The_Turtle_Moves
@theturtlemoves.bsky.social
Recovering quantitative economics practitioner (data scientist). Interested in things. Appreciate of physical objects and light. Failure modes fascinate and horrify.
Occasional woodworking and house projects.
Dog. Cat. Cute
Occasional woodworking and house projects.
Dog. Cat. Cute
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Again, the illegality of firing on shipwrecked mariners is so absurdly well established that it is used in the manual training material as the example of an order *so obviously illegal* that no further information would be required for a servicemember to be obligated to refuse it.
December 7, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Again, the illegality of firing on shipwrecked mariners is so absurdly well established that it is used in the manual training material as the example of an order *so obviously illegal* that no further information would be required for a servicemember to be obligated to refuse it.
Oh look, the pirates know that you're supposed to rescue survivors, not murder them. Hegseth could hold survivors of his illegal strikes for ransom, that's practically due-process-adjacent! And then he'd only be as bad as the Houthis!
search.app/1VEVm
(Yes, this is tongue-in-cheek)
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(Yes, this is tongue-in-cheek)
Houthis release crew of Greek-operated cargo ship struck in Red Sea
The crew of the Greek-operated cargo ship Eternity C, which sank in the Red Sea in July after being attacked by Yemen's Houthis, have been released, an official with the ship's operator and a maritime...
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December 7, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Oh look, the pirates know that you're supposed to rescue survivors, not murder them. Hegseth could hold survivors of his illegal strikes for ransom, that's practically due-process-adjacent! And then he'd only be as bad as the Houthis!
search.app/1VEVm
(Yes, this is tongue-in-cheek)
search.app/1VEVm
(Yes, this is tongue-in-cheek)
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Thing is, Cotton served, so I think he knows this and just doesn't care.
I will say, the fact that these guys aren't combatants already and their boat is just a boat. With no weapons. It becomes tricky to figure out when they're hors de combat when they were never, uh, de combat in the first place.
I will say, the fact that these guys aren't combatants already and their boat is just a boat. With no weapons. It becomes tricky to figure out when they're hors de combat when they were never, uh, de combat in the first place.
December 4, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Thing is, Cotton served, so I think he knows this and just doesn't care.
I will say, the fact that these guys aren't combatants already and their boat is just a boat. With no weapons. It becomes tricky to figure out when they're hors de combat when they were never, uh, de combat in the first place.
I will say, the fact that these guys aren't combatants already and their boat is just a boat. With no weapons. It becomes tricky to figure out when they're hors de combat when they were never, uh, de combat in the first place.
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File under "charts that need no explanatory context to make the story clear" wapo.st/4iC8oCR
December 4, 2025 at 1:23 PM
File under "charts that need no explanatory context to make the story clear" wapo.st/4iC8oCR
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lol yes when you tell Europe to rearm, this is what happens, you absolute muppets
Can’t wait for the hand wringing that happens when they rediscover stupid nationalistic tendencies and get another arms race going followed by a fucking massive war
Which was all preventable
Can’t wait for the hand wringing that happens when they rediscover stupid nationalistic tendencies and get another arms race going followed by a fucking massive war
Which was all preventable
US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau today slammed European NATO allies for prioritizing their own defense industry over American arms suppliers, according to three NATO diplomats.
Top US official berates Europe over cutting American industry out of defense buildup
Washington is unhappy that some European arms programs limit U.S. participation.
www.politico.eu
December 4, 2025 at 3:51 PM
lol yes when you tell Europe to rearm, this is what happens, you absolute muppets
Can’t wait for the hand wringing that happens when they rediscover stupid nationalistic tendencies and get another arms race going followed by a fucking massive war
Which was all preventable
Can’t wait for the hand wringing that happens when they rediscover stupid nationalistic tendencies and get another arms race going followed by a fucking massive war
Which was all preventable
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DOD IG report on Signalgate, which notes that investigators had to rely in part on the transcript that we posted, because messages on Hegseth's cell phone had auto-deleted. media.defense.gov/2025/Dec/04/...
media.defense.gov
December 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
DOD IG report on Signalgate, which notes that investigators had to rely in part on the transcript that we posted, because messages on Hegseth's cell phone had auto-deleted. media.defense.gov/2025/Dec/04/...
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Pls also note that FBI HQ is reportedly demanding that an investigation of the most aggressive and invasive type be opened into members of congress (including senators), less than a month after GOP senators threw a hissy fit over the FBI looking at their phone metadata during the Jan 6 investigation
December 4, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Pls also note that FBI HQ is reportedly demanding that an investigation of the most aggressive and invasive type be opened into members of congress (including senators), less than a month after GOP senators threw a hissy fit over the FBI looking at their phone metadata during the Jan 6 investigation
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I’m just a foreign policy wonk, standing in front of the GOP, asking them to read at least one fucking book about the history of US interventions in Latin America. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
December 3, 2025 at 10:15 PM
I’m just a foreign policy wonk, standing in front of the GOP, asking them to read at least one fucking book about the history of US interventions in Latin America. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
Everybody else: double tapping the survivors is a crime
@lawfaremedia.org: attacking civilian boats at all is a crime
@lawfaremedia.org: attacking civilian boats at all is a crime
The airstrikes conducted by the Trump administration on alleged drug boats boats are likely against international law. Gabor Rona examines how unlawful policies of previous post-9/11 administrations laid the groundwork for the current admin’s legal overreach.
Venezuelan Boat Attacks: Utterly Unprecedented and Patently Predictable
The unlawful policies and practices of the previous post-9/11 administrations laid the foundation for the Trump administration’s current legal overreach.
lawfaremedia.org
December 3, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Everybody else: double tapping the survivors is a crime
@lawfaremedia.org: attacking civilian boats at all is a crime
@lawfaremedia.org: attacking civilian boats at all is a crime
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I believe the adage is that: if a test is open book, the book won't help you; if a test has no time limit, time will not help you; and if a test is take-home then you will forget where you live.
December 2, 2025 at 9:49 PM
I believe the adage is that: if a test is open book, the book won't help you; if a test has no time limit, time will not help you; and if a test is take-home then you will forget where you live.
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Every day I get angrier abt that wretched Harper’s Letter, and the broader feckless, bothsider-poisoned media environment that treated it as legit.
I’m profoundly disappointed in the left-leaning types who gave reputational cover to a nakedly bad-faith doc.
And furious at the on-going silence.
I’m profoundly disappointed in the left-leaning types who gave reputational cover to a nakedly bad-faith doc.
And furious at the on-going silence.
If anyone is curious about the current list of search terms being used by right wing activist organizations to harass university professors, here's a public records request I received today from Mike Howell of the Heritage Foundation. Not intimidating or meant to curtail by my speech at all, right?
December 1, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Every day I get angrier abt that wretched Harper’s Letter, and the broader feckless, bothsider-poisoned media environment that treated it as legit.
I’m profoundly disappointed in the left-leaning types who gave reputational cover to a nakedly bad-faith doc.
And furious at the on-going silence.
I’m profoundly disappointed in the left-leaning types who gave reputational cover to a nakedly bad-faith doc.
And furious at the on-going silence.
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Former US military lawyers speak out:
"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
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"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
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November 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Former US military lawyers speak out:
"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
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"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
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Happy Victory for US Arms and Down With Treasonous Slavers Day!
Uncomfortable with the First Thanksgiving Narrative? Good News, it’s Actually a Civil War Holiday
Take heart, all you who grow unsettled at the time of year where the narrative of friendly Pilgrims and American Indians is spread around to make us feel good about a brief moment in American histo…
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November 27, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Happy Victory for US Arms and Down With Treasonous Slavers Day!
This is nice! Moreover, it's old nice, a reminder that we've known what nice looked like for a long time.
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Occasional artwork: Because It’s The Dream — Crooked Timber
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November 27, 2025 at 4:10 PM
This is nice! Moreover, it's old nice, a reminder that we've known what nice looked like for a long time.
crookedtimber.org/2025/11/27/o...
crookedtimber.org/2025/11/27/o...
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LLMs make it much more difficult than in the past to distinguish sincere hard effort from automated boilerplate, so that it is harder to tell a sincere boss committed to helping you work better from one who is lazy and couldn't care less about you. There are similar dynamics for other situations.
November 25, 2025 at 11:18 PM
LLMs make it much more difficult than in the past to distinguish sincere hard effort from automated boilerplate, so that it is harder to tell a sincere boss committed to helping you work better from one who is lazy and couldn't care less about you. There are similar dynamics for other situations.
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At 10 over 75? Non-zero chance his 'trial' is a note read aloud next to a burn pit.
You know the joke that in some extreme circumstances you 'stop being biology and start being physics'?
There is a point where your politics stop being law and start being history. It is not a good place to be.
You know the joke that in some extreme circumstances you 'stop being biology and start being physics'?
There is a point where your politics stop being law and start being history. It is not a good place to be.
November 25, 2025 at 3:20 PM
At 10 over 75? Non-zero chance his 'trial' is a note read aloud next to a burn pit.
You know the joke that in some extreme circumstances you 'stop being biology and start being physics'?
There is a point where your politics stop being law and start being history. It is not a good place to be.
You know the joke that in some extreme circumstances you 'stop being biology and start being physics'?
There is a point where your politics stop being law and start being history. It is not a good place to be.
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Inherits a robust economy, then just hammers it until something external pushes it over the edge. Then blame the something external. Worked for Trump I! (Didn't work for anybody else).
open.substack.com/pub/danieldr...
open.substack.com/pub/danieldr...
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Inherits a robust economy, then just hammers it until something external pushes it over the edge. Then blame the something external. Worked for Trump I! (Didn't work for anybody else).
open.substack.com/pub/danieldr...
open.substack.com/pub/danieldr...
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Comey hearing just ended. Govt admits 2d indictment never shown to full grand jury. Judge concerned. AUSA also admits DAG Blanche’s office told him not to disclose if previous prosecutors prepared a declination memo (saying why there was no case).
November 19, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Comey hearing just ended. Govt admits 2d indictment never shown to full grand jury. Judge concerned. AUSA also admits DAG Blanche’s office told him not to disclose if previous prosecutors prepared a declination memo (saying why there was no case).
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A grim comedic aspect of Mag Judge Fitzpatrick's ruling in Comey's case, finding that Halligan "potentially undermine[d] the integrity of the grand jury" with "fundamental misstatements of the law," is that AG Bondi purported to review those minutes & to ratify everything Halligan did—twice.
November 17, 2025 at 6:07 PM
A grim comedic aspect of Mag Judge Fitzpatrick's ruling in Comey's case, finding that Halligan "potentially undermine[d] the integrity of the grand jury" with "fundamental misstatements of the law," is that AG Bondi purported to review those minutes & to ratify everything Halligan did—twice.
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My mistake has been trying to explain what "fascism" is to people who don't care what it is.
So I'm going to try something else. Let's do this as a practical thought exercise.
If America *were* fascist *today* - what would you have to do differently in your daily life? /1
So I'm going to try something else. Let's do this as a practical thought exercise.
If America *were* fascist *today* - what would you have to do differently in your daily life? /1
November 16, 2025 at 3:12 AM
My mistake has been trying to explain what "fascism" is to people who don't care what it is.
So I'm going to try something else. Let's do this as a practical thought exercise.
If America *were* fascist *today* - what would you have to do differently in your daily life? /1
So I'm going to try something else. Let's do this as a practical thought exercise.
If America *were* fascist *today* - what would you have to do differently in your daily life? /1
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If we are normal levels of unlucky, the answer is RFK Jr.
If we are more unlucky, the answer becomes Pete Hegseth.
If we are *really* unlucky, it's Noem and Bondi, at least for Americans killed.
If we are *really really* unlucky it is Hegseth again.
And if we are *extremely* unlucky, it's RFK again.
If we are more unlucky, the answer becomes Pete Hegseth.
If we are *really* unlucky, it's Noem and Bondi, at least for Americans killed.
If we are *really really* unlucky it is Hegseth again.
And if we are *extremely* unlucky, it's RFK again.
@chrismurphyct.bsky.social: “I guess the question is who can kill the most people. Which of them, through their incompetence and evil doing, can end up with the most people being harmed? The answer to that question may be RFK Jr.”
November 14, 2025 at 7:39 PM
If we are normal levels of unlucky, the answer is RFK Jr.
If we are more unlucky, the answer becomes Pete Hegseth.
If we are *really* unlucky, it's Noem and Bondi, at least for Americans killed.
If we are *really really* unlucky it is Hegseth again.
And if we are *extremely* unlucky, it's RFK again.
If we are more unlucky, the answer becomes Pete Hegseth.
If we are *really* unlucky, it's Noem and Bondi, at least for Americans killed.
If we are *really really* unlucky it is Hegseth again.
And if we are *extremely* unlucky, it's RFK again.
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@mluther I’ve been doing a bit of research on my own and I think the church is getting some things wrong. long thread so buckle up. 1/95
Say what you will about social media, but there was no other point in history where you got to read thousands of people trying to explain Catholicism directly to the Pope
November 14, 2025 at 2:23 PM
@mluther I’ve been doing a bit of research on my own and I think the church is getting some things wrong. long thread so buckle up. 1/95
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A juror in The Sandwich Guy's trial in D.C. told @ashleyrparker.bsky.social: “We’re supposed to be looking at the evidence, but a clear majority felt it was nonsensical, like 'Don’t waste our time or money.'" www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Inside the Sandwich Guy’s Jury Deliberations
Can a flung sandwich cause bodily harm?
www.theatlantic.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:49 PM
A juror in The Sandwich Guy's trial in D.C. told @ashleyrparker.bsky.social: “We’re supposed to be looking at the evidence, but a clear majority felt it was nonsensical, like 'Don’t waste our time or money.'" www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...