United States Department of War

You know, I mean, basically, um, bring out the military tribunals and start arresting these guys for aiding and abetting the, the enemy at a, at a time of war.

'Cause, 'cause that's, I think what, you know, the deepest significance behind this renaming of the Department of Defense to the Department of War is that, you know, we are in a war.

That, that we are, th- that we are in a war against this kind of global satanic network that not only operates throughout the United States, but operates worldwide, and it's a, it's a necessary worldwide effort to remove this.

And these legacy media are guys that have been given cover to that.

Yeah, absolutely.

Well said.

And it's, it's interesting to me that they changed it from Department of Defense to Department of War.

And if you think about that, like Department of Defense means you're always on defense.

In the next decade.

In the U.S. military budget, Department of War, we're supposed to say now.

Uh-huh.

I

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That tells you how bad Alex Turner thought DeepMind's actions were with regard to the Department of War.

His day job was that he got paid by Google to think about how to stop AI from killing everyone, and he felt morally obligated to quit in protest.

Derek Thompson here writes about this as part of AI safety is having a moment.

Got a little quote here that Ronnie shared from Tom Rondeau, who we know, who was on that pod that we did from the pub in Dublin.

Says a quote from Tom, ISAC is a mission first priority for the U.S. Department of War, which presumably will be back to Department of Defense once Trump's fucked off.

To defend against, well, it's his idea, wasn't it?

I think everybody still calls it the Department of

And what's scary is in an unknown manner, but it's Africa, not necessarily Asia.

I would think that the Department of War has its hands full right now.

of different operational fronts.

And, you know, that is a concern.

And what's scary is in an unknown manner, but it's Africa, not necessarily Asia.

I would think that the Department of War has its hands full right now.

of different operational fronts.

And, you know, that is a concern.

Yes.

And that there's multiple customers there, not just we're going to sell this to the Department of War.

We're going to sell this to the Department of Homeland Security.

No, there are other customers out there now.

And that's always the knock on on government is that they're not very innovative.

There are some, And you and I both had some time in the intelligence community.

There are some very sharp, very smart, technology-driven people in the intelligence company, in the Department of War, in the Department of Homeland Security.

And they sit around all day and think about these future problems.

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That tells you how bad Alex Turner thought DeepMind's actions were with regard to the Department of War.

His day job was that he got paid by Google to think about how to stop AI from killing everyone, and he felt morally obligated to quit in protest.

Derek Thompson here writes about this as part of AI safety is having a moment.

Even a full renewal of China's suspension would not change what the DFARS rule requires on January 1 since that deadline is set by U.S. law, not by anything China decides.

What this means for procurement planning For companies supplying the Department of War, the practical questions are no longer abstract.

Contractors need documented provenance for every covered material in a magnet, tantalum, or tungsten component, tracing back through alloying, metallization, separation, and mining, not just the country where final assembly happened.

Existing supply agreements negotiated years ago before these restrictions were written may not have been built to produce that documentation at all.