helsinkiandrew

Does it say that in the full report somewhere else? I can't find that in the text.

I think most people would be surprised if ex senior military Personnel didn't think military spending should be increased.

> These individuals had also been quoted, featured, or otherwise used as commentators in UK media coverage of defence, conflict, or national security issues.

If they are promoting defence spending or plugging their employers products that's bad, but using their experience to comment on the Iran war or Ukraine, or Russian/Chinese Spy networks doesn't seem that bad?

> The US could/can, they're just not willing to undergo the mass casualties it would take to put boots on the ground

It doesn’t matter what the reason, if you can’t do something you can’t do it.

The issue is that once it's in the S&P500, Russel, Nasdaq100 etc indices - everyone with a pension or tracker fund will be buying it without thinking

Matt Levine made an interesting point that the SpaceX IPO looks like a short squeeze/pump and dump [1]:

1. Do an IPO.

2. Sell a small amount (5%) to price insensitive Elon Musk-fans at a $2 trillion valuation

3. Get in all the indexes, because you are huge.

4. Unlock more stock, which the index funds have to purchase

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2026-06-01/the...

He's been wrong a few times, but has been right far more than ONCE and appears to be profitably making decisions. For example:

Short dot.com stocks (55% return), short subprime mortgages (Massive return), long Gamestop 2019, short ARKK 2021, The shorts on Palantir and NVDA are probably still running (PLTR 25% in profit, NVDA 20% loss).

> This is the country where organised marches must have police approval and follow an approved route

You have to notify the police not get approval. They can "impose conditions and restrictions" for safety or to limit the rights of others to travel freely, after which they'll also be somewhat liable to protect you from counter-protesters, or lunatics trying to drive their car at you.

Just about every country requires some kind of advance notice if its not just a few people walking along the pavement/sidewalk and your going to obstruct traffic or block others movement

https://groups.friendsoftheearth.uk/resources/your-rights-an...

> Why do we need AI here?

As several comments in the issue mention, it's up to the developers that contribute to an open source package to decide how they do it. Complaining on an issue tracker (apparently without proof) about AI ruining a piece of software is a form of "Open Source contributor abuse" discussed frequently on Hacker News [1]

https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/929#issuecommen...

> The issue tracker is not a place for you to farm viral social media posts. Either report an actionable bug or fork it yourself. Venting about the developers choices is not productive.

https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/929#issuecommen...

> @II-Paulus-II Stop. You know nothing. You have shipped 0 features by hand. No one has ever depended on your code. You are a finger-wagging "AI wrote this" type in an era where you hide in plain sight coasting on the moral high ground of writing toy projects and scripts from scratch. Can't ship, can't adapt, can't even realize that an issue tracker is not the place for this kind of attitude.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43077833

But they used Floppy disks and data chip thingies for transferring data. If the Cylons were any good they’d have eventually created a self perpetuating virus. Even humans have pulled that off (Stuxnet and Iranian nuclear centrifuges)

Your comparing apples and oranges, the sales figures are national, whilst the fines covered California alone.

There’s state litigation in Texas and Arkansas at least and a national lawsuit

https://iapp.org/news/a/california-authorities-announce-larg...

> Free but not Open Source? Did I miss that?

The miniscript language itself is MIT License:

https://github.com/JoeStrout/miniscript

The Minimicro code doesn't seem to have any license in the repository or code:

https://github.com/JoeStrout/minimicro-sysdisk

Gift Article: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-05-25/the-ai-tr...

> I don't understand why US weapons manufactures are not lobbying harder

It doesn’t really matter if your product is better or cheaper, if the customer thinks that service and spare parts might possibly be withdrawn in the future for political (or whatever) reasons they won’t buy your product.

I don’t know the background to this project, but a nuclear project would likely be very transparent - with public studies on the impacts and meetings for the public to make their views known. It’s far quicker to build a datacenter than to increase local grid and water capacity later.

> The Stratos Project moved forward with far too many unanswered questions around water, power, cost, and transparency.

Gift Article: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-21/samsung-c...

Wasn't the Ptolemaic dynasty (300-30BC) Greek speaking and culturally Greek, presumably the Library at Alexandria had a full set of classic Greek texts.

> President Donald Trump: They kill the birds

I was surprised recently that domestic cats are thought to kill upto 4 billion birds annually in the US (compared with upto 1/2 million by windows and 1 million by 'windmills')

Gift Article: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-20/bitcoin-g...

Those 30 aren’t arrested for just for writing “social media posts” but for possibly “harmful communication including incitement to terrorism and violence, online threats and abuse, and unwanted communication via email and other means”

Of the 90% many will accept their fault and receive a caution or warning

Edit: and none of those cases would involve pretrial remand/jail

Often universities do this, they may own the patent and license it to the company or take a cut etc. Arizona State University appear to do this through Skysong Innovations:

https://skysonginnovations.com/startups/list/

It's interesting they got a lot of funding from over 100 families with autism children:

https://skysonginnovations.com/startups/list/

It's important to remember that there are many Monet paintings that critics don't like, or that aren't 'monet enough'. He painted fast to sell and make money and many think some paintings aren't as finished as they could be. He himself destroyed a number of water lily paintings before an exhibition [1], and again a lot of the work he did when he was partly blind due to cataracts.

[1] https://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28...

But memory is a quite a specialist manufacturing process, they couldn't just send a design to TSMC and get the same quality and cost. It would take years (decades) to create their own factories that might be able to produce competitive memory. If they use a third party to manufacture with existing skills (Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron etc) they might as well just use their designs too (and buy their chips)

But I'm guessing that doesn't work with someone who's been collecting other logins:

> Muneeb had been assembling usernames and passwords—5,400 of them taken from his own company’s network data.

> I've seen submissions get 3 upvotes in the first minute and never another upvote.

Is that people looking at the new page and seeing/upvoting your post and then it falls off the front.

Now upvoted, but it was negative

You can see his terror on his face and the lip trembling at his sudden realization somethings gone wrong at 24 seconds:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6Y2uQn_wvc&t=24s

> But respect the community, and only share what is truly relevant. Save the crayon pictures for your kitchen fridge.

That highlights the problem - its not AI - it's the oversharing thats the issue. Many people have moved from "Sharing whats unusual/interested/excited me" to "What can I share today".

The constant stream of mediocrity drove me away from Facebook (years ago) and then Instagram.

Related: March EV sales up 51% in mainland Europe https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/20/electric...

I think the big difference is that criminal wire fraud depends on a "clear scheme to defraud with intent". Tesla/Musk can argue that they thought they would delivery - They've been making claims that FSD was coming for years and have been slowly making deliveries towards FSD, its just that its harder/taken longer than expected and without a smoking gun (email chains like in the Holmes case) it would be very hard to prove.

They may have committed false advertising or "failed to deliver on contract" but they are civil matters, which could still involve big payouts, but not prison time.

There was a UK TV show years ago that I've always remembered where the presenter tried to buy a cow using Old English with a Frisian speaking farmer in Holland:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeC1yAaWG34