Laurie Pycroft (Postnormal)

Disabled academic type, Oxford. Neurosecurity/brainjacking, animal research, effective altruism, x-risk. He/him.
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[Laurie Pycroft (Postnormal) @LauriePycroft]

I wrote this open letter to the editors of the @guardian regarding the deeply flawed piece that they have published, written by Simon Jenkins in @guardianopinion. Jenkins' misinformation regarding nuclear security is wrong and it is dangerous.

[Aaron McCall @MrNeuropolitan]

This is how y’all sound arguing about elves, mermaids and hobbits.

https://t.co/K08PRtH5R5

[Laurie Pycroft (Postnormal) @LauriePycroft]

@lspiguesslol It's remarkable that they keep making the same sad joke, even after seven months of Russia comprehensively demonstrating that raw masculinity doesn't mean shit when your foe has allies, logistics, and professionalism.

[Laurie Pycroft (Postnormal) @LauriePycroft]

Ukraine had a bunch of warheads left over from the Soviet Union and agreed to relinquish them. In exchange, the US, UK, and Russia promised to defend them.

Russia lied. If that has no consequence, what current nuclear power is ever going to give up their last line of defence?

[Laurie Pycroft (Postnormal) @LauriePycroft]

If you value nuclear disarmament, you should want to arm Ukraine.

In 1994 the Budapest Memorandum was signed; Ukraine gave up their nukes in exchange for promises of security. If we want countries to make similar deals in the future, those promises must mean something.

[Laurie Pycroft (Postnormal) @LauriePycroft]

@irgarner Evil Western Navy SEAL saboteurs can't resist the cosy fun of The Sims 3 - it is their one true weakness.

[Laurie Pycroft (Postnormal) @LauriePycroft]

@Teoyaomiquu An unholy stench of cheap vodka and crusted jizz.

[April, or "A lot of oranges" @ALotOfOranges]

More accurate version.

[Laurie Pycroft (Postnormal) @LauriePycroft]

@goblinodds I really don't buy that, though perhaps we've seen substantially different usage of the term. I get the impression that it's in the category of insults that are typically employed to dehumanise the target. It's not merely saying someone is different and that's ok.

[Laurie Pycroft (Postnormal) @LauriePycroft]

@goblinodds I don't think this point holds for "NPC", which is quite clearly implying that the target lacks value and perhaps isn't even meaningfully conscious.

[Laurie Pycroft (Postnormal) @LauriePycroft]

@SocDoneLeft Organize to defend democracy*

*Offer not valid outside the United States

[Laurie Pycroft (Postnormal) @LauriePycroft]

I was a Snowden fan for quite some time and I'm still glad that Western intelligence abuses were uncovered, but he was a useful idiot then and he's complicit now.

[Dave Troy @davetroy]

It’s time for us to come to grips with the fact that the Snowden, Greenwald, Assange ops were all part of a years-long Russia-supported effort to upend the West.

[Laurie Pycroft (Postnormal) @LauriePycroft]

@Noahpinion Those early 20th century christian apologists really did an effective job of providing endless pithy slogans for modern fascists to trot out, so they can pretend there's some meaningful intellectual history behind their bullshit. Great job, GK Chesterton, CS Lewis, et al.

[Laurie Pycroft (Postnormal) @LauriePycroft]

@WeLoveNATO @bayraktar_1love I got a sweet new blanket so I'll be nice and cosy on my couch while vatniks freeze in their cardboard huts.

[Laurie Pycroft (Postnormal) @LauriePycroft]

@GregAbbott_TX I heard that you're a little piss baby - is that true, sir? I'm just asking questions here, but a lot of people have been saying that you are a little piss baby.

[Dr. Jeffrey Lewis @ArmsControlWonk]

The @ACWPodcast Slack is freaking incredible. They just did a thing and holy shit was it clever. @LegendaryPatMan

[Laurie Pycroft (Postnormal) @LauriePycroft]

@slipdipper @SocDoneLeft Yeah, I'd be down with that view if it were any random policy where there's room for reasonable debate, but we're talking about defending against an ongoing genocide. That's a red line for me.

[Laurie Pycroft (Postnormal) @LauriePycroft]

@Slucchiurbanite @SocDoneLeft I make it a point to not join or support organisations that are heavily split on the topic of defending against genocide.

[Laurie Pycroft (Postnormal) @LauriePycroft]

@DanKaszeta

[Laurie Pycroft (Postnormal) @LauriePycroft]

*averting
Dammit twitter let me edit tweets. This has a whole two likes now, so by my standards it's doing numbers and I obviously don't want to delete it.

[Laurie Pycroft (Postnormal) @LauriePycroft]

Today is Petrov Day, when we remember the actions of Lt Col Stanislav Petrov who, on 1983-09-26, refused to pass on a missile warning to his Soviet superiors, thereby acerting nuclear war.

We are never far from global annihilation, as Putin's sabre-rattling makes all too clear.