its donald trump forbidding iran from mining the strait of hormuz forthwith
I do not give the IRGC or any entities associated with Iran permission to mine the Strait of Hormuz. With this statement I give notice to the IRGC it is strictly forbidden to mine the Strait. The violation of ukase can be punished by law (UCC 1308 11 308103 and the Rome Statute).
When Bluesky was down today I went back to Twitter and was punched in the face by the stench of abandoned aquarium. Milo Yiannopoulos, who I honestly thought was dead, stanning Hillary Clinton. Dem flaks earnestly retweeting Nick Fuentes. It’s time to cordon off anyone left and introduce alligators.
Tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has all but stopped since yesterday.
Read the @financialtimes.com Economics editor, Sam Fleming's analysis of what the impact the war in Iran will have on the global economy
www.ft.com/content/31bf...
I find I am honestly unsure what the long term implications are of the United States demonstrating twice in three months that its new preferred way of war is to engage in bolt-from-the-blue decapitation strikes with no obvious follow-up plan.
My instinct is that it will not turn out well.
Oh so the Anthropic spat was about Pete Hegseth wanting to do war crimes but blame robots and avoid jail. Checks out.
“direct your anger at trump not the democrats” buddy you are severely underestimating the amount of anger i have available to me
Senator Mullin that guy died in 1989
If I were a head of state, I would think setting a precedent that assassination is a legitimate tool of state competition would be unwise
the current position of the US government is that NVIDIA should be allowed to sell chips directly to China but banned from using Claude, because the latter is a larger national security risk. that is the level of absolute insanity coming out of the White House & Pentagon nowadays
also: i think anthropic will be fine. they will take this to court and win, and any of their other business relationships whom the government tries to force to cancel their anthropic contract will also take this to court and win.
they're going to have to fight for it, though
They still treat him like a normal president. It's gotten surreal.
I feel this in my bones. Deep, deep, deep in my bones.
Standing up to the small stuff might put you at odds w/ social trends. It might cause friction between you & your peers. It might threaten your employment prospects. It will be *socially uncomfortable*.
That's why the train gets going: by the time it's socially acceptable to say No, it's too late.
Here's the problem, though. If you stand up to tanks in the streets, everyone will agree you're a Brave Hero. But if you stand up to the small things -- stopping the train before it really gets started -- you will be coded as *annoying*, as uptight, as moralistic, as uncool.
And so if you really *mean* "never again" -- if you're serious about it -- then the time to intervene, the time to speak up, the time to stop it, is *when it is still small*. When it's just a casual slur. When it's just sports. When it's just asking questions. When it's framed as anti-PC.
They start with chin-scratching pieces from centrists about whether this marginalized group is really all that good after all, if maybe a *little* discrimination is ok.
They don't start with horrors. They start with small things around the edges.
The time to prevent the thing from happening is *early*, as it is gaining steam. These things always start small, with efforts to weaken the norms against discrimination, with casual, unreflective slurs. They start with wedge policies (not gays, just gay adoption! not trans, just sports!).
But here's what I keep returning to: by the time the gov't is organized, tyrannical, & rounding up the marginalized, it's pretty much too late. By that time the remedies are often armed rebellion or invasion by another country or, at the very least, extended general strikes. Cat's out of the bag.
When people hear it, I think they feel a genuine stirring, like "yes, the next time I see a tyrannical government rounding up marginalized populations & putting them in camps, I will speak up." We like the mental image of bravely standing up to a line of tanks, a la Tiananmen Square.
They saw France bust down the doors of X for being pedophiles and immediately started developing the national sex crime VPN.
Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days “I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:
“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
Liberals say that concentration camps filled with children have no place in a democracy. They're wrong—concentration camps filled with children have no place in a republic.
I'm sorry, but this is obfuscation. The reality is simple.
Trump and his adherents are fascist white supremacists aiming to destroy every good thing in America.
If you look at a choice between them and a Democrat - any Democrat - and go "eh, not left enough, I'll pass" you are a child and a fool.
• META $META patented Al that has the ability to continue posting and messaging from user accounts of deceased individual's accounts by mimicking and replicating their past history of posting/activity
we are officially in the Bad Place™️
ICE has completely broken our social contract.
They manipulate social trust and are creating lasting damage to our most basic social foundations
r/analytics • IOh We just found out our AI has been making up analytics data for 3 months and I'm gonna throw up. Support So we've been using an Al agent since November to answer leadership questions about metrics. It seemed amazing at first fast answers, detailed explanations, everyone loved it. I just found out it's been hallucinating numbers this entire time. Our VP of sales made territory decisions based on data that didn't exist. Our CFO showed the board a deck with fake insights. The Al was just inventing plausible sounding percentages. I only caught it by accident when someone asked me to double check something. I started digging, and holy shit, it's bad.
lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard
Screenshot from Antihero music video, with Taylor Swift duplicated between foreground and background as different versions of herself, captioned respectively: “The Millenials trying to buy tickets.” and “The Millenials driving up ticket prices.”
I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it.
I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
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xAI co-founder Jimmy Ba is leaving xAI, the sixth co-founder to depart; sources and social media posts: more than half a dozen researchers left in recent weeks (Financial Times)
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we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
