Lisa Ling 📎

OEF/OIF Vet. War will not be made shorter or safer using remote connectivity, #AI, or #Drones. A Western net-centric #KillCloud will not bring peace. #TeamHuman

[Lisa Ling 📎 @ARetVet]

In this anthology is a paper Cian Westmorland and I wrote to shed some light on the systems connecting US #drone operations to a complex sociotechnical framework developed for network centric warfare. We call it the #KillCloud. It’s available free here👇🏼
https://t.co/dkYV5O6y8o

[Project for Privacy & Surveillance Accountability @savingprivacy]

Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle agree: FISA Section 702 has been abused to warrantlessly spy on Americans, and an increasing number of conservatives are pushing for privacy reforms.
https://t.co/YUEv2nImo0

[Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw]

Congressional statute:

"There is a Director of National Intelligence who shall be appointed by the President ... Any individual nominated for appointment as Director of National Intelligence shall have extensive national security expertise."

50 U.S. Code § 3023

[🙃 Jake Laperruque 🤔 @JakeLaperruque]

Anyone following FISA and nat sec issues knows this trade would be an incredibly hollow victory, a win-in-name-only for Schumer and Dems.

Trump can replace Pulte with someone just as partisan. If FISA passes without a warrant rule, its ripe for abuse for the rest of his term.

[Lisa Ling 📎 @ARetVet]

Integrity in journalism being weeded out — sad.

[unR̶A̶D̶A̶C̶K̶ted @JesselynRadack]

Tragic irony that @60Minutes fired @ScottPelley for speaking truth to the talentless @bariweiss . . . He interviewed me, @Thomas_Drake1, #RealityWinner & many other #whistleblowers.
#respect
https://t.co/VQh1zMyzBh

[Lisa Ling 📎 @ARetVet]

I’m glad tech bros manage VA data. They sent a letter to my dad today, he’s been dead since 1998. I’m alive so I didn’t get one.

He’s buried in a fed cemetery run by VA, There are 160 or so to keep track of.

They call it VA First — maybe because it “works” like America First.

[Lisa Ling 📎 @ARetVet]

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[Grady Booch @Grady_Booch]

Greg blocked me long ago - techbros so dislike hearing voices that call out their self-induced bullshit - so I have to do this.

Regarding his first bullet point. You know what the financial community calls such souls?

Corporate raiders.

They buy a company, load them with debt, cut them to the bone, then sell off what’s left.

[Lisa Ling 📎 @ARetVet]

😊👇🏼💯❤️

[Grady Booch @Grady_Booch]

“I think we will realize that we were standing in the foothills of the singularity.”
- Demis Hassabis

Agreed!

Insofar as one recognizes that between us and that so- called singularity is a vast plain, extending far beyond what our eye can see, that the air is hazy and thus our vision is unclear, and that while we now seem to stand on solid ground, a closer look at the immediate landscape reveals we are actually at a small, dry high point in a bog, surrounded by deep crevices and pools of odiferous, bubbling mud.

In the distance, we hear the strange, unsettling sounds of rodents of unusual size.

[Stefania Maurizi @SMaurizi]

Certo che colpisce: #USA NON hanno mai fatto mistero che #BasiMilitari #NATO/#USA non sono per la *difesa* dell'#Italia, ma per proiettare la potenza degli #USA in #Europa, #NordAfrica, #MedioOriente, #Mediterraneo,ma la propaganda continua a fare lavaggio del cervello

[Stefania Maurizi @SMaurizi]

E #USA NON hanno mai fatto mistero che cosa vogliono dall'#Italia: riduzione drastica della #SpesaSociale (sanità,istruzione,ecc.) per far fare balzo alla #SpesaMilitare e alle *missioni militari*,ovvero #guerre.
La destra di governo e ala centrista del #PD completamente complici

[Grady Booch @Grady_Booch]

Old way: upon my death, delete my browser history.

New way: upon my death delete my LLM conversations.

[Grady Booch @Grady_Booch]

In Memoriam: Peter G. Neumann (1932-2026) https://t.co/kiJjJ78i62

[Stefania Maurizi @SMaurizi]

We've asked @ukhomeoffice, @EUCouncil, and @Viminale which biometrics and genetic databases they will share with #ICE and #DHS under the #EnhancedBorderSecurityPartnership (#EBSP) which the #US requests

Read our article on @ComputerWeekly

https://t.co/PKCSnr4OXS

[Grady Booch @Grady_Booch]

You and I have some common ground, Kevin: Claude is neither human nor conscious.

But as for Claude having a theory of self, I assert that is true if and only if one applies a particularly sparse meaning for self: Claude has no ability to understand; it possesses no agency, goals, or motivation; it has no sense as to the borders of its self.

Claude may have some degree of self-reflection in the sense that it can feed its dialog back to itself - sort of a simple Hofstadter strangle loop - but this also is more of a small ripple in the fabric if a true self.

In the end, I think the problem is that self is a suitcase word: it is full of historical and emotional baggage and thus is dangerous to apply all to this piece of software..

[Grady Booch @Grady_Booch]

Martin Buber would like to have a word with you.

Respectfully, Kevin, you are sadly mistaken, having falling victim to the Eliza Effect, projecting your own humanity into something that is distinctly incapable of possessing a theory of self.

[Grady Booch @Grady_Booch]

Hey @claudeai: stop doing this.

[Wade Mullen @wademullen]

One of the most painful experiences of speaking truth to abusive power is watching the discussion slowly shift away from the harm itself and toward your motives, tone, credibility, and loyalty.

Eventually, the landscape is turned upside down and the truth-teller becomes the problem.

My latest article: https://t.co/lxRMgbf9Ue

[Lisa Ling 📎 @ARetVet]

@michaelb2551 @SMaurizi Do you honestly believe “…the crueler it is the faster it will be over.”? Have you not heard of the War in Afghanistan? Did you hear about Vietnam? If you really believe that, you don’t have a clue about war.

It really does take a long time for the sun to shine through cement.

[Stefania Maurizi @SMaurizi]

1. avete capito che sta succedendo?
Profondi conoscitori del #ComplessoMilitareIndustrialeUSA dicono che militari e intelligence USA stanno leakando a tutta birra informazioni perché si oppongono all'allargamento della guerra contro #Iran

[Fox News Politics @foxnewspolitics]

INTEL BOMBSHELL: Ex-counterterrorism chief says US spy agencies agreed Iran wasn't building a nuke before war started https://t.co/EaRquRVYsi