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Re:US Man Given Prison Sentence for Bot-Farming Music Streams by palmotea on Thursday October 08, 2026 @05:32PM (#50012627)
> ...which were generally created using super intelligence...

> ... SMITH turned to super intelligence...

Holy shit, we've got ASI?

Where do I go to invest all the money I have in this breakthrough!

Re:US Man Given Prison Sentence for Bot-Farming Music Streams by avaer on Thursday October 08, 2026 @05:35PM (#50012666)
This is a government renaming directive. Similar to how DoDefense is renamed to DoWar, or Gulf of Mexico is renamed to Gulf of America.

It was made up one day and that's what govt publications must call it now.

> Where do I go to invest all the money I have in this breakthrough!

You get it.

Re:US Man Given Prison Sentence for Bot-Farming Music Streams by palmotea on Thursday October 08, 2026 @05:38PM (#50012707)
I knew it was something dumb, I just had no idea it was dumb at that scale.
Re:US Man Given Prison Sentence for Bot-Farming Music Streams by mrguyorama on Thursday October 08, 2026 @06:19PM (#50013198)
The best part about all the insistence about it being the Department of War, is that Hegseth is still the secretary of defense

The original purpose of the org was also explicitly defensive, with failing to prevent Pearl Harbor being an explicit influence for improving communication and cooperation between arms of the military through a combined leadership.

It's like recursively, fractally stupid.

Re:US Man Given Prison Sentence for Bot-Farming Music Streams by kevin_thibedeau on Thursday October 08, 2026 @08:25PM (#50014354)
Until Congress acts, it's still the DoD.