Fellabeas Corpus 🇦🇺🇺🇦

Now that Obama’s poll numbers are in tailspin – watch for him to launch a strike in Libya or Iran. He is desperate.

@sama The same department that randomly sinks civilian boats in international waters?

Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network. In all of our interactions, the DoW displayed a deep respect for safety and a desire to partner to achieve the best possible outcome. AI safety and wide distribution of benefits are the core of our mission. Two of our most important safety principles are prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems. The DoW agrees with these principles, reflects them in law and policy, and we put them into our agreement. We also will build technical safeguards to ensure our models behave as they should, which the DoW also wanted. We will deploy FDEs to help with our models and to ensure their safety, we will deploy on cloud networks only. We are asking the DoW to offer these same terms to all AI companies, which in our opinion we think everyone should be willing to accept. We have expressed our strong desire to see things de-escalate away from legal and governmental actions and towards reasonable agreements. We remain committed to serve all of humanity as best we can. The world is a complicated, messy, and sometimes dangerous place.

Remember that I predicted a long time ago that President Obama will attack Iran because of his inability to negotiate properly-not skilled!

@viral_youtubes @TheMonologist Easy to do.

@TheMonologist Classic American mix-up in London. Tom Cruise, used to US traffic, looked the wrong way (left instead of right) and stepped straight into a double-decker bus's path in Piccadilly Circus. Bus honks, he bolts back embarrassed 😳

@jmil400 Paedo condos.

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@lattice_theory @MaverickS0210 @allenanalysis @laurenboebert You need some sexual harassment training. Seriously.

@MaverickS0210 @allenanalysis @laurenboebert @MaverickS0210 It's actually not. Nor did she report it as such. She seems to be having an amiable conversation. You are not allowed to order her to regard it as something else.

🚨 BREAKING: Lauren Boebert is calling for Rep. Tony Gonzales to resign after leaked texts showed him repeatedly pressuring a staffer for nude photos. She pushed back. He kept asking. She later took her own life. RESIGN!

@PM_ViktorOrban You just don’t want the grift to end.

💶 If the war ends, funding ends. Ukraine’s plan: make sure the war doesn’t stop. 🇭🇺🇨🇿🇸🇰 Thankfully, common sense still prevails in Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia. We will not risk our families’ future by sending € billions to fund someone else’s war. The time for PEACE is NOW.

@USAmbEU Who would choose American weapons now? You can no longer be trusted.

The United States opposes any efforts to incorporate European preference in the EU Defense Procurement Directive. We fully support European rearmament and a revitalization of the European defense industrial base.  However, European preference in the Directive would undermine member state flexibility to make national procurement purchases, hinder European rearmament efforts, create barriers for Allies reaching NATO capability targets, and run counter to European commitments in the 2025 U.S.-EU Joint Statement on trade and Reciprocal Defense Procurement Agreements. Our full statement here: ec.europa.eu/info/law/bette…

@StratcomCentre @screwpootin Oh no. Do it again.

Russians infuriated this morning after Ukraine's strikes on one of Russia's primary missile factories with what appears to be homegrown Firepoint Flamingo missiles, at a distance of 1400km. After Ukraine spent the past 4 years destroying Russian air defenses, one of Russia's most popular military bloggers asks why there's no air defenses..

@Tendar Nothing would please me more than hearing Flamingoes are finally living up to their potential.

The Votkinsk Plant in Udmurtia, Russia, has been struck. There are claims that the Russian factory, which produces Iskander-M missiles, was hit by Ukrainian Flamingo missiles. A fire has broken out. The factory is around 1,400 km (860 miles) from the Ukrainian border.

@latikambourke Or to give evidence.

Beyond cruel and tragic that Virginia Giuffre is not alive to see this year. #EpsteinFiles

@TrevorDav @CasperDahl9 @AdamKinzinger @kajakallas It was terrible last year. And no better this year. What’s hard to understand?

@CasperDahl9 @AdamKinzinger @kajakallas Our ranking is virtually unchanged from last year soo...

She’s the best. @kajakallas one of the few leaders to not debase herself for Trump.

@Elizabe01134208 Ha! I know more about what’s happening your country than you do.

@monomatthew Stop spreading BS. You don't even live in the US.

If you’re viewing Epstein files, you can thank @RepRoKhanna , @FmrRepMTG , @RepNancyMace , and @RepBoebert . And don’t forget those who vehemently tried, and are still trying, to keep you from knowing what’s in them.

@Elizabe01134208 @RepThomasMassie @RepRoKhanna @FmrRepMTG @RepNancyMace @RepBoebert Thank Trump for being a paedophile? Or Bondi for covering up America’s largest paedophile ring? No thank you.

@RepThomasMassie @RepRoKhanna @FmrRepMTG @RepNancyMace @RepBoebert I thank Trump and Bondi as well. You are not always the hero. Remember you are primarily there for the budget and to legislate.

@RepThomasMassie @RepRoKhanna @FmrRepMTG @RepNancyMace @RepBoebert I didn’t have thanking @RepNancyMace or @RepBoebert on this years Bingo card.

@QuiverQuant So corrupt. The lot of them. And liars.

Senator Katie Britt was just asked about her stock trades. She said she doesn’t trade any stock. A screenshot from Quiver was shown, showing the trades she filed. Then she pivots and says that proceeds from her stock trades go to charity.

@Reeseforsure I agree. With YouTube too. No AI content. It wouldn’t be that hard.

There should be a setting to block all AI accounts

@stokdog You’ve even got me listening to them on Spotify now 😂

@jmwind Nice vignette, thank you.

I interviewed Mark Carney for a job. It was 2021. We were looking to bring in a board member or executive who could help us think about entrepreneurship in the context of the global economy. I was asked to interview a guy named Mark. I Googled him. He had a decent CV. In our call after brief introductions, he jumped straight in and said, “I see on Strava that you’re a runner and you live in...” It threw me off a bit. He had clearly done his homework. Borderline stalking. We talked about running for a while. He was good at small talk. He casually mentioned that he runs marathons now and then. Mental note: he does his homework. Also, is he distracting me so I do not get to my questions? I started worrying he would try to schmooze me instead of getting into anything substantive. In my defence, I had done some homework too. I had not stalked him on social media, but I had read several articles he had written. I learned that he leaned strongly globalist and believed that most of our challenges do not respect borders and will only be solved collaboratively. I wanted to see if he could argue against his own position. More specifically, I asked when countries should invest in self-reliance. For context, I explained how, in software, we have learned that purely centralized systems fail in obvious ways. But overly distributed systems fail too, when small issues propagate across too many dependencies. I asked whether societies behave the same way. Are we sometimes too decentralized? When should countries accept less efficiency and invest in more centralization or self-reliance? He smiled. I could not tell whether he thought the question was childish or whether I had annoyed him. Then he broke the silence and said, “This is a great parallel. Give me a second to think about it.” We ended up having a great conversation. That said, it took him a lot of words to make his point. Professional talker. He liked the exercise. I could tell he had spent so long defending global collaboration that he had not fully prepared for this angle. I did not know it at the time, but he was in the middle of writing Value(s), which is essentially an ode to global cooperation. We went over time. It did not faze him. He cared about finishing the discussion. At that point he was improvising, and it felt natural and fun. It was a genuinely thoughtful discussion. I learned a lot. In the end, he did not join us. But we all wanted him to. When I see him in his current gig, a small part of me laughs that I might have helped warm him up. The more I think about that conversation, the clearer it becomes that he probably did not want his current Prime Minister role. Not in the way people want promotions or titles. Some people spend a lifetime preparing for problems they hope never arrive. When the moment shows up anyway, they step in. Not because it is appealing, but because it is necessary. This just happened to be his moment.

@clowndownunder Good point, well made.

Council worker Julian Ingram, 37, was granted bail by NSW Police in late November after being charged with domestic violence-related offences, including stalking, intimidation, common assault and property damage.