David Moles
@chronodm.bsky.social
information unprofessional
speaking only for myself
speaking only for myself
Yeah well we need you to hear a whole lot of things, Chuck, maybe you should try listening for a change
January 23, 2026 at 2:30 AM
Yeah well we need you to hear a whole lot of things, Chuck, maybe you should try listening for a change
any timeline where I'm on this mailing list is a bad timeline
January 21, 2026 at 11:10 PM
any timeline where I'm on this mailing list is a bad timeline
more woke nonsense from those hippie peaceniks at… the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board?
January 21, 2026 at 3:35 AM
more woke nonsense from those hippie peaceniks at… the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board?
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I knew I’d find a place for this today!
Feel free to repost with impunity!
Feel free to repost with impunity!
January 19, 2026 at 3:31 PM
I knew I’d find a place for this today!
Feel free to repost with impunity!
Feel free to repost with impunity!
you can keep your utopias and dystopias and heterotopias; it’s monstertopia or gtfo for me now
"Sometimes working across sources, disciplines, and periods is like being a semi-feral cat: you go adventuring and return home with treasure, only for your sometime hoomans to jump on chairs, shriek with horror, and reject your gift."
The written essay:
2/2
contingentmagazine.org/2025/12/31/c...
The written essay:
2/2
contingentmagazine.org/2025/12/31/c...
Can the Archive Make a Monster of a Historian?
A historian who pays full attention to their sources can’t help but be transformed into a monster...
contingentmagazine.org
January 18, 2026 at 4:49 PM
you can keep your utopias and dystopias and heterotopias; it’s monstertopia or gtfo for me now
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Oh wow
48 hours of torture and he still dictated a confession knowing it would be read in court and his comrades would be able to get the info. Wow.
48 hours of torture and he still dictated a confession knowing it would be read in court and his comrades would be able to get the info. Wow.
Holy hell, what an obituary
Renfrew Christie Dies at 76; Sabotaged Racist Regime’s Nuclear Program
www.nytimes.com
January 16, 2026 at 9:42 AM
Oh wow
48 hours of torture and he still dictated a confession knowing it would be read in court and his comrades would be able to get the info. Wow.
48 hours of torture and he still dictated a confession knowing it would be read in court and his comrades would be able to get the info. Wow.
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So true, my senatorial bestie. No one can even afford to be shot dead by their own government after taking their kid to school.
Schumer as a major American metro is being brutally occupied by Trump goons: "The affordability crisis will be our focus throughout 2026 because that's what the American people are demanding"
January 15, 2026 at 5:23 PM
So true, my senatorial bestie. No one can even afford to be shot dead by their own government after taking their kid to school.
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Screenshots of some of the documents found in looted ICE vehicles from one of the livestreams before it got turned "private" on YouTube (after the other one already was). Share widely and make sure the genie can't go back in the bottle.
January 15, 2026 at 6:44 AM
Screenshots of some of the documents found in looted ICE vehicles from one of the livestreams before it got turned "private" on YouTube (after the other one already was). Share widely and make sure the genie can't go back in the bottle.
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Happening Now: Students have walked out of school and are protesting against ICE in Saint Paul, Minnesota
January 14, 2026 at 8:02 PM
Happening Now: Students have walked out of school and are protesting against ICE in Saint Paul, Minnesota
just out of an orientation meeting for the union my job title was just reclassified into, and honestly surprised to see at least 20%-30% of those attending showing up mostly to express outrage at being involuntarily unionized
January 12, 2026 at 9:29 PM
just out of an orientation meeting for the union my job title was just reclassified into, and honestly surprised to see at least 20%-30% of those attending showing up mostly to express outrage at being involuntarily unionized
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/2 This will be grotesque. Edward R. Murrow didn’t have a radio show in 1946 where Eisenhower debated Göring about whether the Nazis had some good points. Today’s media would absolutely do that. Today’s media will platform people defending and rewriting Good’s murder for years.
January 12, 2026 at 3:50 PM
/2 This will be grotesque. Edward R. Murrow didn’t have a radio show in 1946 where Eisenhower debated Göring about whether the Nazis had some good points. Today’s media would absolutely do that. Today’s media will platform people defending and rewriting Good’s murder for years.
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A favorite sign from today's NYC protest march
January 11, 2026 at 8:56 PM
A favorite sign from today's NYC protest march
Folks, RSS is never going to save the Web from Silicon Valley.
January 7, 2026 at 6:03 PM
Folks, RSS is never going to save the Web from Silicon Valley.
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Not every Chotiner interview is him making some blowhard look foolish. Sometimes he has experts explaining complex situations in clear terms.
Also good discussion of the comparison to Noriega, which was my first question this morning about all this...
Also good discussion of the comparison to Noriega, which was my first question this morning about all this...
January 3, 2026 at 10:19 PM
Not every Chotiner interview is him making some blowhard look foolish. Sometimes he has experts explaining complex situations in clear terms.
Also good discussion of the comparison to Noriega, which was my first question this morning about all this...
Also good discussion of the comparison to Noriega, which was my first question this morning about all this...
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Thank god Chuck Schumer isn’t alive to see this.
January 3, 2026 at 8:47 PM
Thank god Chuck Schumer isn’t alive to see this.
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Just a thing about this: a common statement in writing is that you can fix crap, but you can't fix a blank page.
I have heard AI apologists claim that this is why it's fine to generate a first draft.
Now, to be clear, fuck this.
But also: an AI draft is a fucking blank page.
I have heard AI apologists claim that this is why it's fine to generate a first draft.
Now, to be clear, fuck this.
But also: an AI draft is a fucking blank page.
I know I don’t talk about writing much. It is because I am writing so slowly.
But I want you to know that I am taking a part of this story that absolutely sucked and took me months to produce four of the worst chapters I have ever written and in the edit I figured out how to fix it.
But I want you to know that I am taking a part of this story that absolutely sucked and took me months to produce four of the worst chapters I have ever written and in the edit I figured out how to fix it.
December 24, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Just a thing about this: a common statement in writing is that you can fix crap, but you can't fix a blank page.
I have heard AI apologists claim that this is why it's fine to generate a first draft.
Now, to be clear, fuck this.
But also: an AI draft is a fucking blank page.
I have heard AI apologists claim that this is why it's fine to generate a first draft.
Now, to be clear, fuck this.
But also: an AI draft is a fucking blank page.
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The point of writing crap is not that you should barf out anything.
It's that you should be aware as you are writing it what the flaws are, and you need to get through it the first time, because the act of doing so informs you what is wrong.
It's that you should be aware as you are writing it what the flaws are, and you need to get through it the first time, because the act of doing so informs you what is wrong.
December 24, 2025 at 3:59 AM
The point of writing crap is not that you should barf out anything.
It's that you should be aware as you are writing it what the flaws are, and you need to get through it the first time, because the act of doing so informs you what is wrong.
It's that you should be aware as you are writing it what the flaws are, and you need to get through it the first time, because the act of doing so informs you what is wrong.
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Please, please, PLEASE watch this to the end
December 24, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Please, please, PLEASE watch this to the end
@bretdevereaux.bsky.social naive question re: acoup.blog/2025/12/18/i... — what’s the six-deep hastati line for (or the eight-deep non-orthodox phalanx) if not to facilitate trading out the front rank?
Intermission: Battle Pulses
This week we’re going to take a brief break from our series on hoplites (I, II, IIIa, IIIb) to address a broader question in how we understand the mechanics of warfare with contact weapons, w…
acoup.blog
December 23, 2025 at 6:50 PM
@bretdevereaux.bsky.social naive question re: acoup.blog/2025/12/18/i... — what’s the six-deep hastati line for (or the eight-deep non-orthodox phalanx) if not to facilitate trading out the front rank?
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finally, we are returning to pre-dreadnought designs, no more woke all big gun designs
December 22, 2025 at 10:52 PM
finally, we are returning to pre-dreadnought designs, no more woke all big gun designs
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Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it
December 22, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it
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Will they, even then? I have my doubts.
The other reporters in the White House press corps are apparently waiting until the president actually takes a swing at one of their female colleagues before they say anything
December 9, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Will they, even then? I have my doubts.
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A not negligible number of people, when they think of Lithuania, think of pogroms. No one thinks that of France. Why?
December 9, 2025 at 12:11 PM
A not negligible number of people, when they think of Lithuania, think of pogroms. No one thinks that of France. Why?
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Amusing that the main pitch for ChatGPT is telling everyone they are dumb idiots who can't possibly handle tasks on their own that humans have accomplished on their own since the dawn of time.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Amusing that the main pitch for ChatGPT is telling everyone they are dumb idiots who can't possibly handle tasks on their own that humans have accomplished on their own since the dawn of time.