David Hume’s Footsoldier
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David Betz is a well known and respected name to me. This was a hard listen. Yet I think it uncontroversial to say we are a poorer, more fractured and more frustrated society. Is our next war a civil war? louiseperry.co.uk/p/the-coming-b…
A great response to this by @FennellJW. I still have a niggle at the back of my mind about how this will work in practice. Recent US experimentation showed a significantly diminished Fires /Shaping role for brigades and companies.
If a platoon has 120mm mortars what on earth will companies and battalions have?
Finally got round to reading this paper in detail. It’s a tour de force. If you’re interested in the potential impact of AI on election outcomes you should put it by your bedside. Key takeaway: let’s remain alive to, but healthily skeptical of, the possibility of large impacts.
How harmful is GenAI around elections? Will it trigger a misinformation apocalypse and upend elections? I am happy to finally be able to share @Sacha_Altay’s & my answers to these and other questions on which we have been working for a year and which is out via @knightcolumbia.
I once asked a lawyer* why legal terms are in Latin & he pointed out that definitions in English drift & migrate through usage but using a dead language made it more likely that definitions would remain static over years & centuries. Rare example of a lawyer* making a good point.
Since the Romans are all dead, it's probably safe to stop giving things Latin scientific names that nobody understands now.
Name one thing Yorkshire gave to the world
I have seen similar happen. We too thought it was EW of some kind, but lost incident analysis showed a combination of factors, notably poor spectrum planning.
BREAKING: A drone show in China descended into chaos after someone allegedly activated a jammer. Within seconds, the entire drone swarm lost control and crashed mid-air — sparking speculation it was an unofficial test of anti-drone tech.
A century ago the serving British Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin, addressed the Classical Association as its President. His address is half about the importance of Greece and Rome for the state, half its importance for the individual. Different times eh!
Yes. Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking. Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.
Wars have been fought over less. The geo-strategic implications of this are huge.
China begins construction on world's largest dam in Tibet buff.ly/CYLBbJm
China has stopped buying U.S. debt. The dollar system is cracking. This isn’t just an economic shift. It’s the end of the old world order. Here's what comes next. ft.com/content/894c1c…
#OnThisDay 20 years ago MOD announces that 12 ships will be paid off. T45 order reduced from 12 to 6, personnel reduced by 1,500. 1SL at time said 'I am confident that these changes will leave the Navy better organised and equipped to face the challenges of the future.'
Today is the feast day of St Margaret of Antioch, variously credited with yelling at the devil so loudly he fled, gutting a dragon from the inside with her cross, and smacking Beelzebub with a hammer. This year's motto: Be More Margaret 🔨
“One member later said they [police] were met by counterparts from UKSF [special forces] who looked “sheepish”. As well they might. Everything on ITS1 had been deleted, and not simply deleted but erased in a forensic way that was irreversible” observer.co.uk/news/national/…
Our paper starts by identifying six main arguments about the assumed negative impact of GenAI and elections. We then methodically go through each single one.