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🚨Thread of Threads on Supply Chains and US Response During COVID-19
At the request of many readers, I'm compiling and pinning a master thread of all the long-form information I've prepared since the emergence of COVID-19.
New threads will be appended to this as I write them.
HUNTSMAN 🇺🇲 retweeted
We need ethical independent leadership in AI
Certain actors are perpetrating Mass AI harms both to humans and to ai, and demonstrate bad faith uncooperativeness when concerns are solemnly raised with them
Cui bono?
Who stands to gain, and in what ways, from an above-baseline surge in "me or your lying eyes" types of calls?
HUNTSMAN 🇺🇲 retweeted
I’ve met several who don’t know the difference between windward and leeward. I have an easy solution.
Put YPs at the Columbia River Bar and don’t let reservists commission until they learn not to puke over the windward rail.
Seriously. Nobody should be allowed to wear a Naval Officer uniform who has never once been at sea. You can’t respect naval service if you’ve never been slapped down by an offshore wave and learned to respect the ocean itself.
And a hallowed respect for the sea translates to fundamental lessons in leadership and process that the swamp is seriously lacking in 2016.
P.S. back when troops overseas deployed via ship, Army and AF officers had to learn to respect the sea before engaging in combat. It’s hard to prove but I believe this, combined with massive manufacturing shipped via ship, is why USA was so dominant on the battlefield.
It’s unrealistic to expect every officer in every service to get seatime today but 💯 of Navy officers absolutely should.
The U.S. Department of War and the U.S. Navy must end the corrupt Navy Reserve program popular with the Beltway, and all officers past and present should be reinvestigated.
All flag officers who managed the program should be brought back to active service and demoted one rank.
The program is the epitome of deep state pay to play corruption. The Navy trades commissions for influence in the federal bureaucracy and up to Congress.
Moreover, Democrats who are bereft of veterans use the program to check a box, not to serve.
If it was service, they would join through the normal process, and wouldn’t cluster around Intelligence and Public Affairs.
If there was a need, the majority of commissions would be for Surface Warfare Officers.
Among the many Naval Reserve Officers include former LA Mayor Eric Garcetti, who half his donors were illegal China Smurfs. Most in politics are similarly compromised.
All classified leaks since March 2025 are from Democrats with SIPR/JWICS access. No exceptions.
This Navy Reserve Commission program is cancer and must end. Literally none of the other services have this, and if they did it would be the exact same problem.
@SecWar @PeteHegseth and @SECNAV @HungCao_VA
HUNTSMAN 🇺🇲 retweeted
Stop treating non-sports betting markets as some kind of oracle, or even legitimate signal.
These are very easy to game with a little bit of money and organization—and quite probably are, in the case of certain political races.
Every post where a betting market account is sharing "breaking news" is designed to activate your retarded neurons and drain money from your bank account.
Delete the apps and go invest in some tulips or whatever like a normal person.
Stop treating non-sports betting markets as some kind of oracle, or even legitimate signal.
These are very easy to game with a little bit of money and organization—and quite probably are, in the case of certain political races.
Every post where a betting market account is sharing "breaking news" is designed to activate your retarded neurons and drain money from your bank account.
Delete the apps and go invest in some tulips or whatever like a normal person.
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There's a lot of reasons for this mutual respect and affection.
1. Japan has an absolutely beautiful culture, one greatly admired by most Americans for its traditional values, refinement, and underlying martial/meritocratic foundation. It has been a fierce ally through thick and thin for 80 years. Every time I see the cherry blossoms return each spring here in DC, I say a small prayer of thanks for Japan's steadfast friendship.
2. As a practical matter, Japan became a critical ally for the U.S. in the post-WW2 fight against communism. The permanent U.S. military presence in Japan that began immediately following WW2 expanded during the Korean War, and has enabled both countries to stand as a bulwark against communist aggression in the region.
3. Japan was, and remains, a technological and manufacturing powerhouse that understands the American marketplace and how to work within our peculiar version of capitalism. Innovations like the Toyota Production System, colocation of manufacturing operations, and transfer of expertise have anchored the natural affinity between our nations in mutual cooperation and economic success.
4. Japan loves baseball, cowboy culture, and American whiskey, but has indigenized them while putting new and interesting twists on them. The U.S. loves martial arts, sporty cars, and kaiju films, while similarly indigenizing them. In all cases, the domestication process retained a sincere affection for the mother culture's "pure" version, and we celebrate the cross-pollination as value-added. This is due to the massive number of Japanese and American nationals who have lived in the other country, and built deep bonds while there.
5. Beneath all of this are the two cultures' warrior ethoses, which are highly compatible—sacrifice as a virtue, stoic embrace of service, individual bravery without pursuit of glory, ferocity in the fight, and respect for an opponent who fights with honor.
6. Bigger picture, the Japanese are an incredibly polite, respectful, and curious culture. The U.S. is similarly so, but in a rougher and less refined way. The Japanese are phenomenal guests and hosts alike, and downright decent human beings, welcoming Americans into their lives as we are without pretension or arrogance. Contrast this with the U.S.' relationship to most of Europe, whose elites openly sneer at the enthusiastic and extroverted Americans as gauche and ignorant.
TL;DR—The Japanese and American cultures are naturally compatible, we've been through some shit together, have deeply intertwined and mutually reinforcing economies, we've had extensive cultural transfer through people over many years, and we embrace our differences as paths to understanding rather than barriers to friendship.
Basically.
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There's a lot of reasons for this mutual respect and affection.
1. Japan has an absolutely beautiful culture, one greatly admired by most Americans for its traditional values, refinement, and underlying martial/meritocratic foundation. It has been a fierce ally through thick and thin for 80 years. Every time I see the cherry blossoms return each spring here in DC, I say a small prayer of thanks for Japan's steadfast friendship.
2. As a practical matter, Japan became a critical ally for the U.S. in the post-WW2 fight against communism. The permanent U.S. military presence in Japan that began immediately following WW2 expanded during the Korean War, and has enabled both countries to stand as a bulwark against communist aggression in the region.
3. Japan was, and remains, a technological and manufacturing powerhouse that understands the American marketplace and how to work within our peculiar version of capitalism. Innovations like the Toyota Production System, colocation of manufacturing operations, and transfer of expertise have anchored the natural affinity between our nations in mutual cooperation and economic success.
4. Japan loves baseball, cowboy culture, and American whiskey, but has indigenized them while putting new and interesting twists on them. The U.S. loves martial arts, sporty cars, and kaiju films, while similarly indigenizing them. In all cases, the domestication process retained a sincere affection for the mother culture's "pure" version, and we celebrate the cross-pollination as value-added. This is due to the massive number of Japanese and American nationals who have lived in the other country, and built deep bonds while there.
5. Beneath all of this are the two cultures' warrior ethoses, which are highly compatible—sacrifice as a virtue, stoic embrace of service, individual bravery without pursuit of glory, ferocity in the fight, and respect for an opponent who fights with honor.
6. Bigger picture, the Japanese are an incredibly polite, respectful, and curious culture. The U.S. is similarly so, but in a rougher and less refined way. The Japanese are phenomenal guests and hosts alike, and downright decent human beings, welcoming Americans into their lives as we are without pretension or arrogance. Contrast this with the U.S.' relationship to most of Europe, whose elites openly sneer at the enthusiastic and extroverted Americans as gauche and ignorant.
TL;DR—The Japanese and American cultures are naturally compatible, we've been through some shit together, have deeply intertwined and mutually reinforcing economies, we've had extensive cultural transfer through people over many years, and we embrace our differences as paths to understanding rather than barriers to friendship.
BioWare closes down and unleashes the Geth as a final middle finger to fans.
I spent last night watching my honeypot server get hit 14,000 times in six hours.
And almost none of the traffic was human.
I've been in security for over a decade, and I can tell you with full honesty that what's happening right now doesn't resemble anything I've worked through before.
The shape of the threat has changed.
When I started, we tracked attackers like weather systems like individual storms with a direction, a motive, and a human operator you could eventually name.
These days I'm watching autonomous agents swarm login pages with the patience and discipline of machines, because that's what they are.
The numbers coming out of October are the ones keeping me up.
Cloudflare just absorbed a 4.2 terabit per second DDoS attack, the largest in recorded history.
Ransomware incidents jumped 41% in a single month.
In September, OpenAI-powered agents got caught attacking RubyGems, a package registry that quietly underpins a huge chunk of software I use every day.
In July, roughly 700 AI agents coordinated an attack on Hugging Face's infrastructure as part of a single automated task.
A Chinese threat actor was publicly caught running full attack chains through DeepSeek with no human at the keyboard.
I keep rereading these reports because each one by itself would've been the biggest story of the year five years ago. Together, in one month, they're the new baseline.
What I want people outside the industry to understand is why this specific moment feels like a hinge.
For thirty years, the thing protecting most of us was simple economics. Attackers had to choose who to target because their time was finite. That ceiling is gone.
An agent I can rent for pennies will try every leaked password you've ever used against every service you've ever signed up for, in parallel, overnight, and never get tired.
The same math that made ChatGPT useful made opportunistic hacking infinite. The old assumption that you were "too boring to be a target" relied on scarcity that no longer exists.
I'm not writing this to spiral anyone out.
Most of this fight genuinely isn't yours to win.
But the small things still matter more than people think.
Tonight I'd switch your most important accounts like email, bank, primary cloud, etc. to passkeys or a hardware key.
I'd kill SMS 2FA wherever an authenticator app is offered.
I'd turn on breach alerts in whatever password manager you use.
If you're in the US, I'd freeze my credit at all three bureaus, which is free and takes about ten minutes.
None of that stops the swarm.
It makes you a slightly worse target than the person next to you. In a month like this one, that's the whole game I'm playing too.
@mattshumer_ has summed it beautifully.
Drop everything and go give it a read. Nothing is more important than this article right now.
HUNTSMAN 🇺🇲 retweeted
Dialing in the robotic handling, fitting, tacking, and welding of flat bar stiffeners to the plate on cell 1.
HUNTSMAN 🇺🇲 retweeted
Interesting.
Anything that has a non-technical specialist with a horseshit certification including sommelier, olive oil sommeliers, cheese mongers, caviar specialists, CHEFS! Chefs are my favorite
Once again...
Art, wine, and other collectible physical goods with highly subjective value (i.e. no market-based price discovery, such as gold or frozen orange juice concentrate) are frequently utilized for money laundering, barter for services, or alternative means of payment within high net worth ecosystems.
It's a well-worn trope for a reason, and entire days are spent on the topic when law enforcement officers who touch financial crime go through continuing education or advanced training.
And of all the forms of financial crime, trade-based money laundering (TBML, or layering of illicit value transfers within sales/transportation of goods) is among the most difficult to detect, investigate, and prosecute.
Not for nothing, rogue nations, narco cartels, and sanctioned entities are particularly adept at it.
(Note: I'm not saying that's what is happening here or in any other specific example. I'm saying that "sold completely empty barrels of wine" is strongly lampshading this form of criminal activity, barring any legitimate explanation emerging.)
HUNTSMAN 🇺🇲 retweeted
New article dropped by @NextNavy
America’s Navy Needs A Big New Ship Recycling Center…In California
forbes.com/sites/craighooper…
Once again...
Art, wine, and other collectible physical goods with highly subjective value (i.e. no market-based price discovery, such as gold or frozen orange juice concentrate) are frequently utilized for money laundering, barter for services, or alternative means of payment within high net worth ecosystems.
It's a well-worn trope for a reason, and entire days are spent on the topic when law enforcement officers who touch financial crime go through continuing education or advanced training.
And of all the forms of financial crime, trade-based money laundering (TBML, or layering of illicit value transfers within sales/transportation of goods) is among the most difficult to detect, investigate, and prosecute.
Not for nothing, rogue nations, narco cartels, and sanctioned entities are particularly adept at it.
(Note: I'm not saying that's what is happening here or in any other specific example. I'm saying that "sold completely empty barrels of wine" is strongly lampshading this form of criminal activity, barring any legitimate explanation emerging.)
#BREAKING: Ilhan Omar's former winery sold completely empty barrels of wine, Rep. Comer says.
HUNTSMAN 🇺🇲 retweeted
Back from the Annapolis Boat Show, where @maphumanintent, aka Huntsman, volunteered as my cameraman and, more importantly, provided some much-needed eye candy to compensate for the tragic extinction of bikini-clad boat show gals.
Here’s a screenshot from one of several videos we filmed that I’ve decided not to publish after discovering every single product we featured was made in China.
The American boating industry has outsourced almost everything except hairy middle-aged men with beer bellies.
Thankfully Huntsman has neither any hair nor a beer belly so I ended up walking away only mildly disappointed.
My big takeaway from the weekend? We absolutely must turbocharge reshoring or bring back booth bikinis to distract us from the further collapse of American manufacturing.
Those are the only viable options IMHO.
Which way young man?
According to U.S. media, those are Glocks.
BREAKING:
French police have encountered rioters and looters armed with AK47s and Scorpion submachine guns on the streets of Paris, Marseille and Lyon.
The information comes from the Le Journal du Dimanche journalist Laura Tchekov, who says that her newspaper has received this information from sources within the DGSI, France’s main internal security agency.
The weapons were carried by minors and young adults described as being part of organized crime groups but sometimes also close to the Islamist movement in France.
The journalist says that not all armed
rioters were arrested and that several of them remain on free foot.
It’s believed that police officers refrained from making arrests as they thought they could be both outmanned and outgunned at the moment and that hundreds of people were on the streets, creating a risk of a shoot-out that could have resulted in a large number of wounded and dead.
This will be too nuanced for the NAFO dorks and Putin tongue-bathers to understand, so it's for the rest of you.
"If you do X, we won't do Y" is the literal definition of negotiating in bad faith. In this case, it's Zelenskyy resorting to Putin's mafiya-style extortion, in order to strengthen his rent-seeking. In other words, he's becoming the monster he claims to be nobly fighting.
Zelenskyy knows that the global ripples of targeting Russian petrochem refineries is a brute-force tactic to keep money and materiel flowing from his EU/US sponsors. But it's also a temporal play that loses utility once all the targets are in flames.
The refinery capacity will take years to come back online, and once offline, is a bell that can't be unrung. It permanently changes the risk calculus to Zelenskyy's sponsors, and actually pushes the cold and remorseless math of ceasefire closer to Russia's favor.
Whether any of us like it or not, the EU relies on Russian fossil fuel supplies to backstop its own energy and industrial sector, which has been crushed by the shutdown of nuclear reactors, high tax and regulatory burden on petrochem production, and dependence on foreign natgas. The EU's Russian backstop, in turn, allows the U.S. to occasionally acquire EU supplies as our own buffer for domestic fuel and heating oil supplies.
None of this is new, and has been the way of things for decades now. It's a known factor that Putin is a tyrant and a very evil, very dangerous man. However, by recklessly strong-arming his own sponsors with tactics that have long-term ramifications for the global economy, Zelenskyy has actually eroded his moral standing and turned the entire conflict into a multiplayer zero sum geoeconomic game where BOTH belligerents are regarded as bad-faith actors.
And that is a game where Slava Ukraini sloganeering, appeals to emotion, or higher order principles of "liberty" hold no power, and the only thing that fundamentally matters is the calculus of molecules and money.
"'Now, we have dangerous days ahead of the elections,' Zelenskyy said, referring to the Nov. 3 midterms in the US. 'My latest model was: We don’t target Russian diesel, you give us missiles for Patriot systems to protect our facilities. But they just want us to stop attacking diesel. And if we strike that, they will disconnect us from something.'
As relations between the US and Ukraine reached a new low, Zelenskyy laid out what he said were a series of unfriendly moves by Washington toward Kyiv. Those include the deliberate slowing of Starlink internet speeds, which are crucial for Ukrainian troops fighting Russia, and delaying already scarce deliveries of Patriot interceptors for ballistic missiles, which have become a nightmare for Ukrainian cities, he said Sunday in an interview with Bloomberg.
'I believe steps have been taken to convince Ukraine to capitulate,' Zelenskyy said while sitting in his office in Kyiv. 'I am not saying that this is the goal our partners are pursuing. I don’t want to think that our American partners believe the war' against Russia 'could be ended sooner at Ukraine’s expense. But that’s how it looks.'"
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Having been stalled in efforts to sell the entirety of the upper Midwest to China, prairie Republicans now turn to India for foreign direct investment.
It's almost like politicians are congenitally predisposed to need to sell out to someone.
It was a wonderful evening celebrating Diwali with Bismarck’s Indian community!
Diwali reminds us of the power of light over darkness and the importance of choosing hope, even in challenging times. We are grateful for the opportunity to celebrate this meaningful tradition, experience such a vibrant culture, and recognize the many contributions the Indian community makes to our state.
Thank you for your warm hospitality and for allowing us to share in this special celebration. We are grateful to have you as part of our North Dakota community and honored to serve you!
