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Pentagon Refuses to Say If AI Was Used to Select Elementary School as Bombing Target Did the US military use Anthropic's Claude to select targets in its weekend operations in Iran, with devastating results?

We asked the Pentagon a straightforward question: did Centcom use Claude to target an elementary school for annihilation?

They refused to answer.

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This is an insult to baby penguins.

Virginia moves to forbid schools from teaching that Jan. 6 was peaceful In what appears to be a first in the country, legislation headed to the desk of Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) would prohibit public schools from teaching that the Jan. 6 riots at the U.S. Capit...

Virginia lawmakers have passed a first-of-its-kind bill that prohibits schools from teaching that the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection was a peaceful demonstration or that there was massive fraud in the 2020 presidential election.

Believe what he says. We are on a regime-change spree.

I wish this quote wasn’t still so relevant

Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

Reuters Exclusive

"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."

"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

Beautiful composition

My 5 year old told us proudly and brightly at dinner how he comforted a scared first grader during a lockdown at school by explaining all the ways he could tell that *this* lockdown was a drill.

Trump Says 'I Guess' Americans Should Worry About Iran Retaliating on U.S. Soil: 'Like I Said, Some People Will Die' In an interview with 'Time,' President Donald Trump acknowledged the possibility that Iran retaliates with attacks on U.S. soil, saying, 'We think about it all the time. We plan for it'

This is not how a leader behaves. You cannot claim to love a country when you clearly don’t care about anyone who lives there.

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I’m so deeply sorry. Despicable is exactly the right word!

This breaks my heart on so many levels.
This angers me on so many levels.
Despicable!

"I hope you are impressed," he said to me. "How do you like the performance? I mean, Venezuela is obvious. This might be even better. How do you like the performance?"

"I hope you are impressed," he said to me. "How do you like the performance? I mean, Venezuela is obvious. This might be even better. How do you like the performance?"

"How do you like the performance?"

An illegal war for the sake of spectacle and the amusement of POTUS.

That’s awesome - congratulations! I’m trying to “reduce,” too, as the British say, in a sustainable way.

“My little girl was completely burned,” he said. “There was nothing left of her. We could only identify her from her school bag, which she was still holding. She was completely burned.”

PAT RYAN: 'Does the US want to be the policeman of the Middle East getting nothing but spending precious lives & trillions.' Rng a bell?

COLBY: Defer to you

R: That was Trump. How about this - 'we simply cannot afford to get enmeshed in a Middle East war'

C: Defer to you

R: That was actually you

Trump FIRES Kristi Noem in first Cabinet firing of his second term President Donald Trump has fired Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, marking the first Cabinet-level termination of his second term.

THIS IS FOR YOU, CRICKET!

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Sarah Conner 4Ever ❤️

Don’t make me bust out the Jeff Goldblum GIFs! 🤣

How do you miss every message from Frankenstein to Jurassic Park and beyond?

Oak leaf buds ready to open

HOLD ON TO YOUR HATS, THE OAK TREES ARE WAKING UP 🥳🤗🌳

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It is kind of suspicious that the only people I see actively defending LLMs as morally neutral seem to have very specific career incentives to do so. Especially in the academy!

The Founding Fathers never envisioned one branch of government would stop doing its job.

After ALL the warnings & red flags, they actually relied on AI for targeting decisions? And the goddamn system they used didn’t recognize a building that used to be part of an Iranian Naval base but for several years now has been walled off from that base as a school for young girls? Accountability!

Iran's cyberwar has begun : 'Expect elevated activity for the foreseeable future'

Iranian hackers have launched spying expeditions, digital probes, and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks in the wake of the US and Israel launching missile strikes over the weekend, and security researchers urge organizations to expect more cyber intrusions as the war continues.

It's genuinely wild to me how many things can be put out in the world for phirchase or engagement without anyone once going, "…wait so What does it do? …And it does that how? …And the long-term implications of that are…?"

Like… not even once. It's banana bread.

I have this pet peeve that well-paid white guys in air-conditioned cubicles have no threat models and so never ask "Can this feature be used to harm women/ children/ minorities/ queers?" They don't care. They don't have to. Well-paid white guys ARE the threat.

Beautiful!