Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part III: Paying for It(acoup.blog)

95 points by jfoucher 4 months ago | 19 comments

How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIb: Imperium(acoup.blog)

147 points by Khaine 3 years ago | 37 comments

The Reign of Alexander III of Macedon(acoup.blog)

113 points by throwup238 2 years ago | 86 comments

How Many People? Ancient Demography(acoup.blog)

100 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 0 comments

How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIa: Starting Down the Path of Honors(acoup.blog)

101 points by Tomte 3 years ago | 41 comments

Coinage and the Tyranny of Fantasy 'Gold'(acoup.blog)

11 points by JumpCrisscross 1 year ago | 1 comments

The Post-AGI Era(avidfayaz.com)

10 points by Avid_F 1 month ago | 3 comments

A personal blog essay on Fayaz Notes arguing that AGI has arrived and exploring what the post-AGI era means.

Tor: How a military project became a lifeline for privacy(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

378 points by anarbadalov 1 year ago | 179 comments

MIT Press Reader article recounting the history of Tor, from its origins as a US military research project to a widely used privacy and anonymity tool.

The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran(cnn.com)

1103 points by lavp 8 months ago | 2393 comments

CNN news report that Israel launched a strike against Iran and declared a nationwide state of emergency.

The pro-Israel information war(jackpoulson.substack.com)

658 points by anigbrowl 2 years ago | 1067 comments

A Substack investigation by Jack Poulson and Lee Fang into Israeli government-led efforts to shape online discourse and silence pro-Palestinian voices, citing Zoom calls and WhatsApp logs.

The Escalation of War in Ethiopia(africanistperspective.com)

128 points by mooreds 23 days ago | 130 comments

A Substack essay by Ken Opalo on An Africanist Perspective analyzing the escalation of war in Ethiopia and likely proxy conflicts in the Horn of Africa.

Iranian campaign planted fake articles in real U.S. publications using ChatGPT(washingtonpost.com)

164 points by cainxinth 17 days ago | 140 comments

Washington Post article reporting that OpenAI found an Iranian campaign used ChatGPT to place about 100 AI-generated articles in at least 20 U.S. news outlets.