Luke Hughes 🇺🇦

Always Voyaging. Project lead @BurdenOfCommand

[Luke Hughes 🇺🇦 @LukeHughes42]

@JuleKreyling @2013_Sylvius @gtconway3d Yeah took me a bit to figure out too :-)

[rootwoman123 @rootwoman123]

Who did it better?

[Dan Carlin @dccommonsense]

Anyone who thinks a POTUS threatening to destroy a whole civilization is an ok (or even laudable) thing to do doesn't care if they're a "baddie" or not.
And thats how we get blowback events like 9/11 and then wonder why.
This is stupid, reckless leadership of ONE MAN.

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

Passengers on a commercial flight captured the launch of Artemis II on camera

The plane happened to pass near the launch trajectory at the exact moment of liftoff, giving passengers a rare view of the rocket launch right from their windows.

[Luke Hughes 🇺🇦 @LukeHughes42]

@fan_fintwit Genius

[Joe Scarborough @ScarboroughNow]

Robert S. Mueller III left his life of privilege at an Ivy League school to be a Marine at the height of Vietnam. Connected families often used contacts to avoid military service. Lieutenant Mueller served with great honor, earning a Bronze Star for valor and a Purple Heart🇺🇸

[Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_]

When a Nazi officer entered Picasso's studio in occupied Paris, he saw a reproduction of Guernica. Shocked by the modernist 'chaos' of the painting that depicted the bombing of civilians during war, the fascist asked, "Did you do that?"

Picasso replied, "No, you did."

[Dan Carlin @dccommonsense]

@GodPlaysCards "War's glory is all moonshine"-Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman
"I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can,only as one who has seen its brutality,its futility,its stupidity”- Gen. Dwight Eisenhower 
"Real men despise battle,but will never run from it.” – George Washington

[Robert A. Pape @ProfessorPape]

Demanding “unconditional surrender” is great rhetoric—but bad strategy.

In WWII it helped lock German elites behind Hitler instead of splitting them away.

This tells members of regime they have no future, and removes all incentive to stop fighting.

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

Actual footage from another world: this is Mars, 225 million miles away. Truly mind-blowing rover view

[Andy Kim @AndyKimNJ]

I just signed up for Claude as I respect Anthropic for putting responsible use above profit. Hegseth refuses to agree that AI shouldn’t be used for mass surveillance of Americans and for creating robots authorized to kill without a human decision-maker. This is an incredibly important debate and I urge everyone, including other AI/tech companies, to call for responsible use.

[Luke Hughes 🇺🇦 @LukeHughes42]

@NateSilver538 I did my PhD in AI in 90s (no longer in field). I am constantly shocked by its progress these days.
I also worry not just about its capacities but how humans and governments and corporations will increasingly use it to manipulate us.

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

The history books quietly bypassed is that Barack Obama, during the most pressure-saturated nights of his presidency, would retreat alone to the Treaty Room on the second floor of the White House residence — not to strategize, not to take calls, but to handwrite personal letters to ten ordinary American citizens every single night, a practice he maintained with almost monastic devotion across all eight years, selecting the letters himself from the 40,000 that arrived daily at the White House, and his longtime correspondence director Fiona Reese confirmed that Obama would often weep privately while reading certain letters, folding them carefully before writing responses so personally detailed and emotionally present that recipients frequently described the experience of receiving them as the most significant moment of their lives, with one Ohio steelworker writing back to say that Obama's letter had physically stopped him from making a decision that would have permanently altered his family's future. What makes this practice almost unbearably moving is the detail that surfaced later — Obama never used a computer for these letters, always a black felt-tip pen, always legal yellow paper first as a draft, always rewritten onto White House stationery by hand a second time, because he believed, as he told historian Doris Kearns Goodwin in a rare private conversation later recounted in her 2018 work, that the physical act of pressing pen to paper forced a quality of attention that typing simply could not replicate, a philosophy rooted in his years as a constitutional law professor at the University of Chicago from 1992 to 2004 where he developed the conviction that democracy only functions when its leaders remain genuinely, uncomfortably close to the specific gravity of individual human suffering rather than processing it from behind the insulating distance of institutions and screens."

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

“I’ve never protested before - but I just watched 4th & 5th grade kids run away from our own government.” 😕🇺🇸💔

(From @CRIndivisible)

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

FM Sikorski:

If the US forces Ukraine into an unfair deal, we will continue with our commitment to Ukraine, and it is Ukraine that will decide when to make a deal.

And then we will not be able to be ignored by Putin, because we will then become the main provider to Ukraine.

[Matt Shumer @mattshumer_]

https://t.co/ivXRKXJvQg

[Matt Shumer @mattshumer_]

Every time someone asks me what's going on with AI, I give them the safe answer. Because the real one sounds insane.

I'm done holding back.

I wrote what I wish I could sit down and tell everyone I care about.

Send it to someone who needs to read it.

https://t.co/bRTaral3lj

[Luke Hughes 🇺🇦 @LukeHughes42]

@GaryWinslett

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

A friend--a retired Naval officer and Minnesotan--left one of his service medals at the growing memorial for Alex Pretti.