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photo of my boots as i sit in the snow on tope of grouse mountain looking down at the snowy slope and trees to the city and salish sea beyond with the sun reflected on the water #photography #eastcoastkin #westcoastkin
nature sit spot practice
Welcome to the Modi Cinematic Universeβ¦where, reports Imaan Irfan, some of Bollywoodβs most famous actors are having to tread βa fine line between self-preservation and complicityβ.
My mom got me a bikini with that written on it when I was in high school and Iβve always thought it was a bit unsettling.
"troops are cheaper than missiles. We have a massive stock of service members but a dwindling stock of munitions...And the Trump administration does not care about the lives of its men and women in uniform.β www.un-diplomatic.com/p/troops-are...
π¨π¨[Stanford & Harvard just
published an utterly unsettling #Al paper: βAgents of Chaosβ. It shows that when autonomous Al agents are placed in open, competitive environments, they naturally drift toward manipulation, collusion & strategic sabotage.
It's a massive, systems-level warning.]π¨
oh. and they can make bank on the wars while they reset the population to a lower one where it could be argued biz as usual growth (for them) gravy trains are necessary to rebuild the world again
Iβve had a nagging idea for yrs now that perhaps the point of the wars is war itself. Wars that beget wars that beget a culling they can tell themselves they had to do, had to suppress their empathy forβ¦ to save humanity, population being the problem bsky.app/profile/amar...
cray cray ideas
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the mewance is lost on some hoomans
How absolutely and utterly vile. Jail time is the only correct response for these creeps.
I feel like I need to go and wash myself down in the cold river for a week to absolve myself of just the passing thought I once had of wondering if Meta glasses would be any good for doing pottery videos.
sweet
βMiddle East crisis live: Israel bombs Tehran and Beirut as Iran warns Europe to stay out of conflict or face βretaliationββ
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
ohhh neerrrr
What a concept! I also heard that once upon a time there used to be this thingβ¦ (laws was it?) that was used to help provide rules for tool use, like whether a knife can be used to make dinner for our neighbours, or be used to harm our neighboursβ¦
lost in translation, cannibal house rules
βsquelch squelch squelch squelchβ¦β
Fedor Lukyanov is a mastermind of Russiaβs self-justifications. In a recent interview, he said that Russiaβs βpositionβ has not changed. βWeβ want a transformation of Ukrainian statehood. Trump is a model but he should do more for βusβ. The host is Peter Slezkine, whose father
Sudden onset Canadianism is spreading rapidly, and has a familial component. You may have already been exposed without your knowledge. Check with your genealogist if being Canadian is right for you!
NEW
The White House has submitted its War Powers report to Congress for the attack on Iran.
The justification for military action rests on 1) Iran's supposed continued quest for nuclear weapons and 2) the threat Iran's missiles pose to US forces, vessels, civilians and those of partners. 1/n
Photograph from a rocky beach of the sun in a blue sky shining upon a blue sea. #westcoastkin #eastcoastkin #oceanlovers #photography #dailywalk #northvancouver
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daemon strating
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Have you read Chapter 7, The Dark Triad, of Mindf*ck, Marcy?
A whole lot of tea was spilled in the making of that book.
bsky.app/profile/wiki...
Chart based on Insurify data, showing the average car insurance by automaker, with Tesla up 2%, Nissan down 4%, Toyota and Hyundai down 6%, and other automakers falling even faster.
spot the company on its third effort to revolutionize car insurance with an in-house insurer that has unique access to massive amounts of fleet data, not to mention a "full self-driving" capability that is totally safer than a human, trust us bro
insurify.com/car-insuranc...
New piece:
I have never seen such a widespread online radicalization happen in realtime, especially among "normies."
This can be good: people seeing how broken things are.
But as usual, it's going sideways: towards conspiracy theories & division.
Here's what's happening, why, and how to stop it.
In my time at Princeton, we've had several Army officers in our doctoral program. They've all done excellent work.
When this former Princeton undergrad says we're actually teaching them "the enemy's wicked ideology" I have no idea what the hell he's talking about but, of course, neither does he.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said Thursday that he "cannot in good conscience accede" to the Pentagon's demands to give the military unrestricted access to its AI systems.
From the Anthropic CEO
Outstanding @caseynewton.bsky.social analysis (of course) of the Anthropic/DOD fight. www.platformer.news/anthropic-pe...
