Ian Hetzner

this isn't the worst of the Democrats' statements, but statements like this are a stark reminder that to many people, the real issue with the Iraq War was that Americans died. everything else is a footnote.

The promise of OpenAI and Grok being used in war is that no human can be held accountable for the war crimes it commits, all the way up to where it sits on the chain of command.

The total abdication of any kind of accountability, any kind of "am I following an unjust order" moral hesitation, etc.

The entire millennial identity is being prepared and groomed for a version of the world that stopped existing by the time we reached it

we slammed into a horizon painted on a brick wall like fucking looney tunes

WSJ reporting that the U.S. used Claude for the air strikes in Iran. Centcom has been using Claude "for intelligence assessments, target identification and simulating battle scenarios" www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

I glazed over and gave up on reading this closely for people I know but every time I saw some shit like barnaby conrad the third I couldn’t help but think of that account on twitter who was always like white people love to be named _____

“direct your anger at trump not the democrats” buddy you are severely underestimating the amount of anger i have available to me

the democratic party in one quote

If America still had the rule of law, this would be the easiest prosecution ever, but we all know absolutely nothing will happen.

Normal people go to work every day to maintain the semblance of a society so a hive of wretched villains and the lackeys in their orbit can get rich doing crimes. Mafia state

It’s been terrifying to have almost every year in the past 20 years be a lesson in how many people with power make decisions about who lives and dies with little thought or care or even a clear idea as to why they’re doing anything, and it’s terrifying that it seems to be getting worse

It’s cool how it took a crooked New York real estate guy and shitty guy from the Philly suburbs to show that international law is completely meaningless

The “Israel War Room” posts this clip of a worldwide children’s advocate and a mayor fighting for free childcare right after bombing a girls’ school and killing at least 85 students

> @covie93.bsky.social

I’m 62 years old, I live in Tampa, I eat corn and beef everyday, I always have a titleist hat on, and Iran is the biggest threat to my freedom

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done

- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy

“How many of these gentle people have I helped to kill just by paying my taxes?" June Jordan, 1984

article 8bis of the rome statute of the international criminal court

continuation of article 8bis

posting, once again, the well-established definition of the crime of aggression in the rome statute for the ICC

when it da freakin weeken

No one person should have this much power over media. Least of all a knee jerk contrarian who can’t distinguish material reality from her own self-serving delusions.

Imagine if we took the money being thrown at AI slop at the state level... and funneled it to libraries.

Genuinely, this kind of stuff is at beast meaningless and more likely to be harmful, given the literacy rates in MA and the continued failure to provide every child with a school library/ian.

View Jürgen Geuter’s graphic link Jürgen GeuterJürgen Geuter • 2ndVerified • 2nd Research Director @ART+COM | Independent writer/theorist | Keynote Speaker | AI-Deinfluencer | #LudditeResearch Director @ART+COM | Independent writer/theorist | Keynote Speaker | AI-Deinfluencer | #Luddite 22h • 22 hours ago • Visible to anyone on or off LinkedIn Follow Very few narratives piss me off as much as the whole "let's give marginalised people LLM assistants for inclusion". Inclusion does not mean giving marginalised people shittier versions of a thing: Sure you can give kids from poorer backgrounds an LLM to "learn" but what you are saying is that poor people are not worth having trustworthy sources of information. When you say that older or lonely people can talk to chatbots to feel less alone you are saying that some people are not worth a social life. This is a deeply inhumane perspective that goes actively against the ideas and ideals of inclusion. likesupportcelebrate 186 You and 185 others

Regret to report that there has been another good linkedin post

Gold tones / Green leaves Zito Madu on joy and Alysa Liu; a literary trip to African forests with Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún

I wrote about Alysa Liu and how refreshing it is to see an athlete who enjoys what they do as an art and self-expression in the landscape of sports where being a great athlete is always presented as a miserable and joyless exercise flaminghydra.com/issue-509/?a...

It's a concentration camp for kids. That's what we have now.

As Michelle Brané told me in December 2014, of the Obama White House, “I certainly would’ve never expected it from this administration. Why they went for this draconian detention, I just don’t get it."

it happened again

Boasting about tossing nearly half a million people on the unemployment line

The guy who staged a failed coup last time is building a massive personal militia staffed with lawless thugs. At this point it’s just naïve not to see where this is going.

They beat a blind refugee who speaks no English for failing to obey police commands he could not understand. Then instead of apologizing, they charged him with possession of a “weapon”—HIS WALKING STICK. Then they dumped him miles from home without notifying anyone, after which he was found dead.

i have become somewhat against my will a gorillaz super fan

not gonna wade into fruit discourse but I did just eat a sumo that changed my life