Andy Bochman
@defend-the-future.bsky.social
Not an AI (yet). Speaker-Author-Advisor. Climate & Cyber & GenAI & Kinetic physical critical infrastructure & crown jewel protector. Diversity seeker & promoter. A Bostonian in Wisconsin. MKE/IDA/DCA/BOS
@ianbremmer.com FYI I pared down your 2026 Top 10 risks to the 4 most salient for infrastructure owners, operators & defenders, and am getting some good responses from my tribe: www.linkedin.com/pulse/pull-y...
Pull Your Head Out (It's Time To)
In order to be helpful in the world of infrastructure development, operation, and protection, one has to focus. Not necessary the supposed 10,000 hours required to reach an expert level-of-focus, but ...
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January 7, 2026 at 11:51 PM
@ianbremmer.com FYI I pared down your 2026 Top 10 risks to the 4 most salient for infrastructure owners, operators & defenders, and am getting some good responses from my tribe: www.linkedin.com/pulse/pull-y...
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Every country needs to be following Finland's lead here. Media literary skills are going to be crucially important in the age of AI, where knowing what's real and what's not is going to be increasingly difficult
apnews.com/article/fake...
apnews.com/article/fake...
Finnish children learn media literacy at 3 years old. It's protection against Russian propaganda
Finland has been fighting fake news by teaching media literacy to children as young as 3. The Nordic nation includes this in its national curriculum to help citizens recognize disinformation, especial...
apnews.com
January 7, 2026 at 9:50 AM
Every country needs to be following Finland's lead here. Media literary skills are going to be crucially important in the age of AI, where knowing what's real and what's not is going to be increasingly difficult
apnews.com/article/fake...
apnews.com/article/fake...
It's a lot of syllables, but it's well worth the time to say it, and then to do it.
December 7, 2025 at 10:51 PM
It's a lot of syllables, but it's well worth the time to say it, and then to do it.
More energy self sabotage.
www.rdworldonline.com/nuclear-rese...
www.rdworldonline.com/nuclear-rese...
NNSA furloughs stall nuclear R&D as AI power demand surges
First-ever NNSA furloughs sideline 80% of staff, delaying reactor pilots and HALEU progress just as AI data centers push U.S. power demand to new highs.
www.rdworldonline.com
October 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
More energy self sabotage.
www.rdworldonline.com/nuclear-rese...
www.rdworldonline.com/nuclear-rese...
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Some other new technologies that were just "put out in the world" without too much testing:
Radium, tetraethyllead, chlorinated fluorocarbons, thalidomide
Radium, tetraethyllead, chlorinated fluorocarbons, thalidomide
October 17, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Some other new technologies that were just "put out in the world" without too much testing:
Radium, tetraethyllead, chlorinated fluorocarbons, thalidomide
Radium, tetraethyllead, chlorinated fluorocarbons, thalidomide
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When journalism was cool. And risked everything to challenge power.
September 16, 2025 at 4:18 PM
When journalism was cool. And risked everything to challenge power.
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Friends,
May we never forget that while negotiations,speeches,statements, addresses&the rest of the diplomacy track are happening,exhausted Ukrainian men&women in military uniform are holding back evil on the frontlines
May we never forget that while negotiations,speeches,statements, addresses&the rest of the diplomacy track are happening,exhausted Ukrainian men&women in military uniform are holding back evil on the frontlines
July 30, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Friends,
May we never forget that while negotiations,speeches,statements, addresses&the rest of the diplomacy track are happening,exhausted Ukrainian men&women in military uniform are holding back evil on the frontlines
May we never forget that while negotiations,speeches,statements, addresses&the rest of the diplomacy track are happening,exhausted Ukrainian men&women in military uniform are holding back evil on the frontlines
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RAND paper w/ scenarios for artificial general intelligence. "humans begin to cede authority to AGI...These...AGIs are able to rapidly establish influence & control over large swaths of society and become so essential that they cannot be turned off even by humans..." www.rand.org/pubs/researc...
Artificial General Intelligence and the Rise and Fall of Nations
Artificial general intelligence, or AGI, is an AI that possesses human or superhuman capabilities. If AGI emerges, how might it affect global power dynamics—or even fundamentally alter the existing ge...
www.rand.org
July 7, 2025 at 10:28 AM
RAND paper w/ scenarios for artificial general intelligence. "humans begin to cede authority to AGI...These...AGIs are able to rapidly establish influence & control over large swaths of society and become so essential that they cannot be turned off even by humans..." www.rand.org/pubs/researc...
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All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.
- John Steinbeck
- John Steinbeck
June 14, 2025 at 6:57 PM
All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.
- John Steinbeck
- John Steinbeck
This Is Not America (2002 Remaster)
YouTube video by David Bowie - Topic
music.youtube.com
June 3, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Viktoriia Roshchyna, 27, was a Ukrainian journalist who was detained by Russia, tortured, and had her organs removed.
Russia is a terrorist state.
Russia is a terrorist state.
April 30, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Viktoriia Roshchyna, 27, was a Ukrainian journalist who was detained by Russia, tortured, and had her organs removed.
Russia is a terrorist state.
Russia is a terrorist state.
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Ukrainians when the world goes crazy:
April 8, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Ukrainians when the world goes crazy:
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You don’t negotiate with Russian terrorists who fire missiles with cluster ammunition warheads at playgrounds and killing 9 children, as happened in Krivyi Rih. You send those Russian terrorists straight to hell and break their remaining empire into pieces. Period.
April 5, 2025 at 11:21 AM
You don’t negotiate with Russian terrorists who fire missiles with cluster ammunition warheads at playgrounds and killing 9 children, as happened in Krivyi Rih. You send those Russian terrorists straight to hell and break their remaining empire into pieces. Period.
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Went to downtown DC to watch them remove the Black Lives Matter mural and wrote about how the removal of such symbols reflects government policy priorities. How the removal of the BLM mural reflects the administration’s desire to remove Black people and history from large segments of American life.
Republicans Tear Down a Black Lives Matter Mural
Symbols aren’t just symbols.
www.theatlantic.com
March 14, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Went to downtown DC to watch them remove the Black Lives Matter mural and wrote about how the removal of such symbols reflects government policy priorities. How the removal of the BLM mural reflects the administration’s desire to remove Black people and history from large segments of American life.
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Talking to a time traveler from one year ago
-so there are peace talks
-with russia?
-no, no, with the US
-so there are peace talks
-with russia?
-no, no, with the US
March 12, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Talking to a time traveler from one year ago
-so there are peace talks
-with russia?
-no, no, with the US
-so there are peace talks
-with russia?
-no, no, with the US
Good morning from … Texas 😬
Mexico has issued a warning to its citizens advising them not to travel to Texas and seven other states in the U.S. due to measles outbreaks.
The states of Alaska, California, Georgia, New Jersey, New York, New Mexico, Rhode Island and nine counties throughout Texas are cited in the…
The states of Alaska, California, Georgia, New Jersey, New York, New Mexico, Rhode Island and nine counties throughout Texas are cited in the…
March 8, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Good morning from … Texas 😬
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Simply brilliant and right on time.
After three years of failure, Putin can’t win on the ground, but he can win in his enemies’ heads—if we let him.
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
Putin’s Three Years of Humiliation
The Russian president can’t win his war against Ukraine unless he persuades its allies to betray it.
www.theatlantic.com
February 24, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Simply brilliant and right on time.
Good explainer on what this weekend's election of Merz may mean for Germany's approaches to Ukraine, Europe, Russia, energy, the economy and more.
www.nytimes.com/video/world/...
www.nytimes.com/video/world/...
Video: Who Is Friedrich Merz, Germany’s Likely New Chancellor?
After an election dominated by immigration and economic issues, Germany’s likely new chancellor is Friedrich Merz, the leader of the conservative Christian Democrats. His party finished first with jus...
www.nytimes.com
February 24, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Good explainer on what this weekend's election of Merz may mean for Germany's approaches to Ukraine, Europe, Russia, energy, the economy and more.
www.nytimes.com/video/world/...
www.nytimes.com/video/world/...
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🇺🇦💔 3 years since the start of the full-scale war...
1096 days of Indestructibility. Almost 11 years of continuous struggle.
We Stand, We Fight, We Win!
1096 days of Indestructibility. Almost 11 years of continuous struggle.
We Stand, We Fight, We Win!
February 23, 2025 at 10:15 PM
🇺🇦💔 3 years since the start of the full-scale war...
1096 days of Indestructibility. Almost 11 years of continuous struggle.
We Stand, We Fight, We Win!
1096 days of Indestructibility. Almost 11 years of continuous struggle.
We Stand, We Fight, We Win!
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2 fucking headlines right next to each other
February 21, 2025 at 6:43 PM
2 fucking headlines right next to each other
“One of the least noticed items … is the centrality of Saudi Arabia to the negotiations. And it raises a damning question – why should the future of a European war in Ukraine be decided:
— Without Ukraine
— Without NATO & Europe
— Between Trump and a dictator
— While hosted by another dictator”
— Without Ukraine
— Without NATO & Europe
— Between Trump and a dictator
— While hosted by another dictator”
The Suckerpunch in Saudi
Trump elevates the Saudis to a central role in negotiations with Russia. We explore the Gulf country’s desire to whitewash its authoritarianism through diplomatic showmanship.
open.substack.com
February 19, 2025 at 2:49 PM
“One of the least noticed items … is the centrality of Saudi Arabia to the negotiations. And it raises a damning question – why should the future of a European war in Ukraine be decided:
— Without Ukraine
— Without NATO & Europe
— Between Trump and a dictator
— While hosted by another dictator”
— Without Ukraine
— Without NATO & Europe
— Between Trump and a dictator
— While hosted by another dictator”
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Three years ago, on February 10, 2022, Lavrov publicly stated that after drills in Belarus, Russian troops would not invade Ukraine but would return home.
Two weeks later, Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Two weeks later, Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
February 10, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Three years ago, on February 10, 2022, Lavrov publicly stated that after drills in Belarus, Russian troops would not invade Ukraine but would return home.
Two weeks later, Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Two weeks later, Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
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This might be a hot take but personally, I would like it if good things started happening again too.
January 7, 2024 at 12:39 AM
This might be a hot take but personally, I would like it if good things started happening again too.