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jgaertnerr.bsky.social
USAF. Interested in International Relations- can’t decide where. Probably Africa; maybe China. New forms of community too. Views are my own
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Is Dart an ok language to learn, or should I go with something with more utility? I’m just learning to learn; current proj is a simple identification flowchart/info repository related to my work, and ChatGPT gave me some lines of code in that language

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

RAFFLE 🏆 Like, reskeet, and follow by Feb 25 (midnight EST) and you can win a signed copy of my Littoral Commander #wargame. May the odds be ever in your favor. 😉🎲 #wargaming

submitted 23 hours ago • 15 comments

dancaine.net/reading-list/ fr though this is a weird blog, active until ‘23, that has all the personality and spelling errors of a Sims character.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

New Research Alert! @prripoll.bsky.social has new analysis from our Post-Election Survey on which groups turned out to vote--and which stayed home. www.prri.org/spotlight/br...

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

An incredibly convenient thing to discover; I’m convinced

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Can’t access careers.state.gov I’m not applying for the FSOT, maybe in a few years, but I can’t imagine this makes it any easier for young folks to learn about public service at DoS.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

so, the aviation industry has run into this exact issue. cockpit automation makes a lot of things safer but it has also been found to reduce new pilots' ability to hand-fly, especially in emergencies. www.404media.co/microsoft-st...

submitted 12 days ago • 6 comments

The legal departments of the Big 5 defense contractors should all be talking right now and getting ready to jointly sue the absolute crap out of the admin, SpaceX, and Elon Musk. If they’re not, it’s negligence.

submitted 14 days ago • 9 comments

“An army is a miniature of the society which produces it.” 🫤

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Talkspace’s exploitation of teens’ mental health data is appalling. But so on brand for these companies. Most are not remotely covered by hipaa. If you trust anything about them - trust that they will share user data.

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

this is exactly what i’m getting at when i see these people have no understanding of civil society. they do not seem to conceptualize other people as having agency whatsoever.

submitted 18 days ago • 129 comments

1/ Musk seeking control over nerve systems of the federal government. As someone who spent a decade studying how centralized information systems are used for coercion this is a five alarm fire. We need to name it, identify risks, and seek to mitigate their impacts. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...

submitted 20 days ago • 107 comments

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

submitted 22 days ago • 503 comments

The replies to this (and the DeepSeek/RedNote convo at large) are alarmingly cynical and reminiscent of the language used by Putin and Xi regularly to denigrate democracies. No nuance, just vibes. To the dictators delight.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Donald Trump started his second term at a very different speed to his first. Dozens of executive orders were signed in front of an indulgent crowd. These pulled the US from reducing its impact on the climate crisis, away from global institutions and instead focused the country on its own backyard.

submitted 25 days ago • 4 comments

Great ep with @zackcooper.bsky.social & co- they somewhat touch on but don’t directly address that Trumps focus on the hemisphere is in line with and perhaps an acceptance of Xi Jinping’s preferred “spheres of influence” model of global governance. 1/

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

15% across the board cuts to civ personnel would decimate homestation missions.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

I don’t think people appreciate just how much US hegemony rests on a foundation of “people like you when you do nice things for them” and just how much latitude that allows US policymakers.

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

It's not just the shadow fleet and suspicious cable cuts: the global maritime order is under assault in myriad ways. @atlanticcouncil.bsky.social's new report about it is now out atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-res... (written by yours truly).

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments