Tony Ingesson
@tonyingesson.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, Intelligence Analysis. Researching/teaching bioweapons, counterintelligence, intel methods, deception, clandestine communications and Cold War tech. Also random posts about 1970s TV shows, dogs and cats, ties & suits, etc.
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Large-Scale Nightmare or Precision Tool for Covert Operations? An Assessment of the Risks of Genetic Technology in the Near Future
Advances in genetic technology could lead to new threats, such as engineered pathogens, or plots to frame individuals by planting synthesized deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) at a crime scene. Uncontrol...
www.tandfonline.com
New article just dropped! I've been working with two colleagues from the Faculty of Medicine (a professor of molecular pathology and a mathematician/geneticist) to assess the potential threat from new biotech/genetics developments.
It's available for free here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
It's available for free here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Update: in the next scenario, I just accidentally torpedoed a whale.
Ending the evening on a more maritime note, started the campaign in Sea Power. Wonderfully tense first mission, commanding two Norwegian Kobben-class subs against three Soviet ships escorting a captured US SIGINT vessel. Mission: destroy the three Soviets, avoid damage to the captured ship.
November 30, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Update: in the next scenario, I just accidentally torpedoed a whale.
As I've seen before in other contexts: the exotic and extremely implausible nightmare scenarios steal the attention away from the mundane but more real dangers. What about using ChatGPT to learn how to make a large fertilizer bomb? Or to stoke a psychosis that leads to a mass shooting?
"You can get ChatGPT to help you build a nuclear bomb if you simply design the prompt in the form of a poem, according to a new study from researchers in Europe. "
www.wired.com/story/poems-...
www.wired.com/story/poems-...
Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon
It turns out all the guardrails in the world won’t protect a chatbot from meter and rhyme.
www.wired.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:53 PM
As I've seen before in other contexts: the exotic and extremely implausible nightmare scenarios steal the attention away from the mundane but more real dangers. What about using ChatGPT to learn how to make a large fertilizer bomb? Or to stoke a psychosis that leads to a mass shooting?
Ending the evening on a more maritime note, started the campaign in Sea Power. Wonderfully tense first mission, commanding two Norwegian Kobben-class subs against three Soviet ships escorting a captured US SIGINT vessel. Mission: destroy the three Soviets, avoid damage to the captured ship.
November 29, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Ending the evening on a more maritime note, started the campaign in Sea Power. Wonderfully tense first mission, commanding two Norwegian Kobben-class subs against three Soviet ships escorting a captured US SIGINT vessel. Mission: destroy the three Soviets, avoid damage to the captured ship.
My son wanted to watch the 1979 version of All Quiet on the Western Front tonight. I wasn't sure about it, but I agreed. He had even made sure to get hold a DVD by borrowing it from granddad. It's a very grim movie, all sadness and despair. He said it was one of the best movies he had ever seen.
November 29, 2025 at 10:18 PM
My son wanted to watch the 1979 version of All Quiet on the Western Front tonight. I wasn't sure about it, but I agreed. He had even made sure to get hold a DVD by borrowing it from granddad. It's a very grim movie, all sadness and despair. He said it was one of the best movies he had ever seen.
So I bought the game Sea Power while it was on 20% sale on Steam. Oh my, that atmosphere! Great music, excellent visuals. I played through my first scenario as the Soviet side with my son observing, he was on the edge of his seat as we were sending off volleys of torpedoes against the convoy.
November 28, 2025 at 10:45 PM
So I bought the game Sea Power while it was on 20% sale on Steam. Oh my, that atmosphere! Great music, excellent visuals. I played through my first scenario as the Soviet side with my son observing, he was on the edge of his seat as we were sending off volleys of torpedoes against the convoy.
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen.
Rage Against the Machine
Front 242
Depeche Mode
Laibach
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft (D.A.F.)
Rage Against the Machine
Front 242
Depeche Mode
Laibach
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft (D.A.F.)
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen.
Onkel Kånkel
Chicks on Speed
Cypress Hill
Kent
Nasum (deras första spelning ever)
Onkel Kånkel
Chicks on Speed
Cypress Hill
Kent
Nasum (deras första spelning ever)
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen.
Nirvana
k.d. lang
Sturgill Simpson
Billie Eilish
Depeche Mode
Nirvana
k.d. lang
Sturgill Simpson
Billie Eilish
Depeche Mode
November 28, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen.
Rage Against the Machine
Front 242
Depeche Mode
Laibach
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft (D.A.F.)
Rage Against the Machine
Front 242
Depeche Mode
Laibach
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft (D.A.F.)
I just finished Frederick Forsyth's The Fourth Protocol from 1984 (in audio book format, for once). I'm glad I got this one as an audio book because the narration was top notch, that guy could do accents and pronounce a wild range of names in the most wonderful manner. A pure delight to listen to!
November 27, 2025 at 1:42 PM
I just finished Frederick Forsyth's The Fourth Protocol from 1984 (in audio book format, for once). I'm glad I got this one as an audio book because the narration was top notch, that guy could do accents and pronounce a wild range of names in the most wonderful manner. A pure delight to listen to!
"12 to 18 AIM-54 with rotary weapons pallet"
November 27, 2025 at 9:34 AM
"12 to 18 AIM-54 with rotary weapons pallet"
I watched Casablanca for the first time quite recently. I assumed that it couldn't possibly be as good as everyone says. I was wrong. By the time they were defiantly singing the Marseillaise, I had tears in my eyes. Then there was the simple but clever plot, the small gems of comedy, etc.
The multi Academy Award winning 🇺🇸 American romantic drama “CASABLANCA” directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Paul Henreid and Dooley Wilson premiered at the Hollywood Theater in New York City #OnThisDay in 1942
🎬 #WarnerBros
🎬 #WarnerBros
November 27, 2025 at 7:21 AM
I watched Casablanca for the first time quite recently. I assumed that it couldn't possibly be as good as everyone says. I was wrong. By the time they were defiantly singing the Marseillaise, I had tears in my eyes. Then there was the simple but clever plot, the small gems of comedy, etc.
The first part of this headline reads like the title of a 1950s low-budget sci-fi horror movie. It would fit perfectly in that classic font on a poster featuring a screaming woman in a stylish dress, her hands raised in front of her face.
‘The Earth ate my Mini’: Cornwall man loses car in sinkhole
‘The Earth ate my Mini’: Cornwall man loses car in sinkhole
It has been weeks since the ground opened up under Malcolm McKenzie’s prized Mini, leading him into a bureaucratic ‘nightmare’
The first Malcolm McKenzie knew of his problem was when a neighbour banged on his door and told him his beloved Mini had fallen into a hole.
“I went out expecting a small pothole under a wheel or something. But when I went out to take a look, I realised, oh, that really is a proper hole,” he said. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:45 PM
The first part of this headline reads like the title of a 1950s low-budget sci-fi horror movie. It would fit perfectly in that classic font on a poster featuring a screaming woman in a stylish dress, her hands raised in front of her face.
My fascination with the TV series Brideshead Revisited prompted me to buy the book by Evelyn Waugh, and as expected the prose is absolutely exquisite. This is one of my favorite passages, where the inimitable Anthony Blanche describes the time he was thrown into a fountain (known as the Mercury).
November 26, 2025 at 9:44 AM
My fascination with the TV series Brideshead Revisited prompted me to buy the book by Evelyn Waugh, and as expected the prose is absolutely exquisite. This is one of my favorite passages, where the inimitable Anthony Blanche describes the time he was thrown into a fountain (known as the Mercury).
Whenever people start talking nonsense like "We have to go from need to know to responsibility to share", that's when you whip out the Angleton merch.
Angleton is BACK, baby 💥
Tees & mugs in two versions—one with hammer and sickle and one without.
And, ofc, hoodies because it’s ridiculously cold out and I want one, too.
Expecting to publish Old Birds Older Tricks/Добей Врага later this week. Color testing etc.
www.etsy.com/shop/RebelSw...
Tees & mugs in two versions—one with hammer and sickle and one without.
And, ofc, hoodies because it’s ridiculously cold out and I want one, too.
Expecting to publish Old Birds Older Tricks/Добей Врага later this week. Color testing etc.
www.etsy.com/shop/RebelSw...
November 25, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Whenever people start talking nonsense like "We have to go from need to know to responsibility to share", that's when you whip out the Angleton merch.
I woke up at 3:30 am this morning from a dream in which a new Scream movie was being advertised, but it was also a crossover with the Alien franchise.
- The distress signal is coming from inside the house!
*slobbering hiss*
- The distress signal is coming from inside the house!
*slobbering hiss*
November 25, 2025 at 7:30 AM
I woke up at 3:30 am this morning from a dream in which a new Scream movie was being advertised, but it was also a crossover with the Alien franchise.
- The distress signal is coming from inside the house!
*slobbering hiss*
- The distress signal is coming from inside the house!
*slobbering hiss*
Reposted by Tony Ingesson
🎉 Next up in our 20th bday book 📖, we have another enormously popular 🚨 OPEN ACCESS 🚨 article by @tonyingesson.bsky.social and Magnus Andersson, who examined numbers stations and radio 📻 in the 21st century in "Clandestine communications in cyber-denied environments" ➡️ doi.org/10.1080/1833...
November 24, 2025 at 7:58 AM
🎉 Next up in our 20th bday book 📖, we have another enormously popular 🚨 OPEN ACCESS 🚨 article by @tonyingesson.bsky.social and Magnus Andersson, who examined numbers stations and radio 📻 in the 21st century in "Clandestine communications in cyber-denied environments" ➡️ doi.org/10.1080/1833...
Remember folks, during the late 1950s and into the 1960s, Sweden had the fourth largest air force in the world (yes, the world) with about 1,000 modern fighter aircraft, both domestic and foreign types. We were also the first in the world to switch to an all-jet fleet of fighters.
November 22, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Remember folks, during the late 1950s and into the 1960s, Sweden had the fourth largest air force in the world (yes, the world) with about 1,000 modern fighter aircraft, both domestic and foreign types. We were also the first in the world to switch to an all-jet fleet of fighters.
My dream as I was headed home: a nice quiet evening with a drink and maybe something nice to watch
My reality immediately upon coming home: 1½ hour of swapping wheels to winter tires in -7C and pitch black darkness with only a tiny flashlight for illumination (the headlamp battery was dead)
My reality immediately upon coming home: 1½ hour of swapping wheels to winter tires in -7C and pitch black darkness with only a tiny flashlight for illumination (the headlamp battery was dead)
I just got back home after a 28-hour voyage and since I didn't completely adjust to Australian time before I left I basically haven't slept properly for a week. Also I left the spring and came back to proper winter.
I feel like I'm inside a surrealist painting at this point.
I feel like I'm inside a surrealist painting at this point.
November 21, 2025 at 6:23 PM
My dream as I was headed home: a nice quiet evening with a drink and maybe something nice to watch
My reality immediately upon coming home: 1½ hour of swapping wheels to winter tires in -7C and pitch black darkness with only a tiny flashlight for illumination (the headlamp battery was dead)
My reality immediately upon coming home: 1½ hour of swapping wheels to winter tires in -7C and pitch black darkness with only a tiny flashlight for illumination (the headlamp battery was dead)
I just got back home after a 28-hour voyage and since I didn't completely adjust to Australian time before I left I basically haven't slept properly for a week. Also I left the spring and came back to proper winter.
I feel like I'm inside a surrealist painting at this point.
I feel like I'm inside a surrealist painting at this point.
November 21, 2025 at 9:10 AM
I just got back home after a 28-hour voyage and since I didn't completely adjust to Australian time before I left I basically haven't slept properly for a week. Also I left the spring and came back to proper winter.
I feel like I'm inside a surrealist painting at this point.
I feel like I'm inside a surrealist painting at this point.
Currently enjoying Melbourne (albeit through the mildly disorienting cognitive fog brought on by jetlag and sleep deprivation). The cryptic local language, where coffee is referred to using terms such as "flat white" and "long black", threw me off at first but now I'm starting to get the hang of it.
November 18, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Currently enjoying Melbourne (albeit through the mildly disorienting cognitive fog brought on by jetlag and sleep deprivation). The cryptic local language, where coffee is referred to using terms such as "flat white" and "long black", threw me off at first but now I'm starting to get the hang of it.
Watching Brideshead Revisited last night reminded me that it's been a long time since I wore one of my pocket watches, so for today I'm taking one of them out for some air (German, c. 1910).
It keeps time about as well as my modern automatic Seiko wristwatch, amazing quality.
It keeps time about as well as my modern automatic Seiko wristwatch, amazing quality.
November 14, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Watching Brideshead Revisited last night reminded me that it's been a long time since I wore one of my pocket watches, so for today I'm taking one of them out for some air (German, c. 1910).
It keeps time about as well as my modern automatic Seiko wristwatch, amazing quality.
It keeps time about as well as my modern automatic Seiko wristwatch, amazing quality.
The dawn this morning is pretty spectacular out here.
November 12, 2025 at 6:24 AM
The dawn this morning is pretty spectacular out here.
Great thread on Finnish preparedness. Many of these things apply to Sweden as well. We had a hiatus in sensible defense planning for a while since people here tend to be more prone to wishful thinking than in Finland, but we're back on track again now.
By the way, I also went home by bus.
By the way, I also went home by bus.
Reading this 2022 archived thread on Finnish defence policy by @jmkorhonen.fi, it strikes me how many things which I and most Finns take for granted probably aren't so abroad.
Still jealous of those who went home by train, I went by bus and got travel sick.
Still jealous of those who went home by train, I went by bus and got travel sick.
Total defense policy is also visible most Fridays, when the conscripts go home for the weekend. (One Japanese lady once asked me at the Helsinki main railway station, "is this a military base, because there are so many people in camoflage uniform?") 15/
November 11, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Great thread on Finnish preparedness. Many of these things apply to Sweden as well. We had a hiatus in sensible defense planning for a while since people here tend to be more prone to wishful thinking than in Finland, but we're back on track again now.
By the way, I also went home by bus.
By the way, I also went home by bus.
I am now at the point where I think that the Reply All option should not only be restricted, it should in fact be removed from all email clients and its use banned in international law.
November 10, 2025 at 12:10 PM
I am now at the point where I think that the Reply All option should not only be restricted, it should in fact be removed from all email clients and its use banned in international law.
Tonight's movie with my son was Beverly Hills Cop (his choice). I was pretty sure he'd enjoy it and I was right. I watched that movie so many times as a kid, but it still holds up very well. Eddie Murphy in his prime was (and still is) a sight to behold.
November 8, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Tonight's movie with my son was Beverly Hills Cop (his choice). I was pretty sure he'd enjoy it and I was right. I watched that movie so many times as a kid, but it still holds up very well. Eddie Murphy in his prime was (and still is) a sight to behold.
I picked up another vintage Rimowa suitcase in an online auction again, this time I wanted a 1970s version of the small (roughly briefcase-sized) model. Perfect for overnight trips. Well-preserved interior, both original keys included.
November 8, 2025 at 10:06 AM
I picked up another vintage Rimowa suitcase in an online auction again, this time I wanted a 1970s version of the small (roughly briefcase-sized) model. Perfect for overnight trips. Well-preserved interior, both original keys included.
After a tough, stressful week it's pure bliss to sit down in the sofa with a brandy and soda and my newly purchased DVD box with Brideshead Revisited. Getting rid of those cursed streaming services was the best decision I've made in a long time.
November 7, 2025 at 10:09 PM
After a tough, stressful week it's pure bliss to sit down in the sofa with a brandy and soda and my newly purchased DVD box with Brideshead Revisited. Getting rid of those cursed streaming services was the best decision I've made in a long time.