Lucy Seton-Watson

this the FT not The Onion

Oh eff off.

U.S. sub sinks Iranian warship off Sri Lanka, killing 87 and expanding war zone A U.S. submarine sank an Iranian warship off the southern coast of Sri Lanka, killing dozens of sailors and dramatically widening Washington's pursuit of the Iranian navy.

A US submarine sinking a lonely, dinky Iranian surface ship an ocean away from the theater of the main conflict—and 9000
miles from North America—makes it pretty clear the US is fighting a general war, without the declaration required by the Constitution. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

“Pioneer” is the word: lesbian heroine Sylvia Townsend Warner wrote 7 utterly distinct novels which you probably don’t know since they are all so different to each other, 150 short stories, a history of Tudor church music and much else. Her (umpteen) letters are fascinating.
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“And it is absolutely unacceptable that those leaders who are unable to fulfill that mission use the smoke of war to hide their failure and, in the process, fill the pockets of a few.”
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Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez on Iran: “Spain is against this disaster. Because we understand that governments are here to improve people's lives, to provide solutions to problems, not to make people's lives worse.

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Please let’s hope this courage is infectious.

These bastards.

This vile, vile drivel.

It is quite astonishing to remember the Iraq war, the demise of a brutal dictator there, the principled opposition of France and Germany, the chaos and regional instability that followed vindicating French and German opposition - and to see only Sanchez have the courage to take a stance.

Sam Altman tells OpenAI staffers that military's 'operational decisions' are up to the government In an all-hands meetings with OpenAI employees on Tuesday, CEO Sam Altman said his company doesn't get to choose how the military uses its technology.

Publicly, Sam Altman claimed OpenAI is amending its agreement with the Department of Defense(lies). Behind closed doors, however, he told employees during a Tuesday all-hands meeting that the company doesn’t “get to make operational decisions” about how its AI technology is used by the DoD. #QuitGPT

BBC.

AI targeting?

This cartoon from @derspiegel shows the world as seen by Trump. It's a new take on an old cartoon premise. I live on the Idiots island. Source: buff.ly/hvd2Bys

What vile people. Let’s deport them.

I wonder if they will ever see.

So frustrating - &, in terms of consequences, frightening.

Yes.

Hey, remember how we let a nazi near-trillionaire annihilate the US state capacity? I know it was a whole year ago, but it turns out that this has consequences beyond "murdering 14 million people by ending USAID" (which apparently no one cared about).

Do you mean that the British royal family should never have had a public service role because it was just a matter of time till some disaster of a person like AMW would come along & abuse everybody/everything?

As Israel Katz (may he wither) has apparently confidently undertaken to.

Well, yes.

The Iranian foreign minister, on Twitter:

Jesus Christ, They Drafted Jesus Christ to Fight Iran Reports from more than 30 U.S. military installations say commanders are framing the Iran War as a holy war, to trigger Armageddon, or even bring back Jesus

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Or more fun, even?

A lot of folks seem extremely eager to outsource the work of being human, and I just have to ask: What are they all doing instead? What is more important than doing the work of being human?

Ugh. Do people know about this?

Agree. Ultimately the 'respectable' line that Starmer has been good on foreign policy died with Khamenei. Can we stop the US starting wars we believe are ruinous and endanger our allies? No. Can we stop him waging information war on us? No.

In a parallel to any computer system:

Poor data in = schoolgirls massacred.

As revealed by +972 magazine about the Lavender software, there will be creep on the "acceptable" ratio between civilian collateral and military targets.

Netanyahu just wants to stay out of jail. That’s what all this is about.