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Secretary of War Pete Hegs... # © • 39m The War Department is once again restoring freedom to our Joint Force. We are discarding the mandatory flu vaccine requirement, effective immediately.

Make this make sense.

Going through my old man’s stamp collection. Found a classic. Make me an offer. Don’t low ball me, I know what I’ve got.

At this point, you could argue that the damage Mandelson has done to Labour over the years by far outweighs the contribution he made to its revival in the early 1990s

I wonder if this is how the romans felt when they realised they couldn’t hang on to Britain?

The sooner the UK finds the money or matches its strategic ambitions against the reality of rebuilding capacity the sooner we can manage the mess that comes with an American Empire in its death throes.

This is a great video essay that neatly sets out the tension between the inventives of content creation and the point of creating content in the first place.

Plus it dunks on MrBeast which can’t happen often enough.

Eutelsat Stock Soars on French Military Backing and Financial Overhaul Eutelsat shares surge 56% YTD, reclaiming key technical level after securing a major French defense

A helpful move for European strategic autonomy in space:

"The French MoD has made a definitive strategic choice, formally selecting [Franco-British] Eutelsat's OneWeb constellation as the primary connectivity backbone for its armed forces until at least 2030."

www.ad-hoc-news.de/boerse/news/...

Dugin pretty clear about the significance of Palantir for the West...

I mean the pope has just expertly explained why constructing our enemies as “social networks” fails so miserably. Shame no one in uniform gets this.

Wait until one of the big tech companies really gets a hold of the idea that they know better than anyone who the real enemies are because… data… and persuade some state they should manage all the violence as well as improve your ux experience

YOU HEARD

the thing about our current moment is that yes, the anti-AI and anti-big tech people are getting very reactive nowadays - but have you seen what they’re *reacting* to?

Which leads back to a question of what precision targeting is for- is it still a question of attacking vulnerabilities or merely a metric from which more serviced targets equals success - which means understanding war hasn’t fundamentally moved on since the Vietnam era body count.

Generating targets is one thing. Servicing them is entirely different.

That mismatch defines the limits of the system as a whole even as it frames the extent of the possible.

And they want more orifices than that.

The president of the United States is bragging about being able to write his own signature.

Yeah but next time what takes over is a super AI trained on reddit and with access to nuclear weapons. So 👍

Don’t be such a damn socialist. The correct answer is be wealthy and dominate things.

*screaming intensifies*

Remember when Rick and Morty was a thing?

Starmer was left in dark about Mandelson’s vetting by two other top civil servants Exclusive: Officials have spent weeks debating whether or not to release highly sensitive information about the affair

Starting to have some doubts about how good the Tsar is if he has this many bad boyars

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

That white chair is surely not to scale?!

a cat is upside down on a couch . ALT: a cat is upside down on a couch .

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GB News headline: GP who asked Muslim woman to remove her veil 'because he was struggling to understand her' is struck off.

Was this GP struck off just because he asked a Muslim woman to remove her veil?

How likely does that sound? 🤷‍♀️

Did he actually ask her to remove her veil 'because he was struggling to understand her?'

Let's take a look at what really happened based on the tribunal reports...

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If U.S. naval blockade persists, Tehran will consider it a violation of the ceasefire and will close the Strait of Hormuz, an Iranian official tells Fars News.

So someone couldn’t get his head around what uranium is and substituted magic pixie dust into the briefing slide?

Wake up babe, we are doing the Protestant Reformation but as farce