Silverman on Security

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These guys get a full meteorological report before they so much as go to the grocery store. The idea they'd pilot a 300,000 ton vessel FULL OF OIL directly into the middle of a hot war zone because the US government asks them to is laughable

I know several ship captains with Master Unlimited licenses who have piloted the largest vessels on the oceans and they are—to the man—the most risk-adverse people on Earth. They are responsible for dozens of lives and hundreds of millions in assets. 0% chance any sail through Hormuz for a while.

@bettycrackerfl.bsky.social

They’ve been quiet. Too quiet.

I’ve got that.

Once you realise many tombs are nothing more than dream incubation chambers for the dead, a walk in Ashcourt Necropolis becomes a navigation of visions. No amount of bricked thresholds stops them leaking. Stay still too long and you risk being caught in terminal ephialtes. – #CLNolan

A headline reading “Camel pageant thrown into chaos after 20 competitors disqualified for using hump-plumping injectables”

Yes everything is terrible but let’s not lose sight of the fact that someone has written the Headline to End All Headlines.

🤣 Can confirm this as accurate!

It isn’t just the threat of harm NAVCENT is worried about, it’s the loss of operational flexibility in committing to an open ended mission. CRUDES (cruisers/destroyers) are a high demand/low density asset that escorting duties will eat up.

Drawing of a girl (OC) wearing a familiar Super Mario Bros looking ensemble. I wonder what side-scrolling adventures she has in store today?

It's-a MAR10 day! 🍄

And the decisionmakers in the Trump administration are also seemingly keen on US alignment with Russia in a way that actively promotes Russia's interests.

The Trump administration's Russia First approach should also make those UK political and media figures pushing for unquestioning, automatic alignment with whatever the Trump White House does, think twice if they have a concern for UK security.

Putin will be able to see that the US under the Trump administration will never be a reliable partner for the rest of NATO against Russian aggression. The White House's approach is a green light for Putin to do what he wants in Europe.

The security of other NATO states and European partners like Ukraine and Moldova cannot rely on continued alliance with a US whose leadership consistently put Russia first, even in relation to US interests. No amount of European diplomacy is going to change that.

The Trump administration's refusal to respond to malign Russian activity, even when it's directed against the US, should be a sharp wake-up call for any NATO leaders still hoping that compromise with the White House will ensure US support in other areas, such as Ukraine.

At this point, it seems that the safest assumption is that the Trump administration simply doesn't care if the Russians are sharing information on US military assets with Iran. Putin can do what he likes, however damaging to the US, with no fear of a US response.🧵

We interrupt your regularly scheduled doomscrolling for this adorable elephant timeline cleanse.

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Once again, I will deploy the comparison of these guys using a forklift at the gym.

If you're someone for whom the writing process is just a time-suck that can be offloaded to the shitty algorithm slop heap, you're in the wrong fucking business.

"AI will let us turn PhDs from 4 year degrees into 6 month degrees!"

Literally shitting on the part that makes it intellectual development. It requires things like *reading* for yourself and *writing* for yourself. Those aren't chores, they're part of skills acquisition and critical development.

If you look around the table and can’t tell who the mark is, you’re the mark.

Good reporting by @lorenzofb.bsky.social to confirm what we reported as a theory last week: That the highly sophisticated iPhone hacking toolkit known as Coruna, found in the hands of Russian spies and now criminal hackers, is an out-of-control US-government-funded creation.

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(You see this in stories about trans issues where they'll interview Brianna Wu, who is there to be a trans person willing to shit on other trans people. It makes biased reporters go, "See? I was fair! I included one!" when really they specifically sought out someone who repeats their own beliefs)

The reporter has a pretty clear bias against Muslims. She went out of her way to get a quote from a conservative Muslim who wished that Mamdani had gone on some rant about radical islamic extremism or something or other.

Like, this Mamdani piece. You read it, you read, "There were no short-form videos posted to social media about the attack in front of Gracie Mansion," and it becomes extremely obvious that the reporter is too biased to write the piece in an evenhanded way.

I see that a lot when it comes to NYT covering things like trans issues. It's not necessarily that anything is outright false (though, sometimes there is...). It's more about decisions about who gets interviewed for stories, whose stories get lifted up, how it gets framed, the language used, etc.

I think this story is a really good example for people to look at when it comes to understanding bias at NYT. It's not that the reporter, Dana Rubinstein, says anything outright false. But the framing, word choices, etc., add up to an unprofessional and biased account.