Ian Hall

Chinese-made cars rented by Norwegian military automatically recorded and stored video footage during military exercises www.techradar.com/pro/chinese-...

Elon Musk aggressively pushes Twitter subscribers to switch from "chronological" to "algorithmic" feeds. Once this choice is made, the subscriber will find his account instantly flooded with right-wing political propaganda that reflects the thinking of Elon Musk, a Nature study has concluded. Musk's

literally moments after claiming he gave up nothing in exchange for a hostage who was being held by Putin, Trump admits that he didn't implement sanctions on Russia in order to get the hostage

Narrator: Russia is really involved with Iran.

Breaking: Elon Musk ordered the Starlink slowdown that blindsided Ukraine on.wsj.com/4sgcxkt

"Mearsheimer merits attention because he lends academic respectability to those blaming the west for Russia’s bloody war of conquest. At a moment when the US has swung behind Putin's driove to snuff out Ukraine such cover is invaluable." as.ft.com/r/2861010e-b...

No. None of us are getting any sleep.

Now that is quite a photo. (Credit: Doug Mills / New York Times)

I find it odd that shareholders don’t call this out too, if not on ethical grounds, then for business reasons. Governments around the world are watching. Will they be more persuaded to let Starlink take over big chunks of critical infrastructure after seeing this, or less?

Hard to overstate how much Hegseth's execution stream mirrors the U.S. military's traditional description of ISIS propaganda: broadcast killings designed to send a message, strike fear and create a social media spectacle. Will almost certainly be repurposed by online terror cells

Very Islamic State.

Sorry, what??

It could have been worse. It might have been “Trump intelligence” or “Intelligence of America”. But still.

Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all

"His summits are a national hazard precisely because Trump apparently does not understand that he is representing the United States; instead, he seems to think he’s just having a visit with some of the guys in a very cool club of which he’d very much like to be a member."

What are we doing, folks? I mean, really.

Incredible, chilling reporting here via @motherjones.com. ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...

Once heavily reliant on Iran for finished weapons, the Houthis are now able to assemble arms — including ballistic missiles and drones — inside Yemen using commercial goods imported from China. Read more in the Big Take: bloom.bg/4h8KNKV 📷: Mohammed Huwais/AFP

The military bloat of the massive SUVs on the school run is getting ridiculous. You're there to take a child home for tea, not transport a pallet of shrinkwrapped banknotes through the fall of Basra.

Cannot wait to see the uniforms.

What if you could test propaganda on thousands of synthetic Australians, Americans and others before publishing it? Chinese state-linked researchers are trying to do something close to that. My latest:

Guessing we'll be seeing a lot of this in the coming months www.wsj.com/tech/ai/hack...

Hope to inherit.

A recent report out of MIT said A.I. is triggering “cognitive surrender” in students. Many university leaders are embracing the technology with enthusiasm anyway.

I do wonder why they can’t just agree to put a giant golden Trump sign over the top, with a clear view to pulling it down as soon as he is gone (one way or another).

Blimey.

Ouch

OpenAI agents attacked software service RubyGems before Hugging Face incident, WSJ reports reut.rs/46fRAw7

'A team of Stanford University computer scientists find that SLMs can find the same — or better — answer to the kind of queries that dominate current chat requests almost every time and cut compute and energy costs by between 60 and 80 per cent.' www.ft.com/content/4858...

SPECIAL REPORT: Russian sources are increasingly relying on AI-generated and AI-altered videos to assert territorial control over areas of Ukraine that Russian forces have not, in fact, seized. 🧵(1/4) Read the full report: isw.pub/RussiaAICamp...

🕯️ Taipei Zoo holds yearly memorial services for deceased animals since the 1920s, including for fallen war beasts like horses in WWII during the Japanese colonial era. This Sept, the zoo honors the memories of the newly passed, such as Wobbuffet the pangolin, Wolf the wolf, and Wolverine the koala.

“Secret of success in mathematics Plagiarize! Let no one else's work evade your eyes Remember why the good Lord made your eyes So don't shade your eyes, plagiarize Let plagiarize, plagiarize Only be sure always to call it please Research…” Tom Lehrer

New in @ausjpolsci.bsky.social: why did Labor win so big in 2025? Sarah Cameron & Ian McAllister find a Coalition vote long eroded by generational change and a modern gender gap, then finished off by campaign leaders and issues. doi.org/10.1080/1036...

India will finalize a trade deal with the US once Washington offers tariff terms that give exporters an advantage over competitors, Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal says

“…more…”

A through-the-looking-glass case: Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong pleads guilty to promoting democracy, which isn’t a crime. I agree with Professor Kellogg: the Chinese govt will make up whatever is necessary to keep Wong in jail, possibly for life. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/w...

Department of Culture War

Can’t wait for Xi Jinping to come out and say they’re going to do the same to, for example, the Philippines.

The poll underscores concerns about the reliability of US security guarantees after President Donald Trump unilaterally curtailed joint military exercises with Seoul.

🇺🇸 🇷🇺 A highly unusual trip by the CIA director to Moscow this week was to warn Russia against any attack on NATO member states, US media reports, after President Donald Trump sought to downplay the visit. ➡️ u.afp.com/SVgS

I get these every week now.

Oh.

Terrible. "By the time the U.S. began attacking Iran, Central Command, which said it needed a minimum of nine of its 16 [civilian protection] staffers to function, was left with one person...A U.S. airstrike hit a school, killing more than 100 children." www.propublica.org/article/hegs...

‘Twas ever thus. I doubt he’ll still be a member by Christmas.

Social media algorithms do no always reflect our values A new analysis of X finds that posts from accounts that people follow reflect users’ values—but that there is a misalignment between users’ values and the content the algorithm amplifies (in the "For You" feed). www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....

Are incredibly loud flying wind machines that dump our impulse buys into our swimming pools, like an Amazon delivery drone did in Texas this week, really the future we want?

See also the US-India trade negotiations under Trump 1 and Trump 2.

Just extraordinary.