Silverman on Security

Also, your conscience is clean & at some point there will be a time & place for your expertise.

I understand. Had I not resigned a contracted senior position at a DOD center last fall due to toxic company program management on that contract - I don't put up w/toxic anymore - or had I been extended at CENTCOM like intended in 2025, I expect I'd have resigned from there by now.

Chocolate is full of antioxidants.

Damn. I’d forgotten what a president sounds like.

Have you consider getting a whale cake? That might make you feel better.

I lack the words to capture it, but ... it's just endlessly remarkable to me that so many people in our society have chosen trans kis -- TRANS KIDS, the smallest, least significant, most vulnerable demographic slice you could possibly pick -- as a repository for all their fears & insecurities.

And one more: LinkedIn too:

www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

This is your paaaaaaahteeseepayting Carvel Aeyz Cream Dealer....

essentially the entire problem with doctoring is that two totally different professions— medicine and care— have been combined into one, and people who want to do medicine broadly resent the expectation to perform care, to disastrous results.

1) No, not going to happen. All these things are are collections of zeros and ones. They're not really talking, they're not really communicating. They just run through the checklisted options for appropriate responses. 2) You damn well better hope that even if it could happen it doesn't.

Yep.

Thank you. But everyone should definitely read the @faineg.bsky.social 🧵 that I'm pivoting off of.

They're like the depiction of vampires in a lot of fictional works. That which gives them power, in the case of fiction immortality & other supernatural abilities, in the case of these folks Trump's election, takes away their ability to be creative.

Aside from the childish unseriousness, the thing that just really stands out to be here is just the artistic and cultural leeching. They can't produce anything anyone actually wants to watch themselves so they just pinch a load of clips to repurpose.

Cincinnati folks, tomorrow!

Figure 5.2 Annual U.S. Inflation/Deflation Rate, 1790–201

figure 5.1 U.S. Economic Growth, 1790–2012

it's funny you can see how much the New Deal fixed macroeconomic stability within the United States, and the elite hated FDR for it

Narrator: « it’s not, actually, gonna work like that »

Elkton MD TA diesel listed at $7.189 per gal. Others are high 4s.

Winsor Locks TA sign posting $7.22/gal for diesel.

Multiple truckers on Reddit posting about diesel listed at over $7/gal.

That's a real fast way to grind things to a halt

Note: these appear to be the exception at this point

this is, almost literally, a panel from next week's cartoon, written before I read this.

Tesla just keeps on finding news ways to be an absolute nightmare of a company

Tesla sued after Austin shooting suspect allegedly assaulted co-worker A 65-year-old woman says the automaker ignored warning signs before Ndiaga Diagne, the suspect in Sunday’s mass shooting, assaulted her. She sued Thursday.

the Austin mass shooter was a Tesla employee who assaulted a coworker during a company-allowed prayer break late last year

the company refused to give the victim her assailant's name so she could press charges, and he went on to become a mass shooter

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You're most welcome. I wish I didn't have to, but I'm happy to try to explain & demystify as much as I can w/out getting into anything that I'm not allowed to talk about because of restrictions from previous assignments.

Yes, but it goes way beyond that. You have to be able to account for why & how they are likely to vote the way they are. Otherwise you waste your resources trying & usually failing to achieve your objectives.

3) Having women involved in planning, effects, assessments also does only good things to those efforts. If it didn't, Hegseth & his fellow travelers wouldn't try so hard to exclude them. Same with having religious, ethnic, racial, & LGBTQ personnel involved. Monocultures always lead to defeat. end/

But imagine how much more effective you can be doing unconventional warfare (UW) when you have women Soldiers who can access 1/2 the population the male Soldiers can't. 5/

There are different ways to shoulder the load. I do a bit more X so a teammate can do a bit more Y (this is NOT a chromosome pun!). 4/

2) Even if there's still a physical performance gap, it is worth having someone my size carry more to have plenty of women on the team because in most places we need to operate the male personnel can't access 1/2 the population! 3/

It's why the discussion about women in certain Special Ops branches is being conducted on the wrong issues. 1) It's a BS argument that women cannot add the physical strength & resilience to meet baseline/be mission effective. 2/

This is why we keep trying to create ad hoc specialized units of women. Like the Lioness Teams. Unfortunately because they were ad hoc, they didn't get the specialized training or support to be successful in undertaking the mission & in surviving the mission in terms of mental health. 1/