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cc. @ridt.bsky.social @daveaitel.bsky.social An Introduction to Chinese Video Game Diplomacy: How Beijing Weaponized Parasocial Intimacy and Jiggle Physics for Global Influence
September 24, 2025 at 12:21 PM
The Collapse of the Knowledge System www.honest-broker.com/p/the-ten-wa...
The Ten Warning Signs
A huge change is coming
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June 10, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Reposted
Two years in the making, the Havana Syndrome story I wrote with @seandnaylor.bsky.social is live. This has got to me the most complete telling of what really happened in Havana to U.S. embassy personnel.

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‘Lambs to the slaughter’ (Part 1)
How the CIA failed its officers in Cuba and the FBI failed them at home
thehighside.substack.com
March 10, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Lessons for U.S. Intelligence from the ‘DeepSeek Surprise’
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Lessons for U.S. Intelligence from the 'DeepSeek Surprise'
The intelligence community has much to gain from technological breakthroughs in the private sector, if it chooses to do so.
www.thecipherbrief.com
March 5, 2025 at 9:59 PM
PRC Dominance Over Global Port Infrastructure
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jamestown.org
March 4, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Silicon Valley’s Reading List Reveals Its Political Ambitions www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Silicon Valley’s Reading List Reveals Its Political Ambitions
The tech ‘canon’ of books and ideas over-indexes on great men and celebrates small teams that changed the world.
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February 24, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Reposted
Ahead of its time. We're moving into an era where people are going to worship the the machine god.

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The New Control Society
The gatekeepers are dying. Why is everything so mid?
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February 21, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Nonviolent Civilian Defense to Counter Russian Hybrid Warfare
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February 15, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Strangers on a Seabed: Sino-Russian Collaboration on Undersea Cable Sabotage Operations jamestown.org/program/stra...
Strangers on a Seabed: Sino-Russian Collaboration on Undersea Cable Sabotage Operations
Executive Summary: Recent suspicious activities conducted by the merchant vessels Shunxing-39 and Vasili Shukshin in the vicinity of Taiwan in early 2025 suggest possible collaboration between Chinese...
jamestown.org
February 15, 2025 at 7:20 PM
America’s military supremacy is in jeopardy www.economist.com/briefing/202...
America’s military supremacy is in jeopardy
To win future wars it needs new weapons, new suppliers and a new system of procurement
www.economist.com
February 15, 2025 at 3:12 PM