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Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part IIa: Mobilization without Administration

This is the second part (I, IIa) of our honestly-who-knows-how-many part series laying out some general guidelines for how pre-modern armies are recruited, raised, equipped and paid. While I hope t…

Commons Computer

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Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part I: Why They Fight

This week I want to try something a little different. Rather than taking apart a particular fantasy military system, I thought I might try to lay out a more general sense of how military systems te…

Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part III: Paying For It

This is the third part (I, IIa, IIb, III) of our honestly-who-knows-how-many part series laying out some general guidelines for how pre-modern armies are recruited, raised, equipped and paid. In th…

User & Agents - Open Collective

User & Agents is a community focused on increasing user agency in the software we use every day.

Flock + AI-powered cameras - staffny

I think we all by now understand that AI (artificial intelligence) is not the solution when it comes to understanding humans. It often makes errors, and when yo...

Personas - USABLE Tools

Personas, or profiles of end users, play an important role in the design process and allow developers to better understand community needs and facilitate the creation of user stories and more concrete use-cases for their products. In some of the most challenging security environments in the world, understanding the users capacity, threats, risks, and strengths can be difficult. The USABLE project has harnessed the knowledge of the digital security training community to build personas of high-risk users from around the globe. Learn more about USABLE Personas here.

Tech Workers Coalition

A coalition of tech industry workers, labor organizers, community organizers, and friends cultivating solidarity among all workers in tech.

How Anthropic teams use Claude Code | Claude

Teams across Anthropic use Claude Code for everything from debugging production issues and navigating unfamiliar codebases to building custom automation tools. Here's how. ‍

skywatch-bsky/claude-skills

A Claude marketplace containing skills for interacting with osprey rules

Menlo Factory Tour

Come experience the Menlo Innovations Software Factory in-the-flesh or on your screen! Whether you're a Menlo enthusiast or totally new to what we do, we invite you to experience the joyful and disciplined methodologies that are the foundation on which we have built our business culture. On this tour, a pair of Menlo team members will spend 90 minutes guiding you through the Menlo “factory” while sharing our practices, culture, and values. Plus, you'll have time to ask us any questions you want- really, ask us anything your heart desires!  

War in the age of intelligent machines

271 pages : 24 cm; In the aftermath of the methodical destruction of Iraq during the Persian Gulf War, the power and efficiency of new computerized weapons and suveillance technology has become chillingly apparent. This new weaponry has a significance that goes far beyond military applications; it represents a profound historical shift in the relation of human beings both to machines and to information. Details the mutating history of information analysis and machinic organization from the mobile siege artillery of the Renaissance, the clockwork armies of the Thirty Years War, the Napoleonic campaigns, and the Nazi blitzkrieg up to present-day cybernetic battle-management systems and satellite reconnaissance network, and provides a philosophical and historical reflection on the changing forms through which human bodies and materials are combined, organized, deployed and made effective. [back cover]; Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-266) and index; Introduction -- Collision course -- Bloodless transfusion -- Policing the spectrum

Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths in subculture evolution (2015) | Hacker News

Any marginally successful group attracts sociopaths. The more power available to someone installing themselves at the centre of an elite clique that runs the organisation, the more attractive it is. No-one ever sees it fully until they get on the wrong end of one of these toxic power dynamics, there is so much subtle BS working against anyone trying to face this stuff down that it's almost pointless wasting your life trying.

Outline – Team knowledge base & wiki

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