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Canadian, Tory, somehow found my way onto Bluesky and am now trapped here. Interested in military history, COIN, foreign military training, jihadism, the KPA, and many others.
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In the spirit of promoting more Canadian mili thought and history, some book recommendations! First up, this one (surprisingly available in the UK too)! An examination of a Canadian victory which I believe has more lessons to teach than Vimy Ridge- covering everything from staff work to logistics.
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The most terrifying sentence in any language should be "These actions are in violation of the UN charter"
November 21, 2025 at 6:21 PM
The most terrifying sentence in any language should be "These actions are in violation of the UN charter"
Floyd Tesseract is one of XCOM: Chimera Squad’s best character ideas. A Sectoid who helped the aliens initially take over Earth, who became a conspiracy theorist radio host on the basis of “I know conspiracies are real because I ran the last one.” You Should Have Believed” is a great title too.
November 21, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Floyd Tesseract is one of XCOM: Chimera Squad’s best character ideas. A Sectoid who helped the aliens initially take over Earth, who became a conspiracy theorist radio host on the basis of “I know conspiracies are real because I ran the last one.” You Should Have Believed” is a great title too.
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we all have to collectively pretend that many pre-musk tastemakers weren't toxic, that complete nobodies weren't being brigaded over 'waffles' like stuff, and the trash fire on our 'side' was so bad that it made the other side just blend into the landscape
November 21, 2025 at 4:12 PM
we all have to collectively pretend that many pre-musk tastemakers weren't toxic, that complete nobodies weren't being brigaded over 'waffles' like stuff, and the trash fire on our 'side' was so bad that it made the other side just blend into the landscape
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when musk took over twitter initially there wasn't a mass exodus because the existing state of it was so bad that it seemed like any damage he could do to it wouldn't really be noticeable. and when first wave of refugees went out, many were so toxic that a lot of others silently said 'good riddance'
November 21, 2025 at 4:08 PM
when musk took over twitter initially there wasn't a mass exodus because the existing state of it was so bad that it seemed like any damage he could do to it wouldn't really be noticeable. and when first wave of refugees went out, many were so toxic that a lot of others silently said 'good riddance'
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FPV’s are simply another form of ground fires
November 21, 2025 at 2:44 PM
FPV’s are simply another form of ground fires
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Please we need to have a more sophisticated analysis than "capital wants this" in 2025 for the love of god.
We are doing like 2 trillion in green investment annually. Lot of resistance to transition is frankly big state actors (saudi, russia, india) and confluence of tech/media interests
We are doing like 2 trillion in green investment annually. Lot of resistance to transition is frankly big state actors (saudi, russia, india) and confluence of tech/media interests
You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
November 21, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Please we need to have a more sophisticated analysis than "capital wants this" in 2025 for the love of god.
We are doing like 2 trillion in green investment annually. Lot of resistance to transition is frankly big state actors (saudi, russia, india) and confluence of tech/media interests
We are doing like 2 trillion in green investment annually. Lot of resistance to transition is frankly big state actors (saudi, russia, india) and confluence of tech/media interests
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US military contractors just landed on a Mexican beach and proclaimed the area as US territory
Maybe mysteriously attracted by the beach's name 'Playa Bagdad'?
Anyway, 'the Pentagon was forced to release a statement confirming its troops had made an erroneous landing'
www.lbc.co.uk/article/us-t...
Maybe mysteriously attracted by the beach's name 'Playa Bagdad'?
Anyway, 'the Pentagon was forced to release a statement confirming its troops had made an erroneous landing'
www.lbc.co.uk/article/us-t...
US troops 'accidentally invade Mexico' following Trump's cartel strike offer | LBC
Signs with 'restricted area' warnings appeared on coastal beaches in Mexico after troops were spotted in the territory
www.lbc.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 12:43 PM
US military contractors just landed on a Mexican beach and proclaimed the area as US territory
Maybe mysteriously attracted by the beach's name 'Playa Bagdad'?
Anyway, 'the Pentagon was forced to release a statement confirming its troops had made an erroneous landing'
www.lbc.co.uk/article/us-t...
Maybe mysteriously attracted by the beach's name 'Playa Bagdad'?
Anyway, 'the Pentagon was forced to release a statement confirming its troops had made an erroneous landing'
www.lbc.co.uk/article/us-t...
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It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.
November 21, 2025 at 4:27 AM
It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.
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specifically, if I see one more article that doesn’t seem to grasp that Ukrainian FPV drone pilots are almost always on the frontline, in *extreme* danger, and are very regularly killed because their controller signals are easily detectable via electronic warfare methods
begging defense analysts to stop writing stuff that assumes that operating a MQ-9 Reaper and operating a $400 FPV drone is pretty much the same thing and works about the same way
November 21, 2025 at 4:55 AM
specifically, if I see one more article that doesn’t seem to grasp that Ukrainian FPV drone pilots are almost always on the frontline, in *extreme* danger, and are very regularly killed because their controller signals are easily detectable via electronic warfare methods
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this is, btw, a great and easy-to-grasp example of how masses of fpv drones do not *replace* artillery, they are a field-expedient solution when you don't have enough artillery
specifically, if I see one more article that doesn’t seem to grasp that Ukrainian FPV drone pilots are almost always on the frontline, in *extreme* danger, and are very regularly killed because their controller signals are easily detectable via electronic warfare methods
begging defense analysts to stop writing stuff that assumes that operating a MQ-9 Reaper and operating a $400 FPV drone is pretty much the same thing and works about the same way
November 21, 2025 at 10:13 AM
this is, btw, a great and easy-to-grasp example of how masses of fpv drones do not *replace* artillery, they are a field-expedient solution when you don't have enough artillery
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Like AI itself aside, a moment that makes you realize you are talking to someone who is broadly incapable of understanding, at a fundamental level, the nature of education as a public good and how that works for building a civil culture instead of a machine that only produces laborers, etc.
November 21, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Like AI itself aside, a moment that makes you realize you are talking to someone who is broadly incapable of understanding, at a fundamental level, the nature of education as a public good and how that works for building a civil culture instead of a machine that only produces laborers, etc.
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this is the thing i wish people could understand, school is the necessary investment that makes everything else in civilization possible
i can't believe actual real people use the same stupid fucking arguments that kids throw out in math class "when am i going to need the Pythagorean theorem"
i can't believe actual real people use the same stupid fucking arguments that kids throw out in math class "when am i going to need the Pythagorean theorem"
Like AI itself aside, a moment that makes you realize you are talking to someone who is broadly incapable of understanding, at a fundamental level, the nature of education as a public good and how that works for building a civil culture instead of a machine that only produces laborers, etc.
November 21, 2025 at 5:39 AM
this is the thing i wish people could understand, school is the necessary investment that makes everything else in civilization possible
i can't believe actual real people use the same stupid fucking arguments that kids throw out in math class "when am i going to need the Pythagorean theorem"
i can't believe actual real people use the same stupid fucking arguments that kids throw out in math class "when am i going to need the Pythagorean theorem"
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Every month or so I see people rant about how LLMs prove homework is stupid/bad in a comically broad stroke that only reveals they’re still upset about their public school experience in a way that makes them incapable of participating in any serious conversation on a foundational public good.
Congratulations, gentlemen. We have finally prevailed in the War on Homework
November 21, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Every month or so I see people rant about how LLMs prove homework is stupid/bad in a comically broad stroke that only reveals they’re still upset about their public school experience in a way that makes them incapable of participating in any serious conversation on a foundational public good.
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his conclusion is basically that you cannot give unproctored assessments anymore. anything you're not watching students on is meaningless as a measure of competence
November 21, 2025 at 5:08 AM
his conclusion is basically that you cannot give unproctored assessments anymore. anything you're not watching students on is meaningless as a measure of competence
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I watched an internal presentation from a CMU professor at work who said that they were getting students who passed every homework assignment and then got 7% (iirc, it was in that range) on the final
November 21, 2025 at 4:57 AM
I watched an internal presentation from a CMU professor at work who said that they were getting students who passed every homework assignment and then got 7% (iirc, it was in that range) on the final
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It’s really cool watching people on this website cry about how anti-technology and progress the world is re: AI and hearing, from the small number of instructors I know in real life, how this stuff is just destroying traditional instruction with no effective mitigation for public education systems.
My students don’t even bother to remove “ChatGPT said…” from their assignments half the time…
We are doomed.
We are doomed.
November 21, 2025 at 4:56 AM
It’s really cool watching people on this website cry about how anti-technology and progress the world is re: AI and hearing, from the small number of instructors I know in real life, how this stuff is just destroying traditional instruction with no effective mitigation for public education systems.
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It pains me so fucking much to read this, particularly as it’s a recurring theme I’ve heard.
And I say painful, because I have and do struggle so much and put so much energy into learning and living. And you just have people not caring to a level I could never understand.
And I say painful, because I have and do struggle so much and put so much energy into learning and living. And you just have people not caring to a level I could never understand.
My students don’t even bother to remove “ChatGPT said…” from their assignments half the time…
We are doomed.
We are doomed.
November 21, 2025 at 4:54 AM
It pains me so fucking much to read this, particularly as it’s a recurring theme I’ve heard.
And I say painful, because I have and do struggle so much and put so much energy into learning and living. And you just have people not caring to a level I could never understand.
And I say painful, because I have and do struggle so much and put so much energy into learning and living. And you just have people not caring to a level I could never understand.
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Thanks @helenebismarck.bsky.social!
Yes, @columnist.bsky.social, I tried in my book to puncture some common UK delusions while warning of the dangers of entrenching a culture of despair. The country still has a lot going for it, as I point out.
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Yes, @columnist.bsky.social, I tried in my book to puncture some common UK delusions while warning of the dangers of entrenching a culture of despair. The country still has a lot going for it, as I point out.
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November 21, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Thanks @helenebismarck.bsky.social!
Yes, @columnist.bsky.social, I tried in my book to puncture some common UK delusions while warning of the dangers of entrenching a culture of despair. The country still has a lot going for it, as I point out.
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Yes, @columnist.bsky.social, I tried in my book to puncture some common UK delusions while warning of the dangers of entrenching a culture of despair. The country still has a lot going for it, as I point out.
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"Greeks living in Afghanistan were Buddhist 500 years before China and a thousand years before Southeast Asia" is one of those things that sounds made up but is in fact true
November 20, 2025 at 3:25 PM
"Greeks living in Afghanistan were Buddhist 500 years before China and a thousand years before Southeast Asia" is one of those things that sounds made up but is in fact true
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What the actual fuck are we doing here
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:30 PM
What the actual fuck are we doing here
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trying to start a moral panic and the stories are all like “the ADHD meds really helped but didn’t solve everything”
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 PM
trying to start a moral panic and the stories are all like “the ADHD meds really helped but didn’t solve everything”
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Boebert is an idiot and MTG is a conspiracy theorist but Mace is genuinely unwell.
It is notable that most house dems despite MTG or Boebert, but the general reaction to Mace tends to be "I hope she gets help."
November 19, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Boebert is an idiot and MTG is a conspiracy theorist but Mace is genuinely unwell.
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the only based thomist
November 20, 2025 at 12:56 AM
the only based thomist