uticaeric.bsky.social
Lawyer and advisor on industry, investment, and war.
Formerly OSC, JSOC, NCTC, and 101st Airborne. Hoya, Eli, Orange. New Yorker.
“A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world”
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Moderate position, actually
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Who wouldn’t???
“TS//SCI/SAP: Hamid Karzai likes it when we order him Papa John’s”
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"Smithereens" was his safeword when he was married to a prominent military spouse advocate but he traded Codeword information for sex with a woman 25 years younger than him
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When you need more cliché per minute than a TED Talk…
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Will Stancil wants him challenging ICE detentions of people in immigration processing and that's probably the most effective act he could do
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the NY Democratic Party needs a fumigation
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Chairman, Caine is out of gas already
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"How can we disrupt this?"
"I think we need to scale sand?"
"What about a shovel hackathon?"
"I think I can pull some people together for a call to discuss?"
"I'll be CTO, I think I'm ready"
"Anyone contacted TechCrunch, we need PR right away?"
"Can corporate pay for lunch?"
<Everyone drowns>
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Ok, I'm with Bezos, these clowns have to go back to the office
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What about my online presence indicates
“I have $10,000 or $25,000 just sitting around to round out random people’s AngelList SPVs?”
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Run the gas station like a 19th century whaling vessel
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It’s the famous “it’s defense tech, y’all” exclusion to organizational conflicts of interest
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“I make $770,000 a year as a Collaborative Innovator for the Alexander Hamilton Society, I am also a Major General in the Mississippi State Guard, can you make a Panera run for me?”
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I’m going to tell Elissa Slotkin’s favorite briefcase carrier that these issues are actually woke
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Do you want to serve in the government?
Great! Love it.
Believe it or not, there's a way to do it where you don't have to look ridiculous:
www.usajobs.gov
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AI religious orders are going to be fascinating
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I played a ton of EU1 as a college freshman, then some EU3, and then like 15 years later picked up HOI4 and Stellaris, so some of the maturity is lost on me.
You're right that the "conquer or be conquered" mechanic is overwhelming.
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Now this is worth exploration
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I'm not saying it's a bad take just an obvious one
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I’d use the detox time to watch some Khan Academy and I’d be ready to sprint
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*Hellary Clinton and *Demonrat Party
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*guided by
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it's absolutely a landmark moment. it started by using "bluecheck" as an attack on journalists and academics as elites (which a lot of pick-me journalists participated in), then a billionaire bought that status for his ideological allies, wrecking a relatively useful system. it's a rich metaphor