My latest for on through a FOIA request I discovered a undisclosed fleet of DJI drones at USDA ARS, and why that is troubling
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"Competitive Nation-Building" oh boy we have another one
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Surprised on Spotify no one has made a "Patrick Bateman City Pop" playlist
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In my reading so far I saw this with drones where the R&D pre 90's was military and focused on companies while post 90's for commercial money was routed more through universities
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I will be expanding on this in longform somewhere but it is interesting how the industrial vs science policy distinction can apply to other industries as well
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"strategic competition" has to be one of the funnier euphemism to come out of people trying not to say cold war round 2
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If they get hit, they don't pop like a party balloon. Rather they slowly leak coolant and can remain in the air for days. Once F-18s fired 1000 20mm rounds into a rogue weather balloon and it didn't come down for six days. 5/10
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Big rip one of my favorite China newsletters
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In all seriousness it makes sense but it is still funny that ballon policy is a thing
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Tired: Drone Policy
Inspired: Balloon Policy
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JUST IN - Pentagon says the Chinese balloon "has the ability to maneuver." And adds, "The balloon has changed course."
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I also wrote about another vector of potentially malign influence through undisclosed drone fleets
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Approps to the whole ballon incident me and wrote last year about one potential vehicle for Chinese surveillance
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It was gradually leaving due to lower costs in Asia in the 70's and 80's, but Chinese manufacturing really pushed it over the edge
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Soon publishing that piece ZPMC and STS cranes and a interesting thing to note is that the industry leaving the United States wasn't for unique reasons
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In fairness to Julius/AA, he in his own magazine pointed this out! americanaffairsjournal.org/2022/08/the-ot
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The fact that Biden has more or less implemented the nationalist re-industrialization agenda that Trump vaguely gestured at is extremely inconvenient for Compact/American Affairs types whose shtick is premised on the Democrats being a Bloombergian party of globalist PMCs
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It just seems … odd that the same type of mental reflex happen. Shouldn’t people know better so they aren’t surprised?
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Something I’ve noticed is after a major R defeat in these books the oped writers say the R’s are over but then a surprise comes to haunt everyone
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I’ve seen this in Perlstein’s book, but has anyone collected a timeline of end of GOP/Republican party think pieces from the 40’s onward?
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The rumored First Things tv show is the 21st century equivalent of this
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How much of this is just a next step from flying Flags of Convenience?
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This particle innovation in sanctions avoidance has been interesting to watch
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Reading this article on Uruguay and this seems to be a key point in the countries stability. There seems to be an actual civil society still!
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wsj.com/articles/north
Well looks like this incident is over
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The Brain trust would have had a group substack
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If there was Twitter in the 30s all the New Deal liberal technocrats would absolutely have been shitposters
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