Ben Dalton
@wbend
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Program Manager at @newfrontlines.
Washington, DC
Joined September 2010
With the rise of generative large language models it becomes paramount at minimum to retain the peculiarity of one's individual style, at maximum, to cultivate eccentricity as such, what Lacan called jouissance of the speech act. The maxim: Never write a sentence ChatGPT could
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Candace breaks down why sanctioning Rosneft & Lukoil is a bigger deal than it might seem. Also worth noting: the new sanctions turn the screws on Russia's burgeoning crypto industry, too, which the state has used to circumvent financial restrictions.
1/ This is Igor Sechin — CEO of Rosneft and one of Vladimir Putin’s oldest allies from their KGB-era St. Petersburg days. Yesterday, his company was hit with the U.S.’s toughest sanctions yet. And that’s a big deal. 🧵
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1/ This is Igor Sechin — CEO of Rosneft and one of Vladimir Putin’s oldest allies from their KGB-era St. Petersburg days. Yesterday, his company was hit with the U.S.’s toughest sanctions yet. And that’s a big deal. 🧵
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2017: Oh ha ha, the Wendy's account is making jokes. 2025:
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China built more renewables last year than the rest of the world combined. It is not just about climate; it is about control. While the United States doubles down on fossil fuels, Beijing is wiring the global economy for the next century. #energy #climate
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China’s largest turbine makers are lobbying the government to install at least 120 gigawatts of wind power capacity in each of the next five years, an acceleration of the country’s energy transition...
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What's interesting about Russia's new WeChat equivalent is the apparent need - in 2025 - for Russian authorities to avoid looking overtly dictatorial. So they're doing behavioral economics to nudge people away from Telegram rather than banning outright. https://t.co/gs1MfiydnD
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As the Kremlin throttles WhatsApp and Telegram, the new MAX messaging app is moving Russia closer to a restricted internet without foreign technology.
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EXCLUSIVE: The WGA, which represents CBS News employees, has urged its members to ignore an email from the network’s new editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss. In the message, Weiss asked staffers to detail “how you spend your working hours — and ideally, what you’ve made (or are making)
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Happy to see @CandaceRondeaux's Putin's Sledgehammer reviewed in the @nybooks along with Jack Margolin and John Lechner. A solid deep dive!
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From Africa to Ukraine, the rise and fall of the Wagner Group and its leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, was marked by theatrical violence, the seizure of resources, and an utter lack of accountability.
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Sr. Director @CandaceRondeaux & Program Manager Ben Dalton @wbend dig into the open source investigative techniques used by the Future Frontlines team to follow digital #WagnerGroup footprints. Listen to hear from us and @bellingcat here: https://t.co/aJjTAO1uc8
#Russia #OSINT
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TW: This episode contains a description of a murder and mutilation. This week we spoke to the team at New America about their work tracking militia and private military groups online. Candace...
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Always great to chat with @wbend and @ShannonLynchDC .@NewAmerica. Lots of food for thought on the state of play between the #USA 🇺🇸,#Russia 🇷🇺, #Ukraine 🇺🇦 Listen to "Russia-Ukraine Peace Talks" by Democracy Deciphered
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Peace talks between Russia and Ukraine are on the table. To understand what’s at stake, we need to look not just at today’s negotiations but also at the long and tangled history behind these two...
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#Africa’s digital economy is booming. Will it mean sovereignty or dependency? A new brief from @roland_banya (@RIAnetwork) shows how countries can attract investment, protect data rights, & pave the way for sustainable digital infrastructure. 🔗 https://t.co/2T4REJY2AJ
#AI #DPI
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Yeah, when belief in any shared social project collapses - and that's usually a reasonable reaction on the part of normal people to moves from the top - then everyone starts thinking in terms of extracting as much as they can. And they don't fault others for doing the same.
.@yashalevine has a point, and it's actually much bigger. Nobody cares much anymore about corruption in Europe, either. A lot of the problems Westerners archly diagnosed in 90s Russia have become ours, like oligarchy, or political parties lacking ideologies and constituencies.
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🎙️ Missed my conversation with .@ColinPClarke at the .@IntlSpyMuseum? Catch our deep dive on the Wagner Group—how a caterer became a warlord, and what it means for the future of modern war.📺 Watch here: https://t.co/vbdTsftqte
#WagnerGroup #SpyMuseum #OSINT #PutinsSledgehammer
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Remember: the primary job of any Silicon Valley CEO is salesman.
woke up early on a saturday to have a couple of hours to try using our new model for a little coding project. done in 5 minutes. it is very, very good. not sure how i feel about it...
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Candace Rondeaux will be at Volumes Bookcafe in Chicago, IL on Thursday, July 10 at 7:00pm to discuss Putin’s Sledgehammer. https://t.co/PJoGCAbEt4
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Congratulations to @ZohranKMamdani on an incredible win and a courageous, principled campaign. People are hungry for a government that is relentlessly focused on improving their lives, even when it means standing up to corporate power and moneyed interests.
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Everything makes so much sense once you realize every maga wants to blow their head smoove off like it started to become clear during the ivermectin thing but straight up they’d be fine w/ sowing poison into the fields and serving it up heavens gate style to 350 million Americans
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Today, my boss & friend @CandaceRondeaux publishes "PUTIN’S SLEDGEHAMMER: The Wagner Group and Russia’s Collapse Into Mercenary Chaos," the result of many years of work and a lifetime of analysis. Buy it, read it: https://t.co/HyqGJVAXeb
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