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I like infosec (esp. threat intelligence), history and philosophy of science and technology, skepticism. Mastodon: http://infosec.exchange/@lippard

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Unit combat readiness briefing and Armageddon From: (Active Duty Military NCO and MRFF Client’s email address withheld)Subject: Unit combat readiness briefing and ArmageddonDate: March 2, 2026 at 1:02:53 PM MSTTo: Information Weinstein <mikey@mil...

www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org/2026/03/unit...

03.03.2026 16:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

MRFF is a real org that has been around for 21 years; Larsen has reported on their stuff (and been cited by them) for multiple years.

03.03.2026 14:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

If any commanders really think this, then shouldn't they realize that really does make Trump the Antichrist?

03.03.2026 14:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Supreme Court Declines to Hear Hamdi Mohamud’s Case Against St. Paul Officer Who Framed Her - Institute for Justice Today, the U.S. Supreme Court denied a petition for certiorari filed by the Institute for Justice (IJ) on behalf of Hamdi Mohamud. The petition asked the […]

A St. Paul police officer fabricated a massive sex trafficking case and had multiple people locked up under false charges. The Supreme Court yesterday affirmed a ruling that she can't be sued by her victims. She appears to still be employed by the St. Paul PD. ij.org/press-releas...

03.03.2026 14:05 — 👍 461    🔁 277    💬 9    📌 32

Hiring the dregs of Liberty Law School for the DOJ is the legal equivalent of drafting 13-year-olds into the infantry

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CBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoples’ Movements An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. ICE has bought access to similar t...

New from 404 Media: CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples' movements, according to an internal DHS document. Shows for the first time DHS tracked phones via process for putting ads in ordinary apps—video games, fitness apps, many more www.404media.co/cbp-tapped-i...

03.03.2026 14:07 — 👍 861    🔁 528    💬 22    📌 89

As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.

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I just read this and found it surprisingly gripping. He says no doctrine would seem “more sinister and alarming than that a President [...] can vastly enlarge his mastery over the internal affairs of the country by his own commitment of the Nation’s armed forces to some foreign venture.” (p. 642)

02.03.2026 00:13 — 👍 98    🔁 42    💬 5    📌 1

Wow, 60 Minutes really sucks now.

02.03.2026 00:11 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Its getting it right was a sign of progress, it's identifying that one of the questions was wrong was more impressive to me.

02.03.2026 00:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yes, that distinguishes it importantly from legal cases.

02.03.2026 00:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

So OpenAI said yes to those terms?

01.03.2026 23:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Bel...

01.03.2026 23:16 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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The real test for me is using it to do security assessments and code recommendations, where it has also dramatically improved but still can be wildly incorrect. I am still just dabbling, I know it can be made more reliable with multiple agents and a harness framework.

01.03.2026 22:58 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is a bombshell: "the Pentagon wanted the company to allow for the collection and analysis of unclassified, commercial bulk data on Americans, such as geolocation and web browsing data"

This kind of agenda echoes the defunded Total Information Awareness effort, post-9/11

01.03.2026 19:26 — 👍 2315    🔁 1027    💬 54    📌 62
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Sarandos’ first interview since they exited the race for Warner is pretty lit.

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01.03.2026 22:04 — 👍 751    🔁 128    💬 21    📌 23

I would be quite comfortable agreeing with both of those statements.

01.03.2026 20:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Recently not only did two of them get it all exactly right, one correctly identified the theme based on four answers and pointed out that one of the questions didn't fit and was likely an error. It was, in fact, an error by The Economist.

01.03.2026 20:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

One of the tests I've been doing periodically is to feed them The Economist weekly quiz, where you answer five trivia questions and then identify a theme that links the answers. They were OK at getting the answers to the questions and terrible at finding the theme--until recently.

01.03.2026 20:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 4    📌 0

Though, like you, I am still skeptical of claims that AGI is near or that LLMs are thinking.

01.03.2026 20:27 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Thank you, I had seen you say this a few times but not the rationale. I'm not sure it's still true that all LLMs are merely token predictors, and I'm also not sure that inference in brains isn't built on networks that would be subject to similar objections at some level of description.

01.03.2026 20:25 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0

Is this a claim about LLMs in particular or computers in general, and, either way, what is the basis for it? What is the missing necessary requirement?

01.03.2026 20:19 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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How Epstein used a sports blog to bury reports about sex offender past What do an illusionist, a world-famous hacker, content writers from the Philippines and Jeffrey Epstein have in common? A sports blog.

AZCentral story on Al Seckel and Jeffrey Epstein wrongly calls Seckel an "illusionist." No, he was a self-proclaimed expert on optical illusions, not quite the same thing. www.azcentral.com/story/sports...

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28.02.2026 13:28 — 👍 8981    🔁 2763    💬 80    📌 75

MORE OF THIS, LESS OF ANYTHING LESS THAN THIS

28.02.2026 17:29 — 👍 134    🔁 36    💬 2    📌 0

I think the truly damning thing about the Dem comms response is that they had months to prepare for today and there's zero coordination, no unified message. Just every D leader responding like they quickly hammered out a statement in a panic at 6 am this morning

28.02.2026 16:04 — 👍 2182    🔁 341    💬 44    📌 32

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Senator calls for DEA to provide info on "incredibly disturbing" Epstein drug investigation Federal drug enforcement investigators targeted Jeffrey Epstein and 14 others in a yearslong probe first reported by CBS News.

This is a big one. A newly uncovered document has revealed the existence of a mystery Epstein investigation. It was spearheaded by the DEA and involved drug trafficking and money laundering. Epstein was one of 15 targets. The other 14 names are redacted. I've got questions.

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