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Rob is reading On Thermonuclear War🧭 @robisreading.bsky.social · 17h

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Rob is reading On Thermonuclear War🧭 @robisreading.bsky.social · 1d

War and Peace might be really long, but it's also really good!

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Rob is reading On Thermonuclear War🧭 @robisreading.bsky.social · 2d

Von Neumann's Game Theory was similar. *50 pages of almost impenetrable proofs*

Lesson: "Sometimes it's better to go first because then you have more information and your opponent is reacting to your decisions"

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Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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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Rob is reading On Thermonuclear War🧭 @robisreading.bsky.social · 2d

These people have clearly never had carne guisada or carne adovada.

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Rob is reading On Thermonuclear War🧭 @robisreading.bsky.social · 2d

Where is the Tex Mex discourse? I'm feeling fighty.

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Rob is reading On Thermonuclear War🧭 @robisreading.bsky.social · 2d

Colbert really cooked with the first wørd being Truthiness.

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Rob is reading On Thermonuclear War🧭 @robisreading.bsky.social · 2d

It's a trap!

Rob is reading On Thermonuclear War🧭 @robisreading.bsky.social · 2d

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I told my wife "4 greens" and she like "nice!" and I was like "no this could be really bad."

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Rob is reading On Thermonuclear War🧭 @robisreading.bsky.social · 2d

Ender's Game has been through the discourse machine enough, but having a military leader whose super power is weaponized empathy was a pretty cool bit.

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Rob is reading On Thermonuclear War🧭 @robisreading.bsky.social · 2d

Lot of people also talking like empathy makes you a good person. I have a ton of empathy but I'm a lawyer so I use it for evil.

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Rob is reading On Thermonuclear War🧭 @robisreading.bsky.social · 4d

My kid plays a silly tablet game and my wife noticed there was a banana stand and asked "is there money in the banana stand?" and the kid was like "yeah there actually is!"

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Rob is reading On Thermonuclear War🧭 @robisreading.bsky.social · 4d

Wonder if they are going to update the regs to allow military to get tattoos there now.

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Rob is reading On Thermonuclear War🧭 @robisreading.bsky.social · 4d

Vauban or GTFO

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Rob is reading On Thermonuclear War🧭 @robisreading.bsky.social · 4d

Extremely not beating the everyone here is 38 allegations

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Rob is reading On Thermonuclear War🧭 @robisreading.bsky.social · 4d

I got my first sticker shock today at the very cheap liquor store picking up a bottle of Cointreau. $45!

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Rob is reading On Thermonuclear War🧭 @robisreading.bsky.social · 4d

There's a lot to like about Von Neumann but my favorite thing is he basically invented game theory trying to get good at poker but still always sucked at poker.