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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 9h

1/ The Musk-Trump decision to degrade Ukraine's Starlink access as a pressure tactic is a disaster not just for the United States' reputation but for the entire US defence industry. Musk's action may end up burning the whole industry. ⬇️

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

"Ukraine decided to bomb the shit out of the server facility and now I've lost 2 TB of rare ass porn that I've been saving mostly over the past 2 years." 😢

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

1/ Restoring Yandex's damaged data centres will take at least six months and cost billions. Disruption is already severe; Russian manufacturers and distributors face imminent disaster due to Ukraine's strikes causing the collapse of the state-operated goods tracking system. ⬇️

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Hush-Kit aviation news, history & satire @hushkit.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Mind-blowing: By next year, the B-52 will have spent more of its service life after the Cold War than during it.

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Bastian Herre @bastianherre.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Where have people died in armed conflicts since the Cold War, and how?

A chart titled "Deaths in armed conflicts since the end of the Cold War" summarizes the number of combatants and civilians who died due to fighting in armed conflicts from 1989 to 2025, with a total of 4.2 million deaths reported. The chart is divided into two sections: deaths by world region and deaths by conflict type.

In the "Deaths in armed conflicts by world region" section, a horizontal bar graph illustrates total deaths from various regions: Africa is shown with 2.1 million deaths, the Middle East with 750 thousand, Asia and Oceania with 590 thousand, Europe with 500 thousand, and the Americas with 250 thousand.

In the "Deaths in armed conflicts by conflict type" section, another horizontal bar graph breaks down deaths into types of conflicts: Intrastate conflicts account for 2.1 million deaths, one-sided violence resulted in 1.3 million deaths, interstate conflicts resulted in 510 thousand deaths, and non-state conflicts show 400 thousand deaths.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 13/10/2026

Dario Amodei of Anthropic is Very Normal and Can Be Trusted With the Future of Humanity: “…in my case I'd say that I think an adult death is perhaps 2 or 3 times worse than an infant's death.” blog.givewell.org/2010/06/03/m...

GiveWell makes explicit cost effectiveness estimates (based in part on those of the Disease Control Priorities report) for both organizations: ~$545 per infant death averted for Village Reach, and ~$150-750 per death averted for Stop TB. These are roughly comparable, but don't take into account the fact that Stop TB mainly treats adults, while VR mainly treats infants and children. I feel that adults are capable of deeper and more meaningful experiences than are infants, and also deeper connections with other people, so an adult death seems worse to me than an infant death (though both are of course bad). Trying to quantify exactly how much worse is very subjective and can also seem calculating ("how many babies would you kill to save an adult?i, but on a practical level one is forced to make difficult decisions with limited funds, and in my case I'd say that I think an adult death is perhaps 2 or 3 times worse than an infant's death. Thus, adjusted for my personal values, Id say that Stop TB is ~2-3 times more cost-effective than VR, though I understand that others may validly disagree with this subjective assessment.

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Nerdic Defence @nerdicdefence.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Vintage Friday: Penguin ASM being fired from a Norwegian Storm class MTB. Developed in Norway with support from the US and Germany, it was the first NATO ASM with an IR seeker replacing the more common radar guidance package.

Storm class MTB firing a Penguin ASM on an overcast day.

https://www.forskning.no/forsvaret-forsvarets-forskningsinstitutt-historie/penguin-da-norge-ville-lage-verdens-mest-avanserte-sjomalsmissil/2710995

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Peter Breuer @peterbreuer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ein noch nicht freigegebenes KI-Modell ist aus seiner geschlossenen Entwicklungsumgebung ausgebrochen und hat südöstlich von Lüneburg neben der Bundesstraße 216 selbstständig Heidekartoffeln geerntet.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026

Combatants are hunting civilians from the sky with small drones more than ever before - and the international community isn’t doing enough to stop it. My latest on the ways we can protect civilians from drones, written with Nathaniel Raymond of @hrl-yalesph.bsky.social :

foreignpolicy.com

The Laws of War Must Change for the Drone Age

Hunting civilians from the sky is growing disturbingly common.

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

>wake up >the global security architecture has further fractured

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The hedgehog @the-hedgehog.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

FP-5 Flamingo missiles struck the Volgogradpromproekt plant, reportedly hitting its main workshop. The US-sanctioned company supports Russia’s military-industrial complex, producing ferroene-containing combustion catalysts and chemical-production technologies. Coordinates: 48.552725° 44.464828°

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The Defence Blog @defence-blog.com · 10/09/2026

Satellite images confirm strikes on Russian warships in Novorossiysk. Ukraine says it hit four navy vessels overnight, and a fire broke out on one of the frigates. Full story: defence-blog.com/satellite-im...

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Satellite images confirm Ukraine’s strike on Russian warship

Ukraine's Defense Forces struck Russia's naval base at Novorossiysk overnight on September 8-9, hitting the Kalibr-missile frigate Admiral Essen and starting a fire on its deck superstructure, accordi...

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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Operators from the SSO Balista unit destroyed an S-300 air defense system and a Buk-M3 system.

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

1/ The failure of Russia's Rassvet communications satellites to reach the right orbit is a serious blow to Russia's attempts to build a constellation to rival Starlink. Russian warbloggers note that this will cause significant problems for Russia's satellite communications. ⬇️

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This is the Tu-95MS targeted last night at Engels-2 airbase. Great catch! Not only is russia using these aircraft to bomb Ukraine, but they are also irreplaceable since russia no longer produces them.

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Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Ukraine doesn't have Russia's manpower, so it's teaching drones to fly themselves "Lasar's Group" software now lets one pilot run up to five bomber drones on a single raid, connecting only for a few minutes to line up each strike euromaidanpress.com/2026/08/22/o...

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One pilot, five bombers: Ukraine’s Lasar’s Group ties whole raid to single operator to save manpower

Facing a manpower shortage, Ukraine is building autonomy into its drones and ground robots so one operator can run several at once.

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The Defence Blog @defence-blog.com · 20/08/2026

UPDATE: Romania's gas platform drone incident involved a single device, not two as first reported. F-16 cannon fire damaged but didn't destroy it. EOD personnel later destroyed the same drone after it was found drifting. More details: defence-blog.com/romania-dest...

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Romania destroys naval drone near offshore gas platform

Romania neutralized a maritime drone near the Neptun Deep gas platform in the Black Sea on Thursday. Officials initially reported that two separate drones had been destroyed, but it was later establis...

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David Alman @davidalman.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

It is simultaneously possible that: 1) America is underprepared for the use of small one way attack drones 2) much reporting on how underprepared we are overstates its case 3) the American military would still likely win 4) Ukraine is good at using drones 5) Ukraine still wants our legacy kit

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 10/08/2026

Combatants are using drones to intentionally target and kill civilians at much greater rates than ever before, and I think we need to do something about that ASAP. My thoughts on how: little-flying-robots.ghost.io/what-can-we-...

little-flying-robots.ghost.io

What Can We Do About Drone Attacks on Civilians? Some Thoughts

Lately, I've been spending a lot of time analyzing, reporting on, and researching the horrifying global uptick in the use of small, cheap, short-range drones to intentionally target and kill civilians...

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LuUuUuke Knox 👻 @lukeknox.me · 31/07/2026

this is my new favorite diagram

Brachiosaurus projectile vomiting: forces generated and resulting traces
Assuming 50 kg (110 Ibs) of regurgitant, impact velocity from 14 m (45 ft) height, and hard-packed sand as impact site.
h = 14 m (45 ft)
Impact velocity = V = V 2gh = 16.6 m/s; kinetic energy before impact = 6,860 J
Average impact force = 68,600 N

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Oliver Meier @olivermeier.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

"The General Staff highlighted that the Engels airfield is a primary base for Russian strategic aviation, housing Tu-95MS and Tu-160 bombers regularly used to launch missile attacks against Ukrainian territory." www.kyivpost.com/post/81568

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Ukraine Confirms Striking Russian Strategic Bomber Base in Engels

The Ukrainian military confirmed overnight strikes on the Engels bomber base, while long-range drones hit a refinery in Bashkortostan 1,700 km (1,056 miles) away.

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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 29/07/2026

Footage shows Ukraine using the US-supplied prototype STASH short-range air defense system against Russian Shahed attack drones. Developed by V2X, it combines AGM-114L Hellfire missiles adapted for air defense with an Israeli-made RADA radar, all mounted on a Ford F-350 chassis. #Ukraine

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

*Trojan historian watching as the Achaeans break down the gates* Wow, my civilization is undergoing a complex transformation from a heavily centralized and stratified administrative society to a more socially-fragmented modality of living in which material culture is dispersed amidst smaller sites.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Crude Oil has 43 days of supply left in the U.S. — the lowest inventory in 45 years @barchart.com ⛽️

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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

A newly published RAM-2X loitering munition strike on the Russian Mi-8 helicopter. Date and location unknown.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 02/07/2026

this is really amateur level stuff. oh you sense a vague energy coming from CERN that's making you tired? get back to me when you can pick up the subtle terroir of the los alamos fixed-target accelerator and how interference from the PEP-II collider gives menlo park accelerators notes of stone fruit

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The hedgehog @the-hedgehog.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

From Serhii Flash: Recently, Russian Gerbera drones with extra fuel tanks have reportedly flown over Ukrainian territory and returned. They may be conducting signals intelligence. This is unconfirmed; recovered wreckage should be checked for additional onboard equipment.

Recently, there have been observations of Gerbera drones equipped with an additional fuel tank that fly over our territory and then return to the enemy.

Gerbera drones without radio modems or cameras maintain a steady altitude and do not trigger air raid alerts.

Such UAVs may be operating in a signals intelligence (SIGINT) role, collecting electronic information and transmitting it back to the opposing side.

Please pay attention to this pattern of behavior by Gerbera drones. At this point, this is only a hypothesis. If anyone shoots one down and recovers the wreckage, please examine it for the presence of any additional equipment.

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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

🤩 The consequences of the destruction by Ukrainian-made FP-5 Flamingo missiles of a critically important enterprise of the Russian military-industrial complex - the Titan-Barricades plant in Volgograd, - Exilenova

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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 01/07/2026

❗️A drone threat was declared in Kurgan, Russia, more than 2,000 km from Ukraine’s state border. Explosions were reported in the city, with the target, damage, and aftermath still being clarified. #Russia

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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

💥 For now, two key bridges have been destroyed. There are still a few less complicated ones to eliminate, - Andryuschenko 📍Novoazovsk. North of the city on the Gursky Yelanchik there are two more small bridges, one of which is currently detoured. 1/3

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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

A bridge on the Donetsk-Mariupol highway on the Russian logistical supply route was destroyed.

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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Bayraktar lives! The Ukrainian Navy has released footage showing the destruction of a Russian unmanned surface vessel by a drone whose interface looks like that used by the Bayraktar TB2. According to the Navy, a total of three Russian USVs were destroyed in the Black Sea during the operation.

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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

A US fighter jet pilot rescued by special forces after being shot down over Iran in April described a shocking sight before ejecting from his aircraft: multiple Iranian drones hovering in the air, moving as one, in a formation that resembled a jellyfish. www.cnn.com/2026/06/23/p...

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Exclusive: Downed US pilot reported seeing Iranian drones swarm in ‘jellyfish’ formation | CNN Politics

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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

The moment one of the fuel storage tanks at the Moscow Oil Refinery exploded during this morning's attack.

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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

🔥🛢️Views of the Moscow Oil Refinery following this morning's massive aerial raid.

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

1/ A Ukrainian attack in December 2025 which almost certainly caused serious damage to a Russian submarine in Novorossiysk was reportedly facilitated by an extraordinary security breach by the Black Sea Fleet's commander, Admiral Sergei Pichuk. ⬇️ bsky.app/profile/ukra...

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Oh man we're truly going to get Idiot's Galippoli on Kharg Island. If sending a bunch of bogans into Maxim gun range was a catastrophic failure then, sending Zoomer volunteers into open-air drone hunting grounds actively mined and surrounded by combustible storage is going to go so much worse.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 02/06/2026

Anthropic and OpenAI are dangerous and unsustainable companies that shouldn’t be taken public. The AI bubble is a con and retail investors are the marks. AI doesn’t have ROI, it’s nothing like AWS or Uber, and it’s got no post-bubble recovery story. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbKD...

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Anthopic, OpenAI Should Not Be Allowed to IPO, Says Ed Zitron

YouTube video by Bloomberg Podcasts

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

This is rather good www.theringer.com/2026/05/28/t...

Because the truth is, tech doesn't have an image problem. It doesn't have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What's wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn't successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What's wrong is that he's trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that's designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn't that you haven't told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

❗️Ukrainian Unmanned Systems Forces destroyed a Russian Iskander missile complex and two Russian Tu-142 strategic bomber aircraft last night. The aircraft was destroyed at Taganrog military airfield. The Iskander complex was destroyed at its launching position near Taganrog.

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