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Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

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I’m not really a huge football guy, but I really enjoyed this book. There are so many cultural parallels between the Army and the football world and how they both stifle innovation.

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So if reporting on the Battle Damage Assessment (BDA) of the Iran strikes is insulting to the "troops" who do these clowns think collect and analyze the BDA in the first place? Leprechauns? BDA fairies?

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Move over Manhattan Project.

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My new commute is longer so looking for some fiction audiobook recommendations. I will also accept history like “Empire of the Summer Moon”.

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You know who knows exactly how well the MOP GBU-57 performed? The Iranians. You know who else will walk the ground and know how well the GBU-57 performed? The Russians and the Chinese.

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@jd-vance-1.bsky.social as I was saying earlier about BDA. To be fair it’s a tricky art that they probably didn’t cover in PAO school.

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“The Peacemaker”, keep Clooney.

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As far as I know, the MOP production line no longer exists so even money we're right back where we started in a year or so.

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So is Qatar a “real deployment” now?

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Called it.

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Evergreen: today, Iran remains as close as it has ever been to a nuclear weapon.

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Is there a “Littoral Commander: Straights of Hormuz”? Seems relevant.

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My kingdom for a political official who understands the difference between the Uranium and Plutonium pathways in nuclear weapons production and the weaponization implications of both.

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I was a nuclear and WMD counter proliferation officer assigned to CENTCOM from 2015-2019. At tomorrow’s pentagon press conference, the media better be prepared to ask some tough questions. Here’s one: “what was the designed yield of Iran supposed nuke?”

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I legitimately know some bros whose rationale for not voting for Kamala is that democrats are war mongers and they didn’t want a draft.

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So when is some schlubby MAGA version of Ahmed Chalabi gonna emerge on the Iran crisis scene? If we’re gonna speed run the worst days of the Bush Administration, we need all the right players.

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What's "funny" about SpaceX rockets blowing up in South Texas is that Starbase is only about 35 miles from my childhood home in Harlingen TX, which is by far not the closest populated area. Eventually this shit is going to kill someone.

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@jd-vance-1.bsky.socially hey sport, we both know you’re the creepy E-4 nobody wanted to pull staff duty with. I’m guessing nobody would sign off on your OCS packet either.

Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

I’m not really a huge football guy, but I really enjoyed this book. There are so many cultural parallels between the Army and the football world and how they both stifle innovation.

So if reporting on the Battle Damage Assessment (BDA) of the Iran strikes is insulting to the "troops" who do these clowns think collect and analyze the BDA in the first place? Leprechauns? BDA fairies?

Move over Manhattan Project.

My new commute is longer so looking for some fiction audiobook recommendations. I will also accept history like “Empire of the Summer Moon”.

You know who knows exactly how well the MOP GBU-57 performed? The Iranians. You know who else will walk the ground and know how well the GBU-57 performed? The Russians and the Chinese.

@jd-vance-1.bsky.social as I was saying earlier about BDA. To be fair it’s a tricky art that they probably didn’t cover in PAO school.

“The Peacemaker”, keep Clooney.

As far as I know, the MOP production line no longer exists so even money we're right back where we started in a year or so.

So is Qatar a “real deployment” now?

Called it.

Evergreen: today, Iran remains as close as it has ever been to a nuclear weapon.

Is there a “Littoral Commander: Straights of Hormuz”? Seems relevant.

My kingdom for a political official who understands the difference between the Uranium and Plutonium pathways in nuclear weapons production and the weaponization implications of both.

I was a nuclear and WMD counter proliferation officer assigned to CENTCOM from 2015-2019. At tomorrow’s pentagon press conference, the media better be prepared to ask some tough questions. Here’s one: “what was the designed yield of Iran supposed nuke?”

I legitimately know some bros whose rationale for not voting for Kamala is that democrats are war mongers and they didn’t want a draft.

So when is some schlubby MAGA version of Ahmed Chalabi gonna emerge on the Iran crisis scene? If we’re gonna speed run the worst days of the Bush Administration, we need all the right players.

What's "funny" about SpaceX rockets blowing up in South Texas is that Starbase is only about 35 miles from my childhood home in Harlingen TX, which is by far not the closest populated area. Eventually this shit is going to kill someone.

@jd-vance-1.bsky.socially hey sport, we both know you’re the creepy E-4 nobody wanted to pull staff duty with. I’m guessing nobody would sign off on your OCS packet either.

You hate to have “hand it” to Tucker…

Thoughts and prayers.