Chad Briggs

@chadmbriggs.bsky.social

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Disaster risk & crisis management professor at AIM in Manila, hybrid warfare & disinfo researcher, purveyor of climate security and undesirable futures. RPG writer. Past lives in Alaska, Kosovo, Ukraine, Hungary, Ireland and elsewhere

Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 00:33 UTC

Someone went back and liked this post I made on FB at the start of the pandemic, I haven't looked at it in years. Sadly, most of these points are still active.

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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 00:16 UTC

It's something we strive for in disaster studies and policies in the Philippines, largely since human lives would never be priced at $12m. Minimizing lives lost and finding pathways to that is necessary, though it then conflicts with western Loss & Damage funding

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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 18:08 UTC

Here's a virtual one that weekend: tabletop.events/conventions/...

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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 10:03 UTC

My life as an academic chair

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Bleddyn Bowen @bleddb.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 09:27 UTC

Important update

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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 09:11 UTC

(I realize the article is behind a paywall- if anyone wants a copy or links to Hartmann's works, please message me)

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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 09:03 UTC

Yep, @brooklynmarie.bsky.social and I were also warning about this for years. Betsy Hartmann and Simon Dalby were doing so back in the 1990s (no coincidence that my wife and I met in his class)- www.jstor.org/stable/44251...

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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 05:55 UTC

This made my day

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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 00:39 UTC

Yeah, the FSB is known for its sardonic humor

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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 22:50 UTC

Can we toss McKinsey into the stew?

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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 22:46 UTC

I assume he's not here on Bluesky, as he'd be laughed out of the room

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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 22:43 UTC

Goonies vs Jaws

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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 22:41 UTC

I was 26 when I figured out how to program the VCR

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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 22:36 UTC

I'm jealous Fun fact: potatoes rot quickly in the tropics, so they cost as much per kilo as mangoes in the Philippines

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isaac @sevier.io
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 15:57 UTC

“[Grenada’s prime minister] described “Armageddon-like” scenes of “almost total destruction”, with approximately 98% of building structures damaged or destroyed and an almost complete wipeout of the electrical grid and communications systems.”

www.theguardian.com/world/articl...

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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 14:31 UTC

Great metaphor with the Great Discontinuity (I studied geology at CU Boulder)

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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 09:30 UTC

Not to make light of things, but he is being so cartoonishly evil that this Monty Python sketch came to mind youtu.be/Zz0_r4PDyCs?...

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 15:06 UTC

Wasn't the whole point of the US that they didn't want to be ruled by a mad king?

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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 06:28 UTC

And a history/threat of political violence... I'm certainly safer here in Manila

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Peter @peterdutoit.com
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 05:42 UTC

Caribbean Sea Surface Temperatures, July 1, 2024

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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 06:16 UTC

Hey, cool that they've changed the color coding so that 95F can still be only yellow. That used to be pretty hot, back in the day

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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 06:11 UTC

Wasn't that the first scene from V for Vendetta?

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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 04:30 UTC

Yes, especially when combined with overturning Chevron

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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 04:14 UTC

Goddammitsomuch

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PKPs Powerfromspace1 🚀 Twitter ‘X’ refugee thank you 'Elmo' 🙄 @powerfromspace1.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 02:59 UTC

@extretemps@toot.community #GlobalWarming

EXCEPTIONAL WINTER HEAT WAVE IN SOUTH AMERICA
Temperatures >36c in Brazil,Bolivia and Paraguay.
36.5 Puerto Suarez broke its July record after breaking the records of all past 12 months multiple times.
Hotter tomorrow.

x.com/extremetemps...

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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 03:16 UTC

I am sure they only have the best interests of the Philippines at heart

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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 03:12 UTC

And this was right next to a headline with the Philippines government admitting another cyber attack on their disaster agency

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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 03:11 UTC

www.gmanetwork.com/news/money/e...

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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 02:19 UTC

We must destroy, in order to create. - V.I. Lenin

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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 20:03 UTC

Jebus

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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 19:39 UTC

Wishing you better days (and a quiet neighborhood)

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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 19:25 UTC

@brooklynmarie.bsky.social

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Taylor Noakes @taylornoakes.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 16:52 UTC

Canadian oil companies & lobby groups have scrubbed their websites of any and all mentions of carbon capture after Canadian govt's new "greenwashing" regulations come into effect

Latest @desmog.bsky.social

#abpoli #cdnpoli

www.desmog.com/2024/07/03/c...

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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 18:39 UTC

Reminds me of a line from Wouk's Winds of War, "The reader will excuse the German tendency to blame countries for getting themselves invaded by Germany."

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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 18:34 UTC

My heart goes out to all fellow politics profs back in the US

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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 18:24 UTC

I'll go with this

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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 14:49 UTC

Photo of me leading security training in Odesa, Ukraine in 2016. Note the last line on the slide: "Don't keep trying to play by the old rules." 1st rule of hybrid warfare

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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 12:51 UTC

I fear this will now be chronic for many of us

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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 12:23 UTC

Send me your email address, and I'll tell you

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Mir @miriam.lol
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 11:16 UTC

“When good men stand by and do nothing, evil prevails.”

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Brooke Binkowski @brooklynmarie.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 01:28 UTC

This is the Tanton-Heritage network, the one I've spent years warning about hahaha fuck me running

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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 18:45 UTC

The movie Mephisto illustrated that conversion so well

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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 18:30 UTC

I'm imagining her cornering some poor 7 Eleven employee, with a line of bewildered customers behind her just wanting to pay for their crap

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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 13:58 UTC

Go Bridgett!!!

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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 12:50 UTC

M: Muppet Movie (1979) O: Office Space (1999) V: V for Vendetta (2006) I: In Bruges (2008) E: Excalibur (1981) I am still waiting for a Muppet adaptation of Excalibur

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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 11:56 UTC

It was on tonight! We only get three movie channels here in Manila, and they typically play Mission Impossible type movies. So I was really surprised to see it playing (the scene where he meets Chuck)

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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 11:38 UTC

Come Pick Me Up if I'm in a Bad Mood. I like My Father's Gun, save for the pro-Confederacy lyrics, which I always wondered at what point Elton John realized what he'd written. And Lindsey Buckingham - Shut Us Down is great

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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 09:01 UTC

As someone with long experience of warning decision-makers about extreme climate risks, I absolutely agree. Scarily, it's the well-to-do corporate types most convinced it won't hurt them. And they are so wrong

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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 06:33 UTC

Have the National Weather Service start reporting everything in metric

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Chad Briggs @chadmbriggs.bsky.social
[ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 06:27 UTC

Hey now, let's not go overboard

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