Jack Murphy
@jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social
National security journalist: https://thehighside.substack.com
Host on @theteamhouse.bsky.social
"We Defy: The Lost Chapters of Special Forces History" https://www.amazon.com/We-Defy-Chapters-Special-History-ebook/dp/B0DCGC1N1N
Host on @theteamhouse.bsky.social
"We Defy: The Lost Chapters of Special Forces History" https://www.amazon.com/We-Defy-Chapters-Special-History-ebook/dp/B0DCGC1N1N
One of my favorite songs from one of my favorite bands. Fountains on Fire from Elysian Fields.
November 24, 2025 at 4:35 AM
One of my favorite songs from one of my favorite bands. Fountains on Fire from Elysian Fields.
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Engagement KPIs have been responsible for infinite scroll UI traps, RecSys radicalization spirals, public shame brigades, and basically every modern ailment novel to the past decade. At some point, you have to recognize that the problem isn't any one technology, it's the metric.
The company essentially turned a dial that made ChatGPT more appealing and made people use it more, but sent some of them into delusional spirals.
OpenAI has since made the chatbot safer, but that comes with a tradeoff: less usage.
OpenAI has since made the chatbot safer, but that comes with a tradeoff: less usage.
November 23, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Engagement KPIs have been responsible for infinite scroll UI traps, RecSys radicalization spirals, public shame brigades, and basically every modern ailment novel to the past decade. At some point, you have to recognize that the problem isn't any one technology, it's the metric.
Discuss amongst yourselves
Congress complaining about this requires a gigantic hot dog guy suit
I don't know if SOCOM needs to go away entirely, but MFP-11 sure does and we need a hard honest conversation about whether JSOC should exist and if so what it should look like
I don't know if SOCOM needs to go away entirely, but MFP-11 sure does and we need a hard honest conversation about whether JSOC should exist and if so what it should look like
SOF are too big and have too many overlap across the services. SOF have developed a 5th branch mentality, funding, and authorities.
Reorganization is required across the services and reduction in overlapping missions is essential. With that is a required reduction in personnel.
Reorganization is required across the services and reduction in overlapping missions is essential. With that is a required reduction in personnel.
November 23, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Discuss amongst yourselves
Cancel your subscription. I did.
November 23, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Cancel your subscription. I did.
I suspect I'm one of five or so people who enjoyed Ultra Violet. That movie has a bunch of hiccups but it's a fun sci fi action flick.
Cool to see everyone celebrating Resident Evil movies.
Shout out to Mila Jovovich, who made otherwise unnotable B-movies great. (The 5th Element is just awesome too.)
Hell yeah, 2000's action filcks with female leads are awesome. Wish we had more fun ones.
Shout out to Mila Jovovich, who made otherwise unnotable B-movies great. (The 5th Element is just awesome too.)
Hell yeah, 2000's action filcks with female leads are awesome. Wish we had more fun ones.
November 23, 2025 at 8:07 PM
I suspect I'm one of five or so people who enjoyed Ultra Violet. That movie has a bunch of hiccups but it's a fun sci fi action flick.
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If I wanted to speed run a dystopian dark age, I would:
- close public libraries
- enshittify the internet to the point of unusability
- end childhood vaccinations
- reserve healthcare for the rich
- cut humanities programs at universities
- pour the nation's wealth into AI companies
ODDLY ENOUGH
- close public libraries
- enshittify the internet to the point of unusability
- end childhood vaccinations
- reserve healthcare for the rich
- cut humanities programs at universities
- pour the nation's wealth into AI companies
ODDLY ENOUGH
November 23, 2025 at 5:07 PM
If I wanted to speed run a dystopian dark age, I would:
- close public libraries
- enshittify the internet to the point of unusability
- end childhood vaccinations
- reserve healthcare for the rich
- cut humanities programs at universities
- pour the nation's wealth into AI companies
ODDLY ENOUGH
- close public libraries
- enshittify the internet to the point of unusability
- end childhood vaccinations
- reserve healthcare for the rich
- cut humanities programs at universities
- pour the nation's wealth into AI companies
ODDLY ENOUGH
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It’s 2025. The Japanese government, the ruling party and Sanseito want to take Japan back to 1925.
And the foreigners living here and the muggles—we are just collateral damage. #JapaneseFirst
open.substack.com/pub/tokyopal...
And the foreigners living here and the muggles—we are just collateral damage. #JapaneseFirst
open.substack.com/pub/tokyopal...
Back to 1925--Japan's xenophobic party steps forward to take Japan backwards
The scary thing about Sanseito's surge in the Upper House elections isn't the mealy-mouthed racism–it's the barely concealed desire to turn Japan back to 1925 and institute totalitarian government.
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:32 PM
It’s 2025. The Japanese government, the ruling party and Sanseito want to take Japan back to 1925.
And the foreigners living here and the muggles—we are just collateral damage. #JapaneseFirst
open.substack.com/pub/tokyopal...
And the foreigners living here and the muggles—we are just collateral damage. #JapaneseFirst
open.substack.com/pub/tokyopal...
Confucius say...
"Hey, look America, I just pulled 'Many legal scholars' out of my butt."
November 23, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Confucius say...
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If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
November 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
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the last 24 hours on X, summed up:
November 23, 2025 at 2:26 PM
the last 24 hours on X, summed up:
Just had a kind of self-conscious moment about some sort of internalized sexism. The internet isn't real life, but it just occurred to me that I don't accept DMs or friend requests from hardly any women unless I know them or we have some professional relationship. I just assume they are a fake/scam.
November 23, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Just had a kind of self-conscious moment about some sort of internalized sexism. The internet isn't real life, but it just occurred to me that I don't accept DMs or friend requests from hardly any women unless I know them or we have some professional relationship. I just assume they are a fake/scam.
Cuckery
All this shows is that the US has no idea what it’s doing and it’s being played by Moscow. Complete humiliation.
#BBCNews - Trump says US plan to end Ukraine war not 'final offer' for Kyiv
www.bbc.com/news/article...
#UkraineWar
www.bbc.com/news/article...
#UkraineWar
November 23, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Cuckery
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Republican Senator Mike Rounds said Secretary of State Marco Rubio, in a call to senators, confirmed the so-called 28-point “peace plan” was actually a Russian wishlist and is “not the administration’s position”. Nor is there any threat to cut off weapons or intelligence to Ukraine.
November 22, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Republican Senator Mike Rounds said Secretary of State Marco Rubio, in a call to senators, confirmed the so-called 28-point “peace plan” was actually a Russian wishlist and is “not the administration’s position”. Nor is there any threat to cut off weapons or intelligence to Ukraine.
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Grand opening, grand closing.
X quietly disabled a new feature that showed which country an account was posting from when it revealed that lots of popular right wing MAGA accounts were being run from foreign countries like India and Nigeria.
X quietly disabled a new feature that showed which country an account was posting from when it revealed that lots of popular right wing MAGA accounts were being run from foreign countries like India and Nigeria.
November 22, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Grand opening, grand closing.
X quietly disabled a new feature that showed which country an account was posting from when it revealed that lots of popular right wing MAGA accounts were being run from foreign countries like India and Nigeria.
X quietly disabled a new feature that showed which country an account was posting from when it revealed that lots of popular right wing MAGA accounts were being run from foreign countries like India and Nigeria.
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@washingtonpost.com team on Israeli settler marauders now loose in the West Bank: www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
Israeli figures warn state has ‘lost control’ as West Bank settlers attack
A former general and an Israeli opposition leader both blamed the government for helping foster what they described as “Jewish terrorism.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:28 PM
@washingtonpost.com team on Israeli settler marauders now loose in the West Bank: www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
Not even remotely surprised.
elon installs a new feature that publicly displays the country where your app was installed and operates from
people find out the most racist pro-US accounts are based in israel, india, bangladesh, etc
US DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY TWITTER BASED IN ISRAEL
elon pauses location feature
people find out the most racist pro-US accounts are based in israel, india, bangladesh, etc
US DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY TWITTER BASED IN ISRAEL
elon pauses location feature
November 22, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Not even remotely surprised.
Agree, not playing fucking games with grumpy CSMs down at Bragg. Interestingly though, no one even approached me about taking down our @theteamhouse.bsky.social interviews with former Delta operators. Guess they knew what my answer would be.
youtu.be/llcomlQPCmM?...
youtu.be/llcomlQPCmM?...
Shawn Ryan BREAKS SILENCE on Delta Force’s ILLEGAL Veteran Intimidation
YouTube video by Green Beret Chronicles
youtu.be
November 22, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Agree, not playing fucking games with grumpy CSMs down at Bragg. Interestingly though, no one even approached me about taking down our @theteamhouse.bsky.social interviews with former Delta operators. Guess they knew what my answer would be.
youtu.be/llcomlQPCmM?...
youtu.be/llcomlQPCmM?...
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Some of you are being so hard on journalists today. Surely everyone deserves a seventeenth chance.
November 22, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Some of you are being so hard on journalists today. Surely everyone deserves a seventeenth chance.
These inbred elites treat our country like a combination of a bordello and a casino, speaking gibberish, promising bullshit, and lining their pockets. You have to have a room temperature IQ to believe this kind of shit.
fortune.com/2025/11/20/e...
fortune.com/2025/11/20/e...
Elon Musk says that in 10 to 20 years, work will be optional and money will be irrelevant thanks to AI and robotics | Fortune
“It’ll be like playing sports or a video game or something like that,” the Tesla CEO said.
fortune.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:12 PM
These inbred elites treat our country like a combination of a bordello and a casino, speaking gibberish, promising bullshit, and lining their pockets. You have to have a room temperature IQ to believe this kind of shit.
fortune.com/2025/11/20/e...
fortune.com/2025/11/20/e...
I'm not declaring a war on Christmas, I just want it contained within the month to which it belongs.
November 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I'm not declaring a war on Christmas, I just want it contained within the month to which it belongs.
Rah roh. Someone feels "unsafe."
Israeli press is irate that Trump didn't push back on Mamdani saying the US funds genocide against Palestinians
November 21, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Rah roh. Someone feels "unsafe."
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Reporter: Are you affirming that you think the president is a fascist?
Mamdani: I've spoken about --
Trump: Just say yes, it's easier than explaining.
Mamdani: I've spoken about --
Trump: Just say yes, it's easier than explaining.
November 21, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Reporter: Are you affirming that you think the president is a fascist?
Mamdani: I've spoken about --
Trump: Just say yes, it's easier than explaining.
Mamdani: I've spoken about --
Trump: Just say yes, it's easier than explaining.
Why is our POTUS flirting with Islamic sharia law soviet administrative communism?
November 21, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Why is our POTUS flirting with Islamic sharia law soviet administrative communism?