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Andrew Facini

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Senior Fellow, @councilonstrategicrisks.org working on nuclear weapons policy. Teaching and such at Harvard Extension. Views my own. Nuke policy starter pack! go.bsky.app/8jiQV43

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Gordon Gray @ambgordongray.bsky.social · 6h
@dandrezner.bsky.social observes that "learning to write is integral to success in text-based spheres of activity. This is where... relying on AI becomes a concern. Studies suggest that outsourcing that task to AI comes with significant cognitive costs." danieldrezner.substack.com/p/im-a-colle...
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I’m a College Professor. Writing is Pretty Damn Important.
It’s hardly the only thing -- but it’s a very important thing!
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 3h
Okay they can install GMD 2 here but it has to be these old timey guns
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 3h
Unfortunately it's probably going to go like the still-not-a-law "Dept of War" rebrand, where federal employees everywhere have to comply even though the rest of the world won't. Which will include some of the world's foremost AI workers in the national labs
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 4h
"bombers safe" ah yeah better get them up just in case "missiles safe" wait...
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WNBA @wnba.com · 15h
🗽 THE NEW YORK LIBERTY ARE SEMIFINALS BOUND 🗽 The Liberty advance after defeating the Lynx 2-0 in the First Round. 2026 WNBA Playoffs presented by Google Pixel
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 15h
In Mamdani New York, all the basketball teams win 🗽🗽🗽
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 16h
No one on his staff even once thought to check if there were any women's games being played that night. These are the people calling themselves defenders of women's sports.
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 20h
Dumb responses + censorship aside, it's not actually *good* that a government would assert to have an answer for every question. Govt is a pact between people, bound by laws. Yeah any bureaucracy can be byzantine but building an "all-answers" machine and calling it America is just more dictator shit
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 21h
Meanwhile in the other game
What does he even do? Pointing at the light ASCM
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Council on Strategic Risks @councilonstrategicrisks.org · 28/09/2026
Join CSR's 2027 Ending #Bioweapons Fellowship to work towards creative solutions to help address #biothreats. Spend time with leading experts in threat reduction and biosecurity, connect with CSR mentors, and gain hands-on experience through interactive learning trips. ⬇️ Apply today:
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Call for Applications: Fellowship for Ending Bioweapons (2027) - The Council on Strategic Risks
The Council on Strategic Risks (CSR) is announcing an open call for applications for our 2027 Ending Bioweapons Fellowship.
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WEATHER IS HAPPENING @weatherishappening.com · 27/09/2026
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BIRTH RADAR
BEHOLD THE RADAR OF UR OWN BIRTH. WAT WERE UR WEATHER LORDS DEWING WEN U BUBBLED UP UN2 THE SURFACE OF UR REALITY?
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Kung Hei FYat Choy!-Gigan @gigansprogress.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Good time to sign up to be a poll worker for November (if you can spare the time) www.eac.gov/help-america...
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Become a Poll Worker | U.S. Election Assistance Commission
The EAC encourages those interested in becoming poll workers at the polls on Election Day to learn more about what is required and how to sign up to work with your local election office.
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Nick Kodama @nickkodama.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
colby: selling weapons to taiwan vs selling weapons to china
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 27/09/2026
Why am I putting myself through this
Sonic 2 special stage 3 (impossible)
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 26/09/2026
more like snor'easter
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 26/09/2026
and I was doing this for free 🥲
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Pentagon pays $16.6 million to keep nuke inventory online
The Defense Threat Reduction Agency has awarded General Dynamics Information Technology a $16.6 million contract to keep running the computer systems the U.S. military uses to track every nuclear weap...
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WEATHER IS HAPPENING @weatherishappening.com · 26/09/2026
/ UR NOR'EASTER IS UPON U BOSTON / AS U SLIP DEEPER & DEEPER IN2 UR NOR'EASTER / DEEPER & DEEPER IN2 UR DEATH SPIRAL / DEEPER & DEEPER IN2 DEATH SPIRAL FASCISM / 1 THING IS 4 CERTAIN / WEATHER IS HAPPENING / & ITS HAPPENING THIS WEEKEND
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
a president planning military operations based entirely on election cycles is actually a giant scandal
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 26/09/2026
I should put this back up
"in this office, we believe... This is not a place of honor copy"
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 26/09/2026
Oh yeah we're gonna get clobbered tomorrow
A pink and frothy sunset looking west in Brooklyn.
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 25/09/2026
It brings me no joy to report that Carly Rae's music could not survive her getting married
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Matthew Bunn @matthew-bunn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Important story on discussions underway on the Trump team’s charges that China and Russia have violated the testing moratorium. New concepts for confirming that activities at test sites do not produce nuclear yield are the way to go.
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Exclusive | Trump Administration Presses China on Suspected Nuclear Tests in Confidential Talks
The discussions have occurred on the sidelines of multilateral meetings in Geneva, New York and Casablanca, Morocco.
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 25/09/2026
Navy SSP graphic design is my passion
"Relentless Execution"
A rendering of a SLBM bus with several conical warheads in space.
W93/MK7 enters new development phase.
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 25/09/2026
Aaaaaaaaaaaaa
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 24/09/2026
Huge fb marketplace pull
Framed S.D.I. Strategic Defense Initiative Caricature Print March 23, 1988.
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Nick Pinto @nickpinto.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Also in attendance, this guy:
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 24/09/2026
Huge fb marketplace pull
Framed S.D.I. Strategic Defense Initiative Caricature Print March 23, 1988.
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 24/09/2026
I took the bus (Bus Stop!) today
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 23/09/2026
France agrees to open talks with Latvia on nuclear deterrence
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France agrees to open talks with Latvia on nuclear deterrence
In March, the French president announced his 'advanced' deterrence initiative, aimed at involving willing European countries, without any sharing of the decision to use nuclear weapons.
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James Cameron @jjjcameron.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"The proposed channel, which Chinese officials have not publicly agreed to, would allow Bessent and He to contact one another in the event of an artificial intelligence related incident with national security implications." So not a proper hotline like the Washington-Moscow messaging system, then.
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‘The scientific, technical term is BS’: Inside the new Bessent-China AI hotline
It is not, at least for now, a broader formal system for the two governments to report or jointly respond to AI threats.
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 22/09/2026
always has been
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Starship Troopers (1997) w/ Andrew Facini and Sam Ratner | Ep. 55
We’re joined by returning guests Sam Ratner (Win Without War) and Andrew Facini (Council on Strategic Risks) to revisit Paul Verhoeven’s Starship Troopers. So committed to its own satire that many cri...
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François Diaz-Maurin @francoisdm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Publicly admitting capabilities is only the first move. Without crisis communication and behavioral guardrails, orbital competition risks catastrophic miscalculation. Read the full piece by Mallory Stewart in @thebulletin.org:
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The US acknowledged its space weapons. Now it must build guardrails
Confirming classified space-control capabilities will not deter rivals on its own—Washington must now use this disclosure as a springboard for reciprocal transparency and risk-reduction measures befor...
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 22/09/2026
Empty subway car middle of the day
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Skeptical Fry from Futurama
ALT: Skeptical Fry from Futurama
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 22/09/2026
A really good overview of the dilemma
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Will Yale @wayale.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It is extremely unfortunate and regrettable that the Department of the Air Force has decided to shutter the China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI). CASI, along with its sister institutions the China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI), China Landpower Studies Center (CLSC), and…
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 21/09/2026
Chairman Milley 59/28 ayfkm
Chairman Milley propaganda poster
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 21/09/2026
The full video from last week's @nukesofhazard.bsky.social conference in DC is up! Our leadoff panel on Golden Dome was fantastic (and appropriately punchy). Give it a listen! w/ @joecirin.bsky.social @lauraegrego.bsky.social
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2026 Annual Conference — $1 Trillion and Counting: The Pentagon Budget Squeezing Our Real Security
YouTube video by Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation (CACNP)
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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
FAA ISSUES GROUND STOPS AT NEW YORK JFK, LAGUARDIA, BOSTON AIRPORTS AS FALLOUT FROM TELECOM ISSUE WIDENS
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 21/09/2026
The full video from last week's @nukesofhazard.bsky.social conference in DC is up! Our leadoff panel on Golden Dome was fantastic (and appropriately punchy). Give it a listen! w/ @joecirin.bsky.social @lauraegrego.bsky.social
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2026 Annual Conference — $1 Trillion and Counting: The Pentagon Budget Squeezing Our Real Security
YouTube video by Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation (CACNP)
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Kung Hei FYat Choy!-Gigan @gigansprogress.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The DF-21/27 will go where it needs to
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 20/09/2026
New rendering released for triumphal arch
GI Joe Headquarters Command Center
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 20/09/2026
Lol so we really are just ignoring him
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U.S. Navy secures long-term support for EMALS catapult system
The U.S. Navy has awarded Kato Engineering a $49.3 million contract to keep maintaining the power system behind the electromagnetic catapults on its Ford-class aircraft carriers, covering engineering ...
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 20/09/2026
It's a weird field to be in, algorithmically
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Good to see this national AI conversation get going. But it’s still too much on Silicon Valley’s terms. The rest of us don’t have to act like everything is computer. We can talk real world instead of sci fi. We don’t need to put tech companies’ power and profit first, and societal impacts second.
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Super Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is incredible nitter.app/banteg/statu... H/t @gregdoucette.bsky.social
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banteg (@banteg)
>be me >discover effective altruism >apparently normal charity is inefficient >why donate to random sad thing when spreadsheet can tell you optimal sad thing >fair enough >buy mosquito nets >save live...
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Tony Stark @tonystark.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This article is really burying the lede which is not that the AI did anything surprising but that rotten culture and bad operational habits get accelerated at machine speed. “Did you interrogate the analysis before you launched the mission” “Why would we do that” www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...
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Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics
The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 18/09/2026
You'd really think Mr. Escalation Management would do better managing the incredibly slight amount of friction the people around him have given
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Sara Pritchard @sarabpritchard.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It's Here 🥲
Cover of my new book, Transforming Night
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Alexandra Phelan 余雪莲 @alexandraphelan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
As someone who works on preparedness for and governance of pandemics (including pathogen genetic sequences, synthesis, and distinguishing bio-logical/safety/security risks) this thread aligns with where I consider the greatest current tangible AI risk to life: undermining decision integrity.
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 16/09/2026
Here's the thing about AI and nuclear war risks that even smart people are whiffing in the discourse—if you're more worried about the literal-ness of AI murders and not looking at the obvious accelerants of other existential risks, you're missing the point.
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