Going All In

Some skills and strategies for dealing with 2026 (it's only day 21).

A. East Caroline University’s Associate Professor Armin Krishnan wrote a Journal of Strategic Security paper in 2011 on how to teach in Intelligence Studies courses about classified and covert government technology. There is a useful discussion of IMINT, SIGINT, MASINT, Special Access Programs, and Top Secret Security Compartmented Information, and how this works in terms of the United States federal budget and government oversight. When I edited and wrote for the Disinformation site, and for REVelation and 21C magazines (1995-2008), I found that some of this information turned up in conspiracy theory literature - then done by rather autodidact, obsessive, independent researchers - or that was used for grey / black propaganda, social engineering, misinformation, and disinformation purposes.

B. The Central Bank of Iran (whose site is temporarily down) has apparently gone “all in” on cryptocurrencies.

C. On the Japanese art of killing fish for masterful chefs.

D. Its intellectuals on what a post-war Ukraine might look like.

E. Today’s MIT OCW free course is on Technology Strategy created by Professor Jason Davis.

F. The MAGA movement now seeks to take over your TV (if you still watch it).

G. The Saturday Paper’s Karen Barlow is hoping that the AUKUS security compact will fail.

H. The Metta Center for Nonviolent Education playlist.

I. A London Business School lecture on the art of negotiation.

J. Palantir’s CEO Alex Karp at the World Economic Forum on AI and war.