Poisons and Pestilence

In this episode, we sit down with Dani Ismailov-Law to unpack the findings of Crimson Flare's latest report, "Avoiding Total Abliteration". Crimson Flare is an independent research lab focused on evaluating the risk of uncensored open-weight models being misused for harms, specifically aiming to reduce the risk of AI-enabled terrorism. Featured Link: Report: Avoiding Total Abliteration Organisation: Crimson Flare Access: https://crimsonflare.com/ata-report/ (Note: Access to the full report must be requested from the authors)

What the hell happened at Ikutsk- and why bio incidents always be like this?    The guests on this week's episodes were:  Al Mauroni Seth Carus Kai Ilchmann  Reid Kirby  

Trailer Rights;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kea7gnh1uYA

In this episode we return to the history of the M-Device with Brian Tasman-Davies   You can check out the book here: Major Tom and the secret ‘M’ device – Brian's historical adventure books   We also did a previous episode on this topic with Simon Jones: 13 Bonus Episode: The M Device with Simon Jones   Music rights: "Яблочко" (Little Apple) - Russian Folk Song - YouTube

In this episode we examine the earliest reference to poison arrows in accounts of European expeditions to the Americas in the 15th Century. This is the first part of a study which runs up untill around 1700.      You can check out the show notes here:    https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1wIibQJYobwyhFNC-OhjnLYkOwVizIjuJ?usp=sharing

Reid Kirby will be publishing his book in June. Follow him at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rkirby/      Media Credits: ABC news.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-jA96JgD9U

In this episode Jessica Morris discusses her work on the evolution of British Gas Strategy during WW1. 

In this episode I discuss operational aspects of the destruction of declared Syrian CW stocks - with Jerry Smith. Recorded November 2024. 

You can check our more of Dr Zander's work over at The Trench – Challenging entrenched positions - Jean Pascal Zanders