#AI doomer #politics with high certainty leads to violence like Daniel Moreno-Gama’s Molotov cocktail attack the other day at Sam #Altman’s house; describes Moreno-Gama’s online history following PauseAI. He calls himself “Butlerian Jihadist” on social media. #news
In response to the #AI doomer post and the Molotov cocktail attack, #Zvi condemns “all violence other than that required by the state’s enforcement of the law”.
#Eliezer’s ethical justification today for the state monopoly on violence, rejecting “outbursts of individual violence” (like the Molotov cocktail attack the other day) as a solution to #AI risk. “How certain do you have to be that your child has terminal cancer, before you start killing puppies? 10% sure? 50% sure? 99.9%?” Apparently you can tweet an “Article” like this if you “upgrade to Premium”.
archive of <https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-13/two-oil-tankers-attempt-hormuz-exit-after-us-announces-blockade>, explaining that the three tankers that passed the Strait of Hormuz today were before CENTCOM’s announced blockade. #Iran #politics #oil
#video from Sal Mercogliano on #shipping #news today. He says #Trump’s blockade on #Iran violates #UNCLOS, but UNCLOS isn’t for wartime, and also that it implicates the War Powers Act in #USA.
#news from last week: Russia calls the new #weaponry #drones from #Ukraine "Martians" or "Bumblebees": “The enemy has begun using new drones called ‘Martians,’ which, unfortunately, have a cruising speed of up to 300 kilometers/hour [186 miles / hour], no longer fly under operator guidance but are controlled by [#AI],” [Horlivko Russian mayor] Prikhodko said. “They are undetectable by electronic warfare systems, and drone detectors don’t spot them.” And Apti Alauidnov: “It appears they are jointly produced, Ukraine-Germany, Ukraine-France. They are modernized. They fly farther than the old ones.” Plausibly, though, these are not full-fledged #slaughterbots but just using LPD radio links to a teleoperator.
Russian warblogger commenting on the #Ukraine #slaughterbots #news, suggesting ways to tweak Russian tactics to deal better with #drones.
#Starlink has a US$5/month “standby mode” plan: “Standby Mode debuted in August and is Starlink’s cheapest monthly plan, giving customers an affordable, albeit slow, way to use the satellite internet service. Speeds are capped at 500Kbps, but data is unlimited.” But you can no longer use it while in motion: “Starlink Disabled while moving”. The v2 antenna uses 35 watts, according to tpbsd on ##electronics. You can use it with the "mini dish", which the company has been loaning out for free but which costs US$600 if you buy it.
The US$600 #Starlink Mini dish is small enough to fit in a backpack and weighs 1.2kg.
#video on a newish unstable nitrogen allotrope (half-life 36ms at room temperature). #materials
#interview #video from yesterday with Josefine Lissner of #Leap71 (in Dubai?) who claims credit for revitalizing #aerospike #rockets by building a working model a year ago. I didn’t watch most of the interview because it’s just talking heads.
#Russia in the #Iran war: just spying and UN Security Council resolutions
the impotent #UN Security Council condemned #Iran’s attacks on #Bahrain and other countries on March 11, #Russia and #China abstaining rather than vetoing
#Tom7 #humor #video about malicious compliance with #TLS #protocols.
The Institute for the Study of War (#ISW) has weekly “Russian offensive campaign assessment” reports. #Ukraine
pro-#Ukraine propaganda #video says that al Jazeera says that in March there were 35351 Russian casualties, 96% from #drones #weaponry, a record body count perhaps due to the new so-called #Martians powered by #AI. In 02026 Ukraine projects building 7 million drones.
new LCR #metrology #hardware with Kelvin clips for measuring parasitics on components for US$48: “FNIRSI® LCR-ST2 100K LCR ESR Meter 2-in-1 Digital Tweezers Bridge” #electronics
al Jazeera #news about the #Iran war, but mostly just talking heads. Journalist Yara Elmjoui grieves the horror befalling his beloved Tehran in an #interview #video with Malika Bilal.
#news from rabid anti-#Trump propaganda channel reports that Chinese tanker Rich Starry has run the #USA blockade past #Iran and escaped, just as the Russian tanker recently reached Cuba. And the USS George W. Bush carrier strike group is off the coast of Namibia as it sails to the Mediterranean around Africa to avoid the Houthis at the Bab el-Mandeb.