Brian M

𝕏 standards aren't real life, chill.

[Brian M @Oteesworld]

@143ryza Use Aramex Global Shopper (managed by Sprint Couriers), it's much affordable.

[Video Music Awards @vmas]

Forecast called for a STORM and GENER8ION & Yung Lean delivered at the #VMAs! ⛈️⛈️

[Brian M @Oteesworld]

@SharkFundedfirm Let's go

[Macklemore @macklemore]

Wanting all humans to be treated equal should never be controversial.

[Jacob Coxon @hilbertspaess]

I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

[Brian M @Oteesworld]

@SemecheJNR

[Track & Field Gazette @TrackGazette]

Collen Kebinatshipi 🇧🇼 after his performance in Xiamen now holds the World Lead in the 100m and 400m!

No man has ever accomplished that feat in modern-day athletics.

[Brian M @Oteesworld]

Claude owns MS office at this point, how is copilot behind 🤷🏾‍♂️

[Claude @claudeai]

Claude for Word is now in beta.

Draft, edit, and revise documents directly from the sidebar. Claude preserves your formatting, and edits appear as tracked changes.

Available on Team and Enterprise plans.

[Brian M @Oteesworld]

📍

[Brian M @Oteesworld]

He is on top of the world, literally 🐐 🌎 🔥

[yzyupdates @yzyupdates]

YE'S STAGE DESIGN IS CRAZY 🌎🔥🔥

[Masoud Pezeshkian @drpezeshkian]

To the people of the United States of America

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

The reckless campaign against Iran will weaken America’s president. That will make him angry. Be warned: he makes a very bad loser https://t.co/UUNQjqewMl

[Brian M @Oteesworld]

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[Joe Kent @joekent16jan19]

After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today.

I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.

It has been an honor serving under @POTUS and @DNIGabbard and leading the professionals at NCTC.

May God bless America.

[Elyon @0xkitng]

I think at some level, there’s no biggest except we’re talking about the largest. People usually assume US and Israel willingness to be ruthless as being superior.

Military capability and military employment are not the same thing.

Ruthlessness is not evenly distributed across military because it is a political decision, not a technical one. Many states possess the capacity to inflict comparable or even greater levels of destruction, but their foreign policy constraints, domestic legitimacy concerns, and long term strategic calculations restrain them. Reputation in warfare is therefore shaped more by willingness than by capability.

Russia makes this obvious. The narrative that the Russian military is weak is something I take as false. Russia retains the capacity to degrade Ukraine far more severely than it has done so far. If Moscow’s objective were large scale urban leveling or territorial annihilation similar to past US in Fallujah or Israeli campaigns, the means exist.

What restrains Russia is political calculation, escalation management, international optics, internal legitimacy, and most importantly it sees some of these people in those territory as Russians.

This same logic is why a Chinese invasion of Taiwan would be strategically reckless if not accompanied by an annihilation doctrine.

China would fall into a prolonged, grinding conflict similar to Russia’s experience if its objective is reunification rather than destruction.

Beijing considers Taiwanese populations as Chinese. That alone imposes operational restraint.

The US has never fought enemies it considers culturally or civilizationally similar. Israel has not fought an enemy that fully shares its national identity. In such wars, annihilation or near total destruction becomes politically easier to justify.

China does not have this with Taiwan. Any attempt to preserve infrastructure, population, and economic value would dramatically slow operations and expose Chinese weakness rather than strength.

If China were to move on Taiwan tomorrow under a constrained doctrine, it would likely be perceived as another major power trapped in a long war. Perception matters. Strength is not judged by intent but by outcome. A fast decisive campaign projects power. A prolonged war makes you feel weak

Projection of power also does not equate to being the strongest. Different states build forces around different doctrines. The US maintains an extremely large military designed for global projection, expeditionary warfare, and sustained overseas operations. This does not automatically translate into dominance against a state whose doctrine is defensive and denial based.

China’s military doctrine is fundamentally defensive in orientation. Its training, force structure, and weapons development are focused on neutralizing the primary instruments of US power projection, particularly aircraft carriers, logistics chains, and forward bases. Anti access and area denial is not about fighting everywhere. It is about making entry prohibitively costly.

The US may be capable of projecting force globally, but projection does not guarantee deterrence against a state that has fully committed to territorial defense. Deterrence fails when projection meets denial and political will favors endurance over dominance.

Let use Nigeria to support this. size does not equal capability. During the Biafra war, less than 700 Biafran soldiers destroyed Nigeria’s 2div, leading tot the death of over 5,000 soldiers. It was doctrine, terrain exploitation, morale, and tactical coherence.

The own view is this. Strongest is not raw size. What America enjoys is a reputation that its political system allows. Not everyone wants to go into another country and be destructive.

[Phumzile Van Damme @zilevandamme]

It’s pretty wild to think that you can force people who fought at the frontlines against Apartheid to submit to you. The same people who refuse to withdraw a case against Apartheid in Palestine despite your biggest threats, lies & deeds. G’luck with this. There will be exactly zero budging, my dear. Wrong African country. Wrong people. Very wrong.

[Brian M @Oteesworld]

@Kgothatsoxo Damn, that's a shame

[IT Unprofessional @it_unprofession]

Last week I hosted family for Thanksgiving.

My 12-year-old nephew asked for the WiFi password.

He wanted to play Roblox on his iPad.

I looked at the device.

Unmanaged. No antivirus. No encryption.

I’m an IT Professional. I don't run an open network.

So I didn’t give him the password.

Instead, I spent 45 minutes provisioning a Guest VLAN.

I set up a captive portal.

I throttled the bandwidth down to 56kbps.

Then I blocked all traffic on ports 80 and 443.

He came back crying. He said it wouldn't load.

My sister screamed at me to "just let him play."

I told her that Zero Trust architecture doesn't care about bloodlines.

We didn't have a "fun" Thanksgiving.

But we had a secure perimeter.

You’re welcome for the compliance.

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

STATEMENT MADE.

[Pistola 🔫💋 @LaPistolaDulce]

As a single mother I am saying this:

Men have a sense of balance when it comes to providing routine and discipline but also support, encouragement, and show unwavering dedication to their children. Men also tend to lead with more logic than emotion while still allowing room for their children to feel and express emotions. They also tend to be able to separate their trauma they’re healing from their responsibilities as a father.

A lot of women (not all but a large majority) don’t know how to balance all of these things on top of not allowing their emotions get the better of them. A lot of women also are jealous of their children, harbor spoken or unspoken resentment toward them for a broken home, or refuse to break the cycle of trauma in some capacity. Hell, some women with a partner struggle with this as well but it can become more apparent when single.