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"Not only would Google be unable to fully monitor or prevent Israel from using its software to harm Palestinians, but the report also notes that the contract could obligate Google to stonewall criminal investigations by other nations into Israel’s use of its technology."

We usually think its the state that worries about its liabilities using these products. This report displays the inverse. In sum, everyone (companies too) is worried they might be committing war crimes.

The more I learn about the semiconductor supply chain, the more implausible it all seems. There’s a small island vulnerable to invasion where all the chips are made? And the machines to make them all come from one firm in the Netherlands? Using lenses made by one firm in Germany?

(1/2) Bretton Woods 2.0: The Emerging Architecture of Strategic Monetary Reordering — What was once dismissed as speculative geopolitics has now crystallized into doctrine. A new monetary architecture crafted in think tanks, negotiated through diplomatic backchannels, and

Ok...

Aging well is when both the sensitivity and the specificity of your BS detector improve with time.

The foundational rift in the fabric of America has always been: “Freedom to Impose Virtue” (e.g. the Puritans) —VS— “Freedom to Maintain a Social Hierarchy” (e.g. the Cavaliers)

In human animals, time has softened the senses. They are forgiving. The mind, in contrast, is young. As CM thought, the body still does not trust it. It's neoteny belies a harshness Socrates overlooked, and Western culture is the poorer for it.

Or control strangles all. Its not a balance, its a trade off. Most people see it too late. CM did not.

No tech giant can prevent reality having it's say.

A lot, a lot of people just love being treated like idiots

This isn’t innovation; it’s a hostile takeover of the money supply. Lacking anything resembling serious regulation, stablecoins are neither stable nor merely an alternative dollar payment option. They are a Trojan horse for the privatization of money. project-syndicate.org/commentary/tru…

Maybe just wait for a bit.

Early modern philosophy equates certainty with precision. In epistemology, this results in a bias towards mathematicised models of the mind. Language emerges the best hope for precisely analysing thought. Michael Dummett later characterises the goal of analytic philosophy as the

The reason I know AI isn’t just some passing fad based on an unsustainable bubble is because universities now have deputy executive vice senior provosts of artificial intelligence, and no university would ever jump on the bandwagon for no good reason whatsoever.

“Air power is an unusually seductive form of military strength, in part because, like modern courtship, it appears to offer gratification without commitment” - Eliot Cohen

It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.

"stuck in a house we hate, surrounded by fires we fear more."

Trump is mercurial, weak, canny. Netanyahu took the risk; Trump jumped in with a big bang, mission accomplished. Except, no stated objectives appear to have been accomplished, suggesting it was just deadly political theater, behind which the real forces will continue to move.

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