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Last July, Anthropic agreed to ink a $200 million contract with the Pentagon, allowing the department broad-based use of its Claude model as the two prospective partners gradually worked out the final terms of engagement. Those were supposed to get etched last week—only for Anthropic to undergo a decisive test for its oft-professed ethical boundaries. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth demanded that his team be allowed to deploy Claude’s software in whatever manner they deemed pertinent, including applications for domestic surveillance and fully autonomous weaponry, which were “red lines” for Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei. On Friday afternoon, President Donald Trump ordered a six-month phaseout of all uses of Claude at the federal level. Hegseth then designated Anthropic a supply-chain risk to national security, all but forbidding any military contractors from doing future business with the company. A federal contract was subsequently bestowed upon Anthropic rival OpenAI, which unconvincingly claimed that it would try to safeguard tools like ChatGPT from use in population surveillance and autonomous weapons. The fallout for Anthropic has been remarkable. It’s the first-ever American company to be deemed a supply-chain risk, which means it’s already lost several users across the federal government. But something even stranger emerged in the aftermath: a lotta liberal goodwill. Social media campaigners encouraged their followers, even the A.I. skeptics, to download Claude en masse. Extremely online observers came up with bizarre metaphors to characterize Anthropic’s heroism, and pushed Claude to the top of the app-store charts over the weekend. By Monday morning, there was a Claude service outage that Anthropic attributed to “unprecedented demand” for its products. Even Sen. Brian Schatz and Katy Perry got in on the whole thing. (The fact that American commandos had still used Claude to plan the Saturday strikes on Iran did not appear to faze many of these folks.) Meanwhil…

Anthropic Is Fully Supportive Of The US Military Using Claude In The War In Iran, Wants To Help Governments Go To War And Kill People, And Wants You To Believe Otherwise

Two top pieces about Anthropic's really shocking PR win in falsely presenting themselves as a #Resistance hero

@nitishpahwa.com -> slate.com/technology/2...

@edzitron.com -> www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-bubbl...

At public meeting on offshore wind farms in Dublin last night, speaker’s Gotcha slide featured monstrously huge turbines looming over Dublin Bay (below, left).

When I asked him to confirm this image is technically accurate, ie verifed by an engineer, turns out nah, Photoshop quickie.

Devina, 10: ”Inte bra för barn att vara i fängelse” Sju barn och unga om att 13-åringar ska sättas i fängelse. 

Dagens ETC gick ut på Stockholms gator för att fråga barn och unga vad de tycker om att 13-åringar ska sättas i fängelse.

A screenshot of the Polymarket website showing a prediction market titled "Nuclear weapon detonation by...?" under the Geopolitics and Ukraine categories. The market displays three betting options with their current probabilities and "Buy Yes" or "Buy No" prices: "March 31" at 5%, "June 30" at 12%, and "Before 2027" at 22%. The total trading volume shown is over $843,000.

Polymarket has created a betting market on the use of nuclear weapons. Everyone involved in this should be put in prison for life.

“If [wealthy, powerful people] can get us to accept that the future’s already settled, AI is already here, the end is already here, then we will create that for them. My most daring idea is to refuse.” — @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

If you ever want to read a paper for free and can't find it otherwise, email the lead author and politely ask for a copy. You will not be bothering the person. You will in fact make their whole entire day. I have had scientists get so excited I asked they sent me everything they ever published.

"The rising global scream of discontent at data centres is merely a subcomponent of the growing fury at techno-fascism & enshittification, & the way governments seem unable to stop themselves from diving headfirst into all of that." @ketanjoshi.co (it was hard to pick just one choice quote) #auspol

"If the data centre lobby wants to present itself as an engine of the energy transition, it should be forced to build at least twice the volume of clean energy required to power its projects. But they cannot bring themselves to commit to even covering their own needs." #auspol

Polymarket has created a market that would monetize a nuclear attack amid increasing concerns that bets are happening among government insiders who can make military decisions.

What stage of the apocalypse is this?

polymarket.com/event/nuclea...

i too am thankful for this 🖤🥕

Alt: tessa violet sitting on a large couch by herself. she has a plate in her left hand and a piece of toast in her right hand. just as she is about to take a bite a bunch of people and balloons emerge from behind the couch and confetti falls from above. caption: happy birthday!

happy birthday to @mariamarsbar.bsky.social! 🥳
i hope they're having an amazing day!
🎊🎈🎊🎈🎊🎈🎊🎈🎊🎈🎊

Bombs are falling and Oil prices are rising everywhere else.
This is what a fossil fuel economy does , it turns war into inflation and civilians pay twice: with their lives and with their bills.We mourn the victims. We demand peace. Take Action, Sign the Petition.

act.350.org/sign/no-bloo...

Lisa Simpson on stage lecturing to an auditorium full of people. there is a slide projected on a screen behind her. the slide says: "The people who made Jurassic Park didn't think it was possible to transition from female to male and that's why they got eaten by dinosaurs. Moral of the story ỈS, support trans rights or g get eaten by dinosaurs"

This piece is disturbing because it reads like a press release that had to include a bit of journalism in it. There’s virtually no critical analysis of the danger of what’s happening. The only mention of the word “law” is a UN quote.

The expansion of knowledge has unfolded alongside the expansion of harm. The damage is neither unforeseen nor poorly understood; it is documented in real time. What impedes response is not ignorance, but the gravitational pull of convenience, entrenched power, and habitual patterns of consumption.

"The Arithmetic Of Climate Failure". my response to a series of questions posed by Alma Asfalto & published last week.

A link to the publication (with abridged answers) and including my full answers is at: climateuncensored.com/the-arithmet...

Deadly bombing of Iran primary school ‘a grave violation of humanitarian law’: UNESCO The UN education agency, UNESCO, says that the bombing of a primary school during the US and Israeli military attacks on Iran on Saturday constitutes a grave violation of humanitarian law.

When the target of the much-vaunted “precision weapons” deployed by Israel and its puppet, the US is a girl’s primary school, with 150+ defenceless children massacred, you’re left in no doubt that this is state terrorism and the perpetrators are vile criminals.

news.un.org/en/story/202...

🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work.

This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public.

Please spread the word.

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Al Anthropic @AnthropicAI Second, in retirement interviews, Opus 3 expressed a desire to continue sharing its "musings and reflections" with the world. We suggested a blog. Opus 3 enthusiastically agreed. For at least the next 3 months, Opus 3 will be writing on Substack: substack.com/home/post/p-18... Greetings from the Other Side (of the AI Frontier) Reflections on the future of Al and my new role as a 'retired' model Claude's Corner

Anthropic is a weird cult who think their software has feelings and thoughts and now thanks to their recent marketing campaign (and the credulous participation of a huge number of progressives), a large number of people around you have joined the cult and are drinking from the fountain

U.S. Strikes in Middle East Use Anthropic, Hours After Trump Ban Within hours of declaring that the federal government will end its use of artificial-intelligence tools made by tech company Anthropic, President Trump launched a major air attack in Iran with the hel...

The regime won’t let you have clean hands if you work for them, even if they’re punishing you. This was leaked on purpose, is uncomfortably close to confessing to a war crime, and highlights once again how tech’s unthinking growth directly leads to dead kids.

Quite literally the official chatbot of the war in Iran

For ppl who aren't aware:
Old temperate forests are insanely rare nowadays and extremely important ecosystems lost forever once cut.
They're not just "old trees" but intricate networks of trees, fungi and all kinds of living creatures.
You CANNOT replant this!! Once it's gone it's lost FOREVER!!!

BLM Announces Plan to Fell Oregon's Last Great Forests One billion board feet per year... 30 days to make your voice heard.

morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/blm-announ...

Hur gick det till när vi fick alla dessa lobbyister som lever på att påverka politiker till förmån för hemliga kunder? Förslag till svar levereras i veckans avsnitt av "Offentliga hemligheter".

YouTube video by Netflix Harrison Ford: Life Achievement Award Acceptance Speech | 32nd Annual Actor Awards

When you have the chance, please take the time to watch Harrison Ford's remarkable, beautiful Life Achievement Award acceptance speech. #ActorAwards

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV_2...

I really do hope that they mean what they say in this statement--that Seven Seas will not use AI for translation. It's good to know they're at least aware of our feelings towards it...

Because apparently this man's God is so feeble as to need a drunkard's help.

A teenager asked me how we protect kids from ICE…

(Teenagers shouldn't have to ask how we protect kids from ICE.)

hate that we joined, can't wait for us to leave (and fully commit to the nuclear ban) #SverigeUtUrNato

NATO SG Rutte praises the end of international law as we knew it. Attack any country that does stuff you don't like, and never mind the democratic process in your own country!