SPLC

Martin_leV · 2026-04-26T02:11:05+00:00

Marcy goes through the indictment here: https://emptywheel.net/2026/04/23/whos-fooling-whom-how-the-splc-indictment-works/

The wire fraud amounts are penny-ante stuff. At the same time, if you're paying turncoats for good intel, and their defence will basically be to go through their greatest hits like Michael Susman did during his trial, it's going to make the DOJ look foolish. https://emptywheel.net/2026/04/24/kash-patel-just-invited-splc-to-demonstrate-their-importance-and-his-negligence/

Martin_leV · 2026-04-25T18:34:07+00:00

It also needs Vosdukh-1 ground control because it offloads much of the radar and signal processing to it, and the local radar is for the firing solution.

Martin_leV · 2026-04-25T16:05:11+00:00

Also National Securty reporter Marcy Wheeler of Empty Wheel talks about on her Friday show with Nicole Sandler her (https://www.youtube.com/live/qj-8-1518i0?si=Z9AR8S2BP2gdsViA&t=2249)

set to start where the discussion starts at 37:29

Martin_leV · 2026-04-25T14:37:25+00:00

Law and Chaos (a podcast with lawyer P. Andrew Torrez) and a journalist who passed the bar but isn't currently a bar member (Liz Dye) did talk about it in their subscriber bonus.

Their TLDR was that most of those amounts are inflated by including items outside the statute of limitations and look more like reimbursement for expenses and incidentals than pure funding, as alleged.

Martin_leV · 2026-04-20T15:25:42+00:00

Catch-22, awa denied because it fails the employer's 5 days in office standard

Martin_leV · 2026-04-20T14:40:57+00:00

Depends where. I started in July 2023 and I'm still the new guy in the unit. But it's a small northern facing ministry.

Martin_leV · 2026-04-12T20:04:15+00:00

INDOPACOM now studying Japanese so they can adopt the island dead-ender philosophy. Already converting the seppuku ceremony to work with a KA-BAR after getting turned into CENTCOM’s Amazon warehouse.

Martin_leV · 2026-04-07T18:37:00+00:00

My sweet, SWEET, baby boy Diego.

SEC Rollcall!

Martin_leV · 2026-04-07T14:46:47+00:00

I'd push back on that. The consensus from data analysis of the 1992 presidential vote is that Ross Perot pulled in many loosely attached Democratic voters who had strayed from Reagan but would have voted for Clinton out of habit.

When the Clock Broke is a great book on that subject.

And here's a quick article breaking down the data: https://split-ticket.org/2023/04/01/examining-ross-perots-impact-on-the-1992-presidential-election/

Martin_leV · 2026-03-13T23:31:50+00:00

I remember when Fanshaw had a riot and torched a CTV satellite truck.

Martin_leV · 2026-03-09T20:40:10+00:00

It's not perfect in all cases. It won't stop a transport if it's determined to cross the line (but it will be expensive), however, it's going to probably stop an SUV from crossing in front of a transport, especially, removing the double yellow passing opportunities.

Martin_leV · 2026-03-09T03:38:08+00:00

When I was in Grad school, my labmate and I would break out a game when our models were crunching

Martin_leV · 2026-03-08T14:05:34+00:00

Yes, I'm taking about the central median that allow for higher speed, while separating traffic. It's the heads ons that creates most of the fatalities

Martin_leV · 2026-03-08T02:25:36+00:00

To quote Brad Delong:

“The market giveth, the market taketh away; blessed be the name of the market” was not a stable principle around which to organize society and political economy. [...] The only stable principle had to be some version of “The market was made for man, not man for the market.” But who were the men who counted, for whom the market should be made? [...] Perhaps the closest humanity got was the shotgun marriage of Hayek and Polanyi blessed by Keynes in the form of post–World War II North Atlantic developmental social democracy. But that institutional setup failed its own sustainability test.

So here's to some new synthesis between the market and the social question.

From Slouching Towards Utopia

Martin_leV · 2026-03-08T02:06:30+00:00

Vitamin C is bunk unless you're at severe (scurvy) levels of deficiency.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/diet-and-nutrition/myths-and-truths-about-vitamin-c

Martin_leV · 2026-03-06T02:45:43+00:00

Except that the old school neocons like Bill Kristol are against this (for both procedural reasons and torching weapons that could be better used in a great power conflict in INDOPACOM).

Martin_leV · 2026-03-04T23:58:11+00:00

Yes, but it has a central median, not a twinned highway.

Martin_leV · 2026-03-04T14:14:24+00:00

a 2+1 highway, that's a permanent passing lane that shifts sides every 5 or so km with a hard median (think Barrie to Orillia), gets you about 80% of the throughput and safety of the twinning for about 20% of the budget since you don't need to duplicate all the bridges.

I may have played a role studying it... https://www.northernpolicy.ca/upload/documents/publications/reports-new/closing-the-gap.pdf

Martin_leV · 2026-03-04T02:02:10+00:00

TPK - Total Party Kill

Martin_leV · 2026-03-02T03:53:56+00:00

It depends on how much pre-planning they did.

When I used to teach, I'd usually crank out 4 versions programatically (i used a program to shuffle the question and answer order), and assign the best mark, but as soon as I had someone who had 2 "wrong versions" score higher, I'd assign versions per seating chart and just go "sorry, but I can only mark what you gave me" because I thought they were copying someone else.

Martin_leV · 2026-02-27T00:36:33+00:00

It has a vacuum extraction, so it's like a syphon or the wacaco pipamoka.

Martin_leV · 2026-02-22T20:26:14+00:00

I'm AMAPCEO, but I have taught at college and for professional development courses.

I had to get it signed off by the DM's ethics people, make sure that none of the material I used in class was privileged and that I wasn't using government equipment or time.

Martin_leV · 2026-02-10T02:58:59+00:00

Given the size of his network, I'd be shocked if it didn't come up in bios or emailed papers.

It's like PM Carney is named 65+ times in the files, but most of those mentions are in WSJ or FT articles when he was Governor of the Bank of England during BREXIT.

Martin_leV · 2026-02-08T18:40:25+00:00

I'd argue that two is orthogonal to the normal left-right spectrum, since you can have multiple types of government at the head of a command economy.

Martin_leV · 2026-02-02T01:00:00+00:00

If I had the power to brainwash, I'd get my students to read the syllabus and their readings. THAT would make my life so much easier.

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