Emil Archambault
@emilarchambault.bsky.social
Associate Fellow, Center for Security & Defense / Zentrum für Sicherheit & Verteidigung, @dgap.org Postdoc, Durham University. Remote war, armed drones, OSINT / guerre à distance, drones armés, enquêtes OSINT. Personal account, EN/FR/DE
Breaking: Google surprised that people would use generative AI to create fake imagery. It's apparently the first day anyone at Google is on the internet.
Geoff Brumfiel@gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 5d agoBREAKING: Google has rolled back its tool less than a day after it launched. Updated story coming soon.
I can’t imagine a more personally humiliating thing than to be Chotiner’d by Douthat. Astonishing.
It would be grand if Canadian Defence ministers started thinking long-term. Or are we somehow to believe that, come 2050, Canada could: A- Operate THREE combat aircraft (F-35-Gripen-Tempest) B- Sell off/mothball Gripens with 15 years service? breakingdefense.com/2026/07/if-c...
Joining GCAP would not impact current-gen fighter decision: Canadian defense minister - Breaking Defense
David McGuinty said Canada's planned F-35 purchase is still under review and will remain so “until we take the time to get it right for Canadians.”
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Personally, I don’t think the government have a fucking clue what the implications of killing the Higher Education sector are. They’re in for some big, very nasty surprises.
News from Farnborough: Canada is confirmed as new GCAP observer. Also, Tempest is huge.
A reminder: In 2021, Germany and the UK started their yearly 'Strategic Dialogue' of foreign ministers. Since then, no two foreign ministers have met twice (in this format) due to ministerial churn. With Ed Miliband succeeding Yvette Cooper, this trend will continue for at least another year.
Ok who designed this opening ceremony, I just want to understand. Also, that was a few too many FIFA flags. You’re an INGO, chill.
How you can submit a paper created by LLMs as an academic is mind boggling. Like what are you doing with your life? Where is the satisfaction and dignity? What are your principles and values? What does establishing a body of work look like to you? You are not an academic. You are a fraud.
Ben Williamson@benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 3w agoThe anatomy of an AI-supported academic article is becoming more apparent. I desk reviewed ~70 manuscripts this week for our journal. Reckon 20ish had significant AI assistance. On top of hundreds of others recently I'm starting to see patterns. Are other editors are seeing the same or similar? 1/
Strong agree with this editorial co-authored by Jeff Collins - where is Canada’s civil defence spending? www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...
Opinion: As Canada burns, defence spending must go toward fighting wildfires
Fires in Canada are growing year and year, our fleets of water bombers should too
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So are they going to play Sweet Caroline in a minor key now?
P.S. Also, strategic theorists agree with us ethicists on this. It is, in actual fact, strategically stupid to go around committing massive war crimes all the time. 🤦🏻♀️
Mark Carney won his election in Canada with the slogan "Elbows up", claiming he'd fight against exactly this kind of things. And in the weeks when he accepted American bullying to give over half a bridge paid by Canada (ripping up earlier agreements), this. We can at least question his approach.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w agoTrump posts an image featuring a map showing the United States taking over Canada and Greenland
more shameful actions (or, in this case, lack thereof) by mark carney’s government
Ottawa tight-lipped on joining legal case against Trump sanction of Canadian ICC judge | CBC
Ottawa won't say whether it will intervene in support of a Winnipeg-born global judge who is asking a U.S. court to reverse sanctions ordered by U.S. President Donald Trump, which have left her unable...
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White smoke in Halifax: TKMS and Kongsberg get the CPSP contract. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
Ottawa picks Germany’s TKMS to build Canada’s new submarines, sources say
Carney will announce the outcome of the competition for the lucrative defence contract in Halifax today
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Winner of high-stakes competition to build Canada 12 submarines to be announced Monday www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
Winner of high-stakes competition to build Canada 12 submarines to be announced Monday
Purchase will give this country unprecedented ability to patrol its coastal waters undetected
theglobeandmail.com
A new strong argument for Apple Maps: Google insisting on integrating can’t-turn-off AI summaries into Google Maps. Time to switch.
This can get kinda philosophical fast, but slo-mo and stand still photo technology are fundamentally different experiences than “just” instant replay at live speed. Reviewing human calls by superhuman standards is actually a transformative event. Sport rules were never meant to be perfect!
Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · last mo.I think this is right, and fundamentally the issue with 'VAR in football' is 'do you understand that the offside rule is actually a "No goalhanging" rule' or do you think that it's to perfect the offside rule?
FCAS, an Obituary Nearly a month after the cancellation of the NGF, how can European industry and states work together on other projects? Read more in my @dgap.org policy brief. dgap.org/en/research/...
The Restructuring of FCAS
In its failures, FCAS demonstrates how the structural industrial, political, and strategic constraints that will affect all European defense projects can be managed to ensure a stronger European defen...
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Le capitaine du Titanic a l'honneur de lancer un appel d'offre pour des meubles de patio pour le pont. De préférence imperméables. www.lapresse.ca/actualites/p...
Troisième lien | Le gouvernement lance son appel d’intérêt aux entreprises
Le gouvernement de Christine Fréchette a lancé jeudi un appel d’intérêt international visant les entreprises spécialisées en construction et en investissement, pour sonder leur intérêt quant au projet...
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In this short piece, I reflect on my contributions to the AUTONORMS project, and how I learned to stop worrying and take the Terminator franchise seriously. Read below 👇
Machine Guardians, Human Monsters, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Take the Terminator Franchise Seriously - AutoNorms
The core aim of the AutoNorms project has been to develop a new theoretical approach for studying the relationship between practices of designing and using autonomous weapon systems (AWS), internation...
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We'll see about that. But also, the bar was on the floor.
« These are my principles. And if you don’t like them, I’ve got others. » - Groucho Marx www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Andy Burnham rules out paying compensation to Waspi women
Labour leadership hopeful says he does not support payments after backlash but is open to other benefits
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Well, we now turn to GCAP watch - this does not bode well for the DIP, and for any expectation of building a 6th gen combat aircraft system + modernising land forces + renewing the nuclear deterrent all at once. Money isn't everything, but it helps...
Lewis Goodall@lewisgoodall.com · 2mo agoNEW: John Healey quits over defence funding. Devastating letter for the government and Keir Starmer: “You have been unable and the Treasury has been unwilling to commit the resources the nation needs to defend the country at this time of rising threats.”
