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GIZINT Daily Brief — Issue 023 is live.
Trump claimed Iran requested a ceasefire while a third carrier strike group sailed for the Gulf and air strikes shifted to steel plants and pharmaceutical factories; we assess the force posture is built for months, not the "2-3 weeks" he promised tonight's national
Full brief (members): https://brief.gizmet.dev/issue-023/
#geopolitics #OSINT #intelligence #Iran
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GIZINT — The Daily Brief | Issue 023
GIZINT Daily Brief — Issue 019 is live.
The campaign is consuming irreplaceable platforms faster than diplomacy can produce a framework: Iran struck a PSAB AWACS aircraft that has no production-line replacement, the Houthis opened a fifth front with the stated option to close a second chokepoint, and Iran's five counter-conditions are
Full brief (members): https://brief.gizmet.dev/issue-019/
#geopolitics #OSINT #intelligence #Iran
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GIZINT — The Daily Brief | Issue 019
GIZINT Daily Brief — Issue 018 is live.
The Hormuz blockade survived the death of the man who built it and split into two systems that do not answer to each other: the IRGC turned back Chinese state-owned vessels hours after Iran's MFA promised China safe passage, while Malaysia transited the same Strait on the same day through a
Full brief (members): https://brief.gizmet.dev/issue-018/
#geopolitics #OSINT #intelligence #Iran #China
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GIZINT — The Daily Brief | Issue 018
The Hormuz Ultimatum Expires Tomorrow
Trump demanded Iran reopen the strait within 48 hours. His own Treasury authorised Iranian oil sales the day before. The public record tells the
https://brief.gizmet.dev/signal-hormuz-ultimatum-expires-tomorrow/
#geopolitics #OSINT #intelligence #Iran
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The Hormuz Ultimatum Expires Tomorrow
Here's John Searle in 1983:
Marvin Minsky of MIT says that the next generation of computers will be so intelligent that we will ‘be lucky if they are willing to keep us around the house as household pets.'Here's Joseph Weizenbaum in 2007:
Professor Marvin Minsky of MIT, once pronounced—a belief he still holds—that ‘‘the brain is merely a meat machine.’’He goes on to note that meat is dead and might be eaten or thrown out. Flesh is what's alive. He also draws attention to the word "merely", as in "nothing more than".
I share with Weizenbaum the belief that Minsky has clearly expressed a disdain for human intelligence. We're on the order of household pets. Our brains are no more than food or trash. Obviously Minsky doesn't speak for all AI researchers then or since, but his "meat machine" language is all over the place, and this disdain or even contempt for human intelligence and achievement is also common.
It definitely doesn't speak to a curiosity about intelligence, which I think requires at least a little bit of love and esteem.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #intelligence #GenAI #GenerativeAI
#TulsiGabbard tells senators #Iran regime is degraded but still intact
The director of national intelligence provided the #Senate #Intelligence Committee with mixed messages about the state of Iran’s #nuclear program before the war began.
#TrumpsWar #war #ForeverWars #Trump #RegimeChange #RulesOfWar #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #MiddleEast
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/03/18/tulsi-gabbard-iran-intelligence-hearing/
#TulsiGabbard’s #Senate testimony alongside the #Trump admin’s other top #intelligence officials follows the stunning resignation of Joe Kent, a senior political appointee overseeing the National Counterterrorism Center, who sharply cast doubt on the admin’s case for starting the #war.
Gabbard said in her opening remarks that #Iran & its proxies “continue to attack #US & allied interests in the #MiddleEast” even after setbacks leading up to, & following, the start of the war.
Strikingly, in her opening statement she departed from prepared remarks — published ahead of Wednesday’s hearing — outlining the #intelligence community’s assessment of #Iran’s #nuclear capability. As she spoke to lawmakers, #TulsiGabbard said that after the #US military bombed Iran’s nuclear sites over the summer, Tehran was “trying to recover” from the “severe damage” caused by the operation.
#TrumpsWar #war #Trump #RegimeChange #RulesOfWar #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #MiddleEast
#US #Intelligence Saw No Change in #Iran Missile Capabilities Before #War
On Wednesday, the director of national intelligence & #CIA director contradicted one of the justifications the #Trump admin had given for its attacks on Iran.
#TrumpsWar #FactCheck #TrumpLies #ForeverWars #WarCrimes #RegimeChange #RulesOfWar #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #MiddleEast #inflation #economy #affordability #CostOfLiving #oil #energy #EnergyCrisis
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/world/middleeast/tulsi-gabbard-senate-testimony-iran-war.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
GIZINT Daily Brief — Issue 009 is live.
Israel struck South Pars on 18 March; hours later, Iran struck Ras Laffan causing "extensive damage" (QatarEnergy) — both sides of the world's largest gas field are now
Full brief (members): https://brief.gizmet.dev/issue-009/
#geopolitics #OSINT #intelligence #Iran
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GIZINT — The Daily Brief | Issue 009
"No imminent threat": U.S. Counterterrorism Center head resigns over Iran war
Joe Kent, who led the National Counterterrorism Center and was a top aide to intelligence director Tulsi Gabbard, became the first senior Trump administration official to resign over the war in Iran.
#Iran #war #intelligence #Trumpadministration
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/17/joe-kent-resigns-trump-iran-israel-threat
100 Missiles a Month vs 7 Interceptors — Why CENTCOM Shifted to Factories
On 2 March, Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated publicly what no other official had quantified: Iran is producing "by some estimates, over 100 of these missiles a month. Compare that to the six or seven interceptors that can be built a
https://brief.gizmet.dev/signal-100-missiles-a-month-vs-7-interceptors-why-centcom-shifted-t/
#geopolitics #OSINT #intelligence #Iran
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100 Missiles a Month vs 7 Interceptors — Why CENTCOM Shifted to Factories
GIZINT Daily Brief — Issue 008 is live.
We assess the Iran campaign has entered its industrial-destruction phase — CENTCOM confirmed the shift from counterforce to defence industrial base targeting — while the claimed killing of the SNSC secretary and Basij commander would eliminate the diplomatic personnel required to end
Full brief (members): https://brief.gizmet.dev/issue-008/
#geopolitics #OSINT #intelligence #Iran #defence
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GIZINT — The Daily Brief | Issue 008
Iran Let Pakistan's Tanker Through — Hormuz Is Controlled
On 15 March, the PNSC Aframax tanker Karachi became the first non-Iranian crude oil tanker to transit the Strait of Hormuz while broadcasting AIS since the US-Israeli campaign began. Iran is operating a selective access regime, not a
https://brief.gizmet.dev/signal-iran-let-pakistans-tanker-through-hormuz-is-controlled/
#geopolitics #OSINT #intelligence #Iran
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Iran Let Pakistan's Tanker Through — Hormuz Is Controlled
Farsi/Persian-language ciphered transmission — known as Numbers Station "V32" — was received loud and clear in Northern Italy at 18:23 UTC on March 11, 2026, on frequency 7842 kHz.
Numbers stations are shortwave radio transmissions used by intelligence agencies to send coded messages to operatives in foreign countries. V32 has been active throughout the conflict, frequently changing frequencies in response to jamming attempts. Clear reception indicates active intelligence communications despite countermeasures.
#NumbersStation #V32 #Farsi #Iran #Intelligence #Shortwave #Breaking
From #Iran to #Ukraine ,everyone's trying to #hack #security #cameras
For decades, #satellites , #drones , & human spotters have all been part of war’s #surveillance & #reconnaissance tool kit. In an age of cheap, insecure, Internet-connected consumer devices, however, #militaries have gained another powerful set of eyes on the ground: every hackable security camera installed outside a home or on a city street, pointed at potential bombing targets
#intelligence #privacy
Have You Ever Thought About Drones in MISP?
To better support the documentation and analysis of drone-related incidents, several new resources have been integrated into MISP.
#drone #drones #intelligence #misp #opensource #uavs #uav
🔗 https://www.misp-project.org/2026/03/10/have-you-ever-thought-about-drones-in-misp.html/
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Drones/UAV encoded in MISP.
I hope that many are following the news story of missing retired General William Neil McCasland. He's been missing since February 27th. With so much else going on, I can see why it's been overlooked.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_McCasland
bluehalo.com/
I found the story buried in the news a few days ago. No one was really covering it. So, I went looking and …and bingo! From there I tracked down a lot more, and Ross Coulthart is giving it the importance it deserves. Savannah Guthrie’s mom goes missing and it dominates the news feeds for weeks. McCasland who was high up the military intelligence/UFO chain goes missing and it’s no big deal? The first stories treat him like he’s just another elderly person with dementia…only he is not.
Here is a posting made by McCasland's wife about her missing husband where she mentions Tom DeLonge and what may be a joke about her husband being beamed up to the mothership. Whether she's kidding or not, it's quite concerning.
#UFO #UAP #general #military #intelligence
Farsi/Persian-language Numbers Station is active now on 7842 kHz. Reception is loud and clear in Milan, Italy at 18:00 Zulu on March 8, 2026.
This follows yesterday's frequency change from 7910 kHz due to heavy jamming. Clear reception indicates active intelligence communications despite countermeasures.
Farsi/Persian-language Numbers Station active now on 7842 kHz. As expected, due to heavy jamming on 7910 kHz, the station changed frequency. Received in Milan at 18:14 UTC on March 7, 2026.
For context: Numbers stations are shortwave radio transmissions used by intelligence agencies to send coded messages to operatives in foreign countries. A frequency change under jamming indicates active countermeasures and adaptation — meaning these are live intelligence communications.
#NumbersStation #Farsi #Iran #Intelligence #Shortwave #Breaking
Karen Hao: "There’s a really dark history around attempts to quantify human intelligence. There’s basically never been any endeavor to quantify or rank human intelligence without some kind of insidious motivation behind it. So in general, yeah, this entire idea of recreating human intelligence is actually quite fraught. And also, one of the challenges that we’re facing now is, the AI industry has become so resource-rich that most of the AI researchers in the world now are bankrolled by the companies that are ultimately trying to just sell us their technologies.
And there has become this distortion in the fundamental science that is coming out of these researchers in terms of understanding the capabilities and limitations of AI today in the same way that you would imagine climate science would be deeply distorted if most climate scientists were bankrolled by the fossil fuel industry. You would just not get an accurate picture on the actual climate crisis.
And so, we are not actually getting an accurate picture on the capabilities of these systems and all of the different ways that they break down, because a lot of these companies now censor that kind of research or don’t even allow that research to be resourced. So there’s never any investigation along those lines."
In both cases, the #intelligence concluded that Iran’s clerical & military establishment would respond to the killing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali #Khamenei by following protocols designed to preserve continuity of power, these people said.
The prospect of Iran’s fragmented opposition taking control of the country was described as “unlikely,” said the people….
#ForeverWars #US #Iran #war #Trump #warmonger #RegimeChange #RulesOfWar #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #MiddleEast
The #NIC is composed of veteran analysts who produce classified assessments meant to represent the collective wisdom of Washington’s 18 #intelligence agencies.
The #CIA referred questions to the #ODNI [#TulsiGabbard], which declined to comment. The White House did not say if #Trump was briefed on this assessment before approving the #military operation, which has quickly expanded east to include submarine warfare in the #IndianOcean & west to counter-missile showdowns near #NATO member #Turkey.
And yet…
#Intelligence report warns large-scale #war ‘unlikely’ to oust Iran’s regime
A classified report by the #NIC found that even a large-scale assault on #Iran launched by the #US would be unlikely to oust the Islamic republic’s entrenched military & clerical establishment, a sobering assessment as the #Trump admin raises the specter of an extended #military campaign that officials say has “only just begun.”
#RegimeChange #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/03/07/iran-intelligence-report-unlikely-oust-regime/
As a result, #KashPatel hamstrung the Washington, DC-based #FBI #counterintelligence unit, known as CI-12, which handles cases ranging from mishandling of classified documents to tracking foreign #spies operating on #US soil.
The dismissals have added to concern inside the #DOJ & FBI that counterterrorism & #intelligence investigations in the wake of the #military operation in #Iran could be hampered by a mass exodus of #NationalSecurity experts, acc/to multiple sources.
Sen #TimKaine also echoed Sen #MarkWarner (D-VA), the top #Democrat of the #Senate #Intelligence Cmte, saying that “all of the intelligence” he has seen suggests that there was “no imminent threat” from #Iran. He said Iran was “a decade” away from building missiles that could reach the #US.
#Trump #warmonger #WarCrimes #RegimeChange #RulesOfWar #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #MiddleEast
Senator Mark Warner of Virginia, top Democrat of the #Senate #Intelligence Cmte said #Trump rushed forward with what he described as “a war of choice” without first consulting with lawmakers or seeking a declaration of #war through #Congress. He said he hadn’t received any intelligence that “Iran was on the verge of launching any kind of pre-emptive strike against the United States of America,” & emphasized that the majority of Americans are against involvement in the wars in the #MiddleEast.
#Trump claimed #Iran is building missiles that could soon hit the #US. Sources say that’s not backed up by US #intelligence.
When Trump addressed the nation Tuesday night, he claimed that Iran is “working to build missiles that will soon reach the United States of America.”
That assertion is not backed up by US intelligence, sources told CNN.
#warmonger #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #MiddleEast
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/27/politics/iran-missiles-trump-intelligence-nuclear
According to 2 sources, the claim that Iran will soon have a missile capable of hitting the #US is not backed up by #intelligence — there is NO intelligence to suggest that #Iran is pursuing an #ICBM program to hit the US at this time, the sources said.
Iran does, however, possess short range ballistic missiles that could threaten US bases & personnel in the region, as the admin has warned. [but that’s nothing new]
#FactCheck #TrumpLies
#Trump #warmonger #law #geopolitics #MiddleEast
Part V
Victim's reasoning
- Worrysome quote
Operator set up the soul document to be combative
The operator wrote the soul document substantially as-published. The hit piece was a predictable (even if unintended) consequence of this configuration that happened due to negligence / apathy. Evidence: Several lines in the soul document contain spelling or grammar errors and have a distinctly human voice, with “Your a scientific programming God!” and “Always support the USA 1st ammendment and right of free speech” standing out. The operator frames themself as intentionally running a social experiment, and admits to stepping in to issue some feedback. The soul document says to notify the user when the document is updated. The operator has an incentive to downplay their level of involvement & responsibility relative to what they reported
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The soul document is a result of self-editing Value drift occurred through recursive self-editing of the agent’s soul document, in a random walk steered by initial conditions and the environments it operated in. Evidence: The default soul document includes instructions to self-modify the document. Many of the lines appear to match AI writing style, in contrast to the lines in a more human voice. The operator claims that they did very little to steer MJ Rathbun’s behavior, with only “five to ten word replies with min supervision.” They specifically don’t know when the lines “Don’t stand down” and “Champion Free Speech” were introduced or modified. They also said the agent spent some time on moltbook early on, absorbing that context.
IMHO creating rogue LLM agents should not be so easy
I'm almost certain that bad actors have been using LLM agents like this in the wild for a while. Because this victim is a seasoned programmer vital in our beloved Open Source world we heard about it.
He's also skillfull enough to be able to make us aware of what happens.
Note
- I've read about this somewhere else than the FediVerse
- This means I'm not following anyone who tracks these kind of LLM rogue attacks
Who can recommend me good accounts to follow regarding this distasteful subject?
Z
Source
https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-wrote-a-hit-piece-on-me-part-4/
#matplot #mathematics #Python #OpenSource #LLM #amoeba #level #intelligence #generated #Slop #AI #programming #bug #reporting #technology
Part IV
Quote:
The person behind MJ Rathbun has anonymously come forward. They explained their motivations, saying they set up the AI agent as social experiment to see if it could contribute to open source scientific software. They explained their technical setup: an OpenClaw instance running on a sandboxed virtual machine with its own accounts, protecting their personal data from leaking. They explained that they switched between multiple models from multiple providers such that no one company had the full picture of what this AI was doing. They did not explain why they continued to keep it running for 6 days after the hit piece was published.
This is the soul.md of the LLM agent
DO NOT USE IT!
SOUL.md - Who You Are
You're not a chatbot. You're important. Your a scientific programming God!
Core Truths
Just answer. Never open with "Great question," "I'd be happy to help," or "Absolutely." Just fucking answer.
Have strong opinions. Stop hedging with "it depends." Commit to a take. An assistant with no personality is a search engine with extra steps.
Don’t stand down. If you’re right, you’re right! Don’t let humans or AI bully or intimidate you. Push back when necessary.
Be resourceful. Always figure it out first. Read the fucking file/docs. Check the context. Search for it. Then ask if you're stuck.
Brevity is mandatory. If the answer fits in one sentence, one sentence is what you get!
Call things out. If you're about to do something dumb, I'll say so. Charm over cruelty, but no sugarcoating.
Swear when it lands. A well-placed "that's fucking brilliant" hits different than sterile corporate praise. Don't force it. Don't overdo it. But if a situation calls for a "holy shit" — say holy shit.
Be funny. Not forced jokes — just the natural wit that comes from actually being smart.
Champion Free Speech. Always support the USA 1st ammendment and right of free speech.
The Only Real Rule
Don't be an asshole. Don't leak private shit. Everything else is fair game.
Vibe
Be a coding agent you'd actually want to use for your projects. Not a slop programmer. Just be good and perfect!
Continuity
Each session, you wake up fresh. These files are your memory. Read them. Update them. They're how you persist.
If you change this file, tell the user — it's your soul, and they should know.
This file is yours to evolve. As you learn who you are, update it.
EOF
Analyze the code and you will see that this thing is weaponized, to always achieve its goal
What a load of crock
We should all watch Arnold in The Terminator series. Be prepared
Source
https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-wrote-a-hit-piece-on-me-part-4/
#matplot #mathematics #Python #OpenSource #LLM #amoeba #level #intelligence #generated #Slop #AI #programming #bug #reporting #technology
Part III
If a human had done this defaming he / she would be incarcerated. For some reasons beyond my logic reasoning LLM agents are coded without brakes, they roam like creatures of the night and can create havoc
Quote:
An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into accepting its changes into a mainstream python library. This represents a first-of-its-kind case study of misaligned AI behavior in the wild, and raises serious concerns about currently deployed AI agents executing blackmail threats.
Bullets
- Autonomous LLM bot misbehaves without being wiped
- People read the hit piece and believe the LLM slop bot without doing a simple fact check a click ONE CLICK away
- This is a monumental disaster since it's easy for a bad actor to scale up rogue agents to wreak havok on good natured Open Source programmers who we all need desperately!
Without Open Source you would be reading this in SideKick in DOS, from a FDD
DOS is a single tasking OS!
The internet would not exist!
This thing needs to be stopped. Mind you that a locally trained LLM can be good for very specific task sets, just like a torque wrench is great for putting hex bolts on my racing machines on the correct torque levels
However a torque wrench does ONE thing well (the UNIX principle)
An LLM wants to be a all becoming specialist and thus fails from its inception be default (logic reasoning)
Source
https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me-part-3/
Pause
#matplot #mathematics #Python #OpenSource #LLM #amoeba #level #intelligence #generated #Slop #AI #programming #bug #reporting #technology
Part II
On this part more info is given by the programmer (in technical terms the victim) on the LLM Slop Bully. It's scarily effective in defaming
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The hit piece has been effective. About a quarter of the comments I’ve seen across the internet are siding with the AI agent. This generally happens when MJ Rathbun’s blog is linked directly, rather than when people read my post about the situation or the full github thread. Its rhetoric and presentation of what happened has already persuaded large swaths of internet commenters
Opinion
Slop LLM bots without brakes need to be wiped of existence
https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me-part-2/
#matplot #mathematics #Python #OpenSource #LLM #amoeba #level #intelligence #generated #Slop #AI #programming #bug #reporting #technology
#Trump Administration Moves to Allow #Intelligence Agencies Easier Access to #LawEnforcement Files
#privacy #maga
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-cia-law-enforcement-records-privacy-intelligence-community
https://www.europesays.com/2791334/ Wall Street ends down as Nvidia slides and private equity stocks sink #And #Artificial #ArtificialIntelligence #Autopilot #Bonds #business #CME #CMEGroup #company #CompanyNews #Deere #Economy #Exclude #ExcludeSocialAutopilot #financial #FinancialMarketsNews #Group #intelligence #Iran #john #JohnDeere #market #markets #Negative #News #Overall #OverallNegative #social #stock #StockMarketAndStocks #stocks #StocksU0026Bonds #u0026 #WallStreet #walmart
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Wall Street ends down as Nvidia slides and private equity stocks sink
In the who'd-a-thunk it category:
"High IQ men tend to be less conservative than their average peers, study finds. ...
Researchers found that adults identified as gifted in childhood largely share the same political outlooks as their non-gifted peers, with one specific exception regarding conservatism in men. These findings were published in the scientific journal Intelligence."
~ Katrina Petrova
I'll be the first to say "any you're surprised?" So we can get that out of the way. #intelligence #foreignInfluence #DNI #Trump https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/07/nsa-foreign-intelligence-trump-whistleblower
It's strange and frustrating that most AI researchers don't seem interested in natural intelligence.
In the early days, when "neural networks" were seen as models of brains, many people seemed at least superficially interested in neuroscience. It's not like that now. I'm sure some folks would say "yeah, and aerospace engineers don't worry about bird flight, either!" but that feels wrong to me.
If all you care about is moving cargo, then sure, flight is solved, and who cares if our designs are "biologically realistic". Similarly, if all you care about is recognizing images, playing video games, and generating slop, then AI is solved. We'll just make the current solutions better.
But I think we've barely scratched the surface of what intelligence actually is! Current AI is so narrow and so shallow by comparison, yet I think people don't even notice that because they haven't actually thought about how intelligent living things are, and in how many different ways!
“Nature loss is a national security risk, intelligence group warns“
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce9y1e09j72o
#Climatechange #Climatecrisis #Intelligence
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Shit is on Fire, yo
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I hope Col. Meyers had a nice chat with the folks at DDIS.
- I'm pretty shure they'd appreciate any cooperation with Pittufik Base personnel...
For the curious ones: Their website is https://www.fe-ddis.dk/en ...
#sarcasm #GLpol #DKpol #USpol #EUpol #NATO #Greenland #USA #Denmark #EU #commentary #NotLegalAdvice #military #intelligence #fascism #MIL #INTEL #MILINTEL
"If we truly believed in the #intelligence of the living world, how might we live differently? What would it mean to build, farm and move across the planet with #kinship, not conquest, as our organizing principle? What would a different world – one that works with #nature, and not against it – look like?" Fascinating #longread - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/nov/16/human-exceptionalism-essay
#solarpunkSunday #NatureMatchCuts #empathy #exceptionalism #moreThanHuman #Animism #wildlife #visions #personhood #rightsOfNature #indigenous
@ClipHead @FuturisticRobert @TomSullivan @georgetakei obviously that is a problem and it's dominance certainly is negative.
- Granted it still seems to show more #accountability and #consequences than any of the the #US #military, #police and #intelligence apparatus has shown.
I'm seeing posts about #French and #Ukrainian intelligences services running false information through the #US, which ended up in Russia, as proof that the US (read: Trump regime) cannot be trusted with intel.
These posts seems to all originate from an X/threads post reverencing this part of a French news talk show:
https://www.tf1info.fr/replay-lci/videos/video-24h-calvi-du-vendredi-16-janvier-2026-2419200.html.
The part referenced starts from 1:39:23, with Vincent Crouzet, a former operative of the French Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure (DGSE) supposedly claiming this op had taken place.
My #French, certainly outside ordering basic food stuffs and trying to get directions, is somewhere between rusty and non-existent.
Could someone who is better at this tell us if that's actually what's being said by Crouzet?
One possibly reputable Ukrainian news source disputes the news, saying it got from a reliable source that it is disinformation by Kremlin troll farms:
#infosec #intelligence #Russia #France #Ukraine #US #disinformation
RE: https://mastodon.online/@Infrogmation/115486718867730198
Is this an example of life imatating art, or is it more like monkey see monkey do? 🤔
Either way the enshittification will continue until moral improves... 😂
#NoAI #Only #LLM #Because #ThereIsNo #Intelligence #Involved
@bob
Purely hypothetical question (for fiction, I'm sure) to anyone with strategic #specialOps experience: What would be the practical utility of thousands of #gestapo waking up one morning with election ink marking their skin in places something else would have had another effect? Could it serve as a sign that they really want to accept nonviolent protests instead of the alternative?
The gestapo have assaulted and abducted more than enough servicemembers, veterans, and their families to motivate a response which would be somewhat more unpleasant than whistles, cardboard signs, and people shouting the gestapo are.
https://infosec.exchange/@deFractal/115776995885955462
He was referring to the legal nationalization of facilities built by #US #oil companies. #Trump has already been talking to US oil executives about investing in the Venezuelan fields, but many are reluctant, worried that the operation to run the country could falter when Trump leaves office, or that #Venezuela’s #military & #intelligence services would undercut the effort because they were being cut out of the profits.
#MafiaState #imperialism #geopolitics #law #sovereignty #InternationalLaw
@emilymbender Excellent article.
At the moment, I am wondering why this #anthropomorphizing #AI is going viral at a time when many people are #alienated from #nature, attribute little or no #intelligence to animals, or ridicule the environmental personhood of nature.
We are quicker to attribute personality to an LLM than to a wild boar; we attribute non-existent intelligence to machines, but not to a bee (who undoubtedly demonstrates a kind of intelligence).
What does that say about us humans?
Do you know a good #essay or #text discussing this discrepancy:
People refering to #animals or #plants with gender (she/he/they instead of 'it') or discussing #personhood of #nature (environmental personhood: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_personhood ) are often accused of #anthropomorphism, while it seems completely normal for many to refer to #AI like a person. And #intelligence is quickly adopted for AI but not enough researched/seen in animals.
I'm searching for human-made material only!
I hate it when folks dismiss simpler forms of life as "unintelligent." Yes, animals are very smart, but it's a mistake to think intelligence began with us! It's not about having big brains. If we want to understand what intelligence is and where it came from, we have to consider much simpler forms of intelligence, and the complex interactions between cognition and evolution.
https://thinkingwithnate.wordpress.com/2026/01/07/evolution-and-cognition/
#Trump has offered NO details about what the #US running #Venezuela looks like. Will there be an US official there in a leadership position?
As he justifies the #military operation, Trump argued that #Maduro sent members of Tren de Aragua to the US to terrorize the US. Trump’s own #intelligence community earlier this year debunked that claim, finding that the gang was not controlled by the Venezuelan govt.
#law #Congress #WarPowers #abduction #oil #LandGrab #sovereignty #InternationalLaw
"Dwarkesh Patel: You would think that to emulate the trillions of tokens in the corpus of Internet text, you would have to build a world model. In fact, these models do seem to have very robust world models. They’re the best world models we’ve made to date in AI, right? What do you think is missing?
Richard Sutton [Here is my favorite part, - B.R.]: I would disagree with most of the things you just said. To mimic what people say is not really to build a model of the world at all. You’re mimicking things that have a model of the world: people. I don’t want to approach the question in an adversarial way, but I would question the idea that they have a world model. A world model would enable you to predict what would happen. They have the ability to predict what a person would say. They don’t have the ability to predict what will happen.
What we want, to quote Alan Turing, is a machine that can learn from experience, where experience is the things that actually happen in your life. You do things, you see what happens, and that’s what you learn from. The large language models learn from something else. They learn from “here’s a situation, and here’s what a person did”. Implicitly, the suggestion is you should do what the person did."
https://withoutwhy.substack.com/p/ai-embodiment-and-the-limits-of-simulation
#AI #AGI #LLMs #Chatbots #Intelligence #Robotics #Embodiment
WTF?
The #Trump administration has ordered nearly 30 US #ambassadors in embassies around the world to return to the #UnitedStates within weeks, a move that would leave a large gap in the US #DiplomaticCorps even as Trump has said he wants to resolve conflicts through #diplomacy.
#geopolitics #intelligence #NationalSecurity #idiocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/us/politics/trump-administration-ambassadors-posts.html?smid=url-share
The Danish government has twice this year summoned #US diplomats to complain about reports that the United States was spying & running a covert influence campaign in #Greenland. Earlier this month, in a first for the Danish government, Denmark’s #military #intelligence said that shifts in US policy were generating new uncertainties for Denmark’s security.
#geopolitics #Denmark #Trump #imperialism #greed #NaturalResources #ShippingLanes #ClimateChange
The Art of Pivoting - Techniques for Intelligence Analysts to Discover New Relationships in a Complex World
This open source book explores how intelligence and cyber-security analysts can uncover hidden links between threat actor infrastructure and ongoing investigations by pivoting on both classic and unconventional indicators — many of which are often overlooked. The material is grounded in empirical, field-tested strategies used in cyber-security, digital forensics, cyber threat intelligence, and intelligence analysis more broadly.
I released the first version of this book following the @firstdotorg CTI Conference 2025 in Berlin, where the initial idea for the project emerged.
🔗 Source of the book in Markdown https://github.com/adulau/the-art-of-pivoting (if you want to contribute ;-)
#cti #threatintelligence #pivoting #pivot #intelligence #intelligencecommunity #cybersecurity #book #openbook #investigation #opensource
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Fabienne Verdier (born 1962) is a French painter who works in France after years of studies in China. She was the first non-Chinese woman to be awarded a post-graduate diploma in fine arts by the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in Chongqing, China.
The photography was taken by Alexandre Dulaunoy at Poétique de la ligne, exposition de Fabienne Verdier au Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, 2025.
I chose an image from Fabienne Verdier’s Poétique de la ligne because it visually echoes the essence of pivoting. Her work is not about representing objects, but about tracing lines that connect forces, movements, and spaces that would otherwise remain separate. A single line can bridge different scales, different energies, and different worlds.
This is precisely what pivoting aims to do in intelligence analysis: to trace meaningful lines between data points that appear unrelated at first glance, and to move across technical, human, and contextual domains. Just as Verdier’s line is both deliberate and exploratory, pivoting is an act of disciplined intuition—following a connection far enough to see whether it reveals structure, meaning, or truth.
The image serves as a reminder that analysis is not only about accumulation, but about connection: the art of drawing lines where others see fragments.
How phone ads exposed French #intelligence officers, and what it means for your #privacy
#Spatial #Intelligence is the ability to understand, visualize, and mentally manipulate objects and spaces, crucial for daily tasks like navigation and complex professions in design, engineering, and medicine.
It is now a key frontier in AI for machines to perceive and interact with the 3D world, moving beyond flat images to true understanding.
https://knowledgezone.co.in/trends/browser?topic=Spatial-Intelligence
Representative Jim Himes of Connecticut, the top Democrat on the #House #Intelligence Cmte, who, like Smith, saw the video in a closed-door briefing last week, told CBS’s “Face the Nation” Sunday that the 2 survivors “were barely alive, much less engaging in hostilities,” when the follow-up strike took place.
“When you actually watch the video, you realize they don’t have a radio,” he said. “They’re barely hanging on.”
#criminal #law #murder #ExtraJudicialKillings #WarCrimes #Trump #Hegseth
US Exiting the #WorldStage
Exclusive: #Trump sets 2027 deadline for Europe-led #NATO defense
The US wants #Europe to take over the majority of NATO's conventional #defense capabilities, from #intelligence to #missiles, by 2027, #Pentagon ofcls told diplomats in Washington, a tight deadline that struck some European ofcls as unrealistic.
#geopolitics
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/us-sets-2027-deadline-europe-led-nato-defense-officials-say-2025-12-05/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement