Andrew Facini
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Nuke policy starter pack! https://go.bsky.app/8jiQV43 Nuclear weapons policy, history, culture, and other things to help you sleep. Comms Director and Sr Fellow, @councilonstrategicrisks.org. Teaching and such at Harvard Extension.
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In the first 100 days I will dig down into the place of honor. On day one I will issue an Executive Order that the radical woke warning signs be removed and anyone perpetuating the "dangerous and repulsive" lie to be terminated. I will restore the country by touching the ancient treasures.
Graphic showing the proposed pictogram warning of the dangers of buried nuclear waste for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.
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utopia-defer.red
this is an incredibly ominous beginning to a future with a largely carved out federal emergency response system
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NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.
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You've heard of AGM-109 "Tomahawk"; now get ready for UGM-86 "Alcm" SLCM
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Seeing people nonchalantly post stuff like makes me feel like I'm going crazy honestly.
A post from an academic on blue sky that says: "I'm learning about "prompt engineering" when asking LLMs to extract data. I now add this to all instructions:

Style
Be concise, analytic, and specific (cite page/figure if provided). If essential info is missing, keep going but flag Unclear and exact data needed. Never invent data.
 
#academicsky"
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American Energy Dominance, not whatever this woke shit is
USS Enterprise "E=mc^2" photo.
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Happy Birthday US Navy!
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*air deploys your Tomahawk*
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I like all of these but I think mine might be (and only 3 words): DROP & RUN
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In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/
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"The chancellor approved it"
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This was the same stop-start as seen in the DOE in February, and people in the Labs still talk about the consequences it had on morale, recruitment, retention, etc. even if the RIF wasn't actually as high as originally announced
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Anyways, a lot of people react to fear with violence and aggression, and maybe the nuke community should take that into consideration before we try to scare the shit out of the public to raise "awareness."
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David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.
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1/n - An upbeat NATO Secretary General in front of a Dutch F-35A at Volkel Air Base announced that NATO will hold its annual Steadfast Noon tac nuke exercise next week. youtu.be/wjrCE1En1as
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I've been trying to find this out for it seems forever -- are they the same crop, generally? Or do you need a different cultivar to do edamame right
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You know I have an idea on where we can get these boats built quickly. Cheaper, too. It's a National Security 双赢.
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These days when I see an uncritical "dominance" in security studies lit I assume there's some political ploy behind the scenes
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People say the Air Force has the weirdest institutional culture in the services but my god the Navy's claim to lore is unparalleled
Why is a ship referred to as "she?"
It has always been customary to personify certain inanimate objects and attribute to them characteristics peculiar to living creatures. Thus, things without life are often spoken of as having a sex. Some objects are regarded as masculine. The sun, winter, and death are often personified in this way. Others are regarded as feminine, especially those things that are dear to us. The earth as mother Earth is regarded as the common maternal parent of all life. In languages that use gender for common nouns, boats, ships, and other vehicles almost invariably use a feminine form. Likewise, early seafarers spoke of their ships in the feminine gender for the close dependence they had on their ships for life and sustenance.
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🌿 🌊 Kelp forests are vital habitats that support marine life, buffer our coasts, and keep our oceans healthy, and Scripps Oceanography scientists are dedicated to protecting them!

🌏 This #WorldHabitatDay, thank #KelpForests for all they do for our planet.
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So when the primary candidates were being asked would they visit you know where first, Eric was thinking "fuck that, ALBANIA BABY!"
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Lmao what???
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Around 11:30 p.m. last night, Mayor Adams' office announced he's going to Albania this week.

On "day one" of his trip, Adams is meeting with the country's prime minister and will also "visit local businesses and factories."
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President attempts to send troops from loyal regions into dissident cities while both governing chambers have been suspended is a Clancy-ass macguffin