It’s tempting to think that with more accurate data about schools, hospitals and other civilian infrastructure, this wouldn’t have happened. But I doubt it, because if Secretary Pete Hegseth is even nearly as bloodthirsty and careless about human life as the President of the UN General Assembly, Annalena Baerbock, he would probably have approved the double-tap bombing of the girls school knowing full-well what it was.

What I mean is — the tech isn’t the problem. It’s our leaders. And not just the crass, bombastic ones like Trump and Hegseth. Indeed, probably worst of all are the fake feminist foreign policy clowns from Europe.

“So that everybody saves face” — fffffs

Unprovoked act of aggression, bombing schools and other civilian infrastructure in Iran and Lebanon, ravenous, murderous…

Ask a German who considers themselves progressive, even anti-fascist, if they’ll condemn the oppression of Palestinians, and you’ll find (often, not always) that they’re squarely on the side of the oppressors. They’re not pro-Israeli so much as pro-death

OpenAI’s Sam Altman says today that they’re gonna take Anthropic’s place on DoW classified networks (https://xcancel.com/sama/status/2027578652477821175#m).

Still, Anthropic being designated a “supply chain risk” is good news, as it means Claude cannot officially be used anymore by the Pentagon and by all of its suppliers. That’s massive.

Good discussion of this on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47188473

I haven’t read anyone say that it was about retaining the IP. Anthropic says, and others agree, that it would be totally irresponsible to use current frontier AI systems for lethal autonomous weapon systems – even if you think that LAWS are okay. Current AI systems are far too error-prone.

See https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-department-of-war and https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-comments-secretary-war

Nonsense. Ireland’s most likely attacker in any war is Britain. They would frame it as “coming to Ireland’s” defense.

What if you drink alcohol or use recreational drugs? You can still take the bus and won’t endanger anyone (unless you’re totally off your head). Drink/drugged drivers are a danger to everyone.

Yeh, I see your point. But I think every app’s design also nudges us one way or another

By that definition, Wikipedia and Google Search are social media too

Totally agree! I’ve also caught myself rehearsing snarky retorts while scrolling microblogging apps. I feel like a heckler there.

I wonder if it includes EU and US sanctions, such as those imposed on ICC staff and journalists for their work on Israel/Palestine

Join a choir. Same connection.

Leaking this proposal to the media on the day when Auschwitz was liberated is a bit on the nose.

You’re right. It still feels more like a betrayal though when, say, a party which runs a campaign about peace and love turns out to be a psycho bloodsucking cheerleaders for genocide (eg the Greens).

True. But Merz could never disappoint me. He’s doing what’s expected of him. The last German gov — now THAT was a disappointment.

That’s rich coming from thus German gov. They enable the far right