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RussianHacker (Marklin)

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History and Politics guy. Definitely not a Decepticon Double Agent Currently Reading "The Looming Tower."

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 12h
The normalization of piracy as a righteous form of theft has been bad for basically every form of art AND it’s made a completely insufferable kind of person
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mallow's hyperrealistic blood @bajablastenjoyer.bsky.social · 18h
look i know she has boring office lady vibes and that's cringe and bad and uncool but she's objectively closer to AOC than Rahm or whoever
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 16h
Isn’t this guy our Vice President’s favorite public intellectual? I mean, I understand this isn’t Hasan Piker-level antisemitism, but “I openly endorse the views of the guy openly endorsing Hitler” seems like it merits, I dunno, a newspaper story or something
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RussianHacker (Marklin) @russianhacker.bsky.social · 12h
Imagine showing this to someone back in 2001.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 05/10/2026
AP Exclusive: Survivors of a drone attack that killed six U.S. soldiers question Army leadership over safety and the medical care that followed.
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Exclusive: Soldiers and Gold Star families press Army leadership after deadly Iranian drone strike
It's the deadliest strike against American troops during the war with Iran. Now U.S. soldiers wounded in a drone attack on Port Shuaiba in Kuwait are raising their concerns publicly about whether commanders underestimated the threat and saying the military medical system failed them.
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finrodsauronvorecommissionfolderabsurdres @yungdreyfusard.bsky.social · 23h
to be perfectly honest i think assad and his allies probably have more to do with the half a million dead on account of them being the people physically dropping the bombs and shooting the bullets
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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Gotta say until you read the actual motion it's not clear just how rabid the Greens' positioning is. The motion calls for the end of the State of Israel.
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David Schraub @schraubd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
One of my least favorite political narratives is this weird idea that it’s *obvious* how to defeat the fascists and the only reason Democrats don’t do it is because they’re feckless/corrupt/cowards.
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Michael Feinberg @michael-feinberg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We’re being fought to a draw by Iran, and we can’t protect our aircraft from them in, ahem, the United Kingdom, but at least the Defense Department is winning the war on — let me check my notes — beards and wokeness. Pete Hegseth is clearly the second coming of George Marshall.
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U.S. Rushes to Withdraw Bombers From U.K. Air Base After New Threats
The withdrawal came with unusual speed, following what U.S. officials said were threats of an Iran-based plot against the installation.
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RussianHacker (Marklin) @russianhacker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I wonder if there were similar feelings when Civil War and Revolutionary War veterans began to pass away. Then again it was prolly different due to the large age disparities in those wars compared to the Greatest Gen in WW2. Still makes me wonder.
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RussianHacker (Marklin) @russianhacker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Last year I got to hear the story of Col. Richard Bushong at the B-17 museum near Tuscon. Man was nearly 100 years old and sharp as a tack. As someone who has consumed a lot of history media, hearing stories directly from a veteran themselves ALWAYS registers differently. The loss is truly felt.
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lowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
merrick garland totally exonerated
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Kerr Avon ♨️ @kerravon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
3.) Trump's comeback would be impossible with a multi-party system (Brazil has a multi-party system) 4.) Recent memories of past authoritarianism makes far-right comebacks difficult (see also: South Korea)
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Kerr Avon ♨️ @kerravon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I am now calling a moratorium on takes declaring: 1.) "quick prosecutions" solve fascism (Flavio's dad was prosecuted and barred from office for Brazil's J6 incident) 2.) left-wing populism solves fascism (Lula is the Bernie of Brazil)
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Risa Brooks @risabrooks12.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
With Hegseth in the news this week, I’ve noticed him using a particular rhetorical tactic: packaging highly ideological messaging to the military & public w/ (superficially) reasonable & substantive policy proposals. Before I explain what he is up to and why it matters, here are three examples:
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Kori Schake 🎃 @kschake.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Important analysis from @risabrooks12.bsky.social, one of the best civ-mil analysts: Hegseth's proposals are even more ideological and corrosive than they appear -->
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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Every single one of these stories is like this and it pisses me off to no end
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
hard to think of a cartoon that better sums up the mind of a Trump voter than this
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 04/10/2026
🔴 A new UN report details a systematic pattern of sexual violence used as torture by Russian forces in Ukraine. 🧵 1/8 ⬇️
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Remember, you are under no obligation to ever side with Tucker Carlson when he makes some anti-Trump comment. He is a fascist apologist who apparently thinks Hitler winning WWII would have been fine. He is, in my humble opinion, a silver spooned bigot who romanticizes white supremacy.
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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
new wolfenstein looks like shit
its pete hegseth splaying his arms christlike at a podium with all sorts of americana bunting thats got a distinct fash aesthetic
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Again, <only Republicans> ever get to talk like this. If a single municipal level Democrat ever did, it would be a national outrage &spark a wave of “civility” discourse, & op-eds about how Dems must Respect Real Folkz & talk across difference. Democracy is incompatible with this double standard.
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Counter, he's the Antichrist @counterfactor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Germany removed Hitler's mustache in Wolfenstein 2 but can't be fucked to ban AfD
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Der Fisher @blackholefun.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Unpopular opinion: LLMs are generally deradicalizing people whose beliefs are based on pure propaganda. I've been watching this happen slowly with some people I care about. ChatGPT is one of the reasons they finally accept that the NRA, OAN, and NewsMax are lying to them.
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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
There's growing experimental evidence¹˒²˒³˒⁴ that LLMs are unusually good at talking people out of entrenched false beliefs and conspiracy theories. ¹ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39264999/ ² pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41179846/ ³ sciety.org/articles/act... ⁴ connecticut.adl.org/resources/re...
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mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 04/10/2026
we found the reverse Gish Gallop where Trump-like people just try to lie faster than you can correct them, an LLM can correct lies faster than you can lie
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
i think that to some extent professing concern about biden’s health was a polite way of masking the actual voting decision factor: “my pockets were fatter in 2019”
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Substantial portions of conventional charity and philanthropy are extremely adverse to any kind of effort to impose rigor or ask in any way “is this working at all”. It’s not a strawman that they’re critiquing, at least in my personal experience.
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RussianHacker (Marklin) @russianhacker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Kissinger was certainly a man who had ideas.
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If I had to guess, the obvious reason for this is that an LLM simply does not fucking tire. It will always be ready for an other round of argument, it will always be able to dig into whatever dumb rabbit hole you want to pivot to. You have to fucking kneecap it to stop it from doing these things.
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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The people extolling LLMs in 2023 (I was not one of them tbh) were saying "imagine how powerful they'll be in a few years" and it turned out they were completely right
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This week on the blog! more Hearts of Iron IV. Having discussed the game's military simulation in previous weeks, this week we look at how HoI4 understands politics and...it's rough - design streamlining leads to an incomplete and authoritarian political model. acoup.blog/2026/10/02/t...
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Teaching Paradox: Hearts of Iron IV, Part IIIa: Focusing on Politics
This is the first half of the third part (I, II) of our long-delayed series looking at Hearts of Iron IV, Paradox Interactive’s World War II grand strategy game, easily one of the most popula…
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dame @dame.is · 02/10/2026
i’ve been hesitant to say it, but when i see exchanges like this that are so out of touch with objective reality (AND overtly bad faith from otherwise smart people), it makes me think anti-AI psychosis IS real
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what is it and what does it do? that's the question i've been trying to get a clear answer to and it has eluded me or there is no consensus

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i guess part of what i'm suggesting is it's a question best answered by regularly using it. i understand some people don't want to do that for ethical reasons, which i support. but i think they should recognize that also likely limits their ability to comment usefully on Al's capabilities and limits

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I don't quite understand why heroin is bad, I better try it to see why everybody thinks it's so bad
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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/10/2026
that twitter still has a lot of normal people on it is the main problem! it would be a lot better if it was exclusively fascists and the blast radius of their propaganda was smaller! truth social isn't warping brains that weren't already warped
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
for what it's worth Third Way has been afaik pretty good on trans rights for a while (2023, below). the various organs of centrism in the D party are centrist on different axes and Third Way's centrist thing is almost entirely that they don't really want to pay taxes.
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How to Talk about Transgender Youth
Third Way is a national think tank and advocacy organization that champions moderate policy and political ideas. Our work on the center left acts as a critical bulwark against political extremism.
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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 02/10/2026
I get why a lot of people got defensive about Molly Shah, they really wanted to feel like they were helping, but that's the exact sort of psychology that makes you a mark.
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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Legal folks, how is this "defying Democrats" and not "illegally misappropriating funds"?
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Discussions of criminal justice have just gotten so dumb, man. I feel like social media has had a really pernicious effect on this. Like just a really useless idiot polarization between people who think CRIME!!! means basic civil rights are woke vs everyone is a Jean Valjean victim of circumstance.
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I Nied braaaaiiiiins 🧟 @nied.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
As an aside, while I am against using blocklists or automated blocks in general, I do recommend setting up or subscribing to a blocklist that blocks anyone with a triangle emoji in their handle as it's basically always an indication of someone who isn't worth interacting with.
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It's important to him because he's a white supremacist, which is the same reason he avoids mentioning the Nazis or Confederates when he lists the foes America has defeated. My guess is at least one of his speechwriters believes the wrong side lost in WW2, if Hegseth doesn't.
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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If we could figure out some quality or feature that was common to all the states where this happened or, conversely, common to all the states where this did not happen, that might help suggest a strategy to correct and/or prevent this
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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A particular annoyance of mine—which is extremely obvious if you’ve read a book in the last decade but less so if your exposure to the Civil Rights movement is Twitter screenshots of Tumblr posts—is that “[Southern] white moderate” and “[Northern] white liberal” were not identical categories to King
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Nick Kodama 🌳👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
hey is the strait open yet
Six hundred of our finest warriors joined SECWAR
 for morning PT at the Pentagon ahead of his HISTORIC State of the Force address.
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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
You're losing the war you started for no reason, dumbass.
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RussianHacker (Marklin) @russianhacker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
youtu.be/NYJ2w82WifU
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THE DICTATOR - HIV Aladeen
YouTube video by Brykks
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Kori Schake 🎃 @kschake.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is so dumb. How to destroy a capable military.
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mallow's hyperrealistic blood @bajablastenjoyer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
great Build-A-Blocklist Workshop in the replies here
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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It is genuinely chilling how quickly antisemitism in leftist and entertainer spaces is accelerating. All they need to do is cite Palestine and suddenly everyone forgets everything they've been told in favor of defending blatant antisemitism from has-beens and mediocrities.
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mallow's hyperrealistic blood @bajablastenjoyer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
not great that we're at "Mamdani is a Jew-puppet for doing hatecrime protections" imo
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Vibecession Forever @ghazelleberner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Nothing really prepared me for the whiplash that came from Israel/Palestine transforming from famous shorthand for “an extraordinarily complicated mess with no good outcomes” to something “so simple, you’re an evil moron if you disagree with me.” It literally happened in the discourse overnight.
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