Luke Stark

Especially visible tonight.
They, Israel and the US, really want to shatter that state. And I, ever since it all started last weekend think, they are going to succeed.
Unleashing absolute domestice and external horrors.

Was going to make a joke but it's actually REALLY bad they feel confident enough to say this shit out loud.

"Was the Iranian regime bad?"

And

"now that Trump started a regime change war in a country the size of Iraq and Afghanistan combined, without getting congressional approval or doing any planning at all, should we just kind of roll with it?"

Are different questions.

But you'd hardly know it.

We could literally legislate this out of existence.

Totally

The idea that Americans will not care about a political issue unless it's described in terms of impacts on their stomachs, or even worse, their gas prices, is not supported by real-world evidence. It is a contemptuous myth propagated by the smug political class.

There Was Just an Unusually Unsettling Pentagon-Related Resignation at OpenAI It wasn't an acrimonious departure, but this specific resignation coming right now might be cause for some soul-searching internally.

This seems ominous if you care about the rise of fully autonomous robots used for killing people

The South ending Reconstruction and plunging their populations into a backward looking culture and economy until it was forced to modernize by the Civil Rights movement is imo a very clean parallel.

P3: costs more, takes longer, delivers inferior service. But, it’s an accounting sleight of hand that makes the books look good.

I mean beyond all of the loathsome obvious shit about allllll of this, the director of the fucking INSIDE fucking OUT movies saying “We’re making a movie, not hundreds of millions of dollars of therapy" is a level of self-unawareness I can only marvel at

“And the world needs to know that since oil depots across Iran are being targeted, people are queuing up at gas stations to fill their cars' tanks, and buying boxes of bottled water, because they fear desalination plants would be next...” — his view from Tehran.

Just heard from a friend in Tehran who says reality is even worse than the pictures. When they hit the depot in Aghdasiyeh, he could hear and feel it from 15km away.

He says if he could reach internet he’d say: “today is the day the world shall end, as the scripture has foretold,” he says.

So they cut out some gay stuff from ELIO so that parents wouldn’t feel discomfort having to explain it to their kids, stuff like “gay people exist”

Matt has been a mentor and a friend to half the critics coming up in the past few decades. He helped me get my very first gig. His bookstore is a treasure trove of gorgeous art and behind the scenes knowledge. I can't recommend it enough.

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Straight up fallacy of appealing to ignorance: we don’t know everything about how human consciousness works, so we can’t prove Claude isn’t conscious. Therefore, Claude’s probably conscious.

"What if we won over rural areas by building nice things for them?"

Why does every plan to make Dems win rural areas assume that political economy hasn't changed at all in 50 years?

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

I think the current state of affairs is bad, tbh

Humans equivalent to bots, bots equivalent to humans

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The danger posed by AI just got a lot more real all of a sudden I came across a maxim many years ago in a blog post written by Chris Dixon, a startup guy who is now a partner with Andreessen Horowitz, the Silicon Valley VC outfit. In 2010 Dixon wrote: "The next bi...

In this week's Torment Nexus newsletter I wrote about how the dangers of AI have become a lot more real all of a sudden thanks to the recent dustup between Anthropic and the Department of Starting Wars torment-nexus.mathewingram.com/the-danger-p...

Exclusive: AI Error Likely Led to Iran Girl's School Bombing Pentagon investigators believe a bombing of a girls' school in Iran on Saturday likely resulted from inaccurate information provided by AI.

Local Massachusetts weekly says it's confirmed that the Pentagon was relying on Claude for strike targeting, which is how they came to bomb a girls' school.
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The fun part of the Harris campaign was that it really demonstrated with strong correlation that a good ground game is worth about 3 points. Which is what the literature said but it had limited good proof.

Many people are saying...

It's increasingly clear that the principal purpose of AI technology is to surveil and murder people

Right, we were bombing everything around it but just missed the school. Iran snuck in and did that.

GTFOH. The lies and gaslighting are so shameful and shameless. It's a regime of sociopaths, psychopaths, and sadists.

They know nothing about sacrifice.
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Everyone needs to hear this!

This is no different from Putin saying MH17 was shot down by Ukraine or Assad saying rebels gassed themselves.

Canada Is Already at War with the US—We Just Don’t Know It Yet | The Walrus Conflicts don’t always start with an invasion

A wake-up call this morning.

"There’s every indication that Trump intends to keep at it. He will wage a simultaneous trade war and information war until he decides to up the ante even further."

Canada is Already at War with the US – We Just Don't Know It Yet (from The Walrus)