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Founder and CEO of @chasseur.group. Conflict, CT, and emerging security challenges in Southeast Asia and beyond.

Julie Chernov Hwang [@drjchernov.bsky.social] of Goucher College, MD is a pretend SEAsianist who's a liar and a plagiarist. I have receipts.
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M @munira.bsky.social · 6d
Yes, this was my original analysis that Julie Chernov Hwang stole from me and pretended it was all of her brain work.

Call her out. Don't let her get away with it. Filthy thief.
ir-gamer.bsky.social The IR Gamer @ir-gamer.bsky.social · 6d
Oooo...so this is the piece ripped of from Munira
munira.bsky.social
America remains consistent with their so-called moral values.
mikehixenbaugh.com Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 12h
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.

The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.

But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
On Nov. 16, a mental health counselor recorded in Kamilla’s medical records that her mother reported the girl had lost her appetite after being “served food that contained worms.” A week later, the couple said, children were told to gather in the gym for what they believed would be a Thanksgiving celebration. Excitement spread as families saw tables set with turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, they said. The children waited expectantly. But when a parent asked when the celebration would begin, Oksana said, staff told them the holiday meal was for employees, not detainees. The children, she said, watched despondently as the feast was packed away.
February 14, 2026 at 3:40 AM
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redderbeanpaste.bsky.social
The kid and his mom can eat shit
January 3, 2026 at 9:34 PM
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bordigaburger.bsky.social
Obama is still a war criminal, you fucking liberal.
February 8, 2026 at 8:01 AM
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bordigaburger.bsky.social
One more thing, I'm from the Global South. So don't fucking try to lecture me on shit.
February 14, 2026 at 2:05 AM
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bordigaburger.bsky.social
Americans are performative for the most part, and that includes the so-called "revolutionaries" or whatever you fucks advocate for.

This is why I do not like you fuckers.
February 14, 2026 at 2:05 AM
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vortexegg.com
Probably the most embarrassing cultural trait inculcated in Tech is the feigned lack of understanding of potential harms of technology because understanding them would require being morally responsible for them and would thus deflate the hype make-believe buy-in among the developers of said tech.
disabilitystor1.bsky.social Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 16h
A genuinely alarming piece in the NYT about how the developers, scientists and assorted techbros behind "AI companions"/"synthetic care" do not even know or understand the potential harms of the tech they're developing but they're too greedy to stop themselves from developing it.
“Confusion” doesn’t begin to describe our emerging predicament. Seventy-two percent of American teens have turned to A.I. for companionship. A.I. therapists, coaches and lovers are also on the rise. Yet few people realize that some of the frontline technologists building this new world seem deeply ambivalent about what they’re doing. They are so torn, in fact, that some privately admit they don’t plan to use A.I. intimacy tools. “Zero percent of my emotional needs are met by A.I.,” an executive who ran a team mitigating safety risks at a top lab told me. “I’m in it up to my eyeballs at work, and I’m careful.” Many others said the same thing: Even as they build A.I. tools, they hope they never feel the need to turn to machines for emotional support. As a researcher who develops cutting-edge capabilities for artificial emotion put it, “that would be a dark day.” Developers I spoke to said the same incentives that make bots irresistible can stand in the way of reasonable safeguards, making outright abstention the only sure way to stay safe. Some described feeling stuck between protecting users and raising profits: They support guardrails in theory, but don’t want to compromise the product experience in practice. It’s little wonder the protections that do get built can seem largely symbolic — you have to squint to see the fine-print notice that “ChatGPT can make mistakes” or that Character.AI is “not a real person.” “I’ve seen the way people operate in this space,” said one engineer who worked at a number of tech companies. “They’re here to make money. It’s a business at the end of the day.” But even if companies can curb serious dependence on A.I. companions — an open question — many of the developers I spoke with were troubled by even moderate use of these apps. That’s because people who manage to resist full-blown digital companions can still find themselves hooked on A.I.-mediated love. When machines draft texts, craft vows and tell people how to process their own emotions, every relationship turns into “a throuple,” a founder of a conversational A.I. business said. “We’re all polyamorous now. It’s you, me and the A.I.”
February 14, 2026 at 12:51 AM
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markmackinnon.bsky.social
If only you still had a foreign desk to, well, know these things...
washingtonpost.com The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d
Correction: A previous version of this post misidentified the South Caucasus as belonging to Russia. The region, made up of territory in Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan, is not part of Russia. We deleted the previous post.
February 12, 2026 at 11:01 AM
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guiri99.bsky.social
An article about Russia duping poor people into fighting on the front lines. It’s just another form of human trafficking. UNODC and OHCHR take note.

The subtext is that Russia promises the “work” is a pathway to Europe. Ironic that Russia’s propaganda admits no one wants to live in Russia.
February 11, 2026 at 12:17 PM
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gregk.co.uk
At some point in the future, maybe years or even decades from now, it will be a widely acknowledged fact that the moment we are living through was the result of a total legitimation of virulent Islamophobia, buttressed by and interwoven with age-old, All-American genocidal ‘anticommunism’ tropes.
katerqburns.bsky.social Kate Burns @katerqburns.bsky.social · 3d
Like? What a fucking boot licker
February 11, 2026 at 7:38 AM
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bluwhalien.bsky.social
- man who lives in Monaco
February 11, 2026 at 5:31 PM
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nkalamb.bsky.social
"Palestinian witnesses have reported that some prisoners were alive at the time they were taken for organ extraction. In one batch of bodies, the organs removed were those commonly transplanted: heart, liver, lungs... Here, the surgeon acts as—is—a soldier."

I'm honestly speechless.
Examining the bodies returned to their people after the most recent so-called ceasefire, Palestinian doctors noted that, in some bodies “the rib cage and ribs were clipped with a sharp saw—a medical saw, a bone saw—and the sternum, along with the central part of the ribs, [were] lifted to allow for the removal of the heart and lungs without damage to the organ being taken.” Organ procurement, with few exceptions like skin and cornea, requires that the body be either alive—via brain death—or just-dead—via circulatory death. It is plausible that some Palestinian prisoners’ torture led to brain death. It is also possible their torturers felt no need to wait. Palestinian witnesses have reported that some prisoners were alive at the time they were taken for organ extraction. In one batch of bodies, the organs removed were those commonly transplanted: heart, liver, lungs. The transplant surgeon waits for a person to die; the soldier can’t. The settler surgeon wields his mastery over the body to serve the state. Here, the surgeon acts as—is—a soldier.
February 11, 2026 at 5:45 PM
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dankaszeta.bsky.social
What a racist knobhead
February 11, 2026 at 6:40 PM
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shamrockurwrld.bsky.social
“The world knows Israel possesses and uses these prohibited weapons,” Buttu said. “The question is why are they allowed to remain outside the system of accountability.”

This report destroyed me
February 11, 2026 at 10:14 AM
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nicolashenin.net
Investigative collective @aeowinpact.bsky.social investigates networks recruiting African fighters for the Russian war in Ukraine. It publishes a list of recruits and those who have died at the front, to enable families who have not heard from their loved ones to take action.
@bellingcat.com
The Business of Despair
Singular Stories Their names are Serge, Nabil, Samuel, and Eric, and they come from different countries on the African continent. What they have in common is they fight as foreign soldiers in the R…
alleyesonwagner.org
February 11, 2026 at 10:26 AM
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factforce.bsky.social
#Russia is an imperialist aggressor, acting here as a colonial master by bringing unsuspecting slaves to its own war.

Disgusting, racist and fascist.
February 11, 2026 at 10:24 AM
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gerardagill.bsky.social
Our social cohesion is the envy of the world.
February 11, 2026 at 9:49 AM
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keirgiles.bsky.social
Russia is feeding "disposable" trafficking victims from South-East Asia into its meatgrinder as well as mercenaries from the region. "Southeast Asia’s Mercenary Pipeline", by @munira.bsky.social.

thediplomat.com/2026/02/sout...
Southeast Asia’s Mercenary Pipeline
Russia is recruiting increasing numbers of fighters from the region, using deceptive practices pioneered by Southeast Asia-based online scam operations.
thediplomat.com
February 11, 2026 at 9:41 AM
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mcnastyprime.bsky.social
Now why does that sound so familiar?
February 11, 2026 at 8:35 AM
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bearlysocial.bsky.social
This is how a liberal talks to someone that was against the slaughter of a foreign nation perpetuated by our entire government.

I will keep posting these examples and Im keeping an archive. I want these to be in history books someday
January 29, 2026 at 11:58 PM
munira.bsky.social
Sorry, who supplied the thermal and thermobaric munitions? Just checking because apparently it's slanderous to name them.
February 11, 2026 at 6:13 AM
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erincook.bsky.social
Doesn't matter how many stories you read on this, it's freshly harrowing each time.
aunz.theconversation.com The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 3d
Thousands of people from Indonesia, China and Africa are waiting for help to return home, but the process has been slow and many are increasingly desperate.
They escaped appalling conditions in scam factories. Now, they are living on the streets in Cambodia
theconversation.com
February 11, 2026 at 5:40 AM
munira.bsky.social
Oh sorry, was I supposed to say you is good you is smart you is important?

Bangsat pun hati tisu rupanya.
February 11, 2026 at 5:37 AM
munira.bsky.social
Who supplied weapons to Israel? What's slanderous about what I said?

Bodoh gampang punya gweilo
juddgreenstein.bsky.social Judd Greenstein @juddgreenstein.bsky.social · 3d
That is presumptuous beyond belief and disrespectful AF. I hope @munira.bsky.social deletes that slander.
February 11, 2026 at 4:53 AM
munira.bsky.social
Because America is still America.
chanda.blacksky.app Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 3d
this is such a wild fucking thing to post in *my* mentions of all places @munira.bsky.social

And of course you turned off quotes and replies because you don’t want anyone to tell you how full of shit you are

What about me made you think I’m not a life long pro-Palestine supporter
M @munira.bsky.social • 11s © Bluesky Elder We were already there when the US enabled Israel's impunity with its genocide of Palestine, but you're only crying now because you're getting a taste of that medicine. Suck it up. Chanda Prescod-Wei... @cha... • 5h • Bluesky Elder Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
February 11, 2026 at 4:07 AM