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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 02/04/2026

Bro, I log on to this boring-ass social network precisely to see your Xi Jinping thought memes

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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 19/01/2026

The @districtcon.bsky.social gods ask for their due. The conference may proceed but one natural crisis will occur

Screenshot of Snowstorm hitting east coast

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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 30/11/2025

This is such pretentious bs. The poetry is probably: "Roses are red Violets are blue Build an atomic bomb or we‘re through" Because prompt screening or RL for safety is a charade that really only narrows pathways but doesn’t close them. And the atom bomb scenario is idiotic in and of itself

Screenshot from wired reading "The study did not include any examples of the jailbreaking poetry, and the researchers tell WIRED that the verse is too dangerous to share with the public."

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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 11/11/2025

One fun thing the @dreadnode.bsky.social CTI agent is unearthing from the Great Firewall leaks is how many of the employees of this Chinese deep-packet inspection/malware intro/censorship company are also part-time (PhD) students If it can work for them, it can work for me! .

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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 25/10/2025

Today I recall a meeting with the German Foreign Office‘s resource security unit who over my objections told me that Nord Stream 2 is a great idea and Putin is motivated by money and would never break a gas delivery deal. We have wasted so much time with incompetent folks but we can still come back

Meme of American and Chinese train riders both thinking the same thought silentld while looking at each other "Our economy is cooked. This century is theirs for the taking"

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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 17/10/2025

My "This is not a coup d‘etat"-statement has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my statement.

Picture of military personnel of Madagascar under the Bloomberg headline "Madagascar‘s military leader is sworn in as president after a takeover, and says 'This is not a coup d'etat'"

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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 24/09/2025

The quality of propaganda pics made by German DoD has improved remarkably with the recent leadership changes. More weapons systems, more elaborate staging, cooler poses… Also, finally a German general who seems to still hit the gym and doesn’t look like he smells of day-old beef stew and accounting

Head of the German airforce shaking the hand of his Japanese counterpart on the open ramp of a military transport plane that is mid-flight with German and Japanese jets flying behind the open ramp

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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 25/04/2025

Gell-Mann Amnesia - more relevant than ever in the age of AI "Models produce subpar answers when asked about the field I am an expert in but perform amazing on things I know nothing about" - using them for knowledge retrieval is mid. Leverage the power of reasoning and probability machines instead

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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 27/01/2025

But rather than admit it, the CCP decided to pass off factory-made steel as produced "by the people", fostering a narrative of how the grit and ingenuity of the Chinese people enabled this breakthrough despite limits on resources and hostile sanctions. There is nothing new under the sun.

Great leap forward propaganda poster showing a steel bucked pouring steel onto factories and a grain bucket seeding grain on fields

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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 27/01/2025

Thinking of the Great Leap forward. In 1955 Mao directed China to catch up with the United States (which was sanctioning China) in steel production. So they launched a "mass steel campaign" that saw red guards melt down utensils to make steel in backyard furnaces. Only their product was worthless

Mass steel campaign propaganda poster showing a backyard furnace

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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 27/01/2025

You can @ me on this when you can tell me which is the American F-22 fighter jet and which is the Chinese J-20, built on stolen designs

One of these is an American F22 fighter jet, the other is a Chinese J-20. They are almosz identical, because China stole the designs

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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 21/12/2024

Nice suprise on a Saturday: apparently I had a major role in avoiding the government shutdown. At least Bloomberg put a picture of my girlfriend and I on the frontpage *above* the headline.

Bloomberg news frontpage showing a picture of my gf and I taking a walk above the headline "US Senate Passes Spending Deal on Brink of Deadline"

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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 17/12/2024

It‘s one thing to intellectually know that Syria was once a great empire. Another to see its relics. How much things have gone downhill due to clan mentality and factionalism…

Chalice from a Christian church in Syria (made 550-600). Hastily buried as the armies of Islam encroached to plunge Syria into a litany of cycles of mismanagement, clan mentality, and darkness from which it has not yet recovered.

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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 16/12/2024

Can‘t wait for reelections. This government was bad, though so were its predecessors. Excited to go voting!

It‘s a meme making light of the fact that Germans have grown accustomed to a slow, steady, and somthering decline into irrelevance and worsening quality of life instead of the jolts and instability that other countries experience.

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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 06/12/2024

But your graph is consumer prices with a set rate for the duration of the contract. With industrial electricity users, they have to buy ad-hoc at a constantly changing price. So the industrial spot prices are having wild and expensive spikes and hurting industry, because renewables aren’t reliable.

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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 06/12/2024

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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 06/12/2024

Academia is suffering from bloated administration. The majority of my classes were taught by part-time faculty,even as administrative headcount went up. It not only takes resources away from teaching and research but also reduces productively used time and makes innovation much more difficult.

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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 04/12/2024

"Imagine if your college professor had a side gig as a stand-up comedian—yeah, that's Martin." Suprisingly accurate summary of my student evaluations by blueskyroast.com

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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 12/10/2023

Extremely powerful words and emotions at the Captiol tonight.

Mix of House and Senate members holding a vigil for Israel on the steps of the House of Representatives

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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 24/09/2023

When @ridt.bsky.social , @jags.bsky.social ,and @invisig0th.bsky.social persuaded me to submit a talk to LABScon I didn’t think it would be accepted and didn’t dream I would get an honorable mention in the race for best speaker… Still doesn’t feel real. Thank you three! See you all in the Tesseract

Some guy giving a talk at LABScon (apparently people liked it)

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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 19/09/2023

@ridt.bsky.social ,our students, and I set up a network of Raspberry Pis in our classroom. Rate our cable management 😂😂😂

A mess of cables to connect 30 Raspberry Pis via 2 switches

Another view of the same network with me in the background

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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 09/09/2023

"And that, Sir, is where the Soviets placed The Thing"

Biden looking at a wood-carved seal (could be Potus or USA), ironically Soviets used such a woodcarve seal (gifted to the US ambassador) to install a well-placed listening device know as The Thing

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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 27/08/2023

Less than 24 hours before @ridt.bsky.social and I will start teaching our "Foundations of Cybersecurity“ class. I spent the weekend prepping 30 raspberry pis with Kali Linux and just cycled to pick up the corresponding cases. Cannot wait to meet the students and get started!

30 Gewkworm Aluminium cases for raspberry pi in my rucksack on my bike.

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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 22/08/2023

Testing a variety of Raspberry Pi equipment - especially cases- today. It’s for a "Foundations of Cybersecurity" class I will co-teach with @ridt.bsky.social where each of our 26 students will be equipped with a Kali Linux pi (since most otherwise use Macs). What is your favorite Pi case?

Assortment of Raspberry Pis, cases, SDs, and power supplies.

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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 11/08/2023

@carlomasala1.bsky.social gerne auch direkt an sie weitergeben 😁 Gibt bestimmt einen Deeskalations-Whatsapp-Kanal

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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 21/07/2023

Agreed! Espionage is a fundamental part of state behaviour, for better or worse.

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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 03/07/2023

Dear people who subscribe to me on here, but whom I’ve never met irl: -Why? -Seriously, why? -How did you even find me? -Who are you? -How can I add value to your life with my skeets? Please please please comment below this skeet. I am insanely curious!!!

Keegan-Michael Key in character as the head of security of an inner-city wizarding school request again to know why anyone would need a wand with a silencer on it (an item he confiscated)

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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 21/06/2023

All right, who had crocodile Jesus on their Bingo card? Anyone? Going once, twice… www.nytimes.com/2023/06/06/science/…

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