Indrapramit Das

"I'm getting lazier and the code is getting worse. This is the future!"

Coming soon from Warner-Paramount-Skydance...

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...

1996: I want to read about what a Floating Point Unit is and get a CPU with one so I can play QUAKE

2026: I don't want to even know what an NPU is nor hear about how it's required to run Windows 12, let alone ever run Windows 12

Jamal's parents are desperate for help, & donations are very slow. Jamal has asthma and diabetes, & is suffering seizures. He desperately needs treatment, & his family can't afford it. They need your help, & are being blocked by both the admin & users of the site. Please help them survive genocide:

Okay what the hell here's the free version if you have nothing better to do

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Little Julia sitting atop a large pile of debris that was once the contents of their home, before it was bombed. She is two years old in this photo (now 3). She is wearing a dark pink puffy coat, denim pants, with a grey wool hat, her dark curly hair peeking out. She has olive skin, and is looking to the left.

Sama’a and Julia standing in the rubble of their home after Israel’s bombardment. Julia is in the front, holding onto a large gray fallen pole of some sort, wearing a pink puffy coat, denim pants and blue sneakers. Sama’a, her mother, is about six feet back, wearing an oversized white shirt with Mickey Mouse on the front, with a black hooded shirt underneath that is pulled over her head, a black open zip up jacket, and jeans. She is holding up her hands in a peace sign.

Sama’a and three year old Julia standing in front of their home, totally collapsed from the bombs. Julia is in the front, facing left, holding onto a large gray fallen pole of some sort, wearing a pink puffy coat, denim pants and blue sneakers. Sama’a is wearing an oversized white shirt with Mickey Mouse on the front, with a black hooded shirt underneath that is pulled over her head, a black open zip up jacket, and jeans. She is looking into the camera with a meek smile and has her right hand in a peace sign, and holding hands with Julia, who is looking down but toward her mother. She wearing a pink puffy coat, denim pants and blue sneakers

Sama’a standing in a bombed out building surrounded by rubble and dirt, holding her 5 month old daughter, Talia. She is wearing a Black hijab, a white sweatshirt with Mickey Mouse, and black pants. Baby Talia is swaddled in a white blanket, and wearing a white headband with a bow.

My children don’t understand why their home has turned into rubble, or why they sleep among broken glass and dust.

This photo isn’t just a passing moment…it is our daily reality.

We desperately need your support to secure safe shelter.

- Sama’a 🤍
@mommunism.bsky.social

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It occurs to me that if the government did force UK writers to hand over their work to the big AI companies, that would now among other things mean contributing to the development of US advanced weapon systems.

How do you live with yourself telling prospective students from Sudan, where the UN sees the 'hallmarks of genocide', that they can't study here because they're from Sudan?

The things we'd say on here if we could.

Money becomes worthless. During the recent famine in Gaza, a bag of flour cost $1,000. I think flour is available to everyone, but many may not realize its value. Believe me, if you live in safety and have food, you have everything.

Dear @mommunism.bsky.social @gorangligovic.bsky.social @caseyexplosion.bsky.social Baraa has asked for a share if you have time. Thank you so much.

Technofascist peeping tom nerds deserve to have their glasses broken.

This shit should be illegal. No one needs this. Remember it was famously reported that Zuck kept a cover over his laptop camera.

The IRGC and its Basij militia are shooting directly at Iranians who are shouting anti-regime slogans from their windows in Tehran.

They are exploiting the chaos of war to shut down the internet and to target and kill anyone they choose with ease.

📚💙Forgot to post this before in the flurry of health emergencies, but I wrote an essay for @locusmag.bsky.social about my fave books of 2025, reading in hospital waiting rooms and how art might not be able to save us, but still help us to make sense of suffering & grief
locusmag.com/feature/the-...

Dear @gorangligovic.bsky.social @caseyexplosion.bsky.social Alaa has asked for a share if you have time. Thank you so much.

'My children are freezing and starving 💔❄️
Their tiny bodies can’t endure this cold and hunger. My husband was taken prisoner in the final days of the war, and I’m about to give birth alone 🤰🏻💔
We urgently need €200 — 10 people giving €20 can save us
Please don’t ignore us.'

Argentinian pulp covers, circa maybe the 1960s. I love how incredibly lurid and dark they are.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pRG...

0 chatter about this on Bluesky, it's everywhere on Twitter India.

UP: 13-year-old Muslim boy found dead; family alleges murder, FIR filed against four A 13-year-old Muslim boy was found dead in Lucknow’s Krishnanagar area on Monday evening, with his family alleging that he was taken from his home and murdered. A 13-year-old Muslim boy was found dead...

A 13 yo Muslim boy shot in the head. The Times of India headline already declares it 'accidental', even though he was basically abducted & even the UP police have opened an investigation against 4 including the relative of a BJP leader. 'the child’s father said, “It was a pre-planned murder.”'

Really hoping Portgual's leaders step up and say something like this, but it's risky as fuck, because of that nasty little USAF base in the Azores

Please help Shimaa survive Israel's genocide with her little child & mother, who are starving & ill. She's already lost her husband, & she's unable to post regularly because Bsky deletes her. The crossings are closed, & food & meds are even more unaffordable.

Doaa is living in hell.

For weeks Doaa’s children were in hospital, deathly ill with severe Covid.

Doaa is living in hell.

Doaa needs money for food, formula, and diapers, which increase in price every day.

Doaa is living in hell.

@mommunism.bsky.social
@pepsffk.bsky.social

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Baraa has lost two little daughters to Israel's genocide. Please help her keep her remaining son Ibrahim alive. Bluesky keeps deleting & suspending her so she's been unable to post for herself. Gaza is completely cut off again, & they urgently need help:

"The BlueSky policy is preventing us from sharing the suffering we're going through. We're in dire need of help. We're freezing and can't find anything to eat. This is our only hope to share our story 💔."

Aziz expressing despair at the camera over his ruined tent.

Picture of Aziz and his father looking into the camera. The father is holding one of the tent poles.

Aziz looking to the left, next to his collapsed tent.

Aziz and his mother, gathering up the destroyed tent.

There is no longer any place to shelter us. Our tent has collapsed, and we have no home left — we are now out in the street without protection.
Please help us before it’s too late. Every bit of support or even sharing this message could make a difference in saving us.
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