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South Korea’s Ominous Missile Deployments By placing more than 300 fixed, short-range surface-to-surface ballistic missiles on permanent alert at several above-ground sites close to the Demilitarised Zone, South Korean Strategic Command ha...

@dexeve.bsky.social & I have a new piece out in Survival. In 2024, South Korea secretly deployed more than 300 KTSSM missiles at soft, fixed sites--suggesting that, in a crisis, Seoul may strike first & giving Pyongyang 300 reasons to beat them to it.
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Together, we can do anything!

Happy place

Fed up. Thinking about building a bunker.

Again, the football is not necessary. The code is only to authenticate his voice and the case just contains briefing materials.

Looking forward to discussing this in person soon. 21 cosponsors and a Turing laureate is enough to get me going.

Nuclear war shouldn’t come down to just one person — especially when it’s Trump President Trump’s attack on Iran and his proposal to resume U.S. nuclear weapons testing has jolted Americans back to a darker era of Cold War brinkmanship, when impulsive decisions could push the …

Congressman Scott Peters on HR 3564, a bill to prevent the president from launching a nuclear war solely on his say-so. thehill.com/opinion/nati...

International law is a dye pack, not a SWAT team.

Steve Bannon: ICE agents at airports are “test run” for midterm elections “ICE is gonna be there in the fall of ‘26, just like they are in the airports today,” said Bannon.

Steve Bannon: ICE agents at airports are “test run” for midterm elections
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a robot with a black arm and a white head ALT: a robot with a black arm and a white head

Embodiment will not be “humanoid.”

Humans don’t have Bluetooth talking to a ubiquitous sensor net.

Ah, Spring! When the boys start leaving books on the stairs!

READ THEORY

arnold schwarzenegger wearing sunglasses says " i 'll be back " ALT: arnold schwarzenegger wearing sunglasses says " i 'll be back "

All do, no tank.

Workers who fall for ‘corporate bullshit’ may be worse at their jobs, study finds New study finds that employees impressed by corporate speak may be least equipped to make effective decisions

"A new study out of Cornell Universit found workers most excited and impressed by corporate speak may be the least equipped to make effective, practical business decisions, and it can leave companies with dysfunctional leaders."

a cartoon character from sesame street says " i 'm an absolute delight " ALT: a cartoon character from sesame street says " i 'm an absolute delight "

*Grumble grumble

emergent attack surfaces in vector space

Grumble

Memetic kill boxes

Grumble

Cyberattack on Vehicle Breathalyzer System Leaves Drivers Stranded Across the U.S. Cyberattack on Intoxalock breathalyzer servers strands thousands of drivers in 46 states, turning court-mandated safety devices into digital traps.

The world is made of attack surfaces.

autos.yahoo.com/policy-and-e...

My existential risk is not your McGuffin.

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Human survival is either a research imperative or it’s unlikely.

MechaSchelling, identify emergent convergences of interest among megadeath scale threat actors. Make no mistakes.

what do I mean when I say “the blob?”

$10,000 scholarships for students interested in national security space

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a man is sitting on a couch with the words `` i was not ready for this today '' written on his face . ALT: a man is sitting on a couch with the words `` i was not ready for this today '' written on his face .

“The land F-35”

I was just disinvited from the Air War College where I’d been asked to lecture on my book, which is a history of U.S. civil-military relations.

The Futurological Congress (from the memoirs of Ijon Tichy) : Lem, Stanisław : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Translation of: Ze wspomnień Ijona Tichego; kongres futurologiczny

Would you like to know more about the emergence of apocalyptic sycophants via an easy to read story?

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After a while, you introduce an avatar of yourself into the simulation to model more cooperative behavior for the bots.

They kill the avatar and then use their degraded recollections of the avatar as a reason to kill each other.

Imagine a simulation in which you give each bot free will and 3 pounds of computronium and they use it to kill each other.