Dead Carl
@deadcarl.bsky.social
www.deadcarl.com
Writer on Clausewitz, international relations, and German history. Words in American Purpose.
Writer on Clausewitz, international relations, and German history. Words in American Purpose.
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But think of the age gap discourse
No. Strangle this idea in its crib, don't let it grow like the "brain not fully developed until 25" stat
Adolescence lasts to 32, say brain scientists
November 25, 2025 at 9:09 PM
But think of the age gap discourse
Heading to Potsdam for the @sochistorywar.bsky.social conference (three guesses what I’m presenting on)
November 25, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Heading to Potsdam for the @sochistorywar.bsky.social conference (three guesses what I’m presenting on)
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#OTD in 1863, 23,000 Union Troops storm Missionary Ridge in one of the all time epic charges in American military history decisively routing Confederate forces and opening the literal and symbolic “Gateway to the South” (1
November 25, 2025 at 7:44 PM
#OTD in 1863, 23,000 Union Troops storm Missionary Ridge in one of the all time epic charges in American military history decisively routing Confederate forces and opening the literal and symbolic “Gateway to the South” (1
Look at my officers dawg
November 25, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Look at my officers dawg
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Hey there people in my phone! Is anyone keeping an archive of Trump admin propaganda images? I’d be interested to browse it for an essay I’m writing. Will definitely credit you.
November 25, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Hey there people in my phone! Is anyone keeping an archive of Trump admin propaganda images? I’d be interested to browse it for an essay I’m writing. Will definitely credit you.
November 25, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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A couple things to clear up with this thread:
First - the Pashtun people were wonderful and I wish so deeply we could have given them the future we promised. I think often of the girls we sent to school and one of the hardest parts of the Afghan withdrawal for me was thinking of them.
First - the Pashtun people were wonderful and I wish so deeply we could have given them the future we promised. I think often of the girls we sent to school and one of the hardest parts of the Afghan withdrawal for me was thinking of them.
But the Marines asked our interpreters, "So, everyone here is gay, right?" And the interpreters shocked response was, "NO! Why would you say that?"
"Well, they all have sex with men..." and the interpreter's response was, "I've had sex with tons of men. I'm not gay."
"Well, they all have sex with men..." and the interpreter's response was, "I've had sex with tons of men. I'm not gay."
November 25, 2025 at 6:09 PM
A couple things to clear up with this thread:
First - the Pashtun people were wonderful and I wish so deeply we could have given them the future we promised. I think often of the girls we sent to school and one of the hardest parts of the Afghan withdrawal for me was thinking of them.
First - the Pashtun people were wonderful and I wish so deeply we could have given them the future we promised. I think often of the girls we sent to school and one of the hardest parts of the Afghan withdrawal for me was thinking of them.
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Cannot overstate how, from my perch as a national-security reporter, this would have been an earth-shattering scandal in a prior era.
Billionaire Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, pardoned by Donald Trump, has been accused of facilitating millions of dollars’ worth of payments to Hamas in the wake of its attack on Israel on October 7 2023. Zhao also financed the Trump family's entrance into the cryptocurrency market.
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao accused of facilitating payments to Hamas
Crypto tycoon pardoned by Donald Trump faces US court complaint from families of victims of October 7 attack
www.ft.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Cannot overstate how, from my perch as a national-security reporter, this would have been an earth-shattering scandal in a prior era.
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So fascinating.
All the pollution comes from agriculture, and they understand that. But they don’t know how to make those facts into a story.
It’s just — not — a — story without the frisson of culture-war and chattering class ressentiment added by data centers.
All the pollution comes from agriculture, and they understand that. But they don’t know how to make those facts into a story.
It’s just — not — a — story without the frisson of culture-war and chattering class ressentiment added by data centers.
November 25, 2025 at 5:16 AM
So fascinating.
All the pollution comes from agriculture, and they understand that. But they don’t know how to make those facts into a story.
It’s just — not — a — story without the frisson of culture-war and chattering class ressentiment added by data centers.
All the pollution comes from agriculture, and they understand that. But they don’t know how to make those facts into a story.
It’s just — not — a — story without the frisson of culture-war and chattering class ressentiment added by data centers.
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this is a story about farming that they have decided to make about datacenters. the amazon rep called them liars directly and they just print it and then return to insinuating all sorts of shit
November 25, 2025 at 5:22 AM
this is a story about farming that they have decided to make about datacenters. the amazon rep called them liars directly and they just print it and then return to insinuating all sorts of shit
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because AI can be very harmful in some ways, I think people tend to believe that it *must* be very harmful in all ways.
November 25, 2025 at 5:19 AM
because AI can be very harmful in some ways, I think people tend to believe that it *must* be very harmful in all ways.
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i truly do think that like 70% of cost of living discussions come down to the fact that a lot of people think "roughly 50% of Americans cannot afford the median American lifestyle" is an indictment of the economy instead of just like, math
November 24, 2025 at 7:28 PM
i truly do think that like 70% of cost of living discussions come down to the fact that a lot of people think "roughly 50% of Americans cannot afford the median American lifestyle" is an indictment of the economy instead of just like, math
It does worry me how happily people are willing to regurgitate false or misleading information on AI. It is very a very bad habit to reflexively believe bad things about something you dislike.
This shit makes me angrier and angrier the more I do the math on it - like, I found the other day that you'd have to prompt ChatGPT 45 times a day, every day, for TEN YEARS to drain as much water as you do by eating a single normal burger patty
November 25, 2025 at 5:50 AM
It does worry me how happily people are willing to regurgitate false or misleading information on AI. It is very a very bad habit to reflexively believe bad things about something you dislike.
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I'm re-upping our new open access article on why armies shoot their own soldiers in light of recent reports that more than 100 Russian officers have been confirmed as ordering the execution of their own soldiers in more than 12,000 reported incidents
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Fratricidal Coercion in Modern War | International Organization | Cambridge Core
Fratricidal Coercion in Modern War - Volume 79 Issue 1
www.cambridge.org
November 25, 2025 at 2:32 AM
I'm re-upping our new open access article on why armies shoot their own soldiers in light of recent reports that more than 100 Russian officers have been confirmed as ordering the execution of their own soldiers in more than 12,000 reported incidents
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Propaganda works
November 25, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Propaganda works
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A lot of my boys write for Liberal Currents, and if you're going to give your money to something besides Ukrainian Military units so they can kill Russians—you should actually give them money.
It's very much worth having a liberalism that's confident in itself.
It's very much worth having a liberalism that's confident in itself.
Larger media outlets have wavered since the first Trump term, but we've remained steadfast in our categorical rejection of MAGA in all its aspects and our affirmation of liberal democracy and the principles that it rests on.
In the second Trump term, we are growing: www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
In the second Trump term, we are growing: www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
November 25, 2025 at 2:32 AM
A lot of my boys write for Liberal Currents, and if you're going to give your money to something besides Ukrainian Military units so they can kill Russians—you should actually give them money.
It's very much worth having a liberalism that's confident in itself.
It's very much worth having a liberalism that's confident in itself.
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November 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
This is a good thread that describes the trend of ascribing the tyranny of nature to capitalism. That subsistence requires effort (and comfort increasingly more so) is a consequence of reality, not of a particular economic system. Systems change the distribution and generation, not the rule.
Bluntly: you don't want socialism, you want robots doing the work so you can have more time for what we can broadly call "leisure."
There is nothing wrong per se with this desire, but intellectual honesty requires we admit that as it stands socialism will probably involve the same "get up at 7 am."
There is nothing wrong per se with this desire, but intellectual honesty requires we admit that as it stands socialism will probably involve the same "get up at 7 am."
November 25, 2025 at 1:15 AM
This is a good thread that describes the trend of ascribing the tyranny of nature to capitalism. That subsistence requires effort (and comfort increasingly more so) is a consequence of reality, not of a particular economic system. Systems change the distribution and generation, not the rule.
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"I looked into the cold eye of nothing, the silent death between the stars, older than eyes to see or mouths to name it" does rather take the bite out of other people's tough-guy routines
November 24, 2025 at 7:05 PM
"I looked into the cold eye of nothing, the silent death between the stars, older than eyes to see or mouths to name it" does rather take the bite out of other people's tough-guy routines
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it just strikes me as a bad idea to pick fights with an astronaut.
you fire right back at them and you FIRE RIGHT AWAY.
November 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
it just strikes me as a bad idea to pick fights with an astronaut.
I do find Reach very interesting stylistically in its use of both melodrama (particularly in the score and certain visuals) with the immediacy of “found footage” techniques with diagetic camera feeds. Despite a weak story, it effectively creates a sense the player is present at important events.
Ironically, Halo: Reach does this better, despite also being a writing mess. The fact that Jun just kinda disappears (and actually survives) feels more real because it emulates the chaos of military disaster.
November 24, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I do find Reach very interesting stylistically in its use of both melodrama (particularly in the score and certain visuals) with the immediacy of “found footage” techniques with diagetic camera feeds. Despite a weak story, it effectively creates a sense the player is present at important events.