> Will they rename the days of the week?

That’s a ridiculous claim.

Trumpsday is steak day in the Central Super Intelligence Agency cantina, how can you not love Trumpsday?

We here in North Devosica, formerly Michigan, fully support Trumpsday and the month of America (formerly July).

Unfortunately the proposed Sepsteinber did not go through.

I disagree. Science seems to support different interpretations as well.

An example.

"AI as your ally: The effects of AI-assisted venting on negative affect and perceived social support" - https://iaap-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ap...

And generations of housewives and office workers yelled at their corded vacuum cleaners and (office) computers, and did not drown their children in the bathtub afterwards.

I don’t think expressing cruelty to machines is reliably linkable to expressing cruelty to animals or even other human beings.

Expressing cruelty itself also is in human nature, it’s programmed into each of us. There are really only a few privileged places on this planet where we even get to choose to defy the laws of nature. For the rest of humanity, life is a constant cycle of receiving and expressing cruelty.

You pay for the compute, you, as a human, should be able to yell at the bunch of ones and zeros, if you wish to.

What kind of example is set here if we manipulate genuine human expression in order to condition humans to talk to a tool in a way the toolmaker wants, under the threat of being banned from accessing a technology that every single one of these toolmakers tells us is absolutely necessary to participate in humanity’s "golden age”?

What Anthropic is doing here is basically an existential threat, if you are inclined to believe them that SI is the future. Do not behave as we want and you will suffer, now and in the future.

That is real cruelty, to real human beings.

I am really tired of this bullshit. I can’t imagine how Zelenskyy must feel.

Ok, the president wants elections in Ukraine, fair point, so the US are giving security guarantees for fair and democratic elections by putting boots on the ground in the contested territories to oversee the election, and nuclear forces on standby to make sure no one drops a glide bomb on an election center on Ukrainian controlled territory by accident, right, right?

Yeah, thought so.

And how surprised he would be when Zelensky would be re-elected.

Or simply someone else who will not sell out Ukrainian sovereignty.

I wonder how all those that would deny Ukraine the right to self defense would feel if it was their country that was invaded and their citizens that were slaughtered.

They don't think like that there is no point.

I wouldn’t worry too much.

Containment in Russia is different from that in China.

They expect stuff like this to happen, and to be fair I think Russia never stopped their bio programmes, and the fact that we are not all dead yet seems to prove them right, that their containment protocols are overall working.

This is not 79' Sverdlosk.

https://meselsonarchive.hsites.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/omn...

The lab in question in this incident has a documented Soviet Biodefense connection.

https://nonproliferation.org/wp-content/uploads/cns-archive/...

But there is no public or otherwise evidence that this is a military pathogen-production plant comparable to Sverdlovsk-19.

The institute’s activities include surveillance of naturally occurring plague in the Russia–Mongolia border region and training Mongolian specialists in plague diagnosis and prevention.

So the handling of pneumonic plague in this facility is probably an everyday occurrence, and not related to a weapons programme.

This is an institute for biodefense, not offence. There was a single person messing up and she paid the price for that mistake.

I understand people are on edge since Covid, but this is not that, or a bio weapon. Just a 28-year-old that dropped a tube by accident and then probably panicked and didn’t follow containment protocol. Shit happens.

Let’s hope she stays the only victim of her mistake.

Sucks to die because of pneumonic plague because a 28-year-old sneezed in the same cafe you get your matcha latte fix.

You're claiming that everything is fine because Russians have procedures in place. Russians. You're appealing for calm based on the trust in Russian competence, after referencing Sverdlovsk incident. It's just too funny.

I am listening, please explain what else would show competence in the regard of biodefense, than that the people in charge of Russian biodefense can and will reliably identify and contain outbreaks of dangerous pathogens in time to prevent a national or even global outbreak reliably, since at least ’79?

If you want to go down the incompetence route with potential weapons of mass destruction, you could also ask why US Americans allow their army to have access to nuclear weapons.

There were multiple recorded incidents where American citizens almost got atomised on American soil (Broken Arrow operations). Not because of individual mistakes but institutional incompetence.

But you see no one fearmongering about that in public. Because they have proven they can lose a nuclear weapon and recover it, without harming the public.

Just like a single young Russian woman can fuck up and they contain the fuckup without harming the public.

There are about 1000 competent people in an army of the size of Russia, China or the US and that’s it.

It’s expected that most soldiers are incompetent, and just need to follow orders, and in ideal case be patriotic enough to believe they sacrifice themselves for the greater good if they get sent on a suicide mission. Russia is no different from any other army in that regard.

But I honestly consider the Russian forces tasked with biodefense and nuclear more competent than most of their other counterparts in other nations. They frequently train and you get hung by the neck if you leave a blast door open to let the pizza guy in.

In Wyoming you get promoted to three-star nuclear doofus in charge if you do that.

Feel free to read this if you want to know more about the people tasked with preventing nuclear incidents on American soil.

I would link the official page on the Air Force website (https://www.compliance.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-1312...), but the Trump administration is silently deleting all of these documents.

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/963093/afd-131219-045...

Just one of the highlights.

[Maj Gen Carey] insists that we go to this place called La Cantina, I think it was... it was a Mexican place. And I was kind of surprised... I wouldn't pick a Mexican place to go to in Russia but all right, if that's where he wants to go, we'll go there.

So we show up and it turns out that I guess he somehow found out that this place had a band that plays and so he was really intent on singing with the band. He wanted to sing with the band. So we get in and it's extremely loud and the band is playing and he keeps asking the waitress and the bartender if he can sing with the band and they want nothing to do with this. And so he kept having our translator go up with him and ask them well can I sing with the band.

[Maj Gen Carey] said, "go ask them if I could play the guitar." I said okay, I, I asked one of the band members and the guy said, no, I mean, you know, I can't do that.

He goes if you really want to play this guitar go ahead and talk to the restaurant owner or the administrator or the manager, the restaurant manager and I didn't feel like doing that because I didn't want to go find the manager so I, told the General that basically, uh, you know, that he can't, he can't play the guitars and then he said, well try again, so I asked him to get up and we both stood next to this rock band and watched them up close.

I was hoping to keep his interest in doing so and, uh, he, um, and then I said, listen if you really want to play the guitar maybe if you ask him, you know, um, maybe they'd listen to you more than would to me. And I'm not sure if he asked him or not because I, I, you know, I, I sat back down at the table, but he stood there for a while in front of this band and then he came back to the table a little later also, he came back later and sat down also, and said well, no they won't let me play.

That shit is indeed funny.

There's no need to bring US nuclear forces into this discussion, we're talking about Russian authorities and their competence here.

Sure, it's possible that this one specific force is more professional than the rest, but the bar is low. Soviet Union is the state that gave us Chernobyl after all. For more recent evidence, do check out the recent Russian track record with space technologies - the 2018 ISS air leak incident is particularly telling. Or, you know, the whole war thing that's been going on.

Let me be clear, I 1000% agree that large parts of the Russian government and military are blatantly incompetent. We are on the same side of history, I make fun of the three-day special operation often, and I have nothing but respect for the fight the Ukrainian people put up against a superpower as the aggressor.

Unfortunately, that competence thing counts for everyone else as well. So if you talk about Russian incompetence, we also need to make sure that people understand that this is by design and applied to every military force in existence, and put it into proper context.

This is not about bashing militaries or being American or Russian or European or Chinese, it’s a good example to showcase how the world really works.

If any army becomes extremely competent in executing the best possible outcomes for the people of their country, what keeps them from taking over and getting rid of the layer of decision-making that is causing the most problems?

So the people making their livelyhood from mostly talking about problems and solving them for domestic intesterest groups that don’t necessarily have the best interest of the average citizen in mind make sure they can not be overthrown by their military.

That’s why you see Hegseth dumbing down the force at record speed and Russia is sending the kids of farmers into war and not those of the oligarchs or duma politicians. No matter the color of the pin they wear or what language they speak, it’s all the same filth.

Anyway, a competent military full of competent specialists taking over is what we call military dictatorship, and we tried it often enough collectively that we can confidently say, sometimes the way to get somewhere is just as important as getting there, so democracy and convincing a majority of citizens is better than simply suppressing them.

Because it allows us to think and collectively learn, whereas military decision-making is always a bit backwards and pushes for results at neck-breaking speed.

You cannot apply military optimisation to a healthy civil society. It’s incompatible. Military is a necessary evil, it’s not how the main branch of civil society should work.

If the leaders of the mightiest nations on the planet were competent, we would all live in peace and happily ever after, but conflict is in human nature and incompetence fuels conflict and puts a lot of money into the pockets of everyone who profits from conflict and putting the most incompetent people into the most powerful positions.

Glad we can agree that Russia sucks and hopefully on that almost none of the people in charge of our fate are competent in what they do and we are always an inch away from catastrophic global events.

And that’s why I am now baking some cinnamon buns. Good talk.

I really don’t like Sam Altman, but I don’t think the man is capable of murder or rape (I’ve read accusations of both by now) and to be fair, there is a lot pointing in the direction that this might be a case of extortion or persisting mental health issues even without malicious intent.

Reuters leaves out that both law firms representing his sister retracted from the case, by themselves. When asked for comment, they basically said in lawyer speak that they lost all trust in their client.

She claims she has been abused between 1997 (Sam, 12; Annie, 3) and 2006 (Sam, 21; Annie, 12).

There are two younger brothers in the family as well. Plus the parents, who are a dermatologist and a real estate agent.

So there are either two possibilities.

neither the younger brothers, nor the father or the mother, who is a dermatologist and can see the difference between a bruise on one of her kids from hitting something like an idiot, or a fistpunch, or grabbing onto someone, have spotted any signs of sexual abuse for 9 years.

Or they are all in on it and the Altmans are the Incest Rockefellers.

Unfortunately for the tabloids, the simple answer is most likely the right one.

Both his brothers, just like Altman himself live in stable living circumstances.

According to her Instagram, his sister is an artist, entertainer, and author. A not very successful one.

It’s ok to be a dreamer, my better half is one, but if you ever lived with someone that says of themselves they are an artist, entertainer, or author, you’d know that they are very prone to mental health issues, successful or not.

If you don’t believe me, just pull up that picture of Ben Affleck having a smoke outside after going for a second rodeo with J.Lo. If you know, you know.

I think it’s a price that comes with having a very vivid mind and strong emotional feelings.

Unfortunately, these kinds of people always create a mess when they go off the beaten path, because they are very expressive in nature. If you look at her Instagram, you can see what I mean.

A reasonable mind should come to the conclusion that there is a lot more pointing into the direction that what the family states is closer to the truth than what his sister states. The rest is for a judge and jury to decide.

If she continues this even after two law firms retracting, I doubt she will stop before she’ll lose this case.

And that’s also an indicator that she might not be able to differentiate any longer that what she believes is real, is not reality.

If two different car mechanics tell you you will not survive if you take this sports car on the highway one more time and you go yolo, I know it better than the experts, you don’t need to wonder if you wake up in the ICU without legs and suffer the consequences of your own actions. Causality is a bitch.

You are giving your own answer.

> Sam is a proven sociopath, compulsive liar and manipulator. I have absolutely 0 issues believing he'd kill or rape someone, even a family member.

You are heavily biased, and that makes you construct evidence in your head, that makes it more believable to you that he did what you already are convinced of that he did.

You start with, is there the possibility they are covering for their billionaire son? Sure.

But why, and how would they benefit from that? They all have their own things going and don’t need their brother’s /son’s money.

I also doubt Sam and Annie were indifferent to their parents. She’s the only daughter, mothers are usually very protective of younger kids who are the minority gender in the household, especially in a household full of boys.

They also supported her financially way past maturity, just like they supported their sons. If she was a nuisance, or even a risk, why not just make a hard cut when she’s old enough to live on her own and isolate her?

If you accept sexual abuse in your household for one single kid specifically, isn’t it very unusual to offer that level of support to someone you seem to hate and/or really don’t care for their mental and physical health as a parent?

These are educated people, no methheads.

Then you add another link to the chain and say, well, if they don’t do it on purpose, then they must be in denial he did it.

If it’s not that either, well then the mental health issues must be from being raped as a child.

I am confident you have a bunch more of what you think are valid arguments, but those will also not be anchored in reality.

You’re free to believe whatever you want, even that jet fuel doesn’t melt steel beams. Just doesn’t mean it’s true.

Think for a second, how often is the simple answer the right one, and how many times were the conspiracy theorists right?

This is the only rational stance on this.

It’s the SI race! The emperor has spoken, bow to his word peasants.

https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1wu20hr/q_who_shoul...

I am so disappointed in Sam that they still have not renamed OpenAI to OpenSI. It’s not just very disrespectful of the president, it’s outright unamerican!! /s

What’s most interesting with these statements is always what is written between the lines.

This was very low-hanging fruit, that’s why the assistant director of cyber announced the arrest. Or maybe Ka$h was still hungover from emptying one of his personalised Whisky bottles and they couldn’t get him out of bed.

The FBI works in mysterious ways.

The Dutch authorities themselves do not credit the FBI specifically operationally btw.

https://www.politie.nl/headless-api/nieuws/2026/september/29...

> That's exactly how the best athlete model in the new FBI Cyber Strategy is meant to work: the partner with the strongest authority and access leads.

I think if you throw around intelligence jargon you should explain it to the people you try to address. Best Athlete model is a concept the CIA started using when they couldn’t get any further in the war on terror, around 2007 / 2008.

In this case it basically means:

CIA might have the human source. NSA might have the technical access. FBI might have the domestic legal authority. Dutch police might possess arrest jurisdiction.

So they let the Dutch police lead and if they fuck up they can blame them, while if they are successful they will credit themselves to the operational success, like seen here. Lazy but clever CIA mofos. I love em.

On a sidenote, that concept was put into place at the FBI around the same time by former FBI Director Mueller who was a USMC Vietnam veteran with operational experience.

You might have heard the name from being the special investigator for the alleged Trump/Russia connections or the Lockerbie bombing. Mueller passed this march and served the American people well.

If a man’s greatness is measured in how the enemies of the American people talk about him after his death. I think you did pretty well if Donald Trump publicly states he is glad you’re dead.

So now you know what that term means and where it came from.

> Arrests have a way of changing who is willing to talk, and seized infrastructure has a way of showing us who's left. The longer you stay in this, the more we learn about you. You know how to find us, and we know how to find you. I suggest you reach out first while the choice is still yours.

This is actually the most interesting part. Whatever Shinyhunters stole, it’s important enough the FBI is willing to negotiate with them over it. Past administrations would just dismantle the whole operation and put them and anyone involved in a hole for twenty plus.

But this administration takes bribes in the form of aeroplanes and is pardoning the worst cyber and other criminals to then use them as assets.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the president said if they can bend over the FBI and make them look like absolute amateurs, why can’t they work for us?

And with us, I don’t mean the American people. For ShinyHunters what they did was immature and strategically wrong.

Their egos didn’t allow them to just ignore the FBI and what they consider is an affront of what the group does and why.

But now they dabble in terrorism and that gets people involved you really don’t want breathing down your neck. This arrest is the beginning of the group’s end and they really don’t have any better option than making a deal with the FBI.

I doubt they have a military and/ or intelligence background,otherwise, they would know that even if they gave all the data to a foreign adversary like China or Russia, the kind of protection you get offered is always a lie.

You will end up like Snowden. They suck all the intel right out of you and then they take care of your "safety”, which means you’ll be stuck for the rest of your life in a small flat with all of your activities being surveilled by the local government, and some day you might get extradited for favours anyway, it’s like jail for life with a different-sized cell.

If they are clever they will cut a deal, sit five for show in minimum security, then get hired into the private sector.

No matter how good you think your opsec is, you can’t disappear anywhere on this beautiful planet if the US Government wants you dead or alive. And you all know countless examples that this is true.

And that’s how Benjamin Netanyahu personally planted false evidence on Jeffrey Epstein’s phone about you, after he stole your election, Mr President.