Christopher Wall @cscottwall.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Well shoot alignment.openai.com/misalignment... 010
Reposted by Christopher WallWesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 23/02/2026Since 2022, Matthieu Aikins and I have been investigating the CIA’s Afghan surrogate commandos, known in Afg as the Zero Units but officially called the CTPTs by the CIA. These units’ existence has been publicly known since 2010, but their relationship with the CIA is still an official secret...nytimes.comThey Fought for the C.I.A. in Afghanistan. In America, They’re Living in Fear. 523188
Christopher Wall @cscottwall.bsky.social · 07/03/2025Hi, just want to share my latest essay that looks at AI for counterterrorism. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.comThe Ghost in the Machine: Counterterrorism in the Age of Artificial IntelligenceIn the aftermath of 9/11 security agencies augmented their counterterrorism (CT) apparatuses with advanced analytics, machine learning (ML), and artificial intelligence (AI) to improve their abilit... 020
Reposted by Christopher WallKate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 20/02/2025New research from Costello, Pennycook, and Rand. Can conversations with AI help reduce belief in conspiracy theories? Quite possibly. What’s the mechanism? Evidence production. Let me explain my little-t theory about how this might work. 918371
Reposted by Christopher WallDanny Chau @dannychau.bsky.social · 30/01/2025I will never claim to "know ball," but if there's anything I feel comfortable doing in this space, it's metabolizing Russell Westbrook's ethos as a point guard across his many eras. This was my latest foray: www.theringer.com/2025/01/21/n...theringer.comRussell Westbrook Is Once Again the Most Thrilling Show in BasketballJust when we thought we were out, Russ’s uncanny chemistry with Nikola Jokic has pulled us back in 2243
Christopher Wall @cscottwall.bsky.social · 05/01/2025RIP Professor Gerber. Was an absolute privilege studying and learning from him. Just a generous, kind, and loving person - we lost a great one. wapo.st/4fFXE33wapo.stBurton L. Gerber, CIA officer who boosted Cold War spying, dies at 91As CIA station chief in Moscow in the 1980s, he oversaw an operation for a trove of secret documents on Soviet military research and development. 040
Reposted by Christopher WallDerek Thompson @dkthomp.bsky.social · 21/12/2024People sometimes make fun of science that sounds stupid and random. Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea 372171765071
Reposted by Christopher WallEryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 15/12/2024Here’s a list of what I was reading about Generative AI in 2024 that didn’t make it into the Slop Infrastructures pieces. The rest have been sorted into categories with questions — covering AI’s anti-human streak, AI & imagination, environmental impacts, shared myths and more.mail.cyberneticforests.comThings I Read in 2024A Partial List of Writing on Generative AI There has been some great critical writing about Generative AI this year. This is a long post with many quotations that tries to give a snapshot of what ... 68127
Reposted by Christopher WallJón Steinsson 🗽 @jonsteinsson.bsky.social · 09/11/2024End the Fed at your own peril. Alesina and Summers (1993): 212744
Christopher Wall @cscottwall.bsky.social · 09/11/2024I’ve been thinking a lot about these lines from Paradise Lost over the past week (Book 3, lines 111-125) 040
Reposted by Christopher WallSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 01/08/2024In March of 1945, the US Army issued this "fact sheet" to guide conversations with soldiers on the topic of fascism, paying particular attention to the ongoing threat that domestic fascist movements posed to the US. Their analysis of what a homegrown US fascism would look like is interesting. 452178968
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WAR DEPARTMENT-WASHINGTON 25, D. C. • 24 March 1945 FASCISM!
Note For This Week's Discussion:
Fascism is not the easiest thing to identify and analyze; nor, once in power, is it easy to destroy. It is important for our future and that of the world that as many of us as possible understand the causes and practices of fascism, in order to combat it. Points to stress are: (1) Fascism is more apt to come to power at a time of economic crisis;
(2) fascism inevitably leads to war; (3) it can come to any country; (4) we can best combat it by making our democracy work.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:miczfsfixolk42l7343z3bpd/bafkreigaks7wgy4rvmszhobeed7hlaqap4mynkhqketipzolmesislssci)
