Andrew Facini
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Nuke policy starter pack! https://go.bsky.app/8jiQV43 Nuclear weapons policy, history, culture, and other things to help you sleep. Comms Director and Sr Fellow, @councilonstrategicrisks.org. Teaching and such at Harvard Extension.
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In the first 100 days I will dig down into the place of honor. On day one I will issue an Executive Order that the radical woke warning signs be removed and anyone perpetuating the "dangerous and repulsive" lie to be terminated. I will restore the country by touching the ancient treasures.
Graphic showing the proposed pictogram warning of the dangers of buried nuclear waste for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.
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Anyways, a lot of people react to fear with violence and aggression, and maybe the nuke community should take that into consideration before we try to scare the shit out of the public to raise "awareness."
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David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.
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1/n - An upbeat NATO Secretary General in front of a Dutch F-35A at Volkel Air Base announced that NATO will hold its annual Steadfast Noon tac nuke exercise next week. youtu.be/wjrCE1En1as
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I've been trying to find this out for it seems forever -- are they the same crop, generally? Or do you need a different cultivar to do edamame right
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You know I have an idea on where we can get these boats built quickly. Cheaper, too. It's a National Security 双赢.
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These days when I see an uncritical "dominance" in security studies lit I assume there's some political ploy behind the scenes
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People say the Air Force has the weirdest institutional culture in the services but my god the Navy's claim to lore is unparalleled
Why is a ship referred to as "she?"
It has always been customary to personify certain inanimate objects and attribute to them characteristics peculiar to living creatures. Thus, things without life are often spoken of as having a sex. Some objects are regarded as masculine. The sun, winter, and death are often personified in this way. Others are regarded as feminine, especially those things that are dear to us. The earth as mother Earth is regarded as the common maternal parent of all life. In languages that use gender for common nouns, boats, ships, and other vehicles almost invariably use a feminine form. Likewise, early seafarers spoke of their ships in the feminine gender for the close dependence they had on their ships for life and sustenance.
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🌿 🌊 Kelp forests are vital habitats that support marine life, buffer our coasts, and keep our oceans healthy, and Scripps Oceanography scientists are dedicated to protecting them!

🌏 This #WorldHabitatDay, thank #KelpForests for all they do for our planet.
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So when the primary candidates were being asked would they visit you know where first, Eric was thinking "fuck that, ALBANIA BABY!"
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Lmao what???
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Around 11:30 p.m. last night, Mayor Adams' office announced he's going to Albania this week.

On "day one" of his trip, Adams is meeting with the country's prime minister and will also "visit local businesses and factories."
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President attempts to send troops from loyal regions into dissident cities while both governing chambers have been suspended is a Clancy-ass macguffin
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Liberals and Democrats will call for "funding local police" as a way to solve the problem of DHS/ ICE and no one will think about the fact that this is how we got here.
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anyways, let us take a moment to recognize great moments in bob peters's insanity:
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Heritage was always a weird mix of semi-serious policy analysis in FP stuff (outside like, uhhhh the nuclear insanity of Bob Peters) and absolutely deranged domestic FP takes

unfortunately i think the latter has basically eliminated most of the people who do good work on the former
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this is Heritage's former DPRK guy
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My dream: The internet fills with AI kudzu and milfoil. Social media is choked out by machines babbling to each other. Humans will be forced back into analog spaces - especially radio and print - to share information, music and ideas. Serious newsrooms will build audience with a promise: Zero AI.
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Well gang, it's happened: OpenAI has built a platform filled exclusively with fake, AI content.

I've been playing with it for a few days, and I think it's safe to say we're basically kissing reality goodbye.

Here's the story: www.npr.org/2025/10/03/n...

And some thoughts 🧵
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Well gang, it's happened: OpenAI has built a platform filled exclusively with fake, AI content.

I've been playing with it for a few days, and I think it's safe to say we're basically kissing reality goodbye.

Here's the story: www.npr.org/2025/10/03/n...

And some thoughts 🧵
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*lively street corner, slow walk toward camera*

You know when I walk these streets, fellow New Yorkers are always asking me, "what's up with Minuteman upload?"

*camera change, across street*

It's a great question.

*inside bodega, holding up dollar limes*

Imagine each of these is a thermonucl-
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Out: begging students to not write their assignments with AI

In: including invisible instructions for the copy-pasters