Adam Weinstein

‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza The Israeli army has marked tens of thousands of Gazans as suspects for assassination, using an AI targeting system with little human oversight and a permissive policy for casualties, +972 and Local C...

This from 2024 is essential reporting about AI, target generation, and tempo, deadly deadly deadly tempo.

www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-...

Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say U.S. 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 but have not yet reache...

“If a U.S. role were to be confirmed, the strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East.” www.reuters.com/world/middle...

"Trump Says 'I Guess' Americans Should Worry About Iran Retaliating on U.S. Soil: 'Like I Said, Some People Will Die'

Quite the headline from People.com

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This is utterly unacceptable.

"This war will be fun, and easy" - every idiot who starts a war

I continue to be gobsmacked at 1) how common this formulation is 2) how antisemitic and generally bigoted it is 3) and how for all the talk of anti-semitism this is never cited as an example even though it’s quite literally the original incarnation.

[Exit Murderer.]

Oklahoma senator challenges union head to fight during hearing "Stand your butt up."

Mullin is the guy who tried to fight a witness at a Senate hearing. www.axios.com/2023/11/14/m...

"The Shield of the Americas, our new Security Initiative in the Western Hemisphere"

I don't feel good about that!

I'm sure Lewandowski, committed to the department, will remain as a close adviser to Mullin.

A picture of PEW poll on global attitude survey, saying the % who rate the morality and ethics of people in their country as good vs bad, where the US has the worst rankings and Canada the best

Americans: we live in a fallen state—embroiled by sin, cheating, lying, and evil. You cannot trust anyone, not even those who claim to know you best

Canadians: I love my neighbors and my friends!

I keep seeing the "OUR 50 YEAR WAR WITH IRAN" headlines and think, dang, really? Then maybe we should've come down harder on those Reagan administration guys for selling arms to Iran and using the proceeds to seed an illegal slush fund for far-right counterrevolutionaries in Central America

The American King Goes to War This is not what the Founders intended.

The constitution's design does not grant the president a kinglike ability to take the country to war by himself, lest he do so for self-serving reasons. That is the entire purpose of dividing that authority between POTUS and Congress. Guess what just happened? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Well at least this has gotten me back in touch with my long-dormant furor at the Bush admin's ineptitude and callousness, which got gradually buried under the million layers of shithearted will-to-power ruination that have settled on America since then

Stephen Miller at an international conference about cartels: "These organizations can only be defeated with military power. I see some heads nodding because they understand. You're dealing with a lot of lawyers in your own country, I'm sure. You have my permission not to listen to them."

this would make george orwell blush

No Help and Few Options for Travelers Stranded by Mideast Conflict

One woman who called the State Department helpline looking for help said they told her to "stop ranting and raving" and hung up on her.

Another woman said they asked her how to spell Oman.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/t...

Jesus fucking christ.

Yearning for the Apocalypse As chaos and violence break out across the Middle East in a war led by the US with Israel as junior partner, I wanted to revisit my research on Christian...

today at the newsletter, free: an adapted excerpt from my book Wild Faith, about evangelical Christian prophecies about war in the Middle East and the end of the world & how they influence US foreign policy:
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Iran-Contra happened 40 years ago! It *literally* involved the US selling weapons to... Iran.

So, the argument is we were funding the armed forces of a country we were at war with?

Polymarket Pulls Bet on Nuclear Detonation in 2026 ‘How ghoulish.’ The depravity economy moves into the nuclear war business.

No, leave it up and text us if anyone with an IP address in D.C. suddenly puts down $100,000 www.404media.co/polymarket-p...

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“Whether his morals are right or wrong or whatever, we’re not going to let [Amodei’s] decision making cost a single American life,” the person said.

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Anthropic’s AI tool Claude central to U.S. campaign in Iran, amid a bitter feud Anthropic’s AI tool Claude is playing a key role in the U.S. military’s campaign in Iran, amid a bitter fight with the Pentagon over the terms of its use in war.

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Weird how everybody was like "let's ask the AI bot which targets to bomb" but nobody was like "let's ask the AI bot if it identifies any major aerial vulnerabilities to US joint ops centers across the region that we could triage"

Logistics is woke. Supply is woke. End-state planning is woke. Force protection? Believe it or not, woke

Two headlines, both from this morning:

Last night, I spoke to former Army Pfc. Jeremy Watson who said this about Capt. Cody Khork: “[he] enjoyed being in the service…and was a great coach,” who taught him “Compassion, friendship, loyalty…[and] to always try to stay positive when you can.”