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Suspect in Texas bar shooting wore 'Property of Allah' clothing and Iranian flag emblem according to AP source
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Gunman who killed two people in Texas wore shirt with an Iranian flag design
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Now they are learning ....
At least 2 killed in Austin, Texas bar shooting; FBI probes "potential nexus to terrorism"
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Chances a muslim was involved, upset of Iran ... High!
"I'm very thankful for the speed with which our public safety officials responded to this,"
Odd because WayMo was obstructing their response.
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Why didn't someone in the bar just yank his gat and bust a cap on the perp?
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Duh.... Gun Free Zone ...
Texas Penal Code - PENAL 46.03. Places Weapons Prohibited
7) on the premises of a business that has a permit or license issued under Chapter 25, 28, 32, 69, or 74, Alcoholic Beverage Code, if the business derives 51 percent or more of its income from the sale or service of alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption, as determined by the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission under Section 104.06, Alcoholic Beverage Code;
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Because Anthropic confirmed it and will remove the safeguards?
Because Anthropic said it? Sorry going to need more than a corporation trying to dictate policy of the government than their word.
They are determining how your democracy should work, the only thing they should insist on is that they remain inside the law.
You're just upset that Trump is President and anything he does is fascist, what a stupid way to go through life.
This gets to the core of the issue more than any debate about specific terms.
Do you believe in democracy? Should our military be regulated by our elected leaders, or corporate executives? Seemingly innocuous terms from the latter like "You cannot target innocent civilians" are actually moral minefields that lever differences of cultural tradition into massive control.
Who is a civilian and not? What makes them innocent or not? What does it mean for them to be a "target" vs collateral damage? Existing policy and law has very clear answers for these questions, but unelected corporations managing profits and PR will often have a very different answer.
Imagine if a missile company tried to enforce the above policy, that their product cannot be used to target innocent civilians, that they can shut off access if elected leaders decide to break those terms. Sounds, good, right? Not really - in addition to the value judgement problems I list above, you also have to account for questions like:
-What level of information, classified and otherwise, does the corporation receive that would allow them to make these determinations? How much leverage would they have to demand more?
-What if an elected President merely threatens a dictator with using our weapons in a certain way, ala Madman Theory/MAD? Is the threat seen as empty because the dictator knows the corporate executives will cut off the military? Is the threat enough to trigger the cutoff? How might either of those determinations vary if the current corporate executive happens to like the dictator or dislike the President?
-At what level of confidence does the cutoff trigger, both in writing and in reality?
The fact that this is a debate over AI does not change the underlying calculus. The same problems apply to definitions and use of ethically fraught but important capabilities like surveillance systems or autonomous weapons. It is easy to say "But they will have cutouts to operate with autonomous systems for defensive use!", but you immediately get into the same issues and more - what is autonomous? What is defensive? What about defending an asset during an offensive action, or parking a carrier group off the coast of a nation that considers us to be offensive?
At the end of the day, you have to believe that the American experiment is still ongoing, that people have the right to elect and unelect the authorities making these decisions, that our imperfect constitutional republic is still good enough to run a country without outsourcing the real levers of power to billionaires and corpos and their shadow advisors. I still believe.
And that is why "bro just agree the AI won't be involved in autonomous weapons or mass surveillance why can't you agree it is so simple please bro" is an untenable position that the United States cannot possibly accept.
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" NetBlocks, confirmed by Cloudflare. Ninety-six percent of a country went dark. You cannot negotiate with a country at four percent connectivity. You cannot negotiate with a country that is being struck. You cannot negotiate. This is not a political opinion. This is a logistics assessment.
Cyber attacks went against civilian infrastructure. The reason is after the cyber attack that particular network is unreliable.
They didn't hit Iranian military internet infrastructure because they want to know what is going on.
Iran launched retaliatory missiles toward US bases in the Gulf.
Iran is using penetration aides with great success. Cheap effective against Patriot systems, probably something they learned from the Russians.