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Retired USAF Major General McCasland disappearing from his house is probably the most serious.

He was the commander of the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. This would have given him direct oversight of all of the Air Force's most sensitive technology for decades. His intelligence value to a hostile adversary, even retired, is incalculable.

He was an avid hiker and biker in his neighborhood trails, so it's very unlikely that he just got lost.

Left behind were his prescription glasses, along with all his personal electronics (phone and watch).

It's shocking and alarming that there wasn't a full blown military search and rescue operation mounted within hours of his wife calling him in as missing.

How far could a 68 year old man travel on foot within 8 hours?

He was reported missing within three hours of his last contact with his wife.

New Mexico Search and Rescue wasn't dispatched until Sunday, two days later.

Again, why wasn't the DoD tasked to find him at all costs on the same day he went missing, given his knowledge of the Air Force's most sensitive technologies?


> Again, why wasn't the DoD tasked to find him at all costs on the same day he went missing, given his knowledge of the Air Force's most sensitive technologies?

They know where he is and we (the public) don't have a need to know where he is?

My personal theory is: He's offworld with the other non-terrestrial officers Gary McKinnon found :)


I'm sure there something in the hundreds of pages of Microsoft o365 about "we may share your data with third-parties" blah blah...

Yes, so the lawyer can use AI to answer your questions and then the judge can discover that, since there isn't attorney-bot privilege. :/

Self-hosted, local only models are probably going to obviate a lot of this.

Google AI Edge Gallery now runs Gemma-4-E2B-it locally on an iPhone after a 2.5Gb download.

No network calls needed, claims Google.

Self-hosting is always a strong option for privacy seeking people, as it should be.


I wonder if a legal firm could setup a privately hosted LLM then claim attorney-client privilege as a rendered service.

Would a judge be able to demand the attorney hand over written notes from his clients?

I doubt it.


The question would be would decent lawfirms stake their reputation and legal risk providing legal advice from an LLM they host directly to their clients? Sounds like a great way for your clients to sue you when their cases go sideways by odd outputs from your LLM.

Does this mean I can tell my team to stop requesting CoPilot code reviews on my pull requests?


Why is it that every legitimate concern or downside pointed out about AI is met with the same tired, low signal, rebuttal of FOMO.

It's become the "no u r" argument of the AI age... :/


Because the AI apologists cannot deal with the much studied and proven placebo effect of perceived increased productivity, so they have to try and make themselves feel better by claiming that others are lagging behind in a race no one else is really interesting in running.

A snake oil scheme if ever saw one.


This has to be intentional.

Drug dealer getting the kids hooked early is priority #1.

Give just enough "parental control" to lure parents in.

Make it just annoying enough that the parents eventually give up and the kid is the one pushing the drug the entire time.


Customers keep buying those trucks though. Why wouldn't you sell a product to a market that continues to purchase?

There are smaller, cheaper trucks, suvs, sedans, etc. $100k trucks make a lot of money, so Ford keeps building them.


Ford could sell 15k EVs, they just choose not to.

Why should ford be protected from Chinese car manufacturers who can make better and cheaper cars.


A 143 kWh battery pack alone costs around $10k. I don’t think they can realistically sell $15k EV trucks.


Insta-banned in the US for "national security", not because it's a better car than anything the US can produce. /s


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