Embedded diplomacy

In this essay for @berlinergazette.bsky.social, I argue that, in the current Gaza war, AI has been deliberately used as a weapon of mass destruction. Techno-solutionist approaches such as a "responsible AI" will not prevent the acceleration of the kill chain or the mass slaughter of civilians.

I finally have a peer-reviewed publication to my name! I'd appreciate it if you all would be kind enough to read and share. I'm trying to comment on the reductive nature of the 'apex' form of techno-process driven war that seems to be the limit of martial imagination. doi.org/10.1057/s429...

Pleased to share this recording of Matthew Ford's @warmatters.bsky.social book talk on War in the Smartphone Age: Conflict, Connectivity and the Crises at Our Fingertips, with respondent Miglė Bareikytė www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRDs...

NEW: I looked into MAGA darling Anduril's latest foreign partner, and its weapons are accused of fueling the ongoing genocide in Sudan. theintercept.com/2025/12/11/a...

This will go well

Nächste Woche könnten Verteidigungsminister Deutschlands, Frankreichs und Spaniens das Aus des Future Combat Air System (#FCAS) beschließen. Die 20 Jahre dauernde Entwicklung serienreifer Modelle war mit 100 Milliarden Euro veranschlagt. esut.de/2025/12/meld...

Wie stellt sich 1 KI eigentlich "KI im Krieg" vor? So 👇 📅 Am 01.12., 19.00 diskutiere ich bei @fnfreiheit.bsky.social über Entwicklung von Kriegen durch KI, Moral & Regeln. Dabei: Dr. Sabine @drmokry.bsky.social & Dr. @jenshaelterlein.bsky.social 💯 Alle Infos 👉 shop.freiheit.org#!/Veranstalt...

Wird die #Bundeswehr Kamikaze-Drohnen von einem israelischen Waffenkonzern beschaffen? bicc Senior Researcher Max Mutschler ordnet Elbit Systems und den Bericht in die politische Situation ein. Lies den Investegativbericht ➡️ shorturl.at/TKxPP

📢The Swedish Defence University is recruiting TWO fully-funded, salaried PhD positions to conduct research on Artificial Intelligence and War, supported by the national WASP-HS programme - a unique opportunity. Please share widely! www.fhs.se/en/swedish-d...

What are the challenges of a European "drone wall"? Together with @ishbhila.bsky.social and Peter Lee, I wrote a small piece for @theconversation.com theconversation.com/how-would-a-...

Europe is next

Call for Papers 📢 Special Issue on "Towards a Responsible AI in the Military? The Politics of Ethics of AI-enabled Weapons" in Critical Military Studies Keydates: Abstracts - December 12, 2025 Full papers - June 1, 2026 Publication ~ mid-2027 meaningfulhumancontrol.de/wp-content/u...

🎙️ New WarPod episode🎙️ In light of growing concerns about hybrid threats across Europe, @profbode.bsky.social joins Oscar Noach to unpack how drone technologies are evolving—and why they matter for European security. soundcloud.com/thewarpod/wa...

🤖🌎 Brand new - and fascinating. "The more-than-human biopolitics of swarming – complexity, emergence, and control in military robotics" from @jenshaelterlein.bsky.social. 👉 Open access & available here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The Intercept has learned that Amazon sold cloud services to Israeli weapons firms at the height of Israel’s bombardment of Gaza.

Nächster Geburtstag! Heute 30 Jahre Zentrum Technik und Gesellschaft, TU Berlin. Herzlichen Glückwunsch!!

📅 ‼️ #ViennaSTSTalks is busy in October ‼️ Join us and @sallywyatt.bsky.social on October 16 about 'Hostile #technologies types and concepts' @univie.ac.at ⤵️

Must read these days: www.techpolicy.press/trumps-gaza-...

Scheint leider auch heute zu stimmen...

Drohnenvortrag morgen, 01.10. online: Der russische Angriff auf die Ukraine hat einen bislang einmaligen Drohnenkrieg entfesselt. Matthias Monroy spricht über aktuelle Entwicklungen bei bewaffneten Drohnen. Jetzt anmelden! 👉 ippnw.de/bit/akd @netzpolitik.org @matthimon.bsky.social

The Tony Blair Witch Project

From settler-colonial rule to occupation to techno-fascism - what a tragedy!

"The war in Gaza demands a fundamental rethinking of long-held assumptions in international law including whether military lawyers actually serve to constrain the military from committing war crimes, or whether they make such crimes easier to commit by granting them a stamp of legality & legitimacy"

Today @matthiasleese.bsky.social and I will host the panel "STS and international security: Towards convergence?" at #STSCH2025 Interested? Join us at 2pm in room KOL-G-220 (UZH) More info here: sts-ch.org/sts-ch-2025/

Wenn syrische Kriegsverbrecher richtigerweise in Deutschland verurteilt werden, müssen auch israelische Kriegsverbrecher hier vor Gericht gestellt werden. Eine wichtige Initiative von @ecchr.bsky.social www.spiegel.de/panorama/jus...

Kony. Putin. Netanyahu. No one is beyond justice. The ICC’s first-ever in absentia hearing against warlord Joseph Kony—accused of mass murder, rape, and child abductions—shows a path forward: even fugitives can face accountability. A precedent for future trials— even for today’s most powerful.

“Over the past quarter century, American tech companies to a large degree designed and built China’s surveillance state, playing a far greater role in enabling human rights abuses than previously known” apnews.com/article/chin...

Aktivist*innen haben die deutsche Zentrale von #Elbit Systems in #Ulm gestürmt und Inventar zerstört. Sie nennen sich wie die britische Gruppe #PalestineAction«, die Israels größten Rüstungskonzern in UK erfolgreich geschwächt hat. Dort gibt der langsam auf: www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1193...

Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit System closes UK facility targeted by Palestine Action www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Deutschlands Intellektuelle, ein Trauerspiel

AI is shaping our future—but not in the same ways. Without equity, AI will deepen global inequalities. The #GlobalSouth must have sovereignty over its data, its labour, and its participation in AI’s future. Read more via @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #StopKillerRobots

Collateral Damage: Economics and ethics are casualties in the militarisation of AI - Latest on Drone Wars UK: dronewars.net/2025/08/20/c...

This is a great article. It shows how video imagery & sound can be manipulated & used to reframe narrative The logics behind this depends on unevenly distributed information infrastructures, not just at a network level but also in relation to access to software carnegieendowment.org/research/202...

Ein Forschungsprojekt soll zeigen, wie sich Beziehungen durch KI-gestützte Videoüberwachung verändern. In einem Zwischenstand berichten die Wissenschaftler*innen über Diskriminierung, Verdrängung und wie KI-basierte Überwachung automatisch zu ihrer Ausweitung führt. netzpolitik.org/2025/ki-kame...

Moderne Kriegsführung umfasst immer auch den Informationskrieg: taz.de/Sprache-im-G...

“Intelligence drawn from the enormous repositories of phone calls held in Azure had been used to research and identify bombing targets in Gaza.” This reveals how large-scale human rights violations can fuel AI systems that enable genocide. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

This is an amazing story. It has smartphones, US companies, EU located servers and all designed to deliver military outcomes in Palestine and Gaza. I contextualise this at length in my book War in the Smartphone Age. amzn.eu/d/7xqdxfR

"It's just fields and fields of gray ash." www.instagram.com/reel/DM8H5L2...

Weltweit bauen immer mehr Staaten optisch ähnliche Kamikazedrohnen. Deren Ursprung liegt im Deutschland der 1980er-Jahre. Zunächst hatte nur Israel das Konzept weiterverfolgt. netzpolitik.org/2025/deltafl...

Der mächtige Strippenzieher Peter Thiel, sein Überwachungsimperium und die sensiblen Polizeidaten: Wie sich die deutsche Polizei von Software von #Palantir abhängig macht www.blaetter.de/ausgabe/2025...

Trotz verfassungsrechtlicher Kritik will Innenminister Dobrindt Palantir-Software bundesweit einsetzen – und importiert damit nicht nur US-Software, sondern auch ein antidemokratisches Produkt. buff.ly/vrsL1Fs

“To warriors against terror, the Bill of Rights had become ‘quaint’, as Bush’s attorney general, Alberto Gonzales, said of the Geneva Conventions”