Maybe the answer to this question is something I’ve just missed, but are they more upset than Anthropic told them, “No,” or that Anthropic told everyone exactly what they were saying no to?

Apparently unsatisfied with his decision to start a war with the AI industry, the President is now loosing rounds at insurance. [I think this is related to health care specifically but honestly who knows] *TRUMP: I WANT TO STOP ALL PAYMENTS TO BIG INSURANCE COMPANIES

No one has considered how funny this is.

Okay so it looks like the relevant statute is 10 U.S.C. § 3252 statute, and the Secretary is entitled to take the following "Covered Procurement Actions" to address supply chain risks. None seem to align with what Hegseth said. It appears limited to subcontracting (not "any commercial activity").

This is from Hegseth's post. I'm no expert in this authority but am I understanding correctly this would mean that any company which has ANY contract with the U.S. military (Google, Microsoft, etc...) is now required to immediately cancel their Claude subscriptions and must divest from Anthropic?

I am personally very excited about a Democratic administration armed with a recent precedent for significant asset seizure from a business deemed hostile to the interests of the United States

I tried to play off this, but one does not simply come up with a funny Boromir quote.

Hegseth is banning Claude, the Scouts and woke colleges... right before we go to war with Iran.

Yes but consider how this tool could be used in the hands of Good!

I wonder how many emails Hegseth has used AI to write so he doesn't sound drunk.

We are all Claude users now.

lmfao the US federal government is doing a reverse BDS on Anthropic, that’s fucking crazy

You sound like an unhinged person if you in plain words describe what’s happening, but the Trump admin demanded Anthropic’s AI be able to kill things for it w/out human approval and also do mass surveillance. Anthropic said no, and now the admin is trying to destroy the company in retaliation.

I wonder what we can deduce from the fact that Elon Musk offered Grok to the government for free for any use but Hegseth and Trump are still committed to getting Claude to work

i would crawl over broken glass to reach the off switch on the broken glass spraying machine.

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If he is trying to make sure the US officer corps is a wake of dullards who are there because they could find no other job, this is a good way to do it.

It looks like you’re trying to invade a sovereign island nation — let me help.

This looks like Hegseth, ever the idiot, has picked a fight he can't win, and worse, a fight he is too stupid to realize he cannot win. And the boss is getting bad advice telling him to back another screw up by the drunk Secretary of Defense.

That must mean someone has floated their retirement. And they're coordinating. Thanks, RBG.

When you bet on both Crockett and Talarico to win the general election.

Also he's ostensibly planning a war with Iran rn

He seems to be on a bender.

Of his myriad personality deficiencies, Hegseth's biggest is that he is a complete freak devoid of normal human relationships. He probably does not have a single friend.

it’s stupid to poll for a democratic primary when people haven’t even announced their candidacy yet. mamdani was polling at like 9% just 8 months before the election, right before the started campaigning

This is the way. When you're out of power, influence takes the form of credible threats. The Democrats should credibly threaten every ill-gotten gain. Imprison those who executed bribes, and dismantle the institutions that caved in. No org that served Trump can be allowed to profit from it.

If it were suddenly $3000 a pop again, people would be excited to get in on that. $65000 is too much to feel cheap but enough for the holders to feel grouchy

No, TurboTax lobbying is not why Americans have to file income tax returns. The reasons are: 1. A broad definition of "income" that includes many poorly documented sources 2. A plethora of subsidies and transfers disguised as taxation 3. Withholding rates designed to produce refunds

My mom was an elementary school principal at a school with a lot of free-and-reduced-lunch kids, and one of her frustrations is that we have dumped a *lot* of social services responsibilities on educators. She did everything she could, but it's not what teachers and principals are trained for.

For like 85% of people you could easily do the autocompute and we act like the reason we don't is that this would be an injustice to the 15% who can't

As a currency does

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Pritzker checks Pritzker accounts You can plant these stories in normie news for years

Oh man, it’s about to be more over than we could have possibly imagined.

I like Musk doing an IPO right after the company announced it can't deliver.

Anything Musk gets to trade at 300x earnings.

I wish anyone happily trotting to the trough for this one a very happy fattening *SPACEX SAID TO WEIGH CONFIDENTIAL IPO FILING AS SOON AS MARCH *SPACEX COULD SEEK VALUATION OVER $1.75 TRILLION IN IPO: SOURCES

I earned followers the old fashioned way - by stealing content and poasting bullshit. #BuiltHere

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oh like the fact that ashlii babbitt was in a throuple?

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Contrary to the hype we have not yet created a machine god. We have, however, created a machine graduate student. Both (laudatory) and (derogatory).

In light of the birthday card (anyone has a non-nefarious explanation?), the lengthy relationship, and the alleged victim statements (taken during Trump’s first term), has anyone asked Pam Bondi why we don’t have a special counsel investigating the President?

i remember barack obama went to a baseball game in la habana.