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Open Call: War in the Age of Intelligent Machines We invite contributions for a special issue exploring the speculative historiography and material genealogies of intelligent machines in warfare, inspired by and in dialogue with Manuel DeLanda’s s…

Diffractions is holding an open call for a reexamination of the seminal work by Manuel DeLanda, 'War in the Age of Intelligent Machines,' in light of its 35th anniversary. We want tactical interventions, glitches, counter-histories, anti-manuals, code etc.

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Nick Land: winning games is the definition of intelligence.

Elon Musk: doot-de-doot-dee-doo SHIT.

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This is how they played The First of Us

Where Rhythm Turns Hex: the Underworld of Funk Bruxaria // David Šír Submundo 808: The Sonic Apparition In June 2025, I attended a baile funk party organized by the São Paulo-based collective Submundo 808 on the outskirts of Brazil’s federal capital. What I encounte…

Šír :: Bruxaria gives sound to this menagerie: apocalyptic warnings, zombies on crack, militarized states of exception, car sound systems tearing through favelas under siege, and strategies of sonic intimidation that verge on acoustic warfare ::

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Stack-Jacking the Hemispheres and The Earth as Backend // V.e.x.i.l. Research Lab Written by V.e.x.i.l. Research Lab or Volumetric Exposures & eXploitable Infrastructural Logics Research Lab based out of Valletta, Malta and Penang Island, Malaysia. “Force, and Fraud, are in …

V.e.x.i.l. Research Lab undertakes a survey of "electronic terraforming," "stack-jacking," infrastructure as arbitrage, and the dark forest in their diagnosis of the serpentine and nebulous nature of contemporary warfare.

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multipolarity is already here—it's just not evenly distributed

So I have the honour of lecturing at @warstudieskcl.bsky.social on information operations & influence. Too many people considered the US messaging regarding Greenland as unserious/trolling. Trolling is increasingly a legitimate tool of statecraft & diplomacy even if most frequent use is propaganda

Really eager to know what the premise will be? Love your work!

new thing I made notsaved.github.io/Latent-Field/

Next year, the US Department of Defense will produce an assessment of Russia’s cyberwarfare and electronic warfare posture.

Developer attempts to replicate "Liquid Glass" in CSS, and once finished realizes what she'd actually created is an exploit for a fundamental, previously unknown, and rather serious browser vulnerability

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"CSS hack accidentally becomes regular hack"

Mythotechnics: AI Between Monster, Maze, and Mirror On the Poetic Infrastructure of Artificial Intelligence // Sasha Shilina “The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.” — Muriel Rukeyser, The Speed of Darkness “It matters what stories make worlds, what worlds make stories.”— Donna Haraway, Staying with the Trouble “…

Shilina: "A mythotechnic approach to AI does not promise comfort. It promises something more demanding: to live with intelligent machines neither as naive believers nor as disenchanted engineers, but as storytellers who know that the stories bite back."

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CRITICAL security vulnerability in a really popular web framework React server. Maximum severity (CVSS: 10.0). Unauthenticated remote code execution. May be WORMABLE. Patch immediately. This could get very nasty. Patch this, and all that depends on it (like Next.js) react.dev/blog/2025/12...

#sciencefiction #SFintranslation #vladimircolin #article #Chinese #imagination

I have a new article contribution in Chinese publ in the 30th issue of Zero G zine. Much thx to RiverFlow (Heliu) for the kind invitation to contribute, and (as always) big thx to Zixuan for translating. Very happy.

Automatism & Psychosis // Federico Nieto :: The Slave and the Suicide (Automatism) :: In the tides of contemporary technophilia it is now commonplace to find ourselves engaging with the surge of a cleverly disguised anthropomorphizing tre…

Federico Nieto :: The catastrophist trend in AI is a cleverly disguised anthropomorphizing trend. It signals a return to 20th-century psychoanalysis to build a spectacular narrative compatible with current tech's limits ::

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Latent walks: From Digital Folklore to AI Imaginaries // Gabriele de Seta Gabriele de Seta is, technically, a sociologist. He is a Researcher at the University of Bergen, where he leads the ALGOFOLK project (“Algorithmic folklore: The mutual shaping of vernacular cr…

:: Gabriele de Seta's work (@notsaved.bsky.social
) dives into how memes, stock footage, and even rat-proof switches reveal the unexpected side of technology. He discusses early internet ‘folk cultures’ to today’s generative algorithmic systems here ::

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Massive thanks to Maya B Kronic at Urbanomic, everyone at Furtherfield, everyone at Torque, and to Stephen Fortune for editing my Cybersyn essay that hasn't been reprinted anywhere yet despite being next level due to his editing. Editors are awesome.

UK plans to ban ransom payments for critical infrastructure. Businesses warn the ban won't stop cyberattacks and could force essential services to collapse when backup systems disappear, choosing to break the law or watching infrastructure go down. What's more important?

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I am continuing to warm up for new writing next year by re-publishing and possibly extending my alleged novella "Bad Shibe" -

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It's a few days in the life of a tween inhabitant of a future crypto-anarchist utopia written in a dogespeak/2010s reddit posting hybrid

according to the liberation newspaper, documents dating back to a 2014 inspection by the French National Agency for the Security of Computer Systems reported a staggering detail: "the password of the louvre's video surveillance server was simply " louvre. "

the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre"

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Quarter of a century ago, permanent human occupation of the International Space Station started with the docking of Soyuz TM-31 spacecraft. I was lucky to see its launch in Baikonur and its ISS arrival from TsUP in Korolev: www.russianspaceweb.com/iss-soyuz-tm...

The Dark Precursor and its Signature // Rhea Myers An interview with Rhea Myers. Rhea Myers is an artist, hacker, and writer based in British Columbia, Canada, originally from the UK. She makes art to understand the world, mutually interrogating te…

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From 90s art school and the dot-com boom to becoming a pivotal blockchain artist, Rhea Myers discusses her personal and artistic evolution. A story of using technology to understand a world that often feels like it has a secret rulebook.

@rhea.art

this stuff hypes me so much, open-source bookmarking tool yes please monomarks.at

Someone Snuck Into a Cellebrite Microsoft Teams Call and Leaked Phone Unlocking Details The leaked slide focuses on Google Pixel phones and mentions those running the security-focused GrapheneOS operating system.

Someone recently managed to get on a Microsoft Teams call with representatives from phone hacking company Cellebrite, and then leaked a screenshot of the company’s capabilities against many Google Pixel phones

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