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Dr Rupert Barrett-Taylor

@rbarretttaylor.bsky.social
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Turing Institute Research Fellow. PhD critical of targeting processes, intelligence production and the software they rely on from Sussex University. Bowel cancer survivor. All views my own. rupertbarretttaylor.com

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
broke my podcasting drought (otherwise known as maternity leave) to talk about the university omnicrisis
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Dr Rupert Barrett-Taylor @rbarretttaylor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
First university teaching gig starts tomorrow at KCL. I’m treating it like a weekly workshop. For a whole year. Like when someone says they run a marathon a day 😆
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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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Dr Rupert Barrett-Taylor @rbarretttaylor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I think Orbital at Glastonbury in 1994 is the spiritual experience I never had. youtu.be/KfCTtR_a_rE?...
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Orbital - Chime (Glastonbury 1994)
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Dr Rupert Barrett-Taylor @rbarretttaylor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I still thing war is about the number of young people we can feed into the meat grinder than it is about how good our digital infrastructure is
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 22/09/2026
Damn, he had Sam Altman dead to rights in 2016
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Dr Philip W Blood MBA @philipwblood.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A new article on Substack - a cultural history of a Tiger tank. justarmour.substack.com/p/the-vimout...
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The Vimoutiers Tiger
The Remarkable Saga of a German Tank, a Normandy farmer and a British journal.
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Dr Rupert Barrett-Taylor @rbarretttaylor.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This one wins
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Police Academy: Harris's 5-Minute Warning
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible
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Dr Rupert Barrett-Taylor @rbarretttaylor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Some tech CEO clearly owned a copy of the Usborne book of the Future when they were a kid.
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Dagger John @thesloopjohnm.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Bart Simpson: What an Odd Thing to Say
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TRASHFUTURE @trashfuture.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Cory came and hung out with us again, this time specifically about two things: 1. Rebutting Andreesen Horowitz's Culture columnist's stupid article about why "you love enshittified platforms actually" 2. Reframing recent mystical discussions about AI that it's all EXPLAINABLE
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Dr Rupert Barrett-Taylor @rbarretttaylor.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
In TV related news I have bought all of ST:TNG thank you yes it was a good use of money I agree.
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BookBurner @bookburnersstuff.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
One day in the future, there will be an AWS outage, and there will be a weird few hours of peace. Because no army will be able to remember how to target each other without the AI models.
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Dr Rupert Barrett-Taylor @rbarretttaylor.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Actually you know what: that sort of sums up any political leadership in this era. We can’t do anything becuase it’s all a bit difficult
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Upset Woman Whining
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Dr Rupert Barrett-Taylor @rbarretttaylor.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Well, Burnham could have done something about political donors but didn’t because *whiny voice* ITS HAAARRD
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Dr Rupert Barrett-Taylor @rbarretttaylor.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Nothing sinister about this. The BBC passes no comment. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Disruption at Port of Dover as masked men hold protest
Images appear to show hundreds of protesters, all dressed in black and wearing face coverings.
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Strongly agree (and with some of the replies). I think it’s hard for people who are as engaged as many of us are to appreciate that really, a lot of people just aren’t very aware of news, current events, trends or major personalities who loom extremely large to us.
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Dr Rupert Barrett-Taylor @rbarretttaylor.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I gotta say, I’m not a fan of wasting money restoring Nazi tanks. I’m sure there’s plenty of historical vehicles more deserving of preservation. Cut em all up and forget about em. tankmuseum.org/support-us/k...
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Help Us Bring KTV2 Back to Life! - The Tank Museum
Help get this iconic tank to running condition by donating through PayPal or one of our tiers.
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Sagittarius A* @sagastar.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
i think i know what the plan is
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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Well, when you put it like that:
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Simon is on strike ✊🏻 @simonxix.com · 30/08/2026
And what did your wife [sic] and daughter think of you fighting "for" them, Graham?
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Dr Rupert Barrett-Taylor @rbarretttaylor.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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Flintstones Fred & Barney Hugging
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Brian Honan @brianhonan.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Happy Skynet day to all those who celebrate
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Milo is to TikTok era far right slopulism what 1920s silent movie stars were to the golden age of 1930s Hollywood musicals
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Dr Rupert Barrett-Taylor @rbarretttaylor.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Everyone at the Guardian repeat after me: “I am a serious grownup journalist and I will stop chewing crayons and wasting my time writing this nonsense”
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Dr Rupert Barrett-Taylor @rbarretttaylor.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Can someone give me a sense of the US is able to refine this amount of sour crude from Venezuela? What is the state of Venezuelan infrastructure?
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Dr Rupert Barrett-Taylor @rbarretttaylor.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Which is why there is no point in trying to placate the far right in any political sense because they are insatiably drawing in the wire around what is acceptable and what isn’t until there is just the figurehead and their immediate coterie. Everyone else ultimately is expendable.
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Dr Rupert Barrett-Taylor @rbarretttaylor.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Healey backing down on defence spending is not a good look.
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Elke Schwarz @elkeschwarz.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
My thoughts on why Günther Anders remains one of the most relevant thinkers for our time politicaltheology.com/technologica...
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Technological Totalitarianism | Political Theology Network
For Anders, the problem is not that humans have created a world of artifice. Rather, the problem is that in the modern technological environment we make products that are not measured on the basis of…
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Dr Rupert Barrett-Taylor @rbarretttaylor.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Imagine how powerful Stephen Miller will be under a more docile future republican president? Like President Hegseth for example?
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The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Sending Oh Nos and Anyways.
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B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
But I was assured that Cold War weapons are obsolete?
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Dr Rupert Barrett-Taylor @rbarretttaylor.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
wtf Dolly Parton and Tim Curry 😭
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Tim Curry in Three Musketeers: Bad Timing
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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
RIP TO ONE OF THE GREATEST TO EVER DO IT
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I started my PhD program with an eight week old at home, sole income being my doctoral stipend, in a history program, in Knoxville, TN. And every month we got a new book to read to my son, free, mailed to us, so my kid, my kids, grew up in rooms full of books even when I had no money. That's Dolly.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The "school security industry" is a way to bankrupt school districts by redirecting funding away from teachers and giving it to various kinds of cop-adjacent chuds instead. The Plot To Enslave America
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Dr Rupert Barrett-Taylor @rbarretttaylor.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
This is 💯 an inept and inexperienced admin speedrunning the lessons from the 90s and GWOT from first principles because owning the libs was more important than knowing stuff
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tim dewey @tjdfotographist.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Epic handshake meme:

Transphobia   🤝   Racism
                  Biological
                Determinism
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
So grim that this week Nathan Cofnas is the most discussed philosopher in the world.
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Dr Rupert Barrett-Taylor @rbarretttaylor.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Is this photo real? Was Cofnas actually pals with Yarvin??
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Dr Rupert Barrett-Taylor @rbarretttaylor.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
If you read this and go “huh they’ve got a point” then you don’t work in the industry or haven’t listened to people who work in the industry.
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Elke Schwarz @elkeschwarz.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Why is @economist.com offering free PR to bolster Palantir's profile in Britain? Two on the same day ... is this a Special Section?
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Fellow solar nerds will enjoy this. "Fuyao Glass has confirmed mass-production capabilities for solar sunroof glass, with photovoltaic cells embedded" in cars www.pv-magazine.com/2026/08/19/c...
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Chinese automotive glass giant announces vehicle-integrated solar roof - pv magazine Global
Fuyao Glass has confirmed mass-production capabilities for solar sunroof glass, with photovoltaic cells embedded in laminated automotive glass to power auxiliary vehicle loads. While reports have link...
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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Russia's UN ambassador Nebenzya claims Russia doesn't need mass mobilization and isn't planning or expecting it.
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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
When this Trump term ends, the US will be weaker militarily, more polarized internally, economically fragile, deeper in debt, and left with far fewer allies. The US will simply be worse off on every level
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Christopher Owen @oysta.au · 20/08/2026
found another new type of guy
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Dr Rupert Barrett-Taylor @rbarretttaylor.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I feel pretty sorry for this person all things considered. This feels like a story about someone who is pretty vulnerable drawn to a cult.
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Dr Rupert Barrett-Taylor @rbarretttaylor.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I know this is low stakes but fuck all the way off and follow the fucking rules.
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