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This is a chilling crime. A shame on our country. The Iranian ship was unarmed. The US knew this. The sailors were murdered by our navy, and the survivors were left to die at sea.
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Happy SpaceX 1 million satellites FCC application comment deadline day to all who celebrate
C'est pire qu'un crime, c'est une faute
meditating on the question of "why didn't they ask ChatGPT to create an ad tech business?" may be instructive
They're valuing this at $1.75 trillion:
"Last year, SpaceX generated an impressive $8bn in Ebitda on $16bn in revenue. However, …xAI, …despite revenues of only $210mn [had] a cash burn of $9.5bn for the first nine months of 2025. "
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A US submarine sinking a lonely, dinky Iranian surface ship an ocean away from the theater of the main conflict—and 9000
miles from North America—makes it pretty clear the US is fighting a general war, without the declaration required by the Constitution. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
You could do much worse than spend your downtime clicking on some of the National Magazine Award-nominated articles on this list.
The magazine business is flailing, but magazine *writing* is still going strong.
This incisive piece of analysis from @jonostrower.com is now free for all readers as a public service, given the evolving and incredibly critical nature of the conflict.
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Spain's PLD Space raises $209 million in latest funding round reut.rs/3PeYpsj
These U.S. soldiers were killed in an Iranian drone strike in Kuwait over the weekend.
They are Capt. Cody Khork, 35
Sgt. 1st Class Nicole Amor, 39
Sgt. 1st Class Noah Tietjens, 42
Sgt. Declan Coady, 20
Two others were killed in the same attack; their names have not yet been released.
RIP.
HERE WE GO! Fabrizio Romano to Saudi Arabia Mouthpieces, deal agreed for undisclosed fee. Subject to medical (on innocent civilians)
When FBI Director Kash Patel fired a dozen FBI agents and staff last week for their role in the classified documents investigation of Donald Trump, he targeted an elite counter espionage unit that investigates threats from foreign adversaries and specializes in Iran www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...
This mural slaps. Literally turned around so I could get a picture.
one the stupidest things I've ever seen anyone say to a reporter
Across social media and the Al industry, people immediately began to challenge Altman's claim. Why, they asked, would the Pentagon suddenly agree to the red lines that it had said — in no uncertain terms — that it would never do so? The answer, sources told The Verge, is that the Pentagon didn't budge. OpenAl agreed to follow laws that have allowed for mass surveillance in the past, while insisting they protect its red lines. One source familiar with the Pentagon's negotiations with Al companies confirmed that OpenAl's deal is much softer than the one Anthropic was pushing for, thanks largely to three words: "any lawful use." In negotiations, the person said, the Pentagon wouldn't back down on its desire to collect and analyze bulk data on Americans. If you look line-by-line at the OpenAl terms, the source said, every aspect of it boils down to: If it's technically legal, then the US military can use OpenAl's technology to carry it out. And over the past decades, the US government has stretched the definition of "technically legal" to cover sweeping mass surveillance programs - and more.
Sam Altman got played and spun it like a win - @haydenfield.bsky.social has the scoop from a weekend’s worth of reporting from inside the Pentagon AI negotiations. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Elon’s response is even more interesting than the original tweet.
OpenAI posted the terms of the deal. Reveals that it absolutely does allow for domestic surveillance. EO 12333 is how the NSA hides its domestic surveillance by capturing communications by tapping into lines *outside the US* even if it contains info from/on US persons.
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Ok its a funny meme that if Iran really did have nuclear weapons, they wouldnt be getting bombed right now by the worlds most fearsome air power. Their political and military leadership would not be killed, nor their misslie bases & air defences destroyed, nor their cities bombed.
just circling back...
John Singer Sargent, Glacier Streams
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
in this case the enemy's wicked ideology is physics, or possibly electrical engineering
NASA announced sweeping changes to its Artemis plan this morning in an effort to accelerate the Space Launch System's flight rate. But after years of the program being mismanaged, behind schedule, and over budget, I'm not sure what makes this time different... www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The White House posting a fake AI video of a gold medal athlete would be an insane scandal in the old times. www.nytimes.com/athletic/707...
Under Secretary of War Emil... V @USWREMichael X.com It's a shame that @DarioAmodei is a liar and has a God-complex. He wants nothing more than to try to personally control the US Military and is ok putting our nation's safety at risk. The @DeptofWar will ALWAYS adhere to the law but not bend to whims of any one for-profit tech company. ^ Axios 2 @axios
Ummmmmmm
The Washington Post's description of the bodycam video of his arrest last year, and the translation of Mr. Shah Alam's comments, is gutting. Remember, he was entirely blind in one eye and could only see three feet in the other, and he spoke virtually no English.
He spent a year in jail for this.
