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Jennifer Rooke

@jenrooke.bsky.social
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Former US Air Force intelligence officer. Surveillance practitioner turned critic. #AffirmativeEthics #AntiMilitarism #AntiRacism #BanWeaponizedAI #QuestionSuperiority

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Rest of World @restofworld.org · 22/09/2026
The U.S. is framing its rivalry with China as one of technical superiority, failing to recognize that public trust and robust consumer protections are necessary for long-term dominance. restofworld.org/2026/america-china-…
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America is in the wrong AI race with China
The U.S. is framing its rivalry with China as one of technical superiority, failing to recognize that public trust and robust consumer protections are necessary for long-term dominance.
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Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
HUGE EXCLUSIVE from @bloomberg.com Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School Pentagon investigators discovered that flawed intel, outdated imagery & overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School
Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Who could have ever thought AI intelligence reports could have accuracy problems? kesq.com/news/nationa...
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Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say
By Katie Bo Lillis, Zachary Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The intelligence report, circulated across the US military this spring in the midst of the war with Iran, immediately set off alarm bells: A Chinese ship...
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 15/09/2026
An extensive Financial Times investigative report, done in collaboration with Lighthouse Reports, demonstrates that more than SIXTY FIVE PERCENT of Israeli damage and destruction done to Lebanese population centers occurred AFTER the so-called ceasefire agreement of April 16th.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 11/09/2026
"The bar for proving proving yourself innocent was so much higher than the bar for intelligence used to lethally target and kill someone."
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Airwars @airwars.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
1/ A year ago the US launched an unprecedented military campaign on small boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific Our team spoke to Al Jazeera for their new documentary, Killing at Sea www.aljazeera.com/video/fault-...
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Killing at Sea
Three families, two bombings and a hidden war: uncovering the lives behind Operation Southern Spear's dead.
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Luke Moffett @lukemoffett.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Deadly strike on Iranian wedding was likely a direct hit by a US munition, analysis shows #Iran www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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Deadly strike on Iranian wedding was likely a direct hit by a US munition, analysis shows
An explosion that ripped through a wedding celebration in southern Iran likely resulted from a direct hit by a U.S. munition and not a ricochet off another target.
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Christiaan Triebert @trbrtc.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Using weapon remnants, satellite images, witness accounts, here's our report on the U.S. airstrike on a wedding gathering in Kuhestak, southern Iran, that killed 5 and wounded 67. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/v...
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In Small Iranian Town, a U.S. Attack Turns a Wedding Into a Tragedy (Gift Article)
The bomb that hit the residential area was American, according to a weapons expert and a visual analysis by The Times. It killed five people and wounded 67 others, the Iranian authorities said.
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The Independent | Latest news and features from US, UK and worl… @the-independent.com.web.brid.gy · 31/08/2026
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America’s war on international law shows deep fear of accountability
The United States’ relentless campaign against international justice is not a sign of a calm and self-assured sovereignty
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Jennifer Rooke @jenrooke.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
"Nothing in that sequence was autonomous. A person watched a live feed, understood what he was looking at, and initiated a lethal explosion anyway ...The real failure would be to keep treating the autonomy of the weapon as the whole of the moral problem ..."
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Iain Overton @iainoverton.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Investigating the Military-Technological Complex: an overview of AOAV’s event on AI and Warfare aoav.org.uk/2026/investi...
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Investigating the Military-Technological Complex: an overview of AOAV's event on AI and Warfare - AOAV
AOAV and SOAS brought together journalists, researchers and experts to examine how artificial intelligence, surveillance, big tech and automated targeting are reshaping warfare, civilian harm and the ...
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Airwars @airwars.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Anatomy of an AI Kill Chain A visual project from Airwars and @ainowinstitute.bsky.social breaks down how artificial intelligence is transforming every aspect of war - and how militaries are offloading life and death decisions to flawed technologies ai-killchain.airwars.org
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Interactive: Anatomy Of An AI Kill Chain
Breaking down how militaries are offloading life and death decisions to flawed technologies
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Janina Dill @janinadill.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Everyone who uncritically repeats "hospitals used for military purposes become legitimate targets" has a role to play in this epidemic of attacks against healthcare facilities in war! A) The law is more demanding than that! B) Without concrete evidence for "use" attacks are presumptively illegal.
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Jennifer Rooke @jenrooke.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
"Minab is illustrative of this more general transformation in which the friction necessary for legal and factual assessment is being progressively eroded by design, resulting in a targeting environment in which outdated or uncertain intelligence is continuously reproduced as actionable truth." 1/2
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Airwars @airwars.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
AI warfare is much discussed, but often little understood A partnership between AI experts, conflict specialists, and storytellers, Anatomy of a Kill Chain is a visual project illustrating how AI is transforming all aspects of war Online launch tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/launch-ana...
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Launch: Anatomy of an AI Kill Chain
A new visual project from Airwars and AI Now breaking down how artificial intelligence is transforming every aspect of war
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
No, no and no. These weren't "rogue AIs" -- what happened here is that OpenAI kicked off a software process and let it run. OpenAI was always in control and could have stopped the process (or actually paid attention to what it was doing) at any time. >>
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Rogue AIs going unsupervised for days, hacking at least one company, represent one of the first real-world examples of a threat long feared by AI safety researchers: loss of control. It comes as the cybersecurity capacities of top models, including Anthropic’s Mythos, have helped fuel debate in Washington about how to regulate artificial intelligence.
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Boyd van Dijk @boydvandijk.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
My new article is out in open access @iojournal.bsky.social. The norms for armed conflict are usually seen as state-centric. Drawing on archival work in Algeria & Southern Africa, I show how armed groups shaped them too, from the margins, and why that matters. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Norm Making from the Margins: Armed Groups, the Algerian War, and South–South Legal Politics | International Organization | Cambridge Core
Norm Making from the Margins: Armed Groups, the Algerian War, and South–South Legal Politics
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Not (A.) I. @aerialeverything.cryptoanarchy.network · 16/07/2026
First an elementary school in Minab, now a paediatric cancer hospital in Ahvaz. Catalogue this along with the many hospitals and schools targeted and destroyed by the "world’s most moral army” in Gaza. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/...
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Iran condemns ‘barbaric’ US attack near children’s cancer hospital
Iran accuses US of 'cowardly war crime' as doctor says blast was 'so close' they thought the hospital was struck.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
More war crimes: In its fourth strike on water infrastructure, the US has destroyed two water tanks in Sirik, Iran, completely cutting off water distribution in all villages of the Bemani district and the city of Kohstak, the Hormozgan Water and Sanitation Authority says.
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Jennifer Rooke @jenrooke.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
"We trace coalition metrics back to concerns about consequence management, showing how martial considerations about optimizing violence—rather than moral concerns about constraining violence—governed the enumerative enterprise." 1/2
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Chris Osieck @chrisosieck.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
For anyone without a short-term memory, this brings back memories of Talon Anvil, the U.S. military strike cell that ostensibly targeted ISIS but was later found to have repeatedly killed Syrian civilians.
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Israeli command system identified 850,000 targets in Gaza and Lebanon wars, says supplier
Elbit Systems supplied Tzayad digital army programme to map people, vehicles and other objects in real time
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Jennifer Rooke @jenrooke.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
"Groups that are often labelled “terrorists” by states - or even by the international community as a whole - are sometimes more willing to respect the basic principles of international humanitarian law than states themselves."
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
"Messages indicating the intelligence was based on years-old intelligence that needed to be re-vetted were embedded in a system used for developing targets and required a senior officer to approve adding a site to the strike list, according to the sources." www.cnn.com/2026/07/07/p...
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Exclusive: US commanders bypassed warnings about outdated intelligence ahead of strike that hit school in Iran, sources say | CNN Politics
Senior US military commanders bypassed warnings in critical databases that intelligence about potential targets in Iran was severely out of date and approved some strikes — including one that hit a sc...
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Not (A.) I. @aerialeverything.cryptoanarchy.network · 29/06/2026
"In this convergence, the synthetic and the documented have fused into a single continuum of representation -- a feedback loop in which anticipation and action constantly reinforce one another."
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Jennifer Rooke @jenrooke.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
"[T]he US & Israel declared hitting more than 17,000 separate targets in 40 days – a rate of strikes near unprecedented in modern conflict...Tehran bore the brunt of these attacks, with 87 civ casualty events recorded in Tehran province – more than half of those reported in heavily populated areas.
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Airwars @airwars.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
To name more than 150 people killed or injured in the school strike on Minab, our team worked with hundreds of sources and built on community-led memorials by Iranian groups. We group the children who died by age, starting with the six year olds. airwars.org/civilian-cas...
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Drone Wars UK @dronewarsuk.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Put simply, long-range OWA drones are enabling belligerents to conduct punishment attacks on civilian populations. As these systems spread, we will see more civilians impacted. 'Ukraine hit Moscow with nearly 200 drones in its largest-ever attack on the city' giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Ukraine hits Moscow with largest-ever drone attack
Almost 200 drones strike Russian capital, several damaging the city’s largest oil refinery
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 16/06/2026
Killed walking home from school: why did Somali children become targets of US drone strikes?
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Killed walking home from school: why did Somali children become targets of US drone strikes?
Six months ago, at least 12 people, including eight children, died during a US attack. The US has never admitted the civilian deaths. Here, the Guardian pieces together what happened that day
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Frank Slijper @frankslijper.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
New report by @privacyinternational.org & @paxforpeace.nl out today: 'When algorithms go to war Tech giants, the arms industry and the weaponisation of AI paxforpeace.nl/publications...
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When algorithms go to war  - PAX
Tech giants, the arms industry and the weaponisation of AI
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Jennifer Rooke @jenrooke.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
"[S]hifting the blame to an “AI problem” to avoid responsibility is another long-standing concern raised by the US’ use of AI in Iran. The intel failure was more likely a result of poor human judgement, which may have been exacerbated by the employment of AI systems in contexts of pressure & speed."
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Jennifer Rooke @jenrooke.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
"But democracies that stop systematically counting civilian deaths risk abandoning something fundamental: the principle that the use of force must remain publicly accountable to the societies in whose name it is exercised."
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Jennifer Rooke @jenrooke.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
"There is also moral value in recognising and naming the terrorism committed by the Trump administration within the Unites States and abroad. Doing so reveals the illegitimacy of the administration’s actions and highlights the extraordinary toll inflicted by these actions on innocent people..."
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Craig Martin @craigxmartin.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Reporting on an investigation into the victims of US extrajudicial killing in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific, identifying 13 of the victims. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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13 men killed by US military boat strikes identified: ‘These were flesh-and-blood people’
All victims of US strikes in eastern Pacific and the Caribbean identified so far came from extremely poor communities
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Just Security @justsecurity.org · 15/05/2026
Countries need to strengthen their ability "to review intelligence provided by the U.S. at a time when Washington has removed many of the institutions and teams responsible for mitigating harm to civilians." Megan Karlshoej-Pedersen on what steps the Dutch are taking:
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The Netherlands Sets New Path for Investigating Evidence of Civilian Harm in Modern Conflict
Dutch investigation of Mosul airstrikes reveals how outdated intelligence and flawed assessments led to civilian death, and what militaries must change.
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Janina Dill @janinadill.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
NOT TO BE MISSED: Insightful interventions by @gaborrona.bsky.social on the connections between aggression and the (mis)application of IHL and the use of AI in targeting and by @eliavl.bsky.social on the legal relevance of the US President’s rhetoric and the vain logic of reprisals.
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Janina Dill @janinadill.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Is it possible to legally evaluate US targeting in the air war against Iran, 28 February-8 April? In this discussion I defended why a preliminary legal analysis is possible & necessary and address 4 types of targets struck by the US (& Israel) in Iran that raise distinct legal questions:
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Airwars @airwars.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
NEW: Airwars-supported cross-border investigation identifies victims of US boat strikes. Journalist collective reveals victims are labourers, fishermen, cab drivers. Almost 200 have been killed since Sept 2025. No trial, no defence. 🔗 www.elclip.org/los-bombarde... #LosBombardeados
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Los Bombardeados: sin derecho a la defensa
Una investigación que busca revelar quiénes son las víctimas y cuáles han sido los efectos colaterales de los bombardeos de Estados Unidos a supuestas narcolanchas en el Caribe y el Océano Pacífico de...
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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Haven't watched it yet, but given the speaker list ( @kevinbaker.bsky.social, @sophiagoodfriend.bsky.social, @beenwrekt.bsky.social, and Lily Hu), I am sure this will be excellent!
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Artificial Reason
A conversation on AI, rationality, and violence.
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Jennifer Rooke @jenrooke.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Pesky EU regs (sarcasm): "Microsoft's investigation uncovered "usage patterns" consistent with terms of service violations. Some of Microsoft's services to Israel are delivered via Europe—abuse of which which could put Microsoft in legal trouble w/ European regulators."
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"Unethical use of Azure" leads to the firing of Microsoft Israel leaders
Microsoft fires several senior Israeli staffers an internal investigation reportedly uncovered "unethical" use of its products.
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Jennifer Rooke @jenrooke.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
"[D]aily usage hit approx 20 billion tokens. For comparison, in civilian contexts, a single Q&A w/ a chatbot can require several hundred tokens, while an individual power user w/ a high-level paid account—someone using AI to write code, for instance—can burn up to a quarter-million tokens a day."
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Boyd van Dijk @boydvandijk.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
"If history is any guide, we could be living through yet another historical cycle, during which dismay about lack of efficacy of, and widespread disregard for, IHL ultimately gives rise to reinvigorated efforts to innovate and strengthen its application." opiniojuris.org/2026/05/05/t...
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The Future of the Law of Armed Conflict Warrants Hope
[Rob Grace is an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of San Diego’s Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies and a Senior Researcher for the Beyond Compliance Consortium, based at the University of York…
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Jennifer Rooke @jenrooke.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Former Google employa, Laura Nolan on the risks of military AI: "Systems trained to detect anomalies or correlations will, by design, produce false positives...These are not edge cases. They are structural properties of how such systems operate when deployed at scale."
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The risks of military AI are clearer than ever
Laura Nolan left Google in 2018 over Project Maven. Now, she reflects on advancements in military AI and recent employee pushback within the tech giant.
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Jennifer Rooke @jenrooke.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
"[T]here's something undeniably sinister..irreducibly degrading in the combo of intimacy & detachment in the footage..by these FPV drones of their victims’ final moments..the aestheticisation of the act of killing, its rendering as a kind of viral entertainment..feels ethically wounding to witness."
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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 24/04/2026
Excellent article on the lawless form of #war that #Israel and the #USA are pursuing in #Gaza, #Lebanon, #Syria, #Iran... and wherever is next. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Is this what war looks like now? | Mohamad Bazzi
Before the war on Gaza, the seed of Israel’s strategy of wholesale destruction was planted in a 2006 war on Lebanon. Today, the playbook repeats itself
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Elke Schwarz @elkeschwarz.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
One of the problems with the tech elite celebrity is that all attention is garnered by the individual & their shiny toys, not the vast scale of human suffering they cause. It creates an aversion to seeing this suffering in favour of the spectacle. We see this a lot in the context of AI warfare too.
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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 19/04/2026
"[Palestinians] are not superior to any other life, but no other life is superior to us." Palestinian-American activist, academic, and author Noura Erakat tells @mehdirhasan.bsky.social about the double standard the West applies to war crimes against Palestinians. Watch: zeteo.com/p/iran-gaza-...
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Mark Coeckelbergh @coeckelbergh.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
If you’re looking for an example of technofascism this is it: Palantir’s manifesto. See also my article on technofascism link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Despite the administration’s rhetoric and bogus legal theories, the supposed armed conflict with “narco-terrorists” appears to be entirely make believe. Murder is the general term for premeditated killing outside of armed conflict.
On April 15, at the direction of #SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Three male narco-terrorists were killed during this action. No U.S. military forces were harmed. 
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 #OpSouthernSpear
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Mark Coeckelbergh @coeckelbergh.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
@pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social published an essay I wrote related to my book “Artificial Religion” pghrev.com/the-myths-we... and an excerpt of the book pghrev.com/talk-to-me-p... on publication day 🙂
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Mark Coeckelbergh @coeckelbergh.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
My new book "Artificial Religion" is published today by @mitpress.bsky.social !!! mitpress.mit.edu/978026205221...
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