Below are posts associated with the “Pete Hegseth” tag.
🔗 linkblog: President Dallin Oaks announces the LDS Church is poised to set a new record
Discourse in the modern American right often understands free speech as protecting the right to say objectionable things but not the ability to criticize people who say objectionable things. While a “one true church” mentality is less problematic than racial slurs or transphobic language (though there’s also some of the latter in Oaks’s full remarks, according to the Church Newsroom release), this excerpt strikes me as embodying a similarly selective view of religious freedom:
🔗 linkblog: Pete Hegseth Questions What Girls Were Doing In School To Begin With
Terrible but hilarious.
🔗 linkblog: Anyone Else Have Those Weird Dreams Where Sobbing Future Generations Beg You To Change Course?
Pretty sure The Onion accelerated the web publication of this deliciously vicious skewering of Sam Altman after last weekend’s making nice with the Pentagon.
🔗 linkblog: Anthropic Hits Back After US Military Labels It a ‘Supply Chain Risk’
It takes a lot to get me on Anthropic’s side in any disagreement, but Pete Hegseth is a lot, so I guess this tracks.
🔗 linkblog: Anthropic refuses Pentagon’s new terms, standing firm on lethal autonomous weapons and mass surveillance
Anthropic is weird, and their conscience is focused in some directions at the expense of others (Claude is trained on pirated copies of my research), but at least they have a conscience.
🔗 linkblog: Musk and Hegseth vow to “make Star Trek real” but miss the show’s lessons
This is such a perfectly dumb oversight.
🔗 linkblog: Pentagon watchdog finds Hegseth risked the safety of U.S. forces with use of Signal
Things are piling up for Hegseth.
🔗 linkblog: 'Franklin' publisher slams Hegseth for his post of the turtle firing on drug boats
Good on the publisher, and what a dumb world we live in. Also, “narco terrorist” reminds me of the poli sci class I had where we spent an entire day (week?) talking about the difficulty of clearly defining terrorism. It was mostly an abstract conversation, even with a GWOT backdrop, but I feel like it was preparing me to detect nonsense from this DoD.
🔗 linkblog: In Unhinged Speech, Pete Hegseth Says He's Tired of ‘Fat Troops,’ Says Military Needs to Go Full AI
Don’t know if this is better or worse than what I worried about.
🔗 linkblog: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reposts video of pastors saying women shouldn't vote
Don’t even know what to comment here. How is this the world we’re living in?
🔗 linkblog: Pentagon Furthers Crackdown on DEI With Order to Review Library Books
So, arguing that people of color are genetically less intelligent is fine, but criticizing that argument is radical woke? What a dumb, dumb world we live in. [Gift link]
🔗 linkblog: The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
Where does one start with how wild this story is?
🔗 linkblog: War heroes and military firsts are among 26,000 images flagged for removal in Pentagon's DEI purge'
If I don’t bookmark this article, I will quickly forget how dumb this whole thing has been (not to mention petty and mean).
🔗 linkblog: Trump Doubles Down on Defiance After the Collapse of the Matt Gaetz Selection'
Here’s hoping the Senate shows some spine. Gift link.
🔗 linkblog: Refuge In Kakistocracy'
Interested by Ken’s take here, even if it doesn’t necessarily make me feel better about gestures at everything.
Also, this line cracked me up:
Pete Hegseth’s chief qualification to be Secretary of Defense is that Trump saw him on the teevee a lot and his tattoos are not, technically, Nazi symbols.