Nobody knows what Iran looks like today.
Before the Window Closes Again
Reza Pahlavi and the missing bridge of Iran’s opposition
Miscellanea: The War in Iran
This post is a set of my observations on the current war in Iran and my thoughts on the broader strategic implications. I am not, of course, an expert on the region nor do I have access to any spec…
A photo of Iran’s bombed schoolgirl graveyard went viral. Why did AI say it wasn’t real?
Numerous faked images and a string of startlingly inaccurate responses from Gemini and Grok are part of a tidal wave of AI slop engulfing coverage of the Iran war
A nation that never has to pay
Jeb Lund on war with Iran and war with Iran and war with Iran and Florida
Broken feet, ripped-out hair and now a death sentence: the fate of twin sisters jailed over Iran protests - programming.dev
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The Fossil Fuel System Is Collapsing – and Taking Civilisation’s Safety Net With It
The Iran war is accelerating an irreversible breakdown of a system on which every hospital, harvest and factory depends - and only a rapid transition to energy superabundance can save us, argues Nafeez Ahmed, Divyesh Desai and Sandrine Dixson-Decleve
Israel-Iran conflict unleashes wave of AI disinformation
Fake AI videos relating to the conflict have gained over 100 million views online, BBC Verify finds.
Read the JD Vance Dossier
We’re publishing the supposed Iran-hacked document. Here’s why.
The Iran War Is About Palestine
By helping Israel demolish what’s left of international legal constraint, the Iran war is hastening the dissolution of the Palestinian question.
Iran Is a Bigger Defeat Than Vietnam
A war of choice has turned into a strategic disaster for Washington.
010 - Greg Stoker on Iran, U.S. Imperialism, and Why the Wars Never Stop
Features - Rise of the Persian Princes - Archaeology Magazine - July/August 2023
In their grand capital Persepolis, Achaemenidrulers expressed their vision of a prosperous,multicultural empire
Iran built a vast camera network to control dissent. Israel turned it into a targeting tool
Israel’s use of Tehran street cameras to help kill Iran’s supreme leader shows how everyday surveillance can turn into a wartime weapon.
NEW with @lhn.bsky.social: The US claims to have struck more than 9,000 sites in Iran, but the war is taking place in an information void. Iranian volunteers are mapping confirmed strikes and warning citizens about potential strike targets, as the country enters its 26th day without the internet
Iranians Don’t Have a Missile Alert System, So Volunteers Built Their Own Warning Map
www.wired.comone recurring theme in the coverage of this AI Anthropic doomsday newscycle is nobody actually has any REAL ideas of what to do just a lot of ambiguous hand-waving in a country that's too corrupt to have working regulators, by a press that doesn't realize that's a central pillar of the conversation
The AI Researcher Who Just Quit Anthropic Says It’s ‘Crunch Time for Humanity’
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