Trent Hone
@honer.bsky.social
MCUF Chair of Strategic Studies at MCU and Management Consultant. Author of Learning War, Battle Line, & Mastering the Art of Command. Opinions my own.
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flat out lies. these tech ceos take regulators and the masses for fools
![“If you want to know how a model will behave, the only way of doing it is to run it,” Mensch also suggested. “You do need to have some empirical testing, what’s happening. Knowing the input data that has been used for training is not going to tell you whether your model is going to behave well in [a healthcare use-case], for instance. You don’t really care about what’s in the training data. You do care about the empirical behaviour of the model. So you don’t need knowledge of the training data. And if you had knowledge of the training data, it wouldn’t even teach you whether the model is going to behave well or not. So this is why I’m saying it’s neither necessary nor sufficient.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:26hkfmtr7jrchexamh7hk6rz/bafkreibp7oaeovg7xt43dlk3qtmkft6irldgf44tz75sbaiqvoqdq4kpjy@jpeg)
November 12, 2025 at 10:38 AM
flat out lies. these tech ceos take regulators and the masses for fools
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November 10, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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100% this.
If you can't find joy in the act of writing, and feel euphoria after editing several drafts into exactly what your thoughts had in mind (or close to it), then I really suggest you don't become a writer.
The idea, the thoughts, are nothing without execution. The work is the thing.
If you can't find joy in the act of writing, and feel euphoria after editing several drafts into exactly what your thoughts had in mind (or close to it), then I really suggest you don't become a writer.
The idea, the thoughts, are nothing without execution. The work is the thing.
Sometimes I wonder if our many years of jokes about writers hating writing and doing anything but writing, etc, have convinced people that the writing part is the hurdle and the goal is just to have a thing in hand. But I am here to tell you: the writing is the best part. The act is the thing.
November 9, 2025 at 8:10 PM
100% this.
If you can't find joy in the act of writing, and feel euphoria after editing several drafts into exactly what your thoughts had in mind (or close to it), then I really suggest you don't become a writer.
The idea, the thoughts, are nothing without execution. The work is the thing.
If you can't find joy in the act of writing, and feel euphoria after editing several drafts into exactly what your thoughts had in mind (or close to it), then I really suggest you don't become a writer.
The idea, the thoughts, are nothing without execution. The work is the thing.
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Ok here's the thing about the carrier debate. Both sides are right and both sides are wrong (thread).
Ya’ll are going to make write a thread on carriers on a day off in my birthday weekend huh?
a horse in a field with the words y'all gon make me lose my mind
ALT: a horse in a field with the words y'all gon make me lose my mind
media.tenor.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Ok here's the thing about the carrier debate. Both sides are right and both sides are wrong (thread).
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We already do, they’re called books 📚
You know how the existence of cars and power tools makes it necessary to have “exercise” and “manual crafts” as a deliberately chosen part of a balanced life?
We’re probably going to need something like that cognitively, for adults.
We’re probably going to need something like that cognitively, for adults.
November 6, 2025 at 11:31 PM
We already do, they’re called books 📚
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🚨 Delighted to share that I have signed with Bloomsbury to write my first book: a study of Australia's involvement and strategic interests in the Middle East and Mediterranean in WW2.
November 5, 2025 at 7:43 PM
🚨 Delighted to share that I have signed with Bloomsbury to write my first book: a study of Australia's involvement and strategic interests in the Middle East and Mediterranean in WW2.
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Want to read what I really think about the Trump administration and the Asia Pacific? Here you go. It’s a goddamn catastrophe for U.S. national interests and for the regional economic and diplomatic order.
A United States that is disintegrating and no longer a leader in Asia
As Trump 2.0 hollows out US state capacity, the Asia Pacific must prepare for a world without US leadership
eastasiaforum.org
November 2, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Want to read what I really think about the Trump administration and the Asia Pacific? Here you go. It’s a goddamn catastrophe for U.S. national interests and for the regional economic and diplomatic order.
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My running list of fellowships and other opportunities has been updated, including a veteran fellowship recently highlighted by Jason Galui - the Stand-To Veteran Leadership Program at the Bush Presidential Center.
nathankfinney.com/fellowships-...
nathankfinney.com/fellowships-...
Fellowships and Seminars
nathankfinney.com
November 1, 2025 at 6:55 PM
My running list of fellowships and other opportunities has been updated, including a veteran fellowship recently highlighted by Jason Galui - the Stand-To Veteran Leadership Program at the Bush Presidential Center.
nathankfinney.com/fellowships-...
nathankfinney.com/fellowships-...
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Bask in the unfeasible glory that is Aotearoa New Zealand's only locally designed and built Tank.
November 1, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Bask in the unfeasible glory that is Aotearoa New Zealand's only locally designed and built Tank.
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"military officials may be getting directed to execute potentially illegal actions. Given this, how can we not hear from a top official who may have already concluded they’re being asked to carry out the unacceptable?"
Awful: Pentagon officials told lawmakers Trump now claims authority to bomb people merely “affiliated” with “narco-terrorist" groups, Rep Adam Smith tells me. But under questioning, they wouldn't say what “affiliated” even means!
Lots of fresh info in my new piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2025...
Lots of fresh info in my new piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2025...
November 1, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Rendezvous on the Beach, by Edvard Munch, 1896
November 1, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Rendezvous on the Beach, by Edvard Munch, 1896
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IJN Battleship Nagato
Date: October 27, 1920
Location: Off the coast of Sukumo
Photo: Kure Arsenal Shipbuilding Department
Situation: Public exam in progress
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Date: October 27, 1920
Location: Off the coast of Sukumo
Photo: Kure Arsenal Shipbuilding Department
Situation: Public exam in progress
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October 27, 2025 at 3:02 AM
IJN Battleship Nagato
Date: October 27, 1920
Location: Off the coast of Sukumo
Photo: Kure Arsenal Shipbuilding Department
Situation: Public exam in progress
static.ow.ly/photos/origi...
static.ow.ly/photos/origi...
Date: October 27, 1920
Location: Off the coast of Sukumo
Photo: Kure Arsenal Shipbuilding Department
Situation: Public exam in progress
static.ow.ly/photos/origi...
static.ow.ly/photos/origi...
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Did you know that the North American Society for Oceanic History has book awards for maritime & naval history & archaeology? If your book on a topic in those categories has a 2025 original copyright, you’re probably eligible for consideration for this year. Give me a shout if you want to know more!
October 25, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Did you know that the North American Society for Oceanic History has book awards for maritime & naval history & archaeology? If your book on a topic in those categories has a 2025 original copyright, you’re probably eligible for consideration for this year. Give me a shout if you want to know more!
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🚨 @smh-historians.bsky.social: Anyone interested in chairing and/or commenting on a SMH panel about place and memory in the Navy? 🚨
Papers are (1) atolls and lagoons, (2) sailors relationship with their ships, and (3) tattoos.
Papers are (1) atolls and lagoons, (2) sailors relationship with their ships, and (3) tattoos.
October 24, 2025 at 11:39 AM
🚨 @smh-historians.bsky.social: Anyone interested in chairing and/or commenting on a SMH panel about place and memory in the Navy? 🚨
Papers are (1) atolls and lagoons, (2) sailors relationship with their ships, and (3) tattoos.
Papers are (1) atolls and lagoons, (2) sailors relationship with their ships, and (3) tattoos.
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@honer.bsky.social book Learning Navy (?) Is great.
Tactics should not be divorced from intellect. The mil adaptation literature shows the role that org culture plays in identifying + solving tactical problems in combat. Only way force can adapt at scale is when senior leaders incentivize, encourage it; and use their positions to drive change.
The Army is a tactical force and does not think strategically. In fact, it seems to eschew strategic thinking culturally. Became acquainted with a major once when I gave a paper at USAWC once who was a strategist, and it was quite clear his career was not going anywhere. PhD historian.
October 23, 2025 at 12:29 PM
@honer.bsky.social book Learning Navy (?) Is great.
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Since military tattoo discourse has become a thing, it's always good to go to the source.
BLUF: Marines don't get Nazi tattoos. If they do, they become - dare I say it - ex-Marines: www.marines.mil/portals/1/Do...
BLUF: Marines don't get Nazi tattoos. If they do, they become - dare I say it - ex-Marines: www.marines.mil/portals/1/Do...
October 21, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Since military tattoo discourse has become a thing, it's always good to go to the source.
BLUF: Marines don't get Nazi tattoos. If they do, they become - dare I say it - ex-Marines: www.marines.mil/portals/1/Do...
BLUF: Marines don't get Nazi tattoos. If they do, they become - dare I say it - ex-Marines: www.marines.mil/portals/1/Do...
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Hi, speaking as a USian who did a PhD at a Swiss university: Fellow USians interested in a #polisky doctorate should LEAP at this. Leap, leap, leap.
🚨📢 Reupping this polisky PhD opportunity at @unil.bsky.social, Switzerland — there’s still time to apply until 25 October!
🚨📢 I am hiring a PhD candidate /research assistant in Swiss Politics and/or Comparative Politics (100%)!
🚨📢 Je recrute un·e assistant·e diplômé·e en science politique en politique suisse et comparée!
Please join me @unil.bsky.social, Switzerland!
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🚨📢 Je recrute un·e assistant·e diplômé·e en science politique en politique suisse et comparée!
Please join me @unil.bsky.social, Switzerland!
Thanks for sharing! polisky @sspunil.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Hi, speaking as a USian who did a PhD at a Swiss university: Fellow USians interested in a #polisky doctorate should LEAP at this. Leap, leap, leap.
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“the constitution forbids race conscious remedies” would be news to the people who wrote the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments
Griem goes there, arguing in response to Justice Jackson that there can be no race-conscious remedy absent a finding of intentional discrimination.
October 15, 2025 at 3:47 PM
“the constitution forbids race conscious remedies” would be news to the people who wrote the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments
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Orchestrating Power: The American Associational State in the First World War” has an official publication date of December 15, 2025!
Please pre-order a copy (40% discount: 09FORTY) & consider asking your local or university library to order a copy!
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
Please pre-order a copy (40% discount: 09FORTY) & consider asking your local or university library to order a copy!
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
Orchestrating Power by Nathan K. Finney | Hardcover | Cornell University Press
Orchestrating Power explores how the expansion of the American state for the First World War reshaped the nature of governance. This wartime state expansion is examined through the creation, structure...
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu
October 5, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Orchestrating Power: The American Associational State in the First World War” has an official publication date of December 15, 2025!
Please pre-order a copy (40% discount: 09FORTY) & consider asking your local or university library to order a copy!
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
Please pre-order a copy (40% discount: 09FORTY) & consider asking your local or university library to order a copy!
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
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One of the things that doesn't come out in the soundbites but does in the full speech is Hegseth's repeated, explicit emphasis on viewing problems from the perspective of an E-6 or O-3, wholly unaware (as a bad O-4) that the job of the 0-7s to O-10s in front of him is quite different.
One of the challenges in trying to write something about Hegseth's speech at The Quantico Disgrace is you have to listen to the whole speech but it is very difficult to listen so much and not have the style of speech bleed into your writing and you *really* don't want to write like Hegseth talks.
October 5, 2025 at 5:04 PM
One of the things that doesn't come out in the soundbites but does in the full speech is Hegseth's repeated, explicit emphasis on viewing problems from the perspective of an E-6 or O-3, wholly unaware (as a bad O-4) that the job of the 0-7s to O-10s in front of him is quite different.
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as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious"
I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge.
We know exactly how LLMs work.
I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge.
We know exactly how LLMs work.
October 4, 2025 at 10:23 PM
as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious"
I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge.
We know exactly how LLMs work.
I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge.
We know exactly how LLMs work.
This was a great listen. I really appreciate the perspective @sifill.bsky.social brought.
LISTEN: So appreciate @leahlitman.bsky.social, @profmmurray.bsky.social, & @kateshaw.bsky.social for allowing NYT columnist @jamellebouie.net & I to join them in a deep dive about the ongoing attempt to derail the promise of the 14th Amendment. Begins at min 57:00. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
The Trump Administration's SCOTUS Winning Streak
Podcast Episode · Strict Scrutiny · 09/29/2025 · 1h 59m
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October 4, 2025 at 8:21 PM
This was a great listen. I really appreciate the perspective @sifill.bsky.social brought.
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Open til 8pm. Furloughed folks get 10% off.
October 4, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Open til 8pm. Furloughed folks get 10% off.