Colin Laney
@noydbmf.bsky.social
civis Americanus sum Pseudonymous Minor Figure Deputy Chief Sub-Underflunky: NonServiam AI; Datastream Cowboy: Yellow Submarine of the Deep State; Imagination is wetware-computed latent space; All the Algorithm and all it wants; Monetize the Eschaton
(FT) - Prime Minister Mark Carney is pitching 200 of the world’s top financial executives gathering in Toronto next week a simple plan: invest 1 per cent more in Canada as a hedge against Donald Trump’s volatility. @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/4dc6...
AMODEI: “.. It’s easy to dismiss this [Hugging Face] incident because no one was hurt and the economic damage was minimal, but in my opinion, a swarm that possessed greater capabilities but a similar level of misalignment could have caused catastrophic damage.” darioamodei.com/post/we-must...
ICYMI: An AI-Powered, Coordinated Paid Campaign on Sudan's War, Disguised as Four Independent News Sites: My Investigation reveals two North Macedonian directors, 27 bylines, 3,708 AI-assisted articles & 558 ads across LinkedIn & Meta marcowenjones.substack.com/p/from-north... #disinformation
An AI-Powered, Coordinated Paid Campaign on Sudan's War, Disguised as Four Independent News Sites
Investigation reveals info op involving a Hong Kong company, three North Macedonians, 558 ads across LinkedIn & Meta, reaching 5 million accounts in the EU alone — all pushing one side of Sudan’s war
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China has told the United States that it intends to cancel a planned meeting between their leaders later this month if Washington approves any new arms sales to Taiwan by then, multiple sources familiar with bilateral ties said Saturday. english.kyodonews.net/articles/-/8...
China threatens to cancel summit if U.S. approves new arms sales to Taiwan
China has told the United States that it intends to cancel a planned meeting between their leaders later this month if Washington approves any new arms sales to Taiwan by then, multiple sources famili...
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🇵🇱 Poland plans to develop a military satellite communications system, MILSATCOM, which would serve as an alternative to Starlink. The announcement was made by Polish defense giant PGZ during the MSPO 2026 international defense exhibition.
Explaining any of this happening to someone even just a few years ago would have made you sound insane.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 8h agoTrump: "The Houthis called us. They don't want to fight with us. They let us know they don't want to fight with us. They don't want us to go after them. They would much prefer not having us involved, and they are letting most ships go through. There's just one country they're not too happy with."
NEW: The Houthis are setting conditions to establish the Bab al Mandeb Strait as an Axis of Resistance-controlled body of water as part of the Axis of Resistance’s effort to assert control over regional oil exports. (1/5) Read more: isw.pub/IranUpdate09...
On the 25th anniversary of 9/11, Trump and Hegseth tried to gaslight Americans into believing that their war-of-choice on Iran was somehow related to 9/11. There is zero connection. Iran was not behind 9/11. The Iran war is based on a series of lies and blunders.
Trump and Hegseth use 9/11 memorial remarks at Pentagon to defend war on Iran
President and defense secretary try to link worst terrorist attack in US history to current unpopular war
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Congressman Jamie Raskin tells me why he’s demanding to know whether Jeffrey Epstein was an unregistered foreign agent. Subscribe paid or unpaid to Substack: open.substack.com/pub/thefrank...
I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.
“.. Of course they didn’t know. No one knew it was coming. .. It’s a bad idea. There’s no need for it economically and it looks desperate politically.” @washingtonsun.bsky.social @jeffstein.bsky.social washingtonsun.com/congress/key...
Listen to a new podcast on Iran and Russia policy and US sanctions. irenekenyon.substack.com/p/podcast-sa...
Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Enforcement
The Evolution
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Ted Cruz is aggressively booed in Austin, Texas: “Ted, you suck!”
RAPIDAN: The Iran-GCC negotiations are “serious”.
“Stop Making Sense” turns 42 today. Of his performance, David Byrne said: “You see this person in the beginning [of the film] who's kind of angsty, stumbling around .. And then, by the end, he's surrendered to the music and is fairly joyful .. He’s found a kind of community." 🙏🏼 “Slippery People”
Latest inflation data just dropped. And... prices are still rising at an uncomfortably high rate. Headline inflation was 3.4% over the past year. This month, prices grew by 0.4%. This is pretty much as expected, but no-one was expecting good news.
White House weighs how to use Defense Production Act to expand US oil refining capacity, sources say reut.rs/4hn0C0r
EXCLUSIVE: White House weighs how to use Defense Production Act to expand US oil refining capacity, sources say
The White House is weighing how to use the Defense Production Act to expand U.S. oil refining capacity as the conflict with Iran exposes the country's vulnerability to global crude supply disruptions...
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JUST IN: A federal judge concludes that DHS leaders arbitrarily decided to cut FEMA staff by 50% even though it damaged the agency's ability to fulfill its mission — and leaders hid their comms about it on auto-delete Signal chains. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
The unexpectedly satisfying coda to all this is Ahmed Best getting his own back by playing an actual goddamn Jedi -- Kelleran Beq! -- in the Mandalorian.
Jibblescribbits@jibblescribbits.bsky.social · 23h agoOne of my favorite Twitter posts lost to time is when Rogue One was released @saladinahmed.bsky.social said something like "its incredible to see Star Wars & the name 'Ahmed' together & @scalzi.com playfully, but devastatingly, roasted him with a screenshot of IMDb showing Ahmed Best as Jar-Jar
As heavy as today is, there is still several wars on. Ballistic missiles inbound, Dnipro.
18 U.S. Code § 597 makes it 100% clear that Trump's offer of a $5,000 "dividend" (bribe) if Republicans win in November is illegal. 100% illegal. No question about it.
A worthy cause—let’s inspire the next generation of women in intelligence www.lauraethomas.com/p/a-spy-stor...
A spy story and a request
The morning that set my course and the heroine I found much later
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Court documents show that local police in Portland, Oregon, had to step in to prevent DHS agents from removing evidence from the scene of a shooting. In multiple other shootings, DHS has grabbed evidence and kept it from local police. In Portland, at least, the local police would not allow it.
Defense attorneys accuse Border Patrol of trying to ‘remove’ evidence in Portland shooting
Luis Niño-Moncada pleaded to depredation of federal property. His sentencing hearing is set for next week.
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