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Thor A. Hopland

The #ArmsRace of today is #AI. Yes, yes, it's glorified statistical models. Shut up.

There are so many "first to X" races here that it's not even funny. Even the #EUCommission released a statement about it.

We're in for it, folks, and the winner of this race will hopefully be #OpenSource and the consumer - with #NPU hardware being the future of #PC #hardware #trends.

But it depends upon how the general public responds.

Elon Musk attempts hostile takeover of OpenAI…
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Eric Lawton

Putin warns US of Cold War-style crisis if missiles deployed to Germany | Politics News | Al Jazeera

I have nothing good to say about Putin or his criminal attacks on Ukraine.

But this is Khrushchev-level madness by the US.

“The flight time to targets on our territory of such missiles, which in the future may be equipped with nuclear warheads, will be about 10 minutes,” Putin said.

#ArmsRace

aljazeera.com/news/2024/7/28/p

> Russian leader threatens to relaunch production of intermediate-range nuclear weapons if US deploys missiles to Germany.

Al Jazeera · Putin warns US of Cold War-style crisis if missiles deployed to GermanyBy Al Jazeera
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MikeDunnAuthor

Today in Labor History July 15, 1955: Eighteen Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four other Nobel laureates. Werner Heisenberg (shown pictured), of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, was 1 of the signers. A new Mainau Declarion was signed in 2015. This one calls for urgent action on the Climate Crisis.

Part of the original Mainau Declaration reads as follows:

We do not deny that perhaps peace is being preserved precisely by the fear of these weapons. Nevertheless, we think it is a delusion if governments believe that they can avoid war for a long time through the fear of these weapons. Fear and tension have often engendered wars. Similarly, it seems to us a delusion to believe that small conflicts could in the future always be decided by traditional weapons. In extreme danger no nation will deny itself the use of any weapon that scientific technology can produce. All nations must come to the decision to renounce force as a final resort. If they are not prepared to do this, they will cease to exist.

While both threats remain, the nuclear threat will destroy the planet, and life on it, much more suddenly. And the U.S. and Western European powers, including Israel, seem much more prepared to use them than any time in the past. Indeed, in part because of this increasing willingness to use nuclear weapons, willingness to escalate military conflicts that risk nuclear miscalculation, and the rapid proliferation of a new nuclear arms race between the U.S., Russia, and China, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (founded by Einstein and Oppenheimer in 1945) pushed the Doomsday Clock forward to 90 seconds before midnight, the closest it has ever come to Armageddon (at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis it was at 2 min. before midnight). The first paragraph of their current status warning reads:

“Ominous trends continue to point the world toward global catastrophe. The war in Ukraine and the widespread and growing reliance on nuclear weapons increase the risk of nuclear escalation. China, Russia, and the United States are all spending huge sums to expand or modernize their nuclear arsenals, adding to the ever-present danger of nuclear war through mistake or miscalculation.”
thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock

#workingclass #LaborHistory #nukes #nuclearweapons #bomb #nobel#peace #coldwar #russia #china #imperialism #cubanmissilecrisis #ukraine #armsrace #einstein #Oppenheimer #Heisenberg #ClimateCrisis #armageddon

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Tim Moore

Why military spending is not the issue. We can always print money. What we can't do is make more air, water and minerals. And all that printed money that ties up finite human and natural resources can make infrastructure that kills, or be used to heal. Which one do we want or really need?
"The US military uses a variety of natural resources, including oil, minerals, and land:
Oil
The US military is the world's largest institutional consumer of oil, using over 100 million barrels annually to power vehicles, ships, aircraft, and ground operations.
Minerals
The US Department of Defense (DoD) uses 750,000 tons of minerals each year to build technologies for national security, such as body armor and vehicles. Minerals are also used in legacy munitions, such as steel in 155-millimeter shells and brass in small-arms munitions.
Land
The DoD manages over 30 million acres of land across the US, which includes a wide range of habitats, such as forests, wetlands, and grasslands. These lands are home to many threatened, endangered, and at-risk species, including over 500 federally listed species.
The US military's use of natural resources also contributes to significant environmental impacts:
Energy
The DoD is the largest consumer of energy in the US, accounting for 1% of the country's total energy use and 77% of the government's. This heavy use of fossil fuels contributes to the DoD's large carbon footprint, which accounts for 5.5% of global emissions.
Waste
The US military is also a major producer of toxic waste, creating 750,000 tons of waste each year in the form of oil, jet fuels, depleted uranium, pesticides, defoliants, lead, and other chemicals."
#MilitarySpending
#armsrace
#ResourceDepletion
#climatecrisis
#sustainability

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aljazeera.com/news/2023/12/12/.

Renewable Energy Magazine, at the heart of clean energy journalismHow Does the U.S. Military Rely on Renewable Energy? The United States Department of Defense (DoD) is one of the world's largest ? if not the largest ? single energy consumers. Its use of oil and gas for heating, lighting and transportation co...
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소주한잔

Given the context in which this is taking place (ie. likely to be viewed in the context of a regional arms buildup). You'd think that the western media would have some vaguely prominent coverage of this so that you can be filled in on the context when the inevitable north korean response arrives?

Haha, let me know if you can find it with your microscope and tweezers.

AP has it, so let's see if anyone else picks it up...

#korea#NorthKorea#ArmsRace
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RoundSparrow 🐦

With 3 Body Problem getting a lot of attention with the two TV series...

#DarkForest problem is something I believe could happen here on Earth if there is further abandonment of compassion for strangers education. The threat of #DarkForest is the technology to attack remotely and wipe out in #OutGroupHate - and humanity may develop new physics weapons to kill remotely very easily. It is a #FaithSystem value - #ArmsRace of violence / killing.

#RoundSparrowFrustration
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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

#DoomsdayClock stays at 90 seconds to midnight keeping its hands the closest they have ever been to "Doomsday" - but stopped short of nudging it forward.
Clock is set annually by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
Threat of a new #nuclear #armsrace, the #Ukraine #war and #climatechange concerns were all factors, they said. Since 2007, members have considered the impact of new man-made risks such as #AI and climate change, as well as the greatest threat - #nuclearwar.
bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-6

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