Needless to say, I support Anthropic here. I’m a sensible moderate on the killbot issue (we’ll probably get them eventually, and I doubt they’ll make things much worse compared to AI “only” having unfettered access to every Internet-enabled computer in the world). But AI-enabled mass surveillance of US citizens seems like the sort of thing we should at least have a chance to think over, rather than demanding it from the get-go.
On Saturday, Mr. Trump announced that “major combat operations” were underway in Iran. The Department of Defense has called the strikes “Operation Epic Fury.”Did they poll middle school Call of Duty players for the operation name? I miss the good ol' days when we named them after strippers, like Odyssey Dawn.
Official Pentagon spokesman PubliusMaximus1488 announced that “We’ve totally mogged Iran with Operation Based Bombmaxxing. We’d like to thank the best president ever for making America great again.”Fundamentally unserious people.
Relations between the neighboring countries have deteriorated recently over Pakistan’s accusations that the Afghan government is harboring the Pakistani Taliban, known as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan.So Pakistan's casus belli is that the Afghani Taliban are sheltering, arming, and training the Pakistani Taliban... which if you know anything about the history of the Taliban is some world class irony.
Those wishing to leave “should do so TODAY,” Mr. Huckabee wrote in the email, sent at 10:24 a.m. local time. He urged them to find a flight out of Ben-Gurion Airport to any destination for which they could book passage.For a guy who ran on a platform of not getting us into any foreign wars, this president sure does seem to enjoy getting involved in them.
The embassy’s move “will likely result in high demand for airline seats today,” he said in the email, a copy of which was reviewed by The New York Times. “Focus on getting a seat to anyplace from which you can then continue travel to DC, but the first priority will be getting expeditiously out of country.”
