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US-Israel war on Iran: Netanyahu says ‘all indications’ show supreme leader Khamenei has been killed – live Israeli prime minister addresses media after US and Israel launch major combat operation against Iran; at least 201 people killed in Iran, media reports say

Khamenei believed to have been killed in Iran

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Pentagon to Cut Ties With Top Universities and Think Tanks

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Pentagon cutting ties with seven think tanks: CSIS, New America, Brookings, the Atlantic Council, CNAS, CFR and Stimson Center.

I promise you that the government that murdered Alex Pretti and Renee Good does not give a flying fuck about the protests in Iran.

#Breaking an official with the EU naval mission Aspides says vessels have been receiving transmission from Iran's revolutionary guards saying no ship is allowed to pass the strait of Hormuz

In case you thought this won’t cause a wider war in the ME:

This statement is scary. Kallas can’t even bring herself to condemn US admin:

I really don’t understand why there is so much unfounded euphoria in Europe (Germany specifically) that this illegal attack on Iran will lead to more stable outcomes and in the long run to less suffering and killing.

Iran did not pose an immediate threat to the United States. Trump has admitted this is a regime change war. He did this without congressional authorization. This is an unconstitutional action. Worse, he clearly has no plan for what comes next. It’s a Mad King war.

“Empire of AI” by Karen Hao really revealed Sam Altman to be astonishingly dishonest person. Truly disturbing for him to have so much power

Sam Altman tweet: Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network. In all of our interactions, the DoW displayed a deep respect for safety and a desire to partner to achieve the best possible outcome. Al safety and wide distribution of benefits are the core of our mission. Two of our most important safety principles are prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems. The DoW agrees with these principles, reflects them in law and policy, and we put them into our agreement. We also will build technical safeguards to ensure our models behave as they should, which the DoW also wanted. We will deploy FEsto help with our models and to ensure their safety, we will deploy on cloud networks only. We are asking the DoW to offer these same terms to all Al companies, which in our opinion we think everyone should be willing to accept. We have expressed our strong desire to see things de-escalate away from legal and governmental actions and towards reasonable agreements. We remain committed to serve all of humanity as best we can. The world is a complicated, messy, and sometimes dangerous place.

TL; DR He wants to murder more children.

Breaking news alert from The New York Times: OpenAI said it would provide the Pentagon with A.I. tools hours after technology by Anthropocene, its competitor, was banned by that Orange Turd (President Trump).

Hey, remember when Sam Altman was abruptly fired from OpenAI back in 2023 - but only briefly? No reason, no reason. Hey, what was the plot of Terminator again?

Here's one we baked already www.programmablemutter.com/p/who-loses-...

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

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??

What this does to military A.I. capabilities is beyond the brief of this newsletter, except to say that I think it’s “bad” for Grok, the pedophile mechahitler A.I., to be involved with weapons in really any way. What I am interested in, here, is what this reveals about the state of politics in Silicon Valley. In a sentence, I think what’s happening is (1) basic (i.e. normal) cutthroat competition between rival firms for government contracts, which is both driving and being driven by (2) an open and ongoing political-ideological dispute between two factions of Silicon Valley capital, which is in turn informing and being informed by (3) an almost religious disagreement about the nature of the god being built on the computer.

To start, it seems quite obvious that the Tech Right--a bloc of right-wing, Trump-aligned executives, investors, podcasters, Twitter personalities, firms, and companies, among them Palantir’s Joe Lonsdale and Alex Karp, Anduril’s Palmer Luckey, and, of course, xAI’s Elon Musk--with its extensive links to the administration, has been exerting behind-the-scenes pressure on Hegseth and the Pentagon to sever ties with or otherwise punish Anthropic. It was a Palantir executive, after all, who snitched on Anthropic to the D.o.D., and Hegseth’s speech in January about “objectively truthful AI capabilities” was a close echo of Musk’s ramblings about his “maximally truth-seeking” model Grok. The Tech Right’s contempt for Anthropic is first and foremost financial in nature. Musk, obviously, would like xAI to be first in line for any government contracts. (Indeed, Hegseth announced a deal with xAI this week to use Grok under the Pentagon’s preferred “all lawful use” terms.) And I suspect Palantir, Anthropic client though it may be, has the same existential fear of Claude as McKinsey or Salesforce or any other consultancy or software-as-a-service provider. If Anthropic is aggressively courting the D.o.D. to contract directly, and if Claude is as good as every thinks, what does Palantir’s future as a data-analytics-in-camo platform actually look like?

This doesn’t necessarily separate him from any other Silicon Valley liberal. But I think it’s good to attend to the valence of his liberalism. Amodei, like most of the Anthropic executives and many people in the A.I. in general, has long been associated with the worlds of Bay Area Rationalism and Effective Altruism--wonkily utilitarian philosophical and philanthropic practices focused on self-described rationalist inquiry and self-improvement. Bay Area Rationalism is a loose and diverse movement, containing a host of political perspectives, but it’s always had a particular concern with moral philosophy as it relates to the expected development of artificial superintelligence. To be a Rationalist liberal democrat (small-L small-D), e.g., might mean orienting your liberal democrat-ness toward its practical applications around the eschatological scenario of hard-takeoff A.G.I.

I don’t mean to suggest that Amodei’s commitments to liberal democracy are inauthentic. More that, as far he is concerned the stakes of this commitment go well beyond his own moral or ethical culpability. The decisions he makes now, and his consistent practice to his espoused beliefs, could mean the difference between a benevolent computer god and a wrathful one. X avatar for @hlntnr Helen Toner @hlntnr One thing the Pentagon is very likely underestimating: how much Anthropic cares about what *future Claudes* will make of this situation. Because of how Claude is trained, what principles/values/priorities the company demonstrate here could shape its "character" for a long time. Andrew Curran @AndrewCurran_ Update on the meeting; according to Axios Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave Dario Amodei until Friday night to give the military unfettered access to Claude or face the consequences, which may even include invoking the Defense Production Act to force the training of a WarClaude 4:26 PM · Feb 25, 2026 · 227K Views 41 Replies · 122 Reposts · 1.96K Likes And this has placed him, and Anthropic, on a collision course with the Tech Right. Musk, too, believes he is bringing superintelligence into existence at xAI. But for him the urgenct imp

one way of seeing anthropic vs. the pentagon is as a fissure between the two silicon valley tribes most enthusiastic about ai: "rationalists" and "accelerationists"

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What’s funny is that Anthropic is saying that their RADICAL LEFT, WOKE COMPANY products should not be making kill decisions, but military leaders should.

Yarvin äußert auf Elmau „Nothing is ever impressive, when it’s weak“. Verachtung von Schwäche = Merkmal des Faschismus. Die SZ ist jedoch ganz fasziniert, beschreibt ihn als "furchterregend enttäuschten Idealisten", als "das große andere zum liberaldemokratischen Establishment".

Schon vergangenen Donnerstag, 19. Februar, hatte Yarvin in der Wiener Josefstadt in der Alberthalle – dem ehemaligen Sitz der Hitlerjugend – eine Lesung auf Einladung des Orbán-nahen rechtskonservativen Magazins „The European Conservative“ abgehalten. Fotostrecke: flic.kr/s/aHBqjCKVA3

Curtis Yarvin erreich den Ferdinandihof. Er wird von 5 Männern begleitet, vier davon bedecken ihr Gesicht mit goldenen Masken. Rechts neben der Gruppe das TKF-Fahrzeug der LPD Wien.

Yarvin passiert Journalist*innen, hält dabei ein von ihm verfasstes Buch in die Kameras. Martin Sellner begleitet Yarvin in das Gebäude, er ist direkt rechts neben Yarvin zu sehen. Mehrere IB-Aktivisten versuchen Journalist*innen abzuschirmen, mehrere schwarze Regenschirme sind im Bild zu sehen.

Einen Tag nach dem Wiener Akademikerball (21. Februar) richtete die rechtsextreme IB-Studierendengruppe "Aktion 451" im Wiener Ferdinandihof eine Lesung des US-Neofaschisten Curtis Yarvin aus. Zahlreiche Führungsfiguren der IBÖ, aber auch der IBD nahmen teil. Fotostrecke: flic.kr/s/aHBqjCLzqV

I hope someone gives John Oliver a new home after he's fired

Just a reminder that this happened two days ago.

David Ellison is the nepo baby who runs Paramount/Skydance and brought on Bari Weiss to destroy CBS News. He will now run Warner Bros and CNN after the likely merger.

Pro Trump, Pro Netanyahu fanatics Larry and David Ellison will most likely now control Paramount, CBS, CNN, HBO, Warner Bros, and TikTok

Block the Paramount/Warner Bros deal, Dems in California.

Play hardball.

Thursday: Warner's says Paramount bid is superior, Netflix pulls out. Trump has steered CNN's parent company to a crony, who already owns CBS News.

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A senior CBS News staffer expressed sympathy for employees at CNN who are frustrated and upset over the Paramount news. "I need to keep reminding myself it can - and will - always get worse," the staffer told me, adding that CNN staffers "should" be freaking out since "it's hell over here."

really not in the mood to have to approve of anthropic but…

Bill Gates apologizes to foundation staff for Jeffrey Epstein ties Microsoft co-founder admits affairs and calls meetings ‘huge mistake’ but denies involvement in Epstein’s crimes

Gates did say that he had an affair with a “Russian bridge player who met me at bridge events, and one with a Russian nuclear physicist who I met through business activities”.

You gotta be kidding me...

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Two stories next to each other: from CNN 'Pentagon threatens to make Anthropic a pariah if it refuses to drop Al guardrails', and from New Scientist: 'Als can't stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations Leading Als from OpenAl, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases'

Just leaving these two stories next to each other.:
'AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations' & 'Pentagon threatens to make Anthropic a pariah if it refuses to drop AI guardrails'
www.newscientist.com/article/2516... edition.cnn.com/2026/02/24/t...