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Matthew Ford @warmatters.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Check out the recording from last week’s fantastic discussion between Keith Dear & @elkeschwarz.bsky.social on the growing uses of AI in the exercise of military judgement This was the 1st event of the new WASP-HS AI WAR research network, directed by @ajbousquet.bsky.social youtu.be/wmsXABsSMgc?...

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AI WAR: Who decides? Human and machine judgement in war

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

hahahahahahahaha yeeeeeesssssss he's still On One about this absolutely insane idea

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Dr Rupert Barrett-Taylor @rbarretttaylor.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Definitely make a mess, but sinking would be much worse presumably. Can’t see any obvious news about sinking, towing, return to service. It’s just an odd absence of interest in floating environmental disasters

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Dr Rupert Barrett-Taylor @rbarretttaylor.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Wait are these ships sunk or are they towed to port and repaired? I can’t find anything that confirms either way which seems weird

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Dr Rupert Barrett-Taylor @rbarretttaylor.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This f*cking guy. He can’t imagine what would happen if the same idea was applied to him. The same lack of imagination is what leads towards the ‘IHL is just in the way’ bullshit

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Matthew Ford @warmatters.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The M2 Bradley doesn't have charging points for smartphones - even though smartphones have become integral to a squad's tactical awareness. No doubt upgrades will happen soon enough and soon charging points will be the norm...

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Matthew Ford @warmatters.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

👇 bsky.app/profile/jooh...

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Dr Rupert Barrett-Taylor @rbarretttaylor.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Thanks- good correction and serves me right for not reading into it properly!

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Zach @thrustwr.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Imagine the chaos from a data-center focused strike war. No YouTube, no TikTok, no Facebook, no Instagram, no WhatsApp, no Amazon. On the other end? No BiliBili, no WeChat, no Weibo, no JD, no Douyin, no QQ.

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Zach @thrustwr.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

F-4Gs were doing Manned-Unmanned Teaming with BQM-74 drones to light up and kill SAMs in 91. One of the few planes to ever do this.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

its just weird how theyre never gaming out scenarios for curing cancer or anything like that, i couldve sworn they said that was one of their big goals

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Dr Rupert Barrett-Taylor @rbarretttaylor.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Yeah but I bet this execution won’t have a cadre of analysts poring over it to determine what the intended message and narrative was

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Couldn't wait to finish Biological War: A Scenario to put Annie Jacobsen on blast for her contributions to disinforming the public about plague, pandemic risk, & Russian bioweapons so that she can use a crisis to sell her book on the national news. rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/annie-jaco...

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Annie Jacobsen’s Expertise in One Photo

Fearmongering For Profit: A Scenario launches on my Substack later this week

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Dr Rupert Barrett-Taylor @rbarretttaylor.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Give this a watch. As always @chriswaves.bsky.social does a great job of pulling on a thread that links surveillance to our current cultural moment.

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Big if true

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Dr Rupert Barrett-Taylor @rbarretttaylor.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This threw me for a minute ngl. Great article though!

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Dr Rupert Barrett-Taylor @rbarretttaylor.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It’s the wrong era to be making positive noises about the restoration of flagship Nazi technology.

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Dr Rupert Barrett-Taylor @rbarretttaylor.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Call me controversial but you could save a ton of money by making really high-definition scans for the record then cut it up for scrap to save celebrating Nazi technology.

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Dr Rupert Barrett-Taylor @rbarretttaylor.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Look I know Crocodile Dundee 2 is a shit film okay? Leave me alone.

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Dr Rupert Barrett-Taylor @rbarretttaylor.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Absolutely nothing because that pose is the secret button combo that activates full John Wick mode

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Billy Hurley @billyhurls.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There is no McTry. There is only:

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Dr Rupert Barrett-Taylor @rbarretttaylor.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oh please fuck off. Don’t use the language of the far right to farm engagement.

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Dr Rupert Barrett-Taylor @rbarretttaylor.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I hate my brain. It’s allergic to dopamine. me: life is pretty good eh? brain: fuck you me: i guess I’ll just assume everyone hates me shall I? brain: yup

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 30/03/2026

If anybody cares and within context, it's important to zoom out if you never did doi.org/10.1017/CBO9...

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Models as Mediators

Cambridge Core - Economic Thought, Philosophy and Methodology - Models as Mediators

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 30/03/2026

Bit of an inversion but... Nobody seems to agree on what a scientific model is, what role models play, and what responsible use looks like And insult to injury actual modelling experts are systematically ignored and mischaracterised

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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I had this bit about Jeffrey Archer from the 1995 HIGNFY video memorised for whenever I needed a handy fact about him.

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Dr Rupert Barrett-Taylor @rbarretttaylor.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

So it’s either a super duper plague or a Russian psyop chat please advise

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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 · 01/10/2026

Genuinely amazing. So he either doesn’t know this or hopes that no one else checks. What happens when his new office contradicts his bible understanding? Will he sack them and start a schism?

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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...