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Hegseth:
"The dumb, politically correct wars of the past were the opposite of what we're doing here.
They had vague objections with restrictive, minimalist rules of engagement.
No more."
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mgdt3r65qn2s

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)
Hegseth: "The dumb, politically correct wars of the past were the opposite of what we're doing here. They had vague objections with restrictive, minimalist rules of engagement. No more."

My joke last week, at the suggestion Anthropic relocate to the UK, was that it would be contingent on its objection to mass-surveillance not being extended to UK citizens. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czx7915nn8qo

Sir Sadiq invites embattled AI firm Anthropic to expand in London
The letter from London's mayor came as the US moved to designate the company a supply chain risk.

"Face Š l’IA générative, des enseignants optent pour l’objection de conscience"
https://www.lemonde.fr/campus/article/2026/03/01/face-a-l-ia-generative-des-enseignants-optent-pour-l-objection-de-c…

Face à l’IA générative, des enseignants optent pour l’objection de conscience
Quelque 2 800 enseignants et chercheurs ont signé un manifeste contre l’intelligence artificielle générative, qu’ils considèrent être un gouffre énergétique alimentant des usages incompatibles « avec les valeurs de rationalité et d’humanisme » de l’université.

Trump privately raises objection to Senate housing bill (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/04/trump-senate-housing-bill-00905026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260504/p88#a260504p88

As judge weighs challenge to citizen ballot initiatives law, Floridians lose power at ballot box https://floridatrib.org/2026/02/25/as-judge-weighs-challenge-to-voter-fraud-law-floridians-lose-power-at-ballot-box/

As judge weighs challenge to voter-fraud law, Floridians lose power at ballot box
For years, voters have used the amendment process to enact popular and major changes in Florida law from environmental regulations to public education, often over the objections of the state’s Republican leaders, who are now on the verge of snuffing out a perennial political thorn in their side.

Objection, which aims to use AI and experts to evaluate claims in news stories, debuts with funding from Peter Thiel, Balaji Srinivasan; evaluations cost $2,000 (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/15/can-

Exclusive: Can AI judge journalism? A Thiel-backed startup says yes, even if it risks chilling whistleblowers
Objection, a Thiel-backed startup, aims to use AI to judge journalism, letting users pay to challenge stories. Critics warn it could chill whistleblowers and reshape how media accountability works.

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Agretator:
🎵 Pointless Objection
#Agretator

This is exactly the thing I wonder about. Was it shoved through over internal objections? Was it many teams’ separate good work stuck together too hastily? Was it the wrong kind of pressure from above, or bad taste from below, or what?
It’s frustrating because as a dev I catch glimpses of all the really fantastic engineering work folks at Apple are doing •inside• the box, and they’re feeling very little love for it right now because the •outside•is so clunky.
https://sfba.social/@scm/116296203532915798

Aron D’Souza says his latest startup, #Objection, aims to use AI to adjudicate the truth of journalism.
And for the price of $2,000,
anyone can pay to challenge a story,
triggering a public investigation into its claims. 
(D’Souza is also the founder of the Enhanced Games, an Olympics-style competition that allows performance-enhancing drugs and is set to debut in Las Vegas next …

Exclusive: Can AI judge journalism? A Thiel-backed startup says yes, even if it risks chilling whistleblowers
Objection, a Thiel-backed startup, aims to use AI to judge journalism, letting users pay to challenge stories. Critics warn it could chill whistleblowers and reshape how media accountability works.