Tim Hwang and Rachel Reses are joined by FAI Senior Fellow Luke Hogg to monitor the “monitoring the situation” situation: what went wrong with Polymarket’s “Situation Room” pop-up bar, why people want to watch bleak and violent events unfold in real time, whether amateur analysts are getting too good at flight-tracking, and whether a medieval peasant would be more bowled over by a Dorito or your GitHub dashboard.
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The clip of Maj. Claire Randolph discussing the challenge of maintaining opsec with widespread access to the open internet:
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'Twitter randos tracking and publishing our locations in ways we would consider top secret'
Speaking at @MitchellStudies AFCENT Chief of Weapons and Tactics, Maj. Claire Randolph talks about the complexity of maintaining OPSEC for Operation Midnight Hammer and says
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