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Sydney Freedberg

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Sydney Freedberg

@SydneyFreedberg

Contributing editor for future warfare @BreakingDefense, focused on cyber/EW, robotics, & AI. Views strictly my own. “Today is gonna be a happy day in Hell!”

Washington, DC

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Joined February 2012

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@SydneyFreedberg
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ALL YOUR UAS ARE BELONG TO US: @OndasHoldings buys DYZNE for $876M. After buying 8 companies in the last 2 years, Ondas will focus on integrating its portfolio of drones “from surface to stratosphere” by developing AI C2 in partnership with @PalantirTech:
Ondas makes $876M acquisition of DYZNE, latest in acquisition spree - Breaking Defense
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Sydney Freedberg
@SydneyFreedberg
Feb 20, 2025
Replying to @emilykmay
FARMERS SINCE 1800: You’re saying I can go work in a factory for six 12-hour shifts a week with only a mild risk of being mangled by machinery? And I never have to do farmwork again? SIGN ME UP INFLUENCERS SINCE 2023: farming is fun and easy, I can do it wearing white, really
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Sydney Freedberg
@SydneyFreedberg
Oct 12, 2023
Replying to @TeacherOnTopic
That’s awesome. I bet you complimented her soundly afterwards and she felt super proud of herself.
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Sydney Freedberg
@SydneyFreedberg
Jul 7, 2024
Sweet Jesus. @TheEconomist graphics put Russian losses in Ukraine since 2022 in appalling perspective — this is so much worse than every other Russian war since 1945, combined. /1
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Sydney Freedberg
@SydneyFreedberg
Apr 27, 2025
Replying to @LitterboxComics
that 1,000-yard stare
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Sydney Freedberg
@SydneyFreedberg
Feb 20, 2025
THE CUT THAT NEVER WAS: So the 8% annual cut that @SecDef Pete Hegseth was reportedly about to order at the Pentagon… turns out not to be a cut to defense at all. Instead, as my editor @AaronMehta wrote last night, the plan is to -reallocate- 8% of spending -within- …/1
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Sydney Freedberg
@SydneyFreedberg
Jul 24, 2024
SWARM WARS: Pentagon holds toughest drone-defense demo to date. Eight counter-UAS systems — wielding a mix of radars, machineguns, missiles, jammers, and more — were tested against swarms of up to 50 drones of different types attacking simultaneously from different directions. /1
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Sydney Freedberg
@SydneyFreedberg
May 21, 2025
Replying to @girldrawsghosts
yoda: a free army, I see. Dibs, I call! clone: actually we were funded by unknown wealthy backers yoda: no problem, I see clone: btw we're also enslaved, brainwashed child soldiers yoda: see you this? clone: uh -- no, sir yoda: the galaxy's tiniest violin, I am playing
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Sydney Freedberg
@SydneyFreedberg
Aug 5, 2024
PHYSICS IS STILL A THING, DAMMIT. Normally I wouldn't pick on Gen. (ret) Mark Milley & Google (ret) Eric Schmidt, who've done a ton to drag the US military into the 21st century, but their @ForeignAffairs piece out today makes a mistake people KEEP MAKING, and I am LOSING IT. /1
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Sydney Freedberg
@SydneyFreedberg
Aug 5, 2023
Replying to @opinonhaver
Dammit, false bottom graphs that leave out a major trendline are the worst.
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Sydney Freedberg
@SydneyFreedberg
Nov 26, 2024
That is… not a facial expression I would ordinarily associate with “being frustrated over the lack of progress in a counterinsurgency”
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Sydney Freedberg
@SydneyFreedberg
Jan 5, 2024
Replying to @XWnHIST
This will never not be weird to me because I first saw Star Wars as a prepubescent so my brain imprinted on Leia as a sister figure and Bikini Slave Leia is profoundly uncomfortable as a result, like seeing my sister humiliated.
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Sydney Freedberg
@SydneyFreedberg
Mar 15, 2024
Replying to @APOAPSlS
“Who is that human, Sloborg?” “C’mon, Rxlbnzk, you know the Ambassador from Earth!” “No, I mean the taller, paler human next to her.” “Ohhh. That’s the ambassador from San Marino.” “I’ve never heard of any planet called that.” “No, it’s not…. it’s complicated, okay?”
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Sydney Freedberg
@SydneyFreedberg
Apr 14, 2024
Replying to @jtimsuggs
Star Wars is full of OSHA violations— not just the guillotine doors but the narrow bridges and balconies with or railings. Presumably very different culture and legal system with regard to personal injury. “You fell off / got bisected? Boo freaking hoo.”
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