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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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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 2h
I hate this
"Crosby" logo, for "the first AI law firm", which inexcusably alternates between serif and sans characters.
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 3h
Nothing gets voters on board like bringing up the kinds of weapons their children and grandchildren will need in their lifetimes
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Gordon Gray @ambgordongray.bsky.social · 11h
@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 · 8h
Okay they can install GMD 2 here but it has to be these old timey guns
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 8h
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 · 9h
Damn sounds like they humans aren't reliable and they should automate that whole process or smth
WOPR
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 9h
Oh wow
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 9h
Why do they budget a whopping 10 minutes between LCC and LF? It's not as if they need to be fueled?
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 9h
"bombers safe" ah yeah better get them up just in case "missiles safe" wait...
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WNBA @wnba.com · 20h
🗽 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 · 21h
In Mamdani New York, all the basketball teams win 🗽🗽🗽
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 21h
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 · 29/09/2026
Andy you can't mean LLMs are inherently antidemocra... let me stop you right there
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 29/09/2026
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 · 29/09/2026
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
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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...
eac.gov
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
A lot of these just aren't actually fair lol
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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
councilonstrategicrisks.org/nolan/nuclea...
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The Nuclear Weapon Systems Project - The Council on Strategic Risks
The Nuclear Weapon Systems Project A Qualitative Approach to Nuclear Policy How states view the roles and relevance of nuclear weapons is changing. While these perspectives have been dynamic since the...
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 26/09/2026
and I was doing this for free 🥲
defence-blog.com
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 · 26/09/2026
Don't marry your producer folks
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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.
wsj.com
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
Yeah I mean that's just what a warhead bus looks like - it doesn't need to be up there for long, and the warheads themselves are well insulated. Here's sort of a photo of a last-gen Trident bus (the blunt middle part is the third stage and would not come with afaik)
Trident C3 showing warhead bus at the ABQ museum.
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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
It was longer than a few months ago but I think GTA had an audience with Xi at some point and brought it up, and that's been going around for a while
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 25/09/2026
Aaaaaaaaaaaaa
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 25/09/2026
This one hits hard. For me and my sister, it was Dr Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine lol - same general idea, she was about 9 probably, but for some reason it just worked for her and she could whup me most of the time. She loved it - we loved playing together. I miss her
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 25/09/2026
He's very happy we're back!
PS all curled up in my desk chair
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 25/09/2026
Asking 250 is a bit out of range for something I will absolutely not be able to display lol www.facebook.com/marketplace/...
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Facebook
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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
"Synergistic Demonstrator Initiative 1988" - so right around the time we were pivoting from lasers to "brilliant pebbles." This was probably from OTA which for a time looked at a "synergistic mix" of KEW and DEW. www.princeton.edu/~ota/disk2/1...
princeton.edu
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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
Is this how we learn Natalie is a MSS operative lol
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 24/09/2026
Ah yes classic decorous Trump, always considering the sensitivities and potential translation intricacies for a foreign language audience
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 24/09/2026
I took the bus (Bus Stop!) today
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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 24/09/2026
Main't
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 23/09/2026
France agrees to open talks with Latvia on nuclear deterrence
lemonde.fr
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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Andrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 22/09/2026
This is what we were able to count up in 2022 - i.e. a lot of "topical" connections, but often they weren't much more than a phone number. There has been a lot said about Chinese officials' hesitance to wield authority, making official-to-official connections seem more workable
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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.
politico.com
‘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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