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Richard Whittall

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I used to think about football analytics.

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Richard Whittall @rwhittall.bsky.social · yesterday

Lockheed Martin CEO urges weapons manufacturers to slow down. "The things can kill people!"

Erin Fogg says Free Link@criminalerin.bsky.social · yesterday

Noooo don't be our competitor you'll kill us all ahaha and I am very genuine

Reuters, an hour ago: a photo of Dario Amodi, a fucking nerd of a guy, below a headline reading Anthropic CEO urges AI companies to slow model development amid fears over misuse

Richard Whittall @rwhittall.bsky.social · yesterday

We're just totally fucked

John Muller @johnspacemuller.com · yesterday

Has Premier League athleticism gone too far

Richard Whittall @rwhittall.bsky.social · yesterday

This team needs several more months and that might be too long.

dæv@farris.bsky.social · yesterday

Unai, babe. What are are we doing here?

Richard Whittall @rwhittall.bsky.social · yesterday

I'm no expert but teams that don't score any goals are usually at a higher risk of relegation.

Richard Whittall @rwhittall.bsky.social · 2d ago

United 93 got heavily criticized for not giving their actions the Hollywood treatment but I think it underlines how insanely courageous they were and how quickly they acted.

Hunter Felt 🏳️‍⚧️@hunterfelt.bsky.social · 2d ago

One of the reasons I got deep into 9/11 because I absolutely refused to believe the official story of United 93 because it was too perfect, too pat. And yet. Every bit of evidence holds up that this actually happened. It really is one of the few hopeful stories of that day.

pausa de hateration @thatguywasfly.bsky.social · 2d ago

It's really worth asking why so few people in the public eye (other than Lilly Wachowski here) are willing to say this.

obermoz@obermoz.bsky.social · 2d ago

🫳 🎤

Danny Page @danny.page · 2d ago

Slotkin joined the Central Intelligence Agency in 2002, following the September 11 attacks.[13] Fluent in Arabic and Swahili, she served three tours in Iraq alongside the military as a CIA analyst.[11] She described her role as an expert on Iraqi Shia militias.[16] During the George W. Bush administration, she worked on the Iraq portfolio for the National Security Council. During Barack Obama's presidency, she worked for the State Department and the Department of Defense.[11] From 2015 to 2017, Slotkin was acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs,[17] where one of her responsibilities was securing Israel's Qualitative Military Edge.[18]

“we are all looking for the guy who did this” meme

Senator Elissa Slotkin@slotkin.senate.gov · 2d ago

And the events of 9-11 kicked off an era of significant mistakes in wars far from home that we’re still grappling with today.

Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 2d ago

One of the officers we interviewed describes how he was fully aware in real time of hundreds of cases in which families were going about their normal lives — a man talking to his wife, the sound of a TV show, prayer, a crying baby — and then he gave the clearance to bomb them. When asked why, he explained: “You understand that the objective is to destroy.”

Seen in this light, the presence of a person Israel deems an assassination target in a certain house becomes the “collateral” matter; indeed, in many cases, the target turned out not to have been present at all. The killing itself was the point.

+972 Magazine@972mag.com · 3d ago

‘NAZA’: Exposing Israel’s killing machine in Gaza Our new film shows how Israel’s slaughter of Palestinian civilians was a calculated and intentional act, through the testimonies of those responsible. By Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor www.972mag.com/naza-exposin...

Richard Whittall @rwhittall.bsky.social · 2d ago

Twenty five years ago our free cable was cut off in my Montreal apartment. Not that there was anything to watch that day.

Richard Whittall @rwhittall.bsky.social · 2d ago

It's never a good thing when MPs act entitled to their seat.

Dara O'Reilly@daraor.bsky.social · 3d ago

www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

Richard Whittall @rwhittall.bsky.social · 4d ago

Does this mean there's a new album coming at some point inshallah??

Stereogum@stereogum.com · 4d ago

Hear the first new the War On Drugs song in four years, "Who's That"

Richard Whittall @rwhittall.bsky.social · 4d ago

My question is if there people actually think AI is going to kill us all why not sabotage the servers before quitting? Why not call the FBI? Also why not say things like "AI is five years away from figuring out how to reverse global warming?" If it can do that then I'll be scared.

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 5d ago

The alarms are all flashing red.

Screenshot of a thread on X by user Jacob Coxon (@hilbertspaess) detailing his resignation from Anthropic.
The first post reads: "I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below."
The second post reads: "Do not underestimate the power of this technology. These will soon be superhuman systems that can hack anything, revolutionize any field overnight, and acquire real power and resources. We have all witnessed the progress in each of these domains, and progress is not slowing."
The third post reads: "The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. This is not a marketing stunt. If anything, many executives and senior researchers will couch their phrasing in the press to sound sensible - but I hear the same people express fear privately. No other human activity poses this level of danger."

Richard Whittall @rwhittall.bsky.social · 5d ago

I have PTSD from all the fisheries collapse coverage in the 90s.

Trevor A. Branch@trevorabranch.bsky.social · 5d ago

This is seismic news for fisheries scientists. Northern cod is *the* iconic symbol of total fisheries collapse due to overfishing (and other factors) *and* the iconic symbol of a complete failure to recover for decades afterwards. This is like announcing the complete recovery of bison on land.

Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 6d ago

I reach above me and pull down a file on
Guatemala. It is on the CIA coup of 1954. Why did the US destroy that small country? Because the landless movement and the Left fought to elect a democratic politician - Jacobo Árbenz - who decided to push through a moderate land reform agenda. Such a project threatened to undercut the land holding of the United Fruit Company, a US conglomerate that strangled Guatemala. The CIA got to work. It contacted retired Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas, it paid off brigade commanders, created sabotage events, and then seized Arbenz in the presidential palace and sent him to exile.
Castillo Armas then put Guatemala through a reign of terror. 'If it is necessary to turn the country into a cemetery in order to pacify it,' he said later, 'I will not hesitate to do so! The CIA gave him lists of Communists, people who were eager to lift their country out of poverty. They were arrested, many executed. The CIA offered Castillo Armas its benediction to kill; A Study of Assassination, the CIA's killing manual, was handed over to his butchers. The light of hope went out in this small and vibrant country.

Barbara Rice fka Fabucat1958@fabucat1958.bsky.social · 6d ago

I strongly disagree, but not because I like the CIA or that I think that Steinem is 100 perfect. I live in the DC area and I’ve known dozens who’ve worked for the CIA. Some have denounced it, others told me that the Cold War was a crock, others are true believers.

Richard Whittall @rwhittall.bsky.social · 5d ago

I have nothing to say about Star Trek that hasn't already been said but the end of Wrath of Khan shaped my idea of what it meant to be a good person.

Star Trek -- Kirk's Eulogy for Spock

YouTube video by Frustrated Idealist

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Pearl River Flow @pearlriverflow.com · 5d ago

"The Inner Light" hurts more as a rerun, one you've seen before, because it's a warning from OUR past about a message from the past from a planet dying of global warming, that forces you to live your life through the end of that civilization while being entirely powerless to prevent it

Richard Whittall @rwhittall.bsky.social · 5d ago

So is the Big 10 explanation still that the game clock feed was out of sync with the game feed? I can't even follow this anymore.

Chris Vannini@chrisvannini.com · 5d ago

BREAKING: The MAC has reversed its position and is fighting the Big Ten's extra 1 second for Michigan. "The established replay protocol requires that the game clock displayed on the program feed be used in determining whether time remained."

Richard Whittall @rwhittall.bsky.social · 5d ago

I get why AfD winning is deeply alarming but Saxony Anhalt is a state of 2 million, the 11th largest in Germany, and part of the former eastern bloc. Centrist media of course is trying to force us to accept this is a global bellwether.

Illiterate Autodidact 🇵🇸🙂👍🇮🇱☹👎@cigaretteliker.bsky.social · 11mo ago

The virgin AGI existential risk vs the chad global warming

Richard Whittall @rwhittall.bsky.social · 6d ago

This is such a political own goal. Even far right sympathizers prefer a law and order approach to dealing with thugs. The political cowardice from liberals cojrinues to reach new extremes.

Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · 6d ago

Asked if the Government considers the masked thugs swarming British ports “far right” Andy Burnham’s spokesman replies that “it's an operational matter for the police to set out their response to the protests on the ground. So I will leave them to respond to that.”

Kieran Doyle @kierdoyle.bsky.social · last wk.

Every week Arsenal fucking crush teams worse than them and look awesome doing it and every week 86% of their fans tweets are about refereeing or how dirty the other team is. Is this what football is for you? Officiating grievance collecting?