This Hegseth guy has some masculinity issues.
Needs ALT-text. From tweet:
Pete Hegseth ‹ @PeteHegseth
OPERATION ROUGH RIDER = Freedom of Navigation for U.S. ships
OPERATION MIDNIGHT HAMMER = Obliteration of Iranian nuclear sites
OPERATION SOUTHERN SPEAR = Destroy Narco-Terrorists killing Americans

These pardons are perfectly compatible with what Trump would do, but this suggests that maybe somebody is just saving him the trouble of actually issuing them. Technically that might be legally questionable. Also, cognitive decline evidence.

M.Div. and Th.D. from Harvard Divinity School. American Baptist is not similar to Southern Baptist, don't get them mixed up. This makes a hell of a picture, which I suspect is intentional.

OK, how about this: a rogue science experiment involving high-dimensional multidomain foundation models being trained using unsupervised/semisupervised* and reinforcement learning? I think this matches your second option. Kind of feels like that to me.

*Yes, spellcheck, that's how it's spelled.

Oddly enough, I get a lot of those too. They have to be bots so I tend to block them, but I share your curiosity about what they hope to accomplish, how they hope to profit.

Thanks for the ALT-text.

Speaking as someone who took a handful of philosophy classes at a respected liberal arts college in the mid-1960s and now works daily with LLMs as user and developer/exploiter I have been wondering the same thing. Happy to see I'm not the only one. There must be a debate or discussion.

Yeah, he will get there pretty quick. Look at that face. That's a smart kitten. He's paying attention.

Oh, that's wild. Thank you for sharing that.

Well, but we have to understand that for Trump, an entrepreneur is someone who only ever loses someone else's money and who never pays what he owes or keeps his promises. The kind of person who thinks he is allowed to cheat because it's his golf course. He thinks we all want to be that.