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One of my favorite moments in four years of recording OODAcasts. An unsolicited endorsement from Admiral Bobby Ray Inman, the mentor to my mentors and a fantastic leader. Motivates our entire crew to want to do better. Read what he reads at
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What our pal
@elonmusk
might not realize is that odds of nuclear war have always been too high and a strong nuclear deterrent has been in place for years to mitigate that. Want odds of nuclear war to decrease? Don’t appease nuclear armed dictators.
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@DavidSacks
Fascinating how many things you get flat wrong and how well you make it seem like everyone else is just fumbling through it all but oh you know the path to peace. Tell Putin to stop invading neighbors and get out of Ukraine and then sure, negotiate.
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@pmarca
Everyone on this list is personally vetted by me, all have been reporting consistently accurate and insightful info on the tactical situation:
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How many of you have been thinking of this quote of Napoleon lately?
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@HolocaustMuseum
Dear friends, I thank you for everything you do for this critically important mission. I am so sorry this offensive action disgraced your halls (I am donating now and will keep you my list). Please keep up the good work.
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Wow so easy to help this great team meet this goal. Follow their account then RT the below:
Just one month left in 2022.
We are still hoping to reach 1,5M followers this year. We still need your help.
Support the mission of
@AuschwitzMuseum
.
Amplify our voice. RT & encourage others to follow.
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@MarkHertling
As a former Navy Intelligence Officer I tend to agree with your assessment. might be worth a restrike just to be sure, however.
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Business Idea: Uber for camera drones. Direct high quality video and stills of any event anywhere anytime ordered directly from your phone.
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It is hard to have real humor at this time of course. But this is magnificent and should help some soldiers think through what they are doing.
@AlexKokcharov
@sumlenny
For those who haven’t scroll to the first tweet of this thread. Ukranian humor for Russian soldiers:
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The Oliver Stone movie might not have indicated this, but the reality is few Americans have done more to help Putin than Edward Snowden. His traitorous disclosures hurt our nation's ability to know what adversaries are up to and were not motivated by protecting our privacy.
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@AuschwitzMuseum
Now that you mention it, since i follow you i used to see your tweets all the time. This is the first i have seen in ages. Your message is so very important today, thanks for all your do.
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Just try and start something.
BREAKING: Russia's Defense Ministry says countries which use their airfields to supply Ukraine with fighter jets may be regarded as participants in the conflict
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Q: When is the best time to build a nuclear power plant?
A: 10 years ago
Q: When is the second best time to build a nuclear power plant?
A: Right now. Get on it. This the way. Build in every free nation.
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It is simple. Russia's invasion of Ukraine was its resignation letter as a member of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council.
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@DavidSacks
@stillgray
Why did you say that? Could you be mistaken? Could it be possibly that he was referring to invaders attacking Ukraine?
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There is a huge need for some creative destruction in the NGO space. Could really use some comprehensive assessments on which NGOs have been co opted by PRC or Russia or extremists so their risks to society can be mitigated. Need NGOs rooted in love and care for humanity.
Thread.
#SlavaUkraini
Again, NGOs that can seem only to attack democratic countries with rule of law while simping for terrorists & autocrats don’t come to this behavior suddenly - they’ve been doing it for years in the MidEast
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This is NOT The Onion:
Grasping for Metaphor, Reporters Flock to Burning DC Garbage Can
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Some in Virginia are pushing for
@GovernorVA
to open the beaches. I'm not. I want our decisions to be based on reason and facts.
#VirginiaResponds
#covid19
#coronavirus
Among the many reasons JAWS was such good fiction is how realistic Mayor Vaughn's character was. The stubborn politician refused to listen to reason or facts. If he would have taken action he would have avoided disaster. See:
#covid19
#coronavirus
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@EliotHiggins
Very well put. Totally duped and leaning into anything that seems to back up what he already believes, no matter what the source.
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Good. Sink the entire Russian Black Sea Fleet.
Reportedly,
#Russian
frigate "Admiral Essen" was hit by
#Ukrainian
Neptune cruise missile
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Is the Russian Air Force Actually Incapable of Complex Air Operations?
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I am not saying Putin is dead, I have zero information on that. Just wondering, how long would it take between his death and the world knowing? And what indicators might we get that he was dead before an official announcement?
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@DavidSacks
The Ukraine war will discredit even more the pro Putin loonies who hold no regard for human life.
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@DavidSacks
@ForeignPolicy
War is a horrible thing. Let's stay as united as possible against Putin and the Russian aggressor and push for their quickest possible withdrawal from Ukraine.
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Speculation: RU navy discipline, training, equipment maintenance, is no better than that observed in their ground forces. So, when a ship gets hit with two missiles all is lost. Contrast that with what happened when USS Stark was hit with two Exocet:
Would love to know, if any of you intercepts any morse or HF voice or other signals from the Black Sea that indicates who the senior ranking officer onboard the Moskva was. If you see any hard data, or any assessment at all, please share.
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Follow this list to track what can be known of this hot war:
#Ukraine
#UkraineRussiaCrisis
#UkraineWar
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I enjoyed the blog post and really enjoyed being able to download the model and run different scenarios. Very helpful and the most transparent and open move I've seen from anyone in the industry. Thanks
@TashaARK
,
@skorusARK
,
@wintonARK
and
@CathieDWood
for this.
Based on deeper research into Tesla’s
#battery
technology, its
#AI
breakthroughs, and its
#ride
-hailing possibilities,
@TashaARK
has pulled together and updated our $TSLA model with great input from
@skorusARK
and guidance from
@wintonARK
. Thank you for your tireless research!
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@AlyssaM_InfoSec
@TheRegister
@hacknotcrime
@Sidragon1
@jaysonstreet
FYI, spoke at a conference where a speaker told the crowd that companies should only hire hackers that are ethical. I pushed back saying I wish company executives were as ethical as the hackers I know. Why do we say "ethical hackers" and not "ethical executives"?
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@sumlenny
Sergej thank you for sharing this, I would not have seen it if you had not, and I thought I was tracking Russian activities in this space. Shows i have a lot to learn and makes me wonder why the West lets this happen? There should be no Russia in the Olympics till there is peace
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This meme reminds me of the WannaCry ransomware. Firms that got hit are running ancient operating systems in lightly defended enterprises.
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@yaelbt
As a leadership lesson we should all ask ourselves what we would do in a horrible situation like this. He fought evil till the end.
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My estimate/wild guess: In the US there are 2 million vulnerable companies that need to take action on this. 2000 of them have a program mature enough to recognize that and take appropriate and timely action.
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Wow I found a quote from an ancient, pre-Socrates philosopher who was fed up at the decels of his day:
"Dogs, also, bark at what they do not know."
- Heraclitus of Ephesus
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Yesterday this list had 100 people following. Now there are 14.5k. It is a vetted list of dedicated people who have been reporting very reliably on the
#UkraineWar
:
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A Conversation With Marc Andreessen (
@pmarca
): AI, Robotics, Jobs and Accelerating The Future via
@ctovision
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Starlink has a great new architecture with the best engineering of a space comms system ever. So there are some unique mitigation measures that can reduce threats. I’m providing all and my recommendations to the team of
@FedorovMykhailo
and also writing at
@OODA
Important warning: Starlink is the only non-Russian communications system still working in some parts of Ukraine, so probability of being targeted is high. Please use with caution.
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@BernieSpofforth
Thank you for sharing this. I would not have seen it if you had not done so. As for me, am very thankful for farmers where ever they are, but am extra appreciative of gutsy farmers who stand up for what is right.
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A reminder that many things can be true at once. We can despise the leadership and evil military brutes of Russia but love the Russian people. It is a hard life to live under authoritarian rule, and gutsy to do things like this there.
People marching through central Moscow this evening chanting “No to War!”
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It can really be hard to know what is real here, but we know for a fact there has not been an amphibious assault.
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You openly put your pictures in a big computer that 7 billion people also use. And you are surprised when others see those pictures. There are issues here to think through but this company is not the end of privacy. Posting all your stuff online is the end of privacy.
EXCLUSIVE: With a single photo, hundreds of law enforcement agencies in the U.S. can learn your name, where you live, and who you know. It will end your ability to walk down the street anonymously.
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If this is "The Great Cyberwar of 2021," I have my patch nearby and am ready to suit up.
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Intrusion at City of Oldsmar Fl (pop 15k) water treatment plant. Hacker increased Sodium Hydroxide (lye) from 100ppm to 11100ppm, a dangerous amount. Plant operator quickly saw and reversed it. Other checks in place, they say, to stop.
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I don’t have a simple model that helps put the Russian situation into context, and no exact historical analogy. But close analogy may be like when mob bosses or gangs or terror groups fight. There are no good guys here.
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I personally believe this latest ugly move by the totalitarian world against the free world has to end in Putin's removal from power. Not only do we have to protect freedom but we have to send a message to history (and to China and Iran and their ilk).
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Amazing. 10 words that will sum up the result of an entire war:
KGB pensioner loses information war to comedian with a smartphone.
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@dagrz
Viewing source, it is like a gateway drug. Next thing you know you are pinging servers then running traceroute. This never ends well.
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If you like electricity (I admit i do) you should be more than happy to have a nuclear power plant in your area. It is safe, saves lives, is economical and good for the environment.
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Wait till he hears what poet Francis Scott Key wrote while on a ship.
Tuberville responds to the Navy Secretary by saying the Secretary has to get wokeness out of the Navy because “we’ve got people doing poems on aircraft carriers”
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If you are in media and are writing stories that make anonymous sound like they are effective be sure to check your sources.
#ukrainewar
1 of 3 - Regarding this latest 'Anonymous' clown theater. The site does NOT send texts to Russians, it gives you a random Russian number and one of 6 Russian phrases to paste into your phone to send the message from YOUR phone...
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@WilliamShatner
@Shopify
And so began The Great Cyberwar of 2020. Either that or it was Johnny from Airplane.
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@DavidSacks
Misinformed it seems. My recommendation is not to base your assessments on master of deception Putin or any Russian media says. And don’t believe any fools who might have told you a counter offensive would end quick. How foolish.
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#DEFCON
@defcon
is trending. Will you be there? I’ll be hanging out with
@quantum_village
and
@xrvillage
and hope you drop by. But so many other exciting things going on including
@aivillage_dc
,
@SecureAerospace
,
@MisinfoVillage
.
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Do you think the Chinese Communist Party is a worker’s party?
The poor old lady jumped out of her house due to starvation and desperation. Her husband was crying next to her body hopelessly.
#HumanRights
#CCP
#China
#Shanghai
#COVID19
#ZeroCovid
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@johnkonrad
John I find your arguments both serious and compelling. The world has changed and our approach to national security and defense needs to as well.
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I remember the Cold War. Studied nuclear planning. We knew USSR leaders were very calculating and did not want nuclear war. Like the old Sting song, we knew they loved their children too. Regarding Putin, I don't know if he is still sane, but have to hope his military is.
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I believe
@nntaleb
,
@normonics
,
@yaneerbaryam
. Time for governments to constrain mobility patterns, quickly. It will be costly short term, but failing to do so may cost us everything. Read full article here, short but full of logic:
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I think it is very important for the West to find out who to negotiate with in Moscow once Putin becomes deposed, it is hard to know who that will be till it happens, but they should be thinking of a short list now, don’t you think?
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@DavidSacks
A lot of people want to believe this specious reasoning. Hard to counter point by point in a tweet. But the bottom line is many Ukrainians decided they would live free or fight till they can’t any more. I cannot support the position that Ukrainians should be slaves. Monroe
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You should probably have all the evidence you need now to say giving Iran $6 Billion Dollars was not a good move. Idiotic policy. Textbook example of the idiocy of appeasing a totalitarian state.
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Watching the
@mvhaydencenter
’s
@GenMhayden
kick off a discussion between the super smart national security expert
@LarryPfeifferDC
and former SecDef and CIA Director Leon Panetta on the topic of Biden’s national security policy.
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I have a private twitter list of those that I intend to read 100% of what they post. Includes
@timoreilly
,
@farnamstreet
,
@MattDevost
,
@mikeolson
,
@pahlkadot
,
@wolfejosh
,
@lewisshepherd
,
@mattocko
,
@hmason
,
@kaifulee
,
@kath0134
,
@mtanji
,
@rschmelzer
,
@CarpeDiemCyber
,
@nakashimae
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@LarryPfeifferDC
Yep, there is nothing more grotesque than a traitor to open societies sucking up to authoritarian dictators.
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I have always loved Sweden. Now here are 5000 more reasons to love this nation.
Sweden just announced it will deliver 5000 anti-armour rocket launchers, 5000 body armour kits, 5000 helmets, and 135,000 field rations to the Ukrainian armed forces
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@Billbrowder
@VivekGRamaswamy
What a chuckle head. Thinks geopolitics is like playing Risk and that he gets to divide the globe and everyone else, innocents in Ukraine and evil dictators like Putin, will dance to his tune.
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Russian Apologist- Go Fuck Yourself
War is the greatest evil: Russia was baited into this crime — but that's no excuse
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@pmarca
I thought this was just enjoyable SciFi. AI doomers seem to think it is a playbook. Do you think SciFi helps people understand AI or does it make people fear AI?
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@WillHurd
Thank you Will for changing the national dialog for the better. No one has come with solutions like you. Please keep the great ideas coming.
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China operates a large scale intelligence operation on American soil. In the absence of intervention by the US Government, the burden of fighting a foreign government now falls upon citizens. via
@ctovision
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@th3j35t3r
Well put. He did it for fame to feed his narcissism. I personally saw no evidence that he was idealistic or utopian, he was always doing it for himself and not for any cause or anyone else, in my view.
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@PalmerLuckey
Contrast this situation with OODAcon, where we asked for and got one of Anduril's greatest for our agenda. Very proud to have you guys around to help us think through some big issues. See:
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Humanity here. Wishing peace and love to all who oppose Putin.
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Many are talking about
#SolarWindsHack
as an huge intelligence failure. NYT says it is "among the greatest intelligence failures of modern times." I'm certainly not happy with what I know of as the IC's performance here, but some context...
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Some of the things I referenced that the
@JoeBiden
administration should get fluent on fast include:
#Bitcoin
#Ethereum
@graphprotocol
@chainlink
@SushiSwap
#DeFi
and to learn from
@michael_saylor
,
@BanklessHQ
,
@RyanSAdams
. Should have said
@MessariCrypto
,
@danheld
, others.
Happening in 5'❗️❗️
Live discussion featuring GeoTech fellows
@bobgourley
,
@dchander
,
@flaggster73
, and Dr. Joseph T. Bonivel Jr. on how the new US administration can prioritize data and tech applications to promote prosperity and peace.
#GoodTechChoices
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Conversation w/Marc Andreessen
@pmarca
: The impact of emerging tech on jobs, training, education and home life
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Multiple things can be true at once. For example: ISIS is evil and their brutal terror attack against Russia was wrong, and Russia is evil and their brutal terror attacks against Ukraine are wrong.
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The longer the Ukraine can hold out the better their odds of winning. Lessons from The Peloponnesian War, Vietnam, Afghanistan, and prob just about every other military engagement makes it clear: never underestimate your adversary. I think Russia did that here.
We can confirm the following developments in Ukraine:
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Three great community leaders:
@thedarktangent
,
@VZhora
and
@MattDevost
. Hearing them brainstorm about ways to make positive change was inspiring and left me hopeful about our collective future
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