Hardcore Strategy
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Here for lurking, lulz, autonomous weapons, drones and the automation of war // Independent Technical Peace- and Conflictresearch // OSINT // @[email protected]
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📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms).
It’s also concerning. 1/
It’s also concerning. 1/
PSA: we're aware that Signal is down for some people. This appears to be related to a major AWS outage. Stand by.
October 27, 2025 at 10:38 AM
📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms).
It’s also concerning. 1/
It’s also concerning. 1/
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"If perfected, autonomous systems offer huge advantages but will rely on command and control infrastructure, data fusion, and the ability to operate autonomously in some of the world’s harshest seas, technology that is still far from mature."
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www.navylookout.com/echoes-of-th...
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Echoes of the Flower-class corvettes – Royal Navy’s plans to increase anti-submarine warfare mass - Navy Lookout
In this guest article, Tom Hoyland considers the parallels between mass-produced wartime corvettes and today’s uncrewed systems as a means to increase anti-submarine effect. The North Atlantic has alw...
www.navylookout.com
October 20, 2025 at 10:58 AM
"If perfected, autonomous systems offer huge advantages but will rely on command and control infrastructure, data fusion, and the ability to operate autonomously in some of the world’s harshest seas, technology that is still far from mature."
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www.navylookout.com/echoes-of-th...
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www.navylookout.com/echoes-of-th...
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An absolutely essential book for visual dictionary writing for a galaxy far, far away.
October 10, 2025 at 4:07 AM
An absolutely essential book for visual dictionary writing for a galaxy far, far away.
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"We cannot control who sees what, we cannot see what users are doing, and we cannot verify that the software itself is secure," the memo says.
Ah, so it's literally a palantír, let's wrap it up and keep it away from the halflings.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Ah, so it's literally a palantír, let's wrap it up and keep it away from the halflings.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Anduril and Palantir battlefield communication system has deep flaws, Army memo says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The much-needed modernization of the U.S. Army's battlefield communications network being undertaken by Anduril, Palantir and others is rife with "fundamental security" problems ...
www.yahoo.com
October 3, 2025 at 2:01 PM
"We cannot control who sees what, we cannot see what users are doing, and we cannot verify that the software itself is secure," the memo says.
Ah, so it's literally a palantír, let's wrap it up and keep it away from the halflings.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Ah, so it's literally a palantír, let's wrap it up and keep it away from the halflings.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
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🚁🔥 Update: Most likely, Mi-8 was shot down, not Mi-28.
This is the second confirmed shooting down of an Mi-8 using an FPV drone.
For the first time in August 2024, such a target was hunted by soldiers of SBU.
This is the second confirmed shooting down of an Mi-8 using an FPV drone.
For the first time in August 2024, such a target was hunted by soldiers of SBU.
🚁💥 Ukrainian FPV drone shot down a Russian Mi-28 helicopter.
The work of operators of the 59th SBS brigade.
The work of operators of the 59th SBS brigade.
September 29, 2025 at 8:19 AM
🚁🔥 Update: Most likely, Mi-8 was shot down, not Mi-28.
This is the second confirmed shooting down of an Mi-8 using an FPV drone.
For the first time in August 2024, such a target was hunted by soldiers of SBU.
This is the second confirmed shooting down of an Mi-8 using an FPV drone.
For the first time in August 2024, such a target was hunted by soldiers of SBU.
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🚑🚨New Interactive Map: Human Safari Russian drones stalk Kherson daily — indiscriminately hunting civilians. Since 2023, over 3,000 casualties have been recorded.
Explore how these war crimes has developed over the years in our interractive map🗺️ maps.tochnyi.info/humansafari/
Explore how these war crimes has developed over the years in our interractive map🗺️ maps.tochnyi.info/humansafari/
Tochnyi » The Human Safari
An interactive map of the atrocities caused by the Russian Human Safari in Kherson, Ukraine.
maps.tochnyi.info
September 28, 2025 at 2:02 PM
🚑🚨New Interactive Map: Human Safari Russian drones stalk Kherson daily — indiscriminately hunting civilians. Since 2023, over 3,000 casualties have been recorded.
Explore how these war crimes has developed over the years in our interractive map🗺️ maps.tochnyi.info/humansafari/
Explore how these war crimes has developed over the years in our interractive map🗺️ maps.tochnyi.info/humansafari/
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The drone incursions over airports and other installations will keep happening and continue to spread as long as it remains a risk-free way of destabilising Western Europe without any consequences.
September 27, 2025 at 3:36 PM
The drone incursions over airports and other installations will keep happening and continue to spread as long as it remains a risk-free way of destabilising Western Europe without any consequences.
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Ukrainian ‘Seawolf’ type USV
Same design can have various configurations including ARCHER/Sidewinder missiles. This one has for hangars for quadcopter drones
Same design can have various configurations including ARCHER/Sidewinder missiles. This one has for hangars for quadcopter drones
The Russians claim they allegedly captured an unmanned FPV carrier boat — the very same one that reportedly took part in the attack on Tuapse on September 24, which could also launch FPV drones from special platforms.
September 27, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Ukrainian ‘Seawolf’ type USV
Same design can have various configurations including ARCHER/Sidewinder missiles. This one has for hangars for quadcopter drones
Same design can have various configurations including ARCHER/Sidewinder missiles. This one has for hangars for quadcopter drones
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Russia launched one of its biggest missile strikes of the year this morning. Early estimates point to 500–650 drones and over 60 missiles, including up to 55 Kh-101s, 8 Kalibr, 2 Kinzhal, and several Kh-59s. Targets included Kyiv, Bila Tserkva, Vasylkiv, and nearby towns.
September 28, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Russia launched one of its biggest missile strikes of the year this morning. Early estimates point to 500–650 drones and over 60 missiles, including up to 55 Kh-101s, 8 Kalibr, 2 Kinzhal, and several Kh-59s. Targets included Kyiv, Bila Tserkva, Vasylkiv, and nearby towns.
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Russia’s military rearmament, especially weapon production numbers, reveals much about its future plans. These numbers are usually hidden in classified documents, a problem Frontelligence Insight, with help from insiders, has solved. For the first time, we can share some of them:
September 28, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Russia’s military rearmament, especially weapon production numbers, reveals much about its future plans. These numbers are usually hidden in classified documents, a problem Frontelligence Insight, with help from insiders, has solved. For the first time, we can share some of them:
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🧵Here are 17 things the drone incursions into NATO airspace have taught me about B2B SaaS sales
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September 25, 2025 at 9:07 AM
🧵Here are 17 things the drone incursions into NATO airspace have taught me about B2B SaaS sales
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I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
September 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
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Sept 23-24: a Russian Navy Vishnya-class intelligence collection ship was navigating northeast through the Tsushima Strait toward the Sea of Japan. The Ministry of Defense and Self-Defense Forces will continue to conduct vigilance, surveillance, and intelligence gathering.-Japan MoD
September 24, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Sept 23-24: a Russian Navy Vishnya-class intelligence collection ship was navigating northeast through the Tsushima Strait toward the Sea of Japan. The Ministry of Defense and Self-Defense Forces will continue to conduct vigilance, surveillance, and intelligence gathering.-Japan MoD
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Very interesting. Just yesterday I was thinking about what levels of "DDoSs"-like (Their associated techs like db)could support for aeronautical ADSB/ACARS/Airframe/FLARM,naval AIS,IoT APRS, and similar... I imagine someone like Kepler might not like it.
Thanks @shubliburn.bsky.social 👋
Thanks @shubliburn.bsky.social 👋
September 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Very interesting. Just yesterday I was thinking about what levels of "DDoSs"-like (Their associated techs like db)could support for aeronautical ADSB/ACARS/Airframe/FLARM,naval AIS,IoT APRS, and similar... I imagine someone like Kepler might not like it.
Thanks @shubliburn.bsky.social 👋
Thanks @shubliburn.bsky.social 👋
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The article echoes what I’ve seen and heard from peers: AI makes it easy to produce slick but shallow work that looks plausible on the surface, yet riddled with errors or bad assumptions underneath.
Your coworkers end up having to fix or redo it.
It’s workslop, and it’s spreading fast.
Your coworkers end up having to fix or redo it.
It’s workslop, and it’s spreading fast.
AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity
Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce “workslop”—content that appea...
hbr.org
September 23, 2025 at 12:31 PM
The article echoes what I’ve seen and heard from peers: AI makes it easy to produce slick but shallow work that looks plausible on the surface, yet riddled with errors or bad assumptions underneath.
Your coworkers end up having to fix or redo it.
It’s workslop, and it’s spreading fast.
Your coworkers end up having to fix or redo it.
It’s workslop, and it’s spreading fast.
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“There is a huge difference between experiencing war and understanding war”
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September 22, 2025 at 11:51 AM
“There is a huge difference between experiencing war and understanding war”
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Radar-lock the next time.
Intercept and destroy the next time afterwards.
Strength recognizes strength, unfortunately
Intercept and destroy the next time afterwards.
Strength recognizes strength, unfortunately
Three Russian MiG-31 violated Estonian airspace near Tallinn for more than 12 minutes. The long duration in this NATO air space is a clear sign that this was a calculated provocation.
If this would have happened in Turkish airspace, we would have three Russian wreckages.
If this would have happened in Turkish airspace, we would have three Russian wreckages.
September 19, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Radar-lock the next time.
Intercept and destroy the next time afterwards.
Strength recognizes strength, unfortunately
Intercept and destroy the next time afterwards.
Strength recognizes strength, unfortunately
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The 🇩🇰Danish goverment today announced that Denmark will get long-range strike capability. Work will now be continued to identify which system(s) that will be selected.
www.fmn.dk/da/nyheder/2...
www.fmn.dk/da/nyheder/2...
I fully agree with @frhoffmann.bsky.social here.
I have for long argued that deterrence has to contain defensive and offensive capability. When I argued for 🇩🇰 acquisition of TLAM 7-8 years ago, there were many who ironically saw this as “too offensive”
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I have for long argued that deterrence has to contain defensive and offensive capability. When I argued for 🇩🇰 acquisition of TLAM 7-8 years ago, there were many who ironically saw this as “too offensive”
warontherocks.com/2025/09/deni...
Denial Won’t Do: Europe Needs a Punishment-Based Conventional Counterstrike Strategy
Explosions over Kyiv and other Ukrainian population centers are daily reminders that Russia’s missiles can reach deep and strike hard. Beyond the
warontherocks.com
September 17, 2025 at 1:35 PM
The 🇩🇰Danish goverment today announced that Denmark will get long-range strike capability. Work will now be continued to identify which system(s) that will be selected.
www.fmn.dk/da/nyheder/2...
www.fmn.dk/da/nyheder/2...
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Time for the world to install a gigawatt of solar power capacity
2004: A year
2010: ~ a month
2015: ~ a week
Now: A day
ourworldindata.org/data-insight... 🧪
2004: A year
2010: ~ a month
2015: ~ a week
Now: A day
ourworldindata.org/data-insight... 🧪
September 15, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Time for the world to install a gigawatt of solar power capacity
2004: A year
2010: ~ a month
2015: ~ a week
Now: A day
ourworldindata.org/data-insight... 🧪
2004: A year
2010: ~ a month
2015: ~ a week
Now: A day
ourworldindata.org/data-insight... 🧪
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All I saw was cheesecake boat and ocean for at least 5 minutes
September 12, 2025 at 5:08 PM
All I saw was cheesecake boat and ocean for at least 5 minutes
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Sometimes I think the real "peace dividend" since the end of the cold war was that a whole generation of analysts grew up underestimating the power of ideology, memory and emotion, and now they cannot recognize a huge cultural shift when it is staring them in the face.
The "soft stuff"matters.
The "soft stuff"matters.
September 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Sometimes I think the real "peace dividend" since the end of the cold war was that a whole generation of analysts grew up underestimating the power of ideology, memory and emotion, and now they cannot recognize a huge cultural shift when it is staring them in the face.
The "soft stuff"matters.
The "soft stuff"matters.
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40k: tech worship creates cults of suffering that scale up at horrifying rates, beware tethering human progress to soulless tech advances
Tech firms: how quickly can we entomb a human in a giant machine? Can we create services irl?
Tech firms: how quickly can we entomb a human in a giant machine? Can we create services irl?
September 10, 2025 at 3:04 PM
40k: tech worship creates cults of suffering that scale up at horrifying rates, beware tethering human progress to soulless tech advances
Tech firms: how quickly can we entomb a human in a giant machine? Can we create services irl?
Tech firms: how quickly can we entomb a human in a giant machine? Can we create services irl?
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Department of Warhammer 40,000
September 6, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Department of Warhammer 40,000
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EU Gebäude und Britisch Council in Kyjiw von russischen Raketen getroffen. Eher kein collateral damage, da militärisch nichts relevantes in der Nähe. Die Nachricht wäre klar. Was wird die Antwort sein?
August 28, 2025 at 8:21 AM
EU Gebäude und Britisch Council in Kyjiw von russischen Raketen getroffen. Eher kein collateral damage, da militärisch nichts relevantes in der Nähe. Die Nachricht wäre klar. Was wird die Antwort sein?