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Cville Gooner @cvillebluegrass1.bsky.social · 15h

Some deftech news, a story on Starlink Elon doesn't want you to know, and Trump is moving to put the squeeze on Taiwan. #deftech #investing #Starlink #quantumcomputing
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DefTech News and Beyond

Shifts in deftech show direction of macro thinking. Also some news on Taiwan and Starlink's hidden costs.

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Cville Gooner @cvillebluegrass1.bsky.social · 19h

ruh roh. #econsky
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Carlyle Unveils Proprietary Data Showing Weak US Employment

Carlyle Group, the investment manager whose portfolio companies employ more than 700,000 people globally, is stepping into the economic data void left by the US government shutdown with a grim read on...

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Cville Gooner @cvillebluegrass1.bsky.social · 21h

If this is how we treat our "enemy No. 1" in AI development, we're doomed. GOP all hat, no cattle. #AI
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US lawmakers call for broader bans on chipmaking tool sales to China

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -U.S. lawmakers are calling for broader bans on chipmaking equipment to China after a bipartisan investigation found that Chinese chipmakers had purchased $38 billion of sophi...

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Cville Gooner @cvillebluegrass1.bsky.social · 1d

In Cville. #ICE
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Charlottesville asylum seeker wins bond, but DHS refuses to release him

Immigration attorneys say the Department of Homeland Security is employing a little-used regulation to ignore a judge's orders to free detainees.

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Cville Gooner @cvillebluegrass1.bsky.social · 1d

Does this seem like a cheap and sustainable business model when you have 24,000 of these in the sky? It's certainly not as cost effective fiber optic cables for most ground comms. #space
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1 to 2 Starlink satellites are falling back to Earth each day

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Cville Gooner @cvillebluegrass1.bsky.social · 2d

Go figure. #natsecdef
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Experts react to Hegseth’s Quantico summit: ‘Wrong message, wrong time, wrong audience’

Lawmakers and former service members reacted to speeches delivered at a rare summit in Quantico this week, where President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth addressed an auditorium filled with ...

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Cville Gooner @cvillebluegrass1.bsky.social · 2d

Don't say no. A politician always knows more than a military historian with 30 years on the job. #natsecdef
Head of Eisenhower library forced out after sword spat with Trump www.militarytimes.com/veterans/mil...

Head of Eisenhower library forced out after sword spat with Trump

The Army vet and historian declined Trump's request to gift Eisenhower's sword to King Charles out of obligation to preserve it for the American public.

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Cville Gooner @cvillebluegrass1.bsky.social · 2d

What's good for Wall Street and the 1% in not good for the rest of us. Stocks rise, people go hungry, get sick...or sell organs to billionaires. #investing #latestagecapitalism
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Exclusive: AI could erase 100 million U.S. jobs, Senate Dem report finds

A ChatGPT-based analysis from Democrats on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee found that AI could wipe out swaths of both white- and blue-collar jobs

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Cville Gooner @cvillebluegrass1.bsky.social · 2d

The hidden high price political polarization costs in our communities. #Virginia #schoolboards
At least 8 school board elections across Virginia will take place next month with no candidate on the ballot cardinalnews.org/2025/10/06/a...

At least 8 school board elections across Virginia will take place next month with no candidate on the ballot

Some observers say heightened political polarization within traditionally nonpartisan school board elections is to blame for the lack of candidates.

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Cville Gooner @cvillebluegrass1.bsky.social · 4d

The Trillion Dollar man. Give'em two! #AI
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Tesla and xAI Staff Are Fleeing as Musk Becomes Increasingly Erratic

Employees ranging from senior leaders to engineers are quitting Elon Musk's companies — and often joining his rivals.

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Cville Gooner @cvillebluegrass1.bsky.social · 4d

Be warned. #AI
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Cory Doctorow Says the AI Industry Is About to Collapse

Famed sci-fi author and tech journalist Cory Doctorow has a spectacularly grim warning about the coming AI-fueled economic disaster.

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Cville Gooner @cvillebluegrass1.bsky.social · 5d

And Tesla headlines are singing it's praises. Really?
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BYD Extends Tesla-Beating Sales Streak to Four Straight Quarters

Tesla Inc. sold a record number of vehicles last quarter, but BYD Co. still got the better of the Elon Musk-led company yet again.

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Cville Gooner @cvillebluegrass1.bsky.social · 5d

Some hard realities and some tough love. #politics
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Farmers for Trump, But Trump for Farmers?

Also, Dems continue to miss the point for 45 years and counting.

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Cville Gooner @cvillebluegrass1.bsky.social · 6d

Turn the lawlessness up to 11! #usgovernment
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Trump administration knocks out at least 15 oversight websites, saying IGs 'lied to the public'

It's not a shutdown issue: the White House is withholding funds from the umbrella organization for the government's inspectors general.

www.defenseone.com

Cville Gooner @cvillebluegrass1.bsky.social · 6d

This is a guy with massive inside info on all government agencies, including NASA, NRO, State, and Pentagon. And China is the admin's avowed Enemy No. 1. What does that make Musk? Shouldn't Dems be asking? #natsecsky #space
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX Took Money Directly From Chinese Investors, Company Insider Testifies

The newly unsealed testimony marks the first time direct Chinese investment in the company has been disclosed, raising new questions about foreign ownership interests in one of America’s most importan...

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Cville Gooner @cvillebluegrass1.bsky.social · 6d

The world power dynamic is shifting, even as Washington dithers. NATO alliances are now stressed by the East and the West, but interesting developments continue, especially for investors. #natsecsky #investing
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The Iron Curtain Is Now the Drone Curtain

The EU wants to build a "drone wall" on Europe's eastern front . With little money and fewer troops, Russia can leverage chaos (and ISR) with drones if little more. EU defense firms stand to gain.

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Cville Gooner @cvillebluegrass1.bsky.social · 6d

Not sure I'm this strong yet. I don't forgive MAGA or a weak-kneed, out of touch DNC.
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

- Mahatma Gandhi

Cville Gooner @cvillebluegrass1.bsky.social · 6d

This is obviously politically motivated since his books continue to be major motion picture blockbusters.
This is NOT AMERICAN, it's partisan hypocrisy.
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Stephen King is the most banned author in US schools, PEN report says

Stephen King is the most banned author in US schools, PEN report says

A new report on book bans in U.S. schools finds Stephen King as the author most likely to be censored.

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Cville Gooner @cvillebluegrass1.bsky.social · 6d

Wow. You know if this was a significant Democrat in any leadership position saying this crap the right would have a field day. Is this on MSNBC? The wires? Papers? Are any Dems talking about this and what it means today as he blows up boats with USN ships? #natsecsky

nullifie @nullifie.bsky.social · 7d

The year is 2003.

17-year-old Stephen Miller is sitting in the back of a school bus talking about torture, as in “Torture is a celebration of human life and dignity."

Miller looks directly into the camera and describes the torturing Iraqis in gruesome detail, as his peers laugh uncomfortably.

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Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 6d

My god.

“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6d

Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion.

Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.

"It was scary, because I had never had a gun in my face," Fisher said. "They asked my name and my date of birth and asked me, did I have any warrants? And I told them, 'No, 'Ididn't."
Fisher said she was handcuffed before being released around 3 a.m., and she was told that if anyone had any kind of warrant out for them, even if it was unrelated to immigration, they would not be released.

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Cville Gooner @cvillebluegrass1.bsky.social · 6d

This is really weird. Trump continues to nationalize businesses in the US...a la Russia and China. #econsky #natsecsky
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US takes a stake in another company, this one is operating a massive lithium mine in Nevada

US takes a stake in another company, this one is operating a massive lithium mine in Nevada

The U.S. government is taking a minority stake in Lithium Americas, a company that is developing one of the world’s largest lithium mines in northern Nevada.

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The Register @theregister.com · 6d

Windows 10 refuses to go gentle into that good night

Rage, rage against the dying of the free security updates With just days remaining until Microsoft discontinues free support, Windows 10 still accounts for 40.5 percent of the Windows desktop market, At the same time, Windows 11 adoption remains at just 48.94 percent.…

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Cville Gooner @cvillebluegrass1.bsky.social · 6d

This is the sad irony of this bonehead. #natsecsky
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The US military has long been an engine of social change. Hegseth's approach runs counter to that

The U.S. military has historically been an engine for cultural and social change in America. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s vision for the armed forces he leads runs counter to that.

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Cville Gooner @cvillebluegrass1.bsky.social · 7d

Any comment Elon? I'm guessing not. Must be why you're talking about robots as the future of Tesla, since EVs are underselling the Power division - and it's only making like $10B/yr in revs. #space #misdirection
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NASA safety panel warns Starship lunar lander could be delayed by years

NASA safety advisers say they doubt the lunar lander version of SpaceX’s Starship will be ready to support the Artemis 3 mission as planned in 2027.

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