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// Somehow a CTO // JHU SAIS @alperovitch.institute adjunct // @istorg.bsky.social adjunct sr tech advisor // Retired US Marine Corps // Personal views and invective

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It's well known in Kurdistan that around Nowruz is when they celebrate Toyotathon

06.03.2026 00:24 πŸ‘ 39 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 4

NOEM TAKING QUESTIONS - DOES NOT APPEAR TO KNOW SHE WAS FIRED

05.03.2026 19:17 πŸ‘ 11889 πŸ” 1548 πŸ’¬ 503 πŸ“Œ 882

Now do The Waltons, but leave in the sex scenes

04.03.2026 14:19 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We used to talk about the limits of MOPP suits and standard gas masks when I was at CBIRF and the punchline here is everybody dies ugly

Standard issue stuff is designed for open air battlefield concentrations.

This would require Level A suits.

04.03.2026 05:49 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Also: one Hornet beats three F-15s? Navy and Marine fighter jocks are gonna be insufferable about that

04.03.2026 03:02 πŸ‘ 101 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 2

Am I understanding correctly that a single Kuwaiti fighter pilot took down 3 F-15s in a Hornet in a single day?

If so, we should try to sign that guy.

04.03.2026 01:14 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2

If you want to take down American planes, you need American planes

04.03.2026 01:08 πŸ‘ 389 πŸ” 43 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 1
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WELCH: Mr. Yoho is also the husband of your former spokesperson, Tricia McLaughlin?

NOEM: Yes

WELCH: So your former assistant and her husband are the ones that got the DHS no bid contract for $143m. Any dispute about that?

NOEM: No.

03.03.2026 18:37 πŸ‘ 16827 πŸ” 6389 πŸ’¬ 974 πŸ“Œ 702

The next six months may prove the most important yet

04.03.2026 00:35 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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But other than that, things are going great!

04.03.2026 00:07 πŸ‘ 259 πŸ” 60 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 1

We saw this movie the first time and already know we’re gonna hate the sequel

04.03.2026 00:34 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Are we taking bets yet on how long until someone testifies to Congress that we’re β€œturning the corner” in Iran?

04.03.2026 00:33 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

β€œhow about we send the kurds to ukraine” - the greatest thread in the history of the special activities center, locked by a branch chief after 12,239 pages of heated debate

04.03.2026 00:08 πŸ‘ 66 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1
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RAJU: You'll concede this is war?

MARKWAYNE MULLIN: We haven't declared war. They declared war on us

RAJU: The president called it war and Secretary Hegseth called it war

REPORTER: When you walked up just now, you called it war

MULLIN: Okay. That was a misspoke.

03.03.2026 23:14 πŸ‘ 3400 πŸ” 850 πŸ’¬ 564 πŸ“Œ 371

I’m gonna say it Saddam had that dawg in him. He was a hater. He had a haters heart.

03.03.2026 23:14 πŸ‘ 29 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2

β€œYou know who else was sleepy? SLEEPY JOE BIDEN and we won.”

03.03.2026 23:00 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

FBI laid off WHO??

03.03.2026 22:47 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Domestic security services in turmoil to promote racism while prosecuting a war against a foreign power known for having sleeper cells and little compunction about terror attacks is a hell of a (non) strategy.

03.03.2026 22:47 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Well, there’s a non-zero chance they had the same original author

03.03.2026 16:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Gen. Paul Nakasone, ex NSA chief, says at an event that he was distressed by the rift between the Pentagon and Anthropic, including the unprecedented ban on contractors using Anthropic on security grounds: β€œThis is not a supply-chain issue.”

03.03.2026 03:44 πŸ‘ 93 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2

I also have two affiliations with US universities in a similar situation, but it is somehow with the US Department of Defense.

03.03.2026 16:04 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm sorry, if you're going to make a big show about how you've got a Department of WAR helmed by a Secretary of WAR and staffed by WARfighters, it's totally inane to then claim that your massive bombing of a foreign country constitutes something other than a war.

03.03.2026 15:37 πŸ‘ 12257 πŸ” 2653 πŸ’¬ 269 πŸ“Œ 112

My station chief told me the security service keeps sending him walk-ins so I asked how many walk-ins he has had & he said he just goes to the Red Arrow and gets a new walk-in afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just letting the security service run GT/PROLOGUE & then his deputy started crying.

03.03.2026 00:41 πŸ‘ 28 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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a bald man in a white shirt and black tie is holding a brush . ALT: a bald man in a white shirt and black tie is holding a brush .

Meanwhile over at Anthropic

02.03.2026 13:40 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The last two updates were β€œeverything except API is broken, but we have a fix on the way” followed by β€œwelp, API is also broken”

Pour one out for their incident team

02.03.2026 13:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Counterpoint:

02.03.2026 04:30 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

If we do ultimately opt for boots on the ground in Iran, I would like to nominate ICE.

02.03.2026 03:10 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

OTOH, of course the gulf states were going to side with Trump.

They paid a lot of money for him!

02.03.2026 02:30 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0