Jared Keller

👀 A US Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft provides close air support to the Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Santa Barbara during a training exercise in the Arabian Gulf on Feb. 2, 2026 www.dvidshub.net/image/951221...

Some men get into grilling delicious meats as they age

Other get into World War II biographies

Me? I got into trawling DVIDS for glimpses of US military laser weapons and then using them to illustrate my incredible thoughts www.laserwars.net/p/navy-helio...

The information grey goo I’m broadly positive about the future of LLMs and AI, but no one should pretend there will not be difficulties or that the transition to using machines isn’t going to pose plenty of challenges.  ...

This vision of the Internet's AI-driven future from @ianbetteridge.com remains undefeated www.ianbetteridge.com/the-informat...

👀 A US Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft provides close air support to the Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Santa Barbara during a training exercise in the Arabian Gulf on Feb. 2, 2026 www.dvidshub.net/image/951221...

Jeff D'Onofrio has the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever

Just a reminder that a defense contractor once designed a massive nuclear-powered spaceplane to enable the US Air Force to deliver nukes on targets anywhere in the world books.google.com/books?id=MxX...

The Navy is working on bird internet Communications networks made up of Internet-enabled "biological nodes" like birds and dogs outfitted with wireless technology could function as transient network hubs for military personnel in contest...

Finally, another moment for my T&P archive to shine taskandpurpose.com/news/navy-bi...

If neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night can stop the US Postal Service, who do you expect it to stop flying murderbots?!?!?

If every "mainstream" media outlet dies, then who will social media influencers have left to aggregate other than each other?

Evergreen

Just a reminder that this is the future of warfare

Facebook’s only good feature is Memories

My late grandfather, a renowned historian of American bureaucracy (seriously, America's Three Regimes explains so much about our current political moment), had a favorite joke about his storied career in academia:

- BS - Bull Shit
- MS - More of the Same
- PHD - Piled Higher and Deeper

He would have appreciate this addition immensely

My late grandfather, a renowned historian of American bureaucracy (seriously, America's Three Regimes explains so much about our current political moment), had a favorite joke about his storied career in academia:

- BS - Bull Shit
- MS - More of the Same
- PHD - Piled Higher and Deeper

God bless @paulszoldra.com for tolerating my laser texts!

The slow death of American middle class, in one @jeffstein.bsky.social tweet

Can't wait for Steam News to start thier national security division.

At this, the twilight of American journalism, you either make it to the promised land of general interest at scale or become small and niche and resilient like a cockroach laughing in the face of a mushroom cloud

(Or you become a gaming company with a media arm, like the New York Times)

The slow death of American middle class, in one @jeffstein.bsky.social tweet

There are too many terrible AI-written defense Substacks in the world. This is NOT one of them.

Perspective | Disney threatens to ruin the things that made Marvel Comics special It's a star on the brink of collapsing on itself.

I only ever had one byline at @washingtonpost.com, but it remains one of the pieces I'm most proud of

Really sad to see what's happening there

www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019...

What a difference eight years makes

Anyone got a subscription to AviationWeek and want to hook a brother up? 👀

smdh

What does this even mean

The Pentagon's Looming Laser Weapon Supply Chain Problem Critical minerals may be the most significant barrier to rapidly scaling high-energy laser weapons across the US military.

I don't always write about directed energy weapon supply chains, but when I do ...

... the former Principal Director for Directed Energy in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering forwards it 1,000 people (according to Substack!)

www.laserwars.net/p/scaled-dir...

My favorite running joke is that there's a fourth Foer brother (Franklin, Jonathan Safran, and Joshua) named Hobart Foer who the family only calls on during literary crises so they can solve them as ...

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... The Fantastic Foer

"When talking to breeders, nobody seems to show much interest in where their dogs competed last, or who their parents were. The attendees are more interested in knowing how old this Bernese mountain dog is, and who’s a good boy."

Thank you @nbj914.bsky.social for leaving in this terrible line.

A Tale of 2 Dog Shows What America’s most prestigious dog show tells us about our relationship with our canine companions.

With the 150th Westminster Kennel Club dog show underway, I can't resist reposting one of my favorite pieces of reporting ever (from 12 years ago!)

psmag.com/social-justi...