HeyJaredThe Political Saucer
The death of American exceptionalism. UFOs, Black Budgets, Domestic Operations, Consciousness. Idea's that stress-test the boundaries of language. Sorted, sourced, and all in one place.
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Introducing DisclosureUS: Two New Books from The Political Saucer (opens the original)
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Some ideas stay with you long after you finish writing about them. They turn up in another witness account, another piece of history, another argument about consciousness or secrecy. Eventually, you want to follow them further than a single article allows.These two books grew out of that impulse.I’m pleased to introduce <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!pBOD!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amaz
THE INVISIBLE KILL SHOT (opens the original)
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A forgotten Cold War test over the Pacific shows exactly how it would happen, and the record suggests almost nothing has been done to stop it from happening again.On the night of July 9, 1962, the United States detonated a 1.4 megaton thermonuclear warhead 400 kilometers above Johnston Atoll in the central Pacific. The test, code named Starfish Prime, w… Read more
The Billionaire in the Dark: Howard Hughes (opens the original)
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By any honest accounting, the unraveling of Howard Robard Hughes Jr. is not a story about eccentricity. It is a story about what happens when a broken man is allowed to run a business empire, a political machine, and a national scandal from inside a blacked out hotel room, through a proxy who never once looked him in the eye. It is a story that begins o… Read more
The Machines Are Making Kill Lists | Humans Are Just Pressing "Confirm" (opens the original)
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For most of human history, the decision to take a life in war passed through a chain of human judgment, however imperfect. A commander weighed intelligence. A soldier looked through a scope. Someone, somewhere, made a choice they could be held accountable for. That chain is breaking. Not in some distant future scenario, but in active theaters of war right now, and in the architecture of everyday digital life. The handoff from human judgment to machine recommendation, and in some cases machine ex
The Case for a Digital Détente (opens the original)
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For eighty years, the logic of nuclear deterrence rested on something visible. A missile silo could be photographed by satellite, submarine could be tracked by sonar, warhead’s yield could be calculated. That visibility, however grim, gave diplomats and generals something to negotiate over. Two new categories of weapon now threaten to erase that visibility entirely, and neither Washington nor Beijing has fully reckoned with what they have built.The first is an autonomous cyber weapon that no lon
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