Would somebody with the necessary technical skills PLEASE give us a female, Vault Boy style avatar named "Miss Anthropic" to alternately tell us about the future utopia AI is producing for us RIGHT NOW, and update us on how many seconds are left til midnight on the "DoomsdAI" clock that tells us when we should expect it to end humanity.... 😅
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Dr. Jim Ellsworth
I'm a retired, General Officer level U.S. Army Intelligence leader who's been in INFOSEC since the 1980s, when it was mostly mainframes & Novell. Certifications came after, when I was off leading in the PSYOP / counternarrative side of IO, so I don't have any & cannot claim to be any sort of technical expert--but I can still (in sha' Allah) talk intelligently with folks who ARE technical experts & help connect such discourse to strategic outcomes.
I'm also coming onboard as Associate Director of an academic Global & National Security Policy Institute, a Twitter refugee sold on the fediverse as
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Our #AmericanOligarchs can sod ALL the way off with their trinkets and baubles. Pretty sure America's kids would rather have their heads in a basket (and, you know, universal health care, a universal basic income, and a liveable wage). #WhatWouldRobespierreDo
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/19/technology/elon-musk-spacex-stock-anthropic-giveaway.html
From the article: “I told him I didn’t trust him,” Fontes recalled in an interview. “I did raise my voice a little bit, because I’m frustrated — very frustrated — that they would have the temerity to come in, clear the entire deck of competent professionals, stop supporting the states, eviscerate the coordination efforts that they had and then suddenly come in and say: ‘Oh, we’re from the federal government. We’re here to help.’”
https://www.propublica.org/article/cisa-election-security-donald-trump
ProPublicaThis Cybersecurity Agency Is Supposed to Protect U.S. Elections. Officials Fear It’s Been Compromised by Trump.DHS appointees made an unusual request of its agency that protects election systems: Secretly acquire a voting machine and hack it. Though not acted on, the request shows how the Trump administration has tried to use the agency for its own ends.