One might suggest that the bombing of a school was not a mistake. And that a prolonged closure of Hormuz Strait was not a planning failure.
One might also suggest that the chaos and destruction of the global economy is intentional.
But that sounds nuts. Only crazy people would do such things. 🤷♂️
1/ As the US continues AI-enabled strikes on Iran, new @brennancenter.org research from @emileayoub.bsky.social and me examines how the military’s investments in the technology have been building to this moment.
Congress must step up and reckon with AI’s dangers to life, liberty, and democracy 🧵:
99% of the 3,800 workers at the JBS plant in Greeley voted to strike. A strike here is a big deal.
JBS is a massive global food company based in Brazil. It's the #1 beef (and poultry) producer in the world.
Their US food headquarters are in Greeley. There has never before been a strike here.
Indeed. One in a long line of NYTimes guys (we all know the type...it's not just an employment relationship) that have made a career out of blathering about privileged middle age white guy anxieties.
Oh FFS Dems. Stop carrying water for a corrupt president.
There's no messaging without organizing. Unless you have a task for message to do - bring people together to contest for power & take on billionaires poisoning us - you can't craft let alone evaluate message.
And there's no organizing without messaging. Directing action take words & images.
One day in the near future, saying that you have a popular substack will sound as absurd as saying you're huge on MySpace.
Set the world record for flops?
Trump is not good at this. The people with all the money are just really f*cking greedy.
Dropping precision Tomahawks, plural, on an elementary school because you were too lazy to have a human check an AI generated target list isn’t a mistake, it’s tantamount to a war crime.
I also think - and this is something I see each time I travel with work - the US doesn’t understand how much soft power it is losing. Absolutely haemorrhaging it each week. The common theme is, all that talk about freedom, and you gave us that guy twice.
All y'all focused on the negatives of $100 barrels of oil. But have you stopped to consider what this means for Houston's many escorts and cocaine dealers? -OS
“...there wasn’t a single bird in the sky... When the birds abandon you, you are truly on your own. We have so many cats in the city. If these attacks continue, whoever rules here next, they will rule over a democracy of cats. But then even cats have only nine lives.”
Mike Sommers, President and CEO of API, stating: "Encouraging to see momentum building again around permitting reform negotiations in Washington. America is the world's top producer, but we can’t deliver affordable, reliable energy if critical infrastructure is stuck in red tape. The time for durable reform is now."
The American Petroleum Institute's #1 priority is "permitting reform," a euphemism for letting energy & tech data center industries bulldoze over our lands, waters, & communities.
This is about money & power. Not climate. Not our economy. Not even energy.
Money. And power.
Act accordingly.
Call 588-2300. Empire.
Call 588-2300…Empire.
That the archbishop needs to say this is itself a grim measure of our degradation.
Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.
Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.
Behold American Ingenuity!
This is a hard one for me. I love @anniezaleski.bsky.social's writing (and I love Your Ghost and that whole era of Hersh) but I have a hard time voting against @levin.bsky.social esp when she recorded a COVER for the tourney. At minimum, read them both:
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Sooo much of human history (especially “modern“ times) and politics and economics is 1000% about controlling rivers.
We should live with and learn from them instead.
Hey honey. Wake up. It's Friday, it's finally snowing in Denver, and the new Delines album dropped today!
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cc @revrecluse.bsky.social and @levin.bsky.social
Wrong color
This massive gift to US energy companies is certainly intentional.
The US hosting the World Cup is going to be a complete cluster and, yes, FIFA is a thoroughly corrupt organization that deserves failure, but this is mostly a case of Trump destroying everything he touches.
There are problems everywhere...
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Maybe Trump has Vinay Prasad and Kristi Noem in mind as the new leaders of Iran.
Who can say at this point.
Oh. I love the essay. thx! I feel like the Crowes were in a blazing hot period for US rock from 1988ish to 1994. Before grunge (which I don't mind) and corporate radio forced us to consolidate on 5 bands only.
fwiw, the Delines are squarely aimed at the bullseye of a musical sadness competition.
Headline: Anthropic’s AI tool Claude central to U.S. campaign in Iran, amid a bitter feud Subhead: Advanced AI technology is identifying targets in Iran and quickly prioritizing them, supporting the massive military operations carried out by U.S. and Israeli forces. First para: In order to strike a blistering 1,000 targets in the first 24 hours of its attack on Iran, the U.S. military leveraged the most advanced artificial intelligence it’s ever used in warfare, a tool that could be difficult for the Pentagon to give up even as it severs ties with the company that created it.
For color I'll add this screenshot of an article about the US Defense Department using Claude to manage the first attacks on Iran last weekend.
The lede from the shitbox that's WaPo fails to mention that America used Claude to murder a couple hundred kids at a girls school.
But, oh well, go AI.
So called "Frontier AI" companies have not hesitated to get involved in military, security, and/or surveillance applications. Of course. They're desperate for $$$.
Artificial "efficiency" removes any human ethics or morality from the equation of death. Not good.
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