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Creators worth following for Defence: 14 accounts, ranked by their posts

14 accounts write about Defence often enough to count. The 14 whose Defence posts travelled furthest, each with their best post — and how to turn the list into a board you can write from.

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Rests on:/creators?topic=defence,@SenMarkKelly,@ChrisJBakke,@Zai_org,@JTLonsdale,@AndrewYNg,@tedlieu

14 accounts in the library write about Defence often enough for it to be a real share of their work. These are the 14 whose Defence posts travelled furthest — ranked by what those posts did, not by how many people follow them, which is the difference between a list you can check and a list of famous names.

The 14

  1. Senator Mark Kelly (@SenMarkKelly) — 2 posts in the library, 51K likes, a typical post reaching 25.5K. Best: “The Signal incident is what happens when you have the most unqualified Secretary of Defense we've ever seen.” (open)
  2. Chris Bakke (@ChrisJBakke) — 4 posts in the library, 28.1K likes, a typical post reaching 1.4K. Best: “I’m a software engineering intern at the US Department of Defense.” (open)
  3. Z.ai (@Zai_org) — 3 posts in the library, 23.4K likes, a typical post reaching 3.8K. Best: “Introducing GLM-5.3: Built to Code. Ready for Cyber Defense.” (open)
  4. Joe Lonsdale (@JTLonsdale) — 4 posts in the library, 15.5K likes, a typical post reaching 3.9K. Best: “Taxation is theft. It should be kept to a minimum.” (open)
  5. Andrew Ng (@AndrewYNg) — 4 posts in the library, 14.1K likes, a typical post reaching 3.1K. Best: “Really proud of the DeepLearningAI team. When Cloudflare went down, our engineers used AI coding to quickly implement a…” (open)
  6. Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) — 4 posts in the library, 6K likes, a typical post reaching 780. Best: “Anthropic objected in part to the Department of Defense using its AI technology to engage in domestic mass surveillance.” (open)
  7. Chris McGuire (@ChrisRMcGuire) — 3 posts in the library, 2.6K likes, a typical post reaching 387. Best: “There is no defense of the admin’s AI policy. It is literally destroying American AI companies, while exporting AI chip…” (open)
  8. Scott Manley (@DJSnM) — 2 posts in the library, 2.3K likes, a typical post reaching 1.2K. Best: “This power strategy makes a lot of sense for Boom, letting them monetize their engines early and get operational experi…” (open)
  9. Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) — 2 posts in the library, 3.5K likes, a typical post reaching 1.8K. Best: “Tesla is ending Model S and Model X production.” (open)
  10. Josh Wolfe (@wolfejosh) — 3 posts in the library, 1.6K likes, a typical post reaching 432. Best: “Some big news today! 🚀” (open)
  11. Meredith Whittaker (@mer__edith) — 5 posts in the library, 2.9K likes, a typical post reaching 662. Best: “PSA: Signal will never do this ❤️😇” (open)
  12. Kyle Tibbitts (@KyleTibbitts) — 3 posts in the library, 2.1K likes, a typical post reaching 527. Best: “The magic of building startups:” (open)
  13. Michael M. Grynbaum (@grynbaum) — 3 posts in the library, 1.8K likes, a typical post reaching 298. Best: “"You got put into an impossible situation, booking this interview," Todd said. "And then all of a sudden the rug was pu…” (open)
  14. Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 (@jimstewartson) — 4 posts in the library, 3.7K likes, a typical post reaching 354. Best: “This man is deeply disturbed. This company needs to be removed from every computer paid for by taxpayers. It is fascist…” (open)

How the ranking works

A creator is on this list only when Defence is at least a fifth of what they publish in the library, and the order is the reach of their Defence posts specifically — an account that is enormous on another subject and posts about Defence twice does not lead a list about Defence. Every number above is a post you can open, and every name opens to their page: what else they write about, how they open, and every post of theirs the library holds.

How to use a list like this

A list of people is the beginning of a board, not the end of one.

  1. Open a name that interests you and press Save their best — their five strongest posts go into a board of yours in one step.
  2. Do that for two or three of them. You now have a board of Defence posts with a point of view: this is the kind of Defence writing I want to make.
  3. On each post, write one line about what you want from it — the opening, the way it turns, the ending. Point at the part with the Take chips.
  4. When you have something to say about Defence, open the board and Remix. Your product, their moves, none of their words.

Or start from the Defence posts themselves, ordered by likes.

See it in the posts

Every number above is a post in the library, with the mechanics named beside it.

Open the library

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