Jon Lindsay
@jonrlindsay.bsky.social
Job: Assoc Prof @ GaTech School of Cyber & Privacy; Intl Affairs.
Books: Age of Deception, Elements of Deterrence, IT & Mil Power. Interests: kids, mountains, philosophy, classics, democracy
Books: Age of Deception, Elements of Deterrence, IT & Mil Power. Interests: kids, mountains, philosophy, classics, democracy
Do ya feel lucky, punk?
November 7, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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...
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
Trump Administration Live Updates: White House Changes Course and Will Demolish Entire East Wing
www.nytimes.com
October 22, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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...
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...
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...
Opinion | That Hegseth Speech Was Actually Pretty Good
www.nytimes.com
October 9, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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...
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...
But a lot of it is just scatology—bullshit meant to persuade without interest in truth.
dolos.substack.com/p/agieschato...
AGI—Eschatology and Scatology
Calling bullshit on superintelligence
dolos.substack.com
October 8, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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...
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...
dolos.substack.com/p/redefining...
October 7, 2025 at 10:32 PM
AGI stands for Arrogance, Grift, and Ignorance, and many other things besides.
dolos.substack.com/p/redefining...
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
Artificial intelligence can design toxins that evade security controls.
Microsoft says AI can create “zero day” threats in biology
Artificial intelligence can design toxins that evade security controls.
www.technologyreview.com
October 2, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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...
(You can also buy a paperback, which makes a fine decoration for your bookshelf)
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
Age of Deception by Jon R. Lindsay | eBook | Cornell University Press
At the heart of cybersecurity lies a paradox: Cooperation makes conflict possible. In Age of Deception, Jon R. Lindsay shows that widespread trust in cyberspace enables espionage and subversion. While...
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu
October 1, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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...
(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...
I wrote up some thoughts on their terrific book here:
dolos.substack.com/p/culture-an...
Culture and Automation at War
Thoughts on The Hand Behind Unmanned by Schneider & Macdonald
dolos.substack.com
September 29, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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...
I wrote up some thoughts on their terrific book here:
dolos.substack.com/p/culture-an...
Trump is not a Sparks fan?
September 27, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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.**
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.**
September 22, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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.**
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...
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...
September 15, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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...
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
dolos.substack.com/p/cover-me
August 29, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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
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...
Technologies of perception also conceal danger...
Coming this fall.
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
Age of Deception by Jon R. Lindsay | eBook | Cornell University Press
At the heart of cybersecurity lies a paradox: Cooperation makes conflict possible. In Age of Deception, Jon R. Lindsay shows that widespread trust in cyberspace enables espionage and subversion. While...
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu
August 27, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Age of Deception now has a cover!
Technologies of perception also conceal danger...
Coming this fall.
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
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...
Here is the director's cut of my recent essay on AI and war in Minds and Machines.
dolos.substack.com/p/sing-godde...
Sing, Goddess, of the Wrath of AI
Rethinking Artificial Intelligence, Geopolitics and War
dolos.substack.com
August 12, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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...
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...
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...
Myth, Power, and Agency: Rethinking Artificial Intelligence, Geopolitics and War - Minds and Machines
This collection interrogates how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping war, sovereignty, and human agency by entangling technological experimentation with myth-making and geopolitical power. Drawi...
link.springer.com
August 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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...
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...
dolos.substack.com/p/ai-as-auro...
AI as Aurochs Intelligence
Or, why ChatGPT makes you stupid
dolos.substack.com
July 5, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Next time you are tempted to let ChatGPT do your work, think about the wild aurochs.
dolos.substack.com/p/ai-as-auro...
dolos.substack.com/p/ai-as-auro...
Not with a whimper but a bang
The legacy of Olympic Games after Midnight Hammer
dolos.substack.com
July 3, 2025 at 12:20 AM
sometimes an index is poetry
May 20, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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...
does that make eLon XAI the antichrist?
Leo XIV, eLon XAI, just sayin...
time.com/7285449/pope...
Pope Leo’s Name Carries a Warning About the Rise of AI
A century ago, Pope Leo XIII defended workers’ rights during the Industrial Revolution. Will Leo XIV do the same for AI?
time.com
May 20, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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...
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...
dolos.substack.com/p/if-you-can...
If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em!
Ideas for using LLMs in the classroom
dolos.substack.com
May 14, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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...
dolos.substack.com/p/if-you-can...
A lot of people are attacking Pete, but I think he will find the strawberries
April 21, 2025 at 12:36 PM
A lot of people are attacking Pete, but I think he will find the strawberries
China would like to defuse US weaponized interdependence
www.programmablemutter.com/p/why-china-... On how Snowden and the ZTE measures pushed China to start talking about technological independence.
Why China is going it alone on technology
When the US does things to other countries, they might possibly respond!
www.programmablemutter.com
April 16, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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.
If you can't access it and want to, please let me know. JSS provides authors with a number of sharable links.
I can only recommend @jonrlindsay.bsky.social 's last publication on Stuxnet 👇
(behind a paywall)
(behind a paywall)
Stuxnet revisited: From cyber warfare to secret statecraft
The Stuxnet attack on Iran’s nuclear program is an outlier in the history of cyber conflict. While espionage and subversion are prevalent, serious cyber-physical damage remains rare. Stuxnet has th...
www.tandfonline.com
April 16, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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.
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...
www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data
A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
www.npr.org
April 15, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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...
www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...