Mark Stout, Ph.D. in History, Miskatonic University

Once I stop rolling doobies, eating a steady diet of government cheese, move out of my van down by the river, and get my life back on track, it’s over for you bitches.

Good to hear unless this is just disinformation so that Maduro isn’t ready for air strikes.

When we were deployed, some Afghans risked their lives to help us. Now Trump wants to send them out to be killed by the Taliban.

It’s a disgrace, a betrayal, and a decision that endangers future US troops.

Please do not stop this.

That was it! Thank you for reminding me of the name.

*four men

I visited a seemingly modest-sized German WWI cemetery in Belgium once. Got in and discovered that there there were four mean in each of the graves which, in turn, were tightly packed next to each other.

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Artificial intelligence and the future of espionage | The Strategist Artificial intelligence is not simply another technological tool; it’s a transformative force reshaping the foundations of intelligence and national security. In remarks to the 11 October Aspen-Otago National Security Forum in New Zealand, Anne Neuberger, ...

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Blog post: Artificial intelligence and the future of espionage by Chris Taylor (published 29-10-2025)

https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/artificial-intelligence-and-the-future-of-espionage/

The Art of Letting Trump Claim a Win, While Walking Away Stronger

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/w...

The postwar, post-Church Committee national security oversight regime is on life support—or worse.

Someone once said to me and a colleague when he asked where we could have dinner, “well, Wednesday’s spaghetti night at the whorehouse.”

What’s that?

Mexican WWII poster

This Mexican WWII poster is some of the hardest shit ever

I'm immediately wondering what implications this will have for preserving play and the contemporary archaeology of video games

And the genAI models that will be potentially trained on these upscaled videos

🎉 Exciting news for the KCSI team

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Me too!

That is the Belgian way.

External power amplification drives prey capture in a spider web | PNAS Power amplification allows animals to produce movements that exceed the physiological limits of muscle power and speed, such as the mantis shrimp’s...

The spider "loads" the web slowly with leg-over-leg pulling, then suddenly transforms that energy into motion.

My friends: Spiders have TREBUCHET TECHNOLOGY. Can bombards be far behind?

The paper describing the physics is here (🐦 image unrelated):
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

Children learn to read with books that are just right for them – but that might not be the best approach Reading achievement has been stagnant in the US for decades, raising questions about what other methods might work to help kids learn to read.

90% of parents think their child reads at grade level. In reality, 1 in 3 is below. One educator says the culprit might be the "Goldilocks approach" most schools have used for 80+ years.

Kids learn MORE from challenging texts, not books they can already read.

Man deported to Laos despite US court order blocking his removal, attorneys say District judge told Ice to keep Alabama man in US while he showed what judge called ‘substantial claim’ to citizenship

“Immigration officials have deported a father living in Alabama to Laos despite a federal court order blocking his removal from the US on the grounds he has a claim to citizenship, the man’s attorneys said on Tuesday.”

Emergency Exits: The Fight for Independence in Malaya, Kenya and Cyprus At the end of the Second World War, a wave of independence movements swept the British Empire. Emergency Exits focuses on three often overlooked independence movements. These were brutal conflicts bet...

I went to this exhibition recently, highly recommended. The first exhibition on empire and decolonisation at a major a British museum that I can recall www.iwm.org.uk/events/emerg...

US ‘on a trajectory’ toward authoritarian rule, ex-officials warn A network of former intelligence and security officers says democratic decline is accelerating under Trump’s rule

A network of former intelligence and security officers says democratic decline is accelerating under Trump’s rule

(Sadly the writing has been on the wall for sometime)
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Exclusive | State Department Intelligence Agency Dissented Over Putin’s Appetite for Peace The Central Intelligence Agency had a more positive assessment of the Russian leader’s willingness to talk.

State Department intelligence bureau casts doubt on the notion that Putin was prepared to negotiate an end to the Ukraine war, dissenting from a more optimistic CIA assessment of potential talks

www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

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The other Classic Lovecraft thing is "Ah, the Necromonicon, that foul book of wicked sorcery that drives men to madness and has set untold cities of the world to flame!!! That infamous tome that Emperors and Prophets condemned, and from which even the sages recoil!!! Yeah, I read it in undergrad."

I am fascinated by this guy who was a Higher Ed administrator and has now moved into teaching classes as a faculty member. He is documenting his whole journey on TikTok. Over the summer, he had so much excitement 🧵

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Journal article: Smart new world: adapting human intelligence for the digital age by David V. Gioe, Tony Manganello (published 21-10-2025)

https://doi.org/10.1080/02684527.2025.2565946