The one thing that has taken a U.S. aircraft carrier offline in recent years was not enemy action. It was COVID.
Deciding now to put anti-science culture war signaling over military readiness is a bad idea.
Yeah, they have three yards there: Marinette, Green Bay and Sturgeon Bay, plus a repair yard in Jacksonville
The Continental Army would be forced to retreat from Quebec and not necessarily due to British forces. John Adams would write, “The smallpox is ten times more terrible than Britons, Canadians and Indians together. This was the cause of our precipitate retreat from Quebec."
This would be bad if the flu was contagious or something.
Illustrating once again the extent to which the Venezuela raid emboldened Trump to engage in further military adventurism.
They really want to get some small surface combatant work, whatever that might look like, because that's what they optimized the yard for.
Green Bay is their aluminum yard, so probably to be built there
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
My review of Project Hail Mary
So I have written something short and serious for edina-defence.org about the European AFV industrial base. It is supposed to be a primer for non-experts. BLUF: We have very good capabilities and good capacities but rely for certain specialty equipment on single or very few non-european suppliers.
No decision on the fighter review is effectively a decision in favour of the existing plan for 88 F-35.
Every day that passes, the more the review looks like an attempt at leverage ahead of CUSMA negotiations, rather than a real reconsideration of the status-quo.
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This is actually the normal and legal functioning of a blockade. Blockading ships can order ships running the blockade to stop for inspection - a ship that refuses to stop can be fired upon to make it stop.
Ships with contraband or running the blockade can be seized.
"Sweden agreed with the BND, Germany’s foreign intelligence agency, that Russia was understating its budget deficit by $30bn, and had also noticed some financial indicators that could point to a future banking crisis" www.ft.com/content/04a9...
🇺🇦 UkrArmoTech has started factory trials of the prototype of its first domestically developed tracked armored personnel carrier, the Skif.
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whats so crazy to me is the only job that chatbots could actually eliminate right now is ceo, every company could save millions today right now by replacing their ceo with a computer program that just parrots what other ceos say
Finland increases personnel to protect territorial integrity by ordering reservists to refresher training. Likely to activate more ships or air defence capabilities and to rotate personnel. The reason are the Ukrainian drones directed to Finland by Russian EW. puolustusvoimat.fi/en/-/providi...
What you have to understand is that the United States started a war, almost immediately lost it, then began the laborious process of negotiating against itself, and is now settling into the secondary denial phase …
A Great Blue Heron takes flight. It's wings are concave as it is lifting into flight.
I saw a nice Great Blue Heron yesterday. I kept clicking as he departed and got a shot where the wings are perfectly concave. Fun, fun click to get!
#birds #GreatBlueHeron
Years ago @mikeduncan.bsky.social told me "you can rewrite shit but you can't rewrite nothing" and it's made every draft easier since.
two related thoughts: i suspect that many tech companies get away with utterly ratshit, incompetent leadership because you've got a fat middle section of competence holding up the roof
AI is an existential threat to that middle section of the workforce, and will lay bare a lot of incompetence
It's been so interesting to watch this unfold. Barnes & Noble and other big book chains shut indies down in the the 1990s (and on) and then Amazon came along and ate up all the book market share. Now people tired of big corporations are creating demand for more indies
A must read
picture of a bacon egg and cheese with the caption: DC people — there's a place called Call Your Mother that makes an incredible bacon, egg and cheese. That is all
seeing the TMZ DC guys’ posts from the last week is like viewing the instagram stories of a DC summer intern lol
It’s so important to know your bollard history.
#WorldBollardAssociaton
The extent to which YIMBY and techbro influencers in the 2020s get hyped up about centralised megaprojects is eerily reminiscent of the poetic odes 1920 and 30s Communist intellectuals churned out about steelworks and dams at the heart of Stalinist 5 year plans
As part of a process started two years ago, the United States have now approved a German request for purchase of the AEGIS/SPY-6 suite. Germany will purchase 8 complete sets intended to fit out the future F127 AAW combatants 🇺🇸 🇩🇪
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Nice
Cover of report "Mission Aborted: how NASA illegally implemented the president's budget request without congressional approval. Minority staff report, prepared by members of the committee on science, space, and technology, us house of representatives, April 2026
This report came out today by minority staff of the House science committee on how three NASA missions were aborted due to NASA illegally following the FY26 president's budget request instead of congressionally approved budget. Very important reading. 🔭🧪 democrats-science.house.gov/staff-report...
Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense has set an ambitious goal to transition up to 100% of frontline logistics to robotic systems.
To meet new target, Ukraine’s MoD plans to contract 25,000 UGVs in the first half of 2026, twice as many as were contracted throughout all of 2025.
