'China's New Super Carrier: A Game Changer in Geopolitics'
fusionchat.ai/news/chinas-ne…
#ghostfleet moment coming true...

For a #weekendread of Useful Fiction,
check out 'Safe Harbor II'
a visualization of Marine Forces Special Operations Command (MARSOC) mission of the future.
marsoc.marines.mil/Portals/31/Doc…
It has everything from arms dealing twin brothers to underworld digital bounty hunters

For a #weekendread of Useful Fiction,
check out 'Safe Harbor II'
a visualization of Marine Forces Special Operations Command (MARSOC) mission of the future.
marsoc.marines.mil/Portals/31/Doc…
It has everything from arms dealing twin brothers to underworld digital bounty hunters


44%
“The percentage of US millennials worried that AI will affect their financial wellbeing, according to the latest Money Matters report”
via Semafor

Your #burninbook coming tru moment

QANONsense is back on Twitter/X, up 1,283 percent in last year

For those that didn't take QANONsense seriously the last time around, it was linked to everything from Jan 6 to a father murdering his 2 infants.

Thanks Elon!

The Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center has unveiled Tiangong, an electrically-driven general-purpose humanoid that's capable of stable running at 6 km/h, while also able to tackle slopes and stairs in 'blind conditions'
newatlas.com/robotics/china…
#BurnInBook moment, in Chinese

'Across the world, the new abilities packed into consumer technology are changing conflict. Starlink connections provide internet. 3-D printers can mass produce parts. But no single product is more important than the cheap drone.'
nytimes.com/2024/05/04/wor…

Told it was coming...

Carmelia Scott-Skillern and Peter W. Singer consider an often overlooked aspect of conflict—logistics.

🗞️ Read the War on the Rocks op-ed: bit.ly/3wnTgoP

It is insane to me that someone in this role doesn’t understand that democracy is the superstructure for literally everything else. Democracy isn’t an issue that matters because of public opinion. It’s *the* issue that makes free public opinion possible.

In a Time Magazine interview, Trump spoke openly of purging the government of non-loyalists and deploying the military on American streets. Here are seven op-ed columns grousing about the state of our elite college campuses.

“Not to promote war, but to preserve peace”

Much thanks to Army War College for hosting me today to talk AI and the future

'Our effort at Marine Forces Special Operations Command to use fiction to peer into the future.'
defenseone.com/ideas/2024/04/…

Useful Fiction

China has jailed 107 writers, followed by Iran 49, Saudi Arabia and Vietnam 19. Israel 17 and Russia+Belarus 16.
“The jailing of a writer goes beyond the silencing of one voice,” a PEN official warned. “It is an assault on everyone’s free expression and human rights.”

Often the #missing #piece not only in #wargaming : „to ask how the real #forces would actually be #fueled , #sustained , #reloaded , and #repaired after Day 1“

'missiles of the mind'

Confession: That was an especially fun line.

'It is great fun for wonks (and good for organizational funding and media attention) to move imaginary ships around on a map and fire off missiles of the mind...'

But for my favorite:

'And, unsurprisingly, logistics is also a topic that doesn’t get any attention in the cottage industry of think tank “wargames” that has sprung up over the last few years...'

'...the norm of the literally thousands of leader speeches, congressional testimonies, vision statements, and interviews on the future of war and competition and conflict with China. If logistics is mentioned at all, which is rare, it is a toss-off line.'