The new age of drones and AI may be terrifying, but there are reasons for thinking the dystopian possibilities of future war will be contained.

Europe is in a moment of runaway geopoliticization. There are clear dangers in this, from misattribution to empowering private attention enterpreneurs to feel they can become geopolitical actors. Hybrid warfare is a dangerously loose concept. Yet not completely wrong... bbc.com/news/article...

AI offers significant potential to enhance predictive and training functions in wargaming, but harnessing it will require investment in significant human capabilities in the loop, writes Robert Tollast.

Japan set to make subsea cables a national security issue with support for new fleet on.ft.com/3Ie6tqk

Europe won’t deter Russia with a shield that can’t hold.

🚨New First View Article🚨 "Revisiting the ‘darker side’ of democratic peace: Morgenthau, reflexivity, and the role of scholars in times of deception " by Haro L. Karkour is now available #OpenAccess! Check it out here 📄 ➡️ buff.ly/opUf9Cq

Lasers, hypersonic missiles and the ‘nuclear triad’: China flexes its military muscle on.ft.com/4p3YE7d

Rivals are already using gaming to train for war. Is America keeping pace?

For centuries, oceans shielded the continental United States. New drone tactics suggest that sanctuary may be eroding.

The science works. The real test is whether U.S. factories can keep up.

Who’s really carrying the fight for Russia in Ukraine?

The race to stop mirror organisms on.ft.com/465fQS7 | opinion

Three operations. Three nations. One trend: warfare as spectacle. warontherocks.com/20...

A meteorite that tore through the sky in June shaking the Southeast with a sonic boom is now believed to be 4.56 billion years old, according to researchers who studied it following its crash landing. cnn.it/4fEibXC

Interesting article by Paul Bloom in NEW YORKER. Is AI about to "solve" loneliness? Loneliness is bigger for oldsters than for the young. Like when your friends and family are dead, and you don't have a job, and you have trouble going out. Talk to ChatGPT? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

What is llm? How does the new AI work? Where are we going? Conversation with my dead friend John Walker. From before he died. www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2023/12...

I imagined the Chatsubo in 1984. 41 years later I opened its door. Neuromancer is in production.

Billionaires driving warming more than all of commercial Heathrow. How consistent with their destructive data farms and pipelines, megayachts and fake "intelligence." A plague on billionaires.

Postdoc in Narrative Geopolitics @forsvarshogskolan.bsky.social We’re looking for a postdoc w expertise in machine learning, data mining, or related quantitative methods to explore how emotionally charged narratives shape international security & great power politics. fhs.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Think I say this with every new release from @claypipemusic.bsky.social but this new music from @catebrooksmusic.bsky.social is just what I need right now…

I've had a few people ask me what piece of fiction best processes the times we are living in (especially Americans are living in) and I'll say again here, mile for mile your best choice is @jwomack.bsky.social's Random Acts of Senseless Violence.

Arctic Geopolitics - Klaus Dodds | 2023 Episode 20 ❄️ What makes the Arctic a geopolitical hotspot? Prof. Klaus Dodds @klausdodds.bsky.social on climate change, the Arctic Council, China's polar strategy, and energy security. #ArcticGeopolitics #ClimateSecurity #PolarPolitics youtu.be/rZo102-KktM

How to save @starwars through #Andor Prologue- Solo. Trilogy 1: Andor 1. Trilogy 2: Andor 2/Rogue One . Trilogy 3: the original trilogy….nothing else exists (although Skeleton Crew might be added as a fun coda)…becomes more the story of the resistance and Mon Mothma…

Remarke by Bruce Sterling: "I kind of like asking blithering AIs to tell me summaries of stuff, even though I know that they bullshit a lot. It's like asking a drunk local on a barstool what's the best way out of town."

My discussion at @cfr.org with the distinguished historian Margaret Macmillan. Tying to use history to interpret events today, eg Trump’s turn against US allies. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q64_...

An app for UFO sightings is making a hard pivot, to droooooooooones. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Russian sabotage in the Baltic is just part of a Russian campaign (acts of war mind you) across Europe. So far the European response (and that includes the UK--this is not an EU alone failing) has been pathetic. Europe is not rising to the occasion. foreignpolicy.com/2024/12/04/r...

The surprise rebel offensive in Syria illustrates a feature of the wars raging around the world: They are interconnected. @profpaulpoast.bsky.social writes:

The best one so far @claypipemusic.bsky.social … hope there are many more chapters to come…

INFLUENCING MACHINES How does AI encode our perception of the world? Agenda setting as ever from TREVOR PAGLEN @paglen.studio and ANTHONY DOWNEY Open Access in Journal of Digital War link.springer.com/article/10.1...

In Oceans Rise Empires Fall I discuss the 'geopolitical condition red' of the planet. An illustration accompanying Martin Wolf's column in the FT yesterday.

Short essay in the @theconversation.bsky.social inspired by cyberpunk writer @rudytheelder.bsky.social theconversation.com/will-politic...

The tragedy in #Spain 🇪🇸 is a stark warning about the global threat to water security posed by profiteering multinational corporations. Governments and civil society must act decisively to halt the commodification of water before it’s too late. #WaterSky 💧

IR Book of the Week! "Influence Without Arms" by Matt Fuhrmann. We often think that HAVING the bomb is enables states to deter threats and shape global politics. But can states enjoy the same benefits by simply having the "ability" to have a bomb? www.amazon.com/Influence-wi...

Kissinger, Microsoft and Google on AI providing 'objectivity' to policymakers around issues of war and peace H/T to @elkeschwarz.bsky.social - I saw her post on this at the bad place and figured I'd share here polisky www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

Will politicians and terrorist leaders live forever in the age of AI?