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@stcwhite.bsky.social
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PhD in Military History. Linux partisan, cinephile, gamer. Retweets and links indicate interest, not endorsement. Still mourning Google Reader. Also found @stcwhite@historians.social

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 2h
This is how you admit you are strategically screwed, with bluster.
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PseudoPod 🎙️ @pseudopod.org · 2h
A starter pack! 👇
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Bromptonymous 🇨🇦 @bromptonymous.ca · 3h
In addition to trying to break up the country, Danielle Smith is mandating housing for cars, and eliminating housing for people.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6h
Man, it's a good thing Jared Polis pardoned this woman. She has absolutely learned her lesson.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 5h
What I *really* want an interviewer to do with these desperate sweaty CEOs is say, "Now that Trump has said he wants you to call it 'Trump Intelligence' instead of 'Super Intelligence', are you planning to update your marketing?" and then don't reveal that you made it up until after they say yes.
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The Bugle @thebugle.bsky.social · 4h
Sign up for our mailing list (You can probably do that on our website, whatever that is)
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4h
We're maybe a week away from a Trump official shouting "White Power!" at one of these conferences.
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stcwhite.bsky.social @stcwhite.bsky.social · 4h
Maralago delenda est.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6h
What a ridiculous answer.
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Jenn Hoegg @jhoegg.bsky.social · 8h
I love that the need for this solution was only identified because of a very relatable mothering moment.
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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 8h
"Rubio’s speeches are dime-store rhetoric grasping at profundity and failing. Because Rubio is play-acting as an adult. A real adult would acknowledge after eighteen months that it’s insane for a single person to serve as secretary of state and national security advisor."
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 8h
Trump forcibly shuts down an academic conference convened to study Russian disinformation. Extremely revealing. Note the curious way in which Axel Springer controlled Politico sane washes the whole thing. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
politico.com
EU, Canada and Lithuania pull out of disinformation conference after US pressure
The Trump administration was bothered by panels that referred to the U.S. as a disinformation threat.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 07/10/2026
Good job US gov't getting those “foreign information manipulation and interference” discussions quieted down by [checks notes] engaging in information manipulation and interference... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
EU drops sponsorship of disinformation conference at Trump officials’ request
Lithuania and Canada were also pressured to withdraw, and days before #Disinfo2026, logos were wiped off website
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Abu Aardvark @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“to anyone watching the deployment of American power around the globe in the seven months since Mr. Trump decided to attack Iran, it was another glaring example of how..have been forced into retreat, pulling back military forces that had been deployed.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/u...
nytimes.com
From Iran to the U.K., Trump Is Being Forced Into Retreat (Gift Article)
A war that was intended to demonstrate the reach of American power has now done the opposite. It is a lesson in unintended consequences.
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 22h
We in Canada really don’t understand the big fucking game that’s being played globally. We’re not just targets we’re pawns in a global play for fascism and white supremacist domestic terrorism sponsored by tech billionaires www.tni.org/en/mapping-f...
tni.org
Mapping Fascism | Transnational Institute
State of Power 2026 Infographics - Visual longreadA new wave of authoritarian and far-right movements and governments is reshaping politics across the world. These infographics developed with Reaction...
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Phil @philmarfisi.bsky.social · 22h
Conservative parties in this country abandoned any semblance of policy coherence a long time ago, but it really is breathtaking how often they introduce directives or bills that completely contradict their ideological lineage.
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stcwhite.bsky.social @stcwhite.bsky.social · 22h
The fuck?
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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 23h
Every time a story like this pops up, someone points out that only a small fraction of men are predators. This is entirely irrelevant. Imagine if, say, only, 10% of the people you encountered every day were secretly man-eating tigers in convincing people suits. How safe would you feel?
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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 23h
The best part, for me, was the annex where they have “vignettes” for each element of land power. They include literal fictional “hypothetical” events. We’ve gotten to the point of just making shit up.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Reports of another Russian who’s fallen ill.
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WHO demands answers from Russia about ‘second plague victim’ — The Telegraph
Pressure increases on Moscow to disclose information about lab worker’s death following reports of another employee contracting the disease
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stcwhite.bsky.social @stcwhite.bsky.social · 23h
Maralago delenda est.
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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026
ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)
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Kevin Wilson @kwilsonhfx.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
static.klipy.com
Starship Troopers: Carl Jenkins - It's Afraid
ALT: Starship Troopers: Carl Jenkins - It's Afraid
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
BBC: Eight US sailors assigned to USS Abraham Lincoln attempted suicide, Navy says
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Ash Ponders is looking for quick photo gigs @ashponders.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
You know, I had always assumed, but it’s good to be sure.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The Trump administration is weaponizing the DOJ and DHS to generate propaganda to push its “rigged election" narrative. The timing and promotion of arrests of non-citizens for alleged voter fraud suggests a strategic effort to push their false narrative. Thread:
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Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦 @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I didn't mince my words. Alberta's anti-immigration referendum questions are racist. They are also a potential disaster for Alberta's economy. Last night, I rose in the Senate to denounce them - and to thank all the thousands of Albertans fighting against them. Please share. #notothenine #cdnpoli
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Watch: Senator Paula Simons denounces Alberta's anti-immigrant referendum questions
YouTube video by Senator Paula Simons
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Bloody Disgusting @bloody-disgusting.com · 07/10/2026
Mike Flanagan's THE EXORCIST: MARTYRS. In theaters March 12, 2027.
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Same with a pandemic. Same with the current war. Same, sadly, for everything
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
My man looks like he lost his virginity to a Roomba
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
wikipedia has been ANNIHILATED with AI bot traffic for a while now (because LLMs can't get enough of it) which puts a huge burden on its tech and server costs. and now it looks like bots are making unauthorized edits to pages and trying to hack community tools diff.wikimedia.org/2026/10/05/o...
Wiki editing: We’ve identified edits to Wikimedia wikis that we believe are from AI agents operated by OpenAI. These edits were not published to pages with visibility to general readers; almost all of them were testing edits in “sandbox” areas of the wiki. It also included a few edits to the configuration for a citation tool, which we believe were potentially malicious edits that were intended to misuse this tool as a proxy for fetching data from remote services. While Wikipedia policies allow bots to edit when they are disclosed and approved by the community, none of those approvals were sought in these incidents.
Etherpad probing and use: Agents we believe to be operated by OpenAI made some unsuccessful attempts to compromise our public Etherpad, a note-taking tool we host as a community service. Agents unsuccessfully tried to use it to fetch data from other websites as a proxy. Other agents also likely operated by OpenAI took notes about their tasks, though this did not appear to turn into coordination.
Excessive data downloading: Agents we believe to be operated by OpenAI made millions of automated requests to our public APIs to access the knowledge on Wikimedia projects, crawled millions of pages (mainly from our projects Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons), and made hundreds of thousands of data queries to the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS). This traffic may have contributed to a partial outage on WDQS in May. Wikimedia’s volunteers are the ones who come in first contact with, and clean up the mess left behind by AI agents. Rising bot traffic and agentic activity is showing a real impact on the Wikimedia projects and the infrastructure that makes it available for millions of users globally. In 2025, the Foundation reported that its bandwidth usage had increased by 50% due to the surge of bot activity on its websites since 2024. At the same time, 65% of the most resource-consuming traffic on its projects was coming from bots.
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The Citizen Lab @citizenlab.ca · 06/10/2026
Psiphon, a software company spun out of the Citizen Lab that helps internet users living under oppressive regimes evade censorship, says it will leave Canada if Bill C-22 passes in its current form.
theglobeandmail.com
Toronto-based VPN provider plans to quit Canada over lawful-access bill
Psiphon, which helps people living in oppressive regimes evade online censorship, says Bill C-22 would compel it to help build a surveillance system in this country
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Howard French @hofrench.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"Other potential resolutions include banning Indigenous land acknowledgements from public events, creating a Vaccine Injury Support Program and restricting municipalities from imposing “permanent water or utility restrictions.” The UCP closes in on declaring the sun revolves around the earth
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David the Trifecta: Fatty, Beardo, Weirdo @coldwarhost.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
😂😂😂😂😂
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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
From Seung Eun Kim's 2026 Demoreel. His storyboards/animatics are insane (The Boondocks, Arcane, Invincible, The Batman, Legend of Korra, Thundercats, Spider-Man...). www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nPT...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️
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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
On this day in 1992, The Tragically Hip released their third studio album Fully Completely. One of the greatest Canadian albums ever made, it sold 200,000 copies within three months. It reached #1 in Canada, eventually selling over one million copies for Diamond Status.
The image is the album cover for "Fully Completely" by The Tragically Hip. It features a vibrant, surreal artwork with multiple figures in dynamic poses, surrounded by musical instruments and abstract elements. The background includes a mix of red, purple, and green hues, with the band name "The Tragically Hip" at the top and the album title "Fully Completely" below it.
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Donovan Schaefer @feelingtheory.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Musician Charles Manson, who led a religious revival in Los Angeles during the counterculture era of the 1960s and later became embroiled in controversy, has died.
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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It always has and will strike me that Hastert's crimes were so terrible that the blackmailer apparently never faced consequences, at least not public ones, and his name has never come out.
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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Happy birthday to Patrick Roy, born on this day in 1965 in Quebec City! A legendary NHL goalie, he won 4 Stanley Cups, 3 Conn Smythe, 5 William M. Jennings and 3 Vezinas. An 11-time All-Star, he won 551 games. As a coach, he led the Quebec Remparts to two Memorial Cups. 📸 NHL
A photograph of Patrick Roy wearing a red Montreal Canadiens jersey with the number 33. He is standing in front of a goal net, equipped with a white mask, blocker, glove, and stick. The background shows a blurred crowd in the stands.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
AI is now the biggest investment in all of US history as a percentage of GDP. Datacenter construction is up, all other construction is down. "AI Is Squeezing Out the Rest of the Stock Market," reported WSJ 2 days ago. We basically bet the whole economy on the most optimistic visions panning out.
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Kori Schake 🎃 @kschake.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“Russia sees us as a major adversary because we do not accept Russia’s revisionist, expansionist policies and the war of aggression against Ukraine — because we oppose Russian intimidation of our allies in the Baltic states and elsewhere in Europe,” well and bravely said by Germany's spy chief.
bloomberg.com
German Spy Chief Sees ‘New, More Dangerous’ Threat From Russia
Germany’s foreign intelligence chief said the country has become a prime adversary in a “shadow war” with Russia and risks being drawn into conflict as the Kremlin’s military ambitions grow.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026
feels like at least part of what is happening is that a lot of people want politics to solve the "my life feels empty" problem and the populist right is directly appealing to them
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Micah @rincewind.run · 04/10/2026
man I would like one fucking electorate - one! - to remember that fascism is bad for more than five minutes at a time
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
unsurprisingly the "truth" one discovers from this Sigma Male Mindset is that of the opium-addicted aristocrat degenerate: * I should be allowed to rape my servants * Human life has a naturally enforced hierarchy * The people cannot decide their fate * I shouldn't be bound by even capitalism ..
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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Goddammit. The contempt these people have for everything wondrous and good and *human* is so grotesque.
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stcwhite.bsky.social @stcwhite.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Maralago delenda est.
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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This was a two act play by the Russians. It’s both a tragedy and a comedy.
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