Hardcore Strategy

📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms).

It’s also concerning. 1/

Echoes of the Flower-class corvettes – Royal Navy’s plans to increase anti-submarine warfare mass - Navy Lookout In this guest article, Tom Hoyland considers the parallels between mass-produced wartime corvettes and today’s uncrewed systems as a means to increase anti-submarine effect. The North Atlantic has alw...

"If perfected, autonomous systems offer huge advantages but will rely on command and control infrastructure, data fusion, and the ability to operate autonomously in some of the world’s harshest seas, technology that is still far from mature."

🎯
www.navylookout.com/echoes-of-th...

That’s some @faineg.bsky.social stuff <3

Cover of Aircraft Anatomy of World War II: Technical Drawings of Key Aircratt 1939-1945 by general editors: Paul E. Eden’s and Soph Moeng.

An absolutely essential book for visual dictionary writing for a galaxy far, far away.

Anduril and Palantir battlefield communication system has deep flaws, Army memo says WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The much-needed modernization of the U.S. Army's battlefield communications network being undertaken by Anduril, Palantir and others is rife with "fundamental security" problems ...

"We cannot control who sees what, we cannot see what users are doing, and we cannot verify that the software itself is secure," the memo says.

Ah, so it's literally a palantír, let's wrap it up and keep it away from the halflings.

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

🚁🔥 Update: Most likely, Mi-8 was shot down, not Mi-28.

This is the second confirmed shooting down of an Mi-8 using an FPV drone.

For the first time in August 2024, such a target was hunted by soldiers of SBU.

Tochnyi » The Human Safari An interactive map of the atrocities caused by the Russian Human Safari in Kherson, Ukraine.

🚑🚨New Interactive Map: Human Safari Russian drones stalk Kherson daily — indiscriminately hunting civilians. Since 2023, over 3,000 casualties have been recorded.

Explore how these war crimes has developed over the years in our interractive map🗺️ maps.tochnyi.info/humansafari/

The drone incursions over airports and other installations will keep happening and continue to spread as long as it remains a risk-free way of destabilising Western Europe without any consequences.

Ukrainian ‘Seawolf’ type USV

Same design can have various configurations including ARCHER/Sidewinder missiles. This one has for hangars for quadcopter drones

Russia launched one of its biggest missile strikes of the year this morning. Early estimates point to 500–650 drones and over 60 missiles, including up to 55 Kh-101s, 8 Kalibr, 2 Kinzhal, and several Kh-59s. Targets included Kyiv, Bila Tserkva, Vasylkiv, and nearby towns.

Russia’s military rearmament, especially weapon production numbers, reveals much about its future plans. These numbers are usually hidden in classified documents, a problem Frontelligence Insight, with help from insiders, has solved. For the first time, we can share some of them:

🧵Here are 17 things the drone incursions into NATO airspace have taught me about B2B SaaS sales

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I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Sept 23-24: a Russian Navy Vishnya-class intelligence collection ship was navigating northeast through the Tsushima Strait toward the Sea of Japan. The Ministry of Defense and Self-Defense Forces will continue to conduct vigilance, surveillance, and intelligence gathering.-Japan MoD

Very interesting. Just yesterday I was thinking about what levels of "DDoSs"-like (Their associated techs like db)could support for aeronautical ADSB/ACARS/Airframe/FLARM,naval AIS,IoT APRS, and similar... I imagine someone like Kepler might not like it.

Thanks @shubliburn.bsky.social 👋

AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce “workslop”—content that appea...

The article echoes what I’ve seen and heard from peers: AI makes it easy to produce slick but shallow work that looks plausible on the surface, yet riddled with errors or bad assumptions underneath.

Your coworkers end up having to fix or redo it.

It’s workslop, and it’s spreading fast.

“There is a huge difference between experiencing war and understanding war”
cc: @pptsapper.bsky.social

Radar-lock the next time.
Intercept and destroy the next time afterwards.

Strength recognizes strength, unfortunately

The 🇩🇰Danish goverment today announced that Denmark will get long-range strike capability. Work will now be continued to identify which system(s) that will be selected.
www.fmn.dk/da/nyheder/2...

Line chart showing that there's been a rapid escalation in how quickly the world installs a gigawatt of solar power capacity.

Time for the world to install a gigawatt of solar power capacity
2004: A year
2010: ~ a month
2015: ~ a week
Now: A day
ourworldindata.org/data-insight... 🧪

Photo of a missing slice of cheesecake that looks like a cheesecake hull floating in a deep blue ocean. The "ocean" is actually the blueberry topping on the large cheesecake that we don't see completely.

All I saw was cheesecake boat and ocean for at least 5 minutes

Sometimes I think the real "peace dividend" since the end of the cold war was that a whole generation of analysts grew up underestimating the power of ideology, memory and emotion, and now they cannot recognize a huge cultural shift when it is staring them in the face.
The "soft stuff"matters.

40k: tech worship creates cults of suffering that scale up at horrifying rates, beware tethering human progress to soulless tech advances

Tech firms: how quickly can we entomb a human in a giant machine? Can we create services irl?

Department of Warhammer 40,000

EU Gebäude und Britisch Council in Kyjiw von russischen Raketen getroffen. Eher kein collateral damage, da militärisch nichts relevantes in der Nähe. Die Nachricht wäre klar. Was wird die Antwort sein?

Ukrainian USV "Baracuda" operating in Dnipro river. Drone can be equipped with different weapon systems. For example grenade launchers and naval mines

Steel and Silicon: The Case for Teaming Armored Formations with UAVs - Modern War Institute Dawn broke over the rolling hills of Eastern Europe as Task Force Loki, a combined arms battalion, prepared to breach a fortified enemy defensive belt. Intelligence reports confirmed that an enemy mot...

I love how every pair tanks and drones article for the Army is like just pair them and then manuever is back boys

Uh have we considered that the enemy might not simply allow our drone battalions to massacre their conventional battalions before we commit armor?

mwi.westpoint.edu/steel-and-si...

Illustration of an English race-built galleon, with fore and main mast square rigged, and lateen sails on the two aft. The large castle at the rear gives it a determinedly head down attitude. For anything crossing its bows it must have felt like being charged by a very angry garden shed

Lots of people noting the anniversary of Dreadnought's launch today, and with its ability to outpace anything that threatened it, the big gun armament, and its thick wooden walls-

Wait, what?