myrmepropagandistMar 8

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@hacks4pancakes/116192434654015384

I have been watching this story simmer for several days. I've been wary of it. It fits too neatly into the criticisms and warnings many of us have been raising. But it's starting to look like, yes, they are using an LLM to make critical decisions.

At the same time I have heard parts of speeches from the US Secretary of War.* I have been dismayed by his shallow thinking. It doesn't help that his speeches also sound like they are also composed by an LLM.

*formerly Defense

Show threadmyrmepropagandistMar 8

His speeches sound LLM generated because they are filled with so many cliches and empty sentences. And because they sound nothing like they way he speaks extemporaneousnessly. Of course this could just be a bad speech writer. Or it could be that when your ideas are bad no words can fix it.

The Department of War will not even say if they missed or not. Did they *want* to hit that school? If not the school then what?

Show threadmyrmepropagandistMar 8

Right wing war hawk commentators are saying that hitting a civilian target, a school filled with little girls is "good strategy, actually" we, the soft-handed peace-nicks are simply not smart enough to understand the strategic power of this action.

But, if the Department of war won't say it remains unclear if this atrocity is based on incompetence or dim-witted malice.

update: We can infer that they "missed"
https://shakedown.social/@AAronL1968/116193541496761440

AAron Leckinger (@[email protected])

When MAGA suggests Iran bombed their own girls’ school, ask if they bombed their own hospitals, too. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/world/middleeast/iran-school-us-strikes-naval-base.html

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Show threadmyrmepropagandistMar 8
The events feel unreal but the deaths are very real. This is not a video game. This is not a text adventure.
Show threadmyrmepropagandistMar 8

My disgust for war, for the military, is not the result of being sheltered.

I hate your wars because I know exactly what they are and how when violence occurs it reverberates for generations.

Someone has lost a daughter and with her many of their reasons for living. What grim task will they devote themselves to?

What would you do, Pete, if they killed your family? Do you think you are the only person who loves their children?

I think you must.

Show threadRoger BW 😷Mar 8
@futurebird If "we" can only win by being as terrible as "them", why should I feel any moral imperative that "we" should win?
Show threadJames Widman

@RogerBW @futurebird related: people cheering on the iranian military after they hit AWS data centers:
https://bsky.app/profile/richard.wickedproblems.earth/post/3mgf7hc3vcs2s/quotes

like, they're not only noticing that it is valid & legal to target enemy data centers during wartime; there's also tons of people writing words to the effect of "dear iran, please hit more of our data centers."

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Show threadJames WidmanMar 8

@RogerBW @futurebird i used to think i was anti-war, but really, i was always just anti-aggressor.

When you live in the aggressor country, being anti-aggressor usually translates to political demands to stop fighting. This was true for the u.s.-initiated war in Vietnam; the u.s.-initiated war in Iraq; the 2nd u.s.-initiated war in Iraq; etc.

But this time, i don't just want the fighting to stop; i also want the u.s. military to lose, because a "victory" would mean that evil has won.

Show threadJames WidmanMar 8
@RogerBW @futurebird (to be clear, that's also what victory meant/would-have-meant for the previous mentioned wars; it's just that now i'm more aware of it.)
Show threadRoger BW 😷Mar 8
@JamesWidman @futurebird Also "just because side A are bad guys, which we can all agree on, that doesn't make side B good guys." That falsity is so fundamental to media presentations of any sort of conflict or disagreement that I don't think it's salvageable.
Show threadAlex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UKMar 8

@RogerBW @JamesWidman @futurebird

it is no better than an recent incident in my country where a rapist and double murderer killed a child murderer - but at least both of them were already locked up in His Majesty's Prison and not allowed to affect the entire World..

Along with the rest of Northern Europe we are also constantly unearthing UXO at the coast from World War 2 and having to evacuate whole towns, and amongst our multicultural communities are many traumatised by wars from 1990s to present day who end up getting drawn into criminality and violence as they have grown up in an environment where "might makes right"...