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 threadNot a Spring OnionMar 8

@futurebird
IIRC, the CIA did something similar during the vietnam war.

They were tracking movements of groups of people (because people who don't stay in place and especially go to places that were forcefully emptied are obviously viet cong).

Turns out, it was often elderly and children returning to where they formerly lived, for cultural reasons CIA analysts didn't care to learn about, like to honor their ancestors.

So the US send soldiers to execute old people and small children, because they were obviously viet cong.

Show threadJackie

@wakame @futurebird

Exhibit A in "ho chi minh was the good guy"

Mar 8 at 3:22pmWeb
Show threadMs. Que BanhMar 8
@burnoutqueen @wakame @futurebird The only thing Ho Chi Minh ever committed his life to was freedom, unity & sovereignty for Vietnam peoples. He spent his entire life, fighting for that. Freedom from foreign rulers. That's why he was/is so respected & honoured to this day.