Bob

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War Studies at KCL alum. Cyber, Maritime, CNI Defense. Journalism, Film, Music. I know a lot about cocktails. ILoF.

The language of autonomy makes it tempting to treat harmful behavior as something the model did by itself. But the company selects the model, removes its safeguards, gives it tools, defines its objective, and supplies the computing power. Autonomy does not dissolve that responsibility. It makes it more important.
Text stating, 'When someone shows you their Nazi tattoo, believe them.'
“The Iranians are insisting on ships using the Iran route and paying tolls," one cargo insurance broker told the FT. “The US is telling ships to go the Omani route and escorting them with close air support. It is all going to end in tears."
A bottle of Vat 69 scotch with two small cups.
A nearly empty half pint of beer
The two accusations of corruption-against Biden and against Swalwell-show that Trump isn't just targeting his political opponents. He is willing to work with Russian and Chinese intelligence services to target his political opponents.
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte told the World Economic Forum in Switzerland earlier this month that Moscow lost 1,000 troops a day in December. “Not seriously wounded, dead,” he said. “In the 1980s in Afghanistan, the Soviets lost 20,000 in 10 years. Now they lose 30,000 in one month,” Rutte said.
Copies of the books 1966 by Jon Savage and Route 19 Revisited by Marcus Gray
Scene from Hunt for Red October with text: You've Lost Another One?
Skeet from Scott J Shapiro stating: If your post is more than an hour old, you were posting from another world
With 267 followers, her Instagram account usually had modest reach but the post of her child attracted nearly 7,000 views, 90% from non-followers, half of whom were aged over 44 and 90% of whom were men.
Constitutional conservatism has frozen the popular constitutional imagination. Beguiled by originalism, more and more people take the Constitution as cast in amber; they have forgotten their intrinsic and inalienable right to amend.
The gang's leader, Johnny "Taz" Mulford, is a former sergeant in the US Army who was punished for conspiracy to commit bribery, theft and making false statements to military authorities. He is now the "country team leader" running UG Solutions' contract in Gaza.
Screenshot of a scene from the TV show The Bureau. A man in a suit with the closed caption: Your feelings are your worst enemy.
Photo of a German spy and his typed confession
Text or an academic article states: We found that cities with lower air conditioning ownership had higher risks of violent crime during hot days compared to moderate temperature days. More frequent heat waves due to climate change are expected to more adversely impact the well-being of persons living without air conditioners (Huang et al. 2013). A previous study using data of aggravated assault in Dallas, Texas suggested a similar result; an inverted J-shaped relationship was found for outdoor temperature, and a shallow linear relationship was found for indoor climate-controlled temperature (Rotton and Cohn 2004). This impact can be greater for lower-income households, which are less likely to have air conditioners, live in neighborhoods with less vegetation and climate-controlled public buildings, and can less afford to use air conditioning even when it is available (i.e., energy disparity) (Heilmann et al. 2021).
Text states: Sometimes America seems like everything that's bad in England ganging up on you
Picture of a man in a hotdog suit with the caption 'We're all trying to find the guy who did this' from I think you should leave
Marco Rubio, Secretary of Institutions that Don't Matter to Trump
Graphic stating: The first transgender suicide hotline is now up and running in the US. You can reach Trans Lifeline at 877-565-8860.
A picture of director John Ford in his old age with an expression of exhaustion and contempt on his face.
A Manhattan cocktail with a lemon twist on a bookshelf.
Interior of Duke's cocktail bar showing two cocktails, a martini and a vesper
A table with two cocktails on it, one in a couple and another in a collins glass with rich egg white foam on top of each
Photo of a table with the book Maritime Strategy and Sea Denial by Milan Vego and a bottle of campari with a Christmas tree coozie on it
One thing that all of these groups have in common is a shared disdain for Terms of Service; the rules that govern conduct and attempt to set norms in platform spaces are inconveniences to be disregarded, at best. Combatants actively and systematically circumvent these attempts at digital defenses, turning the very idea of them into a target of trolling: the norms are illegitimate, they claim. The rules are unfair, their very existence is censorship!
The view from Southern Maine Community College campus: a beautiful, beach cove on a sunny day with boats moored in the water
Woman staying, "what am I going to do with my thoughts? Keep them in my brain? Where I live?"
Text stating: The military isn't obligated to roll over and accept the destruction of democratic institutions because Samuel Huntington wrote a book. What Huntington got wrong is that in a Republic-the military by being citizens of that same Republic is obligated to uphold certain ideals in the abstract.
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While $7.5 billion may sound like a lot, it's less than one month's worth of Apple's profits last year, or a sixth of the bonus Tesla shareholders awarded to CEO Elon Musk.
Overhead shot of a table with a floral tablecloth holding 5 mugs of tea with milk and a spoon.
A copy of the book Fancy Bear Goes Fishing is displayed on a book shop table with a number of other books
Picture of a Bottle of Vat 69 scotch whisky.
Photo of attorney Barry Zukercorn stating, 'I'm not "super-prepared"'
I think about this all the time when I consider what television has become and what cinema has become as it's shifted more and more to the conveyor belt of quickly forgotten nothing that is most streaming platforms. We're all watching something, but we're not watching any of it together anymore. There's a saying: If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? But the question I find far more critical to where we are as a civilization is: If a tree falls in the woods and you hear it happen but have nobody to tell about it, who gives a fuck?
"Any swing state, any swing Senate race is going to have Al-generated phoney websites," says Steven Brill, co-chief executive of NewsGuard. "The whole thing is going to be a shitshow."
Post Tex with a picture of the confused social media poster from I Think You Should Leave