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

getting really mad about effective altriusm? what is this, november 2022?

if Matthew Rhys is not currently gaining a tasteful 40 lbs to play Dario Amodei he's got the wrong agent

there is a big difference between "right-wing newsman" and "right-wing man owns news"

I would *love* to get a real tik tock of Zaslav's maneuvering and Netflix's thought process for its $27.5 per share offer -- you gotta wonder if they were egging a rival into getting (further) out over his skis

How Netflix Forced Paramount to Cough Up More for Warner Bros. David Ellison finally got what he wanted but his prize didn’t come cheap.

paramount is paying 63% more than its initial bid, ~250% more than where the stock was trading before its bid
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0:48s: "Shamokin Police Officer Ray Psycho"?!

gotcha, thanks!

do we know if $21bn is for the deck alone, or deck+federal contribution to unit construction?

kinda gotta laugh at "the community deserves a seat at the table before the mayor". what are we even talking about

oh got for a run and get lunch after???

Company spokespeople were clearly aware of the broader teen-safety problem. Just four weeks after Zuckerberg had posted about being “good for kids,” two public-affairs specialists discussed an Instagram update that had just rolled out. That update made new accounts belonging to 13-, 14-, and 15-year-olds “private” by default, yet even this modest move had been flagged by insiders as a business risk for nearly two years before the change was made. Liza Crenshaw messaged her colleague Sophie Vogel that the move had been “contentious”—Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri, a deputy to Zuckerberg, was concerned that it would cause a “huge growth hit,” Crenshaw wrote, according to documents we reviewed. “We will never get out of this mess if he/we’re not just prepared to ERR ON THE SIDE OF SAFETY,” Vogel wrote. “Would he want any tom dick or harry being able to see all his kids’ content, follow them etc? Is he fucking nuts?”

In a different situation, internal chats between company spokespeople showed disbelief at how Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri worried about a potential "growth hit" that would come from making accounts belonging to minors private by default. "Is he fucking nuts?"

Not so long ago, Mark Zuckerberg was working in overdrive to convince the world that his company was doing everything it could to protect children. In 2021, he posted a note to his personal Facebook page, writing that he had “spent a lot of time reflecting” on the types of experiences he would want his daughters, then 4 and 5 years old, to have online. “It’s very important to me that everything we build is safe and good for kids,” he wrote, emphasizing that the company absolutely does not “prioritize profit over safety and well-being.”

But documents recently viewed by The Atlantic show that behind the scenes, the company now known as Meta was divided on whether protecting kids should take precedence over user growth and engagement. For years, the company only incrementally rolled out restrictive safety features, even as its own staff detailed the risks its platforms posed to children. Take, for example, a technical problem that affected the company’s systems in November 2020. This issue limited Meta’s ability to track bad actors, at a time when there were, according to an internal chat, “thousands of minors” reporting what the company refers to as tier-one “Inappropriate Interactions with Children,” or “IIC T1”—the “most severe” outcomes possible, such as meeting for sex in real life, suicide, extortion, sadism, and sex trafficking.

“Even though we know that there is IIC T1 going on (more than 50% of which is sextortion which can lead to suicide) we haven’t done anything. we had a broken escalation path and no measurements,” one employee wrote in the internal chat about the problem. “God knows what happened to those kids.” The company fixed the technical failure within weeks, another document shows, but it would take several more years to adopt other suggested measures to tackle broader issues that allowed predators to find underage targets on Instagram, which Meta owns.

In November 2020, certain safeguards that were in place at the time temporarily failed, leading to "thousands of minors" reporting severe interactions, which could include "extortion, sadism, and sex trafficking"

"We haven’t done anything" one employee wrote. "God knows what happened to those kids"

Meta Says It Cares About Kids. New Documents Tell a Different Story. For years, employees acknowledged a problem with potential child groomers, but prioritized growth over fixes.

NEW: Documents viewed by @michaelscherer.bsky.social and @kait.bsky.social give a candid look at how Meta approaches the issue of child safety. For years, it dragged its feet on features that would help prevent groomers from targeting kids, explicitly prioritizing growth and engagement instead.

I didn't learn about run-walk from him but I'm pretty sure I learned about it *because* of him and it is pure genius, adaptable to any fitness or experience level.

in all sincerity DM me if you wanna talk about how run-walk can help YOU

Jeff Galloway Made Me a Marathoner

great piece about a wonderful person who helped a lot of people www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/w...

one thing about Rupert Murdoch is that he was maniacally focused, involved and talented editorial operator deeply attuned to the craft and business of media

sidewalks, we're talking about sidewalks. not the subway. sidewalks

he was caught at a very Chinese time in his life

A four-act play:

-Co-founder touts earnings as a potential catalyst for a short squeeze

-company had already released preliminary results

-company releases actual results, in line

-stock slumps

$FIGR
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the display name of an extremely online elderly millennial leftist: @ grahamplatnerfasciitis

it's amazing how rapidly and publicly AGI was downgraded from "a computer with infinite self-generating intelligence capable of annihilating the human race" to "it can reliably screw up rental car reservations for you"

Fab observation from @pd-williams.bsky.social here:

Massive near-term divergence between July fed funds and end-2027 SOFR, consistent with mounting worries that SaaSpocalypse also means medium term white-collar employment wipeout
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and basically the whole solution is repeated, long-term exposure to a massive diversity of athletic movements, which is why single-sport athletes with a relatively short history in sports are at such high risk

YIKES www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/m...

your regular reminder that nobody hates prosecutors like other lawyers nymag.com/intelligence...

Nvidia, the gaming console component manufacturer? sherwood.news/business/as-...

Because Disney doesn’t have the executive producer to pull it off

(also, you shouldn't be worried about this)