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Jon Lindsay @jonrlindsay.bsky.social · 18h

No it actually was not.

Diversity initiatives are not just about affirmative action, ensuring a democratic military represents its demos.

Diversity also matters for intellectual performance in a world of complex high-tech operations among foreign societies.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...

Opinion | That Hegseth Speech Was Actually Pretty Good

www.nytimes.com

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Jon Lindsay @jonrlindsay.bsky.social · 1d

The discourse around AGI has become eschatology—a religious tale of the end times.
But a lot of it is just scatology—bullshit meant to persuade without interest in truth.

dolos.substack.com/p/agieschato...

AGI—Eschatology and Scatology

Calling bullshit on superintelligence

dolos.substack.com

Jon Lindsay @jonrlindsay.bsky.social · 2d

AGI stands for Arrogance, Grift, and Ignorance, and many other things besides.
dolos.substack.com/p/redefining...

Jon Lindsay @jonrlindsay.bsky.social · 7d

This is a misleading headline. Ai bio warfare is not right around the corner. There is still a long and complicated path from r&d -- where this story focuses on only one part -- to weaponization and operational capacity let alone strategic intent

MIT Technology Review @technologyreview.com · 7d

Artificial intelligence can design toxins that evade security controls.

Microsoft says AI can create “zero day” threats in biology

Artificial intelligence can design toxins that evade security controls.

www.technologyreview.com

MIT Technology Review @technologyreview.com · 7d

Artificial intelligence can design toxins that evade security controls.

Microsoft says AI can create “zero day” threats in biology

Artificial intelligence can design toxins that evade security controls.

www.technologyreview.com

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Jon Lindsay @jonrlindsay.bsky.social · 8d

Good news! You can now download the open access (free) ebook of Age of Decption from @CornellPress !

(You can also buy a paperback, which makes a fine decoration for your bookshelf)

www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Age of Deception by Jon R. Lindsay | eBook | Cornell University Press

At the heart of cybersecurity lies a paradox: Cooperation makes conflict possible. In Age of Deception, Jon R. Lindsay shows that widespread trust in cyberspace enables espionage and subversion. While...

www.cornellpress.cornell.edu

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Jon Lindsay @jonrlindsay.bsky.social · 10d

Interested in military automation? You should definitely read the new book by Jackie Schneider and Julia Macdonald!

I wrote up some thoughts on their terrific book here:
dolos.substack.com/p/culture-an...

Culture and Automation at War

Thoughts on The Hand Behind Unmanned by Schneider & Macdonald

dolos.substack.com

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Jon Lindsay @jonrlindsay.bsky.social · 12d

Trump is not a Sparks fan?

S P A R K S @sparksofficial.bsky.social · 13d

Thank you, Portland!!

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S P A R K S @sparksofficial.bsky.social · 13d

Thank you, Portland!!

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Jon Lindsay @jonrlindsay.bsky.social · 17d

This is my favorite LLM output to date:

Based on Haugeland's definition, the correct and most precise answer is **yes, this instance of Gemini does not "give a damn" about the answers.**

Jon Lindsay @jonrlindsay.bsky.social · 24d

There is an ancient curse in Security Studies: "May your research be relevant."

And with that I am happy to annouce the arrival of Age of Deception!

You can find a paperback from any fine bookmonger or get the open access eBook from Cornell:
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

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Jon Lindsay @jonrlindsay.bsky.social · Aug 29

Here are few thoughts on why _Age of Deception_ has the cover that it does. Coming soon from @cornellupress.bsky.social

dolos.substack.com/p/cover-me

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Jon Lindsay @jonrlindsay.bsky.social · Aug 27

Age of Deception now has a cover!
Technologies of perception also conceal danger...

Coming this fall.

www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Age of Deception by Jon R. Lindsay | eBook | Cornell University Press

At the heart of cybersecurity lies a paradox: Cooperation makes conflict possible. In Age of Deception, Jon R. Lindsay shows that widespread trust in cyberspace enables espionage and subversion. While...

www.cornellpress.cornell.edu

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Jon Lindsay @jonrlindsay.bsky.social · Aug 12

I don’t often publish in critical security studies, but when I do, I drink Homeric epic.

Here is the director's cut of my recent essay on AI and war in Minds and Machines.

dolos.substack.com/p/sing-godde...

Sing, Goddess, of the Wrath of AI

Rethinking Artificial Intelligence, Geopolitics and War

dolos.substack.com

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Jon Lindsay @jonrlindsay.bsky.social · Aug 12

Check out this new forum offering critical perspectives on AI and geopolitics.

I wrote a strange little essay on why Homer's Iliad still matters in the age of AI-enabled warfare.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Myth, Power, and Agency: Rethinking Artificial Intelligence, Geopolitics and War - Minds and Machines

This collection interrogates how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping war, sovereignty, and human agency by entangling technological experimentation with myth-making and geopolitical power. Drawi...

link.springer.com

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Jon Lindsay @jonrlindsay.bsky.social · Jul 5

Next time you are tempted to let ChatGPT do your work, think about the wild aurochs.

dolos.substack.com/p/ai-as-auro...

AI as Aurochs Intelligence

Or, why ChatGPT makes you stupid

dolos.substack.com

Jon Lindsay @jonrlindsay.bsky.social · Jul 3

MOPs finished what Stuxnet started

dolos.substack.com/p/not-with-a...

Not with a whimper but a bang

The legacy of Olympic Games after Midnight Hammer

dolos.substack.com

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Jon Lindsay @jonrlindsay.bsky.social · May 20

sometimes an index is poetry

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Jon Lindsay @jonrlindsay.bsky.social · May 20

If Leo XIV is warning about thinking machines,
does that make eLon XAI the antichrist?

Leo XIV, eLon XAI, just sayin...

time.com/7285449/pope...

Pope Leo’s Name Carries a Warning About the Rise of AI

A century ago, Pope Leo XIII defended workers’ rights during the Industrial Revolution. Will Leo XIV do the same for AI?

time.com

Jon Lindsay @jonrlindsay.bsky.social · May 14

When it comes to AI in the classroom, instructors can be police or guides. I prefer the latter. Here are a few half-baked ideas about incorporating AI into assignments.

dolos.substack.com/p/if-you-can...

If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em!

Ideas for using LLMs in the classroom

dolos.substack.com

Jon Lindsay @jonrlindsay.bsky.social · Apr 21

The best reply

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Jon Lindsay @jonrlindsay.bsky.social · Apr 21

A lot of people are attacking Pete, but I think he will find the strawberries

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Jon Lindsay @jonrlindsay.bsky.social · Apr 20

True of a class

Jon Lindsay @jonrlindsay.bsky.social · Apr 17

perhaps the 4th too given questionable DOGE accesses

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Jon Lindsay @jonrlindsay.bsky.social · Apr 16

China would like to defuse US weaponized interdependence

Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · Apr 16

www.programmablemutter.com/p/why-china-... On how Snowden and the ZTE measures pushed China to start talking about technological independence.

Why China is going it alone on technology

When the US does things to other countries, they might possibly respond!

www.programmablemutter.com

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Jon Lindsay @jonrlindsay.bsky.social · Apr 16

Thank you @staillat.bsky.social !

If you can't access it and want to, please let me know. JSS provides authors with a number of sharable links.

Stéphane Taillat @staillat.bsky.social · Apr 16

I can only recommend @jonrlindsay.bsky.social 's last publication on Stuxnet 👇
(behind a paywall)

Stuxnet revisited: From cyber warfare to secret statecraft

The Stuxnet attack on Iran’s nuclear program is an outlier in the history of cyber conflict. While espionage and subversion are prevalent, serious cyber-physical damage remains rare. Stuxnet has th...

www.tandfonline.com

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · Apr 16

www.programmablemutter.com/p/why-china-... On how Snowden and the ZTE measures pushed China to start talking about technological independence.

Why China is going it alone on technology

When the US does things to other countries, they might possibly respond!

www.programmablemutter.com

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Stéphane Taillat @staillat.bsky.social · Apr 16

I can only recommend @jonrlindsay.bsky.social 's last publication on Stuxnet 👇
(behind a paywall)

Stuxnet revisited: From cyber warfare to secret statecraft

The Stuxnet attack on Iran’s nuclear program is an outlier in the history of cyber conflict. While espionage and subversion are prevalent, serious cyber-physical damage remains rare. Stuxnet has th...

www.tandfonline.com

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Jon Lindsay @jonrlindsay.bsky.social · Apr 15

The greatest hostile data exfil op in US history goes on and on, in plain sight. Our cybersecurity threat models are woefully unsuited to the insider threat of usurpation at scale.

www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data

A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.

www.npr.org

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Jon Lindsay @jonrlindsay.bsky.social · Apr 14

I was in Baja this weekend. (Gorgeous weather, amazing food, supernice people). One typical difference across the border is that you see Mexican miltiary vehicles patrolling around. But perhaps that will not be so different in the near future. :/

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