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he what? this is on the record?

From 2024:

"In 2024’s The War on Warriors, Hegseth argues at length that US forces should ignore the Geneva conventions and other elements of international law governing the conduct of war."

“'What if we treated the enemy the way they treated us?” he asks. “Would that not be an incentive for the other side to reconsider their barbarism? Hey, Al Qaeda: if you surrender, we might spare your life. If you do not, we will rip your arms off and feed them to hogs.'”

He wrote a book in which he openly advocates for war crimes. Maybe, just maybe, it pays to believe him.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/25/pete-hegseth...


https://www.war.gov/News/Transcripts/Transcript/Article/4434...

> Our response? We will keep pressing. We will keep pushing, keep advancing, no quarter, no mercy for our enemies.

March 13, 2026


He probably said "no quarter" because it sounds cool and doesn't really know what it means. The most ironic part is how he is an avowed Christian warrior and says "no mercy" when mercy figures pretty prominently in Christianity.

Yes, he said it in front of reporters at a Pentagon briefing.

https://www.war.gov/News/Transcripts/Transcript/Article/4434...

> Our response? We will keep pressing. We will keep pushing, keep advancing, no quarter, no mercy for our enemies.


For what it's worth, he probably didn't know what he was saying.

(slop has been around longer than LLMs)


It’s the one constant about this administration: you’re always wondering ”is this incompetence by not knowing what they’re saying or incompetence where they know what they’re saying”

What is this worth?

Dark comedy mostly.


this is the correct answer. the stream is just the production process, not the full product.

(and the fact that they proudly wore it on their sleeve and shone a lamp on it is complete and absolute genius)

(came from f5 bot) haha yeah if any ai companies are looking i’ll talk for $200m!!!

or, yknow, focusing on astronaut safety was more important than taking care of how things look on tv

If you have to make that trade off you’re already in trouble.

This program has cost nearly $100 billion to date. Yesterday's launch alone accounted for $4.1 billion in direct costs.

Saying "it was either this or that" doesn't make sense at these magnitudes. They could have hired a professional aerospace filming team for a ridiculously overpriced $10 million and it would be an _actual_ rounding error.


agree, its visually interesting but not easy to read

- report benchmark that conveniently omits well known SOTAs, 20 points

- conveniently omit well known benchmarks because not SOTA, 30 points

- change one tiny term in GRPO and call it a completely different acronym, 50 points

- try to slide in a systems hack and but title your paper as though it is a model improvement, 100 points (prizes to the first replier who figures out which recent paper i am subtweeting here)

- forbes 30 under 30, 100 points


fine tune an oss model and call it a groundbreaking innovation -- 20 points

> forbes 30 under 30, 100 points

too far, at this point you go to jail


(came from f5bot) thanks for the post - am live updating this with all the more "practical" stuff filtering out the twitter hype stuff around the mere mention of things like opus 4.7

> also related: https://www.ccleaks.com

This deployment is temporarily paused


Apologies everyone, I launched the site minutes after the leak and vercel was my only fastest and quickest option, the site went down when I was sleeping cuz I was working on it day and night.

Shifted it from vercel the moment I woke up.


?? whats the technical reason it went down, you cant blame vercel for this

Yeah my bad, half story. I was on a free vercel plan, Did not think it would explode like this. I kept on pushing updates and when I went to sleep, the site went down, I could literally see the error on terminal with my blurry eyes lol but I was just too much exhausted.

Woke up from a few calls and messages from friends and on social media. Migrated it to a VPS. Now it looks stable.


It's available on the internet archive

https://web.archive.org/web/20260331105051/https://www.cclea...

BTW, that's why you should use your own infrastructure and not depend on Vercel


you're actually right. Vercel is just easy to deloy and this was a fun project that I did in a few minutes.

But with the amount of traffic, I quickly migrated it to a dedicated VPS.


Same!

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