Remember when Obama removed McChrystal over a Rolling Stone article that claimed McChrystal's staff—not him, his staff—were critical of the administration behind closed doors? 😒
Wendy's drive-thru menu features "FreshAI" to take your order. You have to say "Crew Member" to opt out of it.
Wendy's drive-thru menu "FreshAi" disclaimer: "Wendy's FreshAi ordering assistant will record your voice and use it for quality assurance. By continuing your order with FreshAi, you consent to this recording."
I know I'm just going to be called a Luddite, but making me order through an AI will assure I actively avoid going to that restaurant. I already have to fight a computer whenever I call most businesses, I don't want to fight one when I want cheap, unhealthy food.
Bye, Wendy's.
A: I'm mad! B: Here's a solution. A: I don't want a solution. I want to be mad.
Anyone can have fans. You know you've really done something great when you get hate mail.
Seriously, though, what's the name of the show?
Just to clarify, are you talking about the CI office or security? Because if it's the former, I'd appreciate if you would DM me.
Shamefully true, but I think a lot of the analysis right now is meant to illustrate the difference between objective reality and the administration's narrative.
At this point it feels like Hegseth is unwittingly prepping the battlefield for Kelly's run for POTUS. He'll run straight over them.
Fun fact, "It's never just one thing" can be applied to a lot of things; deciding what car to buy, who to vote for, determining if someone is being deceitful, or picking a job candidate.
I'm describing critical thinking, but I've found the phrase to resonate in people's minds a little more.
I think part of this problem is the way we've used cherry-picked short quotes and statistics to turn debate into a "gotcha" game, with no consideration for the meaning behind them. Social media, especially short form like Twitter and Bluesky, hasn't helped this issue.
In the academic field, that's what research and peer review are there for. Before you rely on an academic's expertise for something important, consider their previous work, their reputation in their field, what positions of influence they've held, whether or not they've changed their conclusions.
I offer a tool to help parse these kinds of conflicts in judgment:
"It's never just one thing."
Meaning you shouldn't make a judgment based on one piece of information, but should look for a pattern to determine your perception.
A PhD is a good start, but is not the end-all indicator of expertise.
Introduce yourself with what almost killed you:
Random AQ-fired mortar that hit the airfield near where I happened to be (thanks, T-wall!)
Appendix that burst because a PRC-E7 decided he didn't believe me when I said I was in severe pain
If you're not one of the five people who would instantly get that, Sandia National Lab is in Albuquerque, which has a famous hot air balloon festival every year.
There's a certain hilarity in the idea that nukes on balloons came from Sandia, of all places.
This feels like the academia version of the Peter Principle, and I think it's pretty common. During grad school I had a tenured professor (who was a program director) tell us that the reason we pulled out of Afghanistan was because we had become energy independent and no longer needed the oil. 🙄
You really think we’re as shitty as you by daring us with the Bill Clinton photos. We give a fuck about laws, not leaders. If Clinton fucked a kid, arrest him. If Walter fucking Cronkite turns out to have done some shit, burn all the memorials to him. We are not the same as you.
Let's just take it a step further and make a Civil War era RPG. I'm thinking post-war, a group of private abolitionists are hired to find a particularly nasty Confederate officer for a tribunal. Like imagine Henry Wirz ran and the Army hired Pinkertons to track him down.
100%. The number of AQ and Daesh I got to squeal because I gave them a muffin and a Coke instead of what they saw in the Abu Ghraib news is too high to count. This isn't 3D chess, it's tic-tac-toe with a kindergartener.
I will feel absolutely no sympathy for the Admiral if he goes to jail over this. You want to wear officer rank, especially stars? They come with a price: you have a duty to say "No, Sir/Ma'am" to unlawful orders.
If you don't have the intestinal fortitude to do that, you don't deserve the rank.
This. I nearly got an Article 15 as a SSG in AFG for kicking a WO1 out of my interrogation booth and the facility after he tried to pull some illegal as hell stupid shit. Fun fact, a WO1 doesn't outrank the JAG with A/V recordings. Don't break the law, kids!
Yesterday Trump signed an E.O. on AI (real machine learning, not the bullshit LLMs companies are insisting we use).
Apparently not a single person in the administration has seen any of the Terminator movies beyond T2, because they decided to name their AI mission...
Genesis. 🙄
I need to know what lab you're at so I can give some kudos to your CI shop for their CI awareness training.
Button with the words "Officer of Election" pinned to a sweater worn by Northern Virginia's sexiest officer of election.
Today I'm neutral. Go vote if you are able to do so legally.
When Usha Vance is mad at JD, she can't even make him sleep on the couch, lest he again fall victim to temptation
Picard management tip: Encourage extracurricular activities with your crew, especially if it involves wearing costumes.
This motherfucker summed up the Korean War, Vietnam War, and 20 years of GWOT into "detours into counterinsurgency in Southeast Asia and the Middle East."
How long do you have to sniff your own farts before you think this is a good way to start your "I have an idea" piece?
