Zoomer Antimillenarian
@surcomplicated.bsky.social
Staunch liberal, hopeful Georgist, moderate intuitionist. Hoping to one day pass on an even better world than the one I inherited. Retweet =/= Endorsement
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People see the hull numbers with high VLS counts and unclassified missile ranges and capabilities and think that's winning, in which case we all probably would be speaking Mandarin right now, but alas they're still well into 'figuring out' how to do a lot of the things NATO fleets take for granted.
February 3, 2026 at 5:38 AM
People see the hull numbers with high VLS counts and unclassified missile ranges and capabilities and think that's winning, in which case we all probably would be speaking Mandarin right now, but alas they're still well into 'figuring out' how to do a lot of the things NATO fleets take for granted.
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hence why they are mostly good at industrial stuff and good-ish (with spend helping carry the day) on R&D, but the transition to a force capable of competent informatized (much less intelligentized) warfare remains..........mixed
the PLA is a very large, very bureaucratic organization whose main recruits are country boys and whose officer-class recruits mostly do business, not war. its everyday functions are politics and corruption, with wartime efficiency as a largely hypothetical future.
February 3, 2026 at 5:06 AM
hence why they are mostly good at industrial stuff and good-ish (with spend helping carry the day) on R&D, but the transition to a force capable of competent informatized (much less intelligentized) warfare remains..........mixed
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Shit is nuts. This week I spoke to a crim. defense attorney from mpls who mostly does federal work. He said a client got arrested with 19 pounds of meth & an indictment was coming. Then the feds had to forgo the indictment because they don’t have the resources. Walking away from 19 pounds of meth!
They are running out of lawyers.
DM me? We used to get hundreds of highly qualified applicants for a single job posting. Good prosecutors are increasingly hesitant to work for this DOJ.
January 31, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Shit is nuts. This week I spoke to a crim. defense attorney from mpls who mostly does federal work. He said a client got arrested with 19 pounds of meth & an indictment was coming. Then the feds had to forgo the indictment because they don’t have the resources. Walking away from 19 pounds of meth!
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Shit is nuts. This week I spoke to a crim. defense attorney from mpls who mostly does federal work. He said a client got arrested with 19 pounds of meth & an indictment was coming. Then the feds had to forgo the indictment because they don’t have the resources. Walking away from 19 pounds of meth!
They are running out of lawyers.
February 3, 2026 at 5:36 AM
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Incidentally, this is going to be a massive problem for society, because (as we're seeing in the Mangione case) there are so few competent attorneys left at the DOJ *already* that they can't even manage a lot of normal prosecutions. The DOJ is quite literally collapsing.
They've made it impossible to be a *normal* unethical, skeevy lawyer in this admin. You have to be the sort of washed-up wacko who shows up sloshed and dripping with something oily in front of Four Seasons Total Landscaping before any real chance of being offered a job you're willing to accept.
But right now this is only on the high profile political bullshit - soon it will be happening on the normal DOJ litigation that the government normally engages in. They are going to be sanctioned and disciplined on those too.
February 3, 2026 at 5:35 AM
Incidentally, this is going to be a massive problem for society, because (as we're seeing in the Mangione case) there are so few competent attorneys left at the DOJ *already* that they can't even manage a lot of normal prosecutions. The DOJ is quite literally collapsing.
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The options are quarantine or blockade, two coerce a Hong Kong like relationship you can exploit for the next 50 years or develop enough of your own silicon production capacity to a high enough quantity and quality you really don’t need to capture TSMC.
February 3, 2026 at 5:34 AM
The options are quarantine or blockade, two coerce a Hong Kong like relationship you can exploit for the next 50 years or develop enough of your own silicon production capacity to a high enough quantity and quality you really don’t need to capture TSMC.
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The Trump administration is no longer trying to get cash from Harvard as it seeks a settlement. At this point, the White House seems happy to get a signature on anything they can call a compact.
Trump Drops Demand for Cash From Harvard After Stiff Resistance
www.nytimes.com
February 2, 2026 at 10:26 PM
The Trump administration is no longer trying to get cash from Harvard as it seeks a settlement. At this point, the White House seems happy to get a signature on anything they can call a compact.
Yeah but which of those private firm lawyers are going to be willing to destroy their reputations and possibly lose their licenses for Dear Leader?
They could have joined up already, you know.
They could have joined up already, you know.
February 3, 2026 at 5:34 AM
Yeah but which of those private firm lawyers are going to be willing to destroy their reputations and possibly lose their licenses for Dear Leader?
They could have joined up already, you know.
They could have joined up already, you know.
They've made it impossible to be a *normal* unethical, skeevy lawyer in this admin. You have to be the sort of washed-up wacko who shows up sloshed and dripping with something oily in front of Four Seasons Total Landscaping before any real chance of being offered a job you're willing to accept.
But right now this is only on the high profile political bullshit - soon it will be happening on the normal DOJ litigation that the government normally engages in. They are going to be sanctioned and disciplined on those too.
February 3, 2026 at 5:33 AM
They've made it impossible to be a *normal* unethical, skeevy lawyer in this admin. You have to be the sort of washed-up wacko who shows up sloshed and dripping with something oily in front of Four Seasons Total Landscaping before any real chance of being offered a job you're willing to accept.
Seriously, what are you gonna do? It's all lose-lose options for them at that point.
February 3, 2026 at 5:30 AM
Seriously, what are you gonna do? It's all lose-lose options for them at that point.
And I fully expect this to accelerate to breaking point. There's nothing *fundamentally* stopping them from just submitting piles of garbage they had random minions AI generate.
Just, you know, the fact that judges will completely lose all fucking patience.
Gonna be a real bind for the SCOTUS GOP.
Just, you know, the fact that judges will completely lose all fucking patience.
Gonna be a real bind for the SCOTUS GOP.
That why they keep getting sanctioned and having charges thrown out.
February 3, 2026 at 5:30 AM
And I fully expect this to accelerate to breaking point. There's nothing *fundamentally* stopping them from just submitting piles of garbage they had random minions AI generate.
Just, you know, the fact that judges will completely lose all fucking patience.
Gonna be a real bind for the SCOTUS GOP.
Just, you know, the fact that judges will completely lose all fucking patience.
Gonna be a real bind for the SCOTUS GOP.
Technically, yes. In practice, they're gonna be relying on insane washed up lawyers outside of their specialty who basically are pro se crackpots with a license to practice the law.
You cant pro se represent the government - you actually need to be a member of the bar for those job.
February 3, 2026 at 5:27 AM
Technically, yes. In practice, they're gonna be relying on insane washed up lawyers outside of their specialty who basically are pro se crackpots with a license to practice the law.
And they will *absolutely*, and very poorly, automate their workload with chatbots.
I fully expect to see an appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States drafted by Ani the Grok NPC before this shit is over and done with.
I fully expect to see an appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States drafted by Ani the Grok NPC before this shit is over and done with.
February 3, 2026 at 5:25 AM
And they will *absolutely*, and very poorly, automate their workload with chatbots.
I fully expect to see an appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States drafted by Ani the Grok NPC before this shit is over and done with.
I fully expect to see an appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States drafted by Ani the Grok NPC before this shit is over and done with.
They're gonna end up staffing a bunch of positions with insane crackpots, and the insane crackpots will do pro se SovCit style batshittery ad nauseam.
February 3, 2026 at 5:24 AM
They're gonna end up staffing a bunch of positions with insane crackpots, and the insane crackpots will do pro se SovCit style batshittery ad nauseam.
AI pro se "lawyering" is already fully operational.
And these guys already love dancing with sanctions threats from angry judges.
And these guys already love dancing with sanctions threats from angry judges.
Ngl, kinda perversely fascinated what happens when DOJ literally runs out of capacity
February 3, 2026 at 5:22 AM
AI pro se "lawyering" is already fully operational.
And these guys already love dancing with sanctions threats from angry judges.
And these guys already love dancing with sanctions threats from angry judges.
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Lawyer's strike against the government is an insane sort of scenario for the government to find itself in.
February 3, 2026 at 5:20 AM
Lawyer's strike against the government is an insane sort of scenario for the government to find itself in.
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Ngl, kinda perversely fascinated what happens when DOJ literally runs out of capacity
February 3, 2026 at 5:19 AM
Ngl, kinda perversely fascinated what happens when DOJ literally runs out of capacity
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They're literally running out of lawyers in a state where the district judges are practically at war with the administration.
BREAKING: 8 more U.S. Attorneys in MN resign from Trump’s DOJ in protest as backlash grows.
This isn’t normal; isn’t routine reshuffling. It’s a rebellion.
Last month, 6 veteran prosecutors quit in protest. Normal staffing for the MN DOJ’s office is around 50 attorneys. They’re down to just 9.
This isn’t normal; isn’t routine reshuffling. It’s a rebellion.
Last month, 6 veteran prosecutors quit in protest. Normal staffing for the MN DOJ’s office is around 50 attorneys. They’re down to just 9.
February 3, 2026 at 5:16 AM
They're literally running out of lawyers in a state where the district judges are practically at war with the administration.
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much of the high-end Beijing nightlife was in PLA-controlled areas, largely because they had the immense advantage of only requiring you to bribe one guy a month, which is basically just tax.
covid finally killed Maggie's, I believe (for context for others, this was an infamous hotspot of Mongolian and Russian pros, located in a complex controlled - like a large stretch of central Beijing - by the PLA)
February 3, 2026 at 5:14 AM
much of the high-end Beijing nightlife was in PLA-controlled areas, largely because they had the immense advantage of only requiring you to bribe one guy a month, which is basically just tax.
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- exposes *everybody* promoted in the last few years to a degree that means that 'you die, I live' thinking - war to the knife, politically - is going to be the norm for the foreseeable future.
February 3, 2026 at 5:02 AM
- exposes *everybody* promoted in the last few years to a degree that means that 'you die, I live' thinking - war to the knife, politically - is going to be the norm for the foreseeable future.
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it is currently eating itself alive with internal paranoia and denunciations because it is being subject to a rolling purge that likely has very little to do with military modernization and everything to do with corruption networks, and which - since it seems to have turned around personnel issues
February 3, 2026 at 5:01 AM
it is currently eating itself alive with internal paranoia and denunciations because it is being subject to a rolling purge that likely has very little to do with military modernization and everything to do with corruption networks, and which - since it seems to have turned around personnel issues
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this does not mean it is not a formidable possible opponent, because it is also very large and well-funded and with a considerable military-industrial complex supporting it, but it's not fucking Metavac.
February 3, 2026 at 4:58 AM
this does not mean it is not a formidable possible opponent, because it is also very large and well-funded and with a considerable military-industrial complex supporting it, but it's not fucking Metavac.
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the PLA is a very large, very bureaucratic organization whose main recruits are country boys and whose officer-class recruits mostly do business, not war. its everyday functions are politics and corruption, with wartime efficiency as a largely hypothetical future.
February 3, 2026 at 4:57 AM
the PLA is a very large, very bureaucratic organization whose main recruits are country boys and whose officer-class recruits mostly do business, not war. its everyday functions are politics and corruption, with wartime efficiency as a largely hypothetical future.
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"Presumably, the PLA is a super smart organization full of highly wired Chinese technocrats who’ve been thinking very hard about all of these problems."
yeah sometimes you can, uh, really tell that Tooze isn't a China expert.
yeah sometimes you can, uh, really tell that Tooze isn't a China expert.
February 3, 2026 at 4:53 AM
"Presumably, the PLA is a super smart organization full of highly wired Chinese technocrats who’ve been thinking very hard about all of these problems."
yeah sometimes you can, uh, really tell that Tooze isn't a China expert.
yeah sometimes you can, uh, really tell that Tooze isn't a China expert.
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Whenever I reread @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social's amazing poem "Jesus at the Gay Bar," it's hard not to imagine Jesus as this 1535 drawing "Christ Carrying the Cross," by the Italian Renaissance artist Giovanni Bazzi , which I'm teaching tomorrow in my Queer History class.
February 3, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Whenever I reread @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social's amazing poem "Jesus at the Gay Bar," it's hard not to imagine Jesus as this 1535 drawing "Christ Carrying the Cross," by the Italian Renaissance artist Giovanni Bazzi , which I'm teaching tomorrow in my Queer History class.