Several high ranking men debate what to do about an employee who isn't answering his phone.

Your key takeaway from the brilliant Ukraine attack with small drones into Russia shouldn’t be “wow, small drones make it so easy to score huge hits,” it should be “wow, Ukrainians are insanely good at covertly planning and executing extraordinarily difficult missions of which drones are one part”.

Basically that soul-patched freak Palmer Luckey and his pals heard all the late 2000s conspiracy theories about The Military Industrial Complex Creating Unwinnable Forever Wars For Profit and thought "hey now that sounds like a solid business model worth trying actually"

Many are saying

Many people were not prepared for a war to be televised and have the luxury to view it as a football match from their moral high ground when it only exists in their peripheral vision and it shows

These posts are always insanely botted likes, and by people who were always pro Russia but pretend to be impartial.

Had this conversation with a Ukrainian today about it - who was hit by an FPV a few years ago

"what's that? you smoked an (1) joint? seven years ago? sorry, loser, per department policy we actually have to launch you off the property in a trebuchet. pay no attention to the whiskey lunch that the politicals are having in that conference room over there"

It really blows my mind that this guy is still taken seriously in nuclear spaces or assumed to be acting in good faith. His role as a lot of commentators' pet "Good Russian" reflects quite badly on the field as a whole.

The country with the most sophisticated intelligence capabilities in the world, and the president is holding up
"a months-old blog post" from an obscure, conspiracy-mongering site "featuring a photo from the Democratic Republic of Congo" while making allegations against South Africa to its president

So a friend of mine just finished Skunk Works by Ben Rich. He asked me what is "[my] take on Rich’s opinion that the aeronautical industry is being “managed to death” and that less bureaucracy and overreach will [lead to better outcomes]". And since I spent a lot of time on the reply, a 🧵

It's the 1st Anniversary of my short film "We Love Cold War!!"
Please stay tuned for the sequel comic/series in the works, coming out very soon!!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LbT...

On 16th March, 1968 Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson Jnr was flying helicopter recon for a US attack on My Lai, an alleged Viet Cong-controlled village in Vietnam.

But as the attack developed below, Thompson realised he was witnessing something something else:

A massacre.

He decided to act. 1/28

Thompson is, to my mind, one of the finest examples of leadership and courage, military or otherwise, you will find.

It is easy to just "follow orders", pretend you don't see what's happening or that you're just doing what your country needs "for patriotism"

Doing the right thing is a choice 25/28

We're gonna talk about something fun, cool, not political tonight. The stuff I wanted to use this account for and have degrees and papers and a career in.

We're gonna talk about why steel is a wonder material, probably the material of the future, not just the last century.

Yes, there's a graph.

Moments like these are where you can start nailing some tacks and red string to your kremlinology boards

What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.

This is a question I am *extremely* interested in us developing an answer to. Off the cuff (and a couple beers deep...it's a Friday) here are 6 precepts plus 3 wishlist items. Call it "Rules for Liberal Realists". (Title WIP). These are ideas about what we want, and how to get it, broadly defined.

کیر تو کس مادر ایلان ماسک.