Stand with Ukraine 🙏

Like everyone else, I, too, can multitask, so here is my (usually) daily reminder not to forget about the Trump-Epstein scandal.

... Today in #Qatar : #USA #Israel v #Iran 📰
• @warshorts_ Another angle of the patriot system at Qatars Al Udeid Air Base. @warshorts_

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Besties in crimes against children

Me too

Oh look at this...

And he gets away with everything and anything

Stephen Colbert: Every Republican President in my lifetime has brought us an economic crash and a new war.

These children died for Trump's greed and literally nothing else

OpenAI accuses DeepSeek of “free-riding” on American R&D The ChatGPT maker says the Chinese firm may be distilling its models, underscoring rising tech tensions between Washington and Beijing.

DeepSeek's R1 model challenged top U.S. AI systems last year, but OpenAI says the Chinese startup accessed its models to distill outputs and imitate performance
https://restofworld.org/2026/openai-deepseek-distillation-dispute-us-china/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky

Cartoon by Michael de Adder

TURNS OUT, TRUMP WILL SEND OUR SONS TO WAR

We must support the
Constitution of the United States 🇺🇸

The U.S. just surpassed a grim measles milestone As the U.S. officially breaks 1,000 measles cases in 2026, experts say that the rate of infections is accelerating much faster this year than it did in years past

Congratulations to us.

We've officially passed 1000 measles cases. In two months, we approached half of the TOTAL confirmed cases (2281) in 2025. And that is in the beginning of 2026. The rate of infections is accelerating faster than last year.

🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/u-s-...

Exclusive | Altman Says OpenAI Is Working on Pentagon Deal Amid Anthropic Standoff Altman waded into the standoff between Anthropic and the Pentagon over the use of AI on the battlefield, telling his staff that the company was working on a deal that might help solve the impasse.

it appears that OpenAI is adopting the same restrictions as Anthropic, or is looking to, though their language is a fair bit softer than Anthropic's here

All the smart people shall act together to make people safe, 👍

‘I’m deeply uncomfortable’: Anthropic CEO warns that a cadre of AI leaders, including himself, should not be in charge of the technology’s future | Fortune Dario Amodei, who left OpenAI before founding Anthropic, has been outspoken about the need for greater AI regulation.

The open letter is promising.

Here’s a recent article about Dario Amodei. He and Geoffrey Hinton have been warning about AI for some time.

“And this is one reason why I’ve always advocated for responsible and thoughtful regulation of the technology” Amodei said.

fortune.com/article/why-...

We Will Not Be Divided Employees of Google and OpenAI stand together to refuse the Department of War's demands to use AI models for domestic mass surveillance and autonomous killing without human oversight.

An open letter has been signed by 200+ OpenAI and Deepmind employees, who want their companies to adopt the same restrictions on use that Anthropic has. If this ends up occurring, then the DoD's only option for 'frontier' intelligence will be Grok.

The authoritarian AI crisis has arrived AI safety researchers have long worried that a government would seek to use AI for domestic surveillance and autonomous killing. The Pentagon’s fight with Anthropic threatens to make it a reality

Outstanding @caseynewton.bsky.social analysis (of course) of the Anthropic/DOD fight. www.platformer.news/anthropic-pe...

Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War A statement from our CEO on national security uses of AI

A big thank you to Anthropic!

After a weeks-long standoff between the Defense Department and AI firm Anthropic over how the military can deploy its technology, CEO Dario Amodei said tonight that the company will not loosen its usage policies.

Anthropic rejects Pentagon’s ‘best and final offer’ CEO Dario Amodei said start-up ‘cannot in good conscience’ agree to government’s terms for military use of its AI

Anthropic rejects Pentagon’s ‘best and final offer’ ft.trib.al/x16c2SZ

Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War A statement from our CEO on national security uses of AI

A major Pentagon–Anthropic showdown is underway. The Pentagon is pushing for Claude to enable mass AI surveillance + autonomous drones, threatening a supply-chain-risk label or a defense production act takeover if they don’t.

Ultimatum was issued for tomorrow.

Anthropic just refused.

From the Anthropic CEO

Anthropic boss rejects Pentagon demand to drop AI safeguards Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth previously threatened to remove the firm from the department's supply chain.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Five corporations control 90% of the US media market.

Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.

Four giants control 80% of meat processing.

The evidence of corporate consolidation is everywhere.

It means more power for them and less freedom for you.

I love Joe Biden, but Obama will forever be my favorite US President. However, Joe gets credit for the most accomplished during a single term and I have no doubt much of it was sidelined by Congress because Obama was instrumental in putting it together.
What a fantastic team they were. 😊

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