scott Adams, isn't he?

China is run by socially conservative politicians

This is really important - Trump is using immigration law to punish & silence many in academia. As part of fighting this @emma-briant.co.uk has published a powerful declaration. In it she shows how and why her speech rights are being eroded. Read 👇 knightcolumbia.org/documents/jm...

I will point out Chinese commercial imagery satellites also have excellent coverage of the Middle East

Especially all of you alleged "Canadians"

I cannot overstate how much people who think this will matter in any meaningful military way in a future shooting war involving the PRC are setting themselves up for disappointment

The amount of carriers we’re running into the ground in CENTCOM should probably tell you something about how exhausted and depleted we will be early in a Pacific fight.

marking for friday night reading

I worked for Dave Schullman, this piece's target. It prompts many thoughts, but I think it's best to simply say: Dave is an extraordinary public servant; everyone--regardless of party--is lucky to have him in government; and it's in all our best interests to keep him there x.com/i/status/203...

Rereading Artifact Space by @phokion.bsky.social as one does because it rips and I can't believe I didn't clock this the first time around...

In Chinese, there is a concept of sacred, so essential to the essence of life and meaning entirely, that it cannot be disentangled or translated - only understood exactly as it is: 味精

<nic cage voice> im gonna steal the antimatter truck

The greatest example in a long, proud genre. This will never be topped.

this is a cool post although one thing I wonder about that it doesn't (can't) cover is to what degree generated code is mostly personal use; anecdotally a LOT of what I hear about people making with cc and so on is self-contained projects that don't need to (and don't) have the polish to be shared

Literally striking “humane” from guidelines on how to treat people

I am at the absolute exact center of Project Hail Mary's target demographic and if even I'm probably going to wait till it's on streaming because it's 26 bucks a ticket to see it in theaters then something is broken in the theater business.

NetAskari believes a recent hack and leak from China's National Super Computer Center of China (NSCC) might be real netaskari.substack.com/p/chinas-mas...

Also, ICE may not do TSA work but they already have had presence in airports. The SLC Mayor issued a statement about this last year following a viral kidnapping and deportation and the Mesa Gateway Airport (in AZ) has a concentration camp *ON-SITE*

When China asks US companies, or even when their state media simply criticises them - Big Tech listens. When democratically elected governments consider reasonable regulation, Big Tech assembles armies of lobbyists and spend inordinate amounts to counter. 1/2

Fing hell onion you don't have to go right for the solar plexus

Unfortunately a lot of them never hopped from X. I don't post there anymore because Elon will never get another character of content from me but still have to check it because there's info relevant to my area of expertise I just won't find here.

HBR: The oil shock is here. And we’re just beginning to feel it. – ‘the important thing to remember about the global oil system is that it’s essentially a flowing chemistry set. It needs to keep flowing at a steady pace’ ‘In this context, “break” fundamentally means demand destruction.’