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Steve Huntsman @stevehuntsman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Next he’s gonna claim to have discovered obscure research on metamaterials

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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Russia’s Defense Ministry has officially confirmed the strike on Kyiv’s Pivdennyi Bridge, and Z-channels are sharing drone video with a clear view of the bridge.

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Steve Huntsman @stevehuntsman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Neurosymbolic approaches FTW. My own work on coherence-driven inference is exactly in this spirit. Yet hard to get traction with people transformering all the things and me with other fish to fry

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Don’t be fooled—LLMs don’t reason

Ten years after AlphaGo’s match against Go champion Lee Sedol, today’s AI still isn’t tapping into the machinery that made that win possible.

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Steve Huntsman @stevehuntsman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A lot easier to just use solar and batteries offshore but you can’t fantasize about a Temu Dyson sphere that way

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Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

European political elites need to understand that if they say European security isn't possible without the US, they are actually saying that European security isn't possible. For many reasons, they don't want to accept that, but they urgently need to.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time."

Ukrainian female soldier: Okay, I said the idea is this: There is enough time to empty one full can of 32 grenades and be gone by the time the return mortar fire reaches us. I did the math.

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Steve Huntsman @stevehuntsman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Counterargument: DARPA’s successes also can’t be evaluated thanks to classification/CUI. In any event, dumb to take comparisons to NIH and NSF too seriously or without context

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SMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

That janitor just goes from building to building helping people. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/equati... PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

10-panel SMBC comic update. All the panels are dialogue-less. Two researchers are writing equations on a chalkboard. A janitor watches them from afar. The researchers leave as the janitor is still mopping the floor. The janitor walks up to the chalkboard and writes on it with purpose, admires what he wrote, and leave late in the evening. The two researchers return at dawn, and are shocked by what is written on the blackboard. Over their half-erased equations, the text "ChatGPT, do a breakthru, no mistakes, thankx."

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Kai Ryssdal, former U.S. Navy Lieutenant -- the Secretary of Defense is a dangerous idiot

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 01/10/2026

i also just have to say that pointing at a falling down barn while bragging about how fewer people are coming to america is about the perfect encapsulation of how MAGA believes in making america smaller and weaker

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B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In both cases, it's OSD doing the fun parts of acquisition (looking at cool drones and picking some to buy) and foisting them on the services to pay the bill. The answer is just to get out of the way and give the services the resources to do it. But we'll try every stupid way first.

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Steve Huntsman @stevehuntsman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

@eliotacohen.bsky.social and @shieldpod.substack.com.web.brid.gy on yesterdays shit show by our pathetic, “sinister, dangerous, and bad” SecDef

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Franz-Stefan Gady @hoanssolo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

What often gets lost in the public discourse on interceptor shortages is that, doctrinally, ground-based air defenses were only ever one component of a broader air defense approach, meant to absorb the initial set of barrages while air and naval power destroyed the launchers etc.

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Steve Huntsman @stevehuntsman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

He was passed over for company command when the army was desperately short of company commanders, and he drove a nonprofit into a wall while behaving disgracefully.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In the same speech he announced that these three guys would set strategic direction for future warfare capabilities

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I do not believe Pete Hegseth can sustain an erection without serious chemical help.

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s funny to think the first thing the house has to do when they get back in session is to vote on this bozos impeachment

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It should alarm us that the civilian head of the military gathers together troops to give them a political speech in which he calls the free press treasonous. He should be removed from office for doing so.

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Nathan @never-say-die.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Three titans of military thought; An 83 year old draft dodger, a ket addict who just makes stuff up to juice stocks and a gamer (derogatory)

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I hear Hegseth will get a medal for this speech. From China

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John C. Baez @johncarlosbaez.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The Nine Wise Mathematicians have handed down their recommendations for AI companies who want to prove big mathematical theorems. Their first recommendation is "Don't." It kinda weakens their point that they don't stop there. agmai.org/general-sep29/

At present, some frontier AI labs are testing advanced mathematical problems on proprietary models that remain inaccessible to the broader scientific community. Our recommendations are formulated with this practical context in mind. However, ideally, they would not do so. We want to state clearly from the start: we do not endorse this practice, and we ask them to stop testing advanced mathematical problems on proprietary models.

From: https://agmai.org/general-sep29/

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Actually the biggest lesson from the Schmitt debacle is that Republicans have so internalized and learned to justify Trump’s corruption and disdain for ethics, they assume everyone is corrupt and stupid. They cannot imagine an honest public servant.

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Steve Huntsman @stevehuntsman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Safety concerns” = product is marginally useful to most folks, who can get what they need cheaply from open models, and math/coding utility ain’t gonna justify the share price

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Drew Engelhardt @amengel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Quite the figure from @tesler.bsky.social in this @goodauth.bsky.social piece. goodauthority.substack.com/p/republican...

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Steve Huntsman @stevehuntsman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

TIL William Faulkner looked like Igor Girkin

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Steve Huntsman @stevehuntsman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

At least in 2029 we would get to tell the Germans and the French, “speaking of ressentiment: now we are vaccinated and can help *you* defeat fascism again, on more equal and less destructive terms than last time, so let’s be friends again”

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Jaz @jaz.sh · 27/09/2026

Okay so I've built a new Atlas, this time it lets you explore the conversations on Bluesky over the past 7 days graphically. It should update every ~6 hours and help you navigate the information environment that exists on here. I've learned a LOT about what people do here today... atlas.jazco.dev

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Atlas

A living map of what Bluesky is talking about: the past week's conversations, grouped into topics and regions and rebuilt every six hours.

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

22/ "Of course, in addition to good organisation, there were also some technical innovations, such as the active use of unmanned ground vehicles.The Third Assault Corps, according to their own statements, actively used UGVs to clear mines before assaults, used kamikaze UGVs…

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

29/ "Perhaps we are already witnessing that very same turning point on the front, similar to the end of World War I, when two methods were devised to break the trench. But for now, only one exists, and only in the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

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Nick Kodama 🌳👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

one of the things you realize when studying the history of nuclear strategy is that people from all kinds of fields - political science, history, economics, physics, engineering, etc. - are all perfectly capable of being completely insane.

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Paul Szoldra @paulszoldra.com · 26/09/2026

The systems haven't gone rogue. The CEOs of the companies overseeing these systems did not set proper safeguards. They are responsible for what happens in their companies. Humans are held to account, not some random computer that's 'gone rogue.'

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Steve Huntsman @stevehuntsman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

So uh what about putting caffeine directly into DNA? Kariko and Weissman did not address the most critical question www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Steve Huntsman @stevehuntsman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

proofsandprompts.com/2026/09/25/d...

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Steve Huntsman @stevehuntsman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I want Isaac Chotiner to interview undecided voters though—actually, because—it’d be like using a M777 howitzer to kill a fly

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Lance Fortnow @lance.fortnow.com · 24/09/2026

Because PSPACE-Completeness still matters www.wsj.com/tech/ai/...

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Steve Huntsman @stevehuntsman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Joke is on him and us but he’s too stupid to get it

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Steve Huntsman @stevehuntsman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is also true of math, except with mistakes, slop, and far less to even zero understanding, let alone concept formation, which is the main point of the enterprise.

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Kori Schake @kschake.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Gamel Abdul Nasser once said something to the effect that you Americans make no simple stupid moves, you make complicated stupid moves that leave us wondering what we’re missing.

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