Do ya feel lucky, punk?

The script writers are way too on the nose with the symbolism this season. We really need to cancel the show. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

No it actually was not. Diversity initiatives are not just about affirmative action, ensuring a democratic military represents its demos. Diversity also matters for intellectual performance in a world of complex high-tech operations among foreign societies. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...

The discourse around AGI has become eschatology—a religious tale of the end times. But a lot of it is just scatology—bullshit meant to persuade without interest in truth. dolos.substack.com/p/agieschato...

AGI stands for Arrogance, Grift, and Ignorance, and many other things besides. dolos.substack.com/p/redefining...

This is a misleading headline. Ai bio warfare is not right around the corner. There is still a long and complicated path from r&d -- where this story focuses on only one part -- to weaponization and operational capacity let alone strategic intent

Good news! You can now download the open access (free) ebook of Age of Decption from @CornellPress ! (You can also buy a paperback, which makes a fine decoration for your bookshelf) www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Interested in military automation? You should definitely read the new book by Jackie Schneider and Julia Macdonald! I wrote up some thoughts on their terrific book here: dolos.substack.com/p/culture-an...

Trump is not a Sparks fan?

This is my favorite LLM output to date: Based on Haugeland's definition, the correct and most precise answer is **yes, this instance of Gemini does not "give a damn" about the answers.**

There is an ancient curse in Security Studies: "May your research be relevant." And with that I am happy to annouce the arrival of Age of Deception! You can find a paperback from any fine bookmonger or get the open access eBook from Cornell: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Here are few thoughts on why _Age of Deception_ has the cover that it does. Coming soon from @cornellupress.bsky.social dolos.substack.com/p/cover-me

Age of Deception now has a cover! Technologies of perception also conceal danger... Coming this fall. www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

I don’t often publish in critical security studies, but when I do, I drink Homeric epic. Here is the director's cut of my recent essay on AI and war in Minds and Machines. dolos.substack.com/p/sing-godde...

Check out this new forum offering critical perspectives on AI and geopolitics. I wrote a strange little essay on why Homer's Iliad still matters in the age of AI-enabled warfare. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Next time you are tempted to let ChatGPT do your work, think about the wild aurochs. dolos.substack.com/p/ai-as-auro...

MOPs finished what Stuxnet started dolos.substack.com/p/not-with-a...

sometimes an index is poetry

If Leo XIV is warning about thinking machines, does that make eLon XAI the antichrist? Leo XIV, eLon XAI, just sayin... time.com/7285449/pope...

When it comes to AI in the classroom, instructors can be police or guides. I prefer the latter. Here are a few half-baked ideas about incorporating AI into assignments. dolos.substack.com/p/if-you-can...

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A lot of people are attacking Pete, but I think he will find the strawberries

China would like to defuse US weaponized interdependence

Thank you @staillat.bsky.social ! If you can't access it and want to, please let me know. JSS provides authors with a number of sharable links.

The greatest hostile data exfil op in US history goes on and on, in plain sight. Our cybersecurity threat models are woefully unsuited to the insider threat of usurpation at scale. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

Can you believe that it's already been 15 years since we first heard about Stuxnet? And perhaps 25 years since Stuxnet components were first developed? Cyber is no longer emerging. It has emerged. My new article in J Strat Std reconsiders this seminal case in light of new evidence & scholarship.

I extremely grateful to @nuclearjan.bsky.social, Roseanne McManus, Janice Stein, @laurensukin.bsky.social, and Stephen Quackenbush for their reviews of Elements of Deterrence in a symposium in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social. It is humbling to receive kind reviews from such terrific scholars!

Proofs! Coming in Fall 2025, inshallah

the antiwoke backlash in one chart medium.com/@joefrancis_...

"We love disruption and whatever is good for America will be good for Americans and very good for Palantir. Disruption at the end of the day exposes things that aren't working. There will be ups and downs. This is a revolution, some people are going to get their heads cut off." Palantir CEO Karp

No good, very bad. 1. systems are separated for a reason 2. this will create a huge vulnerability 3. moving fast will break things 4. hackers will join the hackathon

The cyber news over the past 3 months has been a not-so-slow-motion train wreck. This is far more damaging to US national security than any foreign cyber attack to date. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/u...

Maybe he kept up those Russian operations? (Damn.) www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/u...

Instead of trying to make sense of all the bewildering events in the news, I am going to retreat into high theory. Here are some thoughts on how to think about information in politics. dolos.substack.com/p/informatio...

There are many academic hiring freezes right now, but not everywhere! The Nunn Schoool at Georgia Tech is searching for a tenure-track assistant professor specializing in intelligence and international security, starting in Fall 25. careers.hprod.onehcm.usg.edu/psp/careers/...

"the purpose of the witch hunt was not to ferret out unknown Communist agents who were abusing their academic positions, but to induce the universities to enforce the general political climate needed to assure acquiescence www.bostonreview.net/articles/rea...

It's just one counterintelligence own goal ofter another www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/o...

Our intelligence sharing relationships were already in jeopardy before this. Now the message to allies is clear: we don't care about our own secrets, and we don't care about yours either. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

What should we call this new jet? F47 Hustler F47 SuperFasc F47 NoExports F47 X47 F47 ThereCanBeOnlyOne F47 Psychofant F47 DonOfTheDead F47 EscalateToCapitulate F47 PeteAndRepeat F47 YGTBFKM ... www.airandspaceforces.com/new-f-47-f-2...

Job alert! The Nunn School at Georgia Tech is hiring an assistant prof in intelligence studies and intl security! In addition to folks already on the academic track, we also welcome applicants who have a PhD and are leaving the Intelligece Community for *some reason* looking for a new career.

It is time to elevate an extensive cluster of major cyber threat activity to a bona fide APT (which stands, I think, for Arrogant Petulant Techbro). APT47 is also tracked under the names of NeedyNarcissist, OligarchicAss, and BurningTesla. open.substack.com/pub/dolos/p/...

Tyranny is so 7th century

Here is my review of a great book on cyber escalation by Erica Lonergan and Shawn Lonergan: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Job alert! The Nunn School at Georgia Tech is hiring an assistant prof in intelligence studies and intl security! In addition to folks already on the academic track, we also welcome applicants who have a PhD and are leaving the Intelligece Community for *some reason* looking for a new career.

Oh look, the Melian dialogue is in the New York Times. Oh no. That's not right. We need to stop teaching it like this. dolos.substack.com/p/someone-is...

bedtime reading. no reason. 🤔

I liked Ezra Klein's interview with Ben Buchanan. Ben said a lot of smart things. But he didn't really answer Ezra's important question at the end: what should we do about AI? Here are some extremely speculative thoughts about this. dolos.substack.com/p/how-should...

This is the first page of this morning’s edition of the Globe and Mail (arguably the English Canadian paper of record) I don’t remember seeing anything like this before

Hello everybody. Here are few thoughts about the US decision to pause cyber operations v. Russia. dolos.substack.com/p/all-quiet-...