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Woefully inadequately caffeinated xennial biochemist. Scientific writer. BSD systems administration and other Pythonic madness. Can I partition your horizontally-transferred genetic material and show you how it works? Get off mah lawn | 🇨🇦❤️ | 🇺🇸💔 |

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"Yes, yes, I hear the carbon monoxide alarm going off, but I still need to stay here because this is where my knitting community is, you see. Also, the only place I can get news about the Premier League. I have no choice. I'll be OK."
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C to the JB @cjb.jbactee.com · 04/09/2026
@jessmarindavis.bsky.social Have you been following this? I tried to cursorily search your feed for signs of it but turned up empty. 😬
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Vindicated. ✊🏾🔥 Photos by Ethan Wong
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Pat McDermott @twinsetpat.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Do not miss this thread 🧵 It’s too much fun!! 👇🏾👇🏻👇🏽👇🏼👇🏿
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WIRED @wired.com · 20/08/2026
Flock’s surveillance cameras have already sparked outrage. WIRED reconstructed its next-generation AI system, already in use by some police, to confirm it goes much further than tracking license plates. 🔗 www.wired.com/story/flock-...
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C to the JB @cjb.jbactee.com · 17/08/2026
Too bad; so sad.
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
To be fair, Hoekstra is a dick!
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Jess Davis @jessmarindavis.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Two arrested in another shooting at the US consulate in Toronto, allegedly part of a shooter-for-hire network. Still no word from officials on who is doing the hiring 🧐 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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2 people, including 15-year-old, facing multiple charges after gunshot fired at U.S. consulate in Toronto | CBC News
Two people have been arrested and are now facing a host of charges after a gunshot hit the U.S. consulate in downtown Toronto last week, police say.
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Brian F. Kelcey @stateofthecity.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
How Canada can win the 🇨🇦🇺🇲 trade war. Step one: sit back and watch the President of the United States attack the United States economy. Step two: keep watching.
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Schneier on Security @schneier.com · 03/08/2026
The OpenAI Hack Shows the Genie Is Out of the Bottle This essay originally appeared in Foreign Policy. Earlier this month, two of OpenAI's models broke out of their containment sandbox and… www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026…
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The OpenAI Hack Shows the Genie Is Out of the Bottle
This essay originally appeared in Foreign Policy. Earlier this month, two of OpenAI's models broke out of their containment sandbox and attacked another AI company. The story is kind of wild. OpenAI was running security tests on two of its models: GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased model that is almost certainly GPT-6. In particular, it was running the…
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J.M. Berger PRE-ORDER THE POPE'S HITMAN @jmberger.com · 27/07/2026
Or shareholders
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Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
The idea that we need to learn more about what this guy thinks when he literally cannot stop telling us what he thinks is kinda insane.
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Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
If you are interested in learning more about Canadian National Security but don't know where to start, I'll be teaching the Practical Certificate in National Security with @npsia-ptd.bsky.social this August 19-20 (online!) carleton.ca/npsia-ptd/ca...
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Canadian National Security - NPSIA-PT&D
The Practical Certificate in Canadian National Security National security is the condition achieved when a country is able to protect its social, economic
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Two more Americans dead, one missing. The president must tell Congress why he’s gambling with the lives of U.S. service members. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
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Two More Americans Dead in the Iran War
Congress must demand an explanation from the president about why he’s gambling with the lives of U.S. service members.
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I could be wrong, but based upon the Trump team's prior support for the Tates (which caught blowback on the right), I doubt the U.S. Marshals Service (part of DOJ) would have arrested them if Todd Blanche believed Trump would order them freed.
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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
the republicans crying about wildfire smoke while denying climate change — and our role in it — is beyond parody
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John Robinson @jrobin.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
The ads write themselves. “As the Lincoln Project summed it up, the Republican Party’s message four months before the midterms appears to be, ‘You’re not getting affordable housing unless you give up your voting rights.’”
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Republicans often follow the party's messaging instructions to the letter -- check out how similar all the tweets about Mamdani's AC note, for instance -- but in some cases it becomes really, really obvious they're following a script.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
In the well-over 100,000 documents written by founders included in the Founders Online database from the National Archives, no one uses the phrase "God's noble experiment." No one.
Chuck Schumer: "The founding fathers called America God's noble experiment. I believe in all three words to this day: we are one nation under God, we have clung to noble ideals for longer than any other nation, and we are an experiment always changing, trying to make ourselves better.
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Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Bill is always one of the most thoughtful and insightful critics of the CSE.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
In Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, the fire department exists to start, not to put out, fire. In a similar vein, Harmeet Dhillon has refashioned DOJ's Civil Rights Division into an entity that perpetrates civil rights abuses rather than battling them.
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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Everyone is doing so much gender, and I'm following the masculinity of it all closer than anyone else I know. So please go read and subscribe. daniellekurtzleben.substack.com/p/this-month...
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This month in masculinity politics
Hotchie motchie, friends.
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Dr. Marc-André Argentino @maargentino.com · 22/06/2026
Not like I wrote a book/dissertation about QAnon and its political weaponization 🤫🍕🐇 www.routledge.com/QAnon-From-C...
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Graham Macklin @grahammacklin.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Canada must confront homegrown far-right extremism, authors Stephanie Carvin and Amarnath Amarasingam argue in their new book, “For Blood and Soil: Far-Right Extremism in Canada”
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Canada must confront homegrown far-right extremism, authors argue in new book
A new book examining far-right extremism in Canada argues the movement has evolved dramatically in the past decade, shifting from small, organized groups to a broader network fuelled by social media, ...
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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
When people read about this era in 200 years they're going to be convinced most of it was an allegory and not real
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Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Jake told me a lot of his modelling of Burevestnik were built off that early work, specifically with the XNJ 140E design by General Electric. This is a B-A-N-A-N-A-S reactor design. Basically air is flowing straight through the core.... (OSTI source: www.osti.gov/biblio/12555...)
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Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
A DIRECT CYCLE NUCLEAR TURBOJET! And didn't my colleague Connie do a great job with this diagram? (Though she wouldn't let me label the control drums on the outer circumference of the reactor core.)
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Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
EXLCUSIVE: An analysis by two MIT researchers shows how Russia's nuclear-powered cruise missile actually works. And guys, it's not pretty. 🚀☢️🤢🧵 www.npr.org/2026/06/18/n...
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Report: Russia's nuclear-powered 'Skyfall' missile is dirty and dangerous
MIT researchers think they've worked out exactly how Russia's Burevestnik nuclear-powered missile flies. "It's almost certainly a terrible idea," one analyst said. "But it's not an impossible idea."
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Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
OK Nerds, thanks for listening to all of this. And feel free to weigh in further below! I could talk about exotic nuclear reactors All. Day. Long. www.npr.org/2026/06/18/n...
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Report: Russia's nuclear-powered 'Skyfall' missile is dirty and dangerous
MIT researchers think they've worked out exactly how Russia's Burevestnik nuclear-powered missile flies. "It's almost certainly a terrible idea," one analyst said. "But it's not an impossible idea."
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C to the JB @cjb.jbactee.com · 18/06/2026
My precise thoughts when I heard they were dumping hydrogen peroxide into the pool: "how on earth was that supposed to be effective with how quickly it decomposes?" 🤦🏻‍♂️
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Christina Toms @christinatoms.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
It's a shame that the abstract deadline for NALMS 2026 just closed, because this is one hell of a case study in how not to do applied limnology.
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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Last night’s past-the-deadline removal of Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center squeezes into this. Looking at the way the whole thing went down (from the people making the decisions to the lawyers to the workers to the crowd) you can just feel the potential energy that’s being fed into the system.
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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
There is pressing urgency to stabilize things (along all sorts of different dimensions). And I think that a lot of actors (in a lot of different sectors) have a considerable amount of responsibility to intentionally work to inject stability pretty much immediately. We don't want this keg to blow.
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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Violence is one potential outcome here. And a concerning one. But the destabilization of our system could result in any number of catastrophic outcomes. And that's part of my concern with the giant powder keg—the explosion won't be controlled, it will be largely unpredictable.
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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
As we continue to foreclose democratic political processes; as legal avenues produce no justice; as our spaces for civil resistance and protests are eliminated; as our government continues to operate without the consent of the governed this WHOLE THING is just building a giant powder keg.
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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
I want to be absolutely explicit about this before I say what I'm going to say: This is analysis, not either an encouragement or even a desired outcome. I desire nothing more than peace and nonviolence; and a stable, working, pluralistic multiracial democracy. But Stephen is absolutely correct.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 10/06/2026
I've been a broken record on this for three years and I'll be a broken record for as long as that fucking website exists: X is a viciously racist far-right organising platform that ONLY WORKS because a huge number of centrists, lefties and progressivs cannot stop propping it up
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Elon Musk accused of fuelling unrest after Belfast knife attack
The use of social media in planning violent protests over the Belfast knife attack has drawn condemnation, with Britain's ruling Labour Party accusing Elon Musk of stoking divisions. The tech billiona...
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Jess Davis @jessmarindavis.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Over the coming months, lots of people will post about Alberta separatism to make money. Some of this can easily be coopted by states to advance their interests, and in some cases, we might well see state-backed campaigns. Buckle up. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Facebook is paying people overseas promoting Alberta separatism | CBC Music
A CBC News investigation found a number of Facebook accounts run by people overseas impersonating real Albertan separatists.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Thinking of X as the comments section on Elon Musk's personal blog is a reasonably accurate model.
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Jess Davis @jessmarindavis.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
This is kinda hilarious. A CIA official created a secret program to steal more than $40 million of gold bars for personal use. I can see how this happens, and I think it's important that we figure out what this compartment was called: TS/SCI/MIDAS... www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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CIA officer who had millions in gold bars accused of creating fake spy program
David J. Rush worked on highly secretive intelligence programs and is alleged to have funneled millions of dollars for personal use via a fraudulent contract.
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 06/06/2026
NYT cooking recession indicator continues to deliver "I developed these spinach meatballs as a way to feed six people with just a pound of meat"
NYT cooking post on Instagram: video of someone eating pasta with meatballs, overlaid caption "six people wtih just a pound of meat"

nytcooking @itsalislagle's Spinach Meatballs With Pasta recipe is at the link in our bio!
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/06/2026
here's what i wrote
More so than most of his predecessors, Trump strained against the limits of the presidency. He never understood that the office was bound by higher law — that his power wasn’t absolute. He never understood that he was an officer of the Constitution and a servant of the people; he never understood that he was a subject and not the sovereign.

It was because of this fundamental misunderstanding — itself tied to his bottomless solipsism — that Trump tried to twist and turn the presidency into an extension of his ego. To the extent he failed to accomplish this, it was only because he was stymied by those around him — officials who chose to honor their commitment to the Constitution over the interests of one man. Those same officials now warn that if he is given another term in office, he will rule as a tyrant.

America got lucky. It won’t get lucky again. Free of the guardrails that kept him in place the first time, affirmed by the Supreme Court and backed by allies and apparatchiks in the conservative movement, Trump will merge the office of the presidency with himself. He will shake it from its moorings in the Constitution and rebuild it as an instrument of his will, wielded for his friends and against his enemies. In doing so, he will erode the democratic assumptions that undergird our current constitutional order. And he will have the total loyalty of a Republican Party that itself is twisting and abusing the counter-majoritarian features of the American system to undermine and unravel democracy in the states it controls.
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Hannah Walser @hkpmw.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
In its quiet way, this may be the most arbitrary and unlawful decision the Roberts Court has issued
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
@emptywheel.bsky.social gets results!
emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social • 22h
Dems are in a perfect position to say that Trump can either have FISA 702 or he can have Pulte at DNI.
DNi writes certifications that authorize the program, and he has proven to be a liar and a rabid partisan.
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Trump appoints ally and FHFA chief Pulte as acting US intelligence director
Bill Pulte is a Trump political loyalist without national security experience.
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I doubt@markwarner.bsky.social would be brave enough to do that, tho.Jake Sherman v @JakeSherman
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HUGE scoop from@AndrewDesiderio and @LauraEWeiss16
MARK WARNER has told JOHN THUNE to try to get @pulte removed as DNI.
If he's in the job, Democrats are threatening to withhold their votes for FISA, which expires in 9 days.
FISA is at real risk of expiring due to Trump's decision to put PULTE in as DNI.
Almost certain that JOHNSON cannot put the bill on suspension now. And can he get it out of rules?
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Maria W. Norris @mariawnorris.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Hi, expert on far-right extremism here, a history of domestic violence and misogyny is one of the strongest predictive variables for violent extremism, especially on the right. We've been raising the alarm on this for DECADES but no one cares.
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
60 Minutes exposes a massive insider trading ring making millions by betting on highly classified US military operations in Iran with a 98 percent win rate. Washington insiders are literally using secret Pentagon intelligence to rig prediction markets! #cdnpoli
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House & Field Negro Quarterly @morethanmud.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
the hungry observatory
black and white photo of domed observatory beneath a full moon; opened at the top resembling the pac man video game about to eat an energy dot
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C to the JB @cjb.jbactee.com · 20/05/2026
I wonder if this interests @armscontrolwonk.bsky.social or @aaronstein1.bsky.social? Wasn't expecting my infosec and non-prolif interests to intersect like this!
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BB @bbix.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
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