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FOREVER WARS@forever-wars· Feb 26

The Pentagon wants to use Anthropic to go to war with Iran. Why? @attackerman.bsky.social thinks it is using the war on Gaza as a template: www.forever-wars.com/the-scent-of...

But were you seeking to destroy the Islamic Republic, you would want to generate lots of targets, through extant surveillance and analysis of webs of association emanating outward from the regime and in particular the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. You would want to further be able to know where those targets are in pretty close to real time and when they are in undefended positions like their homes. You would want to generate a dynamic map of everyone who represents support lent to the regime, something that sounds to outsiders like "the senior ranks of decisionmakers" but in practice looks more like anyone who draws a government paycheck or provides the government with necessary services. In other words, you would want something like Israel's Lavender, Gospel and Where's Daddy AI programs, which were components of the decimation of Gaza.

FOREVER WARS@forever-wars· Jan 26

“[A] final ruling from the ICJ on whether Israel has violated the Genocide Convention is likely years away, too late to save Palestine, or to arrest a cascading Middle Eastern war,” writes @attackerman.bsky.social. But that is not the end of this story. foreverwars.ghost.io/icj-gaza-isr...

Even without an ICJ-ordered ceasefire, continuing U.S. assistance to Israel's plausibly-genocidal war will speak to the divergence between international law and the U.S.' "Rules-Based International Order", which co-opts international law and replaces it with American prerogative. But Biden, if he chooses to see it that way, has been handed an opportunity to reset U.S. policy. On Thursday, Biden went over the head of his flailing secretary of state and dispatched CIA Director Bill Burns, an experienced Mideast diplomat, to try to break the prolonged impasse over a ceasefire-for-hostages deal. I'm not predicting this, but the ICJ's interim finding and the presence of Burns at the negotiating table provide an opening to pivot Biden's policy toward producing an end to the conflict. But Biden must make that choice.

FOREVER WARS@forever-wars· Nov 9

"My concern is that if 702 survives, the intelligence lawyers will do what they're paid to do: find whatever loopholes and end-runs they can around the restrictions," writes @attackerman.bsky.social about new civil libertarian efforts to reform FISA's notorious section 702. FOREVER WARS Subscribe!