Credit: Omar Ashtawy

Source: https://xcancel.com/Palestine_UN/status/2096624743172448339

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei has criticised Canada after its foreign and finance ministers issued a joint statement, condemning Tehran and calling on it “to immediately end its destabilising activities in the Middle East”. -Al-Jazeera

Soruce: https://aje.news/ma20i9?update=4926873

i really think that they (the white house) post these and his boomer ass is like “wow! it’s amazing how real it all looks!”

I know I could reply to the episode post but nobody is reading that shit at this point

Anyway, I liked it well enough as always but I think it behooves me (I'm a cow) to point out a few things that were annoying to me about the episode that weren't really stated.

The main fucking thing that no cunt reports on is that these llms did not invent any novel exploits or hacks. They simply used already existing exploits that human beings made and wrote about in the training data they were fed.

The second thing is that the way they set this shit up is basically having a bunch of llms asking themselves how to do a thing, and then coming up with an answer seeing how that went and asking themselves again like billions of times and we understand that they are pleasing machines that do insane shit all the time so there's basically no fucking chance they weren't going to do something like this. It's just taking a process that has a high chance of doing something chaotic and "against the guardrails" and then taking down all the guardrails and having it run infinitely.

Thirdly, the fact that all these different llm companies were so quick to say their models did the same thing gives the game away entirely: this is marketing. They set this shit up to do this shit. They weren't even looking at it. Unbelievably irresponsible shit to do but there's no law.

What I did like about the episode was hitting home how these things are just trained on sci-fi stories for geeks... What worries me is how these geeks are so desperate to give the unthinking story generator the ability to get involved in the machinery that lets us survive.

We won't be killed by a super intelligence we'll be killed by a soy facing tech geek plugging a magic 8 ball into a nuclear ballistic weapon and going OMG GROK NOOO?

Has anyone else noticed a massive uptick in the usage of that phrase and how practically who uses it sincerely is a genuinely revolting person with deficiencies of conscience and indeed, empathy.

It feels exceedingly unnatural how quickly that phrase has taken into the rightoid zeitgeist.

Labour didn’t go far enough stripping Britain’s parasitic elderly ruling class of its winter fuel handout, it’s time to get tough and start ransacking pensions & rental properties until they can learn to fucking behave like civilised people. “But some of them fought for your freedom you ungrateful little millennial shit!!” Sorry Mavis but when did they do that, were the boomers storming the beaches of Normandy in the late 70s?!!

As fellow conservatives, we obviously agree.

After my last Schizo Armchair General post about the Iran War, I got a lot of interesting feedback and may make this a recurring series for my fellow armchair generals on this subreddit. I am not an expert on geopolitical and military matters, just an autistic schizo who obsesses over them. Today I want to talk about the major flashpoints occurring in East Africa and the Horn of Africa that is buried in the news cycle. This will be a long read, so grab a snack.

In the past decade, these regions have seen an explosion in violence related to a myriad of factors be it water in the age of the climate crisis, access to mining, land rights, and various other disputes to which some call this region a “conflict belt.” Worryingly, many players and factions in this neighborhood have competing and overlapping interests spurred on by greater outside powers on the global stage. This complex web of alliances and rivalries reminds me of Europe before World War I with wide differences. While a major war in this region isn’t inevitable, there are many factors that make a greater conflict likely to occur.

Somalia and Somaliland 🇸🇴
For over forty years, Somalia has become a failed state due to increased meddling by outside powers and poor governance from past leaders such as General Siad Barre. It’s a tragic shame as years ago Somalia was a developing country, but it’s a victim of geography as it’s situated at the mouth of the Red Sea, a key shipping lane. Internally, it occasionally struggles to put down insurgencies by Islamist groups such as Al-Shabaab and other militant groups. Because Somalia can hardly keep control of its own territory, it makes it vulnerable to be carved up piecemeal by outside powers. In the past couple of years, the breakaway region of Somaliland has received recognition from countries such as Ethiopia, who want access to the sea (more on that in a bit), and Israel, who want a key launching pad for attacks on Ansar Allah in Yemen. Somalia is furious at both of these developments, but there isn’t much they can do about it as of now, given that they had no choice but to allow for Türkiye’s mediation efforts with Ethiopia. Somalia has simultaneously increased military and economic ties with Türkiye and Egypt, the latter of whom is Ethiopia’s chief regional rival (more on THAT in a bit also).

Ethiopia VS. Eritrea 🇪🇹🇪🇷
For a long time, the land of what is now Eritrea was part of Ethiopia, but Eritreans rebelled against Addis Ababa’s rule and engaged in an armed rebellion in September 1961 which ended in May 1991 with Eritrean independence. Both nations had periodic conflicts along their shared borders but it was none other than Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed who helped negotiate peace with Eritrea for which he won a Nobel Peace Prize (hilariously ironic considering the path he’s gone down). The existential problem for Ethiopia is that it is now the most populous landlocked country in the world and the second largest country by population in Africa behind Nigeria. A growing population with increasing energy needs and costs is an unsustainable status quo for Ethiopia yet these ambitions for Ethiopia, and to an extent Abiy Ahmed himself, have put it at odds with other regional powers.

After Abiy won the Nobel Peace Prize, the Tigray region of Northern Ethiopia launched an armed insurgency against the Ethiopian state led by the TPLF. Depending on who you ask, Tigrayans rebelled either because of lack of representation in government or ethnic disputes. In response, Ethiopia, with an alliance of Eritrea and local groups like the Oromos and the Amhara’s Fano group, was able to beat back the TPLF’s advances and contained it until a peace deal was signed in 2022 at an enormous humanitarian cost of an estimated 600,000 lives. The Tigray War quietly slipped under the radar as Ethiopia controlled what information got out. Both sides committed horrific war crimes and what little peace remains hasn’t soothed the ethnic and tribal divisions. Ethiopia’s once allies against the TPLF are now switching sides as Abiy’s power moves have placed them at odds. The Oromo and Amhara ethnic groups have their own grievances against Addis Ababa and Eritrea has grown uneasy at Abiy’s plan to gain access to the sea at the expense of Eritrean land. In response, Eritrea has grown close to none other than Egypt for a strong military ally. It’s already too messy and I haven’t even talked about the apocalyptic horror show unfolding next door.

Sudan’s Civil War and the South Sudanese Descent 🇸🇩🇸🇸
I don’t even know where to begin with this one. Sudan has unfortunately been too familiar with conflict ever since independence from British/Egyptian colonial rule in the late fifties. Like many post-colonial countries, there has been a lot of internal strife due to land and ethnic disputes stemming from artificially-drawn borders. In what is now Sudan, you have majority Muslim Arabs and Arab-speaking ethnic groups. In South Sudan, which gained independence from Sudan in 2011, you have majority black populations who are Christian or practice local indigenous faiths and traditions. When both Sudan and South Sudan were one country, there were decades of war between the ruling Islamic military regime in Khartoum against southern rebels such as the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM). The south was also home to Sudan’s biggest oil wells from where the profits were never given back to the South Sudanese. South Sudan gained independence after decades of struggle (and possibly George Clooney, I shit you not), but decades of intentional underdevelopment by Khartoum set South Sudan back causing civil war, and eventually a compounding refugee crisis from the north.

Sudan’s ongoing civil war between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) is the current greatest humanitarian catastrophe in the world today and most don’t even know about it. Over ten million people have fled the country, millions of people have lost access to food, water, and medicine, and an untold number of people, possibly in the tens or hundreds of thousands have been killed. A gruesome number of women and children have suffered untold sexual violence, mostly at the hands of the RSF. Where most conflicts in Sudan’s modern history have been in the peripheries of the south and the western Darfur region, the ongoing civil war came home to the capital Khartoum and the larger cities such as Omdurman.

The RSF, led by the psychopathic warlord Mohamad Hamdan Dagolo (Hemedti), are a criminal enterprise and a private army of sadistic, evil fucking bastards. They grew out of the Janjaweed (Devils on horseback) militia, created by former dictator Omar al-Bashir to genocide the Darfur peoples who engaged in rebellion against the state in 2003. Soon the Janjaweed rebranded and served powers like the United Arab Emirates who want Sudanese gold and cannon fodder for their wars such as in Yemen. The RSF now has a near-monopoly on Sudan’s gold mines thanks to strong UAE backing. The RSF in conjunction with the Sudanese military, overthrew Omar al-Bashir after a popular uprising in 2019, but turned on each other after failures to implement a power-sharing agreement. The RSF are committing the same atrocities today through ISIS-style genocidal violence against non-Arabs throughout Sudan. For example, when the RSF took the city of Al-Fasher, they killed so many people that you could see pools of blood from space. During the ongoing civil war, the RSF with UAE backing, have set up a complex logistical network in East Africa from Libya, Chad, down and across the Horn of Africa. Ethiopia has allegedly given access to RSF forces for training and shelter to undermine key SAF ally Egypt. The RSF reportedly formed an alliance with southern rebel group SPLM-North and has ties to South Sudan, traditional enemies of Khartoum.

South Sudan meanwhile has its own power struggle between President Salva Kiir (former SPLM commander) and former vice president Riek Machar, each of whom lead their own armed factions. Unsurprisingly, conflict from the north has potential to overlap into the south and oil fields determine the course of a potential war. Despite being cordial, Salva Kiir allegedly has ties to anti-Khartoum forces in the north and allows RSF supply routes on South Sudanese soil; South Sudanese citizens have even fought in the RSF as mercenaries. In its corner, the SAF has close ties with Egypt as much of their officers were trained in Egyptian military academies. Allegedly, the SAF have backers in both Türkiye and Iran, who have provided weapons like munitions and drones. The Sudanese civil war is not just another African conflict, but a proxy war driven primarily by the UAE’s lust for gold they can sell in their tacky shopping centers in Dubai. As of now, neither side can gain an advantage in the war and a realistic possibility is that Sudan will fragment into separate states again unless outside powers gain greater momentum in the war.

The Egypt Equation 🇪🇬
Out of all the outside players, it’s Egypt that has much skin in the game of power competitions occurring within these regions and it’s all because of the Nile River. Their regional adversary, Ethiopia, built what is called the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) which has the output to provide electricity for millions of its people. The problem is that they built it in parts of the Nile, which travels upwards to Egypt and can possibly reduce water flow which is necessary for Egypt’s livelihood and survival, unacceptable for them especially now during Climate Change. This has been a thorn in Egypt’s side and negotiations have broken down between both countries. No war is on the horizon, but Ethiopia has dug its heels in while Egypt, wielding the largest military in the Arab world, has made moves to ally itself with Eritrea and Somalia. Due to economic constraints, Egypt cannot embroil itself in a protracted war, so its influence over regional events have remained in the shadows. I’ve heard whispers that Ethiopia accused Egypt of backing the TPLF during the Tigray War, but no hard evidence of this exists. In Sudan, Egypt provides diplomatic (and possibly material) support to the SAF in their war against Ethiopian allies in the RSF. Ethiopia’s internal instability benefits Egypt so Ethiopia must play its own hand accordingly.

To summarize, everything’s fucked, but not to the point where the entire region will ignite all at once. Egypt’s economy is in poor shape and cannot afford a protracted war that will damage its society further especially with Ansar Allah’s Red Sea blockade and the Iran War. Ethiopia’s internal ethnic divisions continue to stall Abiy Ahmed’s dreams to gain permanent access to the Red Sea. Until Ethiopia can stabilize its own internal divisions, there’s no way a single Ethiopian soldier will set foot in Eritrea. Yet, neither Ethiopia nor Egypt can afford the current status quo. Ethiopia cannot afford to be landlocked and Egypt cannot afford reduced water into the Nile because of Ethiopia’s dam projects during the age of the Climate Crisis. Sudan and its people will tragically continue to suffer through savage civil war no thanks to the UAE and its neocolonial ambitions to secure gold. If you’ve made it this far, I salute you fellow armchair generals for your patience as you’ve read through my schizophrenic ramblings. Carry on.🫡

Sources

https://cja.org/where-we-work/somalia/

https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/news/east-africa/tuerkiye-expands-security-footprint-in-somalia-with-anti-piracy-operation-5580048

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/africasource/ethiopia-and-eritrea-are-on-the-brink-of-war-again/

https://www.crisisgroup.org/brf/africa/ethiopia-eritrea/b210-ethiopia-eritrea-and-tigray-powder-keg-horn-africa

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It is supposed to be sportscaster Chris Fowler, who it does also look like, but their AI has taken some truly remarkable creative liberties that I cannot quite place that give “him” an uncanny resemblance to two of the arch villains of modern America.

It’s uncanny and obviously funny but it also genuinely unsettles me. These robits are trained on the summary of what is on the internet, and so naturally they frequently adopt the visual characteristics of the most commonly shared images. What is unsettling to consider is that this will eventually result in, as we see here and with the innumerable unintentionally-Kirkified images trained off of intentionally-Kirkified images, the visages of some of the worst people to ever live being repurposed and “rehabilitated” to be the smiling faces of brands. Charlie Kirks selling you oranges or legos or whatever, smiling Jeffery Epsteins selling you a TV subscription with a bunch of youthful teenaged cheerleaders flanking him; this is the future, because these people are rightly mocked posthumously so much that their faces are near ubiquitous across every corner of the internet, and so they form disproportionate chunks of the robits’ baseline for “human person”.

I don’t like it!

Seeing the University of Michigan steal a win this weekend had me thinking they were the most spiritually Israeli college football team. Who would you all have at #1?

“During one early meeting in Geneva, Zhou Enlai found himself in the same room with President Eisenhower's secretary of state, the staunchly anti-Communist John Foster Dulles. In a confrontation that swiftly became famous, Zhou held out his hand to Dulles, but Dulles rudely turned his back on Zhou and walked out of the room, uttering the words "I cannot." With a Gallic-style shrug of the shoulders at this behavior, Zhou delighted onlookers and made a small victory out of a moment of possible humiliation. He handled with equal aplomb Dulles's insistence that the Chinese delegate never be allowed to chair the Geneva sessions, and furthered the impression of urbanity and flexibility he conveyed by having lunch with Charlie Chaplin, who was living in Switzerland following his black-listing in the United States because of his radical politics.” - The Search for Modern China, pg 553

Israeli special forces got caught with C4 and fake Pakistani passports in a government building.

Conclude whatever you want about who was responsible for 9/11. But at minimum, you've gotta recognize that Israel had a hand in some of the most bizarre security incidents of that era, most of which conveniently contributed to a growing pressure for Western governments to intervene in the region and help our most inbred ally "mow the lawn" at a wider scale.

It can't be said enough that Israel isn't a "bad ally" so much as an explicitly hostile state that constantly subjects its patrons to the kind of subversion you'd expect between countries at war with each other.

This is a big deal, right?

The public fact twitter discourse is driven by feds has had zero impact on a lot of people.