@GossiTheDog
Wow! A great read with some stunning conclusions for CISOs (keep doing what you’re doing - you are the best defence) and “everyone else”: “The most important thing in the Mythos release is not the model. It is the precedent. Anthropic has established, without discussion and without pushback, that a private company can unilaterally classify a capability as too dangerous for the public, grant selective access to the largest incumbents in the affected industry, and construct a parallel disclosure regime outside any democratic accountability structure. That precedent is exclusivity for abuse. It will be used by companies with worse judgment than Anthropic and narrower definitions of “partner” than the Glasswing consortium. The time to object to the shape of this thing is while it is still being built, not after it has removed all transparency and accountability.

“The model is not the story. A cartel is the story.”

#MythosCapabilityIsAMyth #cartelBehaviour #unaccountability #storiesTold

A quotation from Ambrose Bierce

INCORPORATION, n. The act of uniting several persons into one fiction called a corporation, in order that they may be no longer responsible for its actions. A, B and C are a corporation. A robs, B steals and C (it is necessary that there be one gentleman in the concern) cheats. It is a plundering, thieving, swindling corporation. But A, B and C, who have jointly determined and severally executed every crime of the corporation, are blameless. It is wrong to mention them by name when censuring their acts as a corporation, but right when praising.

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Incorporation,” “Devil’s Dictionary” column, San Francisco Wasp (1885-10-03)

More about this quote: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/81536…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ambrosebierce #devilsdictionary #accountability #bigbusiness #blame #business #corporation #crime #criminality #incorporation #irresponsibility #legalfiction #liability #unaccountability

Bierce, Ambrose - "Incorporation," "Devil's Dictionary" column, San Francisco Wasp (1885-10-03) | WIST Quotations

INCORPORATION, n. The act of uniting several persons into one fiction called a corporation, in order that they may be no longer responsible for its actions. A, B and C are a corporation. A robs, B steals and C (it is necessary that there be one gentleman in the concern)…

WIST Quotations

It heralded a culture of political #unaccountability, in which people who violently attacked #Congress & beat #police officers escaped without lasting consequence. The politicians & pundits who had egged on the attack with their #lies escaped, as well. The aftermath of #Jan6 made the #Republican Party even more feckless, beholden to one man & willing to pervert reality to serve his interests.

#law #Trump #unfit #insurrection #criminal #conspiracy #democracy #Constitution

#AI is the ultimate in #unaccountability.

Pluralistic: Tech's benevolent-dictator-for-life to authoritarian pipeline (10 Dec 2024)

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/10/bdfl/

Pluralistic: Tech’s benevolent-dictator-for-life to authoritarian pipeline (10 Dec 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

An update of human rights and values: pious empty words and massive military and media support when the perpetrators of such crimes are states above international law and human decency. No matter how horrendous their actions

#waronchildren #WestBank #warcrimes #crimesagainsthumanity #genocide #Cisjordânia #unaccountability

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/19/west-bank-children-killed-unprecedented-rate

‘Total oppression’: West Bank children being killed at unprecedented rate

Huge rise in attacks by Israeli settlers and soldiers killed 171 children in year after 7 October

The Guardian

Sometimes I fail, but I want to be a gracious human being despite the perpetual stresses of systemic #heterosexism and #cisheterosexism - and the direct conscious and unconscious face-to-face heterosexism - and I often think "la bave du crapaud n'atteint pas la blanche colombe." 🕊

#2SLGBTQIA+ #homophobia #barriers #unaccountability

@Lacci @mcc that's because the fash know to weaponize the press and broker on the #unaccountability that the #ConsequenceFreeSpeech culture in the #USA fosters...