Twinkle 42 / Security fallacies
National security: billions for 'trust us'.
When I hire a trailer, they explain the risks; spend billions on national security and suddenly I'm too unqualified to ask.
A 15–60 second vertical Twinkle, filmed or AI-generated, with the sound of urine tinkling in the background. Start with the gripe, land the joke, then point to the fair-go fix.
Brainstorming scenario
National security: publish the assumptions behind the bill
Security includes whether ordinary systems keep working and whether people can repair or replace them. Distributed skills, local capability and diverse dependencies offer a wider set of questions than a purchase price.
Short video script
When I hire a trailer, they explain the risks; spend billions on national security and suddenly I'm too unqualified to ask. Security includes whether ordinary systems keep working and whether people can repair or replace them. Distributed skills, local capability and diverse dependencies offer a wider set of questions than a purchase price. Assess security as a portfolio of threats, dependencies and useful resilience, with explicit failure cases and review triggers.
Explore the connected work
- UNGA81: shared capability — The missing middle and how shared infrastructure could spread skills, agency and resilience. Source repository
- Ready S.E.T. Co-op intelligence node — A rack-scale community computing proposal, local learning, cultural permissions and links to the submissions. Source repository