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Mr. Cyber Otters

@cyberotters.bsky.social

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Perpetually semi-retired rugby player. Very retired Army NCO. Cyber operations professional. Christian anarchist(?) Guitar player. Views are mine, likes/RPs/quotes != endorsements

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Mr. Cyber Otters @cyberotters.bsky.social · Feb 18

There's an axiom that we become an amalgam of the 5 people we spend the most time with. Their likes become our likes, their wants become our wants, and their blind spots become our blind spots. So who are the 5 people your AI engine is hanging out with the most? #/?

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 2h

Trump and Vought are now breaking both sides of spending law. They’re illegally not spending where the law requires them to spend, and they’re illegally spending where they don’t have the money to spend.

What we have is an appropriations king.

Spending “deals” are meaningless under that setup.

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Mr. Cyber Otters @cyberotters.bsky.social · 2h

My home church looks like a large shipping container from the outside and the walls have acoustic dampening panels. I play my electric guitar through a fairly expensive pedal to simulate the reverb effects of a 500+ year old church interior, and I hope God and YM's architect look at me like this:

Mr. Cyber Otters @cyberotters.bsky.social · 2h

As a big Warhammer 40K fan, one of my favorite things about touring the UK and going to a lot of cathedrals is seeing the visual inspiration for the game in real life.
Yorkminster, St. Andrews, and the last two are from St. Giles in Edinburgh

Mr. Cyber Otters @cyberotters.bsky.social · 3h

There is no way to explain the acoustics of that church without being there. It's transcendental.

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Mr. Cyber Otters @cyberotters.bsky.social · 3h

The "magic" is every capability manager, production manager, and engineer convincing the vendor that, yes, we know we didn't need it when we drafted the capability document, but this now needs a dashboard, and it needs to feed "relevant data" to another dashboard, running TBD software.

Mr. Cyber Otters @cyberotters.bsky.social · 3h

It's hard not to ascribe outsized villainy when someone can seemingly hold so much by the throat while doing so...little.

Mr. Cyber Otters @cyberotters.bsky.social · 3h

"We wanna make this thing that does a thing troops need."
"Will it integrate into NGC2?"
"Does it need to?"
"Yeah, everything needs to!"
"Fine, what does NGC2 look like logically?"
"We dunno yet, but it'll be revolutionary!"
"Can I make the thing and integrate it later?"
"Who'll pay for that?!"

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Mr. Cyber Otters @cyberotters.bsky.social · 3h

The frustration is that while dudes soak up oxygen claiming their technology will revolutionize warfare, it's harder to get momentum towards the smaller innovations & improvements because stuff like "better programmed EW effects" has to integrate into BS "data lattices."

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Mr. Cyber Otters @cyberotters.bsky.social · 3h

Cool, so we're shredding the Constitution and doing crimes.

Cool.

Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 3h

Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything.

It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in.

Long thread.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/10/national-security-presidential-memorandum-nspm-8/

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Jeffries: "It's perplexing to us that Rs refuse to spend a dime to protect the healthcare of the American people, but somehow the Trump admin found $40b to bail out a right-wing wannabe dictator in Argentina in ways that are also going to continue to hurt our soybean farmers in Iowa & the Midwest"

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Mr. Cyber Otters @cyberotters.bsky.social · 4h

Glad I'm not the only one thinking Trump's put together a private plane and quite the South American nest egg, and it's not like Argentina doesn't have a history of people whose...time in their home nation had run its course, if you will.

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Nina Metz @ninametz.bsky.social · 5h

Not mentioned here — and it seems worthwhile to point out — is that with hindsight, he said he wouldn't have done it. That complicates things to an extent

I wrote about that here

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/05/c...

In his autobiography, Chaplin wrote that had he known the extent of the horrors, he wouldn’t have done the movie at all. “I could not have made fun of the homicidal insanity of the Nazis.” But the speech at the end is exactly why the movie works, because it understands that mockery is not an endgame.

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Mr. Cyber Otters @cyberotters.bsky.social · 4h

"The problem is eventually you run out of other people's money."

Techbro industry: "Haven't yet!"

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Mr. Cyber Otters @cyberotters.bsky.social · 4h

Pretty easy thing to say about other people's money, since OpenAI still hasn't turned a profit, let alone gotten out of the red as a company.

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 7h

OpenAI has pledged to spend $1 trillion in the next five years.

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Mr. Cyber Otters @cyberotters.bsky.social · 4h

A white dude who grew up rich in apartheid South Africa thinks he stood still as a left of center guy?

Sus.

Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 5h

Elon Musk's view of his political journey.

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 6h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Mr. Cyber Otters @cyberotters.bsky.social · 5h

I'm sure they made some reference about how Senate democrats are to blame, but let's be real: people aren't that smart. They know politicians *could* do more than yak about dudes in frog costumes, but here they are, yakking about dudes in frog costumes.

Mr. Cyber Otters @cyberotters.bsky.social · 5h

I find it really interesting the GOP thinks the right answer during a government shutdown is to pack the Speaker of the House, the House Majority Leader, and 4 other Congresspersons into a frame to talk about a rally rather than even look like they care about restarting the government. 1/

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Scalise refers to No Kings as the "Hate America Rally"

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Mr. Cyber Otters @cyberotters.bsky.social · 5h

"Sir, a second $20B has been sent to Argentina."

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 6h

Greta Thunberg: “Israeli soldiers hit, kicked, starved, and tortured me”

• They placed a flag next to me, and anytime the flag touched me, they kicked me
• Whenever I raised my head to look at Ben-Gvir, I was kicked
• She was filmed while stripped naked

Aftonbladet: tinyurl.com/a33vxatc

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Bonhoeffer's Child @bonhoefferchild.bsky.social · 7h

open.substack.com/pub/bonhoeff...

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Mr. Cyber Otters @cyberotters.bsky.social · 7h

Why do I suspect that GOFO runs into an enlisted dude he knew when he was a Battalion Commander and laments how hard it is to get treated like a "normal guy?"

Mr. Cyber Otters @cyberotters.bsky.social · 8h

Oh, well, in that case!

Nope, still bad!

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 9h

BESSENT: TARIFFS ARE A SURCHARGE, NOT A TAX

Mr. Cyber Otters @cyberotters.bsky.social · 8h

The Army needs to demonstrate they care about the backend, post-iteration cleanup to modify supply, training, maintenance, and repair procedures in parallel with the iterative capability development. Otherwise we perpetually chase shiny objects and ignore DOTmLPFP.

Mr. Cyber Otters @cyberotters.bsky.social · 8h

The Army is very bad at removing equipment from its books, in my experience. So a brigade tests equipment, provides feedback, and then...keeps the equipment? When do we say, "Good enough to be a program of record?" and then you get rid of all the prototyped gear? No one gets rid of stuff!