No it actually was not.
Diversity initiatives are not just about affirmative action, ensuring a democratic military represents its demos.
Diversity also matters for intellectual performance in a world of complex high-tech operations among foreign societies.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...
Diversity initiatives are not just about affirmative action, ensuring a democratic military represents its demos.
Diversity also matters for intellectual performance in a world of complex high-tech operations among foreign societies.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...
Opinion | That Hegseth Speech Was Actually Pretty Good
www.nytimes.com
The discourse around AGI has become eschatology—a religious tale of the end times.
But a lot of it is just scatology—bullshit meant to persuade without interest in truth.
dolos.substack.com/p/agieschato...
But a lot of it is just scatology—bullshit meant to persuade without interest in truth.
dolos.substack.com/p/agieschato...
AGI—Eschatology and Scatology
Calling bullshit on superintelligence
dolos.substack.com
AGI stands for Arrogance, Grift, and Ignorance, and many other things besides.
dolos.substack.com/p/redefining...
dolos.substack.com/p/redefining...
This is a misleading headline. Ai bio warfare is not right around the corner. There is still a long and complicated path from r&d -- where this story focuses on only one part -- to weaponization and operational capacity let alone strategic intent
Reposted by Jon R. Lindsay
Artificial intelligence can design toxins that evade security controls.
Microsoft says AI can create “zero day” threats in biology
Artificial intelligence can design toxins that evade security controls.
www.technologyreview.com
Good news! You can now download the open access (free) ebook of Age of Decption from @CornellPress !
(You can also buy a paperback, which makes a fine decoration for your bookshelf)
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
(You can also buy a paperback, which makes a fine decoration for your bookshelf)
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
Age of Deception by Jon R. Lindsay | eBook | Cornell University Press
At the heart of cybersecurity lies a paradox: Cooperation makes conflict possible. In Age of Deception, Jon R. Lindsay shows that widespread trust in cyberspace enables espionage and subversion. While...
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu
Interested in military automation? You should definitely read the new book by Jackie Schneider and Julia Macdonald!
I wrote up some thoughts on their terrific book here:
dolos.substack.com/p/culture-an...
I wrote up some thoughts on their terrific book here:
dolos.substack.com/p/culture-an...
Culture and Automation at War
Thoughts on The Hand Behind Unmanned by Schneider & Macdonald
dolos.substack.com
Trump is not a Sparks fan?
Reposted by Jon R. Lindsay
This is my favorite LLM output to date:
Based on Haugeland's definition, the correct and most precise answer is **yes, this instance of Gemini does not "give a damn" about the answers.**
Based on Haugeland's definition, the correct and most precise answer is **yes, this instance of Gemini does not "give a damn" about the answers.**
There is an ancient curse in Security Studies: "May your research be relevant."
And with that I am happy to annouce the arrival of Age of Deception!
You can find a paperback from any fine bookmonger or get the open access eBook from Cornell:
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
And with that I am happy to annouce the arrival of Age of Deception!
You can find a paperback from any fine bookmonger or get the open access eBook from Cornell:
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
Here are few thoughts on why _Age of Deception_ has the cover that it does. Coming soon from @cornellupress.bsky.social
dolos.substack.com/p/cover-me
dolos.substack.com/p/cover-me
Age of Deception now has a cover!
Technologies of perception also conceal danger...
Coming this fall.
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
Technologies of perception also conceal danger...
Coming this fall.
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
Age of Deception by Jon R. Lindsay | eBook | Cornell University Press
At the heart of cybersecurity lies a paradox: Cooperation makes conflict possible. In Age of Deception, Jon R. Lindsay shows that widespread trust in cyberspace enables espionage and subversion. While...
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu
I don’t often publish in critical security studies, but when I do, I drink Homeric epic.
Here is the director's cut of my recent essay on AI and war in Minds and Machines.
dolos.substack.com/p/sing-godde...
Here is the director's cut of my recent essay on AI and war in Minds and Machines.
dolos.substack.com/p/sing-godde...
Sing, Goddess, of the Wrath of AI
Rethinking Artificial Intelligence, Geopolitics and War
dolos.substack.com
Check out this new forum offering critical perspectives on AI and geopolitics.
I wrote a strange little essay on why Homer's Iliad still matters in the age of AI-enabled warfare.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
I wrote a strange little essay on why Homer's Iliad still matters in the age of AI-enabled warfare.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Myth, Power, and Agency: Rethinking Artificial Intelligence, Geopolitics and War - Minds and Machines
This collection interrogates how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping war, sovereignty, and human agency by entangling technological experimentation with myth-making and geopolitical power. Drawi...
link.springer.com
Next time you are tempted to let ChatGPT do your work, think about the wild aurochs.
dolos.substack.com/p/ai-as-auro...
dolos.substack.com/p/ai-as-auro...
AI as Aurochs Intelligence
Or, why ChatGPT makes you stupid
dolos.substack.com
If Leo XIV is warning about thinking machines,
does that make eLon XAI the antichrist?
Leo XIV, eLon XAI, just sayin...
time.com/7285449/pope...
does that make eLon XAI the antichrist?
Leo XIV, eLon XAI, just sayin...
time.com/7285449/pope...
Pope Leo’s Name Carries a Warning About the Rise of AI
A century ago, Pope Leo XIII defended workers’ rights during the Industrial Revolution. Will Leo XIV do the same for AI?
time.com
When it comes to AI in the classroom, instructors can be police or guides. I prefer the latter. Here are a few half-baked ideas about incorporating AI into assignments.
dolos.substack.com/p/if-you-can...
dolos.substack.com/p/if-you-can...
If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em!
Ideas for using LLMs in the classroom
dolos.substack.com
A lot of people are attacking Pete, but I think he will find the strawberries
China would like to defuse US weaponized interdependence
Thank you @staillat.bsky.social !
If you can't access it and want to, please let me know. JSS provides authors with a number of sharable links.
If you can't access it and want to, please let me know. JSS provides authors with a number of sharable links.
Stéphane Taillat
@staillat.bsky.social
· Apr 16
Stuxnet revisited: From cyber warfare to secret statecraft
The Stuxnet attack on Iran’s nuclear program is an outlier in the history of cyber conflict. While espionage and subversion are prevalent, serious cyber-physical damage remains rare. Stuxnet has th...
www.tandfonline.com
by Henry Farrell — Reposted by Jon R. Lindsay
www.programmablemutter.com/p/why-china-... On how Snowden and the ZTE measures pushed China to start talking about technological independence.
Why China is going it alone on technology
When the US does things to other countries, they might possibly respond!
www.programmablemutter.com
Reposted by Jon R. Lindsay
I can only recommend @jonrlindsay.bsky.social 's last publication on Stuxnet 👇
(behind a paywall)
(behind a paywall)
Stuxnet revisited: From cyber warfare to secret statecraft
The Stuxnet attack on Iran’s nuclear program is an outlier in the history of cyber conflict. While espionage and subversion are prevalent, serious cyber-physical damage remains rare. Stuxnet has th...
www.tandfonline.com
The greatest hostile data exfil op in US history goes on and on, in plain sight. Our cybersecurity threat models are woefully unsuited to the insider threat of usurpation at scale.
www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data
A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
www.npr.org
I was in Baja this weekend. (Gorgeous weather, amazing food, supernice people). One typical difference across the border is that you see Mexican miltiary vehicles patrolling around. But perhaps that will not be so different in the near future. :/