Interesting article about him here — https://www.dangerousspeech.org/counter-speech-case-studies/hasnain-kazim

He’s doing Mastodon a favour. He can always return to anywhere on the fediverse. Complaining that one moderator on one Mastodon instance was mean isn’t news, but maybe it is if it’s a journalist. Good for him.

Yeh—and apparently it justifies Microsoft’s share price somehow

No, Meta AI (like OpenAI and others) relies on sweatshop labour mostly in Africa and Latin America to review and classify images mostly

Fair use

Russia is obviously the aggressor, I’ve never suggested otherwise.

There are no NATO weapons besides the weapons of NATO members. UK, US, Germany, etc — almost all of Ukraine’s weapons, ammunition, training and intel comes from NATO.

He’s no Stalin, and NATO leaders aren’t Hitler of course. But some of them have made a point of honouring the memory of Nazi collaborators recently (Canada and France, maybe others).

NATO is not supplying anything to Ukraine, really? Where does Ukraine get all its weapons, intel and training?

Nonsense. Civilian infrastructure deep within Russia is bombed with NATO intel and weapons almost daily. World’s biggest nuke arsenal.

Exactly this. The arrogance of these fuckers. Even if this policy could make Finland safer — it doesn’t, but let’s imagine — what gives them the right to push the whole world closer to nuclear war?

Finland is already a member of NATO. Situating nuclear weapons there doesn’t increase the “deterrent” effect of NATO nukes. Instead, it increases the likelihood that Russia will feel compelled to rely on faster, more automated systems to determine if NATO has initiated a surprise attack, and to retaliate. We’re seconds to midnight on the doomsday clock, and these fuckers think it’s clever to announce this horrendous policy.

“This is not hard math” misses the point that nuclear weapons are an abomination, and that situating parts of a nuclear weapons system directly on Russia’s border increases the risk of miscalculation and a nuclear exchange, and consequently genocide on an unimaginable scale.

What happened to these people?

They never doubted that they had the right. They don’t even dispute that IHL even compels states to act. They don’t care.

This law will criminalise expressing beliefs of ultra-orthodox Jews in particular and of anti-Zionists generally. German fascists at it again.

It’s tempting to think that with more accurate data about schools, hospitals and other civilian infrastructure, this wouldn’t have happened. But I doubt it, because if Secretary Pete Hegseth is even nearly as bloodthirsty and careless about human life as the President of the UN General Assembly, Annalena Baerbock, he would probably have approved the double-tap bombing of the girls school knowing full-well what it was.

What I mean is — the tech isn’t the problem. It’s our leaders. And not just the crass, bombastic ones like Trump and Hegseth. Indeed, probably worst of all are the fake feminist foreign policy clowns from Europe.

“So that everybody saves face” — fffffs

Unprovoked act of aggression, bombing schools and other civilian infrastructure in Iran and Lebanon, ravenous, murderous…

OpenAI’s Sam Altman says today that they’re gonna take Anthropic’s place on DoW classified networks (https://xcancel.com/sama/status/2027578652477821175#m).

Still, Anthropic being designated a “supply chain risk” is good news, as it means Claude cannot officially be used anymore by the Pentagon and by all of its suppliers. That’s massive.

Good discussion of this on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47188473

I haven’t read anyone say that it was about retaining the IP. Anthropic says, and others agree, that it would be totally irresponsible to use current frontier AI systems for lethal autonomous weapon systems – even if you think that LAWS are okay. Current AI systems are far too error-prone.

See https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-department-of-war and https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-comments-secretary-war

What if you drink alcohol or use recreational drugs? You can still take the bus and won’t endanger anyone (unless you’re totally off your head). Drink/drugged drivers are a danger to everyone.