Alex Friedland

Mainer

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

A Collins classic here where she joins Dems in the failed vote to block Trump’s slush fund so she can say she was against it, but when they needed her vote to get it over the top she was there for them.

[Defense Analyses and Research Corporation @DefenseAnalyses]

🎮🚀🇺🇸 ANNOUNCING A NEW CALL FOR PAPERS ON VIDEO GAMES AND WARFARE

DARC is seeking papers addressing the intersection of video games and real-world conflict. Honoraria of $2,000 available for pieces of 2,000 - 4,000 words.

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Video games are among the dominant cultural and cognitive substrates for the next generation of military and civilian leaders.

These leaders will have spent their formative years mastering real-time strategy games, squad-based shooters, and competitive multiplayer environments. These shared formative experiences are now diffusing through the world’s military institutions. Their narratives, reward structures, and tactical logics will inevitably shape how tomorrow’s warfighters perceive conflict, solve problems, and make decisions under pressure.

DARC believes that understanding these influences is essential to understanding how future conflicts may unfold.

In addition, or perhaps as a consequence of this upbringing, DARC is struck by how emerging battlefield platforms, from hardware to software, increasingly resemble the interfaces and control schemas of video games. The proliferation of drones, autonomous munitions, cyber warfare, and warfighter wearables has created a battlefield that, in many respects, looks remarkably like popular video games, both in terms of gameplay, environments, and story elements.

If, to turn a phrase, “the medium is the meta,” then a deep understanding of how strategic dynamics played out in the world of e-sports and competitive videogaming may give us clues to the dominant strategies of future conflict. Increasingly, it seems we may now be looking towards fighting the real-world versions of conflicts simulated decades ago.

https://t.co/PE46zifEXO

[Alex Friedland @AlexFriedland]

@KelseyTuoc I have it in the codex app on Mac but nowhere else.

[Alex Friedland @AlexFriedland]

@AndyMasley Please excuse my laziness for not just looking it up myself, but do traffic cameras actually increase safety?

Every time I'm in an area with a lot of traffic cameras, I spend so much more time looking down at my speedometer. Doesn't feel like ideal driver behavior.

[Alex Friedland @AlexFriedland]

Good job Claude.

[Alex Friedland @AlexFriedland]

I’ve discovered a very important new medical benchmark for leading LLMs:

The “Is my wife about to have a baby” test.

Pretty different reads by Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.4 thinking.

Who was right? Winner below….

[Tim Hwang @timhwang]

.@SecWar has called for defense procurement to go on "wartime footing", but most templates for what this would look like date back to the "Freedom's Forge" era. What would it look like today?

I'm out with a paper today with @JoinFAI, laying out five reforms worthy of the call.

[Jason Crawford @jasoncrawford]

HELP: Need help with a possible case of periventricular leukomalacia (PVL) in a premature infant

If you have any leads or info—medical experts, clinical trials, possible treatments, anything—please DM, or email [email protected]

[AG @AGHamilton29]

The contrast in how the media is treating an athlete who chose profit and abandoned her country to win medals for the CCP vs athletes who proudly won medals for America is insane and embarrassing for them.

[David French @DavidAFrench]

I love how the officer on her left glances down at her rifle and adjusts his position. She’s uncomfortably close to flagging him with an apparently loaded firearm. Not good.

[Franz-Stefan Gady @HoansSolo]

It couldn't even kick a single liberal arts college professor off a hilltop in Pennsylvania after he ran out of ammo.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

@Jo_Minimis I would too. That was not a good faith reply. It also illustrates a big problem on the left: the pervasiveness of friendly fire. How can we stand up to Trump effectively if we waste so much effort fighting among ourselves?

[Alex Friedland @AlexFriedland]

@chalmermagne tbf I was also unfamiliar with Demis with hair

[Paul Graham @paulg]

He's right you know.

How bad do things have to get before you say something?

[Alex Friedland @AlexFriedland]

Another truth bomb from the red-faced clown who brought you “Markwayne is a real name”

[Acyn @Acyn]

Mullin: A deranged individual who came in to cause massive damage with a loaded pistol was shot and killed. How much more does it have to go on before the Democrat leaders take responsibility for their words?

[Alex Friedland @AlexFriedland]

DARVO

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

BASH: It feels as though you're blaming the victim here

BOVINO: The victims are the Border Patrol agents. I'm not blaming the Border Patrol agents. The victims are the Border Patrol agents.

[Helen Toner @hlntnr]

The systematic changes to what kind of warrants ICE needs, how they can interact with protesters, etc are disturbing on a level above and beyond whatever you think of any individual instance.

[NRA @NRA]

This sentiment from the First Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California is dangerous and wrong.

Responsible public voices should be awaiting a full investigation, not making generalizations and demonizing law-abiding citizens.

[Tyrese Haliburton @Hali]

Alex Pretti was murdered.

[Patrick Skinner @SkinnerPm]

Citizen videos again showing our government is lying. This is not a dangerous person intent on ambushing police. I know guns are dangerous, Jesus Christ I know that. But guns in holsters aren’t. And you can’t push for universal carry & then claim that carrying a gun warrants this