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Materials science & nukes. Deterrence & what comes after.
Patriot, liberal firebrand, Catholic, last of the China hawks, Nitzean superman. Victory is possible.
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Patriot, liberal firebrand, Catholic, last of the China hawks, Nitzean superman. Victory is possible.
Opinions my own.
Rekindling hearts in a world that grows chill.
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Miller obviously fantasizes about himself as Goebbels, clearly practices speeches in the mirror where he gets to order the end of democracy and the roundup of minorities. He’s a warped bigot who is totally unfit to exist in society, much less run the government. Get rid of him, end the crisis.
November 28, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Miller obviously fantasizes about himself as Goebbels, clearly practices speeches in the mirror where he gets to order the end of democracy and the roundup of minorities. He’s a warped bigot who is totally unfit to exist in society, much less run the government. Get rid of him, end the crisis.
So much for the last rearguard defense of Ratcliffe as one of the adults in the room here, too.
November 27, 2025 at 4:13 PM
So much for the last rearguard defense of Ratcliffe as one of the adults in the room here, too.
Listing a TOPOLOGY class as "fluff" is a really good sign that nobody involved in this article got past - generously - a high school AP calculus class.
November 27, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Listing a TOPOLOGY class as "fluff" is a really good sign that nobody involved in this article got past - generously - a high school AP calculus class.
*Not endorsing any particular claim in here but Sig was lab director when the modern test moratorium was established and is worth listening to just on that basis.
November 27, 2025 at 2:42 PM
*Not endorsing any particular claim in here but Sig was lab director when the modern test moratorium was established and is worth listening to just on that basis.
Hell, given his background and the role WV ARNG played in the 2021 withdrawal, you can't even discount the possibility that this is a personal grudge of some kind. There's just no evidence yet.
November 27, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Hell, given his background and the role WV ARNG played in the 2021 withdrawal, you can't even discount the possibility that this is a personal grudge of some kind. There's just no evidence yet.
Do you think he finally, you know
Killed someone himself?
Killed someone himself?
November 26, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Do you think he finally, you know
Killed someone himself?
Killed someone himself?
CPS seems to be going well.
November 26, 2025 at 12:44 AM
CPS seems to be going well.
Bill we always knew you were a secret Communist.
November 26, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Bill we always knew you were a secret Communist.
Indeed. I'm curious what he thinks a more fruitful use of scientist effort would have been - altho from my own biases the BAS position is already very independent of what the people I'd consider "R&D elites" advocate. The whole thing seems ill posed, snark aside.
November 26, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Indeed. I'm curious what he thinks a more fruitful use of scientist effort would have been - altho from my own biases the BAS position is already very independent of what the people I'd consider "R&D elites" advocate. The whole thing seems ill posed, snark aside.
To be fair I work day to day with a lot of people who know that deterrence is something written on the signs on our walls and that's pretty much it. Hell, I have a close colleague who literally doesn't know what warheads are currently in the arsenal.
November 25, 2025 at 11:54 PM
To be fair I work day to day with a lot of people who know that deterrence is something written on the signs on our walls and that's pretty much it. Hell, I have a close colleague who literally doesn't know what warheads are currently in the arsenal.
like MacArthur returning to the Philippines (God I hope he sees this he'll be so mad)
November 25, 2025 at 11:49 PM
like MacArthur returning to the Philippines (God I hope he sees this he'll be so mad)
Any publicity is good publicity I guess. I do agree that the interview itself is structured badly and possibly the editing screws him a bit
November 25, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Any publicity is good publicity I guess. I do agree that the interview itself is structured badly and possibly the editing screws him a bit
Concise, really: I think she went in with a conclusion in mind already, picked evidence and anecdotes to support, and managed to ignore the other women in the room (who were already there at time of writing, mind you, although not as much so as now) at every turn.
November 25, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Concise, really: I think she went in with a conclusion in mind already, picked evidence and anecdotes to support, and managed to ignore the other women in the room (who were already there at time of writing, mind you, although not as much so as now) at every turn.
I sense really the opposite in Wilson's interview - a view of scientists as people whose sense of both "can" and "should" is subordinated to these shadowy social forces they don't understand.
November 25, 2025 at 11:34 PM
I sense really the opposite in Wilson's interview - a view of scientists as people whose sense of both "can" and "should" is subordinated to these shadowy social forces they don't understand.
I find MacKenzie's argument pretty compelling yeah. Masterful, even. But I think a large part of why it sticks for me is that it grasps something I think is true for a lot of scientists, you see this in the BMD debate also: we are very quick to incorporate a change in "can" to our sense of "should".
November 25, 2025 at 11:32 PM
I find MacKenzie's argument pretty compelling yeah. Masterful, even. But I think a large part of why it sticks for me is that it grasps something I think is true for a lot of scientists, you see this in the BMD debate also: we are very quick to incorporate a change in "can" to our sense of "should".
Often not! But I took his argument as being specifically about those of us who do engage on policy. Who in my experience do understand their own motives for taking the policy positions they espouse, at least as well as any human does.
November 25, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Often not! But I took his argument as being specifically about those of us who do engage on policy. Who in my experience do understand their own motives for taking the policy positions they espouse, at least as well as any human does.
Right, I'm not about to deny that aspect, but I find the angle that "we" didn't know our own motives (and need them explained after the fact by this Harvard guy) just not tenable. The book may be different but the interview does not sell me on giving him money for it.
November 25, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Right, I'm not about to deny that aspect, but I find the angle that "we" didn't know our own motives (and need them explained after the fact by this Harvard guy) just not tenable. The book may be different but the interview does not sell me on giving him money for it.
Seriously though, this is asshole "analysis" and speaks poorly of the selection criteria for TT faculty at Harvard.
November 25, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Seriously though, this is asshole "analysis" and speaks poorly of the selection criteria for TT faculty at Harvard.
I'm not just being snarky - I had a somewhat similar reaction reading Gusterson's Nuclear Rites, which is often considered pretty good anthropology of a modern social group. I feel very strange having analysis done upon one of my kinship groups by some outsider.
November 25, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I'm not just being snarky - I had a somewhat similar reaction reading Gusterson's Nuclear Rites, which is often considered pretty good anthropology of a modern social group. I feel very strange having analysis done upon one of my kinship groups by some outsider.
tbf she probably DOES think her MSS handler is her friend.
November 25, 2025 at 10:30 PM
tbf she probably DOES think her MSS handler is her friend.