Brian E. Frydenborg

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[Brian E. Frydenborg @bfry1981]

My complicated latest on how Israel's dangerous impunity in the West Bank resembles Trump's dangerous impunity playing fast and loose with troops on U.S. soil https://t.co/r6sDF0Wg8G

[Brian E. Frydenborg @bfry1981]

@AP I preview Pope Leo's AI encyclical here in my latest edition of my AI Reading List, a special edition on Anthropic, Claude, Mythos (Preview), and (Project) Glasswing. One of Anthropic's co-founders is actually partnering with Leo on this encyclical! https://t.co/C8ycJ4D8PU

[Brian E. Frydenborg @bfry1981]

In conversations I've been having within my close circle for a month+ & in much of what I say here, I have been saying: we need to stop and pause, start over with these LLMs and other AI stuff. Too much documented harm already. Glad to see @AnthropicAI catching up!!

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

Anthropic is calling for top AI labs to weigh slowing the pace of development, suggesting that AI systems are advancing so rapidly that they may soon be able to improve themselves without human intervention in ways that could pose societal risks. https://t.co/8c7xkeX17B

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

Anthropic is calling for top AI labs to weigh slowing the pace of development, suggesting that AI systems are advancing so rapidly that they may soon be able to improve themselves without human intervention in ways that could pose societal risks. https://t.co/8c7xkeX17B

[Brian E. Frydenborg @bfry1981]

I sooooo wish but slow down there, I don't think we are there yet but I hope we will be soon, I just see too many powerful evil forces aligned here...

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

NEW: Ten days ago, Pope Leo XIV demanded guardrails on artificial intelligence.

Major shifts in Trump’s AI policy have followed.

Last night, the pope’s new ambassador stood before Washington’s AI industry and said their entire future must be built on human dignity.

The Leo revolution is just beginning. https://t.co/PcXn5Wmke3

[Darth Thunder ⚡ @XDarthThunderX]

Word going around is Dave Filoni wants to make a live action Star Wars Clone Wars mini series.

Would you like to see this? ✨

[Brian E. Frydenborg @bfry1981]

Exactly. What proxy war??

[Joni Askola @joni_askola]

The proxy war narrative is finally dead.

The US cut off military aid 18 months ago and demanded a soft surrender, but Ukraine is still fighting.

Trump's pathetic second term has proven that Ukraine answers to no one but themselves.

Ever since the full-scale invasion began, anti-Ukraine voices have claimed that Kyiv is just a proxy for Western interests. The actions of the US government over the last year and a half have completely disproven this theory.

Calling this a proxy war oversimplifies the entire war and robs both Russia and Ukraine of their agency. Russia started this unprovoked war for its own purposes (imperialism), not on behalf of anyone else. Ukraine is fighting an existential defensive war to avoid becoming a demilitarized and russified puppet state, not to do a favor for the West.

The history of Western support also refutes the proxy label. The West was completely unprepared for this type of warfare, and our aid has always been hesitant and insufficient. If the West were running a real proxy campaign, we would have supplied the necessary tools for victory and been at least somewhat ready from the very beginning.

For 18 months, Washington has cut off all military aid and pushed Ukraine toward a non-existant and bad forced peace deal. In a textbook proxy setup, the principal agent decides when the war stops. The US cannot force a stop because Ukraine has its own independent will and continues to resist the genocide it faces.

Ukraine is not a proxy. Calling this unprovoked war and genocide a proxy war is just intellectually lazy

[Brian E. Frydenborg @bfry1981]

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[Natalka @NatalkaKyiv]

“In effect, Europe needs to be put down — it’s like some rabid dog running loose in the streets, and something has to be done about it.”

— stated Scott Ritter at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum

[New York Magazine @NYMag]

The meltdown at ‘60 Minutes’ has transfixed the media world this week, as Bari Weiss fired deeply respected staffers and correspondents, installed broadcast-news outsider Nick Bilton as the show’s executive producer, and sparked a messy standoff with Scott Pelley, who grilled his new boss and accused Weiss of “murdering” the show — all before being shown the door himself. A pointed termination letter, along with a stream of good-bye emails, statements, and rebuttals, have laced the saga with claims of insubordination, incompetence, and bias toward the Trump administration.

To Steve Kroft, who spent three decades at ‘60 Minutes’ before retiring in 2019, the show, “as the audience has known it, no longer exists.”

“They’ve made it clear — they being the new management, Bari Weiss and David Ellison — that they want to go to a completely different format, model, call it what you want,” he says. Kroft is not sure, precisely, what 60 Minutes will look like when it resumes: “It seems almost impossible for me to imagine what kind of a show they can put on in September.”

Read our full interview with Kroft: https://t.co/sXA4ZxtxhV

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

Under Siege 3 is just him versus his own arteries.

[Lara Korte @lara_korte]

CENTCOM has released this photo of an F-16 refueling in an "undisclosed location."

[Boston Smalls @smalls2672]

Just came across this gem. Instant classic.

[Neera Tanden🌻 @neeratanden]

Decades from now @BariWeiss will be best known as a destroyer of greatness.

[John Jackson @hissgoescobra]

Russia and the U.S. will play a hockey game on July 1st in Moscow. This is humiliating and disgraceful. Any U.S. hockey player that attends this barbaric sportswashing of Russian genocide should be canceled and shunned for life. Let’s start exposing them.

[Variety @Variety]

Fired "60 Minutes" journalist Scott Pelley says CBS News boss Bari Weiss is lying when she says there was an effort to "find a way back" for him.

"At no point did anyone in the meeting suggest there could be steps taken by either side that would lead to a resolution. Weiss and Tom Cibrowski were openly hostile from the start. 'Firing' was raised by Cibrowski in the first 15 seconds. No CBS executive, at any time, suggested 'a way back.' To say so now is disingenuous. And they know it. In fact, Weiss, Cibrowski and Nick Bilton refused to answer my questions. I asked Weiss a number of questions about why she fired the entire senior staff of '60 Minutes' a few days before and without cause. 'I'm not answering that question,' she said... These executives cannot gain the trust of the staff with lies. This is antithetical to everything we stand for and reveals contempt for what journalists do."

https://t.co/UNDmIyCPBt

[Brian E. Frydenborg @bfry1981]

@Ivo_Taillefer @Variety Let me know when that happens it certainly has nothing to do with the guy in that pic🤡

[Brian E. Frydenborg @bfry1981]

@ErikoG8 @Variety I could really do without that but nice reference

[TechFocus 🇺🇸 @TechFocused]

@Variety Bari Weiss gets her man.

[Brian E. Frydenborg @bfry1981]

I have been trying to be gracious and understanding of Bari Weiss for a long time. She has worsened with age, but she gets credit for not being MAGA. And yet, here she is reminding us you can still suck pretty bad without being MAGA. Shameful.

[Variety @Variety]

Fired "60 Minutes" journalist Scott Pelley says CBS News boss Bari Weiss is lying when she says there was an effort to "find a way back" for him.

"At no point did anyone in the meeting suggest there could be steps taken by either side that would lead to a resolution. Weiss and Tom Cibrowski were openly hostile from the start. 'Firing' was raised by Cibrowski in the first 15 seconds. No CBS executive, at any time, suggested 'a way back.' To say so now is disingenuous. And they know it. In fact, Weiss, Cibrowski and Nick Bilton refused to answer my questions. I asked Weiss a number of questions about why she fired the entire senior staff of '60 Minutes' a few days before and without cause. 'I'm not answering that question,' she said... These executives cannot gain the trust of the staff with lies. This is antithetical to everything we stand for and reveals contempt for what journalists do."

https://t.co/UNDmIyCPBt

[Brian E. Frydenborg @bfry1981]

I can verify that AOC is authentic AF. Took her interns out and they were all focused on the game. She's a real fan! Representing @nyknicks here in DC, it's @AOC!!