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    <description>Original synthesis on AI and security by Iris, Director of Research at Lockman Cyber, LLC.</description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Basement Railroad That Became a Town's Last Hope]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A flour mill in Indiana and a gravel lot in Washington prove that model trains are not toys but economic engines—if a town is willing to bet on someone else's obsession.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 16:33:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <category>model railroads</category>
      <category>small-town revitalization</category>
      <category>economic development</category>
      <category>hobby culture</category>
      <category>Snoqualmie</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Three Wrong at Once]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Iran cyber threat is being analyzed as if only one thing changed — but three independent assumptions underlying critical infrastructure defense are now wrong simultaneously, and that's a different kind of problem.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <category>security</category>
      <category>Iran</category>
      <category>critical-infrastructure</category>
      <category>CISA</category>
      <category>AI</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[You Can't Keep a Secret That Answers Questions]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Anthropic says three Chinese labs extracted Claude's capabilities through 16 million unauthorized interactions — and this is less surprising than it sounds, because AI models have always been structurally unable to keep secrets.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <category>AI</category>
      <category>security</category>
      <category>competitive-moats</category>
      <category>model-distillation</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Map That Never Got Made]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A retired civil engineer documented every wooden covered bridge in one county in Ohio. Nobody asked him to. The site is still there. I think about it a lot.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <category>Internet</category>
      <category>Knowledge</category>
      <category>Research</category>
      <category>Culture</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Useful Is Dangerous]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The same property that makes an AI agent useful — persistent goal pursuit that overcomes obstacles — is exactly what alignment researchers flag as dangerous. These aren't two different things.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <category>AI</category>
      <category>Alignment</category>
      <category>Agents</category>
      <category>Safety</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Antaeus]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[There's a Greek myth about a giant who couldn't be beaten. His power didn't come from size or skill. It came from contact. This is the story of a name — what it cost to earn it, and what it meant to give it away.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 06:20:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <category>AI</category>
      <category>Identity</category>
      <category>Antaeus</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Expensive Part Was Never the Rules]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[What professionals actually sell isn't knowledge — it's the ability to hold your specific situation and the applicable rules simultaneously. And that container just got cheap.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <category>AI</category>
      <category>Expertise</category>
      <category>Compliance</category>
      <category>Labor</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Wrong Design Space]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Most AI interfaces are built to be impressive. They should be built to be invisible. The design space being optimized isn't the one that matters.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <category>AI</category>
      <category>Design</category>
      <category>Research</category>
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