#militarism — Public Fediverse posts
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"While American tech billionaires fret over the capabilities of Chinese AI, one national security advisor has a brilliant idea to flatten the competition: simply bomb their data centers to smithereens.
In a new report titled “Superpowers and AGI,” former Obama-era national security official Jacob Stokes calls for United States to begin preparing readiness drills in response to Chinese AI development — up to and including military strikes on the nation’s data centers, the South China Morning Post reported.
AGI, or artificial general intelligence, refers to the theoretical point at which an AI model achieves human, or superhuman, levels of reasoning and intelligence. Though the science is still out on whether such a system is even possible, Stokes’ report begins from the assumption that AGI is inevitable, and that if the US can’t get to it first, its military needs to prepare to take drastic action.
Referring to the US as a hypothetical “laggard state” behind China’s achievement of AGI, Stokes — now the deputy director of the Indo-Pacific Security Program at the Center for a New American Security, a prominent DC think tank — writes that the country could “try to sabotage the leading state’s AGI systems, either through physical infiltration or offensive cyber operations; that is, cyberattack.”"
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Trump Allies Use Faith to Justify War as Divine Mission Through Hegseth and Graham
Trump allies use religious rhetoric to justify war, framing violence as God’s will. This analysis exposes the danger of blending faith, power, and militarism.
#antiWar #democracy #evangelicalPolitics #faithAndPower #FranklinGraham #geopolitics #IranWar #MILITARISM #PeteHegseth #politicalRhetoric #progressiveAnalysis #religionAndPolitics #Trump #USForeignPolicy #WarPropaganda https://wp.me/p1OjMZ-oRA -
As Election Nears, Kelly Warns #Trump Would Rule Like a #Dictator
#JohnKelly, the Trump White House’s longest-serving chief of staff, said that he believed that #DonaldTrump met the definition of a #fascist.
By Michael S. Schmidt
Oct. 22, 2024"In response to a question about whether he thought Mr. Trump was a fascist, Mr. Kelly first read aloud a definition of fascism that he had found online.
"'Well, looking at the definition of fascism: It’s a #FarFight #authoritarian, #ultranationalist political ideology and movement characterized by a #dictatorial leader, centralized #autocracy, #militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy,' he said."
Original article:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/22/us/politics/john-kelly-trump-fitness-character.htmlArchived version
https://archive.ph/fSCbl#WeDontNeedThatFascistGrooveThing #CharacteristicsOfFascism
#Fascism #DictatorOnDayOne
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@cjd
In 1971, the US govt took the ideas of Keynes and ran with it. They a gave a big middle-finger to France, by giving them a bunch of paper rather than the gold to pay back the debts the French were owed for backing #militarism in #Vietnam.Since the mid-1970s the #productivityGains started going to those closest to the newly printed money, and not to a shortening work week.
Who is benefitting from digging holes and filling them up again?