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OpenAI Is Opening the Door to Government Spying Whether it means to or not

The Pentagon can likely get away with using OpenAI’s technology for mass surveillance of Americans under the terms of their contract, legal experts told @matteowong.bsky.social.

I'm reposting this before even watching because Frank Kendall is always on my watch list and any decent administration next will have him front of the line to be SECDEF.

That & the China Talk/2d Breakfast team always kills it.

Second Breakfast: Iran and the DIB with Fmr SECAF Frank Kendall Spotify video

I sadly missed the recording this week but former SECAF Frank Kendall joined Second Breakfast this week!

open.spotify.com/episode/1xHh...

TBI: totally based Instagram

Russia is providing Iran intelligence to target U.S. forces, officials say The targeting information has included the locations of American warships and aircraft in the Middle East, the officials said.

You can see why Russia sees an opportunity to settle scores. "Russia is providing Iran with targeting information to attack American forces in the Middle East, the first indication that another major U.S. adversary is participating — even indirectly" www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

This actually isn’t surprising in the slightest from an American POV. The only people trying to actually learn from this war are like Mike kofman, Rob Lee, 4 rando freelancers, and 7 people on here

Back when divisions had SHORAD Battalions, most AR/CAV Battalion Commanders would make the mistake of looking at his ADA platoon and seeing 5 Bradleys instead of 5 MANPAD defense platforms during a CTC rotation, with terrible yet foreseeable results. Defenses need defending, too.

“What Guam Defense System doing?”

Actually iirc we talked about this specific problem on the CUAS episode last fall too.

I said yesterday that torpedo strike would keep Beijing up and this should keep INDOPACOM wide awake (it already does, now just more evidence)

If only there was a war that highlighted this for the last few years

Almost like you need defenses for the exquisite systems themselves.

Probably first major US loss of the conflict when it comes to ballistic missile defense. One of TPY-2 radars belonging to the THAAD battery deployed to Muwaffaq Salti Airbase in Jordan seems to have been struck. The full radar set goes over $200M.

lol

ICO writes to Meta over 'concerning' AI smart glasses report Videos, including of glasses-wearers using the toilet or having sex, are sometimes reviewed by a Kenya-based subcontractor.

Last year when I was checking into a hotel, the desk person was wearing Meta glasses. I kindly asked them to take them off. They were annoyed. I said, “I do not consent to you looking at my credit card and ID with Meta glasses on.” My instincts were correct: www.bbc.com/news/article...

…do I want to air bnb or is it big haunted

My entire career is Mad Libs. There’s no part of my life that doesn’t sound fake.

Once again, you are the Forrest Gump of GWOT

We are doing THE PITT commentary this week and our guest is going to suffer it.

The US every time someone comes up with a new tactic that doesn’t match their idea of combat:

The problem with Americans and doctrine isn’t that we don’t read it. It’s that we’ve become so self assured we’re convinced nobody else can think of and employ a good idea.

Like we literally remade this thing and renamed it LUCAS and we’re like “huh we had no idea.”

“We had no idea the drone we cloned because we thought it would be cheap and good and confounding for the enemy would also be cheap and confounding for us.”

Even tho we have years of data from Ukraine that says just that.

And the threat color chart

whether this idiot war is legal under US domestic law/Art I (and for that matter international law via the UN Charter) is a very different discussion than whether an act was a LOAC violation given a state of hostilities practically exists between the US and Iran

It’s just everyone being panicked and dumb.

Broadly speaking they’re right that we have to focus on winning but the obvious exception is the guy with the evil skull tattoo that gives Fetterman vibes.

It is 100% Biden backlash. They are fighting the last war which is old people losing bc old and them getting beat over the head by Biden people for speaking out. They’re missing the bigger picture.

I would just quit after this.

Sure. Just that "LLMs are not good for my thing" is a totally valid position for someone to hold, but "LLMs are not good for any thing, and the whole buzz around them is fake" is not really sustainable anymore