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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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I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
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Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
November 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
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No they should green light my Downton Abbey Westeros show where the throne is a fading constitutional monarchy. This week, Lucy Stark dances scandalously with the ambassador from Braaveros. Meanwhile, her father is having trouble finding a new dragon mucker willing to accept servant wages.
i feel like if you understand what the ending of the show was trying to say there's no point in having any content set after it.
no new age of the world, westeros is trapped in doomed to be trapped in hellish medieval stasis for eternity. the wheel spins on forever
no new age of the world, westeros is trapped in doomed to be trapped in hellish medieval stasis for eternity. the wheel spins on forever
George R.R. Martin teases the 'Game of Thrones' universe will finally get to the world after the OG show's divisive finale.
November 23, 2025 at 12:23 AM
No they should green light my Downton Abbey Westeros show where the throne is a fading constitutional monarchy. This week, Lucy Stark dances scandalously with the ambassador from Braaveros. Meanwhile, her father is having trouble finding a new dragon mucker willing to accept servant wages.
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I’ve written my MP and suggest that, if yours is CPC like mine, you do as well. They must respond to a constituent. Email addresses are online.
This CPC MP is completely unhinged. Who is she so I can put my MP on blast?
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#Francesk🇨🇦 (@franann61)
Questioning the Prime Minister’s loyalty to Canada because he’s overseas securing trade deals isn’t the kind of serious leadership Canadians expect~ Ben Car, MP.
This is how Conservatives conduct the...
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November 22, 2025 at 2:24 AM
I’ve written my MP and suggest that, if yours is CPC like mine, you do as well. They must respond to a constituent. Email addresses are online.
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The committee that settled on the phrase “underscoring his determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy” should be dissolved and its members compelled to take a remedial course on the scientific method.
Breaking News: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he personally instructed the CDC to abandon its position that vaccines do not cause autism. The move underscores his determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy — in this case, that vaccines save lives — and bend the health department to his will.
RFK Jr. Says He Instructed CDC to Change Vaccines and Autism Language on Website
In an interview, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cited gaps in vaccine safety research. His critics say he is ignoring a larger point: Vaccines save lives.
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November 21, 2025 at 11:52 PM
The committee that settled on the phrase “underscoring his determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy” should be dissolved and its members compelled to take a remedial course on the scientific method.
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While empires are ravaging Ukraine, think about donating to Ukrainians if you can. And consider de-centring these empires from your cultural consumption. There is fantastic music and literature in Ukraine that Russia is trying to destroy. Support it by learning about it. chapterukraine.com
Ukrainian literature in English translation – Chapter Ukraine
Build your own bookshelf dedicated to Ukrainian literature in English translation. | Chapter Ukraine
chapterukraine.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:32 PM
While empires are ravaging Ukraine, think about donating to Ukrainians if you can. And consider de-centring these empires from your cultural consumption. There is fantastic music and literature in Ukraine that Russia is trying to destroy. Support it by learning about it. chapterukraine.com
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I see JD Vance has decided - with his billionaire hedge fund MAGA buddies - to launch on an attack on Canada based on some economic “analysis“ from another hedge fund.
I may have said something on Xitter, my first posts there in months.
In case his fans come to visit: JD and Trump can fuck off.
I may have said something on Xitter, my first posts there in months.
In case his fans come to visit: JD and Trump can fuck off.
November 21, 2025 at 11:51 PM
I see JD Vance has decided - with his billionaire hedge fund MAGA buddies - to launch on an attack on Canada based on some economic “analysis“ from another hedge fund.
I may have said something on Xitter, my first posts there in months.
In case his fans come to visit: JD and Trump can fuck off.
I may have said something on Xitter, my first posts there in months.
In case his fans come to visit: JD and Trump can fuck off.
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Fine. You all win. I’m logging off for the day because I‘m a big smelly man who’s also a Nazi and a bigot because I liked it better when Groypers didn’t have 1,770 nuclear weapons on hair-trigger alert. Feel free to brag in your discords about how my jimmies have been rustled and I was owned.
November 20, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Fine. You all win. I’m logging off for the day because I‘m a big smelly man who’s also a Nazi and a bigot because I liked it better when Groypers didn’t have 1,770 nuclear weapons on hair-trigger alert. Feel free to brag in your discords about how my jimmies have been rustled and I was owned.
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fuck all these people being awful to starfish
(and also, this is an opportunity to block a whole bunch of this website’s most brain-dead tankies)
(and also, this is an opportunity to block a whole bunch of this website’s most brain-dead tankies)
Fine. You all win. I’m logging off for the day because I‘m a big smelly man who’s also a Nazi and a bigot because I liked it better when Groypers didn’t have 1,770 nuclear weapons on hair-trigger alert. Feel free to brag in your discords about how my jimmies have been rustled and I was owned.
November 21, 2025 at 6:06 AM
fuck all these people being awful to starfish
(and also, this is an opportunity to block a whole bunch of this website’s most brain-dead tankies)
(and also, this is an opportunity to block a whole bunch of this website’s most brain-dead tankies)
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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