Windows Central shouldn’t be parroting the U.S. government in mislabeling the Department of Defense.
Especially since the Trump admin already made it clear that they don’t respect preferred pronouns. Why should we use the DoD’s preferred pronouns of Department of War instead of the Department of Defense name it legally has? DoW is just DoD’s preferred pronoun.
Yeah, there are all sorts of ways in which standing up to the administration is hard, but calling something by its actual name should be a relatively easy thing to do!
It’s like it joined a cult and got a new name.
Windows Central should be advocating for return of Windows Phone.
Sam Altman is objectively a bad human being.
Sam Altman is just some fail upward money guy, he’s been eventually removed from basically every prior position he has held.
The more I learn about this guy, the more amazed I am that his staffers stood up for him when he got fired. I guess they just hated the board more.
Anthropic still is scum for being completely fine helping America oppress the rest of the world.
I cannot believe this is what it took for a boycott to go more mainstream. Tell me more about how so many people have no respect for the environment or the artists who’s work they gleefully consume.
“You’re absolutely right! That was a children’s hospital, not a military base. Let’s try that again!”
Actually it’s so they have plausible deniability if they “accidentally” kill a bunch of people that just so happens to be a group they openly despise.
I think that’s way way worse but
The Department of War isn’t a real thing. Its called The Department of Defense. That’s not my opinion either, its officially/legally called The Department of Defense.
Department of War is more apt, however
From DoD tu dud real quick
The fact that the Trump administration can create web sites saying whatever it pleases does not make the name change legitimate.
You’re right. I researched it, and it was just changed 6 months ago by Trump, who claimed the new name “sends a message of victory”
but is still technically named the Department of Defense, as only an act of Congress can formally change the name of a federal department.
Edit: Added info
No. Trump declared it changed, much like Michael Scott declaring bankruptcy. Until there is an act of Congress changing the name, it is still the DoD, and the Kennedy Center is the Kennedy Center, and so on.
I think you missed some news. There is officially a Department of War again.
Edit: I am very wrong.
Only Congress can change the name of the Department of Defense, and not only has it not passed any legislation to do so, but the most National Defense Authorization Act, which was passed after Trump’s executive order, only mentions the “Department of Defense” and never the “Department of War”.
So, no, there is not officially a Department of War, there continues to only officially be a Department of Defense.
Oh, well today I learned. I had assumed that even the world’s dumbest government officials wouldn’t refer to themselves as being part of a department that doesn’t actually exist, but here we are.
Thanks for laying it out for me!
You should also stop using Google products for similar reasons.
I just got grapheneOS on my new phone (it is a google pixel 10, but it is the one that can handle that…) I needed a client to use my gmail which will probably be the last thing I get rid of.
If it’s the sending and receiving part of email, I’ve switched to purelymail (you could pick another) and put it behind my custom domain name. Because behind a custom domain, that’s the last time you’ll have to update your contacts as it won’t be dependent on which email provider you choose.
Searching through decades of old emails I do still use the Gmail account, but I just have to get off my butt to self host a local IMAP server for that.
Mass surveillance for advertising seems marginally more benign than mass surveillance by one’s own government, personally. Though admittedly both are bad.
Edit: I can find alternatives for most of Google’s ecosystem but mapping out accurate bus routes is terrible via OSM/OsmAnd or Organic Maps. Anyone have any tips there?
Mass surveillance for advertising is just gross. I remember a comedian making a joke saying that ‘anyone here in advertising? Please kill yourself!’ Also just because someone got all the info on your for advertising, it doesn’t mean the government won’t get access to it, because right now 4th amendment and other traditional restrictions on government overreach are moot if all they need to do is buy the data from some broker on you. This has actually happened and it was upheld in court.
The precedent for stuff like that is older than you think, but also not what you think. For example some serial killers and serial bank robbers were caught because some homeless person searched through their trash looking for something they can use, eat, or sell (all of these things are legal to do BTW) and they discover things like body parts, firearms, or brand new clothes that also fit the clothes that said criminal was wearing when they did their crimes, and said homeless people reported this to the police.
But I am quite confident that someone who just so happens to stumble upon something vs. a company watching your every move are two very different things.
Or have never used their crap, ever.
No, I don’t think this is correct. There was a time during which Google did great things. Their search engine allowed millions if not billions to gain access to knowledge. They had a positive impact on a lot of FOSS projects. What they were is not what they are.
The tell was getting rid of “don’t be evil” as their motto. Even for a corporation that was a little on the nose.
Agreed. They even refused to extend their services to China because of censure. But that was before, after change of CEO, enshittification started.
Dude the only guardrails are
-
No fully automated killings
-
No mass surveillance
You could literally do anything else, you could automate killing people with a person approving.
Trump booted anthropic because they couldn’t lift these two guardrails. Fuck me
-
nice headline, but wtf is windows central?
A Microsoft-oriented news outlet.
Think similar to MacRumors/9to5Mac/AppleInsider for Apple.
Just the little push I needed to close my ChatGPT account
Since this article, Anthropic’s Claude AI app has claimed the #1 top spot over ChatGPT on both Android and iOS.
I bought Claude premium. I’m not rich enough for $28 CAD a month tho so im only doing one month lol
which is weird because they are not any good either
No AI company is, but they’re better than OpenAI in this.
Yeah instead of arguing over whether Anthropic is actually good, let’s unite around “fuck OpenAI.”
Yea, I can just imagine OpenAI is really struggling with their business decision.
On the one hand, they have multi-billion dollar contracts with the US Military that will make them all fabulously wealthy beyond their wildest dreams.
On the other, they have a handful of individuals leaving that might amount to a few thousand dollars of lost revenue.
Gosh, it must sure have been a tough choice.
The word is yeah, not yea, as in yea or nay. It isn’t a vote. Do people not go to school anymore?
A pedantic critique that offers nothing to the conversation
Anyone stockpiling ai prompt vulnerabilities for when we’ll eventually need them to fight off some deathbots?
This is a nonsensical and unrealistic fear/threat to be putting at the top of your list.
The biggest problems are happening right now not in some 90s sci fi films.
One of those threats is automated weaponry and mass surveillance, but not in the comic relief way you speak about it.
Prey tell the purpose of your comment, Brutus
You take issue with referring to these machines as deathbots? I’m allowed to poke fun at things that will eventually be used to attempt murdering me you absolute anthropomorphic dunce cap.
I wasn’t referring to some far off scenario, more for when this situation happens
I can assure you that not only do I live somewhere where these very things are above me daily, that I’m out here working my ass off in unspeakable ways to prevent exactly the aforementioned sceneario for people like yourself
Direct your anger elsewhere, the energy could be spent doing something useful
It’s a trope that every problem posed by the plot has a solution of difficulty level properly fit to the audience.
A culture of arcade games, unfortunately, has such long-standing effects.
While we are playing a roguelike. With no respawns.
