Picnicker's Almanac
Kevin Beaumont
A US Tomahawk missile hit a military base near a primary school in southern Iran where Iranian authorities said 168 people, including around 110 children, were killed, expert video analysis shows. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg548lyjnyo
chebra@GossiTheDog That's still way too "politically correct" way to say it, giving them too much slack. That missile on the video was part of a salvo, in the same salvo the school was hit. I'm not scared to conclude with high certainty that Donald J. Trump, Pete Hegseth and the soldiers who fired these missiles killed 110 children. I'm certain of it. I do blame them. I will not forget.
pL@GossiTheDog and Trump is saying maybe Iran got their hands on a Tomahawk and hit their own school.
I mean it's not even funny anymore
🐦🔥nemo™🐦⬛ 🇺🇦🍉@GossiTheDog I would never, ever work for those freaks…
If Thiel wants to see the antichrist he can look in the mirror 🤢
Vysogota@GossiTheDog I also often reflect how my work at creating the Torment Nexus may be the most meaningful thing I've done in my career...
mbpaz@GossiTheDog Great work selecting a park called "Police Garden" as a bomb target.
Is this the same Matt Welsh who wrote O'Reilly's "Running Linux" book in the 90s?
Phil Dissonance@GossiTheDog feels like a distinctly 21st century "banality of evil" when you are not just "just following orders / doing your bureaucratic job" but also are personally fulfilled doing so (presumably with flat hierarchies and a fruit basket) and post about it on linkedin?
J.P. Stewart
JackMexIf the “problem” you are solving is certain people inhabiting certain land, you are evil.
fuzzyfuzzyfungus@GossiTheDog Is this the nerd equivalent of The Most Dangerous Game? People get tired of targeting ads and fluffing VC bait; decide to move up to targeting humans for the excitement?
🇺🇦 haxadecimal 🚫👑@GossiTheDog
If one is OK with doing work that is evil in nature, one might as well go all in. There's no glory in being the Diet Coke of evil.
If one is OK with doing work that is evil in nature, one might as well go all in. There's no glory in being the Diet Coke of evil.
Bill Woodcock
F4GRX Sébastien@woody @GossiTheDog of course.
@f4grx @GossiTheDog
Oh, sorry, my system didn't show me the original post, so I thought I was just replying to the Matt Welsh thing, didn't see the WaPo and BBC articles. Most awful timeline, etc. :-/
Oh, sorry, my system didn't show me the original post, so I thought I was just replying to the Matt Welsh thing, didn't see the WaPo and BBC articles. Most awful timeline, etc. :-/
Simon ZerafaHow little self reflection or empathy does it take for this chap to post this? Jebus. 🙄🤦♂️
kit@GossiTheDog one presumes, with that pride, that ”vague” elides ”preparing the Plains of Megiddo”
Ratanasec@GossiTheDog What a fucking psycho.
Phil@GossiTheDog Will his reflections come to a different result, when he (hopefully) is dragged in front of the Hague?
MrAptronym@GossiTheDog If we get through this, these people should not ever be allowed to live this down,even if no crimes get persecuted, at least this needs to be their only legacy.
prom™️@GossiTheDog USA, losing credibility by the minute and the pound…
DJGummikuh@GossiTheDog I mean, it makes sense. If you were to anthropomorphise AI, education would be its biggest enemy.
mit_scharf@DJGummikuh @GossiTheDog perhaps they where loving people, students, teachers, good friends AND the biggest fear of the USA, all at once.
axel.@GossiTheDog Connect the dots, eh?
LAUREN
Fabrice Roux 
@GossiTheDog incompetent Pete : hey Claude I probably need new coordinates to target in Iran.
Claude : you are SO right Pete 🤩 — here are some coordinates :
27.6’35.676767676767676767“N
57.5’05.676767676767676767“E
Claude : you are SO right Pete 🤩 — here are some coordinates :
27.6’35.676767676767676767“N
57.5’05.676767676767676767“E
jbaggs@GossiTheDog But as long as the machines do it, you can't blame people. (Or something.)
Statanism@GossiTheDog
Trump learns about humane behavior from his best friend, Putin
Trump learns about humane behavior from his best friend, Putin
O'Schell@GossiTheDog It didn't have "Vibe bombing" in my bingo for 2026...
Magnus Ahltorp@OSchell @GossiTheDog Israel has been doing it for at least 2024 and 2025, so the US doing it shouldn’t be that surprising.
VessOnSecurity@GossiTheDog Do we really know who hit the school? Was it the USA because the AI hallucinated a target, or was it Israel because they don't give a fuck?
hiphopheaven@bontchev @GossiTheDog probably israel they are the one who love killing children and bombing schools and hospital the most
Kid Mania@hiphopheaven @bontchev @GossiTheDog
"probably israel they are the one who love killing children and bombing schools and hospital the most"
🙈 🙉 🙊
You Sure About That...?
"probably israel they are the one who love killing children and bombing schools and hospital the most"
🙈 🙉 🙊
You Sure About That...?
@clintruin @bontchev @GossiTheDog if it was israel they would have killed those kids. There is the tantura documentary where a zionist was laughting talking about raping a 16 year old and the doc takled about executing families including kids
@hiphopheaven @bontchev @GossiTheDog
Sure...but you're deluded if you think the Americans are any better.
Sure...but you're deluded if you think the Americans are any better.
@hiphopheaven @bontchev @GossiTheDog
...and I'll add they are currently working in consort...as they've been since the inception of Israel. And...strangely enough...the only thing Biden and Trump were in lockstep on was the destruction and murder in Gaza.
...and I'll add they are currently working in consort...as they've been since the inception of Israel. And...strangely enough...the only thing Biden and Trump were in lockstep on was the destruction and murder in Gaza.
@clintruin @bontchev @GossiTheDog no official used such a deranged verse as Netanyahu used
Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.
I truly believe israel is worse when it come to deliberate murder of children but it do not change much both countries are the most terrorist countries in the world. It is like debating Hitler vs Stalin
@hiphopheaven @bontchev @GossiTheDog
" It is like debating Hitler vs Stalin"
Accurate.
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BBwww.anthropic.com/news/statement-department-of-war
"Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"
someone sent me this last week to prove anthropic is not like other ai companies because it's "ethical"...
cc: @NicholasLaney
Cogito ergo mecagoendios@GossiTheDog I can almost picture the anthropic tech employee: "I was just following orders and doing my job. The statistical model predicted with 99% accuracy the targets that would have been bombed by human decision makers in past wars according to data".
refraction 
@elrohir training it on data from bombings on Germany in WW2 and bombing every town that is in reach
@elrohir "couldn't find our primary target, saw a church tower so we bombed around there."
@elexia That's the thing with this entire AI nonsense. It does reward-hacking by following LITERALLY its training reward function. It feels like everyone involved has never heard of the cautionary tale of the Monkey Paw Wish.
galar@GossiTheDog This is one of the most dystopic news I ever read.
xs4me2A war crime in an illegitimate war.
Rastal@GossiTheDog The precedent for killing children with precision strikes was set in #palestine
sigi714@GossiTheDog A little bit of hallucination was accepted for a quick success 🤷♀️
Andrew Golding@GossiTheDog "smart" bombs all over again.
Simon B@huronbikes @GossiTheDog now its slop bombs
Nadru@GossiTheDog no, no, no attacking schools is intentional in Israeli warfare
Mello@GossiTheDog ffs, no one needs a goddamn war
mehron@GossiTheDog Not bombing children would be “woke warfare.”
trainguyrom@GossiTheDog won't somebody please think of the shareholders!
François @Jura@GossiTheDog pity AI did not suggest Mar-a-Lago