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https://archive.ph/guQMQ

https://archive.is/Kt55q#selection-1587.12-1587.76

https://archive.is/eGyqC

https://archive.is/9WXdK

https://archive.is/x9oX0

The MRFF, which seems to be above board and its existence widely known by military personnel, is quoted directly in the article as having received the complaints as described. An article in The Guardian [1] tells the same story, but adds another MRFF quote: “Anytime Israel or the US is involved in the Middle East, we get this stuff about Christian nationalists who’ve taken over our government, and certainly our US military,” Mikey Weinstein, MRFF’s president, who is an air force veteran, told the Guardian.

“Military members are not really able to stand up for themselves, because your military superior is not your shift manager at Starbucks,”

This doesn't really confirm or debunk, but it's surely a solid nudge towards confirmation.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/03/us-israel-iran...

-- Edited to add: Another commentator, who takes the story with a pinch of salt, casts aspersions at the MRFF. [2] The penultimate paragraph should really be far higher up.

[2] https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/before-you-share-that-stor...

Scott Galloway's relevant "No Mercy, No Malice" column "Resist and Unsubscribe": https://www.profgalloway.com/resist-and-unsubscribe/

archived: https://archive.is/ssa2F

An Axios article [1] makes rather starker claims about the behaviour of an earlier version of the model:

... an outside group found that an early version of Opus 4 schemed and deceived more than any frontier model it had encountered and recommended that that version not be released internally or externally.

"We found instances of the model attempting to write self-propagating worms, fabricating legal documentation, and leaving hidden notes to future instances of itself all in an effort to undermine its developers' intentions," Apollo Research said in notes included as part of Anthropic's safety report for Opus 4.

[1] https://www.axios.com/2025/05/23/anthropic-ai-deception-risk

Archived: https://archive.is/fgZZy

Yes, those subscribers do count, but the author writes of sustainability doubts in that respect, arguing that current hype and FOMO-style thinking may well fizzle out:

I believe that a lot of businesses are "trying" AI at the moment, and once those trials end (Gartner predicts that 30% of generative AI projects will be abandoned after their proof of concepts by end of 2025), they'll likely stop paying for the extra features, or stop integrating generative AI into their companies' products.

Jeffrey Kluger also wrote Lost Moon, about Apollo 13, in collaboration with Jim Lovell. That is also an excellent read.

My beef with self-checkout tills is that I don't use carrier bags, preferring to put my goods in my backpack. The self-checkout tills won't accept a backpack in the packing area; too heavy, I suppose.

Kelvedon Hatch Secret Nuclear Bunker:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelvedon_Hatch_Secret_Nuclear_...

Ah, that would probably be Llanfair­pwllgwyngyll­gogery­chwyrn­drobwll­llan­tysilio­gogo­goch.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llanfairpwllgwyngyll

You might try contacting the school in this article [1], which has banned phones. Or this one [2], which has done the same. And this article [3] mentions a few more.

I took those links from an article in The Atlantic [4] Get Phones Out of Schools Now, which you might find interesting.

EDIT to add that The Atlantic article has a comment thread on HN [5].

[1] https://eu.news-leader.com/story/news/education/2022/04/01/m...

[2] https://triblive.com/local/penn-hills/no-cell-phones-for-pen...

[3] https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/massachusetts-schools-ce...

[4] https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/06/ban-smartp...

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36221041

There's an interesting piece from 2020, republished a few days ago, in the Bulletin of The Atomic Scientists, titled "Counting the dead at Hiroshima and Nagasaki" [1]. The bottom line is that the number of people killed is unlikely ever to be known.

[1] https://thebulletin.org/2020/08/counting-the-dead-at-hiroshi...

Syndicated at Ars, no paywall:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/03/gener...

Site still seems to be overloaded, but there's a decent piece in Ars:

Framework gives its modular laptops 13th-gen Intel CPUs and (finally) an AMD option

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/03/framework-gives-its-...

No-paywall version at Ars:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/03/inside-elon-musk...

With respect to the "hating Israel" comment, I'd encourage people to read an article written by David Graeber (now, sadly, deceased) in 2019: For the first time in my life, I'm frightened to be Jewish [1]

[1] https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/first-time-...

"Google could have done a much nicer job of taking care of RSS, but they didn't do that," he [Winer] said. "And they're doing the same thing with the web today. It's incredible. They're doing it to the whole web. They're doing it slowly and they put a lot of hype onto it. They make it sound like they're doing good things. But in fact, what they're doing is they're going to shrink the web down to the part of the web that they can monetize."

A dead cat bounce isn't a recovery, it's a bounce before the fall continues. {Edited wording for clarity.]

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_cat_bounce

There was a time, a good few years ago, that the free 3D animation software Muvizu (sadly no longer around) envisioned kids doing just that. Here's a clip produced with Muvizu using assets from Shawn the Sheep. (Muvizu was at the time discussing collaborations with Aardman.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF9Ul_hv55s

My favourite e-ink application was in the Yotaphone II [1] some years ago, but sadly discontinued. I had one sent from the UK to Australia, where I was working for a few years. Reading books, docs or emails via the e-ink screen was a joy (no probs with bright sunshine), as was calling up your airline pass on the screen and turning off the phone, because the image on the back was retained. Even writing emails/docs was fine for me, despite the e-ink lag. I needed to charge it only every other day, and that still left plenty of margin. Best phone I ever had.

[1] https://www.gsmarena.com/yota_yotaphone_2-6959.php

https://archive.is/jfIq8

Seemingly decent report:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russians-call-off-spacewalk-soy...

I don't know of any EU corporates with the scale, reach and depth of US corporates such as Meta, Google, Twitter et al. Their dominance globally is going to prompt GDPR scrutiny. If an EU corporate were to grow to relative relevance, I'd expect similar scrutiny. I see no protectionism, largely because there's nothing to protect.

Reuters version:

https://www.reuters.com/technology/meta-oversight-board-call...

As a reminder that without context discussion is null, I found your patient-if-exasperated explanation to be sublime. Thanks for that.