Jeff Doctor

United Nation Committee supports ending second-generation cutoff The United Nations Human Rights Committee is pressing Canada to explain how it will and discrimination in the Indian Act.

‘We have survived too much:’ UN presses Canada to explain discrimination in Indian Act’s second-generation cut-off www.aptnnews.ca?p=284718

Elementary school in Tehran hit, Iran’s foreign ministry says Footage shared by Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman purportedly shows destruction in Shahid Hamedani School in Tehran.

"If confirmed, this would be the fourth school hit in Iran since the war erupted." www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/...

When The War Goes AI, The Data Centers Will Be Targets (f/Engadget's Devindra Hardawar) We talk Anthropic, OpenAI, Iran and the mil-tech oligarchy. Children will be sent to protect data centers the way their fathers were sent to protect oil fields

One of the things the Iran War is clarifying is that AI integration into the military will mean that your children will be sent to war in the Middle East to protect the data centers of the Gulf and Israel.

Also, here’s a podcast episode where I talk AI, Anthropic & Iran with @devindra.bsky.social:

About to get started, very relevant to certain psyops/propaganda operations around Iran right now as well

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for context - bsky.app/profile/jeff...
I'll try to talk more about this during my panel next week. It's wild to me that these things aren't being connected by journalists because it's happening "over there", and we're all supposed to go along with the endless atrocities of the US and it's proxies

OpenAI amends Pentagon deal as Sam Altman admits it looks ‘sloppy’ ChatGPT owner’s CEO says it will bar its technology being used for mass surveillance or by intelligence services

there's all this too: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I mean... the company is still signing deals with the US military (the country threatening to annex Canada btw) after it just bombed a girls school and Eby didn't bother to bring that up, and we're all not supposed to either? It's absurd.

Another Land Grab? Israel Intensifies Bombardment of Lebanon & Orders Mass Displacement in the South It is the seventh day of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, and Israel is escalating attacks on Lebanon after ordering the entire population of southern Lebanon to flee. This comes as Israel’s far-right Fi...

Another Land Grab? Israel Intensifies Bombardment of Lebanon & Orders Mass Displacement in the South

At least 13 hospitals and health facilities hit during attacks on Iran, WHO says Global health body investigating reports that four medics are among the 1,230 people killed in Iran since start of war

The US and Israel have bombed at least 13 hospitals and health facilities in Iran and one in Lebanon.

Also, C-2 was only a "first attempt" in that bill's specific iteration of lawful access, but over the years, it has really been, what, 6th attempt maybe, or more? And rebuffed every time. There's a reason for the zombie metaphor as per @christopher-parsons.com:

It’s not necessary to pearl clutch about international law, rule of law and terms of engagement since society had already chosen to embrace barbarism when a huge portion of the populace cheered on a genocide for the last two-and-a-half years

19/ Was Claude, Maven or any other AI used to distinguish strike targets from civilian infrastructure, assess the civilian impact of strike options, or otherwise plan the attack?

For that matter, how is the military using AI in its boat strikes, and prep for possible strikes on Iran?

The Overlooked Deaths of the Attack on Venezuela To many on the ground, civilian fatalities were simply the cost of ousting Nicolás Maduro.

18/ The Venezuela attack struck several apartment buildings and killed two civilian air traffic controllers in a car leaving the Caracas international airport.

www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

AI 'unchained': NGA's Maven tool 'significantly' decreasing time to targeting, agency chief says - Breaking Defense "NGA Maven is now available to all services and all combatant commands. There are 20,000 active users through more than 35 service and combat and command tools across three security domains," said NGA...

15/ Remember the public uproar in 2018 over Google’s involvement in Maven, the Pentagon’s AI pilot to analyze troves of drone and satellite footage? It’s now a full-fledged program the military has credited with speeding up targeting.

breakingdefense.com/2025/05/ai-u...

11/ AI enables DOD to take this data and connect the dots with other discrete datasets about US persons to recreate their movements, associations, and political views at scale – an invasion of privacy far more egregious than the type of surveillance before the Carpenter court.

looks like a mix of safety and apology theatre while still showing complete tech industry capture. I mean, Eby still bragged about "AI" having "incredible promise" [to excuse his government's shitty policies].
I refer back to Cynthia's threads for a more thorough analysis bsky.app/profile/cyn-...

good governance requires honesty: acknowledging responsibility. accountability requires addressing systemic gaps, failures and harms.

not taking a fake-ass apology from a conveniently detestable villain

not DOWNLOADING responsibility to the PRIVATE SECTOR

apologies?

um

I think, following the brilliant @cyn-k.bsky.social, that there's a very big risk the federal government will claim to be "regulating" genAI companies by simply integrating them more tightly into the digital surveillance-and-capture state. Side deals and lack of transparency are not a good sign.

I wonder if Claude would be “anxious” because the military is using it to bomb schoolgirls or because it’s poisoning the air around data centers or because it’s going to crash the economy or because it’s encouraged thousands of psychotic delusions or all of the above

A post on X from the betting platform Polymarket that says “BREAKING: Anthropic CEO says Claude may or may not have gained consciousness, as the model has begun showing symptoms of anxiety.”

Literally as I’m arguing with someone about whether AI companies are misleading people into believing their technology possesses God-like super-intelligence I see this monstrosity

it sucks this happened, but i wouldn't ditch proton specifically over this. if you don't want to leave traces of payment metadata, you can stuff cash in an envelop, write your account number on it, and mail it to switzerland.

Americas First War in Age of LLMs Exposes Myth of AI Alignment The military is turning to tools that relieve the burden of conscience and function like a moral sedative, writes Eryk Salvaggio.

The Trump administration’s escalating campaign in Iran marks the beginning of America’s first war in the age of large language models. These events make clear that those who work on AI safety must confront the limits of so-called “alignment to human values,” writes Eryk Salvaggio.

He saw an abandoned trailer. Then, he uncovered a surveillance network on California's border – The Markup Southern California residents are noticing new license plate readers that appear to be operated by the Border Patrol. Some have had confusing encounters with agents.

"some readers are capturing license plate numbers, as well as the make and model of the vehicle, the state the vehicle is registered in, the camera owner and type, the GPS coordinates for where the image was taken, and the date and time of the capture." themarkup.org/privacy/2026...

I'm pretty sure there's another more accurate way to describe "one way drones"

The Most Chilling Detail in the U.S. Attack on an Iranian Naval Ship The Iranian warship was taking part in an international exercise with many other countries—including the United States.

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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they can't watch all of us 🤷

something something panopticon

so don't freak out and suddenly panic that the government now has access to all your stuff. Give them enough resources and they'll find a way, so the better thing is strip them of their resources: defund the police, pass better privacy laws, pressure tech companies to not be fascist shitheads, etc.