>unarmed pleasure vessel inexplicably capable of running a blockade

What did he know?

Ah the classic hero spares the villain after slaying 40 union workers just getting their hours in.

I mean I don't like little kids but WTF.

A global commons no longer: Sea control reimagined In recent years the way in which states perceive the value of the seas has changed. The processes of legal and extra-legal territorialization have meant that the seas are now viewed as having value...

My latest article is out. It argues that sea control has been reimagined in recent years, driven by a dramatic change in the value that states place upon the seas. This in turn is impacting navies across the globe.
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Yeah it's a big reason why Turkey is pushing so hard in the Aegean and Mediterranean. I fully expect to see another Cyprus Crisis in the next few decades, along with a lot of near-misses with Greece over many of the Islands.

This is a war based on lies

These things are already illegal in a lot of facilities because they're a massive security risk, just like fitbits/apple watches/cell phones.

They are just Shaheds! A few days into the U.S.-Iran war, after Iran attacked many of its neighbors, my friend in Kyiv asked her 11-year-old son if he had heard about what was happening. Unworried, he replied they were fir...

“When humans find themselves in impossible situations, mentally and spiritually exhausted, they can join together in ridiculing the absurdity of the reality they face,” writes Steve Medeiros, Socio-cultural anthropology PhD Candidate in the Experimental Anthropology Lab, in his op-ed.

I understand the point of it (ha) but I also kind of hate it. It's just visually disruptive.

Incredible reconstruction of the Schulzenwerder helmet by Dima Hramtsov and @projectforlog.bsky.social!!!

#MedievalSky #MedievalWarfare

Agricola in Scotland – how the Romans subdued the Far North – Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution Agricola was the great Flavian warrior governor of Britain, tasked by the emperor Vespasian with conquering the far north of its main island for the first time. Initially campaigning in Wales and then...

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An absolute honour to be asked back to the wonderful Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, this time to talk about my forthcoming Agricola in Scotland out July thru ace @penandswordbooks.bsky.social , 28th July, 7.30pm, do come along if free and nearby!

If you have a platform you can use your platform.

"Was J.D. Vance a shapeshifting visitor from another world? Ancient Astronaut Theorists say... maybe."

Oh yeah I know. England is averaging like $8.20.

But the joke was about JD Vance lol.

Opening text of a thread by Palantir from X Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.

Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different.
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I've had some long conversations with my European friends about this, yeah.

This meme is getting more and more prescient...

We've been in WW3 since the first official state sponsored Cyberattack in 2007. Probably before then.

This is what it looks like. Not ships, planes, and nukes.

Alternatively you could build the high-speed rail line from Charlotte to Atlanta (~$16 billion) and regional rail between the major cities in SC with Charlotte, Raleigh, and Atlanta connections.

28 Billion would finish the VC Summer Nuclear Power Plant.

Now reading:
“The Architecture of Alexandria and Egypt: 300 BC - AD 700” - J. McKenzie

A thorough examination of the visual and architectural landscape of Egypt from the Ptolemaic dynasty through Late Antiquity, particularly the city of Alexandria, the most renowned in the Hellenistic period

Yeah and setting a threshold below the limits of background noise is a serious ethical question.

LNT has problems but I understand why we use it and ALARA.

Literally ruled out no other causes. Like the military bases leaking PFAS and PFBs in the radii of nearly every power plant in the study.

Sucks.

ZOHRAN: “TBH, I don’t think too much about how Republicans portray me. The power of an ideology is judged in the worth of its delivery— to be told a city-run grocery store is implausible but $500 MILLION/day to kill ppl in Iran & Lebanon is necessary speaks to a broken politics.”

Flock cameras have useful, modular electronic components in them, including:

- Rechargeable lithium iion battery with solar panel
- 5G LTE modem
- 5MP 16mm camera with IR filter

Plus various other components with precious metals that can be harvested for scrap.

Happy 96th birthday to Michael Forest, who played Apollo in the Star Trek episode "Who Mourns For Adonais?" (Unsurprisingly, his audition included taking his shirt off.) He played the role again in 2012 in the fan film Star Trek Continues.

US intelligence detects signs China is weighing giving Iran advance radar systems The technology would enhance Iran's ability to detect and track incoming threats, like low-flying drones and cruise missiles.

Analysts at the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon's arm for military intelligence, assessed that China was weighing whether to provide Tehran with advanced radar systems.

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Classical art historian Annetta Alexandridis dies at 58 | Cornell Chronicle Annetta Alexandridis, a classical archaeologist known for her hands-on approach to research and teaching, died April 13 in New York City.

Classical art historian Annetta Alexandridis dies at 58 | Cornell Chronicle
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