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Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social · 5h

Rich Evans is smarter than Peter Thiel.

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 13h

Average operator attempting to conduct a raid with the Anduril google glasses NODs flashing 38 different icons in front of their face:

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Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social · 15h

That is a thing I have not said. Why do you think I did?

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 18h

Just in case the dramatically low Leni Riefenstahl-style angle was too subtle, they used a word from her most famous movie

Time magazine cover featuring a photo of Trump from a dramatically low angle

HIS
TRIUMPH
by ERIC CORTELLESSA
THE LEADER ISRAEL NEEDED
by EHUD BARAK
HOW GAZA HEALS

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Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social · 16h

This is a very rude and random thing to say when someone points out a flaw in your policy proposal.

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 16h

"native born americans"

"man holdin up 3 fingers" meme from the film inglorious basterds

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Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social · 17h

Unless you have a strategy for infinitely producing more goods with no diminishment in returns, then you still can only print so much money before the currency is devalued.

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Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social · 17h

Money gets less valuable the more you print. If you pay for things by printing more, people will demand more of it, because it’s less valuable. The more they demand, the more you print, the less they value, the more you have to print. This kills the economy.

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Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social · 17h

You don’t need either of those things to produce Weimar levels of hyper inflation though. The mere interaction between inflation expectations and paying for things by increasing the money supply is enough to cause a spiral, as I said. Unless you have a solution, the result is economic destruction.

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Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social · 17h

Sure, but the utility of that abstraction is that it corresponds to something real. You can’t get more of something real by messing around with the abstraction. That’s the kind of language games sovereign citizens play.

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Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social · 18h

None of that prevents the cycle of inflation expectations requiring you to print more money which further boosts inflation until you’re in a Weimar situation where no one wants your currency anymore.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 19h

Reminding me I have to start my little one on the Children's Illustrated Clausewitz (a real thing that really exists: www.helios.house/books/childr...) early, so she can learn basic things many security 'professionals' have failed to, like, 'what is war and what is it for, exactly?'

Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social · 19h

There’s the joke about Sun Tzu being basic instructions for idiots like “feed your troops” but the most important part of Clausewitz is also just “think about what you are actually trying to accomplish”

brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 19h

What I love about our habit of confusing Means for Ways is that we also confuse Ways for Ends.

Innovation is entirely neutral.

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Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social · 18h

How much they charge will be affected by how they expect the value of money to change. Inflation expectations are taken into account when negotiating prices. If you’re planning on printing your way into paying, that will devalue the currency and lead to higher prices (and the cycle)

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Eric L. Robinson @uticaeric.bsky.social · 19h

Etch this into stone at every public policy MA program in America:

dcthings.bsky.social @dcthings.bsky.social · 20h

Genuinely embarrassing that no senior leaders I interact with actually read anything (yes this also applies to Biden appointees). No one responds to emails, no one reads past two sentences, no one does anything. The rest of the Pentagon follows along.

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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 19h

Guys a donation a day keeps the russian away

Oksii ✚ 🇺🇦 @oksii33.ukr.monster · 1d

Our awesome Finnish friend proposed us a huge matching up to €5000, but we still didn’t get it (€825 to go), we need to get it by tomorrow💙💛

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Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social · 19h

I look forward to the SEALs filing chapter 11

Eric L. Robinson @uticaeric.bsky.social · 23h

15 years ago, we had “The Navy SEALs will fix American business”

Now we have “American business will fix the Navy SEALs”

Maybe we should stop trying to run successful basketball teams like fish hatcheries? Organizations are distinct, even irreconcilable.

Success is not dependent on a single key.

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Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social · 19h

Since everyone knows you’re printing money, they’re going to want more of it, since they know it’s going to be worth less. This forces you to print more money to pay them—a cycle of printing that leads to out of control inflation.

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Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social · 19h

Some rate of inflation is useful so you don’t end up with deflation, of course.

What I mean is that if I offer you $1mil to build a bridge, if you know I’m going to print that money so that in 6 months its real value will be say $750k, you’re going to demand enough that the real value will be $1mil

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Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social · 19h

This principle isn’t applicable just to military affairs! A lot of endeavors are prone to devolve into cargo cults (or LARPing) if leadership is not careful to keep the end goal clearly in mind.

open.substack.com/pub/deadcarl...

Clausewitz On Activism: Professionalism and Parochialism

What Progressive Activists, the German General Staff, and Battlefield Earth all have in common

open.substack.com

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Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social · 19h

There’s the joke about Sun Tzu being basic instructions for idiots like “feed your troops” but the most important part of Clausewitz is also just “think about what you are actually trying to accomplish”

brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 19h

What I love about our habit of confusing Means for Ways is that we also confuse Ways for Ends.

Innovation is entirely neutral.

Breaking Defense @breakingdefense.com · 1d

Driscoll vows Silicon Valley model is the future for the Army
https://breakingdefense.com/2025/10/driscoll-vows-silicon-valley-model-is-the-future-for-the-army/

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brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 19h

What I love about our habit of confusing Means for Ways is that we also confuse Ways for Ends.

Innovation is entirely neutral.

Breaking Defense @breakingdefense.com · 1d

Driscoll vows Silicon Valley model is the future for the Army
https://breakingdefense.com/2025/10/driscoll-vows-silicon-valley-model-is-the-future-for-the-army/

Driscoll vows Silicon Valley model is the future for the Army

At AUSA 2025, Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll took aim at traditional primes, saying the future Army will “break down barriers until we measure acquisitions not in years and billions, but months and thousands."

breakingdefense.com

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Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social · 20h

I’m no economist, but surely if you’re going to keep printing ever-more money to pay for things, people will demand ever-more upfront?

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Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social · 20h

Unless an economy is completely autarkical, there are limitations on how much manipulation can be done to the legal unit before other countries (and their capital) just don’t want use them anymore.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 22h

one thing that has been obvious for a while is this aspect of the authoritarian internationale: they recognize that their allies abroad are not *countries* but *political movements* within foreign countries.

time we liberals woke up and recognized this--because it's the truth.

Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 1d

Or maybe, just maybe, what was obvious in 2024 was correct: Netanyahu fully backed Trump and would not deal with Biden because Trump would give him a free hand to escalate the starvation, bombing, and do full ethnic cleansing. Which he then did, until Netanyahu embarrassed him by bombing Qatar.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 1d

yeah this is on the level of the iraq war casus belli coverage

choo choo choose anger @ralphtheewiggum.bsky.social · 1d

The difference bet the way the press handled Biden’s vs Trump’s health issues, as well as the standard to which they hold his conduct is one of the greatest scandals in the history of journalism.

Their conduct, and the knowledge they’ve done tremendous damage to their profession, should shame them.

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 1d

he has been talking obsessively about the afterlife for some time, he is missing for chunks of time, his aides are trying harder than usual to show he’s fit, his public appearances show someone in visible physical decline, and jd vance talked impromptu about being prepared to assume office

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