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Draft lottery machine in action in the US, 1969

The all-voluntary U.S. military is coming to an end.

Conscription is baked in.

At the top, it's seen that there is therefore no continuing need for livable housing for servicemembers, adequate cost-of-living adjustments, or veterans' healthcare. The list goes on.

It's over.

Williams Syndrome is the best way to characterize a lot of AI writing:

Great amounts of grammatically correct, large vocabulary speech of a trite and meaningless nature.

DAV statement on VA Interim Final Rule concerning disability ratings and medication

In a rushed and closed process, the Trump administration is moving to reduce or eliminate disability compensation for veterans who take medications related to their disabilities.

Along with other cuts to VA medical care, this signals a likely return to conscription.

www.dav.org/learn-more/n...

Alex from Love is Blind telling Ashley that he is a cool lit bro who reads the Stoics, except he gets the author of Letters to a Stoic wrong

Seneca, dumbass

Incredible to me that the current US administration has looked at the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and concluded that the real problem with the US military is that its officers weren't good enough at killing stuff but knew too much history, anthropology, theology and international relations.

@jelenawoehr.bsky.social

Video about conservation efforts in China to bring back a wild population of Przewalski's horses:
english.news.cn/20260214/691...

Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses

Meta to add facial recognition to its smart glasses. An internal memo said:

“We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

Google expands tools to let users remove sensitive data about themselves from Search | TechCrunch Users will be able to more easily request the removal of results that include private information or non-consensual explicit imagery.

Google expands tools to let users remove sensitive data about themselves from Search.

You can access the tool in the Google app by tapping your Google account photo and selecting “Results about you.”

techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/g...

US to send 200 troops to Nigeria to train African nation's military The United States is planning to send about 200 troops to Nigeria to train the African nation's military to fight Islamist militants, a U.S. official said on Tuesday, weeks after President Donald Trum...

U.S. Army deploying 200 soldiers to Nigeria on a training mission.

www.reuters.com/world/africa...

The Juggler (The Magician) by Remedios Varo, 1956, at Moma in a gallery where other works have been removed so as not to cause offense.

F-111 by James Rosenquist, 1964-5, "flying through the flak of consumer society to question the collusion between the Vietnam death machine, consumerism, the media, and advertising."

Pop art repurposes images and objects from mass media, often as a means of social critique.

American Illiad at Moma

Portable Person, 1973.
Can you figure it out?
At Moma.

Untitled, Martin Kippenberger, German, 1981, at Moma

Finally found an affordable office

The thrill of tramping alone and unafraid through a wilderness of lakes, creeks, alpine meadows, and glaciers is not known to many. A civilization can be built around the machine but it is doubtful that a meaningful life can be produced by it....

William O. Douglas

Air Force bans smart glasses for troops in uniform The Air Force is banning troops from wearing smart eyewear like Meta AI glasses. Other services allow commanders to dictate device policies.

U.S. Air Force bans smart glasses for troops in uniform, citing opsec concerns.

The other services are allow commanders use their own discretion. Meta AI glasses have been employed for on-the-job experiments.

taskandpurpose.com/news/air-for...

An Internal Document Shows the Vietnamese Military Preparing for a Possible American War An internal document reveals Vietnam's military is preparing for a possible American war of aggression, viewing the U.S. as a "belligerent" power.

Vietnam is planning for the possibility of another American war.

USA’s increasing belligerence and its highly personalized foreign policies have eroded trust.

www.military.com/daily-news/2...

An Internal Document Shows the Vietnamese Military Preparing for a Possible American War An internal document reveals Vietnam's military is preparing for a possible American war of aggression, viewing the U.S. as a "belligerent" power.

Vietnam is planning for the possibility of another American war.

USA’s increasing belligerence and its highly personalized foreign policies have eroded trust.
www.military.com/daily-news/2...

When Hitler was told that Stalin was purging the Soviet officer corps, he replied:

He's thinking ahead

Moltbook, the AI social network, exposed human credentials due to vibe-coded security flaw Cybersecurity firm Wiz found that Moltbook exposed the credentials for thousands of its human users and undermined the AI social network's core premise.

Moltbook, the AI social network that is entirely vibe coded, exposed human credentials and has been allowing people to edit others' posts.

There's a lesson here.

www.engadget.com/ai/moltbook-...

Only using prompts ironically.

The difference between a linguist and a normal person is that a normal person thinks that Chomsky should’ve stuck to linguistics and a linguist thinks he shouldn’t have done that either

ICE Pretends It’s a Military Force. Its Tactics Would Get Real Soldiers Killed WIRED asked an active military officer to break down immigration enforcement actions in Minneapolis and elsewhere.

www.wired.com/story/ice-pr...

We're heading to a point where almost everyone who works works for a billionaire — a small handful of sociopathic men making mom-and-pop operations unfeasible while profiting off the labor of practically everyone.

Interviewer: Suppose your house were on fire and you could remove only one thing. What would you take?

Jean Cocteau: I would take the fire.

ICE Pretends It’s a Military Force. Its Tactics Would Get Real Soldiers Killed WIRED asked an active military officer to break down immigration enforcement actions in Minneapolis and elsewhere.

WIRED asked an active military officer to break down immigration enforcement actions in Minneapolis and elsewhere.

Scathing critique:
www.wired.com/story/ice-pr...

Annualized returns (Compound Annual Growth Rate) for Post-War and Contemporary Art compared to the traditional investment classes of the S&P 500, gold and real estate, based on historical data from 1995 to 2022/2023.

With numbers like these, it’s odd that art isn’t taken more seriously.

If the shift toward orality continues, which I believe it will, then our keyboards are only an interim means of interacting with computers, to be replaced in large part by voice or brain interfaces.

Check it out: havelock.ai/orality

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