Benjamin Rose

@benjaminrose.bsky.social

Arsenal til I die

In the past week, reporters learned Pete Hegseth: - blocked more minority promotions - cut DOD's civilian protections against unanimous advice of commanders - was told by his brass that Iran ops are unsustainable - secretly hired far-right milbloggers - is exploring a 2028 presidential run

The trump administration is insisting the war is suddenly going so great for them so much so they don’t need to do bombing or threaten invasions anymore and can just do economic warfare and that the strait is completely wide open, and that is why we had to bomb Iran again tonight

Refrigerated food storage at several military commissaries went into defrost mode and spoiled food. Cold food is unavailable at many sites. The systems are networked so a cyber attack is a possible culprit, though now my default question is always “has this company recently pivoted to AI?”

DoD confirms ‘refrigeration disruption’ at military commissaries

More than a half-dozen commissaries on military bases in the continental U.S. reported refrigeration outages this week.

militarytimes.com

At a certain point you might think establishment Dems would speak out about the head of their main think tank indulging in the kind of rank bigotry that damages election prospects

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Fabio Vieira is, for me, an alternate timeline talisman. Would have loved to see him succeed in North London but happy to see him move on to pastures new.

Bouie: a perm does different things to black hair and white hair Cottle: no, a perm is a perm, if it did something different to black hair it should be called a black perm Bouie: it's the same chemical process, it just- Cottle: enough, I've seen Legally Blonde

This is should be a big scandal that he and his supporters get absolutely hounded over. But I'm guessing that this week will still be like... 90% Hasan Piker nonsense vs. 10% substance in the Michigan senate race www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Michigan Senate candidate Mike Rogers says he saw Bin Laden’s body with his ‘own eyes’. He did not

Ex-House intel committee chair, now running against Abdul El-Sayed, instead saw photo of Osama bin Laden’s body

theguardian.com

"AI propaganda creates mega-bureaucracies to verify real information and work against it" is a very funny outcome that is probably most dystopic only to the people most invested in techno-fascist AI cults.

Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · 10h ago

I’m exploring the “what if the machines take everyone’s jobs?” scenario in my column this week, but the below comment is why I think AI is going to create a bunch of meatspace jobs in verification.