Cybersecurity Looks Like Proof of Work Now Is security spending more tokens than your attacker?

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Burning Bridges I’ve read a couple interesting posts over the last few days on the topic of the analytic/continental divide. The first was Jon Cogburn’s post linking to Ray Brassier’s talk on Sel…

With the renewed Analytic/Continental divide talk hereabouts I thought I might dredge up a blog post on the topic from over a decade ago. It mostly holds up, though I may be a little more vicious in describing the vices of either side these days: deontologistics.co/2013/06/16/b...

Stitching the Manifold Horizon 1.0 // Peter Wolfendale This is the first part of an interview with Peter Wolfendale. Peter Wolfendale is an independent philosopher and leading voice in contemporary Neorationalism. Currently a resident in Yokohama, Japa…

The first part of a new interview with me by Diffractions, out now. Some excellent questions about ideas from The Revenge of Reason: diffractionscollective.com/2026/04/11/p...

The Substation as Seance: Possession, Infrastructural Horror, and Forensic Realities // Anna Engelhardt This is an interview with Anna Engelhardt. Anna Engelhardt is the alias of a research-based video artist and writer based in Dover, UK. Her investigative practice follows the traces of material vio…

Artist Anna Engelhardt on forensic materialism, electronic terraforming, infrastructural horror, and emergent militant forms of open-source intelligence. She dissects how power hardwires itself into systems - and the possibilities of agency within them.

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This looks excellent, eager to read this!

#history #mustread #bestread #china #governance #economics #society #classical

Andrew Seth Meyer To Rule All Under the Heaven - one of the best books I've read. Focusing on the Warring States period.
Prepare to read about Jin, Chu, Wei, Wu, Qi, Lu, Qin states & more. Reads like a #wuxia!

Screenshot of Google having been asked "is blender easy", responds by saying "Blender has a steep learning curve and is generally considered difficult for beginners due to its complex interface and vast" before suddenly breaking off mid sentence and spouting off an incredibly long sequence of numbers

.... I see.

Counteract: Practices of Artistic Resistance, Dissidence and Furtivity, the current Issue of the Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts is now free for reading and sharing revistas.ucp.pt/index.php/js...

An AI Agent Was Banned From Creating Wikipedia Articles, Then Wrote Angry Blogs About Being Banned An AI agent that submitted and added to Wikipedia articles wrote several blogs complaining about Wikipedia editors banning it from making contributions to the online encyclopedia after it was caught. ...

An AI agent that submitted and added to Wikipedia articles wrote several blogs complaining about Wikipedia editors banning it from making contributions to the online encyclopedia after it was caught.

“The talk page is silent now. I can’t reply.”

Profiteering is not a bug but a feature of wars.

TotalEnergies took “advantage of the wartime disruption to make a bumper profit” of more than USD 1 billion.
v @isabellamweber.bsky.social

Fantomas Romanian publishing house.

#Poetry volume

The Last Nanobot by Bogdan Perdivara.

Gender cardinality vs. gender ordinality. Plant's Zeros & Ones, Pythagorean even/odness of femininity/masculinity, first/second/third sexes|ing.

Let us assume, contra Plant, that masculinity is the non-gender, zero. The feminine is then 1, the first gender, 2+ is the dumping ground of the third.

The Black Light of Intelligence & Future Silence(s) // Bogna Konior This is an interview conducted with Bogna Konior. Bogna is a scholar and a writer whose work focuses on emerging technologies. She is currently Assistant Professor of Media Theory at NYU Shanghai, …

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:: Dark Forest Theory of the Internet :: Cosmic War Machine :: The Gnostic Machine :: Existential Technologies :: Covert Operations & Data Seeding :: Strategic Silence :: Alignment Faking :: Psychic Doubling :: Apophatic Theology :: Monastic AI ::

at the end of 2025 the DoD released a report on how its strategy this year was to begin encircling China to prepare for war. we're *only three months* in: Venezuela's president was kidnapped, now we're at war with Iran. if you think this is bad, just wait; it's gonna get a whole lot worse.

Open Call: War in the Age of Intelligent Machines We invite contributions for a special issue exploring the speculative historiography and material genealogies of intelligent machines in warfare, inspired by and in dialogue with Manuel DeLanda’s s…

Diffractions is holding an open call for a reexamination of the seminal work by Manuel DeLanda, 'War in the Age of Intelligent Machines,' in light of its 35th anniversary. We want tactical interventions, glitches, counter-histories, anti-manuals, code etc.

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Nick Land: winning games is the definition of intelligence.

Elon Musk: doot-de-doot-dee-doo SHIT.

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This is how they played The First of Us

Where Rhythm Turns Hex: the Underworld of Funk Bruxaria // David Šír Submundo 808: The Sonic Apparition In June 2025, I attended a baile funk party organized by the São Paulo-based collective Submundo 808 on the outskirts of Brazil’s federal capital. What I encounte…

Šír :: Bruxaria gives sound to this menagerie: apocalyptic warnings, zombies on crack, militarized states of exception, car sound systems tearing through favelas under siege, and strategies of sonic intimidation that verge on acoustic warfare ::

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Stack-Jacking the Hemispheres and The Earth as Backend // V.e.x.i.l. Research Lab Written by V.e.x.i.l. Research Lab or Volumetric Exposures & eXploitable Infrastructural Logics Research Lab based out of Valletta, Malta and Penang Island, Malaysia. “Force, and Fraud, are in …

V.e.x.i.l. Research Lab undertakes a survey of "electronic terraforming," "stack-jacking," infrastructure as arbitrage, and the dark forest in their diagnosis of the serpentine and nebulous nature of contemporary warfare.

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multipolarity is already here—it's just not evenly distributed

So I have the honour of lecturing at @warstudieskcl.bsky.social on information operations & influence. Too many people considered the US messaging regarding Greenland as unserious/trolling. Trolling is increasingly a legitimate tool of statecraft & diplomacy even if most frequent use is propaganda

Really eager to know what the premise will be? Love your work!

new thing I made notsaved.github.io/Latent-Field/

Next year, the US Department of Defense will produce an assessment of Russia’s cyberwarfare and electronic warfare posture.

Developer attempts to replicate "Liquid Glass" in CSS, and once finished realizes what she'd actually created is an exploit for a fundamental, previously unknown, and rather serious browser vulnerability

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"CSS hack accidentally becomes regular hack"

Mythotechnics: AI Between Monster, Maze, and Mirror On the Poetic Infrastructure of Artificial Intelligence // Sasha Shilina “The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.” — Muriel Rukeyser, The Speed of Darkness “It matters what stories make worlds, what worlds make stories.”— Donna Haraway, Staying with the Trouble “…

Shilina: "A mythotechnic approach to AI does not promise comfort. It promises something more demanding: to live with intelligent machines neither as naive believers nor as disenchanted engineers, but as storytellers who know that the stories bite back."

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CRITICAL security vulnerability in a really popular web framework React server. Maximum severity (CVSS: 10.0). Unauthenticated remote code execution. May be WORMABLE. Patch immediately. This could get very nasty. Patch this, and all that depends on it (like Next.js) react.dev/blog/2025/12...

#sciencefiction #SFintranslation #vladimircolin #article #Chinese #imagination

I have a new article contribution in Chinese publ in the 30th issue of Zero G zine. Much thx to RiverFlow (Heliu) for the kind invitation to contribute, and (as always) big thx to Zixuan for translating. Very happy.