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Oct 9, 2025

If you are not a soldier by proxy, you are an intelligence officer by proxy.

Matthew Ford’s War in the Age of the Smartphone is an essential companion for anyone seeking to understand the changing nature of conflict in the digital age. Just as World…
Dec 12, 2023

Ukraine: trying to make sense of identity and war in the age of the smartphone

Ukrainian identity is being reinvented by war. Ukraine’s Ministry of Culture and Information Policy has helped to orchestrate this reinvention through social media campaigns – #standwithukraine – while engaged in…
Dec 12, 2023

Partner – Proxy – Glitch

The conflict in Ukraine offers unexpected insight into a military construct which has previously been mostly theoretical. The scenario of Ukrainian ground forces fighting beneath an information domain dominated almost exclusively by American intelligence,…
Dec 22, 2022

ELIZA, the paperclip maximizer: A story

An unspecified government agency released a set of decoded log files [see below], recovered from an accident at an AI research lab. According to an eyewitness who visited the site,…

If you are not a soldier by proxy, you are an intelligence officer by proxy.