Ha Le @cffn.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Wheee! I have succeeded in teaching AI a branch of math that doesn't exist. 111
Ha Le @cffn.bsky.social · 02/09/2026The Odyssey was written by Pigeon. I asked a bird scholar so it must be true. 000
Ha Le @cffn.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Looking through photos I took 30 years ago, before I left Vietnam for the first time. I was pointing the camera at the river. The bomb craters were just normal features of rice fields. It has only now struck me how extraordinary that is. 100
Ha Le @cffn.bsky.social · 17/08/2026There's a reckoning coming for the gap between the idea of western civilization and the actual practice of it. The Trump regime does in the open what the US has done behind close doors for centuries--"American interests" meant dominance and subjugation of other people. 120
Ha Le @cffn.bsky.social · 13/08/2026"President Trump has directed the Navy to tear out a complex system for launching jet fighters from its aircraft carriers and instead go back to using steam catapults, a move Navy officials have fought for years and will likely cost billions of dollars."wsj.comExclusive | Trump Orders Navy to Restore Old Technology in Aircraft Carriers, Costing BillionsThe Navy spent years fighting the president’s push to go back to steam catapults. 001
Ha Le @cffn.bsky.social · 13/08/2026The US had an aircraft carrier in the Pacific, to exercise freedom of navigation and challenge China's "nine-dash-line" claim of the entirety of the South China Sea. Now it doesn't any more. Why check your opponent directly, when you can fight (and lose to) their proxy.wsj.comExclusive | U.S. Sending Fresh Aircraft Carrier to Middle East Amid Iran War StrainThe USS George Washington is set to replace the USS Abraham Lincoln, as lawmakers raised concerns about reports of poor conditions aboard the Lincoln after more than 250 days at sea. 020
Ha Le @cffn.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Most healthy relationship I've seen.youtu.beNewsRadio - NegotiationYouTube video by Dan Aharon 031
Ha Le @cffn.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Iranians have been portrayed as bloodthirsty terrorists for decades. And yet the idea that they would blow Air Force One out of the sky is just not credible. Meanwhile, the US has actually assassinated layers of Iranian political leaders. 000
Ha Le @cffn.bsky.social · 12/08/2026"The USA has total control over the Strait of Hormuz." The fact that the US military can't even feed its active duty personnel is just insane.theguardian.comUSS Abraham Lincoln sailors tried to jump overboard amid extended deployment – reportsAircraft carrier’s crew in ninth month at sea and has spent record 250 days consecutively without making land 031
Ha Le @cffn.bsky.social · 09/08/2026"The worm thinks it strange and foolish that man does not eat his books." 000
Ha Le @cffn.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Ah, the sound of a dying empire. Compare this to the Romans. In crisis, they installed a black warrior emperor. He commanded more legions than anyone before or after and reigned over the empire at its most extensive. The Romans didn't care he was black. Inclusivity wins. Look up Severus. 111
Ha Le @cffn.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Humans are so smart. That's why we are the only species that pays rent on a planet everyone else lives on for free. And why we give power to idiots who don't understand basic science.bbc.co.ukDanube's record low levels force shutdown of Hungary's only nuclear plantRomania, Bulgaria and Serbia are also grappling with the effects of a series of prolonged heatwaves and low rainfall. 010
Ha Le @cffn.bsky.social · 04/08/2026It does make sense that people are trying so hard to get into hell. Heaven is apparently hotter.time.comScience: A Hellish HeavenWhich is hotter, heaven or hell?That question, seemingly appropriate for medieval theological tomes, is raised this month in a highly unlikely place: the current issue of Applied Optics. Even more... 000
Ha Le @cffn.bsky.social · 31/07/2026If men were raised by wolves, they'd only claim the territory they can realistically defend. 021
Ha Le @cffn.bsky.social · 31/07/2026An LNG tanker in Egypt is a measly US asset that doesn't contribute to the war. If Iran struck it, it would be to let US know it could, and it would make absolutely no sense for Iran not to claim it. It's not Iran. Now whose interest is served by this attack? Think, people. 000
Ha Le @cffn.bsky.social · 30/07/2026May I present the super evil mega villain of our time.theguardian.comUS government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conferenceState department ‘takes full responsibility’ for erroneous, widely shared chart displayed at Aids conference in Brazil 000
Ha Le @cffn.bsky.social · 29/07/2026In the Mahabharata, the Kurukshetra War lasted 18 days, pulling in all known nations at the time, killing 4 million warriors, leaving a total of 11 survivors. It'd be a myth except it coincided with the Neolithic Y-chromosome bottleneck event that wiped out 90-95% of male genetic bloodlines. 000
Ha Le @cffn.bsky.social · 29/07/2026I finally got to the end of the Mahabharata, after reading it for a year. Spoiler alert: everyone dies. Every ancient epic is like this. Nearly everyone dies at the end of the Iliad and the Odyssey, too. And yet men just want to make wars. Explain it to me like I'm POTUS. 000
Ha Le @cffn.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Why is having power over other people such a common fantasy? Is it human or older? How far back does it go? Does it go all the way back to when one cell ate another? Some of us want other people to do what they want to do, more than we want them to do what we want them to do. How do you teach that? 100
Ha Le @cffn.bsky.social · 28/07/2026It's bittersweet. My cofounder and I finally got around to shutting down an AI startup we started seven years ago. Technically, it worked. Our hearts were just no longer in it. He's a great all-around guy and is available for other ventures. He was the technical director on Gravity and Avatar. 210
Ha Le @cffn.bsky.social · 27/07/2026In a YouGov poll a few years back, 6% of Americans thought they would win a fist fight against a grizzly bear. 69% thought they could win against a house cat. So I suppose it's not weird that people still think they can win against Iran.yougov.comRumble in the jungle: what animals would win in a fight?And what wild beasts do Americans think they themselves can take on? 100
Ha Le @cffn.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Iranians are only winning because Trump is bombing them literally. If Trump bombed them with speeches like he does the American people, they'd lose their will to live. 000
Ha Le @cffn.bsky.social · 24/07/2026When I was at a Big 3 consulting firm, I once worked with a French partner who insisted that the Vietnamese stole phở from the French because his grandmother in the French countryside made a similar soup. Even though the ingredients--cinnamon, cardamom, star anise, ginger--were native to Vietnam. 110
Ha Le @cffn.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Here's what this means: They died, there were survivors as witnesses, we saw the caskets, the government still excludes them from statistics. So you can bet that people who died out of sight are not counted. This war needs to end so families find out who isn't coming home.theguardian.comPentagon list of service members killed in Iran war removes most recent fourNew York Times reports that list of those killed changed from 18 on Wednesday to 14 on Thursday 010
Ha Le @cffn.bsky.social · 24/07/2026trump (v.) — To inherit something in excellent condition and leave it in dramatically terrible shape while insisting it has never been better. E.g. "The new manager inherited a championship team and trumped it into last place." 010
Reposted by Ha LeHa Le @cffn.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Helen got to choose her husband and picked Menelaus, presumably for love. He was a 2nd son with no discernible quality. Then he didn't make her happy and she left him for another guy. Just like what women are starting to do this century. But when people say the film is woke, they mean she's black. 011
Ha Le @cffn.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Serious question: Trump and CENTCOM have been announcing things that aren't true. Why can't they just do that and not fight? What's the point of losing badly on the battlefield, when you can lose lightly, if you're going to announce victory anyway? Why kill troops and deplete munitions? 000
Ha Le @cffn.bsky.social · 20/07/2026There is no way only three soldiers died in an attack on a housing unit at night. (Gift link)wsj.comExclusive | Iran Missile Struck Housing for U.S. Troops at Jordan BaseThe deadly attack was one of three missiles that hit the base, showing difficulties in protecting against Iranian missile and drone attacks. 161
Ha Le @cffn.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Here's how you touch your wife's knee.youtube.comMichelle & Barack Obama Get Candid About MarriageYouTube video by People 000
Ha Le @cffn.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Samuel Butler thought Homer was a woman because the Odyssey is full of single, strong-willed female characters. I think he's wrong. There's no way Circe and Calypso would pick Odysseus from a sea of Greek men. "I'm not great but I've got a wife and several supermodels wanting me" is a male fantasy. 020
Ha Le @cffn.bsky.social · 18/07/2026How is it that only 14 Americans have died this entire war? That's suspiciously low. Is that like how zero Mitch McConnell has died? 020
Ha Le @cffn.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Um, is this a commercial for abstinence?youtube.com'Good To See You' JD Vance's Awkward Knee-tap For Wife Goes ViralYouTube video by The Independent Live 000
Ha Le @cffn.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Foreign Affairs wrote Trump a how-to guide. Fortunately he cannot read.foreignaffairs.comThe Lost Art of CoercionWhy Trump’s belligerence is a sign of weakness. 000
Ha Le @cffn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Trump doesn't like the assassination risk of being president. He shouldn't have become a dictator then. Their odds are worse. Hitler survived 42 assassination attempts, and still died. Caesar was stabbed 60 times. Only 1 wound was fatal--the other 59 were just senators not wanting to be left out. 100
Ha Le @cffn.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Trump wants to bomb Iran the next two nights. He's really trying to hold on to all the cards in a game of UNO. The name of this game is longevity. Iran is geographically right there. If the US could win militarily (which it cannot), the day the US fleet leaves, Iran regains control of the Strait. 100
Ha Le @cffn.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Did Donald Trump learn to pirate in a Waffle House or something? Tolling the entire fucking world 20%, outside of a waterway he doesn't control is one thing. American war ships are thousands of miles away from home and cannot get back without crossing other people's waterways. Think about that. 120
Ha Le @cffn.bsky.social · 13/07/2026The US doesn't control the Strait of Hormuz. The US Navy can't even enter the Strait of Hormuz. US personnel cannot stay on US military bases in the Middle East. But sure, listen to the guy who's still insisting he won the 2020 presidential election. Like he's insisting the US won the war with Iran. 031
Ha Le @cffn.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Can't wait for AI to have thoughts about us sending their cousins on suicide missions.share.googleUS seeks cheaper hunter-killer drones after Iran destroys $1B worth of ReapersUS military drone losses in Iran war spur Pentagon call for cheap replacements. 001
Ha Le @cffn.bsky.social · 12/07/2026You don't speak ill of the dead, so: David Brooks is a twat who left his wife of 28 years for his young* research assistant, then wrote a best-selling book reframing cheating as a quest for the moral life. I hope he's eaten by bears. (*) not yet born the first time he got married 030
Ha Le @cffn.bsky.social · 12/07/2026I'm an atheist because the afterlife sounds like an awfully long time and what are your chances of running into Lindsey Graham? 010
Ha Le @cffn.bsky.social · 11/07/2026I pray for Mitch McConnell to live a long time, so he can see what he has done. 010
Ha Le @cffn.bsky.social · 10/07/2026If Israel were an employee. Unlimited resources, zero restrictions, and they cannot (or do not) root out Hamas in Gaza. And they come back demanding a bigger project. Gaza is the same size as Philadelphia, under permanent blockade for the last 20 years. They know Turkey is a real country, right? 000
Ha Le @cffn.bsky.social · 09/07/2026I want to go to the Islamic Republic of Japan. I bet the food is gonna be amazing. 140
Ha Le @cffn.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Gazans watching the World Cup. They love us more than we love them back. If not for politicians, the people of the world would get along just fine. 010
Ha Le @cffn.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Dear God, please grant me the confidence of a mediocre white man. I mean, we are just now finding out about Graham Platner. But he always knew who he was the whole goddamn time. 020
