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Dr. Taylor “The Triton of Terror” Loy

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Virginia Tech Postdoc (STS), nuclear energy/nonpro. Former SRO instructor nuke worker. he/him. #TritiumMatters Dissertation: https://hdl.handle.net/10919/120638 FAS Day One 2025: https://fas.org/publication/fusion-energy-leadership-tritium-capacity/

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Dr. Taylor “The Triton of Terror” Loy @tayloraloy.bsky.social · Aug 10

*PhD-level intelligence intensifies*

Dr. Taylor “The Triton of Terror” Loy @tayloraloy.bsky.social · 21h

Yeah. It’s a chore on my list too. Bigelow is a great director, and I love movies. But I’m also a nuclear expert and still want to enjoy art about things I know about. We can always just rewatch Dr. Strangelove.

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Katie Mummah, PhD @nuclearkatie.com · 1d

Only 7 out of 71 employees at the Los Alamos NNSA field site are working, the rest furloughed.

At the Albuquerque site (overseeing Sandia NM), only 7/81.

"The furloughs are the [NNSA's] first since its creation in 2000, as none occurred during previous shutdowns"
sourcenm.com/2025/10/22/n...

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 2d

Ultimately by attempting to AI-proof the classroom one just centers it anyway, making it the main character. All we end up doing is wasting our time and perverting solid pedagogical practices. bsky.app/profile/sonj...

Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · Jul 24

“AI” is not simply creating a cognitive crisis in learners; it’s also failing to deliver on its own terms (pedagogical “efficiency”) bc it demands that those still committed to educational quality devise nonsensical workarounds, turning our classrooms into bizarre Rube Goldberg learning machines.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Jul 23

Keep shoving this unwanted AI shit on teachers and we’ll go back to fucking quills and inkwells

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John-Luke Roberts @jlukeroberts.bsky.social · 1d

OK, this is a test to see if the internet can help my mum. Can you identify a comic rhyming monologue my mum performed at school in the 1960s? She has been blurting out lines at random as long as I've been alive, but can't remember who wrote it, and internet searches bring nothing up. Ahem:
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Dr. Taylor “The Triton of Terror” Loy @tayloraloy.bsky.social · 1d

Timeless!

Dr. Taylor “The Triton of Terror” Loy @tayloraloy.bsky.social · 2d

The Founding Fathers would have been scandalized by the vast riches she hath ill-gotten! Tis a years wages!!

Dr. Taylor “The Triton of Terror” Loy @tayloraloy.bsky.social · 2d

Empathy requires humility.

Dr. Taylor “The Triton of Terror” Loy @tayloraloy.bsky.social · 2d

Lots of talk about the virtues of empathy these days, and social media celebrity poisoned folks won’t even countenance humility as a concept because our collective guilt has made it taboo.

Humility is the ground state of virtue.

Dr. Taylor “The Triton of Terror” Loy @tayloraloy.bsky.social · 2d

Nothing mere about it.

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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 3d

That being said, increased sanctions and pressure on Moscow are a good thing, if too late

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Dr. Taylor “The Triton of Terror” Loy @tayloraloy.bsky.social · 3d

Even 2015 would’ve been too late.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 3d

Hi just so I'm clear.

I wrote "donate to food banks" and do "food runs for mutual aid" because they are different things!

Food banks want your money! they can do more with your money than with stuff.

Mutual aid groups often want stuff! Mine has a food fridge!

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 3d

Now is a really good time to donate to food banks, and do food runs for mutual aid groups. Also, do menstrual product runs.

Matt @swirlyball.bsky.social · 3d

I wonder how much food theft spikes with desperate people just trying to feed their families. I'm sure there will be a media panic about it.

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Dr. Taylor “The Triton of Terror” Loy @tayloraloy.bsky.social · 3d

Growing up the norm was local churches having food drives and people would literally buy food at the grocery to drop off for a food bank.

Until I worked with a food bank, I didn’t realize how wasteful that was.

Conservatives/evangelicals are terrified of giving $$$. Somebody will “take advantage.”

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󠀁󠁿⁢⁢⁤⁤⁢⁢⁢⁤⁢⁢⁤⁤⁢⁢⁤⁤⁢⁢⁤⁤⁢⁢⁤⁤⁢⁢⁤⁤⁢⁤⁤⁤⁤⁤⁤⁤⁢⁢⁢⁢⁤⁢👻 @0x0.boo · 3d

WMD jfc

Prepare for war

Trump to declare 'illicit' fentanyl 'Weapon of Mass Destruction,' per draft EO

A copy of the draft was obtained and reviewed by The Handbasket.

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Dr. Taylor “The Triton of Terror” Loy @tayloraloy.bsky.social · 3d

Exactly. As long as it falls under our extended drug addiction umbrella, it should be legit.

Dr. Taylor “The Triton of Terror” Loy @tayloraloy.bsky.social · 3d

Mr. President, we must not have a fentanyl gap!

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Dr. Taylor “The Triton of Terror” Loy @tayloraloy.bsky.social · 3d

Since we’re an official NWS we get to keep making official WMD fentanyl though, right?

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Dr. Taylor “The Triton of Terror” Loy @tayloraloy.bsky.social · 4d

I don’t know, I think his gaudy ballroom will make an excellent soup kitchen open and accessible for everyone.

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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 5d

@lawdorknews.bsky.social has the story!

Looks like Trump's contractor has destroyed the entire East Wing of the White House.

Exclusive: Trump's demolition of the White House East Wing is nearly complete

Photos obtained by Law Dork show the dramatic extent of the first step in Trump's purported plan to build a new ballroom on White House grounds with private funds.

www.lawdork.com

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Gabrielle Hecht has no more spoons @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 5d

Help please!

BlueSky search sucks. Is there a way around the suckiness? I'm trying to find everyone who has a particular word in their bio, and only pulling up half a dozen whey I know for a fact that there are many more.

Any other ideas?

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 5d

Important subtext: Hard to oversell how rare this precise Christian coalition is, and how unusually defiant this letter they're signing is.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 5d

NEW: 200+ Chicago-area clergy — Protestants, Catholics, and evangelicals — have signed a letter decrying ICE's efforts and voicing a willingness to put their "bodies on the line" for migrants.

"What Kristi Noem and her ICE agents are doing is immoral," they write. religionnews.com/2025/10/21/a...

(RNS) - Last Friday (Oct. 17), the Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist minister in the Chicago area, stood alongside other protesters demonstrating outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Broadview, Illinois. As a line of Illinois State Police began marching toward her and other demonstrators, gripping wooden batons, footage shows the pastor with her hands raised in prayer.
Officers then pushed into the protesters, forcing them back.
One officer shifted his stance, reared back and began shoving his baton like a battering ram - jamming it repeatedly, Kardon says, into her leg. A few seconds later, the pastor was pulled from the crowd and thrown to the ground.
All the while, Kardon says, she never stopped praying. When officers began to arrest her, they tied her arms behind her back and placed her along the curb.
"I said, 'God, please help these people to know that what they're doing is wrong, and help them to turn around," Kardon, who leads United Church of Rogers Park in Chicago, said in an interview. Her leg, she said, has developed visible bruises.

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Dr. Taylor “The Triton of Terror” Loy @tayloraloy.bsky.social · 5d

I do not understand how people make money in the UK. A mid-level post at a well-regarded military think tank in London was so low that I thought it must be part-time.

Would hope at least life in Rhu, Scotland might be a little more affordable.

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Dr. Taylor “The Triton of Terror” Loy @tayloraloy.bsky.social · 5d

I’m not a fan of nuclear weapons, but that is not the stated or implied nuclear posture of the United States Government.

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Tim O’Brien @timobrien.bsky.social · 5d

The survivor of a U.S. strike on a submersible vessel accused by the Trump administration of transporting drugs in the Caribbean was released by authorities in Ecuador after prosecutors said they had no evidence he committed a crime.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Ecuador says it has no evidence that survivor of US strike in Caribbean committed any crime

He was released by authorities in the South American nation.

www.politico.com

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Dr. Taylor “The Triton of Terror” Loy @tayloraloy.bsky.social · 6d

Even if we take these “risks” at face value, a motivated rogue proliferator could probe Anthropic models repeatedly to determine the specific topics/concepts/mechnisms disallowed to map out where to most efficiently assign resources. Presuming US/Anthropic doesn’t use misinfo as misdirection.