President, @american_bridge. Worked many campaigns. I like solving problems, and building orgs that can solve big problems.
Feb 12, 2023 • 17 tweets • 3 min read
the reported Navy UAP sightings, the Tic-Tacs and such, all came about after the navy upgraded its super hornets to active electronically scanned array radar, which was honestly a massive jump in radar tech.
Part of the reason Navy pilots were somewhat sanguine about the radar reports is that, basically, it seemed plausible that they were a side effect of the much more sensitive new radars... until they started actually seeing the things
Feb 11, 2023 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
ted cruz is vulnerable to oppo simply because of the way that he is. Which is to say, unlikable
i call this the sniveling little weasel effect
Oct 7, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Hilariously, Blake Masters is currently debating Mark Kelly, but there's a third party candidate who's making a more compelling republican case than Blake Masters is. Truly hilarious contrast
imagine being the second most effective outsider conservative at your own debate
Oct 5, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
oil tankers out of Saudi Arabia rely on regional security provided by the US Navy to operate safely.
Rick Scott is gonna have a humdinger of a post soon on his travel hacking/airline points collecting forums
We cancelled and reservations in Philly but we got all the Senate candidates Gold Status, so it's a wash
Aug 19, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
hopping onto the facebook metaverse dunking to remind folks that newt gingrich's secondlife avatar had a clip on tie emerging from his adams apple. thank you/you're welcome
zuckerberg... we meet again. and this time, you've entered my domain
Apr 25, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Sick of people calling everything in crypto a Ponzi scheme. Some crypto projects are pump and dump schemes, while others are pyramid schemes. Others are just standard issue fraud. Others are just middlemen skimming of the top. Stop glossing over the diversity in the industry.
(to the misguided people who fall into crypto because they are simply tech optimists looking for a place where tech optimism is normal: there are better places out there for you! Places that are driven by the inevitably doomed financial incentives)
Nov 2, 2019 • 18 tweets • 5 min read
Boring thread: As a hobby thing, I figured I'd build a full text searchable database of all Foreign Agents Registration Act filers going back as far as I could. It's not rocket science to get all the URLs of these files from the DOJ and download them, so that's what i did
Unfortunately, many of the oldest files have not been digitized at all. I was expecting over 100,000 PDFs, but only got a bit over 80,000. Not a huge deal, I mostly care about newer stuff anyway.