Can This Woman's Bra Make History?

You tell me

Good Morning:

Uh, no. History is never made by underwear. And certainly not “this woman’s” underwear.

Yes. Very wrong. Consider yourself judged.

Immediately. The government’s job is to placate drivers.

No.

I confess I hadn’t noticed the premise to be true. Are we certain the headline writer here doesn’t live in a very specific bubble? Out here in Real America, the proliferation of Yemeni coffee houses is well controlled.

Because they pull your hair and your scalp wasn’t designed for that.

The non-fans. The people who just want to go to college and not have gross resource diversion to football programs.

Again, I hadn’t noticed the premise of this to be true. Then again, I limit my consumption of AI ads.

Yes, absolutely, and you need a paid subscription. And you can get one right here:

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Yesterday on #DogShirtTV, the estimable

Eve gaumond

and I convened to discuss my #GetReadyWithVampireEmilBove video efforts so far and talk about the implications of a world in which I can make such a video so easily.

Also, Kleio embarked on a daring clandestine operation to destroy the show.

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The Situation

In yesterday’s ‘The Situation’ column, I argue that my objection to Emil Bove III’s nomination to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals is not based on Bove’s qualifications or his ideological inclinations, but rather on his consistent public record of ethical outrages. I break down key accusations levied against Bove and emphasize that such behavior is unacceptable for a federal judge.

In short, Bove’s fundamental problem as a nominee is that there is simply no reason to believe him ethically or morally capable of fulfilling the judicial oath Trump has nominated him to take. His career, particularly the least six months of it, have been marked by an unmistakable trail of allegations—many of them not meaningfully in contest—of conduct simply unacceptable in a federal judge.

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Yesterday On Lawfare

Compiled by the estimable Mary Ford

Narrowing the National Security Exception to Federal AI Guardrails

Amos Toh argues that promoting American AI innovation is not a valid basis to abandon regulatory guardrails. Toh evaluates discrepancies between AI policy under the Biden administration and AI guidance as outlined in President Trump’s most recent memo to the Office of Management and Budget, calls for greater transparency in national security AI, and urges Congress to pass legislation that codifies safeguards and defines a process for how AI systems for national security can be enforced and overseen.

This inconsistency reinforces the need for legislation that establishes how AI systems for national security should be properly authorized, evaluated, disclosed, and overseen. Short of enacting comprehensive regulation, however, Congress should step up its scrutiny of how taxpayer dollars are spent on acquiring and developing these systems. The annual process for funding intelligence and defense spending provides an opening to mandate greater transparency and accountability, such as regular reporting from agencies on how they are implementing risk management practices, and submission of their use-case inventories.

AI and Data Voids: How Propaganda Exploits Gaps in Online Information

McKenzie Sadeghi uses data from a NewsGuard study to demonstrate that chatbots are unwittingly amplifying disinformation narratives planted by malign actors or state-backed foreign outlets. Sadeghi argues that the articulate and authoritative language of these AI systems represents a new kind of risk in information warfare, applies this to a case study in Ukraine, and explains that languages and contexts with limited mainstream coverage are particularly susceptible to disinformation amplification.

The greater threat, it turns out, isn’t what AI is creating but, rather, what it’s absorbing and repeating. As generative AI systems increasingly replace search engines and become embedded in consumer products, enterprise software, and public services, the stakes of what they repeat and how they interpret the world are growing. The large language models (LLMs) powering today’s most widely used chatbots have been exposed to a polluted information ecosystem where state-backed foreign propaganda outlets are increasingly imitating legitimate media and employing narrative laundering tactics optimized for search engine visibility…

Podcasts

On Lawfare Daily, Jonathan Cederbaum sits down with senior researcher at ETH Zurich Max Smeets and Lawfare contributing editor Justin Sherman to discuss Smeets’s most recent book, “Ransome War: How Cybercrime Became a Threat to National Security.” They talk about the history and origins of the term “ransomware,” some of the major drivers of innovation within the ransomware space, and how the United States and Europe can respond to these threats.

On Rational Security, Scott Anderson sits down with me, Natalie Orpett, and University of Virginia School of Law professor Ashley Deeks to talk about President Trump’s surprise move to join Israel in its strikes on Iran last week, the Supreme Court decision in DHS v. DVD, and the whistleblower allegations levied against Principal Associate Deputy General Emil Bove over plans to disregard judicial orders.

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Today’s #BeastOfTheDay is a nursing baby bison, who wants you know to know that baby bison are always reddish, compared to adult bisons. In honor of today’s beasts, feed a baby. And remember: Bisons are really big and, even if they look placid, they don’t want to hang out with you. And they have horns. If one charges you, it is your fault.

Remember that New York Times headline above about whether you are morally obliged to subscribe to your friend’s Substack? The answer is still true. May it weigh heavily upon your heart.