We had a good thing, you stupid son of a bitch. We had neighbors who liked us. We had cheap goods and labor. We were the reserve currency. You just needed to shrink the budget. It was perfect. But, no, you just had to blow it up. You and your pride and your tariffs.

"The Imperialism Has no Clothes: JD Vance in Greenland" My latest essay: link via image below or profile

I think we're on the cusp of AGI, and society has barely begun to think through the implications. We wrote an extremely detailed scenario to explore what the AI transition will look like.

Geopolitically, nothing matters more than winning AI. These tariffs, as constructed, essentially guarantee that America will lose “AI” by making America the most expensive place on earth to build AI datacenters. The semiconductor exemption was irrelevant for AI. Datacenter

Eric Schmidt says intelligence is about to decouple from us. “The computers are now doing self-improvement.. They don’t have to listen to us anymore.” Within six years: a mind smarter than the sum of humans -- scaled, recursive, free. We have no language for what’s coming.

🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read. He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug

It will not cost you anything to retweet. I don't know Newcastle. I know Villaaaaaa

New blog post: Questions about the future of AI A 6,000-word clusterfuck of considerations about economics, history, training, investment, and more. Thread of select questions below:

The people of Ukraine can count on us 🇬🇧🇺🇦

How Ransomware Groups Got In: Rapid7 MDR’s Top Initial Access Vectors from Q1 2025. Top Initial Access Vectors - Account Compromise (No MFA) - Vuln Exploitation (all known, patchable) - Brute Forcing - Exposed RDP - SEO Poisoning What our #MDR team saw in real-world

Researchers claim ChatGPT o3 bypassed shutdown in controlled test - Mayank Parmar bleepingcomputer.com/news/artificia… bleepingcomputer.com/news/artificia…

Fascinating interview with a private drone designer for the RU military. His knowledge of UKR & Western drones is limited and should be taken with some skepticism but he still presents a quite candid picture into the current state of unmanned warfare:🧵 youtube.com/watch?v=RmfNUM…

I’d like to believe leadership at DoD is just so imbecilic that they didn’t realise they put two Russian flags in this tweet. Then again, it’s hard to discern what’s accidental and what’s intentional anymore.

'This operation is not just an attack on the Iranian nuclear programme; it’s a full-blown assault on the pillars of the Iranian security state, and an attempt to destabilise the Iranian regime' Darya Dolzikova and Matthew Savill in the latest RUSI Commentary. rusi.org/explore-our-re…

The Iranian response right now…

Now, now, Owen. Breathe. Before you fling the label “disinformation peddler” around like it’s confetti at one of your student union rallies, how about - just once - you actually refute the information instead of writing a lazy, dismissive sentence and pretending you’ve scored a

There are states that don’t take security seriously, states that really don’t take security seriously, and states that really really don’t take security seriously. And then there is Spain. therecord.media/spain-awards-c…

Very useful WSJ report on how China gained control of rare earths processing/ permanent magnet production -- and how it kept control 1/

Our position on Greenland is very clear – it is part of the Kingdom of Denmark and its future is a matter for the Greenlanders and the Danes. We have also made clear that Arctic Security matters for the whole of NATO and allies should all do more together to address the threat

US Government: MAKE THE FUCKING KILLER ROBOT THING Anthropic: We think that's unethical. We won't do that. All customers have the same Terms of Service for Claude US Government: YOURE A FUCKING COMMUNIST AND YOU HATE FREEDOM