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Christian Heinzel @christianh.bsky.social · 5h

Also a third of the FP's leadership team, which presumably is now part of CBS?

Christian Heinzel @christianh.bsky.social · 11h

The other source is a hangover to whatever black bloc ever existed in the US that was ground down in an attritional battle during the long tail of Portland's BLM protests.

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Christian Heinzel @christianh.bsky.social · 11h

I have a hard time nailing down the primary cause for this bullshit. A lot of it is obviously larp, but the protest manual they like to imagine would roughly fit the core of HK's last protest movement, one a lot of the same people despised at the time for tankie-ish/anti-US reasons.

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Christian Heinzel @christianh.bsky.social · 12h

I mean, you can see it in Holdfast, especially on servers where clans run actual line battles.

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Christian Heinzel @christianh.bsky.social · 17h

It's probably unfair, but whenever I see the MIT media lab as an institutional affiliation my first thought is "the epstein people"

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Christian Heinzel @christianh.bsky.social · 1d

really seems like he hit the sweetspot of telling the US gov enough to make them look into his emails without getting any sort of benefit of the doubt for disclosing it properly

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Christian Heinzel @christianh.bsky.social · 1d

look, I have full faith in Pam Bondi's doj to fuck this up to the point where he still gets the opportunity

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Christian Heinzel @christianh.bsky.social · 1d

seems like he used emails to his wife and kid to record his work as NSA, including the very classified bits lmao.

Also to make it even funnier...

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Christian Heinzel @christianh.bsky.social · 1d

trouble is that he's also a Black 4 star, so you really cannot tell for certain for which bad reason he may be pushed to resign instead.

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Christian Heinzel @christianh.bsky.social · 1d

shot/chaser

Christian Heinzel @christianh.bsky.social · 1d

This particular application seems wrong/bad, but it's not appreciably worse than taking a phone call through the car's speaker system or something?

Christian Heinzel @christianh.bsky.social · 1d

The problem is that voice control for navigation and multimedia control is significantly preferable to people focusing on the tablet in the centre console, let alone their phones, to type shit.

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Christian Heinzel @christianh.bsky.social · 1d

Has anyone checked whether Senate primary candidate Seth Moulton and the Congressman Seth Moulton are the same person?

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

NEW: Seth Moulton becomes the first candidate in a Democratic primary for Senate to officially announce that he will return and henceforth reject donations from AIPAC

Seth for
Massachusetts
I am returning AIPAC donations and refusing to accept any donations or support from them. The FEC filing I made yesterday reflects that we are returning donations. Below is my statement explaining why:
I'm cautiously optimistic that the recent breakthrough in Gaza will move us closer to ending the horrific violence in the region. A political resolution that allows Israelis and Palestinians to live side by side in peace is exactly the kind of framework I've been calling for from the beginning.
I support Israel's right to exist, but l've also never been afraid to disagree openly with AIPAC when I believe they're wrong.
In recent years, AIPAC has aligned itself too closely with Prime Minister Netanyahu's government. I'm a friend of Israel, but not of its current government, and AlPAC's mission today is to back that government. I don't support that direction. That's why l've decided to return the donations I've received and will not be accepting their support.

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Christian Heinzel @christianh.bsky.social · 1d

it's also probably bound to live forever thanks to how well represented the generations of intel chips still are in hardware surveys etc that are locked out of Win 11 or any future version due to their inherent vulnerabilities.

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Christian Heinzel @christianh.bsky.social · 1d

yeah, in a world where they cannot get an approximately clean CR through Congress they will not be able to go for a bailout either. Not to mention that there are no reasons to believe that the agricultural sector will be in a better spot same time next year.

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Christian Heinzel @christianh.bsky.social · 1d

of course the same guy continues to follow it up with even more insanity

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Christian Heinzel @christianh.bsky.social · 1d

it would equally explain the source of his many taxi driver stories

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Christian Heinzel @christianh.bsky.social · 1d

the married thing isn't even the most insane thing that one person admits to ffs

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Christian Heinzel @christianh.bsky.social · 1d

like good lord, not only could you not waterboard this out of me, I simply wouldn't have a stash of toys in my car that I hand out to random children because what the actual fuck is this 58 year old man doing?

www.wired.com/story/owning...

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Christian Heinzel @christianh.bsky.social · 1d

the whole Wired Cybertruck article is art

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Christian Heinzel @christianh.bsky.social · 1d

I love how even the official global paragon of austere fiscal policy keeps begging Germany to spend some fucking money to start growing again

Thomas Seal @twseal.bsky.social · 1d

The head of the IMF said Germany and Canada are in better fiscal positions than G7 peers

She also said the IMF "welcomes" Canada's planned focus on housing, infrastructure, energy and strategic projects, saying spending in these areas will help to boost productivity

via @erikhertzberg.bsky.social:

IMF Chief Says Canada Has Fiscal Room to Boost Capital Spending

The head of the International Monetary Fund says Canada has the fiscal room to make productivity-boosting investments, and praised the federal government’s proposed changes to budget timing.

www.bloomberg.com

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Christian Heinzel @christianh.bsky.social · 1d

hey, there was Karma and Reddit Gold to be gained

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Christian Heinzel @christianh.bsky.social · 1d

If this was coming out of the UK I would have written it off as posh officers looking to expense their clay pigeon hobby

Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social · 1d

Shotguns are part of the answer, as astounding this may sound

defence-blog.com/french-army-...

French army adopts hard-kill tactics for drone threats

As Western armies adapt to lessons from the war in Ukraine, France’s 2nd Marine Infantry Regiment has begun training its soldiers to use shotguns against small aerial threats, including low-cost FPV d...

defence-blog.com

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Christian Heinzel @christianh.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, it's mostly just all quite funny but his whole pitch is built around raw authenticity, so denying his apparent beliefs from barely 4 years ago is kind of relevant.
Also for the white rural Maine populist pitch it probably doesn't help to have posts calling rural Maine whites racist lmao

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Christian Heinzel @christianh.bsky.social · 1d

Also credit to CNN for this rather entertaining juxtaposition.

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