OSSOFF: Who won the 2020 election? CLAYTON: Uhm, you know, I'm not going to do this with you O: This is a job interview. You have an obligation to be honest with the committee. Who won the 2020 election? C: I'm not gonna get into that with you O: You're not being honest or forthright C: ...

It is seriously alarming how many of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful people are just screamingly mentally unwell in deeply toxic, dangerous ways.

Michael E. Carter@deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · last mo.

"The Pope is the puppet of the Chinese authoritatian government" is a take you would make if you made billions by drinking paint.

Opvallend dat dit artikel als onweersproken uitgangspunt neemt dat het nu eenmaal zo is dat chatbots al die (starters)functies al succesvol volledig automatiseren. Daardoor verschuift het frame volledig naar 'maar is het wel sympathiek als we deze generatie starters geen kans bieden?'.

NRC@nrc.nl · last mo.

Bij banken, advocatenkantoren en consultancybedrijven staan banen van junioren nu al onder druk door kunstmatige intelligentie. Broeit er een AI-backlash? „Jongeren vrezen AI op zichzelf niet, maar wel een samenleving die hen niet beschermt.” buff.ly/uXRHpyV

De 'onderzoekers' van grote techbedrijven kregen 'opvallend' veel bijval van grote bedrijven voor de suggestie dat er velen miljarden in diezelfde bedrijven gepompt moeten worden.

NRC@nrc.nl · 2mo ago

Europa kan niet anders dan meedoen in de AI-wapenwedloop met de VS en China, schrijven AI-onderzoekers in een alarmerend toekomstscenario. „Als je afwacht, geef je je hele economische concurrentiepositie op.” Zijn er echt geen alternatieven mogelijk? buff.ly/Yn9qNIC

En nog dit: Defensie wil software Palantir - gebruikt in de Navo intensief gebruikt in de verdediging van Oekraïne- ‘binnen twee jaar’ vervangen door Europees alternatief www.volkskrant.nl/politiek/def...

Defensie wil software Palantir ‘binnen twee jaar’ vervangen door Europees alternatief

Defensie gaat het gebruik van software van het Amerikaanse bedrijf Palantir ‘zo snel mogelijk’ vervangen door een Europees alternatief. Dat heeft staatssecretaris van Defensie Derk Boswijk dinsdag gez...

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Two nights ago, I said Trump had been using our troops as pirates in Iran and a Republican got mad. Well… the president just admitted it. He literally bragged about doing piracy.

youtu.be/HHM1_Z9EluA We gingen met Alexander naar een van de grootste militaire begraafplaatsen van Oekraïne. Meer dan 10.000 graven van vooral jonge mannen. Allemaal gestorven in de afgelopen paar jaren. Vrijheid is nooit vanzelfsprekend.

Tussen 10.000 graven: het verhaal van Evgen

YouTube video by Franky And Coen into the breach

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It’s astounding that Zelensky survived a full-scale war without ever having a ballroom.

The brutality of the Israeli regime knows no boundaries. They kill almost at random and make life impossible for those that survive the killings. While the U.S. is the most important protector of this rogue state, most European countries have done nothing to hold it accountable either.

Al Jazeera English@aljazeera.com · 3mo ago

According to the Lebanese National News Agency, these panels supply the town with electricity, which is needed for its water supply, and Israel destroyed homes, roads and olive trees as well.

Josh Rogin: “Somebody shorted the oil market today by hundreds of millions of dollars exactly 20 minutes before Trump made his announcement— If you see that once, it could be a coincidence. But that's happened at least three times, if not more, since the war began — that's a pattern”

At Pentagon worship service today, Pete Hegseth again read a violent prayer to bless the Iran war. But this time his prayer was apparently borrowed from 'Pulp Fiction.' I promise I'm not writing for @theonion.com now: publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/hegseth-bo...

Hegseth Borrows Violent Prayer from ‘Pulp Fiction’ to Bless Iran War at April Pentagon Worship Service

For the second month in a row, Pete Hegseth, who likes to call himself “secretary of war,” read a violent prayer — that echoes a scene in the Quentin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction — during a worship ser...

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This is Washington Post columnist Marc Thiessen He just called on Trump to assassinate the Iranian delegation. 1. This is a war crime 2. Wash Post is now state media and promoting war crimes 3. Why are you still subscribed to them? Yes, inviting you to my platform: www.qasimrashid.com/subscribe

Kerry: I was part of the any number of conversations with Netanyahu. Psaki: Pitching the US strike Iran? Kerry: Yes, he wanted us to strike. He came to President Obama. He made a presentation to ask to strike. President Obama refused. President Biden refused. President Bush refused.

Trump's son-in-law, his business buddy and JD Vance are going to negotiate an end to the U.S. bombing campaign against Iran. We need to talk about how fucked up this is. 🧵

Trump sending Vance, Witkoff and Kushner to Pakistan for ceasefire talks with Iran

The engagement comes as the fragile two-week ceasefire agreed to Tuesday evening is already being tested.

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The only president stupid enough to do it.

What’s killing NATO isn’t the European refusals to access to US bases, but Trump’s unilateral decision to redefining NATO as a US force-projection tool rather than a collective defense arrangement. That’s the constitutional coup against the alliance. Europe didn’t break NATO, Trump did.

"The Times’s analysis shows that the damage was often caused by strikes in crowded neighborhoods" "In most instances examined by The Times, the intended target of a strike was not clear. In some cases, schools and health care facilities ... were directly hit." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...

‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University

Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...

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I am not one of those who believes that history repeats, but consider the following from Herodotus: the Oracle at Delphi told the fabulously wealthy King Croesus that if he invaded Persia he would "destroy a great empire." Croesus invaded and lost--the empire he destroyed was his own.

The president of the United States is now threatening to commit genocide.

JD Vance flies to Hungary to interfere with the election, while complaining that people who haven't flown to Hungary to interfere with the election are interfering with the election. I doubt he'd know where to feed himself if it wasn't for his mouth flapping all day long. www.theguardian.com/uk

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Open brief van 34 oud-diplomaten: Dit is inderdaad niet onze oorlog, maar Europa moet meer doen voor het Midden-Oosten

Het Europese “nee” tegen de Israëlisch-Amerikaanse aanvalsoorlog mag geenszins als een vorm van steun aan het status quo gezien worden, schrijven 34 voormalige Belgische diplomaten.

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Opiniestuk in De Standaard over de centrale rol van technologiebedrijven in hedendaagse oorlogsvoering: www.standaard.be/opinies/de-m...

De militaire rol van AI-bedrijven: oorlog als digitale dienstverlening

Artificiële intelligentie gebruiken in oorlogsvoering is om tal van redenen nefast, schrijven Marijn Hoijtink en Robin Vanderborght.

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He was in 1972. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15654729/amp/trump-not-afraid-ground-combat-iran.html

Trump says he's 'not afraid' of Vietnam-style ground combat in Iran

President Donald Trump said Tuesday he is 'not afraid' to deploy US ground troops within Iran, further emphasizing the lengths he is willing to go in his Middle East war.

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can't help but notice whose losses are expressed in dollars and whose losses are expressed in lives

Footage reviewed and geolocated by Bellingcat confirms US tomahawk missiles hit the girls’ primary school in southern Iran that killed 175 people, most of them children. Researcher Trevor Ball notes Israel does not possess Tomahawk missiles. United States does.

real life or a leak of tonight SNL's cold open? You decide

Welke argumenten en propaganda ook gebruikt worden in deze oorlog, dit beeld zal niet vergeten worden.

There won’t be $5B of US arms “aid” to Ukraine next year, as Rutte suggests here. The 2026 US defense budget mentions an amount of $400 MILLION. The 5 BILLION Rutte mentioned refers to US arms SALES to other NATO countries, who will then pass the goodies on to Ukraine. That’s BUSINESS, not aid.

The New Voice of Ukraine@english.nv.ua · 8mo ago

The United States will not stop supporting Ukraine, remains a committed ally of Europe, and has a clear interest in staying in NATO, Secretary General Mark Rutte said.

Een minister van Buitenlandse Zaken die in de eerste week van zijn ambtstermijn doodleuk zegt dat "het internationale recht niet enige kader om de situatie te beoordelen is." Als het dat niet altijd wél is, is er geen internationaal recht meer.