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Resisting the Empire: How Small AI Can Win

Nov 13, 2025

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Resisting the Empire: How Small AI Can Win

Not every revolution begins with giants.

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Ice Station Zebra
The Moral Bandwidth Problem: Can Scalable AI Ever Stay Ethical?

Nov 12, 2025

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The Moral Bandwidth Problem: Can Scalable AI Ever Stay Ethical?

Every technology scales until its governance collapses under its own complexity.

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Ice Station Zebra
When Efficiency Backfires: AI, Radiology, and the Jevons Paradox

Nov 11, 2025

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When Efficiency Backfires: AI, Radiology, and the Jevons Paradox

Ice Station Briefing

Ice Station Zebra
Ice Station Zebra

#AI #Aviation #AirTrafficControl #Autonomy #AerospaceSafety #EmergingTech

The Quiet Revolution Above the Clouds:

Nov 11, 2025

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The Quiet Revolution Above the Clouds:

AI in Air Traffic Control

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Ice Station Zebra

#signalsinthenoise

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How fast is “Google it” being replaced by “Ask ChatGPT?"

Nov 11, 2025

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How fast is “Google it” being replaced by “Ask ChatGPT?"

I asked Perplexity for the answer, hoping it wasn’t biased!

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Ice Station Zebra

#planning

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The End of the GPU Era

Nov 10, 2025

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The End of the GPU Era

When Physics Meets the Future of Computing

Ice Station Zebra
Ice Station Zebra

#planning

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The Navajo Code Talkers and the Sound of Victory

Nov 10, 2025

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The Navajo Code Talkers and the Sound of Victory

Signals in the Noise

Ice Station Zebra
Ice Station Zebra
The Empire and the Perimeter: Concentrated AI Power as a Security Risk

Nov 10, 2025

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The Empire and the Perimeter: Concentrated AI Power as a Security Risk

Empires are built on control—of resources, infrastructure, and narrative.

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Ice Station Zebra
Ethics by Design

Nov 7, 2025

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Ethics by Design

Building Trustworthy AI Inside Corporate Security

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Ice Station Zebra

#signalsinthenoise

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Korea’s AI Ambitions Take Center Stage

Nov 6, 2025

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Korea’s AI Ambitions Take Center Stage

The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO Summit in Gyeongju, South Korea, was a showcase of the country’s rapid rise as an AI hub for the region, driven by world-class chipmakers and a robust, expanding network of data centers.

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Ice Station Zebra

AI

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AI Colonialism and the New Geopolitics of Data

Nov 5, 2025

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AI Colonialism and the New Geopolitics of Data

AI has become the newest territory in the long history of human expansion.

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Ice Station Zebra
The End of the Generalist: How AI Is Becoming Specialized, Certified, and Accountable

Nov 4, 2025

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The End of the Generalist: How AI Is Becoming Specialized, Certified, and Accountable

For much of the past decade, large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT represented the frontier of artificial intelligence—a digital polymath that could discuss philosophy one moment and Python code the next.

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Ice Station Zebra

AI

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Authenticity in the Age of Imitation

Nov 3, 2025

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Authenticity in the Age of Imitation

Why Art Provenance Just Became a Security Problem

Ice Station Zebra
Ice Station Zebra
The Hidden Supply Chain of Artificial Intelligence

Nov 3, 2025

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The Hidden Supply Chain of Artificial Intelligence

Note: This is Part 1 in a series entitled “The Empire of AI.” Look for future articles and subscribe below.

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Ice Station Zebra

AI

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🎃 The Left-Handed Universe and the Ghosts in the Machine

Oct 30, 2025

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🎃 The Left-Handed Universe and the Ghosts in the Machine

Every living thing on Earth shares a peculiar quirk: we’re all built from left-handed proteins and right-handed sugars.

Ice Station Zebra
Ice Station Zebra

#signalsinthenoise

Raising Humans for the Age of AI

Oct 29, 2025

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Raising Humans for the Age of AI

Preparing kids and older adults to use AI wisely, with clarity and care

Ice Station Zebra
Ice Station Zebra
The New Dark Age Isn’t Medieval—It’s Digital and Curated

Sep 3, 2025

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The New Dark Age Isn’t Medieval—It’s Digital and Curated

When monuments go silent, and museums bow to political litmus tests, we inch closer to a cognitive eclipse.

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Ice Station Zebra
The “Impossible Exam” in the Age of AI

Aug 25, 2025

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The “Impossible Exam” in the Age of AI

How Oxford’s All Souls style can sharpen CISO and CSO boardroom conversations

Ice Station Zebra
Ice Station Zebra
AI Runs on Electrons

Aug 21, 2025

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AI Runs on Electrons

Why Energy Dependence Will Decide Who Wins the Compute Race

Ice Station Zebra
Ice Station Zebra
AI vs. Superbugs

Aug 18, 2025

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AI vs. Superbugs

Generative Algorithms Invent New Antibiotics and New Risks

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Ice Station Zebra
The Case Against Using the U.S. Military for City Crime-Fighting

Aug 13, 2025

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The Case Against Using the U.S. Military for City Crime-Fighting

Why federal law-enforcement surges beat troop deployments for public safety

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Ice Station Zebra
🧠 The Tron Hypothesis: Were They All AI Agents?

Jul 26, 2025

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🧠 The Tron Hypothesis: Were They All AI Agents?

What if Tron wasn’t a metaphor for how humans use computers—but a blueprint for how AI agents will inhabit the systems we’re building?

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Ice Station Zebra
Intelligence Without Shadows

Jul 17, 2025

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Intelligence Without Shadows

Why Corporate Security Must Outpace Surveillance, Not Hide From It

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Ice Station Zebra

#RISC-V, #HardwareSecurity, #SupplyChain, #OpenSourceHardware, #CISOInsights, #NationalSecurity, #ZeroTrust, #SecureCompute

RISC-V and the Security Mirage: Why Open Silicon Demands Closed Guardrails

Jul 15, 2025

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RISC-V and the Security Mirage: Why Open Silicon Demands Closed Guardrails

Open source hardware is coming fast—but if you're in security, sovereignty, or strategy, you can't afford to confuse “open” with “safe.”

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Ice Station Zebra
When the Crowd Becomes the System

Jul 10, 2025

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When the Crowd Becomes the System

What Brazil’s Beach Clapping Can Teach Us About Security

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Ice Station Zebra
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