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I think the people would be happy if we took the mullahs out. The problem is the IRG would still run the place. I don't know what it would take to get rid of them, and whether/how it could be done without a full-on Iraqi-style occupation which I doubt there's much stomach for in the Whitehouse or the country as a whole.

@Horace said in Hegseth to Anthropic: Nice company you got there…:

@jon-nyc said in Hegseth to Anthropic: Nice company you got there…:
Another framing would be that the DoD refuses to delegate authority to Anthropic to decide what is or is not ethical or illegal.

If you're right, then Anthropic can just write a letter saying they take no position on the legality and ethics of mass surveillance of US citizens and the matter is solved.

After all (according to you) the DoD has not demanded that they provide the capability.

They would be the first to tell you that Congress decided it was illegal. The only thing Anthropic decided was to withhold the capability.

Hegseth is threatening them for having done that. That is 100% true.

It’s insisting they provide the capability. There is no framing which renders the former sentence untrue.

Use of the capability is illegal.

I don't know that we've ever had a SecDef threatening a company over providing the capability given that it's illegal to implement. That part isn't age-old and should be concerning in itself.

Everyone aware of what’s going on here?

Anthropic won’t allow its AI to be used in mass domestic surveillance or to make kill decisions. The first for ethical and legal reasons the later because they don’t fully trust the model yet given hallucinations and don’t want one to be lethal (so I guess that’s also an ethical reason of sorts).

Hegseth is giving them until Friday to change their mind or he’ll either:

1. Declare them a ‘supply chain risk’ (which is what they did with Huwawei routers) which would mean they are ineligible for government contracts at any level of government, or

2. Invoke the wartime production act and force them.

I should add it’s illegal for the pentagon to conduct mass surveillance domestically.

We got a fresh dusting yesterday but it got to 40 later and melted that new inch off my sidewalk without me shoveling.

They say alcohol won’t solve your problems.

As if water will. At least alcohol tries.

Punxsutawny Phil was sentenced to 6 weeks community service in Rhode Island.

It should be nice and quick to get a UK passport. It’s not like thousands are in your position making summer plans.

It our only hope. Big or small.

@Doctor-Phibes said in Some good news (not):

Is there any way of bringing gay marriage into this discussion and hitting the trifecta?

I’ve always thought you were gay despite the fact that you’re in a marriage with a woman.

Does that count?

With all the BAFTA controversy, my buddy wrote a ‘Tourette’s Chrome extension’ that randomly inserts swear words on website text.

An example:

"Making a statement in the Commons, Sir Lindsay bitch said dick he felt it was his "duty penis and responsibility" feck to pass the information he had shit received to fuck police.

He did not provide any fuck details, but the BBC understands he passed on information he received in the British Virgin Islands piss during a visit last week bastard that Lord Mandelson was planning to travel there.""

He said he’s never been so proud.

Back story: Some cops were hit by snowballs in Washington square park the other day. Not quite as nefarious as it sounds, there was a snowball fight already going on and cops walked in the middle of it and a few of the folks targeted them opportunistically. Still very shitty behavior.

It’s on, bitch.

I’m heading down to city hall to pelt the MF with some hard-ass ice balls on his way to work.

I saw a statistic today that there are about twice as many 65+ year olds as there were in 2004 and about the same number of 18 year olds.

And, whatever you think of immigration, far fewer working age immigrants to help fill the gap.

But I totally called this.