Dr Rupert Barrett-Taylor
@rbarretttaylor.bsky.social
Turing Institute Research Fellow. PhD critical of targeting processes, intelligence production and the software they rely on from Sussex University. Bowel cancer survivor. All views my own.
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The reductive nature of military process - Digital War
Modern warfare is a reductive pursuit shaped by digital technologies that promise an idealised, precise conflict. Martial cultures aspire to hyper-surveillance systems driven by advanced technologies ...
doi.org
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...
doi.org/10.1057/s429...
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it's not that i ever doubted that being a barista was a skilled position, but my year-long effort to try to produce a half-decent latte at home has convinced me that a good barista is easily more skilled than virtually every c-suite executive on the planet
November 11, 2025 at 3:58 PM
it's not that i ever doubted that being a barista was a skilled position, but my year-long effort to try to produce a half-decent latte at home has convinced me that a good barista is easily more skilled than virtually every c-suite executive on the planet
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CBC names ✨LETTERS TO KAFKA✨ as one of your must-reads this Remembrance Day if you’re looking for stories on war, resistance, and conflict. This is especially meaningful as my Jido (“grandfather” in Arabic) was a decorated war hero, and he fought for Canada in WWII .
www.cbc.ca/books/books-...
www.cbc.ca/books/books-...
Books on war, conflict and resistance for Remembrance Day | CBC Books
On Nov. 11, Canadians will mark Remembrance Day. CBC Books has curated this list of books giving insight into experiences of war, its impact on human life and its lasting reverberations.
www.cbc.ca
November 11, 2025 at 1:49 PM
CBC names ✨LETTERS TO KAFKA✨ as one of your must-reads this Remembrance Day if you’re looking for stories on war, resistance, and conflict. This is especially meaningful as my Jido (“grandfather” in Arabic) was a decorated war hero, and he fought for Canada in WWII .
www.cbc.ca/books/books-...
www.cbc.ca/books/books-...
Is the point of OpenAI now to haul in enough money so that Sam Altman can bail and still be gazillionaire even when the remains of the company get sued into oblivion and all the IP is bought by Chinese companies?
November 9, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Is the point of OpenAI now to haul in enough money so that Sam Altman can bail and still be gazillionaire even when the remains of the company get sued into oblivion and all the IP is bought by Chinese companies?
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"Members of Vanguard Britannica, a racist, anti-Semitic group based in the UK, travelled to the US in September to attend the first national conference of the Patriot Front, America’s most prolific neo-Nazi group."
www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...
www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...
British fascists ‘trained by American white supremacists’
Vanguard Britannica members took part in training ‘workshops’ and met with prominent US nationalists
www.telegraph.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 12:34 PM
"Members of Vanguard Britannica, a racist, anti-Semitic group based in the UK, travelled to the US in September to attend the first national conference of the Patriot Front, America’s most prolific neo-Nazi group."
www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...
www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...
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These two headlines tell a most dystopian story about the current state of affairs.
November 7, 2025 at 12:48 PM
These two headlines tell a most dystopian story about the current state of affairs.
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The Amazing World Of Tomorrow
November 3, 2025 at 6:48 PM
The Amazing World Of Tomorrow
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"The state’s exclusive control over the legitimate use of force is quietly eroding—apparently with its own consent."
Eroding Sovereignty in the Age of “War as a Service”. An op-ed opinion piece I wrote with @rbarretttaylor.bsky.social for @opiniojuris.bsky.social
opiniojuris.org/2025/11/03/e...
Eroding Sovereignty in the Age of “War as a Service”. An op-ed opinion piece I wrote with @rbarretttaylor.bsky.social for @opiniojuris.bsky.social
opiniojuris.org/2025/11/03/e...
Eroding Sovereignty in the Age of “War as a Service”
[Dr Rupert Barrett-Taylor is a Research Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute focused on the ethical, operational, and epistemological implications of Artificial Intelligence in military operations. …
opiniojuris.org
November 3, 2025 at 4:27 PM
"The state’s exclusive control over the legitimate use of force is quietly eroding—apparently with its own consent."
Eroding Sovereignty in the Age of “War as a Service”. An op-ed opinion piece I wrote with @rbarretttaylor.bsky.social for @opiniojuris.bsky.social
opiniojuris.org/2025/11/03/e...
Eroding Sovereignty in the Age of “War as a Service”. An op-ed opinion piece I wrote with @rbarretttaylor.bsky.social for @opiniojuris.bsky.social
opiniojuris.org/2025/11/03/e...
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2025 will go down as the year when all the subtext became text
February 6, 2025 at 1:27 AM
2025 will go down as the year when all the subtext became text
Twice in one day! Opinio Juris has published a piece written by @warmatters.bsky.social and I. We are deeply concerned by the erosion of Weberian sovereignty from encroachment of the private sector into control and mediation of violence. Please do read and share!
opiniojuris.org/2025/11/03/e...
opiniojuris.org/2025/11/03/e...
Eroding Sovereignty in the Age of “War as a Service”
[Dr Rupert Barrett-Taylor is a Research Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute focused on the ethical, operational, and epistemological implications of Artificial Intelligence in military operations. …
opiniojuris.org
November 3, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Twice in one day! Opinio Juris has published a piece written by @warmatters.bsky.social and I. We are deeply concerned by the erosion of Weberian sovereignty from encroachment of the private sector into control and mediation of violence. Please do read and share!
opiniojuris.org/2025/11/03/e...
opiniojuris.org/2025/11/03/e...
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...
doi.org/10.1057/s429...
The reductive nature of military process - Digital War
Modern warfare is a reductive pursuit shaped by digital technologies that promise an idealised, precise conflict. Martial cultures aspire to hyper-surveillance systems driven by advanced technologies ...
doi.org
November 3, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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...
doi.org/10.1057/s429...
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Gotta love Private Eye.
Always cuts through the crap.
Always cuts through the crap.
October 31, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Gotta love Private Eye.
Always cuts through the crap.
Always cuts through the crap.
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@hypervisible.blacksky.app
"Australia’s Federal Police (AFP) is working on an AI to interpret emojis and the slang used online by Generation Z and Generation Alpha, so it can understand them when they discuss crime online." what could possibly go wrong
www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/a...
"Australia’s Federal Police (AFP) is working on an AI to interpret emojis and the slang used online by Generation Z and Generation Alpha, so it can understand them when they discuss crime online." what could possibly go wrong
www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/a...
Australian police build AI to translate emoji used by crims
: Five Eyes intel alliance has created a team to target these scum who prey on kids
www.theregister.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:06 PM
@hypervisible.blacksky.app
"Australia’s Federal Police (AFP) is working on an AI to interpret emojis and the slang used online by Generation Z and Generation Alpha, so it can understand them when they discuss crime online." what could possibly go wrong
www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/a...
"Australia’s Federal Police (AFP) is working on an AI to interpret emojis and the slang used online by Generation Z and Generation Alpha, so it can understand them when they discuss crime online." what could possibly go wrong
www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/a...
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Elon Musk is once again inciting violence on British streets because the government has taught him there are literally no consequences for doing so.
They even carry on using his far-right social network to promote government policy as he does it. The absence of backbone is *astounding*.
They even carry on using his far-right social network to promote government policy as he does it. The absence of backbone is *astounding*.
October 29, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Elon Musk is once again inciting violence on British streets because the government has taught him there are literally no consequences for doing so.
They even carry on using his far-right social network to promote government policy as he does it. The absence of backbone is *astounding*.
They even carry on using his far-right social network to promote government policy as he does it. The absence of backbone is *astounding*.
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An underlying theme within the US Right since the early 1990s has been a growing willingness to blur the rhetorical line between culture war and the language of full civil war in ways that have ratcheted up escalation cycles over time.
That acts as a warning to everyone in the UK and EU.
That acts as a warning to everyone in the UK and EU.
The claim that "civil war is inevitable in the UK" is better understood as an expression of the author's desire to see blood spilt on British streets.
October 29, 2025 at 9:42 AM
An underlying theme within the US Right since the early 1990s has been a growing willingness to blur the rhetorical line between culture war and the language of full civil war in ways that have ratcheted up escalation cycles over time.
That acts as a warning to everyone in the UK and EU.
That acts as a warning to everyone in the UK and EU.
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Reading a paper on history of Soviet cybernetics. Never thought I would be able to call myself ‘Cybernetics Stalin’ but here we are. He thought it was a pseudoscience.
You’re not wrong Josef. You’re not wrong.
You’re not wrong Josef. You’re not wrong.
October 28, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Reading a paper on history of Soviet cybernetics. Never thought I would be able to call myself ‘Cybernetics Stalin’ but here we are. He thought it was a pseudoscience.
You’re not wrong Josef. You’re not wrong.
You’re not wrong Josef. You’re not wrong.
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Today at lunchtime. Come join the discussion 👇
Tomorrow, 28th October at 12:00, tune in to the Mile End Institute's webinar to hear BFPG Director, Evie Aspinall, and fellow panellists discussing Britain's role in Ukraine, and the implications for UK foreign and domestic policy.
Sign up here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Sign up here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
October 28, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Today at lunchtime. Come join the discussion 👇
standing on the turnbuckle with my hand cupped around my ear as the crowd screams "IS! THAT! GOOD???"
October 24, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Oof
Unless there is an acceleration in the pace at which policymakers and public thought leaders face up to how quickly the EU is consolidating and the US is falling apart the UK will find itself cast adrift in a stormy sea its leaders won't know how to navigate.
October 23, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Oof
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Even more worrying than this struggle to face up to an asymmetry of power that places the UK in the EU geoeconomic sphere of influence is an inability of too many in London to process how far a system crisis in the US is kicking away the geopolitical foundations of the UK's security.
October 23, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Even more worrying than this struggle to face up to an asymmetry of power that places the UK in the EU geoeconomic sphere of influence is an inability of too many in London to process how far a system crisis in the US is kicking away the geopolitical foundations of the UK's security.
Market position is more important than mental health I guess 🤷♂️
“The consumer’s son has been interacting with an AI chatbot called ChatGPT, which is advising him not to take his prescribed medication and telling him that his parents are dangerous,” reads the FTC’s summary of one of the calls.
People Who Say They’re Experiencing AI Psychosis Beg the FTC for Help
The Federal Trade Commission received 200 complaints mentioning ChatGPT between November 2022 and August 2025. Several attributed delusions, paranoia, and spiritual crises to the chatbot.
www.wired.com
October 23, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Market position is more important than mental health I guess 🤷♂️
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Very pleased to have the opportunity to talk to the smart folks at the @theturing.bsky.social about my book.
Many thanks to @rbarretttaylor.bsky.social for inviting me.
cc: @hurstpublishers.bsky.social @greyhoundliterary.bsky.social
Many thanks to @rbarretttaylor.bsky.social for inviting me.
cc: @hurstpublishers.bsky.social @greyhoundliterary.bsky.social
October 15, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Very pleased to have the opportunity to talk to the smart folks at the @theturing.bsky.social about my book.
Many thanks to @rbarretttaylor.bsky.social for inviting me.
cc: @hurstpublishers.bsky.social @greyhoundliterary.bsky.social
Many thanks to @rbarretttaylor.bsky.social for inviting me.
cc: @hurstpublishers.bsky.social @greyhoundliterary.bsky.social
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i don't have the words to emphasise how seriously bad things are gonna get
October 14, 2025 at 8:18 PM
i don't have the words to emphasise how seriously bad things are gonna get
Saw this and thought of @killjamesbond.bsky.social
October 14, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Saw this and thought of @killjamesbond.bsky.social