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Event: "Does Europe need an alternative to the US nuclear umbrella?" 0900-1015, 18 June, Sentralen, Oslo. I am looking forward to discussing this question with @pranayrvaddi.bsky.social, Kristin Ven Bruusgaard, and organizer Henrik Hiim (IFS). Please find more information and registration below:

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From @clary_co: India-Pakistan “crisis underscores that South Asia is one of the most likely theaters for nuclear war, even if that prospect was not imminent in this instance…. overt nuclear signaling was lower than in many prior India-Pakistan crises.” www.stimson.org/2025/four-da...

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What is rotational impact? When do you have to replace your helmet? Here’s what to look for when shopping for a bike helmet. www.wired.com/story/how-to...

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When the boys are fighting, you know where to find me 👇

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

Check out Bulletpicker - an online database with technical manuals, schematics, and detailed guidebooks of ordnance and explosive items from various armed forces around the world. More in @bellingcat.com's Online Investigation Toolkit by @afko.bsky.social: bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit/more...

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Just going to point out that in just the last month we’ve seen the most intense, multi-modal warfare between two nuclear-armed states ever (India & Pakistan) and now possibly the largest-ever attack on nuclear-capable assets in a nuclear state (UA vs Ru, today). The times they are a-changin’.

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

45 years ago this morning at 2:26 A.M. EDT, warning displays at the Strategic Air Command suddenly indicated a Soviet SLBM attack on the United States was underway, first showing 2 and then, 18 seconds later, 200 inbound ballistic missiles. SAC ordered all alert bomber crews to start their engines.

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

Can robot clones get prostate cancer? We asked a collection of incels in an 8chan comment thread.

submitted 9 days ago • 20 comments

📢Is this thing on? 🎤🎙️ We’re back online! www.usip.org

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

🧵 I've been exploring more ideas around disordered discourse, one of them is how communities use doubt as a weapon to deny anything that threatens their group-think. It’s not about serious inquiry. This isn’t healthy scepticism. It’s about reaffirming identity and loyalty.

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

DIA’s Annual Threat Assessment: armedservices.house.gov/uploadedfile...

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

After Luigi Mangione allegedly killed United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson with a partially 3D-printed "ghost gun," I wanted to know how far these DIY firearms have come. So I 3D-printed and assembled the same exact model of gun—and test-fired it. Our story and video: www.wired.com/story/luigi-...

submitted 22 days ago • 31 comments

How many nuclear weapons does Russia have today? What's the current status of their multi-decade-long modernization program? Read the latest Nuclear Notebook from @nukestrat.bsky.social, @mattkorda.bsky.social, @elianajjohns.bsky.social, and @mknight.bsky.social of @scientistsorg.bsky.social. ⬇️

submitted 24 days ago • 3 comments

if anyone leaves a “coal bad tho” reply on my new story about the coal miner with black lung who just took on the federal govt and won, I will eat your fuckin head

submitted 26 days ago • 15 comments

"The appointments of Blanche, Perkins, and Nieves are the result of furious lobbying over the weekend by the conservative content industry — as jealously protective of its copyrighted works as any other media companies — as well as populist Republican lawmakers and lawyers..."

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

you could solve a lot of problems just by doubling the number of places at medical schools, breaking the cartel of artificial scarcity that has left the US with one of the worst doctor-patient ratios in the developed world

submitted 29 days ago • 27 comments

🇮🇳🇵🇰L’Inde a accusé le Pakistan de violation de cessez-le-feu conclu plus tôt samedi après quatre jours de confrontation militaire entre les deux pays à leur frontière, selon une une source gouvernementale indienne à l'AFP #AFP ⬇️

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

New from Bellingcat - How deepfake videos are getting mainstream coverage in the conflict between India and Pakistan www.bellingcat.com/news/rest-of...

submitted 32 days ago • 8 comments

1. President Trump has fired the Librarian of Congress, Dr. Carla Hayden. The position of Librarian of Congress is so apolitical that only 14 people have held the role since 1802. Hayden, who was the first woman and Black American to serve as Librarian of Congress, has held the position since 2016

submitted 33 days ago • 44 comments

Would love to be wrong, but really getting a sense that mainstream Western media does not appreciate just how bad this India-Pakistan crisis has gotten.

submitted 33 days ago • 23 comments

🧵Geolocations of ALL sites that the Indian Army has claimed to have hit in Pakistan and Kashmir. 1. Masjid Syedna Bilal/Hazrat Bilal 34.385846°N 73.456974°E It appears to have been a direct hit, according to after-strike ground photos. google.com/maps/place/3...

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

We now have: - NYT citing an Indian official on three downed planes - Reuters citing local gov't sources on three crashed jets, pilots in hospital - The Hindu citing an Indian gov't official saying at least three crashed jets These would represent heavy losses for the Indian air force.

submitted 34 days ago • 10 comments

How we "shuffled" songs back in the day... Right?

submitted 34 days ago • 15 comments

"The complete picture that emerges is one of systematic deception orchestrated at the highest levels of the Syrian government, with direct oversight from the Presidential Palace." www.meforum.org/mef-reports/...

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

For the risk of escalation in the India-Pakistan crisis, see: thebulletin.org/2025/05/indi...

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

New article below with my former colleague Ola Craft, taking a look at Pres. Biden's MTCR reforms, Pres. Trump's new E.O. on streamlining defense trade, and how adjusting missile controls can help with extended deterrence and nonproliferation (and space cooperation). Thank you @poni.csis.org !

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

“Sorry I said all those slurs in response to someone making fun of my car, in my defense I was drunk driving” is a @dril.bsky.social post come to life

submitted 37 days ago • 8 comments

the only realistic way to run Journalism in the Kentucky Derby would have been for the owner to break two of its legs, scream at it to run faster, and act absolutely baffled when it couldn’t even get up

submitted 38 days ago • 3 comments