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Chad Briggs

@chadmbriggs.bsky.social
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Disaster risk & crisis management professor at AIM in Manila, hybrid warfare & disinfo researcher, purveyor of climate security and undesirable futures. RPG writer. Past lives in Alaska, Kosovo, Ukraine, Hungary, Ireland and elsewhere 🇨🇦

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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social · 6h
Straight out of the nazi playbook
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 6h
"The Trump administration’s investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar is aimed at building a case to strip her of her U.S. citizenship and ultimately deport her, according to U.S. officials and other people familiar with the probe." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Ilhan Omar Investigation Aims to Build Case for Stripping Her Citizenship
Authorities have subpoenaed members of the Democratic congresswoman’s family as part of a broader look at their immigration paperwork.
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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
♥️ ‘ Only The Ones We Love ‘ from 1991 album ‘ Everybody’s Angel ‘ , Jennifer Warnes on beautiful BVs 🎶♥️ Have a good week ☀️ 🎶 🙏
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Tanita Tikaram - Only The Ones We Love (Official Video)
YouTube video by TanitaTikaram
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Tzeporah Berman @tzeporah.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Another flash flood in Nepal as the country is still trying to recover their dead from the last one. This is what climate change looks like now. My heart goes out to all the families suffering devastating loss in Nepal. 💔
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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Casablanca Humphrey Bogart
Alt: Casablanca Humphrey Bogart
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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Conditions have not improved.
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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is all deliberate. We modelled the loss of reliable sources of info (black noise) and found it far more disorienting than being flooded with info (white noise)
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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It's a great place to build one of the world's most densely packed cities
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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
People here talk about the "Big One" but conflate so many different scenarios. It's hard to prioritize which to plan for, without making it a Zombie apocalypse narrative
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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Read a damn book, people
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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Given Metro Manila’s dual exposure to a nearby West Valley Fault rupture and a distant Manila Trench megathrust event, is there one we should worry about more? Thanks
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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And yet the future of US defense is as safely in his hands as USAID was
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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I seem to remeber an impeachment around this sort of thing in his first term. Now it's just Thursday
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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yeah, and it quickly cascaded down to state legislative offices (I worked in the Wisconsin senate in the mid 90s), people hired just for party loyalty and campaign focus
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Parked Domain name on Hostinger DNS system
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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Skipped the Nazis, huh.
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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Only warfighting" is working pretty hard here. Does he think logistics can be sorted by ChatGPT? Force protection covered by testosterone exams?
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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"What's the capital of Iceland?" "Ice City."
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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Well, that's the tell then. Because Sullivan has a cemetery worth of skeletons to write about
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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The 70s were so weird. This song i felt was more timeless youtu.be/J3_uO5Fa8Oo?...
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Olivia Newton John - Magic (live on the midnight special)
YouTube video by alex nik
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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I blame Joe Don Baker
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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Zombie politics is precisely the goal, it leaves citizens with no grounding www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0KS...
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Weaponising Confusion: How Cognitive Warfare Hijacks Our Minds on Climate and War – Prof Chad Briggs
YouTube video by Nick Breeze ClimateGenn
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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I'm bringing my 7-Eleven Korean hot pot and mixing it while I answer their questions
7-eleven hot pot menu, which I see all the time in Metro Manila and have yet to see anyone put together. So I will be the first, and do it during a job interview. Ice coffees are for amateurs
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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I'm beginning to think their ideas of free speech may not be entirely genuine
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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It makes no sense even ignoring environmental concerns (which they will ignore). Philippines already has highest electricity prices in SE Asia, and just try cooling here in the tropics (room temp in our AC apartment is 30C)
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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I want this to not be real
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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Capri-sun, sink that straw like a BOSS
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Capri-Sun Straw Insertion Fail
Alt: Capri-Sun Straw Insertion Fail
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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Aimee Mann during her Til Tuesday lead in the 1980s
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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
You have my sympathies
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Princess Buttercup: You Mock My Pain
Alt: Princess Buttercup: You Mock My Pain
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Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
For more background on how cognitive warfare can lead to paralysis, see @chadmbriggs.bsky.social’s paper: zenodo.org/records/1932...
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The Gorgon Trap: Entropy, Cognitive Paralysis, and the Mechanics of Cognitive Warfare
Modern cognitive warfare (CW) extends beyond traditional influence operations aimed at persuasion; its primary objective is often the induction of systemic cognitive paralysis, a phenomenon we term th...
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 18/09/2026
Swedish Social Democrat Andersson tasked with forming government
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Swedish Social Democrat Andersson tasked with forming government
Magdalena Andersson, who previously served as prime minister in 2021-2022, must bridge deep divisions within the left-wing bloc, which won a three-seat parliamentary majority.
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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
To be fair we've only known this since Eunice Foote warned us in (checks notes) 1856
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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
..., did, did, did you ever wonder Why we had to run for shelter When the promise of a brave new world Unfurled beneath a clear blue sky
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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
My latest op-ed on how we need new leadership that doesn't just respond to risks: bworldonline.com/special-repo... (I think they used a photo of Makati that must be 10 years old)
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Stop predicting, start designing: Leadership for a converging-risk economy - BusinessWorld Online
FILIPINO COMPANIES know how to survive a crisis. They are less prepared for surviving several at once. Our firms have weathered typhoons, political transitions, financial shocks, and pandemic lockdown...
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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Exactly what Trump and Kushner (via Putin) want
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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Yikes
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Found America's tombstone in a gas station sales rack on the 25th anniversary of 9/11 substack.com/@sarahkendzi...
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Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior)
RIP, Murica
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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Moscow likely also is telling Trump to push for this
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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Peri Gilpin FTW
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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Honestly, we've been talking about this for close to 20 years, more if one considers Philipe le Bilon's work on conflict and resource abundance
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 06/09/2026
The latest Nino 3.4 sea-surface temperature (preliminary) is 2.78°C above the 1991-2020 baseline, marking the 99th consecutive daily record, a full 0.79°C higher than the previous daily record set in 1997. The Climate Casino is taking the OVER on 3.0°C by the end of September.
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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Looks interesting!
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Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · 31/08/2026
· #AcademicSky · The loss of 111,000 international students in the school year that has just begun will cost the United States US$3.4 billion and almost 40,000 jobs, says a new study from NAFSA: Association of International Educators and JB International, a US-based education management company.
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US$3.4 billion loss from drop in international students
The loss of 111,000 international students in the school year that has just begun will cost the United States US$3.4 billion and almost 40,000 job...
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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
From March 2016: thediplomat.com/2016/03/trum...
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Trumpmenbashi
What Central Asia’s spectacular states can tell us about authoritarianism in America.
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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Cue @infinitescream.bsky.social
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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
"Hell is empty and all the devils are here." Mladic might lonely down there, then
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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
There's an analogue to a certain German political party in the 1930s...
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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This is a feature, not a bug. They fully.intend to gut the system
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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
SO many laws broken. If it's a military facility, there would need to be a whole planning process with DC, Natl building commission, EIAs, etc.
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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Flagging @brooklynmarie.bsky.social
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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Thanks
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