Ancuta Hansen

a horse, tire track, oil wells on fire, a hellscape.

From Steve McCurry’s series War, Kuwait, 1991.

www.stevemccurry.com

Because we put... incels in charge of the Pentagon???

In Dubai, they call it a shock, a catastrophe.

In Ukraine, it's called Tuesday.

OpenAI posted the terms of the deal. Reveals that it absolutely does allow for domestic surveillance. EO 12333 is how the NSA hides its domestic surveillance by capturing communications by tapping into lines *outside the US* even if it contains info from/on US persons.

openai.com/index/our-ag...

I no longer live in war, but war lives in me forever. I put the kids to sleep and am shaking with a cocktail of emotions, as if I am not hearing the distant sound of birds but rockets overhead.

Should you need them in these trying times, Cinémathèque française has a selection of free-to-stream movies with English subs, silents and talkies

www.cinematheque.fr/henri/english/

Tiniest violins for the many European tax exiles and gangsters who never quite understood how much of a geopolitical house of cards the UAE is

Yet thou didst kill my children.

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

Why Attack Iran? Our Authoritarianism and Our Corruption

How to understand war with Iran? We must get away from propaganda. Facts suggest two interpretive frameworks: a foreign war as a mechanism to destroy democracy at home; and a foreign war as an element of personal corruption by the president of the United States.
snyder.substack.com/p/why-attack...

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Fuck Trump. Fuck the puppeteers behind him. Fuck the GOP, especially congressional Republicans and quisling Democrats, who enabled him. Fuck the people who voted for this, and fuck the media for never reporting on him realistically.

Fuck them all, for they have truly fucked us and the world.

Sam Altman tweet: Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network. In all of our interactions, the DoW displayed a deep respect for safety and a desire to partner to achieve the best possible outcome. AI safety and wide distribution of benefits are the core of our mission. Two of our most important safety principles are prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems. The DoW agrees with these principles, reflects them in law and policy, and we put them into our agreement. We also will build technical safeguards to ensure our models behave as they should, which the DoW also wanted. We will deploy FDEs to help with our models and to ensure their safety, we will deploy on cloud networks only. We are asking the DoW to offer these same terms to all AI companies, which in our opinion we think everyone should be willing to accept. We have expressed our strong desire to see things de-escalate away from legal and governmental actions and towards reasonable agreements. We remain committed to serve all of humanity as best we can. The world is a complicated, messy, and sometimes dangerous place.

My goodness.

For Trump, a military conflict with Iran would distract from:

-Epstein files
-His deadly deportation agenda
-Losing on tariffs at SCOTUS
-Tanking polls
-His devastating (and unpopular) budget bill
-Millions of people protesting his authoritarianism

When he's cornered, he lashes out. Be warned.

Our daughter watching a Maroon 5 video: « mum, why is the boy (😅) naked from the waste up, is it a underwear commercial, again? » Fair enough, good question. 😂

a skeletal figure playing a rifle like a flute, while soldiers dance around it

David Henry Souter

Iran is an evil regime and deserves to fall. But that's not a good argument for launching a war of regime change without Congress and against the will of the American people.

Anthropic responds to Hegseth. www.anthropic.com/news/stateme...

Ça a commencé. Allez savoir ce qui arrivera. Contrairement à certains, je ne pense pas que d'actions mauvaises inititiées par des gens mauvais pour de mauvaises raisons puisse advenir quelque chose de bien. Mes pensées sont pour le peuple iranien, qui a déjà tant souffert. Puisse-t-il prévaloir.

P1:Do it. P2: Wait! P3: You Mustn’t! P4: Not until it’s full.

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Normandy pink. ❤️

And of course this is already kind of the ethos of our techbro manboys, right? "Move fast and break things!" That, too, simulates intelligence even though it's anything but -- it puts a high value on erratic behavior, on risk, on chaos. Just like with stupid fucking AI bullshit.

One of my unfounded conspiracy theories about generative AI is that to fake the "intelligence" they simply packed in a very high unpredictability factor. Rogue actions feel like a choice, a decision of intellect, while predictability does not; predictability is already served by non-AI software.

Sunset over Lake Menindee, New South Wales.

“There's a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they're absolutely free. Don't miss so many of them.”
– Jo Walton

#Paakantyi-Barkindji country

Dropping off a partially crippled & mostly blind man who didn't speak the local language, before a locked coffee shop, with the expectation he'd to freeze to death (which is what happened)... it's hard to get lower than that Epstein-level loathsomeness.

*Well, the problem is still allowed to be publicly visible for the time being

You can't even beat woke in an election anymore. Because of woke.

Hannah the Plumber, folks.

Green's first MP in Northern England.

Labour thought they had it in the bag, played it safe and centrist, ignored rage over Gaza, treated their base with contempt and...here you go.

Inspiring stuff.