Frank O'Donnell

Abolish the Home Office

Top US Army general says he’s using ChatGPT to help make key command decisions Maj. Gen. William “Hank” Taylor told reporters that he’s been using ChatGPT to refine how he makes choices affecting thousands of troops.

Oh, we're losing losing the next war, huh?

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Indonesia set to buy Chinese J-10 fighters amid push to modernise: minister It would make Indonesia second foreign military to operate the jets after Pakistan, which said it shot down Indian jets in May with J-10C.

Indonesia set to buy Chinese J-10 fighter jets amid push to modernise military, defence minister says – SCMP

My super modern regulatory plan is that any entity named for a thing from Tolkien has to publicly explain why Tolkien wouldn’t immediately throw it into Mount Doom

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The 2022 Nuclear Crisis: A Retrospective - War on the Rocks

Latest Russia Contingency is out. I’m joined by Austin Long and Pranay Vaddi to talk about the fall 2022 nuclear crisis. Was it a crisis? What do we think happened? Three years on, do we know now that can shed more light on this period? warontherocks.com/episode/ther... @warontherocks.bsky.social

Littoral Combat Ships

The US Is Racing to Rebuild Its Submarine Power Before China Catches Up Inside the effort to deliver a ‘transformational improvement’ in how the US builds submarines, vital to preserving its undersea advantage.

Inside the US race with China to ramp up its submarine power – Bloomberg: ‘struggling to get out of drydock after years of delays, rising costs and a weakened industrial base.’

"Since last fall, sheriffs in Norfolk, Hampden, and Suffolk counties have been accused of misusing campaign funds, drunken driving, and extorting a cannabis company, respectively"

oopsie!

Serving in the U.S. Navy was one of the greatest honors of my life. Happy 250th Birthday to the United States Navy.

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lol they're doing the thing again

India’s Use of Artificial Intelligence During the Indo-Pak Four-Day Crisis New Delhi’s claim is an unprecedented development in South Asia. How will Pakistan respond?

New Delhi’s claim is an unprecedented development in South Asia. How will Pakistan respond?

China takes steps against U.S.-linked units of South Korea shipbuilder Hanwha China imposes sanctions on U.S.-linked Hanwha Ocean subsidiaries amid trade tensions, impacting global maritime industry.

China announced sanctions on Tuesday against five U.S.-linked subsidiaries of South Korean shipbuilder Hanwha Ocean amid trade tensions between the world's two largest economies, sending the company's shares sharply lower.
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Dust lanes around the center of NGC 7177, a barred spiral galaxy 56 million light-years away in the constellation Pegasus. Made from Hubble WFC3 observations in Oct. 2017 (PI Peter Erwin).

NGC 7177 - From Jason Major (jpmajor.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2irrgUb

Thailand, Cambodia to sign ceasefire at ASEAN summit, Malaysia minister says Malaysia and the United States will facilitate a ceasefire agreement between Thailand and Cambodia, Malaysian Foreign Minister Mohamad Hasan said on Tuesday.

Thailand, Cambodia to sign ceasefire at ASEAN summit, Malaysia minister says reut.rs/46Qezis

My favorite aspect of the Columbus legend is him getting rejected by the Portuguese gets spun as them not recognizing the genius of his idea. No - he went into a roomful of expert navigators and made basic math mistakes, they thought he was a moron, and they wouldn't fund his idea on that basis.

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

‘An environment of terror’: deadly resurgence of Pakistan Taliban gathers pace Surge in militancy in region bordering Afghanistan is now one of greatest security threats facing Islamabad Tariq Ahmed never lets his pistol out of his sight these days. Sitting cross-legged on a woven charpai, his face concealed with a scarf, the 26-year-old looks nervously left and right, shifting his gun in and out of his waistband. It was here, just a few months ago in this neighbourhood bordering Pakistan’s north-western border city of Peshawar that his uncle Shehan Shah, 36, was shot dead at point blank range by the Taliban. Continue reading...

‘An environment of terror’: deadly resurgence of Pakistan Taliban gathers pace

Imaged from La Crescenta, California with a Daystar Quark Chromosphere hydrogen-alpha filter, an Orion 60mm guide scope, and ZWO asi1600mm.

Partial Solar Eclipse 2024-04-08 - From Ryan Kinnett (rkinnett.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2pJaDVj

A satirical newspaper headline reads "Pentagon warns Toronto dangerously close' to winning World Series" along with photos of the Toronto Blue Jays and Trump next to Pete Hegseth.

"If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter." -- Justice Kavanaugh

Download full image here: www.flickr.com/photos/192271236@N03/52668802934/sizes/o/ Credit: UAESA/MBRSC/HopeMarsMission/EXI/AndreaLuck ----------------------------- North on the right Orbit: 253 - Spacecraft altitude: 26451 km Timetag 2022-08-14 Filters: f635+f546+f437 Raw Data from: sdc.emiratesmarsmission.ae/ Files Name: emm_exi_l2a_20220814T234009_0253_xos4_f635_f_v06-08 emm_exi_l2a_20220814T234020_0253_xos4_f546_f_v06-08 emm_exi_l2a_20220814T234040_0253_xos4_f437_f_v06-08 ---------------------------------- Credit: UAESA/MBRSC/HopeMarsMission/EXI/AndreaLuck Feel free to share, giving the appropriate credit and providing a link to the original image or tweet creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Mars - Olympus and Arsia Mons - Hope Mission Orbit 257 - From Andrea Luck (andrealuck.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2ofaoad

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

The International Space Station has tracked Hurricane Matthew all week, providing images and video from low Earth orbit as the storm hit the Caribbean Sea and made its way towards Florida. In this photograph taken by Expedition 49 Flight Engineer Kate Rubins on Oct. 4, 2016, at 21:05 GMT, the hurricane's clouds extend across the frame and the space station's solar arrays are visible at the upper-right corner of the image. As the hurricane strengthens and approaches the Florida coast, NASA and NOAA satellites continue to provide forecasters and scientists valuable data on the development and changes in the storm. For more information about Hurricane Matthew, click here. NASA Media Usage Guidelines

Space Station Flyover of Hurricane Matthew - From NASA Marshall Space Flight Center - https://flic.kr/p/MMZDtA

This is very well-put.

This isn’t even original quackery from Thiel. Games Workshop should sue him for plagiarizing 40k lore around rise of the God-Emperor.
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It's a testament to the Dodgers' industry-leading depth that when one of their accomplished-but-washed chud pitchers duffs a game out of reach they actually have another accomplished-but-washed chud with even worse politics to bring in to mop it up. Most teams don't even have one guy that odious.

UN to slash a quarter of peacekeepers globally over lack of funds -