Jeff Hodges

Exactly right: “We’re long past the point at which there are neutral legal principles that can be deployed to persuasively reconcile all of the Court’s behavior … It makes the Court at least look like what so many regularly accuse it of being: a font of partisan political power, and not much more.”

So, so instructive to compare media response to Afghanistan withdrawal -- months of hysterical garment-rending & catastrophizing, relentless criticism of the admin -- with the response to an unprovoked, unmotivated, illegal war of aggression, ie, "some critics say maybe Trump should have reasons."

Remember what I said about how, when Trump is flailing, they start inserting a fake, fictional Trump into their stories, who is acting rationally and sanely?

Proposed waterfront tower could test California’s power to override S.F. height restrictions A San Francisco high-rise four blocks north of Oracle Park would stand 23 stories, more than twice the current limit allowed by the city.

Fuck, and may I emphasize, yes www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/t...

Turns out the normative facades do actually have a massively important substantive impact even if they aren’t exact descriptions of reality, and getting rid of them makes everything worse!

Very few ideas have been as utterly discredited by the last few years as the idea that it’s actually good to tear down an imperfectly observed, aspirational ideological facade and ‘be honest’

They have moved into the regulatory equivalent of a surprise proposal

Announcing things in hopes of people not being willing to tell them no .

Or just doing a smear campaign hoping folks will be too reactionary to be willing to wait / check

Reading this, again, you get the sense that someone at Anthropic knows how the intel community misleads by using definitions of words that are different than everyone else believes. And the people at OpenAI simply don't know or don't care about that.

User Chris: What was the core difference why you think the DoW accepted OpenAI but not Anthropic Sam Altman: I can't speak for them, but to speculate with the best understanding of the situation. *First, I saw reporting that they were extremely close on a deal, and for much of the time both sides really wanted to reach one. I have seen what happens in tense negotiations when things get stressed and deteriorate super fast, and I could believe that was a large part of what happened here. *We believe in a layered approach to safety--building a safety stack, deploying FDEs and having our safety and alignment researcher involved, deploying via cloud, working directly with the DoW. Anthropic seemed more focused on specific prohibitions in the contract, rather than citing applicable laws, which we felt comfortable with. We feel that it it's very important to build safe system, and although documents are also important, I'd clearly rather rely on technical safeguards if I only had to pick one. *We and the DoW got comfortable with the contractual language, but I can understand other people would have a different opinion here. *I think Anthropic may have wanted more operational control than we did

I saw some folks asking what the difference was between what OpenAI signed with the DoD and what Anthropic said they wanted, and Sam more or less admits here the key point: OpenAI's deal requires them to trust the NSA. Anthropic's contract had real safeguards.

looking at the average democratic frontline candidate in 2006 vs 2026 is kinda astounding

we were probably all up last night staring at the ceiling with our own version of the same thought running on endless loop, but mine looked something like this:

I hate these people to a degree that feels simultaneously corrosive to the soul, and also the only righteous response to this kind of evil

meanwhile, war rages on at home.

Arguably the one thing even less popular than being in the Epstein files

A reminder that the administration spent the day before it launched a war in the Middle East feuding with tech companies over whether and how the AI models the Pentagon buys will be restrained from autonomously killing people.

After a US-Israeli strike on a girls’ elementary school in Minab, Iran, rescuers dug through the rubble for survivors. The death toll is still rising, with more than 80 confirmed dead so far.

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done

- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy

Do we have a Constitution anymore, or is it just optional? Because if it’s the second thing it opens up a lot of options about what to do with these guys

Like, there were so many times where Trump and Vance were allowed to just brazenly lie and only have questions about their truth shoehorned in maybe in like the fifth paragraph whereas Harris would slightly misstate a fact and that would be the headline.

I want so badly to believe in Hell so that I know that the Trump administration will get what they deserve

Just want to note that 3am in Washington is like 11:30am in Tehran. The American people are the ones he snuck up on in the dead of night to conduct this illegal attack, not the purported enemy.

In case you’re just waking up, the U.S. has teamed up with Israel overnight to start an illegal war of regime change, apparently on a presidential whim with no involvement of Congress, and they are already committing horrific atrocities.

Claims of 40 dead after an Israeli airstrike on a elementary girl’s school in Iran
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if you believe in any form of free enterprise at all, the idea that the Pentagon can not only cut off your contract but designate you a supply chain risk and prevent other companies from buying from you just because you won't build killbots for the government should be terrifying

You sound like an unhinged person if you in plain words describe what’s happening, but the Trump admin demanded Anthropic’s AI be able to kill things for it w/out human approval and also do mass surveillance.

Anthropic said no, and now the admin is trying to destroy the company in retaliation.

Newsom is American Starmer but I think it shows less in Newsom's treatment of the trans community and more his antipathy for the homeless.

As the guy who wrote the book on zoning abolition, I'd like to go on record as saying: if you can use zoning to stop the concentration camps, fucking go for it.

I feel like i've seen this a million times, where someone just posts nonsense or innuendo and then people repeat it until it just becomes something people "know" happened even though it never did bsky.app/profile/jame...

you think you've seen the whole movie, and then the alt text reveals you haven't even finished act two

The popularists see the success of Starmer’s Labour and want to import it to the U.S.