Luke Hogg

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[Luke Hogg @LEHogg]

Every time you load a page, your data travels through physical infrastructure - cables under oceans, satellites overhead, fiber under cities.

Most people never think about. That's why I decided to map it.

This is Project Backbone. It's free, interactive, and live.

[Evan Swarztrauber @SayreEvan]

Private providers are investing $11 billion in matching funds for BEAD, far exceeding the 25% program minimum.

That's a lot of skin in the game, and it makes solving permitting and pole attachment issues all the more important.

[Defense Analyses and Research Corporation @DefenseAnalyses]

🎮🚀🇺🇸 ANNOUNCING A NEW CALL FOR PAPERS ON VIDEO GAMES AND WARFARE

DARC is seeking papers addressing the intersection of video games and real-world conflict. Honoraria of $2,000 available for pieces of 2,000 - 4,000 words.

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Video games are among the dominant cultural and cognitive substrates for the next generation of military and civilian leaders.

These leaders will have spent their formative years mastering real-time strategy games, squad-based shooters, and competitive multiplayer environments. These shared formative experiences are now diffusing through the world’s military institutions. Their narratives, reward structures, and tactical logics will inevitably shape how tomorrow’s warfighters perceive conflict, solve problems, and make decisions under pressure.

DARC believes that understanding these influences is essential to understanding how future conflicts may unfold.

In addition, or perhaps as a consequence of this upbringing, DARC is struck by how emerging battlefield platforms, from hardware to software, increasingly resemble the interfaces and control schemas of video games. The proliferation of drones, autonomous munitions, cyber warfare, and warfighter wearables has created a battlefield that, in many respects, looks remarkably like popular video games, both in terms of gameplay, environments, and story elements.

If, to turn a phrase, “the medium is the meta,” then a deep understanding of how strategic dynamics played out in the world of e-sports and competitive videogaming may give us clues to the dominant strategies of future conflict. Increasingly, it seems we may now be looking towards fighting the real-world versions of conflicts simulated decades ago.

https://t.co/PE46zifEXO

[Samuel Roland @Allinallnotbad]

1/ Proud to announce that, as of last Friday, we (alongside @ckoopman, many thanks) filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court in Department of the Air Force v. Prutehi Guahan (No. 25-579).

In our brief, we encourage the Court to embrace and expound upon the functional equivalence doctrine: the rule that when Congress assigns a specific environmental decision to a dedicated statutory process (here, RCRA permitting), NEPA’s general environmental procedures should not also have to be fulfilled.

[Arena Magazine @arenamagdotcom]

Introducing Arena Magazine Issue 008: At Sea

Deep Sea Mining. Shipbuilding. Undersea Cables. Maritime Autonomy. Island Building. American seapower. And much more...

Best enjoyed near a body of water with a cold drink in hand. Shipping to subscribers now 🇺🇸

[Director Michael Kratsios @mkratsios47]

You can’t make scientific breakthroughs without the tools to pursue them.

Big news from @NSF: $250M to restart and supercharge the SBIR/STTR program, including a new $40M pilot for next-gen scientific instrumentation.

America’s small businesses will build the platforms that define discovery.
https://t.co/a0z16TawAy

[MTS @MTSlive]

SITUATION ANALYSIS: Religious texts may work as AI alignment tools.

What @timhwang says Institute for a Christian Machine Intelligence (ICMI) is testing:

• Put Psalms in the model context window
• Run the model on moral decision benchmarks
• Measure changes on virtue-based evals
• Test Christian reasoning as a steering method
• Try images like the Annunciation in multimodal models
• Watch how the model uses religious symbols in reasoning
• Compare theological alignment against secular approaches

The weird part: Tim says the Psalms result improved Virtue Bench in a statistically significant way.

[Logan Dobson @LoganDobson]

When the “conservative” anti-AI group complains about “carbon emissions”

[Joshua Levine @JoshuaTLevine]

Today’s announcement from @CommerceGov and @POTUS to invest in quantum computing companies and new quantum foundries is an important step toward securing American leadership in quantum technology development and deployment. @PrinehaN and I outlined our vision of how domestic manufacturing and supply chain security are critical to America’s quantum future. The deals announced today put those ideas in action. Welcome to the quantum moment.

[Time Capsule Tales @timecaptales]

In 1977, Jorge Luis Borges — already blind, already legendary — sat across from William F. Buckley on Firing Line & explained why English is the greatest language in the world & why he respected it too much to write his poetry in it.

[Luke Hogg @LEHogg]

Optical transceivers are the next focus in continuing efforts to secure America’s digital infrastructure. But @DeptofWar should take this one slowly and methodically.

New from me in The SCIF:

[The National Security Institute @MasonNatSec]

“The Pentagon flagged Innolight and Eoptolink in October. The Section 805 deadline arrives June 30. The optical layer, which used to be the part of the data center policymakers could safely ignore, has become the layer on which the rest of the stack waits. Congress should treat it that way before someone in Beijing decides to demonstrate the leverage it now holds.”

Check out our new SCIF article, “China’s Hidden Point of Leverage” authored by NSI CTC Visiting Fellow @LEHogg.

Read here: https://t.co/QBcgw35x7s

[Luke Hogg @LEHogg]

A truly radical agenda. These people are dangerous! @JoinFAI

[Pat Whalen is blocked by @libs_ofchicago et al. 🌻 @ThePatWhalen]

“A think tank with ties to right-wing billionaires Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and Charles Koch, the Foundation for American Innovation (FAI), is pushing a radical plan to replace large swaths of the federal government with artificial intelligence.” https://t.co/tKxqh2Xwa0

[Luke Hogg @LEHogg]

I know the Dacha tables when I see them. These guys hadn’t even left Navy Yard before betraying the spirit of America.

[sarah @sarah_micheleg]

what happened to the american spirit?

[Stan Veuger @stanveuger]

Would be curious to hear an explanation from @DebHaalandNM, who is running for governor, for why she couldn’t get this done during her four years as Secretary of the Interior.

[Ramin Nasibov @RaminNasibov]

My first AI assistants

[Pirate Wires @PirateWires]

The @StateDept is recruiting a new generation of young patriots for America’s diplomatic corps.

They want YOU to join the foreign service and restore American global dominance abroad.

In an exclusive interview, Assistant Secretary of State @ASDylanJohnson details Secretary Rubio’s crusade to raise standards for American diplomats, and the ideological rot under Biden’s Foreign Service that weakened America from within.

Full story from @huntryerson 👇

[Luke Hogg @LEHogg]

AI alignment. Content moderation. Digital competition.

We talk like these are new problems. But academic pioneers worked through it all 70 years ago. We just stopped citing them.

It's cybernetics all the way down.

New for @JoinFAI in The Ansible:
https://t.co/7aUpllYGoE

[Julia Steinberg @juliasteinberg]

Still incredibly upset that California's regulatory failures meant that the adaptation of *The California book* was filmed in New Zealand

[R.Сам 🦋🐏 @Logo_Daedalus]

People have no idea that all of this is available on archive dot org for free, like every other old children’s show which isn’t a funnel for developing a gambling addiction. You can just watch all of these 90s Beatrix Potter adaptations right here: https://t.co/OklEKfHHNo

[Joshua Levine @JoshuaTLevine]

Another prudent policy decision from Chairman Carr’s @FCC to support expanded service and emerging technologies. American consumers benefiting once again from cutting-edge technology and a forward-looking approach to regulation and deployment.

[Luke Hogg @LEHogg]

Looking good @NatlParkService