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Crashing Tehran’s Electricity Grid
NYT – A flier circulating in Tehran, for example, asked people to turn on all their electrical appliances at the same time to crash the electric grid as a sign of defiance. -Shlok Sign up for my newsletter.
Black Market Energy Acquisition
Makes its way onto domestic soil. Ten people have been arrested in the theft of about $2 million worth of oil and gas condensate from oil companies and producers in West Texas. Suspects stole about 8,000 barrels of oil in … Continue reading
Filling Up The Intellectual Pipeline
Catching up on the William Gibson canon among other books and movies. Read Spook Country a while ago (systema is plain awesome), recently finished Pattern Recognition, and just started Virtual Light a couple hours ago. Also, picked up John Seely … Continue reading
An Adaptive Intelligence Community
Excellent read on the needed reform within the intelligence community. Snippet: What’s needed today is an analysis-centric, rather than collection-centric, model that would elevate the importance of unclassified information and discourage compartmentalization. It would encourage analysts to hunt and gather … Continue reading
China Continues to Hammer Away At Legitimacy
By banning trading virtual goods for real money. -Shlok Sign up for my newsletter.