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  1. I'm quite certain the #NavySeals assigned to #SealTeamSix have some thoughts about the naming of this "team of elite private sector businessmen"

    "The Department of Defense launched a team of elite private sector businessmen tasked with handling and approving defense contractor negotiations, aimed at fixing the former “broken Pentagon bureaucracy.”

    "Dubbed “Deal Team Six,” the crew is tasked with creating better deals with defense companies to ensure their production of U.S. military equipment is not at the expense of the taxpayer, but that of the contractor, according to a Thursday social media video posted by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth."

    #DealTeamSix #USMilitary #DepartmentOfDefense #DOD #DepartmentOfWar #DOW #PeteHegseth

    militarytimes.com/news/pentago

  2. "The Department of War has announced that it's published "never-before-seen files" of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) on a new government webpage, and plans to add material on a "rolling basis." Some Pentagon UAP footage was declassified during President Donald Trump's first term, but this new page appears to be the results of a February Truth Social post from Trump calling on the DOW and related agencies "to begin the process of identifying and releasing Government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), and unidentified flying objects (UFOs)."

    #UFOFiles #UAP #UFO #DepartmentOfDefense #DOD #DepartmentOfWar #DOW

    engadget.com/2168147/departmen

  3. PENTAGON FORMALLY SEEKS WAR DEPARTMENT MONIKER, $52 MILLION PRICE TAG

    The Pentagon wants to change its name to the Department of War. This will cost $52 million and change 7,600 laws. It affects military leaders and Congress.

    #PentagonNameChange, #DepartmentOfWar, #MilitarySpending, #CongressDebate, #USPolitics

    newsletter.tf/pentagon-war-dep

  4. The #USDDoD, then #DepartmentofWar, owned the land on both sides of the strait and had to allow construction of the #GoldenGateBridge from #SF to #Marin Counties. While it appears and often depicted as red, it's an orange vermilion called "International orange." #photography #americana #wa #california #infrastructure #californication #canon80d #colorphotography #bwphotography #travel #photos #trivia

  5. Just had a thought:

    My mom taught for & retired from DoDDS in Germany.

    That stands for Department of Defense Dependent Schools. Her students were kids of US military members stationed in the Darmstadt & Wiesbaden areas.

    So...now that the DOD has been renamed...shouldn't the department overseeing these schools all over the world also be renamed?

    DoWDS.
    Department of War Dependent Schools.

    😑

    #DoDDS
    #DepartmentOfWar
    #DepartmentOfDefense
    #ArentAllUSAmericanSchoolsDependentOnWar 🫩
    #TrumpSucks

  6. RE: social.lansky.name/@hn100/1162

    «…The record supports an inference that Anthropic is being punished for criticizing the government’s contracting position in the press. In their announcements, the President and Secretary Hegseth called Anthropic “out of control” and “arrogant,” describing its “sanctimonious rhetoric” as an attempt to “strong-arm” the government. The Department of War’s records show that it designated Anthropic as a supply chain risk because of its “hostile manner through the press.” Punishing Anthropic for bringing public scrutiny to the government’s contracting position is classic illegal First Amendment retaliation.…»
    —United States District Court, Northern District of California

    The referenced post has links to both the court ruling and ycombinator discussion.

    #AI #law #Anthropic #AI #DepartmentOfWar #FreeSpeech #HackerNews

  7. "Some of the frivolous September purchases made under Secretary Pete Hegseth’s stewardship include a $98,329 Steinway & Sons grand piano for the Air Force chief of staff’s home, $5.3 million for Apple devices such as the new iPad, and an astronomical amount of shellfish, including $2 million for Alaskan king crab and $6.9 million worth of lobster tail."

    newrepublic.com/post/207555/pe

    #wiskeypete
    #hegseth
    #departmentofwar

  8. Here we go. #Anthropic sues the Government for labeling it a security risk out of animus. #WilmerHale, one of the #LawFirms that stood up to #Trump's bullying #ExecutiveOrders now gets paid to explain again that the government doesn't get to have hurt feelings.

    Anthropic PBC v. U.S. Department of War (California N.D. 26-cv-01996) courtlistener.com/docket/72379

    Five counts, one theme — animus omnia vitiat:

    Count I — APA / 10 U.S.C. § 3252 — The "supply chain risk" designation doesn't follow the statute or the facts.

    Count II — First Amendment Retaliation — "AI shouldn't autonomously kill people" is protected speech.

    Count III — Ultra Vires / Article II — No law lets a President destroy a company by social media post.

    Count IV — Fifth Amendment Due Process — You can't de facto debar someone with no notice, no hearing, no findings.

    Count V — APA § 558 — Agencies can't impose sanctions outside their delegated authority.

    The Trump Administration had a temper tantrum and said "You're not the boss of me, I'm the boss of you. I'll end you!". Anthropic points out that animus is no substitute for #RuleOfLaw.

    So why did they sue #Hegseth's #DepartmentOfWar rather than the statutory #DepartmentOfDefense? Because Trump authorized the name, because it shows respect to #Hegseth's sensitive feelings, and because it underscores the ridiculousness of the government tasking #AI to kill (and surveil) people autonomously. #skynet! On the off-chance the judge orders a caption change, their hands are clean and the lawyer's can't point to any act of defiance.

    gizmodo.com/anthropic-official

  9. @AkaSci

    "The defense sec appears unable to approach matters of life and death with even the slightest bit of reverence or humility."

    Necessary edit:

    ""The #DefenseSec appears to be little more than an uncloseted #Ammosexual who takes raw erotic delight in his own pornographic narratives of death.

    His enemies' death, always at his own remote hands."

    #KineticStrike #PeteHegseth #Hegseth #DepartmentOfWar #DeusVult