Jennifer Moore 😷

"... the question almost nobody was asking, is not about Claude or any language model. It is a bureaucratic question about what happened to the kill chain, and the answer is Palantir. ...

"The target package for the Shajareh Tayyebeh school presented a military facility. ... This package looked like every other package in the queue. But outside the package, the school appeared in Iranian business listings. It was visible on Google Maps. A search engine could have found it. Nobody searched. At a thousand decisions an hour, nobody was going to. ...

"Someone decided to build a system that produces a thousand targeting decisions per hour and call them high-quality. Someone decided to start this war. Several hundred people are sitting on Capitol Hill, refusing to stop it. Calling it an “AI problem” gives those decisions, and those people, a place to hide."

- Kevin Baker, "Kill Chain"
https://artificialbureaucracy.substack.com/p/kill-chain

#war #death #tech #systems #narratives
#bureaucracy #SoCalledAI #Claude #Maven #Palantir

This theory/forecast from @amillefolium@kolektiva.social seems plausible to me:

@amillefolium@kolektiva.social

#AgeVerification

Good thread about how harassment on the Fediverse works, and why you might not have seen it yourself if you aren't the target.
@dave@alvarado.social

#Fediverse #moderation

Excellent analysis in the article linked here -

"If you thought the speed of writing code was your problem - you have bigger problems"

And some comical turns of phrase as well :-)

https://andrewmurphy.io/blog/if-you-thought-the-speed-of-writing-code-was-your-problem-you-have-bigger-problems

Link shared here earlier by @RuthMalan@mastodon.social - thanks!
(I don't know if Andrew Murphy the author is on Fedi?)

#software #teams #LLMs #TheoryOfConstraints

"Starmer and his team knew that these policies and the rhetoric that accompanied them – remember his “island of strangers” speech – would alienate many of Labour’s traditional voters. But he made a calculation that it wouldn’t matter, because those voters had nowhere else to go. In 2023, Starmer said “if you don’t like the changes we have made … you can leave”, and it’s fair to say people have really taken him up on the offer."
- Zack Polanski in the Guardian

That's pretty much how I see it too. Labour took our votes for granted and now they're at the "find out" stage.

Hoping the swing continues, because getting stuck half-way would be a gift to Reform.

Would be nice to see a few more L-to-Green transitions from MPs, candidates and councillors at some point, as well. I'm sure a few of them must have been giving it consideration, looking at how Labour's "austerity" policies have drifted from its roots over the years, and how much the Greens are now the ones speaking up about work/money fairness. (let alone all the other stuff.)

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/07/predict-green-party-wave-zack-polanski-local-elections-byelection-win

#GreenParty #LabourParty #ZackPolanski #KeirStarmer #UKPol

Time and headspace are really different things aren't they? You can have _time_ for something, theoretically, and still not have enough headspace to actually load it into your brain. If you're me that is :-)