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Jared Keller @laserwars.net · 01/10/2026

I made my Fox News debut this week and it was more fun than I expected Come for my bitchy resting face, stay for the surprise cameo from my Xbox controller! www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaVD...

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Jared Keller @laserwars.net · 04/07/2026

Celebrating America's 250th birthday with my usual July 4th tradition: rereading this incredible work by my late grandfather, who was a renowned historian of American bureaucracy www.amazon.com/dp/019537424X

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Jared Keller @laserwars.net · 30/06/2026

Marjorie Taylor Greene has the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever ...

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Jared Keller @laserwars.net · 28/06/2026

Happy 10-year anniversary to one of the best stories I've ever written psmag.com/news/how-the...

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Jared Keller @laserwars.net · 12/06/2026

When life gives you crayons, draw a beam director

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Jared Keller @laserwars.net · 08/06/2026

Rolling into Monday like

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Jared Keller @laserwars.net · 04/06/2026

Using Foucault to test facial recognition tech is *so* funny and all, but using Las Meninas would have been a REAL deep cut

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Jared Keller @laserwars.net · 02/06/2026

My incredible wife got me the vanity license plate to match my Substack for my birthday 🥰

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Jared Keller @laserwars.net · 01/06/2026

Welcome to the Laser Wars

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Jared Keller @laserwars.net · 29/05/2026

Disputation on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences (1/95)

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Jared Keller @laserwars.net · 26/05/2026

We've come a long way in 15 years

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Jared Keller @laserwars.net · 21/05/2026

With the Vox Media and BuzzFeed sales I guess I should finally start shopping my memoir …

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Jared Keller @laserwars.net · 05/05/2026

That sound you hear is a subreddit of keyboard warriors gearing up for battle

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Jared Keller @laserwars.net · 03/05/2026

Reading old Economist laser weapon coverage and getting comma-induced vertigo

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Jared Keller @laserwars.net · 29/04/2026

The Pentagon reads Laser Wars You should too laserwars.net

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Jared Keller @laserwars.net · 20/04/2026

BREAKING: The US Navy Tested a Laser Weapon on an Aircraft Carrier At Sea Photos published to DVIDS show a containerized LOCUST Laser Weapon System from defense contractor AV set up on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush for a live-fire test on October 5, 2025.

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Jared Keller @laserwars.net · 20/04/2026

🎶 Highway to the LASER DRONE 🎶 www.laserwars.net/p/missile-de...

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Jared Keller @laserwars.net · 18/04/2026

I don’t always post tons of personal stuff but it was my wedding anniversary this week Love you, Mrs. Laser Wars. Thanks for lighting up my life!

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Jared Keller @laserwars.net · 17/04/2026

You’ve all been good lately so here’s Winnie channeling Andrew Wyeth

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Jared Keller @laserwars.net · 16/04/2026

Just a reminder that A) this photo exists and B) I own the only known physical copy A Romanian physicist operates a laser system during testing at the Institute of Atomic Physics in Bucharest in 1968. (Romanian government photo/Laser Wars archive) www.laserwars.net/p/romania-la...

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Jared Keller @laserwars.net · 16/04/2026

The US Space Force envisions a "future operating environment" in 2040 defined by space-based directed energy weapons and "lunar-based weapons" www.spaceforce.mil/Portals/2/Do...

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Jared Keller @laserwars.net · 14/04/2026

Woke up to a pleasant surprise! laserwars.net

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Jared Keller @laserwars.net · 13/04/2026

ONE NATION UNDER THE DOME www.laserwars.net/p/us-militar...

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Jared Keller @laserwars.net · 09/04/2026

This link is dead but the headline will live forever in my brain

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Jared Keller @laserwars.net · 09/04/2026

Sometimes I look at my @taskandpurpose.com archive and am SHOCKED at the shit I got away with publishing

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Jared Keller @laserwars.net · 08/04/2026

This might be the most unhinged morale patch I've ever seen A U.S. sailor conducts routine maintenance in the hangar bay of the USS Gerald R. Ford while underway in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea on March 22, 2026 www.dvidshub.net/image/959549...

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Jared Keller @laserwars.net · 08/04/2026

NEW: A preliminary analysis indicates the US Defense Department wants to pour more than $2 billion into research, development, testing, and evaluation (RDT&E) programs involving high-energy laser weapons and other directed energy systems in fiscal year 2027 www.laserwars.net/p/defense-de...

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Jared Keller @laserwars.net · 08/04/2026

Publishing tomorrow... laserwars.net

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Jared Keller @laserwars.net · 05/04/2026

Tired: "We sacrificed so much expensive military equipment to rescue one man!" Wired:

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Jared Keller @laserwars.net · 02/04/2026

Welcome to the Resistance

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Jared Keller @laserwars.net · 30/03/2026

Believe it or not, the US military first shot a drone out of the sky with a high-energy laser weapon back in November 1973. Footage of the shootdown would not become public until 1986, when it aired on a February episode of Polish science TV series 'Sonda" www.laserwars.net/p/project-de...

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Jared Keller @laserwars.net · 29/03/2026

Here's the thing about my father: he can still write one hell of a lede www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2026/03...

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Jared Keller @laserwars.net · 27/03/2026

Finally, all the Article II snuff films you could ever want, right at your fingertips! psmag.com/social-justi...

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Jared Keller @laserwars.net · 19/03/2026

I can't stop thinking about this 15-year-old @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social essay www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/42/wi...

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Jared Keller @laserwars.net · 19/03/2026

Getting a mention in @dinfontay.com's @vinepair.com made my day! vinepair.com/articles/hop...

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Jared Keller @laserwars.net · 15/03/2026

Happy almost-two-year-anniversary to 1. one of my favorite stories of all time and 2. this eternally delightful headline from @maxuf.bsky.social www.fastcompany.com/91109459/pen...

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Jared Keller @laserwars.net · 14/03/2026

Still one of the funniest headlines in the history of digital media

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Jared Keller @laserwars.net · 13/03/2026

Shoutout to @meidastouch.com for letting me work an X-Men joke into this essay on laser weapons www.meidasplus.com/p/jared-kell...

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Jared Keller @laserwars.net · 13/03/2026

This reminds me of Michael Kinsley's first words after his deep brain stimulation surgery: "Well, of course, when you cut taxes, government revenues go up. Why couldn’t I see that before?” time.com/archive/6677...

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Jared Keller @laserwars.net · 13/03/2026

Achievement unlocked: 'Laser Wars' cited in the @nytimes.com! www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/b...

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Jared Keller @laserwars.net · 12/03/2026

When I was a senior in high school, some of my classmates decided they were sick of the bullshit pressure of college acceptance season and decided to plaster their rejection letters on the walls of the library 'senior room.' I forgot the @bostonglobe.com covered until my mother sent me this:

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