Morgan Clendaniel

Pretty slippery definitions of success and time scales but probably either the Russia invasion of Georgia or Nagorno-Karabakh, depending on how you want to count?

Incredible. Kalshi is not paying out "Khamenei out of power by [date]" contracts because he died.

Though I do wonder if people are spending time so much time on ChatGPT that it’s starting to backwards influence the general style. Maybe average people just write like this now? That will be complicated.

Reading a gossip story about Kanye’s marriage and discovered this AI-generated blind quote.”It wasn't dramatic or reactive – it was instinctive.” Even your crisis PR people can’t just write a few sentences anymore.

Lotta dads at the playground monitoring situations and their climbing kids simultaneously this morning.

Look, it’s not a good argument but I think it’s important to understand that in MAGA semantics this is not “a war,” this is “using the military.” The Dems “start wars” because they are afraid to “use the military” like this.

OpenAI launching adult mode and killbots in the same few weeks is going to be great for the history books, I really hope adult mode is still on schedule.

Middle of dinner, my kid:

“Does everything be dead?”
“Yeah, everyone and every living thing dies eventually”
“No, not DIE. I know everything dies. Does everything be dead!”
“Sorry, what’s the difference between die and be dead?”

Attention turns to something else. I am left baffled.

This hadn’t gone exactly how they’d like. In December, Bloomberg reported recently, “a senior US defense official posed a hypothetical scenario” to Amodei: What if a nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missile were hurtling towards the US with only 90 seconds to spare, and Anthropic’s AI were the only way to trigger a missile response to save the country, but the company’s safeguards wouldn’t allow it, the senior official mused in a December phone call. “Call me,” was how Pentagon officials interpreted Amodei’s answer, according to another senior defense official briefed on the discussion, who described being astounded by the billionaire’s response. LOL. Our beautiful generals have many medals and some even have battlefield experience, but I can say with some confidence that they have never engaged with a Rationalist online and are deeply unprepared for what it means to pick a fight with one.

[Dario Amodei Bane voice] “Oh, you think stupid elaborate hypotheticals are your ally. But you merely adopted elaborate and weirdly specific hypothetical scenarios; I was born in them, molded by them. I didn’t see a normal argument until I was already a man, by then it was nothing to me but BLINDING!”

one of the funniest things to keep coming out of the anthropic reporting is that the pentagon was trying to convince amodei by proposing elaborate hypothetical scenarios. buddy do you think an EFFECTIVE ALTRUIST has never considered a bizarrely specific and elaborate hypothetical scenario??

Well, indeed! My comment was that I was hoping someone with a vested interest might say, I know a lot about the NLRA and I put a question into it and I now have an opinion on its efficacy.

I’m a journalist and Matt, who made the thing in question, is a labor lawyer.

this is one of those things where i think it would be useful for more people to recognize that this is completely unrecognizable compared to republican party orthodoxy for essentially the entire history of the republican party

the official Pentagon position is that Anthropic has the best AI available, is suffuse with anti-American ideology and action sufficient to render it an urgent national security risk, and it absolutely must continue working with the DoD for six months

Trump is booting Anthropic from the military. Palantir helped bring it there The company's large role in military data systems has boosted Anthropic's usefulness to the Pentagon.

The role of Palantir in the Anthropic/Pentagon feud (and in its possible solutions) remains under-focused: www.fastcompany.com/91500164/pal...

People's refusal to try a thing—even just to develop a stronger critique of it!—very bizarre! bsky.app/profile/mcle...

Guess they had already prepared for my clever gambit.

Trying something with my friends at DHL

I think people who don't have kids should DEFINITELY do it this weekend.

A lot of guys over 30 think they can still do 20 beers between 2 and midnight and, like, sure let's see a video.

I wrote about the idea that AI will destroy today’s software giants, and why it seems equally possible they’ll use it to become even more gigantic. www.fastcompany.com/91498768/saa...

Fascinating stuff on the psychology of a lot of AI critique in these replies. If my argument was that I was 100% confident that Matt's thing was giving bad advice, I would try the tool and find the evidence and post it. I would not simply say "good god, no" over and over.

Exactly. Needs some standardization. Makes me think of my endless frustration that many people attempt the "beer mile" with NA beer. With all due respect to my teetotaling friends: that's a very different challenge.

Going to be a nihilist here and say that all these words are constructs with hugely variable meaning and there’s little point in trying to interpret what a random voter means when they say “strong” or “empathetic.”

Lot of people in the quotes here need to be posting some videos this weekend of how quickly and painlessly they knock this out.

David Byrne Bike Racks Musician and avid cyclist David Byrne has designed two sets of bike racks for BAM.

I still have nightmares of trying to lock up to these: www.bam.org/visit/david-...

It’s interesting that this is being framed as about limiting spandex guys training. Going more than 15 is a very normal speed for a very normal person just getting around on their bike.

Mayor Lurie blamed S.F. ‘group’ for antisemitic chants. Video, witnesses reveal an uninvited, raving woman. Mayor Daniel Lurie's version of events went viral internationally and led to online opprobrium against San Francisco. It was inaccurate.

Mayor Lurie yesterday blamed a "group of individuals" for antisemitic chants at a San Francisco protest.

The mayor's version was inaccurate. Video & witnesses reveal a lone, uninvited raving woman.

But the statements led to viral online opprobrium.

missionlocal.org/2026/02/sf-m...

Feel like for the most part these judges are in some sort of Zeno's paradox of actually forcing the issue on this stuff. They're always getting one step closer and yet, never quite getting there.

DHS agents detain Columbia student after entering University-owned residence, Shipman reports <i>This is a developing story. Check back for updates. </i>

fyi the Columbia student newspaper has far more details on the ICE raid on a Columbia residence hall (including the likely name of the student in question) than any of the journalists y'all are reposting who aren't on campus. 🙂 support student journalism!

This is pretty typical, but the incredibly anti-Semitic Youtube report on Kiryas Joel acts like some exposé but... the Times has covered Kiryas Joel for years? This is a live political issue that's well-explored! These guys should just try reading, they'd find out about this stuff way earlier.