"banklike app" is an intensely cursed phrase

Polymarket has created a betting market on the use of nuclear weapons. Everyone involved in this should be put in prison for life.

The White House has helped MAGA influencers escape the Middle East on a private jet while more than a million ordinary Americans are still trapped with no way out.

so he looks genuinely scared here yea?

Pewpewpew is penis. Planning is vagina.

this is a funny rollout from the other site, who can figure out why claude suddenly became eepy? (rot13 spoiler in reply)

interesting that it's taken as a given that the US should have a hand in shaping who the iranian people choose as their leader

This is every single trans person's experience to the point where these stories about transing the gay away are farcical and we cannot take them seriously even though there are clearly idiots who believe this myth.

Kid came home with a 3D printed ICE whistle one of her classmates gave out to everyone and knew exactly what to do and what it is used for. I'm happy she has one, but I'm sad she needs to. My 9 year old does active shooter drills and knows the government is kidnapping her friends and their parents

My research is on working class women and AI and the ONE consistency among all of the interviews we’ve done so far is concerns about data centers and environmental impact. We do not bring it up - they do. Every single one.

for you has decided the primary thing i want to see is people saltily quote posting this and/or snitch tagging his employer

incredible scenes where this is apparently a thing that Khameni has been wanting for ages and others on the council were pushing back against because optics but now council's all dead and congratulations on toppling the regime by giving the previous leader exactly what he wanted- a family throne

Happening now in Chicago's federal plaza: A rally is underway in solidarity with trans people in Kansas whose drivers' licenses were suddenly invalidated last week, due to the enactment of a new state law that requires a person's gender on their license to match their assigned sex at birth.

All I can think about is Jeff Bezos saying that he slashed jobs at the Washington Post — including those of foreign correspondents in the Middle East — based on "the data," and a few weeks later a whole war breaks out in the Middle East that these laid off folks would have covered as true experts.

It happened at a time of his choosing

When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946. In 2007, the US president was born in 1946. In 2017, the US president was born in 1946. And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.

The reason why some people think the New York Times is a liberal paper is because in like 1986 a far right wing talk radio simpleton called the New York Times a liberal paper. Most American political thought is based on scenarios like this

The migrant workers/slaves who built the city is geopolitics. The dirty money, the sanctions evasion, the uneasy relationships with neighbours, the war UAE funds in Sudan... Anyone living there is exposed to geopolitics. Just now they can't pretend otherwise.

Raytheon Executive: I know you’re skeptical about buying American again. But hear me out. The MIM-104 Patriot is the only surface to air missile system with a proven track record of success against the US Air Force. Danish Defense Minister: Continue.

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...

I have come away from my last conference cautiously optimistic about how useful AI can be in reversing malware and extremely scared about all of the new attack surface being created in the use and deployment of AI tools.

we reached the “no WMDs” phase in two days.

Like these interviews coming out of the White House are surreal: the president clearly without a plan, without basic details about the situation, without clear objectives, just hoping we’ll kinda-maybe do the Venezuela thing that got him a Nobel Peace Prize as far as he’s concerned

that they have kept their relationship intensely private to the point that this is how we find out is probably the best sign they might actually make it anyway, rules are rules, here is the exact moment she fell in love

the average understanding of natsec for the average voter is "make the bad images go away"

I’m actually not sure we can come back from “prediction markets for war crimes”, as a society. I think this might be it for us.

“So successful”

watching very little kids play sports is basically like watching an amoeba made of children wherever the ball goes, there goes the amoeba chasing after it

I think the dynamics ultimately favor the hawks because negotiations can be called off but ayatollahs cannot be unexploded. Doves have to win every time. Winning nine times out of ten is not enough.

Now more than ever, you don't have to be cutting and pasting batshit posts that you have seen over on That Other Site and also, for fuck's sake, get off That Other Site, again, now more than ever

Growing antisemitism feels like a cultural symptom of the decline of democratic institutions. Just massive blaring alarm bells that things are awry.

I have never seen a politician more directly copy this speech in my life

Really can't be left unacknowledged that every single state in the region that houses US military personnel, except for maybe two, do so against the will of the supermajority of their own public's opinion but it does not matter because most of these states are US backed dictatorships.

Americans are often shocked when I tell them that according to every single Arab Barometer poll issued, which tracks opinion across almost all of the Arab majority states, the US is consistently listed as the number one threat and impediment to regional stability.

I mean part of the answer is they sincerely didn't think Iran would follow through, since the US leadership has demonstrated they do not comprehend their enemies as human with capacity for thought, but also things never work the way you *imagine* them to. Even unlimited stockpile wouldn't be 100%.

what a crazy night for sam altman to be like "yeah we got that dept of war deal, and there's no moral concerns here"

Publicly declaring a maximalist war goal which makes it very hard to back down without losing face means a lot of opportunities for this to get incredibly stupid

Huh. He literally did the speech.

CNN is saying the Iranian attack happened after Trump “lost patience with negotiations”. I don’t believe it. The negotiations were cover. This was always the plan. The scale of the military buildup showed that.

Israel, immediately after vaporizing a bunch of little girls:

if the media had any integrity — and it doesn’t anymore — they’d be pointing out on a loop that Obama made a deal with Iran, Trump cancelled it because Obama is Black, and then Trump started a war on the pretense there is no deal

aside from the AI angle, what makes the Anthropic case important is that it is -- unless there is something I am forgetting -- the first time a major tech company has stood up to Trump instead of accommodating him

the current position of the US government is that NVIDIA should be allowed to sell chips directly to China but banned from using Claude, because the latter is a larger national security risk. that is the level of absolute insanity coming out of the White House & Pentagon nowadays

It’s not even really centrism from Labour though. It’s just a mess. They think that they can pick bits of left (energy, railways) with bits of right (immigration, drugs, Gaza), and people will like the blend. And it just so doesn’t work that way. They just cross everyone’s red lines.

The fundamental mistake the radical centrists and popularists make is believing there's a large centrist coalition of voters. Maybe that existed a decade ago but now voters are polarized. They want either leftist or nationalist parties. Liberals are toast in that environment.

Labour did everything the popularists like Matt Yglesias want. They cracked down on trans people and immigrants. They pushed austerity. They ended up fracturing their entire base and losing this seat to the left for the first time in nearly a 100 years.

One day, one beautiful day, people will learn to recognise fascist dog whistles. "Islamists and woke progressives" means brown people and gays. "Told how to vote" means the Jews did it because brown people and gays don't have agency, only cishet whites and Jews.

The second you leave this country for even a few days, you realize the place you call home is decaying at an almost exponential pace. The realization that you don't have to live like this is stark, and that nobody in power is taking tangible actions to fix it in your lifetime is even starker.

The secret to higher birth rates? Vigorously opposing authoritarianism