Reposted by @douglasbshaw.bsky.social Patsy “Resistance Kitty” Evans Ph.D. @drharmony.net · 20h 08942
Reposted by @douglasbshaw.bsky.socialTyler King @tyleraking.com · 03/10/2026Meta has enabled Muse to build extensive and ever-growing profiles on the orbit of people in a user’s life. Based on user input but also “publicly available information.” Whether that means a web search, Facebook’s own extensive data, or buying data broker info…we don’t know? And we can’t opt out.wired.comMuse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and FamilyMillions have downloaded Meta’s AI agent Muse. But getting it to do your bidding comes with privacy costs. 381142666
Reposted by @douglasbshaw.bsky.socialDave Kearn @davekearnjr.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Hi all! So crazily enough - academic publishing takes time - my Taiwan article was just published in the print version of the Journal of Strategic Studies. There’s fifty free downloads of anyone is interested. I think it may actually be more relevant now. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/H6RJT...tandfonline.comLimited nuclear war and the defense of TaiwanThis article assesses proposals to address the challenge of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan with the threat of first use of tactical nuclear weapons by the United States. While it is not clear that a ... 1157
douglasbshaw.bsky.social @douglasbshaw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This will be important. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...yalebooks.yale.eduNew War MachinesHow new military technologies require radically new thinking about peace, war, national security, and international orderDangerous military technologies are ... 000
douglasbshaw.bsky.social @douglasbshaw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026People make institutions, not the other way round. Sometimes people make institutions bad. 000
Reposted by @douglasbshaw.bsky.socialAlex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Quite a remarkable map, table, and diagram from a 1971 report on launch-on-warning, showing the implications of Soviet submarine launched ballistic missiles (SLBM) on detection, reaction, deliberation, and response time. All numbers are in SECONDS, which is what I find the most wild about it. 1014145
Reposted by @douglasbshaw.bsky.socialStephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 25/09/2026OTD 65 yrs ago, President John F. Kennedy addressed the United Nations General Assembly and memorably warned, “Every man, woman and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles, hanging by the slenderest of threads, capable of being cut at any moment by accident or miscalculation or by madness. …” 22512
Reposted by @douglasbshaw.bsky.socialStephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Today in 1997, the post-Cold War nuclear terrorism thriller “The Peacemaker,” starring George Clooney and Nicole Kidman, and directed by Mimi Leder, opened in movie theaters. “I’m not afraid of the man who wants ten nuclear weapons, colonel. I’m terrified of the man who only wants one.” 1164
Reposted by @douglasbshaw.bsky.socialStephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Today in 1983 in Moscow, just past midnight, 44 year-old Lt. Col. Stanislav Petrov’s calm decision that a satellite warning of the launch of 5 US Minuteman ICBMs was a false alarm—based on “a funny feeling in my gut”—may have averted a catastrophic nuclear war. www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl... 311242
Reposted by @douglasbshaw.bsky.socialAndrew Facini @andrewfacini.com · 26/09/2026and I was doing this for free 🥲defence-blog.comPentagon pays $16.6 million to keep nuke inventory onlineThe Defense Threat Reduction Agency has awarded General Dynamics Information Technology a $16.6 million contract to keep running the computer systems the U.S. military uses to track every nuclear weap... 1203
Reposted by @douglasbshaw.bsky.socialMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The Man Who Saved The World. May his memory be a blessing. 131426451
Reposted by @douglasbshaw.bsky.socialDavid Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 26/09/2026PBS NOVA will have an episode on Space Wars Oct 7th including me as an expert. Final boss for a science kid short of hosting the third run of Cosmos. I didn't make the trailer but I'm much more boring than @vsamsondc.bsky.social or @planet4589.bsky.social video.nhpbs.org/video/space-...video.nhpbs.orgNOVA | Space Wars Preview | Season 53 | Episode 12Inside the escalating military struggle to control space and the satellites we rely on. 915735
Reposted by @douglasbshaw.bsky.social🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Have I mentioned the virtually unrestricted nuclear launch authority, recently? 5195
Reposted by @douglasbshaw.bsky.social🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Atomic Energy Commission through Department of Energy trying to make physics secret. 2143
douglasbshaw.bsky.social @douglasbshaw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026States trying to make math secret.static.klipy.comKing Canute's Powerful GazeALT: King Canute's Powerful Gaze 000
douglasbshaw.bsky.social @douglasbshaw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The erasure of “communication” from “capability, credibility, and…” in deterrence discourse has led us into strange waters. 010
douglasbshaw.bsky.social @douglasbshaw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026ISA panel acceptedstatic.klipy.comYanquiboysALT: Yanquiboys 000
Reposted by @douglasbshaw.bsky.socialJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 23/09/2026(Glances nervously at the closet where I keep my extra brains) 3978555
Reposted by @douglasbshaw.bsky.socialStephen Young @atomicwonk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Henry Kissinger & Dick Garwin were debating missile defense. Garwin argued deploying a system was ineffective (it won't work) & dangerous (as adversaries will respond). Kissinger said it's impossible for it to be both. Garwin said "imagine you buy a squirt gun and charge a policy officer." 1378
douglasbshaw.bsky.social @douglasbshaw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Just scheduled a call with a scholar I’ve admired for 4 decades, and all it took was asking. 140
Reposted by @douglasbshaw.bsky.social🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 21/09/2026"General, I have fought just as many nuclear wars as you have!" A story of Alain Enthoven. Herman Kahn could also apparently be quite chippy about the reality and value of his expertise when provoked. Generally, one is presumed to only ever get to fight one med+ to large nuclear war. 2217
douglasbshaw.bsky.social @douglasbshaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Paul Bracken: “Countries are unlikely to see ‘only conventional threats’ if AI driven counterforce targets their central nervous system and the brain of their armed forces.” orbisjournal.org/commentary/a...orbisjournal.orgAn AI-Driven Second Nuclear AgeExplore the impact of AI on global security and warfare in this new age of technological threats and challenges. 010
douglasbshaw.bsky.social @douglasbshaw.bsky.social · 19/09/2026static.klipy.comMind Blown BoomALT: Mind Blown Boom 000
Reposted by @douglasbshaw.bsky.social"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Embrace 'they do not have enough goons' thought. 1873897
douglasbshaw.bsky.social @douglasbshaw.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Please, please stop endorsing people who will never lift a finger on your issue just because of how they answered a survey.static.klipy.comButcher's Plea: I'm Begging You (Karl Urban)ALT: Butcher's Plea: I'm Begging You (Karl Urban) 010
Reposted by @douglasbshaw.bsky.socialJon B. Wolfsthal @jonatomic.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The lack of democratic checks and balances around Presidential nuclear authority, and increasingly around nuclear issues more broadly is a real issue. And increasingly, as this Administration has undermined democratic norms around use of force we cannot disconnect conventional from nuclear risks. 071
Reposted by @douglasbshaw.bsky.socialCheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Good morning team. I recommend this book. Also, there was at least one article about the sex cult around the time of Sam Bankman-Fried's trial. 25513
douglasbshaw.bsky.social @douglasbshaw.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The 2030 truth and reconciliation commission collecting screenshots of abominable tweets.static.klipy.comPerson Searching with Magnifying GlassALT: Person Searching with Magnifying Glass 010
Reposted by @douglasbshaw.bsky.socialCheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Americans can benefit from these too. 2326
Reposted by @douglasbshaw.bsky.social🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 16/09/2026👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇 04514
douglasbshaw.bsky.social @douglasbshaw.bsky.social · 16/09/20262027 National Security Space Association scholarship applications open: nssaspace.org/scholarship-...nssaspace.orgScholarship 27 – National Security Space Association 000
Reposted by @douglasbshaw.bsky.socialCheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Once again, some very good discussion on this post. 0184
Reposted by @douglasbshaw.bsky.social🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Well this could and needed to have been done differently. 53110
Reposted by @douglasbshaw.bsky.socialJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 15/09/2026Got my updated COVID and flu shots today because I prefer not dying and also fuck RFK jr and this whole willfully ignorant and malicious administration. 418106631230
douglasbshaw.bsky.social @douglasbshaw.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Lea Szilard is ready for her next assignment. 180
Reposted by @douglasbshaw.bsky.socialNick Kodama 🌳👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 13/09/2026the AI debate is like: what if this, but everyone was a dumbass 26511
Reposted by @douglasbshaw.bsky.social🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 12/09/2026All the more reason for the USA to destroys its stocks of variola. Preferably with Russia but destroy them we must. 2175
douglasbshaw.bsky.social @douglasbshaw.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Wishing all who celebrate a boldly peaceful Jan Egeland’s birthday m.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn-o...m.youtube.comYlvis - Jan Egeland [Official music video HD]YouTube video by TV Norge 000
Reposted by @douglasbshaw.bsky.socialBrian Grubb @briancgrubb.bsky.social · 10/09/2026THE PREMISE IS THAT THE MUPPETS ARE PUTTING ON A SHOW CALLED THE MUPPET SHOW 474793954
douglasbshaw.bsky.social @douglasbshaw.bsky.social · 09/09/2026When AI starts killing people, we probably wont notice. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/304706...penguinrandomhouse.comRule 34 by Charles Stross: 9781937007669 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: BooksMeet Edinburgh Detective Inspector Liz Kavanaugh, head of the Innovative Crimes Investigation Unit, otherwise known as the Rule 34 Squad. They monitor the Internet for potential criminal activity, ana... 000
Reposted by @douglasbshaw.bsky.socialCheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026This is the secret. 37412
Reposted by @douglasbshaw.bsky.socialStephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Amb. Thomas Graham, Jr., perhaps the last giant of 20th century nuclear arms control and disarmament, has died at 92. Graham worked for 27 years at the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, incl. as acting director and general counsel. He was also a remarkable person. www.legacy.com/legacy/thoma... 1479
Reposted by @douglasbshaw.bsky.socialProPublica @propublica.org · 06/09/2026ProPublica spoke to dozens of people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote: 10547761907
Reposted by @douglasbshaw.bsky.socialGregory Koblentz @gregkoblentz.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Pandora Report 9.4.2026 Welcome to this week’s Pandora Report! This issue examines the growing importance of local capacity in biodefense, the detection of H5N1 on a U.S. mink farm, and emerging questions at the intersection of AI, biotechnology, and biological security. pandorareport.orgpandorareport.orgThe Pandora ReportWhere Science Meets Security 011
Reposted by @douglasbshaw.bsky.socialOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 05/09/2026 433447715
douglasbshaw.bsky.social @douglasbshaw.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I am deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jr. I can’t think of a better initial reflection than what Paul Nitze once wrote in a letter to him, calling Graham “an indefatigable warrior for the true and the just.” www.ltbridge.com/news-media/p...ltbridge.comLightbridge Corporation Pays Tribute to Ambassador Thomas Graham Jr., Former Executive Chairman of the BoardRESTON, Va., Sept. 04, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Lightbridge Corporation (Nasdaq: LTBR) was deeply saddened to learn of the passing of…... 210