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[Max Bodach @maxbodach]

@deanwball 💯

[Rachel Reses 🪻 @jpeaterman]

hustlers (who subscribe to the @wapo AI & tech brief) must watch

[Yo Shavit @yonashav]

The OpenAI national security policy team is hiring for my old job!

As the AI stakes get stratospheric, the technical nuances of policy become extremely important. This can be an incredibly positively impactful role for the right person. If you might be excellent at this, I’d love to answer your Qs.

[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

[Max Bodach @maxbodach]

@ppavnr @ThomasHochman 👊 🇺🇸 🔥

[Joseph 🕊️ @CaudilloXIV]

Big plans for tonight

[Max Bodach @maxbodach]

Had a ton of fun talking Magnifica Humanitas, Butlerian Jihad, my proposal for a whispering earring that is only allowed to say “Memento mori”, and more with @oren_cass, @LeahLibresco, and @Chris_Griz!

[Commonplace @commonplc]

How human can AI really be?

This week's American Compass podcast brings @oren_cass together with @Chris_Griz, @LeahLibresco, & @maxbodach to discuss Pope Leo XIV’s highly anticipated new encyclical on what AI means for the future of humanity. https://t.co/zap0I1JOxl

[Max Bodach @maxbodach]

@bobbyfijan congrats yall!

[Max Bodach @maxbodach]

@deanwball lmao it’s endemic

[Max Bodach @maxbodach]

@josie_mcdonell @NickSolheim congrats!

[Max Bodach @maxbodach]

@hardaway_cam @ssankar many people are saying!

[Max Bodach @maxbodach]

thrilled to have a great American technologist @ssankar join us for our annual innovation gala on 10/1 — get in touch to join us!

[Foundation for American Innovation 🇺🇸🚀 @JoinFAI]

Tickets & sponsorships are now available for FAI's American Innovation Gala on Oct. 1, 2026!

We're excited to share our first speaker: @PalantirTech CTO & EVP @ssankar, author of "Mobilize: How to Reboot the American Industrial Base and Stop World War III."

[Thomas Hochman @ThomasHochman]

Come on out and join members of Congress, agency heads, and industry leaders for the second annual Energy Imperatives Summit!

Gonna be a blast.

[Defense Analyses and Research Corporation @DefenseAnalyses]

> Mr. Joshua Steinman

good morning we are going to win

[Catholic Sat @CatholicSat]

This morning after his General Audience, a robotic dog entertained Pope Leo XIV

📸: Vatican Media

[James Wallner @jameswallner]

In this week’s episode of Politics in Question, @leedrutman and I answer all your questions about the redistricting wars, 1842 Apportionment Act, and judicial sortition. We also decide once and for all which one of us is the George Clooney of podcasting. https://t.co/xZBl2ybuMJ

[Max Bodach @maxbodach]

@timhwang cc @LCrenshaw

[Tim Hwang @timhwang]

SB 1047 was in retrospect the SOPA/PIPA of its era, an iconic policy battle that minted enduring heroes and villains, established the coalitional lines of communication, and taught a whole generation of tech policy professionals their instincts about public and company sentiment.

[clare ❤️‍🔥 @clarejtbirch]

Made a reader edition of Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo XIV's encyclical on AI bc the Vatican site is hard to nav.

It includes Tufte-style marginalia for the Vatican's footnotes + 78 Claude editorial annotations w/ Wikipedia links, and an optional silly little attention overlay.