Interesting web comic about nuclear technology and regulation. Especially in the context of current events (AFIK only 3 countries that have had nuclear weapons and ICBMs have ever disarmed... One of them is now being invaded).
A handful of billionaires are tightening their grip on the information ecosystem.
Elon Musk has transformed Twitter into x, a platform that amplifies disinformation, bigotry and conspiracy theories. Musk altered the network's algorithm to promote his fascist propaganda and suppress links from factual, science and reputable Information and other independent outlets.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has downgraded reliable news and political sites for Information on Facebook and other Meta properties, prioritizing memes and celebrity gossip.
Remember, the judge ruled, to instruct the jury, that all of Fox’s statements were false. But Dominion still has the right to make its case. So they are going to present the statements, from their first opening, in all their lurid detail. Fox has to just sit there and take it.
Fox purposefully lied to Americans continually, knowing criminal suspect Donald lost. Fox helped him spread #TheBigLie and launch the insurrection.
If, like roughly a hundred million Americans, you regularly consume fascist propaganda in the guise of cable “news” (fox, newsmax, & other propaganda outlets) online disinformation publications, and the platform formerly known as Twitter, it’s likely that at least some of that fascist propaganda is originating in Moscow.
Kremlin documents reveal Russian trolls are targeting U.S. support for Ukraine and engaging in a significant campaign to undermine U.S. elections and discourage voting.
During the Thirty Years' War, Colonel Sprengepiel and his riders always managed to make their escape - using magic if necessary, though at times it cost them some dignity.
Unrestricted Warfare by Qiao Liang & Wang Xiangsui, 2017
More relevant than ever, this interesting handbook on modern all-enveloping warfare was first published in China in 1999. Re-digitized from the 2004 Filament Books edition, this new edition contains specific methods for American troops, government, academia, and business circles for dealing with unrestricted warfare.
After obstructionist Bill Barr completely covered-up the Trump-Russia investigation in a way that let criminal defendant Donald skate, US Intelligence now has told us that Russians are involved in using a variety of technologies, including ultrasound, microwave weapons, pesticides, and toxins on our diplomats and intelligence personnel.
Why exactly is American counterintelligence so dead-set on protecting the Kremlin and those close to it?
Yet, Taiwan managed to hold fair and democratic elections and their people didn’t fall for the traps set by China, and the threats of their jets and missiles flying over the island.
As policymakers reckon w/Russia’s advances in #Ukraine & Trump’s comments about not defending #NATO, the tools of 20th-century #warfare are coming back
How many people realize that America is currently experiencing a hot domestic information war in which only one side is fighting: the MAGAs.
So, serious question: who’s on the other side of the information war now raging in America?
Obviously we saw the government try to become a combatant—a defender of America—by creating an office designed to combat disinformation, but we all know how that went: MAGA declared war on the office and everyone in it and the government backed down.
There are a few journalists we might identify—say, Jim Acosta—but no entire media organizations. And media writ large has made clear its view that high-traffic progressive social media feeds aren’t allies but grifting.
So who’s defending America?
Tucker Carlson (fired fox #BigLie liar) arrives in Russia.
#TrumpStooge in Russia with wanted war criminal putin, what about the communications Carlson is having with the Kremlin agents. Remember that Trump soft-launched his 2016 presidential campaign in Moscow in 2013 with a series of private conversations with Kremlin agents. He couldn’t get away with doing that again... but under the guise of being a journalist (which he is not), Carlson could. Keep that in mind.
A U.S. citizen fraternizing with an enemy, and it's fine, or even "incredible"? 🤦🏼♂️ We have lost our way so badly. Traitorous servitude to Putin is now mainstream politics for MAGA.
How do we know what messages are being exchanged between Carlson and the Kremlin right now? We don’t. Espionage happening right in front of our eyes
#TheBigLie promotor Tucker Carlson arrives to his masters in Russia. The fascist has been in Moscow for the past three days, per Russia's Mash outlet.
t.c. could be a personal courier between trump and putin. I'd very much like to see any sealed envelops or thumb drives he brings back into the country with him... check his bags thoroughly on his way to russia, who knows what kind of "gifts" he brought putin from trump? missing files, maybe?
#AI#Warfare#AutonomousWeapons#IntelligentWeapons: "It should be of little surprise, then, that states and civil society have taken up the question of intelligent autonomous weapons—weapons that can select and fire upon targets without any human input—as a matter of serious concern. In May, after close to a decade of discussions, parties to the UN’s Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons agreed, among other recommendations, that militaries using them probably need to “limit the duration, geographical scope, and scale of the operation” to comply with the laws of war. The line was nonbinding, but it was at least an acknowledgment that a human has to play a part—somewhere, sometime—in the immediate process leading up to a killing.
But intelligent autonomous weapons that fully displace human decision-making have (likely) yet to see real-world use. Even the “autonomous” drones and ships fielded by the US and other powers are used under close human supervision. Meanwhile, intelligent systems that merely guide the hand that pulls the trigger have been gaining purchase in the warmaker’s tool kit. And they’ve quietly become sophisticated enough to raise novel questions—ones that are trickier to answer than the well-covered wrangles over killer robots and, with each passing day, more urgent: What does it mean when a decision is only part human and part machine? And when, if ever, is it ethical for that decision to be a decision to kill?"
To Beat Russia, Ukraine Needs a Major Tech Breakthrough
Ukraine’s top general says his country must innovate on the level of inventing gunpowder to “break military parity” with Russia. If it’s successful, it could change the future of war.
Minister: Ukraine aims to shift electronic warfare production to commercial markets (kyivindependent.com)
Ukraine aims to shift electronic warfare (EW) production to commercial markets, said Digital Transformation Minister Mykhailo Fedorov.