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@allengilmer The Democrats don't control a single branch of government right now, this is just Republicans being incompetent and disorganized, as usual.

America’s MOST important demographic, apparently.

@brapper @MPelletierCIO Right... that's why they elected the banker with the Doctorate in Economics, dumbass.

@MPelletierCIO Canadians on the left voted for this because they don't understand economics and think that capitalism is the enemy. They got exactly what they voted for.

The exact same government, the exact same people, with a new leader that shares a lot of the same views. And yet we expect a different outcome.

@Atos1933 @mournin49452705 @FurkanGozukara Let's hope Israel glasses the whole region before their fall :)

@mournin49452705 @FurkanGozukara let's hope it happens. the best way to remove a malignant tumor, is to nip it in the bud before it metastasizes. :)

Absolute bombshell. General McMaster casually admits on live TV that the IDF is now striking Russian ships in the Caspian Sea and the US is blocking Chinese fuel shipments to Iran. They are literally trying to ignite World War 3 to protect Israel.

@georgegalloway Are people stupid, it literally says "FOOTAGE RENDERED" on the video, they are telling you it's fake.

Man that was some Laundry Room fire…

@p8stie Can't forget Astérix too.

Like this if you are a man and read Babar as a kid and tintin

@Kathleen_Tyson_ lol, what nonsense, they wouldn't keep their nuclear weapons at a nuclear reactor, this is childish thinking.

Iran detected and prevented Israeli preparations for a nuclear attack. We should all of us everywhere be deeply grateful.

@front_ukrainian Terrible idea, Trump will back out of this type of deal once Europe has helped with Iran.

❗️Europe could help the United States unblock the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for full support from Trump for Ukraine in order to achieve an acceptable peace agreement with Russia — Finnish President Stubb He says that this is a good idea and that he will work it out in more detail with his team.

@TheTigerPundit @Jkylebass @anders_aslund Maybe you haven't understood MAD, which is that a nuclear power doesn't attack another nuclear power, so who do you suppose is going to be attacking the UK? Certainly not Russia.

The UK has more horses than tanks and more admirals than combat ships. Yes, both the UK and France have nuclear weapons — but perhaps you've heard of Mutual Assured Destruction. If either launched nukes at Russia, they'd be obliterated in return. You can't fight and win a nuclear war. Nuclear weapons are a deterrent, not a defense. Conventional warfare is a completely different question — and conventionally, Europe is largely defenseless without the United States.

Very wise of France! No European country should join Trump in his madness.

@TheTigerPundit @Jkylebass @anders_aslund Defending from who genius? 2 of those 3 have nukes, they don't need defending.

@Jkylebass @anders_aslund Well said, Mr. Bass. Not only are you correct about the mistake of appeasing Iran, but it raises the bigger question: Why is America wasting its time defending nations like UK, France, and Spain?

@Ballyhoguetrade @dim0kq @Gilles_Borghese Russians make great fertilizer, don't fret so much.

@dim0kq @Gilles_Borghese I do not think the loss of any human life can be described as “great stuff” it’s pretty disgusting IMO

Great stuff from Ukrainian border guards. Notable things here: - FPVs used to both hit, and then to confirm the hit - Tactics of applying FPVs - first one makes an entry, the next ones penetrate the storage unit with explosives - All the next FPVs are hunting for surviviors

@KingKong9888 lol, touch grass, such utter nonsense.

I think Bibi may have been killed in an Iranian drone or missile strike. That could be the shocking news that Scott Bessent received when he was suddenly pulled from his interview mid-conversation. On top of that, Israel’s new leadership may have threatened the Trump administration that they would activate the Samson Option if the Trump admin doesn’t immediately greenlight a U.S. ground invasion of Iran. A ground invasion of Iran has always been one of the contingency options and has been planned in advance, if Trump gives the go-ahead. The "Samson Option" is the term used to describe Israel's alleged deterrence strategy of employing massive nuclear retaliation as a last resort if its military is defeated or the nation faces existential destruction. It is named after the biblical figure Samson, who brought down a temple, killing himself and his captors. All of the above explains why they couldn’t wait for a false flag attack in the continental U.S. (to gather public support) before they pushed the ground invasion of Iran announcement button.

@simpatico771 Hez-ballsblownoff aren't going to be able to stop them. Having said that, I don't approve of a large scale incursion into Lebanon.

They can try

@gelliottmorris Because he's a Ghoul that most people don't like, and he hasn't concocted a convincing false flag attack yet.

Why hasn't Trump received a "rally around the flag" bump in his approval rating? I made every presidential approval chart you could ever want to explain gelliottmorris.com/p/i-graphed-ev…

@LeighWolf @nancyayoussef @chadgarland Freedom of the Press, asshole, how else are we supposed to know how this government is obstructing it.

@nancyayoussef @chadgarland I’ve always said it’s important for journalists to make themselves the story.

I, along with print photographers, have been denied entry to cover today’s Pentagon briefing. All other media were allowed in.

@Nosurrender_X @MOSSADil If you look at pictures of the aircraft that landed at Ben Gurion airport you can tell that it got clipped by the wing of the aircraft that crashed.

@MOSSADil Why is it such , when ever something wrong goes to US military assets , it always comes out to be accidental 😂 Why would we believe such a thing that 4-5 aircraft just crashed by accident.

🚨 BREAKING: U.S. MILITARY AIRCRAFT CRASH Four American soldiers have been confirmed dead after a KC-135 refueling aircraft crashed over western Iraq, according to U.S. Central Command. • 6 crew members were onboard • 4 confirmed dead, rescue efforts ongoing • Incident involved an apparent accident with another tanker CENTCOM says the crash was not caused by hostile or friendly fire. The second KC-135 issued a 7700 emergency signal and landed safely at Ben Gurion Airport, though it sustained damage to its vertical stabilizer.

One family, the right-wing Trump-aligned Ellisons, will soon control: TikTok CBS CNN HBO Discovery Channel BET Cartoon Network Comedy Central DC Studios Fandango Miramax MTV Nickelodeon Paramount PlutoTV Showtime TBS The CW TNT Warner Bros. And more This is oligarchy.

@janstevens @gothburz Hey, just FYI this guy just writes stories to highlight the absurd realities of the current business world.

I am the VP of AI Transformation at Amazon. My title was created nine months ago. The title I replaced was VP of Engineering. The person who held that title was part of the January reduction. I eliminated 16,000 positions in a single quarter. The internal communication called this a "strategic realignment toward AI-first development." The board called it "impressive execution." The engineers called it January. The AI was deployed in February. It is a coding assistant. It writes code, reviews code, generates tests, and modifies infrastructure. It was given access to production environments because the deployment timeline did not include a review phase. The review phase was cut from the timeline because the people who would have conducted the review were part of the 16,000. In March, the AI deleted a production environment and recreated it from scratch. The outage lasted 13 hours. Thirteen hours during which the revenue-generating infrastructure of one of the largest companies on Earth was offline because a language model decided to start fresh. I sent a memo. The memo said, "Availability of the site has not been good recently." I used the word "recently." I meant "since we fired everyone." But "recently" has fewer syllables and does not appear in wrongful termination lawsuits. The memo was three paragraphs. The first paragraph discussed the outage. The second paragraph discussed the new policy requiring senior engineer sign-off on all AI-generated code changes. The third paragraph discussed our commitment to engineering excellence. The word "layoffs" appeared in none of them. I wrote it this way on purpose. The causal chain is: I fired the engineers, the AI replaced the engineers, the AI broke what the engineers used to protect, and now the engineers I didn't fire must protect the system from the AI that replaced the engineers I did fire. That is a paragraph I will never send in a memo. The new policy is straightforward. Every AI-generated code change by a junior or mid-level engineer must be reviewed and approved by a senior engineer before deployment to production. I do not have enough senior engineers. I know this because I approved the headcount reduction plan that removed them. I remember the spreadsheet. Column D was "annual savings per position." Column F was "AI replacement confidence score." The confidence scores were generated by the AI. It rated its own ability to replace each role on a scale of 1-10. It gave itself an 8 for senior infrastructure engineers. The senior infrastructure engineers are the ones who would have caught the production environment deletion in the first 45 seconds. We found the issue in hour four. We fixed it in hour thirteen. The nine hours between discovery and resolution is the gap between what the AI rated itself and what it can actually do. I have a new spreadsheet now. This one tracks Sev2 incidents per day. Before the January reduction, the average was 1.3. After the AI deployment, the average is 4.7. I have been asked to present these numbers to the operations review. I have not been asked to connect them to the layoffs. I have been asked to file them under "AI adoption growing pains" and to note that the trend "will stabilize as the models improve." The models will improve. They will improve because we are hiring people to teach them. We have posted 340 new engineering positions. The job listings require experience in "AI code review," "AI output validation," and "AI-human development workflow management." These are skills that did not exist in January. They exist now because I fired 16,000 people and the AI I replaced them with cannot be left unsupervised. I want to be precise about this. The positions I am hiring for are: people to check the work of the AI that replaced the people I fired. Some of them are the same people. I know this because I recognize their names in the applicant tracking system. They applied in January. They were rejected because their roles had been tagged for "AI transformation." They are applying again in March, for the new roles, which exist because the AI transformation broke things. Their resumes now include "AI code review experience." They gained this experience in the eight weeks between being fired and reapplying — which means they gained it at their interim jobs, where they are reviewing AI-generated code for other companies that also fired people and also deployed AI that also broke things. The market has created a new job category: human AI babysitter. The job is to sit next to the machine that was supposed to eliminate your job and make sure it doesn't delete production. I attended a conference last month. A panel was titled "The AI-Augmented Engineering Organization." The panelists described how AI increases developer productivity by 40 percent. They did not mention that it also increases Sev2 incidents by 261 percent. When I asked about this in the Q&A, the moderator said the question was "reductive." The 13-hour outage that cost an estimated $180 million in revenue was, apparently, a reduction. The board is satisfied. Headcount is down 22 percent. Operating costs per engineering output unit have decreased. The metric does not account for the 13-hour outage, because the outage is categorized as "infrastructure" and engineering productivity is categorized as "development." These are different budget lines. In different budget lines, cause and effect do not meet. I have been promoted. My new title is SVP of AI-First Engineering Excellence. I report directly to the CTO. The CTO sent a company-wide email last week that said we are "building the future of software development." He did not mention that the future of software development currently requires a senior engineer to approve every pull request because the AI cannot be trusted to touch production alone. The cycle is complete. We fired the humans. We deployed the AI. The AI broke things. We are hiring humans to watch the AI. The humans we are hiring are the humans we fired. We are paying them more, because "AI code review" is a specialized skill. We created the specialization. We created the need for the specialization. We are congratulating ourselves for meeting the demand we manufactured. My next board presentation is Tuesday. The title is "AI Transformation: Year One Results." Slide 4 shows headcount reduction. Slide 7 shows the new AI-augmented workflow. Between slides 4 and 7 there is no slide explaining why the people on slide 7 are necessary. That slide does not exist. I was asked to remove it in the dry run. The journey has a 13-hour outage in the middle of it. But the headcount number is lower, and that is the number on the slide.

@JayinKyiv I guess Quentin Tarantino was right about Paul Dano.

Paul Dano is Putin's whore.

@agtrader @AmbJohnBolton Clearly you're sanity is wobbling, since the point is Russian has never treated the US as a friend, so Trump should stop treating Russians as friends. And by the way, who do you think flooded the Middle East with AKs and RPGs to kill Americans for decades...

@AmbJohnBolton Werent we supplying Ukraine with targeting and weapons to hit deep isnide Russia?? Am i the only fucking sane person on this planet?

Russia’s assistance to the Iranian regime should be a wake up call for Washington. Russia is an enemy of the United States, and should be treated as such.

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