November 11, 2022
Remembrance Day.
Nothing says Veteran's Day like Captain Lewis Nixon waking up after a night of celebrating V-E Day with Herman Göring’s stash of alcohol.
Nov 11, 2022
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And on the pedestal these words appear: "lol. Lmao" Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.
Nov 11, 2022
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Anglo-Saxon blue glass beaker, early-7th century AD. Excavated in 1894 from a ‘princely’ burial at Broomfield in Essex. Photo: British Museum britishmuseum.org/collection/obj… #FindsFriday #Archaeology
Nov 11, 2022
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elon basically forcing brands to tweet things like "we're sorry you ever thought insulin could be free," incredible scenes
Nov 10, 2022
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UKRAINE: Local civilians in Kherson raise Ukrainian flags following the retreat of Russian troops from the city.
Nov 11, 2022
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Xi Jinping’s visit to the Central Military Commission Joint Operations Command Center reveals some potentially significant insights into how the CMC oversees operations, including nuclear warfighting and network operations. A thread:
Nov 9, 2022
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#ICYMI: Maryland nuclear engineer and wife sentenced for espionage-related offenses justice.gov/opa/pr/marylan…
Nov 10, 2022
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GPT-3 has basically replaced Google for me for searching through humanity's collective memory. Example below. The Google result is reminiscent of AltaVista from c.a. 1998.
Nov 8, 2022
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More in today's developing story w/ @josephmenn
Nov 10, 2022Twitter’s content moderation head quits as departures alarm the FTC
The resignations of three Twitter security executives prompted federal regulators to warn they might step in.
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Duck! Octopuses caught on camera throwing things at each other | Nature
Cephalopods living unusually close together have been filmed throwing shells, algae and silt — sometimes at another octopus.
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Twitter is dead.
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Why everything looks the same
I don’t necessarily agree with the reasoning, but the observation is very true.
https://medium.com/knowable/why-everything-looks-the-same-bad80133dd6e-
Russian man fearing mobilisation goes to fortune-teller Fortune-teller Tarot says his conscription will be 'seriously delayed' Happy man returns home Receives an immediate mobilisation notice Returns to fortune teller, beats him up Gets arrested, mobilisation delayed
Nov 8, 2022
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Excellent research by Tina Tong & @t_gidwani on Info Ops by Putin's 👨🍳, Prigozhin. Propaganda feature films, IO campaigns in Africa, and the pivot to Ukraine🇺🇦 messaging and targeting of domestic Russian audiences. blog.google/threat-analysi…
Nov 10, 2022
Prigozhin interests and Russian information operations
TAG highlights four case studies involving Russian IO tied to the Internet Research Agency and Russian oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin.
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New ransomware targets transport/logistics companies. Aims at Poland and Ukraine. Russian group. Involved in cyberwarfare in the war in Ukraine. They use a new tool. The risk for countries supporting Ukraine is rising. This is what it looks like ...? microsoft.com/en-us/security…
Nov 10, 2022
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Imagine being a spy service, investing years on an asset in a big tech company, it pivots radically from its original remit, confuses senior intel officials by advertising that “legs are coming soon” or something equally impenetrable, then fires your source amid mass layoffs
Nov 10, 2022
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.@medibank and the Australian gov't have asked the media not to unnecessarily download the data and not directly contact customers. Here are some of the perspectives and boundaries I keep in mind as a journalist when covering sensitive data breaches. #auspol #journalism
Nov 11, 2022
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In the last 48 hours, reports have emerged of a potential Russian withdrawal from its Dnipro west bank defensive positions. While this may fit General Surovikin’s overall strategy for #Ukraine, it will be difficult to execute successfully. 1/24 🧵
Oct 23, 2022
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In a new piece, I warn government and civil society practitioners against the slide into “disinformationism”—countering disinfo by divorcing it from its socio-political contexts and examining it primarily through social media metrics. 🧵 /1 carnegieendowment.org/2022/11/10/pro…
Nov 10, 2022
The Problem With Defining “Disinformation”
Attributing these disputes to the discipline’s infancy is easy. But doing so ignores the fact that the definition of “information” was also once hotly contested. The reasons why pose lessons for countering the spread of falsehood at scale.
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