Mike Tolhurst 🐧🇲🇽🇺🇸🇨🇦🌐

I wish some major media outlets would do broad reports on the impact of death threats on our politics, and on who's doing them (MAGA men mostly from what I can tell), and why law enforcement appears to be doing so little about them. They are such a big (submerged) part of our politics now.

Marjorie taylor Greene has strongly implied she resigned her seat because of death threats. It seems possible Romney chose not to run again because of death threats...

I seem to recall some comedians I liked getting cancelled 10 years ago and was kind of bummed but I dont recall the great woke funding of a an aggressive internal police apparatus and secret prison system.

International Relations Is Not a Morality Play: What to Expect From the War With Iran The Trump administration has no plan and no path to a good outcome.

Iran ≠ Iraq

"Many observers will note parallels to the 2003 Iraq war, with the US launching an unprovoked assault on a Middle Eastern government while denouncing an 'evil' regime pursuing weapons of mass destruction it does not currently have. But the differences are striking."

I count at least 5:

"Seeks revenge" is a bizarre way to describe "suing over discrimination".

"This small business owner is already giving her customers a tariff refund"

www.cbsnews.com/news/tariff-...

"if somebody charges you something and it's unlawful, they should give you your money back"

Cc: The White House

“if you won’t let us use your product to spy on Americans and kill without supervision we will single-handedly destroy your business by fiat” is the single most authoritarian anti-business action I can ever remember any administration taking

This is Trump's former AI adviser

a meme of "This man is your FRIEND He fights for FREEDOM" poster but with Claude

It would be insanely funny if Trimp triggers a general strike and a capital strike *at the same time*

It would be insanely funny if Trimp triggers calls for a general strike and a capital strike *at the same time*

Just saying if there is a time to "go Galt" this is the time. The anthropic situation is like *literally the plot of the novel*

This goes for the right, and left 🙃

Presumably this'll get tied up in court, and we'll see where it goes. But the scary potential precedent is that any company that wants to place any limits on the use of its stuff by the military can be wrecked, individually, by the executive branch.

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

Extraordinarily impressive but I am very concerned that the USG might just try to destroy Anthropic out of spite (and because bullies like Trump and Hegseth have exquisitely fragile egos and can’t tolerate anyone publicly standing up to them). www.anthropic.com/news/stateme...

Some day we'll all regret this & we'll hold hearings & rend garments & pledge "never again" & we'll be just as full of shit as we were last time.

Diese Personen stoppen Trumps Zölle Ein Juraprofessor, ein Staranwalt und ein Weinimporteur bilden das Bündnis, das Trumps Notstandszölle zu Fall brachte. Ein solch zentrales Urteil gab es seit Jahrzehnten nicht mehr.

The tariff case and I got profiled in one of Germany's major newspapers, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: www.faz.net/aktuell/wirt...

Make the USA like the EU but with more political integration?

I mean Ami Nakai had a good program too, but she didnt win gold. The Japan team was pretty stacked with talent.

How the Supreme Court Spared America The ruling against Trump’s tariffs is a major victory for the constitutional separation of powers, rule of law, and millions of American consumers and businesses.

My new @theatlantic.com article about our win in tariff case. Covers many issues, including major questions, nondelegation, implications for rule of law, and Trump's plan to use Section 122 to impose new tariffs (gift link): www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

YouTube video by Turner Classic Movies Mr. Beale Has Meddled With the Primal Forces of Nature (Clip) | Network (1976) | TCM

youtu.be/sOt-G2LVgfI?...

you may also remember that the "board of peace" is structured so that donald trump, personally, has sole and absolute control over it. he's just stealing our fucking money. what i want from my dems? a commitment to take that shit back.

Yeesh. Now GRRM isnt going to finish the series because he doesnt want to be appropriated by the ethnonationalists.

It seems more amazing when I ask it about the stuff I am not good at compared to the stuff I am!

I really do like AI, but I wonder if a good part of the hype by SV types is that LLMs are good at generating outputs that exhibit inguistic nuance and emotional intelligence in a way that seems astounding to a community that is popularly thought...to be not that?

What are the bets that we have a full on neolib AOC by 2028?

This is amazing. (Also - MAERSK and Lego are both Danish companies)

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The US Administration ordered her to seized off the street by masked agents, imprisoned incognito for weeks, all for thoughtfully expressing an opinion with zero advocacy of violence or harm to anyone.

Sickening, anti-Conservative, anti-constitutional, anti-American.

We are far better than this.

I get that they feel the need to shovel money into capex and now desperately need some offsetting revenue source but even as a pure business decision this seems wrong to me, for the same reason shoving ads into Microsoft Word is wrong. are you building a Serious Work Product or not?