Weapons
Unitree B2 Combat Mod
A forensic analysis of the weaponised Unitree B2 quadruped: verified specifications, PLA and Marine Corps armed trials, autonomy, IHL, export law and sanctions.
- 🌐International Relations (IR) 🤖 Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Dating Apps, Loneliness and the Pipeline to Extremism
Dating apps borrowed ranking logic from chess and video games. What happens when that logic meets loneliness, recommender systems and the manosphere?
- Weapons
Vision 60 Q-UGV
A forensic technical and legal analysis of Ghost Robotics’ Vision 60 Q-UGV robot dog: specifications, armed variants, autonomy, IHL, exports and the 2026 CCW talks.
- Weapons
MQ-9 Reaper
A forensic technical and legal analysis of the MQ-9 Reaper: specifications, combat record, IHL, accountability, 2026 Iran war losses and AI autonomy.
- 🌐International Relations (IR) 🛠️ Tools & Tech 🤖 Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Abliteration.ai and the End of the Guardrail Assumption: What It Means for International Security
Abliteration.ai sells AI models with safety guardrails removed. An international security analysis of what it means for AI governance, law and arms control.
- 🌐International Relations (IR) 📔 Journal
Why Astrology Is a Form of Prejudice: The Same Bias in a Softer Costume
Astrology and racism run on the same cognitive engine: sorting people into fixed categories by something they never chose. Here’s the evidence.
- ⚖️ Law 🌐International Relations (IR) 🤖 Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Magnifica Humanitas: Reading Pope Leo XIV’s AI Encyclical
An AI governance researcher and international lawyer reads Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, on AI, autonomous weapons and truth.
- 🌐International Relations (IR)
The Thucydides Trap Returns: What Xi Told Trump in the Oval Office, and What Washington Chose Not to Hear
When Xi Jinping told Donald Trump that “the Thucydides Trap can be overcome,” he was not offering diplomatic small talk. He was issuing a carefully calibrated statement about the trajectory…
- 🌐International Relations (IR) 🤖 Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Disarmament Toolkit 2026: What UNRCPD Taught Me About Autonomous Weapons, and What It Wouldn’t Name
This is the second consecutive year I have sat through the United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific’s flagship course, the Disarmament Toolkit, first…
- ⚖️ Law 🌐International Relations (IR) 🤖 Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Autonomous Weapons Are Not the Moral Choice
Thomas X. Hammes argued in the Atlantic Council that fielding autonomous weapons is a moral imperative. The accountability record, the current state of the Geneva talks and recent warnings from AI researchers suggest otherwise.
- ⚖️ Law 🌐International Relations (IR) 🤖 Artificial Intelligence (AI)
The Governance Gap: UN’s 2026 Science and Technology Report
Every July, a fairly unglamorous document lands on the desks of UN Member State delegations. It has none of the drama of a Security Council resolution or the visibility of…
- ⚖️ Law 📔 Journal
The Wonderful World of Context
First of all, I don’t think you’ll find many people who would say everyone is literally equal in every regard. Usually, when people say all races are equal, they’re talking…
