Dr. Taylor Loy

Conflict in Iran – Rapid Response YouTube video by Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Starting Momentarily:
w/ Alexandra Bell, @atomicbell.bsky.social
Kelsey Davenport, Director for Nonproliferation Policy at the Arms Control Association, and 
Jeffrey Lewis, @armscontrolwonk.bsky.social

More DOOM until (eventually) less DOOM occurs.

*Places polymarket bet*

*takes long drag on cigarette*
War?… war is always basically the same each occurrence… except for, like, when the generals try to fight a newish war by the lessons learned from older war instances.

(Duly noting all the other obvious problems) But 20 years of marriage and too much trouble to find a picture with them together?

It’s shiftin’ time!

"When I think about what it means to be an American, I truly believe it's more than a pride we inherit. It's the past we step into and how we repair it,” says American poet Amanda Gorman.

That’s exactly where the conversation started and ended. I thought, oh, I can be helpful and my friend will consider my expert perspective because I’ve studied this issue a lot more than him. I wasn’t even trying to get him to “change his mind” more so than understand reasons why the JCPOA was good.

I had a non-expert friend arguing with me last year that the JCPOA wasn’t worth anything because Iran was cheating.

I couldn’t convince him otherwise. He trusted his understanding from reading a couple of articles vs. me trying to explain the value of IAEA inspections and what safeguards “do.”

Deleted previous post because you appear to be an expert on PATRIOT, and I didn’t want to come off as “that reply guy”.

Do you have a guess at what targets these were?

“Iran cannot be allowed to develop a nuclear weapon - because if it did, we could no longer attack them.” you realize they’re listening, right?

And I love the note in the loc record: “Film ends abruptly, but appears to be complete.”

If you’ve watched a lot of “primitive” cinema, you’re like, that’s how we know it’s authentic!

I seems wrong to watch this on a phone. I’m going to save it for the projector. Wow!

“'Gugusse and the Automaton,' a long-lost film by the iconic French filmmaker George Méliès at his Star Film company.

The 45-second film, made around 1897, was the first appearance on film of what might be called a robot."

"It had not been seen by anyone in likely more than a century."

The best of us. It is an honor and blessing to have lived on this Earth at the same time as Mr. Fred Rogers.

Television pioneer Fred Rogers, gone 23 years ago today.

His acceptance speech for the Lifetime Achievement Emmy Award is always worth a watch.

#RIP 💔

Individually, sure. At scale, everything is a tradeoff.

PhD requirements much easier. Accreditation is for nerds!

Secretary Hegseth announced this afternoon that DOD will cease ALL graduate study by military personnel at universities including MIT, all the Ivies, Stanford, etc because such schools teach "the enemy's wicked ideology" to officers.

thehill.com/policy/defen...

Rookie numbers.

Grok set <getting hair mussed> to 100%

Run program

Even each individual point, by itself, is a nonstarter.

I was tracking. I should have used more characters to indicate that I was lamenting how this isn’t a possibility for others in very red states which in many non-competitive races amounts to disenfranchisement.

Though, still riding the high from voting Doug Jones in as AL Senator several years ago.

That would violate voting laws in Tennessee. We have to be “bonafide” party members to vote in a primary.

At this rate Iran will make it to Alpha Proxima long before the rest of humanity! They will populate the stars!!!

Too soon

That’s the spirit!

The only thing more dangerous than flying a helicopter is learning to fly a helicopter. I’m assuming.

Just be thankful we didn’t have ChatGPT back then.

It’s like ALF. But set on Melmac and there are only ALFs.

Loved it. I didn’t appreciate/understand it at the time (as a kid) but looking back the dinosaur themes and characters really made for an impressively subversive satire of the family sitcom genre. Like Simpson’s but more visceral.