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Matthew Ford @warmatters.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Latest publication: Hammers & Nails: Military Innovation as a Strategic Dead End In this article I argue that innovation has become an end-in-itself, supplanting the much harder challenge of defining a meaningful, justifiable and achievable strategy. www.militarystrategymagazine.com/article/hamm...

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Hammers and Nails: Military Innovation as a Strategic Dead End - Military Strategy Magazine

This article argues that contemporary Western military innovation has become a strategic dead end. Tracing the evolution of military innovation from the Revolution in Military Affairs through counteri...

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Serendipity? @quasibooks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Forget the triple lock. We need a Marmite Index for deciding on the pension increase. Marmite is now £3.15 in Lidl.

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Serendipity? @quasibooks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

They say Charlie Boy was giddy When he was rid And she could no longer Tell of things he did A smash in an underpass No gay Paree Was it arranged Another mystery Draped in a standard To Westminster bourn Elton recycled a song A candle so forlorn

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Serendipity? @quasibooks.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Reform sports a light blue Restore a darker hue If you’re colour blind it’s clear Are they clear to you

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Serendipity? @quasibooks.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

They called Ed a music magpie His tunes just AI slop He’s tried being apolitical Now his career’s gone plop

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Serendipity? @quasibooks.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

In all the hoo-ha about existential threats remember that AI just rearranges the deck chairs but much faster and in patterns and across domains that humans might miss or not consider. Who first stacks those chairs is the key question.

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Serendipity? @quasibooks.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Wil this be the first or second five grand Is it the final DODGE score Will I ever see it in my hand Or is it just a golf swing fore

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Serendipity? @quasibooks.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

8647 and you just End up with JD TruthSocial will no longer be such fun As he’ll then 86 Natalie

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Serendipity? @quasibooks.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I should be posting on UK politics but the US is just so much more wild

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Serendipity? @quasibooks.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Ah Natalie it was you Who made Obama ape And POTUS thought, What a merry jape But now the tide is turning The knives unsheathed are out So will we now find What you are really about No LLMs were (h)armed in production of this ditty

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Serendipity? @quasibooks.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I’ve tried to discern the Shannon Entropy In Trump’s media fodder It’s so random it should be high, but it’s low As it’s predictability gets odder and odder

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Serendipity? @quasibooks.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Am I in a simulation Just a meta state When a cosmic AGI pulls the plug Will that be my fate

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Serendipity? @quasibooks.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Physics can be troubling It can be rather queer Am I in a superposition Am I really here? When they nail down the lid Will that be that Or could it be a case of Schrödinger’s cat

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Serendipity? @quasibooks.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

There is truth and there is our truth. These versions of truth can diverge significantly

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Serendipity? @quasibooks.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Is MAGA actually an apocalyptic cult in disguise?

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Serendipity? @quasibooks.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

You don’t actually need the chapter content - the outlines say it all e.g. The Mechanics of Distraction 5. The Daily Outrage Cycle 6. Media Oxygen and Manufactured Chaos 7. Legal Theater and Perpetual Crisis 8. Personality Cult as Smoke Screen

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Serendipity? @quasibooks.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Trump is just a decoy. Trump’s personality, controversies and highly visible political behaviour functions as a distraction while a more systematic programme of institutional change proceeds underneath.

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Serendipity? @quasibooks.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall Humpty Dumpty had a great fall He increased his entropy by a factor of ten So fixing him was beyond the King’s men

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Serendipity? @quasibooks.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Perplexity: Conclusion: The Spectacle Was the Strategy

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Serendipity? @quasibooks.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Chat GPT: Conclusion — The Man, the Machine and the Distraction Trump may be the spectacle. Project 2025 may be the architecture. The critical question is whether the spectacle is merely incidental—or whether it has helped make the architecture possible.

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Serendipity? @quasibooks.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Grok responded: Puppets are controlled. Decoys are useful precisely because they are not fully controlled. They generate noise on their own. They attract enemies. They absorb political capital and media oxygen that would otherwise be directed at the slower, more durable project.

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Serendipity? @quasibooks.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I gave Gemini a prompt : Suggest chapter headings for a book - Trump As Decoy - based on the premise that the Trump Administration and its antics are cover for the real Project 2025. It produced 15 good chapters that I’ll publish.

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Serendipity? @quasibooks.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

This book is a possible example of the new dystopia. It was produced in no time with only a little knowledge. The Large Language Model may have made up much of it. I wouldn’t know.

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Serendipity? @quasibooks.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I didn’t realise he was at the Lytham Green 40s weekend!

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Serendipity? @quasibooks.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

8647 is prime but does not occur in the Fibonacci series Occult AI (The Unknown) amzn.eu/d/05Qb9YAY

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