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Council on Strategic Risks@councilonstrategicrisks.org · 2w ago

🔥 As wildfire seasons grow longer and more intense, how can the US strengthen resilience and national security? Join us Aug 5 for "The New Fire Age" with CCS's @erinsikorsky.bsky.social and John Conger, Climate Risk Advisors' Samantha Medlock, & CAL FIRE's Christine McMorrow. ⬇️ Learn more & RSVP:

Join BRSL and @councilonstrategicrisks.org on 8/13 for a panel-style webinar evaluating how AI may change how ballistic missiles are detected, and what that might mean for strategic stability. Sign up: brsl.berkeley.edu/event/ai-enh... #AI #NuclearSecurity #AntiSubmarineWarfare #StrategicStability

AI-Enhancement of ASW Platforms and Risks to SSBN Survivability – UC Berkeley Risk & Security Lab

Panel discussion of a new report that evaluates how different categories of AI enhancements could increase anti-submarine warfare platforms' ability to detect ballistic missile submarines…

brsl.berkeley.edu

There’s only one country that has tactical yields with the force structure and doctrine to make employment credible

The "theater and tactical" push syncs with what the DOE said in DC in April, and I suspect we'll hear more of the same from STRATCOM at this week's conference in Omaha. Neither are a monolith though, and behind the scenes there are many voices who are not good with this (let alone the feasibility)

Jesse Johnson@jljzen.bsky.social · 4h ago

The Defense Department’s policy chief is drafting a new U.S. nuclear strategy that emphasizes the possible use of shorter-range tactical weapons in case of a regional war with China or Russia, according to five people familiar with the plans. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

This is the kind of thing that, as you read it, you feel the warmth leech out of the room. H/t @andrewfacini.com for this chilling story from 1950. "'Today is August 4, 2026," said a second voice from the kitchen ceiling, "in the city of Allendale, California.'" users.wpi.edu/~zrbutzke/Do...

If this very short story is new to you, read it. Just read it.

Aaron Meyers@aaronmeyers.bsky.social · yesterday

"Today is August 4, 2026" There Will Come Soft Rains By: Ray Bradbury

🎉 We’re delighted to announce the third cohort of Nuclear Futures Fellows in partnership with our friends at Horizon 2045! Here’s to an exciting week ahead in Washington, DC as we welcome the cohort and launch this year's fellowship. Meet the fellows 👉 ploughshares.org/field-buildi...

"Levels of Military Terror"

Faytuks Network@faytuksnetwork.bsky.social · 4d ago

President Trump says he is holding off on another attack against Iran to allow negotiations to continue "rapidly."

Update, it's pulled. Still baffling decision making

Google pauses AI satellite images, after fears of deepfakes in the sky

Journalists, human rights advocates and open source analysts recoiled in horror at the initial decision: "The opportunities for abuse and disinfo are literally boundless," said one.

npr.org

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 5d ago

New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...

As a former Writing Center tutor and director: Writing Centers are a critical resource for connecting students to the dialogic nature of academic writing and teaching them that they have ideas worth expressing.

Greg Pak@gregpak.net · 5d ago

Disgraceful actions by @harvard.edu - destroying their writing program at a time when it's needed more than ever as "A.i." undermines everything. Deepest shame on this institution and all the best to @janerosenzweig.bsky.social. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

I used to make choices based on what helps students learn. Now I make choices like I'm trying to identify replicants with the Voight-Kampff test

Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם)@bestonetx.bsky.social · 4d ago

I'm going back to in-class exams this semester, which are harder to schedule, less intellectually rigorous, slower to grade, harder to secure, more prone to error, harder to provide disability acommodations for, and use up a lot more paper than online exams. AI makes everything worse.

Worrying tool, see below. Can you imagine if people really thought the white House was being demolished?

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 5d ago

New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...

New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...

IT IS JULY

You ain't gonna believe this Guy's a fuckin interior range ballistic missile

Jacob Hausdorf@jhausdorf.bsky.social · 6d ago

Presented without words

LinkedIn added an "AI slop" button. The U-Turn is happening, expect to see a lot more of this from other tech companies.

Stars and Stripes@starsandstripes.bsky.social · 6d ago

Gen. Kevin Schneider, commander of Pacific Air Forces, said this week that the command is considering cutting back on the number of exercises it conducts to preserve near-term "readiness" as the service continues operations for the Iran war. (from @wyattwolson.bsky.social)

Yeah right like our adversaries are gonna build more than 1100 missiles

Outrun felt like a meteor strike when it came out. Its legacy may be buried under a mountain of derivative copycats, but before all that—back when it first hit—the actual record he made and the character he created was all Kavinsky doing his own thing, as hard as possible. Nearly wore out the LP.

Liam Wong@liamwong.com · last wk.

RIP Kavinsky… thank you for the inspiration 💔

Wait, in February a dedicated Falcon 9 launch price was $74 million. We're spending 19% *more* per launch, to order in bulk?

damn www.bbc.com/news/article...

Kavinsky: Tributes paid to French DJ ​and electronic ‌musician who has died

He had a hit with Nightfall, which featured on the Drive soundtrack and at the Paris 2024 Olympics.

bbc.com

This has been hashed already but it's worth remembering this mechanism is present in most zealous causes, and all reactionary ones. Acting out in this manner causes social static, which does more to reinforce the (minority) in-group than it does to recruit anyone new. By design!

Hemant Mehta@friendlyatheist.com · last wk.

Evangelist Whitney Lynn says she preaches on planes because she loves “a captive audience.” She's not alone. It's becoming a trend. If spreading your message requires listeners who can't escape, maybe it's not as compelling as you think. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/christian-...

It's possible that we've entered a technological state where intercepting IRBMs is generally doable and it can also be true that a world where ballistic missiles are used this often sucks and is not worth the tradeoff of having defenses

Evergreen Intel@vcdgf555.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Six out of Bryansk, possible shootdowns.

Tornado warning for just outside Norfolk Naval Shipyard, heading ESE

What's your sign?

Milo@milomix.bsky.social · last wk.

What’s your sign?

Why is everything so transparently evil now?

Another L for Harvard, which is on quite a run. The writing center helped many of my students over the years - and brought quite a few from seemingly struggling to understand graduate-level assignments to writing top-notch papers.

The Harvard Crimson@theharvardcrimson.bsky.social · last wk.

The Harvard College Writing Center will no longer operate as a standalone unit after its director was laid off and its functions were consolidated, prompting backlash from current and former tutors. Abigail S. Gerstein and Amann S. Mahajan report. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

One interesting tidbit we're reflecting on: we wrote into the simulation that Blue team's initial (pre-nuclear) military response was guided by an AI target processor. It decided that precision strikes on Red's capital was proportional, but it hit govt officials, and obviously that was escalatory.

This project was awesome to build out. Take a look here for more on how we built a nuclear-use scenario that presents a full spectrum of consequences and risks for players to manage.

Council on Strategic Risks@councilonstrategicrisks.org · last wk.

Nuclear weapons risks don't exist in a vacuum. A new exercise produced by @convergingriskslab.bsky.social models how the use of a tactical nuclear weapon compounds and combines existing ecological, technological, and strategic concerns. Check out the full breakdown 👇 🤝 @ploughshares.bsky.social

Helicopter from W30th to PHL takes about 45 minutes and consumes around 50 gallons of Jet A for ~500kg CO2 one-way. Amtrak NYP to PHL takes about 75 minutes and releases ~11 kg CO2 per passenger.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · last wk.

so much for billionaires fleeing because of zohran