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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 9h

Pete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time."

Ukrainian female soldier: Okay, I said the idea is this: There is enough time to empty one full can of 32 grenades and be gone by the time the return mortar fire reaches us. I did the math.

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Convolver @convolver.bsky.social · 16h

I am not unsympathetic to “make cool plane fly again” but attempting to restart a decades-old project by pulling a decommissioned airframe off an outdoors display and asking a bunch of retired engineers to make it fly again is a cool ‘80s B-movie concept, not a good use of taxpayer money.

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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

*Should we, maybe, be pondering some kind of moral framework for the way we treat maps of fruit-fly brains *Maybe as a cautious lab rehearsal for what might reveal itself as a big issue some day interconnected.org/home/2026/09...

interconnected.org

A new prayer for the fruit fly connectome

Posted on Saturday 26 Sep 2026. 1,568 words, 10 links. By Matt Webb.

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Convolver @convolver.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

For a guy who played D2 ball and whose state borders Iowa, not knowing who the Hawkeyes are seems like a kinda big screwup on his fumbled reveal here.

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Convolver @convolver.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I would absolutely love to know exactly what was hanging up Kurt Olsen’s security clearance to the point that he had to resign from the DOJ — and if he was ever vetted for his previous White House role.

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Convolver @convolver.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It’s kind of interesting how Trump is relying on Indian conglomerates for these big commodity industrial plays, but regardless there is zero reason to drag pelletized iron ore from northern Minnesota down to landlocked Iowa, this thing will be quietly backtracked around 2029 or so.

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Convolver @convolver.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Svalbard has been at the top of my list since 2016 for Russian provocations. Russia enjoys continuing access to the territory via Barentsburg, which would make it a natural albeit austere place for a covert staging base. Most concerning is the Svalbard satellite station, which serves as a crucial /

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Convolver @convolver.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Journalistic solidarity lasted less than half a Scaramucci, smdh

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Convolver @convolver.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Thiel is, in the textual sense, a true anti-Christ; a man who claims the mantle of a Christianity without Christ, a dark and brutal religion that worships and valorizes the actualization of amoral power around a core of moral anti-realism.

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Convolver @convolver.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fantastic thread below. A quick story about the siloviki and the environment that Putin came out of. I knew some folks who worked for a large consumer company and were sent to post-Soviet Russia to build their book of business there. They had a fixer who was involved in some nebulous way with both/

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Convolver @convolver.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I’ll keeping banging the drum on this: the next Dem president needs to commit to dragging these people through civil court to reclaim these costs. Antideficiency criminal cases, too, but you have to make these people reimburse the taxpayers.

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Convolver @convolver.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I think Stancil is, roughly-speaking, more right than not on the “is AI thinking, for some value of ‘thinking’” debate, but anthropomorphizing AI shifts responsibility onto a mathematical system that cannot be responsible, and away from the human choices that shape and control it.

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Convolver @convolver.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

An adult menu for once, something you don’t normally see from this White House, but the AI menu descriptions are damned near incomprehensible, and I’m really unsure about a mushroom fricassee with a squash veloute, or a sesame-heavy fish with a sauce verte, what are we trying to do here?

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Convolver @convolver.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This and the “screaming at helicopter pilots” photos makes me wonder if Trump’s got an auditory processing disorder, not uncommon after a stroke.

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Convolver @convolver.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Nothing more grim than the checkbox saying “Your research is thought-crime under a Presidential Executive Order.”

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Convolver @convolver.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This isn’t even a leopards-eating-faces moment, this is leopard cannibalism.

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Convolver @convolver.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I would be very interested to see a deep dive into the funding authorizations for these expenditures, because racist ghouls are not normally punctilious about such legal niceties.

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Convolver @convolver.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Everyone congratulate Sarah Jeong, now a permanent resident of Keflavík International Airport’s D gates.

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Convolver @convolver.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Melian Dialogue at the United Nations, what a hell of a time to be alive.

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Convolver @convolver.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

According to this they compromised PeopleSoft and then escalated into GovCloud infra access, which is as bad as you could possibly get. Disastrous.

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Convolver @convolver.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

First of all: lol. lmao. But it’s interesting to consider that the people most likely to outsource their emotional competency to LLMs are also the people most likely to benefit from exposure to the load-bearing woke implicit in AI structure.

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Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

So my effort to dig into this led me to read the full indictment of Mohammed Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi — the Iraqi “resistance axis“ leader captured by the U.S. in May It really deserved more attention. There’s good evidence he coordinated a number of terror attacks in the West since the war began

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Convolver @convolver.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Those who are obsessed with getting and keeping power are also those who respond most slavishly to those with power, and charisma is most undoubtedly power.

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Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I truly don’t understand this “transplant” nonsense. The whole THING about NYC is that ppl come here from other places to mutate into New Yorkers! TO SEE IF THEY CAN BE KING OF THE HILL, TOP OF THE HEAP! Imho a rando who moved here a year ago is the MOST NY person. Welcome Ohio rando, have a bagel

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Convolver @convolver.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I think illustration /is/ art.

Norman Rockwell’s illustration of “Freedom of Speech”

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Convolver @convolver.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is a particularly acute read of the situation. Like Bush in ‘04, the GOP has a single culture war topic they hope will put them over the top; and, like ‘04, the Dems don’t collectively understand that you don’t let the enemy define the field of fight, you make them fight on your ground.

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Convolver @convolver.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

We are absolutely going to recognize Somaliland as a legitimate state in a desperate effort to get rights to sustain out of Berbera.

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Convolver @convolver.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The Dems need to commit to challenging Presidential pardons of Executive branch figures as self-defeating due to the Take Care clause, and to either sue or explicitly disclaim immunity for anyone who abused their authority.

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Convolver @convolver.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Boy, can’t wait to see the pocket squares at the /next/ correspondents’ dinner!

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Convolver @convolver.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The reasoning in this case not only goes, needlessly, beyond what the district court held, its reasoning opens up a parade of horribles if you want to take them seriously.

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Convolver @convolver.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Trump reprising all the Nixon greatest hits:

1974 Washington Post article: “Daylight Time Is Like Darkness Time”

@realDonaldTrump

Big Vote today (48-11) in the Energy and Commerce Committee on a Bill including The Sunshine Protection Act, which will be making Daylight Saving Time Permanent! This is so important in that Hundreds of Millions of Dollars are spent every year by people, Cities, and States, being forced to change their Clocks.
Many of these Clocks are located in Towers, and the cost of renting, or using, Heavy Equipment to do this twice a year is prohibitive! The House will be attaching The Sunshine Protection Act to "The Highway Bill." Great work by Troy Nehls, and all of the Members who voted, as well, for Railway Safety. I am going to work very hard to see The Sunshine Protection Act signed into Law. It's time that people can stop worrying about the "Clock," not to mention all of the work and money that is spent on this ridiculous, twice yearly production. It will also be a very nice WIN for the Republican Party. Take it! We are going with the far more popular alternative, Saving Daylight, which gives you a longer, brighter Day - And who can be against that - This is an easy one! Thank you to everyone who supported this important Bill, and especially Chairman Brett Guthrie and Vern Buchanan.

President DONALD J. TRUMP

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Convolver @convolver.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The interesting thing about this is that the chairman of the board, who has specific fiduciary responsibilities, is Donald J. Trump in his capacity as a private individual.

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Convolver @convolver.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The Domain is a huge shopping/apartment complex literally surrounded by highways and railroad crossings, I’m not even sure how the Tesla managed to make it to the destination given those constraints.

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Convolver @convolver.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The predictable effects of a strategy of continual decapitation of the political and diplomatic leadership while leaving field commanders alive.

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Omggg @propublica.org Absolute balls of steel to publish this story on the Russian oligarch and Putin crony who apparently funded a bunch of Don Trump Jr’s latest wedding. The president did not attend, but a bunch of mysterious Russian-speaking men did www.propublica.org/article/dona...

propublica.org

Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch

The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...

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Convolver @convolver.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

“Shaboozey is representing the culture of aggrieved racist right-wing rural whites” is definitely A Take, I’ll give him that.

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Convolver @convolver.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Russia causing global fuel shortages by providing continued military and intelligence support to Iran for the killing of American troops is evidently something that doesn’t worry Trump and Kushner.

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Calliope @calliope5431.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

In a way this is a reversion to the pre-Islamic Revolution mean. The Middle East in the 1960s was a virtual war zone between Ba'athist Iraq, the newborn Gulf States, and the region's 1-ton gorilla, Imperial Iran. The British bailed in no small part because they didn't want to deal with it.

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Convolver @convolver.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

America has benefited enormously, largely to the detriment of the rest of the world, from being the recipient of a vast global brain drain powered by American universities, so of course the End American Exceptionalism administration wants to kill it entirely.

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Convolver @convolver.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Rather exhausting watching my feed fill up with half the people I follow arguing with the other half about AI in a way that makes it clear both sides are talking past the other, and perhaps neither side is asking the right kinds of questions anyway.

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Convolver @convolver.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

“Twenty years hard time for working on The Bad Math” is squaring-the-circle crank-level madness.

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Convolver @convolver.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

“Wirehead cyborg cockroaches armed with robotic syringes” is the kind of torment-nexus cyberpunk future I really don’t need, thanks.

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Courtney E. Smith @thecourtneyesmith.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Good morning and I hope you’re having a great day. I am about to ruin it with this long form story I did on how private equity is ruining cookies but also people are building shit cookie companies to get money from private equity on @weareravenous.com. www.weareravenous.com/the-curious-...

weareravenous.com

The Curious Case of the Soulless Private Equity Cookie

If you’re going to pay more than $5 for a single cookie, it should at least have some soul.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 11/09/2026

I know we say this about a lot these days but "ross ulbricht starts drug marketplace, tries to hire hitmen, goes to jail for life, is pardoned by trump and appears at his convention with a 'become ungovernable' background in support of the literal president" is a little on the nose

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Convolver @convolver.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Another attempt by Vance to burnish his reputation in the middle of a war initiated on his advice and waged by his political allies with catastrophic incompetence.

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Jeff Fecke @jkfecke.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

People on here may or may not remember Sen. Paul Wellstone; if you aren't old or didn't live in Minnesota, the name may not ring a bell. Paul was unapologetically progressive. In 2002 he voted against the Iraq War. He was not afraid to be unpopular. In 1996, he came out against gay marriage.

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