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Per ChatGPT: "What OpenAI did, according to its announcement, was publish the manuscripts in a publicly accessible GitHub repository, with procedures for revisions and citations.

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To my knowledge they were never said to have been peer-reviewed and thus "proven".

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worked decades to get rid of the one that existed before.' They all knew better, but went ahead anyway. In early 1997, the State Department announced the official change in policy from containment to expansion." And the rest is American history.

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"Clinton himself acknowledged the problem with the policy before pursuing it. Explaining his initial hesitance, he said there was no consensus among current members and added that 'we don’t want to give the impression that we’re creating another dividing line in Europe after we’ve

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'I have to say that the United States deserves much of the blame. Our first action that really set us off in a bad direction was when NATO started to expand, bringing in Eastern European nations, some of them bordering Russia.'"

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"Pres Biden claimed Russia’s actions in 2022 had nothing to do with NATO expansion, and that this was merely a thin excuse invoked by Vladimir Putin’s government. But in 2016, former Secretary of Defense William Perry admitted to the Guardian that, although lately Putin had been making things worse,

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He said that this 'cultural insecurity compounded the political fears, making NATO expansion seem like the culmination of the long-standing western policy designed to isolate Russia leaving it alone in the world and vulnerable to its various enemies.'"

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"In his 1997 book Zbigniew Brzezinski admitted that 'many Russian democrats also feared that the expansion of NATO would mean that Russia would be left outside of Europe, ostracized politically, and considered unworthy of membership in the institutional framework of European civilization.'

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So we're not even going to bother to define what "pain" is? Some analysis.

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You are full of shit.

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In 1997, former Australian PM Paul Keating made a direct comparison to the catastrophe of Versailles after WW I, arguing that NATO expansion is 'an error which may rank in the end with the strategic miscalculations which prevented Germany from taking its full place in the international system.'"

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On this same theme, Max Jakobsen, the former Finnish ambassador to the UN, warned, 'Significantly, it is the "Westernizers" who strenuously oppose a NATO expansion. They fear it would provide neoimperialist forces with fresh arguments to demand a remilitarization of Russian policy.'

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Ronald Rice @ronrice.bsky.social · 4h

From 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘰𝘬𝘦𝘥: 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘞𝘢𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘵𝘰𝘯 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘞𝘢𝘳 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘙𝘶𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘢 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘢𝘵𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘜𝘬𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘦: "In November 1996, French President Jacques Chirac warned Tony Lake, 'We have humiliated them too much. One day there will be a dangerous nationalist backlash.'

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How is AI a powerful tool for science? You are demonstrating a complete lack of understanding of the matter by asking a question like that. Look up 'scientific discoveries made using AI' sometime. Science isn't about taking credit. It's about discovery, pure and simple. Or at least it should be.

It will burn itself out. Focus on rebuilding.

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What does it identify as?

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Completely incommensurate examples. While reading to your children is a fine thing to do when there's time, there is absolutely nothing wrong with them listening to audio books as well or even instead.

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Besides which he's wrong. The correct technical term is supercalifragilisticexpialidocious intelligence.

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As soon as I heard him say it, I knew it was a mistake and that it would make him look like an idiot when all was said and done. But he's a politician. That's what politicians do.

It's not about keeping these things secret. This is information that is going to be shared with the world, and rightly so. Collaboration is how science gets done. AI is a very powerful tool for doing science. There is no reason to avoid it due to concerns about intellectual property.

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Not to mention cheering for the war in Ukraine.

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He's right about not having the authority to enforce ICC warrants. It surprised me that he ever thought he or the US government might. It would take a 2/3 majority vote of the Senate to become party to the Rome Statute. However, his criticisms of protesters is clearly just him straddling the fence.

Since the US is not party to the Rome Statute, the ICC has no jurisdiction over it. It has jurisdiction over acts committed by US citizens in countries that are party to the statute, however. No doubt that's what is rubbing Rubio the wrong way. (Iran is not party to the statute either, by the way.)

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Why would they be up in arms? What if AI came up with a solution that they hadn't thought of? Would these mathematicians not welcome that? If not, they need to take a good look at their own motivations. Sounds to me like it's mostly about job security for them.

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That's just a silly thing to say.

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Ronald Rice @ronrice.bsky.social · 8h

Why stop there? Why not supercalifragilisticexpialidocious intelligence? One's reach should exceed one's grasp!

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Humans can fake it. AI can too.

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Ronald Rice @ronrice.bsky.social · 9h

Hard to believe, all right. Stranger than fiction.

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Ronald Rice @ronrice.bsky.social · 10h

They were never real. You are living in a fantasy.

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Ronald Rice @ronrice.bsky.social · 10h

If that just means they'll go back to having humans do the same thing, how does it help? Again, the problem is not AI. The problem is the misuse of AI.

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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 12h

UK Terrorism Arrests up 1,553% Since Palestine Action Ban 94% of arrests in the year ending June 2026 were linked to the proscription. “We are seeing a shameful attack on our right to protest. It’s past time to end the proscription of Palestine Action” novaramedia.com/2026/10/08/u...

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UK Terrorism Arrests up 1,553% Since Palestine Action Ban

Terror arrests in the UK have hit a record high thanks to the government’s ban on Palestine Action.

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Ronald Rice @ronrice.bsky.social · 12h

If it were truly the knowledge that mattered, if it were learning that actually was the important thing, these "scientists" would all be on board with AI. The fact that many are not speaks volumes.

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Ronald Rice @ronrice.bsky.social · 12h

If it were truly the knowledge that mattered, if it were learning that actually was the important thing, these "scientists" would all be on board with AI. The fact that many are not speaks volumes.

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Mark MacKinnon @markmackinnon.bsky.social · 13h

South African judge Navi Pillay - who headed a UN commission that last year found Israel was committing a genocide in Gaza - has just been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The Nobel committee hailed her as "one of the most respected international jurists of our time."

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Yes, forcing Russia to go on the defensive got us exactly where we are now. Ukraine has all but lost this war, despite massive Western spending and despite terrorist attacks on Moscow. The West will have lost the dumbest war ever fought, marking the end of US global military and economic domination.

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The idea was that these gestures would 'help anchor a weak and floundering Russia in the respect and status that came with regular dealings with the G7 countries.'"

"He added that the embassy went out of their way to support including the Russians in the new 'Contact Group' regarding the war in the Balkans and the G7 group of world economic powers, making it the 'G8', not because they had very much power and influence to wield, but they would someday.

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"Burns also wrote that the staff of the US Embassy in Moscow unanimously opposed NATO expansion. They had proposed 'other forms of cooperation' with the former Warsaw Pact nations and thought it would be wiser to create a new 'treaty relationship' between NATO and Russia."

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Yikes is right. Hard to be a poet when it becomes about you being a poet.

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in the process of restructuring European security institutions.'" From Scott Horton, 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘰𝘬𝘦𝘥: 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘞𝘢𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘵𝘰𝘯 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘞𝘢𝘳 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘙𝘶𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘢 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘢𝘵𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘜𝘬𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘦

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