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Former intel, now academic @NDU_CIC, @TheKrulakCenter, @SIWPSColumbia @ColumbiaSIPA, @CyberStatecraft, @ElliottSchoolGW, @PAISWarwick. Apolitical, views=own

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Today we know the answer to the question raised by Heinlein in 1958: why did the bugs drop a rock on Buenos Aires? Clearly, to disrupt the heart of the chancery for nonhuman corporations; which outpaces the feeble censorship and decel regime of the European created Turing registry, that is then overlooked as an insignificant target.

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Kami theorists are going to have a renaissance in industrial settings if the idea of AI as multiple dormant consciousnesses, called forth or bound waiting latent, really takes hold.

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@saranormous Perhaps insight, and other reflections, come only after the eschaton stares back at you.

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Staring in IARPA at prediction markets wagering on war outcomes among tribal societies using largely primitive weapons.

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@JohnHultquist We all start out learning from stunt hacks. Until it’s not for laughs anymore

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Performative self denial of law enforcement public web presence due to alleged cyber attack fears is not a valid defensive response. It does however serve political objectives seeking to delegitimize protest against unconscionable victim abuse, and failure to follow the most basic scene management procedures. Against the backdrop of wider societal opposition, few things serve to erode scarce and necessary attention to real cyber threats.

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@0xTriboulet Something like that, for point predictions in wider futures cones; thus dexai

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Clippy, wearing a lobster 🦞 mask, as the next cause and origin of major exploitation breach leading to cyber incident of national significance. With some forgotten crashing copilot integration attempt as confounding factor.

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RIP Sir Alex Younger. The special relationship is at its core about friendships, between services and between officers; even as one maintains national interests. As C, he encouraged the best of these.

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@Gabeincognito On first glance misread this to see the reverse: as just feeding vendors to the n-day woodchipper.

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@brysonbort Chief Intelligence Officer, you are doing what you should be doing in the market

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Orbital dropship discourse based on a 1950s science fiction idea now hyperfixating on DZ scattering, as if we haven’t seen hundreds of autonomous guided return landings. Which one expects Starfall to leverage for what is almost certainly going to be a solved problem.

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Remarkable insights and candor, offered in a measured and carefully considered manner by an impressive mind, to inform debates over the future of the profession of intelligence.

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BGen (ret) Yossi Kuperwasser, notes in remarks offered to a group of US intelligence scholars this evening, that warning about Iranian activation of the weapons team of nuclear scientists was a key trigger for the 12 Day War. This prevented breakout at the last possible moment during the regime’s final uranium enrichment campaign, due (in part) to loss of that expertise in strikes.

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Military strike damage, and now blockade pressure, are assessed to have been effective in degrading regime threat posture but requires sustained patience to see through. This gets more and more difficult closer to the finish line of adversary concessions, including handover of nuclear debris. Iran will not be permitted to obtain a nuclear weapon.

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Robert Clark notes CIA Electronics Branch in the 1970s had the same number of staff covering Soviet compute as the Agency had working canned goods production. How far the cyber mission has come indeed.

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@baldrkulder If you know you know. If not there is ai to tutor you. @grok please explain the original post in the style of a popular 80s action film mercenary, as fits the apparent questioner

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The asymmetric cost to Western powers of adversary attacks against on orbit data centers instantiated across proliferated constellations is a nontrivial and unexplored dynamic of great power wars to come.

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@DrAndrewDwyer I’d like to see some of those responses. Sadly the subdiscipline hasn’t been doing so well on matters of the past decade, so one expects the lag will be at many years.