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mountains, books, bikes, intelligence history, modernism. Formerly, threat intel @ GitHub.
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Zach Dorfman
1 day ago
Journalists live for details. Nailing that the FBI Director allegedly ties one on at a club called "The Poodle Room" is the stuff of dream reporting.
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Jennifer Ouellette
2 days ago
A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity
www.openculture.com/2026/04/reco...
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A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity
Great swathes of rock music since the nineteen-sixties would never have existed, we're sometimes told, were it not for the recordings of Robert Johnson. Certainly the likes of Keith Richards, Eric Cla...
https://www.openculture.com/2026/04/recording-lets-you-hear-delta-blues-legend-robert-johnson-in-stunning-clarity.html
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When I clicked on the "Bluesky Issues" trending link earlier today, every account in the first few scrolldowns was reposting the exact same text blaming the problem on AI. Each account was clearly inauthentic and was advertising video game material in its profile.
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Nicholas Grossman
6 days ago
Pro-Trump media bias: frame world events as a reality show with Trump as protagonist. As
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explains, itâs absurd to cast the Pope saying war is bad as a âpunchâ Trump is responding to. But also, he didnât take any action. He just said words nonsensically insulting the Pope.
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Paging
@markstout.bsky.social
and other intel history folks: I'm seeking reading recs about intelligence and espionage in Britain and continental Europe during the between-the-wars period, say 1920-1938. Colonial area stuff outside Europe is OK if particularly good.
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Finished the Iliad last week, for the first time since 1987. I liked it a lot more this time than when I was 18. I especially enjoyed Wilsonâs occasionally dry endnotes, like âIt is unlikely that horses would enjoy wine.â
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Active Measures, LLC
14 days ago
What did he know
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Jason Kikta
21 days ago
I knew it would be bad, but this is just ridiculous
www.atomic.computer/blog/white-h...
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Security Analysis of the Official White House iOS App
We reverse engineered the official White House iOS app (gov.whitehouse.app) and found concerning security and privacy issues, including a Russian-origin company executing live JavaScript, GPS tracking...
https://www.atomic.computer/blog/white-house-app-security-analysis/
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Quinta Jurecic
24 days ago
if think tanks acknowledge what trumpism is (incoherent and vibes-based), they have to face their own crisis of relevance as institutions that pump out policy papers and provide advice to movers and shakers. pretending there's some policy process that makes sense is a way to avoid grappling w this
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Indeed, the _only_ way to develop critical thinking is to engage with multiple domains of knowledge.
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Matt Gabriele
about 1 month ago
the blueprints were what got me. they had zoning.
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Esoteric Neolib
about 1 month ago
I love Angleton as much as the next guy, but I think I need to get back into Linebargerposting
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The whole episode reads to me like the SecDef was so traumatized by someone sending him their pronouns in an email signature that he decided to destroy capitalism.
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My only real interests in the Winter Olympics are ice dancing and biathlon and Iâm pretty stoked with the amount I can watch this year.
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Reposting just because I want to see
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2 months ago
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Finished H.D.'s dark novella about the extremely complicated Bauhaus bisexual polycule situation that she inhabited in Switzerland circa 1930. One of her more accessible works of fiction, it's a nice reminder that while the past may be a another country, it also had lots of interpersonal drama.
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B. Pladek
2 months ago
having written upwards of 90k, fiction & nonfiction, about-or-thinly-veiled-about my favorite Modernist antifascist wife-guy Bryher (pictured), there's now the possibility I might get to publish a bit of it in essay form this/next year. fingers crossed it happens, & grateful for the chance.
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Join me in my new masculinity cult: quit your job, lift heavy, run far, eat whatever you want, read obscure mid-20th century LGBTQ literature.
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2 months ago
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terence
2 months ago
The Colorado basin.
#rayshader
adventures, an
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Something similar happened to me in 2000 when the "senior" admin at a rural ISP where I'd worked for 3 weeks rage quit and took all the router passwords with him. The only real consequences were that I quickly memorized the Cisco password override process & learned a lot of Colorado back roads.
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Great read. An additional point though is how many colleges have long relied on underpaid adjuncts to teach these courses. Even at Stanford in 1987, 2 of 3 trimesters of my great books track were taught by an amazing career adjunct & the third was by an awful senior prof who was just mailing it in.
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Tell me five classes you took in college Introduction to Chinese Philosophy Introduction to Jewish Mysticism Introduction to Buddhism Medieval Women Writers Visions and Transformations
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weird medieval guys
3 months ago
when I was 8 or 9, I got really into the poetry of e. e. cummings, so I got a book of his work from the library and copied a bunch of the poems down. my mom found them and thought she had accidentally raised an avante-garde modernist fourth grader and freaked out
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Dr. Kim Hannula
3 months ago
The Weminuche Wilderness in the San Juans would be a great place for wolverines. I vote for the area east of Vallecito Creek, especially. It's high, it's remote, there's lots of space near and above treeline.
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Molly White
3 months ago
If anyone was still pretending this isnât just about excluding trans kids from public life, the Trump administration just opened a Title IX investigation into a Maine school district because a trans student is on a *co-ed* cheerleading squad.
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âNewport co-ed cheerleading team is at center of Trump transgender athlete crackdownâTrump admin focuses on swimming, cheerleading in Maine transgender athlete probes
The U.S. Department of Education announced a slew of Title IX-related investigations this week that include 2 school districts in Maine.
https://www.pressherald.com/2026/01/15/newport-middle-school-co-ed-cheerleading-team-at-the-center-of-trump-transgender-athlete-crackdown/
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Helen
3 months ago
A group of young kestrels is startled by the presence of a butterfly. đ€Łđ€Łđ€Ł
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Tim Weiner
3 months ago
My NYT obit on Aldrich Ames, CIA turncoat for the Russians. I interviewed him in the county lockup after his arrest in 1994, then by telephone for eight hours. Deluded, deeply alcoholic, he thought he could lift up the hood of history and tinker with the engine.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/o...
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Aldrich Ames, C.I.A. Turncoat Who Helped the Soviets, Dies at 84
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/obituaries/aldrich-ames-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ClA.NWJj.xm-LM1LxTDD9&smid=url-share
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Mugwump Jones
3 months ago
JJA.
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Doug Madory
3 months ago
Thrilled to share my latest article: "Keeping Syria connected during civil war." A compelling, years-in-the-making story of "Mahmoud," a Syria Telecom network engineer who was on the front lines of the conflictâliterallyâto keep the country's internet running.
syriauntold.com/2025/12/27/k...
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Keeping Syria connected during war | SyriaUntold | ŰÙۧÙŰ© Ù Ű§ ۧÙŰÙŰȘ
A Syria Telecom engineer's account told his story during the war; what was behind internet shut downs? And what happened during studentsâ exams?
https://syriauntold.com/2025/12/27/keeping-syria-connected-during-war/
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Succinct and nuanced? Who do you think you are
@joewilliams.bsky.social
?
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Roxana Hadadi
4 months ago
who is that you hear screaming? it is me, I'm the one who is screaming. many thanks to ashley judd for sharing with me her memories of working on michael mann's HEAT; at
@vulture.com
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www.vulture.com/article/ashl...
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Henning
4 months ago
TIL that Japan has a museum called the Chinsekikan, which translates to âHall of Curious Rocksâ, that displays hundreds of naturally formed stones resembling human faces. âïž
#Geology
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Adam
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Annual book recs thread. Favorite new fiction: Rose/House by
@byzantienne.bsky.social
. SFF/gothic haunted house/detective noir/mystery all rolled into a little over 100 pages of gorgeous writing. I read it 3 times!
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It's controversial as to whether it was during one of the labors of Hercules or the wanderings of Odysseus that the monsters were slain before they could get trucks.
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4 months ago
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Just dude stuff.
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Dr. Natalie Mendoza
4 months ago
đïž My History Department is hiring for a tenure track position in Native American history. See link for details!
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âAssistant or Associate Professor of History
https://jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDetail/Assistant-or-Associate-Professor-of-History/69115
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This is an excellent book.
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Trying to remember how/where I learned to read topographic maps. Almost sure my dad knew, but I don't remember learning from him. My Boy Scout troop was extremely deranged and borderline illiterate, but maybe? Or maybe I learned from
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I'm starting to think about my annual favorite books list and noticed that while I read a lot this year (45+ books), fully one-third are rereads and another 20% are niche literary stuff that will interest almost no one.
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In the era after online maps but before smartphone GPS, I was driving with a passenger in his early 20s. We encountered major construction and I handed him a paper map and asked him to find a reroute. He had printed turn-by-turn directions and had no idea how to use a map. How fast skills devolve!
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My favorite thing about the new one is that Felix from Langley is running an off-the-books deep NOC op.
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noam chompers
5 months ago
Itâs funny that outside academic philosophy, if someone says theyâre into metaphysics, it means they probably believe they have supernatural powers, but inside it means they probably spend all their time trying to figure out what sort of thing a table is
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Oliver Darkshire
5 months ago
ODYSSEUS: wife I am home after 20 years PENELOPE: oh shit I mean honey you are home how wonderful ODYSSEUS: who are all these strange men PENELOPE: well, I'll tell you what they're definitely not, which is a 300 person polycule ruling in your absence
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Greg Barnhisel
5 months ago
Through Dec. 3,
@uchicagopress.bsky.social
has my CODE NAME PURITAN--a biography of the professor and spy Norman Holmes Pearson--at a 30% discount (enter HOLIDAY25 at checkout). Dapper WWII spies, Ivy League professors, wild bohemian poets: something for everyone!
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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Code Name Puritan
An insightful biography of an unassuming literary scholarâand spyâwho transformed postwar American culture. Although his impact on twentieth-century American cultural life was profound, few people kno...
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo233208318.html
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