NEW: On Friday night when OpenAI announced its Pentagon deal, people immediately challenged Sam Altman's claims. Why, they asked, would the DoD suddenly agree to red lines when it had clearly said it would never budge? The answer, sources told me, is that it didn't. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

APNewsAlert: L’ILE LONGUE, France (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron announces France will increase its number of nuclear warheads for 1st time in decades.

new iconic meme format just dropped www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Trump and Hegseth have such contempt for (most of) their allies. Why bother supporting the US when the response is this sneering?

BREAKING: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has barred the U.S. from using Spanish military bases for attacks on Iran.

Renewables plus batteries are the best protection from price volatility for Europe. We need to reverse the slow down in the energy transition and accelerate renewable deployment for cheap, reliable baseload power.

wtf

Hegseth: “This is not a so-called regime change war, but the regime sure did change.” a) complete contradiction of what Trump said b) the regime hasn’t changed

I spent 6 years of my life writing a PhD about UK policy in Persian Gulf in the 1960s, including the role of the Anglo-American alliance. Key to the Persian Gulf policy of both countries: AVOID a power vacuum under any circumstances &keep Iran&Saudi Arabia from attacking the smaller Gulf States.

Let’s see how this WSJ editorial board line ages

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Fire and smoke are seen inside the US Embassy compound in Kuwait after an attack by Iran. @apnews.com

👏Green MEP Sara Mathieu is now asking for former Meta lobbyist Aura Salla to step down as ITRE rapporteur of the Digital Omnibus.

Not retweeting any videos that don’t have a link to an accredited source

⚠️ More wow: Iran claims it shot down one of the American fighter jets that crashed in Kuwait.

"Several" US jets? www.trtworld.com/article/ce55...

First question to look for is: what do they call “social media”? After all, the OSA was five years of fighting cynically drafted attempts to chuck any site/service on the open internet under the Facebook bus. And they are still trying with separate legislation. www.newscientist.com/article/2516...

If the rumours are true and the kids and social media consultation opens today, here are two things I think should be banned from social media: 1) AI bots 2) recommendations algorithms that optimise for time on site Firm regulation of both of these things is possible and auditable

First direct incident on the territory of an EU member state in the fallout of the US/Israel-Iran war in Cyprus, targeted at the UK base. More and more Europe is getting drawn in.

Iran’s cyber reprisals have begun www.govinfosecurity.com/western-cybe...

It’s hard to believe it’s only two days since this cursed war began

So the plan was to keep the regime in place, got it.

Trump administration officials acknowledged in closed-door briefings with congressional staff that there was no intelligence suggesting Iran planned to attack US forces first, two people familiar with the matter said reut.rs/46ybyTg

Iran’s cyber reprisals have begun www.govinfosecurity.com/western-cybe...

It’s disturbing but I can’t stop watching it.

AWS reporting that ME-Central-1 (UAE) is having an “operational issue” after it was “impacted by objects” health.aws.amazon.com/health/status h/t to a former colleague for bringing this to my attention

Unconditionally opening Iran to American corporations and finance giants will end this war faster than a robust nuclear deal

Sorry but I love it every time that the fraud betting apps go health insurance mode and find the smallest discrepancy to justify not paying out to the inside traders who are its core customer base. Eat shit.

Pipe and draping does not make it a SCIF. And DEFINITELY not a SCIF if you can just peek your head in from outside.

“It is highly likely that members of the Canadian military, on exchange with the United States, were involved in the planning and co-ordinating of airstrikes on Iran, says a former senior Canadian general”

Why does the Department of Defense want to analyze bulk data collected about Americans......................?

MBS playing dangerous game, amazing details if true

OpenAI posted the terms of the deal. Reveals that it absolutely does allow for domestic surveillance. EO 12333 is how the NSA hides its domestic surveillance by capturing communications by tapping into lines *outside the US* even if it contains info from/on US persons. openai.com/index/our-ag...

APNewsAlert: KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Police say at least 6 killed in clashes as people stormed US Consulate in Pakistan after #Iran's supreme leader killed.

Noteworthy, according to @spiegel.de, it was the Israeli government and not the US who informed the German government of the upcoming attack. Since then, Merz and Netanyahu have spoken on the phone today.

> @covie93.bsky.social

I am going to need every single person who said that misinformation was a moral panic to feel enough shame and regret that they leave public intellectual life.

Iran, per Guardian: “Our response will be public, and there are no red lines… All American and Israeli assets and interests in the Middle East have become legitimate targets.”

Iran has fired ballistic missiles into: Israel Bahrain UAE Qatar

The USA and Israel have started bombing Iran and Trump has announced an explicit political goal, full regime change for the Iranian people. Air power is certainly about to have a moment. I put together this free primer on what we know and what we should be asking. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

Damit's nicht in Vergessenheit gerät ...

There is always a tweet.

I spent yesterday afternoon teaching my students about the Trump AI strategy that Dean largely wrote, with additional material from his substack. This is a remarkable statement for him to make.

⚠️ Confirmed: Network data show #Iran is now in the midst of a near-total internet blackout with national connectivity at 4% or ordinary levels. The incident comes amid US and Israeli combat operations and matches measures used during last year's war with Israel.

Sam Altman picked a hell of a day to basically urge the world to trust the morality and legal restraint of the Department of Defense

Darkest of laughs

The state of the world in a 4-second video.

posting, once again, the well-established definition of the crime of aggression in the rome statute for the ICC

Israeli strikes also reported in Southern Lebanon.