I saw some folks asking what the difference was between what OpenAI signed with the DoD and what Anthropic said they wanted, and Sam more or less admits here the key point: OpenAI's deal requires them to trust the NSA. Anthropic's contract had real safeguards.

a marsh but it’s full of mallows omg

if people are using classified information to place bets, then theoretically others can analyze betting behavior to find signals that reveal classified information.

It’s insane this is legal. People around Trump are profiting off war and death. I’m introducing legislation ASAP to ban this.

Joe Dante and Hideo Kojima are close seconds but no director was more right about the future of war than Barry Levinson with the 1992 box office flop Toys.

it’s probably fine that this meme is one of the top posts on every military Reddit sub right now

Turns out it’s dangerous & deadly to have unfit, unintelligent, & willfully ignorant people running things. Especially when they are the top members of the Dunning-Kruger effect club.

We are a global scourge but the world won’t do anything to stop us

Guess we better hope Iran can't afford to hire someone on TaskRabbit to point a $12 Radio Shack directional mic at this tent.

posting is free and therapy is expensive

“Who ordered the BLT?” is not a proper SCIF question.

They keep finding new ways to make this dystopian era weirder & more disturbing.

we were probably all up last night staring at the ceiling with our own version of the same thought running on endless loop, but mine looked something like this: I hate these people to a degree that feels simultaneously corrosive to the soul, and also the only righteous response to this kind of evil

lol

Closing this out with a literal “the bombings will continue until morale (peace) improves” is a helluva thing.

Important bit of history to learn when the government is insisting it should be able to use AI for fully autonomous weapons.

Ok, but impeachment should also be the other thing that all decent members of Congress are calling for right now. bsky.app/profile/maxw...

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

It is logically impossible to believe that you are in God's small select group of chosen beloved and that everyone else is rightfully doomed to eternal torture without on some level not caring what happens to those other people. It's a genocide theology.

there are a lot of people working in the government right now who want to intentionally trigger an apocalypse to create the conditions for the return of jesus christ and I know how crazy that sounds but its absolutely true

manufacturing consent through lowly paid influencers

This whole thread read up from this post in Jeff’s thread) hits on the thoughts I keep having. But this is especially key.

This is an important point. Every leader must say it. We absolutely cannot allow the same bigotry against Iranians & others, as what was horrifically unleashed after 9/11 on Muslims & brown-skinned people. bsky.app/profile/mayo...

If my mayor can say all of this, so can all of our electeds. Local, state, & Congressional. Press them about this. Make it clear to the Trump admin & those in all levels of power that this is a deeply unpopular & illegal war right out of the gate. bsky.app/profile/mayo...

This was galling when Trump said it at the time. Far more so now.

The real story is that foreign govts try to "interfere" all the time. In 2020 and 2024 we had mechanisms to catch them, call them out, & mitigate damage. Now, those mechanims are gone & the Trump admin would prefer to exploit "foreign interference" to justify a federal take-over of elections.

I’ll also be yelling this at my elected representatives in Congress. bsky.app/profile/davi...

A thing about illegal wars of aggression is that they're just murder We understand this with Putin's war in Ukraine, we understand it with the Caribbean boat strikes. It's no less true here. Our government is engaged in a policy of murder, basically for fun

Do not forget the people of Lebanon either, who have been suffering the "preemptive" bombardment of Israel for well over a year and a half and are suffering it intensified tenfold today

With alt text. I’ve…never seen a court talk like this before?

The bare minimum that every elected leader should be saying right now: “This war is unlawful. It is unnecessary. And it will be catastrophic.” Yell these words at your electeds, if they’re not saying them.

He's never hidden the strategy he thinks will work.

I’m so tired of everything being unintentional satire.

Makes perfect sense. All the classified docs about Iran are in the bathroom...

Most day to day decision-making that he hasn't pawned off to Miller or Vought is 'make the TV praise me' and everything from redacting the Epstein Files to wasting Tomahawks on empty fields to pointing at giraffes every three months is downstream from that.

Everything going on right now makes more sense if you realize everybody in power right now sees their job as making TV, social media, and short form video for a Nielsen demographic of one.

From The Archives:

Remember how right-wing election fraud bullshit had been fairly successfully shamed into taboo, w it branded as a dangerous, harmful Big Lie…but then Trump wasn’t punished for it, & folks w power (incl. the press) just shrugged any time Trump brought it up, & he became obsessed w it, & here we are.

> @covie93.bsky.social

We don’t even have a word yet for “everything is horrible & dumb”, & now we need a word for “everything is exponentially more horrible & dumb”.

Also, Anthropic said no because they think their software is alive.