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“Tritium is the seemingly inconsequential item upon which everything else depends. Without it, there can be no modern nuclear weapons, and thus no nuclear deterrence” Commentary from a senior NNSA official. Good high-level overview, even if my work isn’t linked here.

Really love how @funranium.bsky.social hijacked this for a Fine Cognacs thread. This is the real infrastructural Bluesky deep lore that keeps this place afloat. Na zdravje!

Near perfect.

The article is worth reading, and this diagnosis from @radiofreetom.bsky.social is a reasonable take, but, if so, what’s the desired state? How difficult should it be for a man to not work and in what particular aspects should not working for a man be more difficult? What about wealthy men?

It is essential that these plain truths be spoken and repeated. Many prominent republicans allied with Trump including Sec. Rubio have previously supported the exact opposite of Trump and Vance’s current posture toward Ukraine. Only cowardice and their own hunger for power keeps them silent.

Me: "It cannot be stated often enough or vociferously enough: the Trump Administration is helping Russia to conquer Ukraine. The United States of America has taken the side of an aggressor against its innocent victim. We are helping our actual enemies" www.aei.org/foreign-and-...

Everything flows from the anarchy

I guess Ukraine has to really up its game to take out Russian diesel production now.

Russia's KOSMOS 2612 executed multiple burns to intersect that orbit of the US-owned ICEYE-X36 satellite, which is currently supplying information to Ukraine. Today, the Russian satellite passed within 26 meters of the US satellite. Will Russia attack a US satellite? Will Trump care?

Trump made far more money in his first year in back in office than he has ever made IN HIS LIFE, and it was completely, undeniably intentional. We showed in a recent report that when Trump became the presumptive GOP nominee in 2024, he began a spree of corporate formation that continues to this day

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If I’m not enmeshed in the Elizabeth Holmes-o-sphere beyond reading some contemporaneous news articles and approvingly nodding when she got sent to jail, will You Can See Everything be meaningful? (let’s say I don’t have a lot of grey matter devoted to the art of documentary filmmaking, either)

Go Big Orange!!

in awe of the blessing that is existence. what a life. DANG it is cool to be here

So, I hate this timeline so much. Cutting off intelligence sharing with Ukraine and purchasing diesel from Putin would be the “beyond rhetoric” moves here. These are desperate acts from an administration that doesn’t know what to do about Iran. Russia’s support for Iran has paid off bigly.

Generic State University and Polytechnic Institute is as not-woke Miskatonic University. @kkoopman.bsky.social makes the eldritch offering.

If reports of an end to intelligence sharing and Starlink access limits are confirmed, then the Trump admin has started helping Russia’s war effort. This a more harmful act against Ukraine than all the silly Witkoff/Kushner plans/trips put together. The US is trying to force Ukraine to surrender.

Does Saudi offer a plausible reason for not wanting the AP? Yeah, I know an unspoken reason is that it would be inconvenient (and cost more) to start a weapons program undetected. But, no one has addressed the AP implementation tradeoffs that might create other burdens. So, are there any?

Just wanted @nuclearanthro.bsky.social to see my spooky season name.

“Our work doesn’t include all of agents’ problematic interactions with citizens. We didn’t count incidents where, say, an agent shot but didn’t detain a citizen. And as with the tally we did last year, the new list is an undercount.”

Really let down by the fact that this does not appear to be a Halloween yard decoration.

General Matter submitted its license application to the NRC for a mysterious uranium enrichment plant in #Kentucky. In the publicly available environmental report, projected worker and public radiation doses are redacted as "trade secrets." Ridiculous. www.nrc.gov/docs/ML2627/...

Scant details. This could be a one time thing (and/or) a complete cluster. Really unclear how fire marshals will feel about: “free and open to anyone who can get themselves in the building.” (Reader, it is not unclear in the slightest.) Mark your calendars: Nov. 6-7 Nashville, TN

The 4S Toronto 2026 final program is now available in multiple formats. (a) PDF final program is online here: tinyurl.com/sdes6emw

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Hey heads up, if you're presenting at @4sweb.bsky.social Toronto, in case you haven't heard yet: you probably want to go check the XCDSYSTEM live page to make sure your day/time hasn't changed. I was warned earlier this is a thing that has happened to some people, and come to find out People Is Me.…

Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social

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Who else in the Blueskyverse is also going to @4sweb.bsky.social's 4S conference this October? #4Sconference #STS

I narrowly avoided being a first-gen college student when my mom finished her B.A. when I was a kid. I also remember nervously slipping into my Appalachian dialect roots while speaking to Philosophy Dept Head and he corrected: “I ‘have’ seen… you’d wouldn’t want to go around saying ‘I seen it.’”

So… the U.S. didn’t have to annex Greenland to achieve Pres. Trump’s goals?

I’ve now lived so much longer than I would ever have expected to that I feel I’m living in the future. This is when I imagined Neuromancer happening. And now the creators of today’s AI warn us that it threatens humanity.

Jane Darby Menton’s sober take on what we know, what we don’t know, and what Congress should make their businesses to find out about the US-Saudi deal. Concise and thorough. #NukeSky

A key political worry here (beyond day-to-day affordability for most folks) is that the only face-saving measure available to GOP faced with skyrocketing $$$ is to blame Ukraine for attacking Russian oil. It could ugly if it moves beyond rhetoric and grandstanding. Hopefully, there won’t be time.

I love the framing of this assignment. Implicit in the design (as most thoughtfully designed college courses) is that there is no pre-determined student outcome. The only failure case would be a student who resists considering the complexity of meanings and motivations.

Yeah, complete non-sequitur “We had other buildings… United States Steel building was creaking, really creaking…” Seems like he just started talking about another building where he was the VIP being protected and maybe not even something that occurred on 9/11. Unclear ramblings.

I was really hoping for an incriminating documentary on someone who wasn’t already imprisoned for their crimes.

It’s like half the world is enrolled in a undergrad Philosophy of Mind course, and we’ve gotta listen to the same people chime in over and over during the lectures to pretend like they’ve done the reading.

Unsurprisingly, nothing was accomplished by the Steve and Jared show. About trilateral talks: "Everyone was speaking in Russian to each other. We were discussing these issues in a very extra-friendly manner, all in Russian." And you, Jared, were you speaking or listening in Russian?

I’m just sittin’ on the dock of the Bayesian priors wastin’ time.

Do high-level defense officials actually believe that polygraph tests detect lying?

Good books are good on their own terms, but for those who might need the motivation to start @mattdinniman.bsky.social’s Dungeon Crawler Carl series it is everything that we hoped/pretended that Ready Player One was. And I’m only on Book 3. I’m consistently amazed at the ambition and delivery.