It’s claimed that she pocketed all the money that she raised via her podcast intended for Russian military causes in Ukraine. That would be SOP for online Russian assets but might make her remaining time on this planet brief if she took money from the wrong Russians.
I think this fundamentally misunderstands how the Putin mob works. You get to enrich yourself on the back of the Russian people if you’re on the team. Lying about where money goes or comes from is par for the course. Putin doesn’t want a few pitiful donations, the propaganda and misinformation she spread was far more valuable.
Proliferation of AI weapons among non-state actors ‘could be impossible to stop’
The proliferation of AI in weapon systems among non-state actors such as terrorist groups or mercenaries would be virtually impossible to stop, according to a hearing before UK Parliament.
The House of Lords’ AI in Weapon Systems Committee yesterday heard how the software nature of AI models that may be used in a military context made them difficult to contain and keep out of nefarious hands.
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An amusing turn of phrase
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) was more explicit in rushing to defend Teixeira. On Twitter, she proclaimed that “Teixeira is white, male, christian, and antiwar” — that latter claim is unbound to available evidence — which “makes him an enemy to the Biden regime.” Ergo, his arrest.
If Jack Teixeira isn’t a hero, maybe the Jan. 6 rioters aren’t either? (washington Post, archived)
On the American Right, being “antiwar” means that you believe that one particular side in one particular war should not be fighting.
Spanish journalist of Russian origin Pablo Gonzalez, who was detained in Poland on suspicion of espionage in February 2022, was probably an agent sent by Russia’s military intelligence (GRU, which stands for the Main Intelligence Directorate) to spy on Zhanna Nemtsova, daughter of murdered Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, two sources told Agentstvo.
Bump. Sorry, I don’t get to visit here as much as I would like.
Regarding this quote from Vice article,
Sigh, I see why GagHalfrunt said the character name sounds Russian-ish, emphasis on -ish! That’s cause Vice misspelled it. At the top of the page, the name is block printed as TROTSKY or possibly TROTZKY as it isn’t crisp printing. It can’t be coincidence that they used that name, Leon Trotsky bud of Stalin and the Russian Revolution.
Trotsky wasn’t exactly Stalin’s buddy.
Either way is wrong, because instead of spelling out “ts” or “tz” as two letters in Cyrillic it should be one: Троцкий.
Stalin eventually had Trotsky stabbed with an ice pick in Mexico… 
Trotsky left Russia because when Stalin consolidated power, he decided that Trotsky needed to be taken out. They weren’t “buds” after Stalin took power. That’s just re-writing history.
Someone didn’t understand Orwell’s Animal Farm, clearly…
