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Back to the Analog: AI and the Future of Public Diplomacy
A conversation on Public Diplomacy Examined (IPDGC, GW) about what AI changes in diplomacy — and what it makes more valuable than ever.
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What is "AI-Powered Diplomacy" anyway?
I just finished Dan Spokojny’s great article “Should Diplomats Trust AI?” The piece is anchored by two new items: the recent Foreign Service Journal issue that focused heavily on AI (which I contributed to), as well as the December 2025 AI-Powered Diplomacy paper from the Pavel Slunkin writing
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Claude Code and Antigravity for Federal Practitioners: One Vault with Two Tools
DoW designated Anthropic a supply-chain risk. If you built workflows around Claude Code, here's how to protect your investment by running two AI tools against one shared vault.
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Claude Code Alternatives for Federal Practitioners: AI Work That Outlasts Any Vendor
The DoW designated Anthropic a supply-chain risk. If you built workflows around Claude Code, here's how to protect your investment with portable, vendor-agnostic AI setups.
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Identic AI: Why Personalized Agents Are the Next Layer of Enterprise AI
Enterprise AI doesn't have to repeat the oldest mistake in IT. A three-layer model — shared data, standardized skills, and personalized agents — lets organizations amplify individual judgment instead of standardizing it away. The technology exists today.
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Getting Started with Claude Code: Building a Personalized AI System
Every conversation with AI starts from scratch. This tutorial builds the system that fixes that — persistent context, project memory, and a personal vault that makes each session smarter than the last. Built for diplomats, analysts, and federal professionals who need more than a chatbot.
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How to Build a Secure AI Agent Setup (The OpenClaw Alternative)
This guide walks you through setting up an AI agent with persistent memory, modular skills, tool integration, and task automation, without exposing endpoints to the internet. Time required: ~2 hours Difficulty: Comfortable creating folders and text files; some terminal use helpful but not required Prerequisites: macOS/Windows/Linux, Anthropic API
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Getting Started with GenAI.mil - Dec 2025 Edition
Two weeks ago, the Pentagon put Google's Gemini for Government on the desktops of 3 million military personnel, civilians, and contractors. If you have a CAC, you now have access to a frontier AI model cleared to handle CUI. Most people will poke at it a few times,
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Prompt: Reputation Audit
We all sometimes need to check up on what is published about us (or a friend, colleague, or potential partner) online. While you can certainly ask Claude or another LLM to do your research, it will work far better if you tell it exactly what you are after... Wayan Vota
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How AI Actually "Knows" Things
A practical guide for getting more out of Claude and ChatGPT (and written based on conversations last week!) There's a counterintuitive truth about working with AI that took me a while to internalize: more isn't better. Not more training data, not more context, not more conversation