Urrgh. Ok, I desperately need sleep, and I can't sleep until I get this off my chest. So here goes.

A couple of weeks back I posted a reply about what's effective in dealing with the problem of bigotry IMHO, based on nearly half a century of lived experience,;

https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey/116038706291119626

I don't see myself as the font of all wisdom, and I have no issue with people disagreeing with me. Sometimes they even end up changing my mind (see my posts in the MeaCulpa hashtag).

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#bigotry #bullying

Father faked his own death then his wife carried out horrifying act with their children

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/father-faked-death-wife-carried-36685611

‘Jekyll and Hyde’ abuser left girlfriend paralysed after brutal assault

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/jekyll-hyde-abuser-left-girlfriend-36794270

本日は木曜日　Сьогодні четвер
本日は木曜日（文句用日）。あのセクハラ先輩や、あのパワーハラ上司に思いっ切り文句を云いましょう。
Сьогодні четвер (день нарікань). Давайте якомога більше поскаржимося тому старшому,

https://note.com/poison_raika/n/n4ca979ac2de4

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#today #Thursday #complaint #sexually #harassing #colleague #bullying #boss #live #world #dissatisfaction #stress #daily #probably #two #various #people #aside #week

#AI #nukes #Hegseth #bullies #bullying

"Hegseth Demands Anthropic Let Military Use AI However It Wants—Even for Autonomous Killer Drones and Spying On Americans

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said the company that owns the AI assistant Claude would be punished unless it drops all ethical guidelines.

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Anthropic’s powerful AI model, Claude, is currently the only one permitted to handle classified military data, and the company was awarded a $200 million contract last year to develop AI capabilities for the Department of Defense to use alongside other AI firms.

However, the company’s usage policy prohibits its use for mass surveillance and for the development of autonomous weapons—such as drones that attack targets without a human operator.

These limitations have infuriated the Defense Department leadership. On Tuesday, Hegseth called Anthropic’s CEO, Dario Amodei, to a meeting at the Pentagon, where he demanded 'unfettered' access to Claude without any guardrails.

This goal was outlined last month in the department’s 'AI Strategy' memo, which called for the US to adopt an 'AI-first warfighting force' and for companies to allow their technology to be deployed for 'any lawful use,' free from ethical safeguards.

While it would not be an unusual step for the Pentagon to cut ties with Anthropic, threats to declare it a supply chain risk have been described as extraordinary.

Jessica Tillipman, the associate dean for government procurement law studies at George Washington University, who specializes in AI governance, wrote on social media that the threat of 'declaring Anthropic a supply chain risk is deeply problematic,' as it’s 'generally something we reserve for products that create security risks, and using it in this way undermines its purpose.'

As Elizabeth Nolan Brown wrote on Wednesday for Reason, it 'would mean anyone who wants to work with the US military in any capacity must sever ties with the AI company,” which could deal a major blow to the business."

https://www.commondreams.org/news/hegseth-jawbones-anthropic

#Pentagon #AI #Hegseth #bullies #bullying

"In its fight with the Pentagon, Anthropic confronts one of the biggest crises of its five-year existence.

AI company Anthropic is facing perhaps the biggest crisis in its five-year existence as it stares down a Friday deadline to remove restrictions on how the U.S. Department of War can use its technology or face the possibility that the Pentagon will take action that could cripple its business.

Pete Hegseth, the U.S. secretary of war, has demanded that Anthropic remove restrictions it currently stipulates in its contracts that prohibit its AI models being used for mass surveillance or from being incorporated into lethal autonomous weapons, which can make decisions to attack without human intervention. Instead, Hegseth wants Anthropic to stipulate that its technology can be used for 'any lawful purpose' that the Department of War wishes to pursue.

If the company does not comply by Friday, Hegseth has threatened to not only cancel Anthropic’s existing $200 million contract with his department, but to have the company labelled a 'supply chain risk,' meaning that no company doing business with the Department of War would be allowed to use Anthropic’s models. That could eviscerate Anthropic’s growth—just as the company, which is currently valued at $380 billion, has been seeing significant commercial traction and is contemplating an initial public offering as soon as next year."

https://fortune.com/2026/02/25/in-its-fight-with-the-pentagon-anthropic-confronts-one-of-the-biggest-crises-of-its-five-year-existence/

Man Utd keeper Senne Lammens sends blunt warning to Premier League rivals

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/man-utd-keeper-senne-lammens-36783645

This is my 16th year celebrating Pink Shirt Day, an anti-bullying day that started in Canada. #bullying

https://youtube.com/shorts/CpRj_3nvTFo?si=s7SG3ywEsj1Tw9vf