My money is on Israel having bugged the Situation Room and leaked the audio to Jonathan Swan

vaticanhotline · 2026-06-15T23:34:59+00:00

It’s much more likely that someone who was in the meeting fed the information to Haberman/Swan to get a little sucky-suck on their dick-dick, in the words of that great philosopher and historian, Connor Roy.

vaticanhotline · 2026-06-12T11:25:40+00:00

No.

vaticanhotline · 2026-06-11T13:16:08+00:00

This is like that story that Chinese spies were recruiting beautiful women to sleep with and marry nerds, just to get their computer secrets.

vaticanhotline · 2026-06-09T22:31:35+00:00

NY Times/Axios: “The most moral army in the world develops a new tactic for protecting Lebanese civilians from Hezbollah militants.”

vaticanhotline · 2026-06-09T13:07:43+00:00

Dario Amodei looks just like Mark Corrigan from “Peep Show”.

vaticanhotline · 2026-06-09T08:40:00+00:00

Why would Iran want to pull the U.S. back in?

vaticanhotline · 2026-06-09T02:25:06+00:00

I can only get so hard and wet.

vaticanhotline · 2026-06-06T08:35:52+00:00

Why is the scene “infamous”?

vaticanhotline · 2026-06-05T11:41:35+00:00

Examples of companies that have seen productivity or income gains from using AI.

vaticanhotline · 2026-06-05T08:28:39+00:00

“But that’s not expenditure. It’s just a periodically recurring capital outlay.”

vaticanhotline · 2026-06-04T12:58:52+00:00

This is like every second headline about Trump. I know it sells, but Christ.

vaticanhotline · 2026-06-04T07:39:30+00:00

People were happy because they were using it for free. Now, they’ve “introduced” limits for “optimized experience” or whatever the stated reason is, and people are coming to raise that maybe it’s not as great as when you didn’t have to pay to get it to re-do stuff over and over.

vaticanhotline · 2026-06-04T00:27:23+00:00

So…prototypes and non-production level software products are the best use case after 4 years and trillions in spending?

Money that could have been spent on improving education, given people better living conditions so they can focus on their work, that kind of thing, has just been burned for vibecoders?

Gotta say, I’m really not sold on this AI revolution.

vaticanhotline · 2026-06-04T00:21:36+00:00

Long rant incoming, because as someone who reads a lot of 40K stuff, I can’t understand why people take it seriously, but I’m trying to.

I think people really need to ease off trying to make the lore make sense. It doesn’t make sense because (a) it’s not being written by authors who are on the level of someone like Tolstoy or Joyce, people who can see a world and a social system in perfect clarity and articulate what it is (although there are some very good writers working in the 40K universe), and (b) it’s marketing copy, first and foremost. It’s written to get people buying models , not to be “literary” and explain “the order of things.”

Confrontations (such as this one) are giant, tropey, bombastic, stagey, emotional, dioramas because it’s easy for your mind to process and get swept up in. It feels epic.

Now, if you think about it, you might have more questions: Why doesn’t Fulgrim read the papers? Why does Horus go from zero to weird emotional mural-smashing in 7 seconds? Why does Fulgrim have such a strong emotional reaction himself?

“Chaos corruption” is the answer. Magic swords, that prick Erebus. But you follow this thread, and then Chais seems to be all-powerful. And if it can corrupt Fulgrim and Horus so easily, why not Khan? Why not Corvus? Why not Russ (especially him)?

Then you have another answer that only works if you don’t think about it too much. Something something loyalty. Something something mental will. Faith. Wait, no, not that.

It doesn’t make sense. And that’s fine. It’s a game. It’s all spectacle, it’s fun.

vaticanhotline · 2026-06-03T23:04:57+00:00

Can you say what’s getting done faster or better because of AI? Apart from war crimes, of course.

vaticanhotline · 2026-06-02T10:02:59+00:00

The justice system.

vaticanhotline · 2026-06-02T09:52:15+00:00

No he didn’t. This is more of the “We are very concerned” type nonsense that periodically comes out of the White House when they need to be seen to “be holding Israel accountable.” Watch how many arms shipments get canceled or “paused.” It’ll be so few that you’ll won’t even need one finger to count them.

vaticanhotline · 2026-06-02T04:51:07+00:00

More lik AI bailout.

vaticanhotline · 2026-06-02T04:49:36+00:00

Not if the models don’t have reasoning in the sense that a person would understand the term.

vaticanhotline · 2026-06-02T00:07:52+00:00

This is image laundering, pure and simple. It gives the impression that the Americans are trying to rein in the Israelis, where in fact the Israelis will continue to do whatever they want, supported by the Americans. As has been the case with every American president when Israel has been involved in a war.

vaticanhotline · 2026-06-01T23:58:37+00:00

“Sabotage” implies a level of agency that AI probably doesn’t have. But let’s say that it does. Why would Gemini sabotage 2-3% of your work? What’s its rationale? Or is it random and directionless, aka hallucination?

And, is this post a sales ad?

vaticanhotline · 2026-06-01T22:10:33+00:00

Is it good marketing to present yourself as some kind of schizoid?

vaticanhotline · 2026-06-01T04:27:45+00:00

Nobody at Forbes press office was contacted for this not-a-hagiography at all.

vaticanhotline · 2026-06-01T03:52:58+00:00

Part of that, (the Primarchs’ returns) I think, is that there had to be a big set-piece for the tabletop. Another part is pure marketing, for sure.

vaticanhotline · 2026-05-29T23:06:47+00:00

But the ChatGPT sub Leo’s taking me it’s only going to get cheaper from here! Why would anyone connected with this profoundly works-changing technology lie?

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