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.

Warde Manuel continuing to be Michigan's athletic director gets more gobsmacking with every passing second

This is a fascinating question and one that I got into, sort of, for @slate.com recently: slate.com/technology/2...

This is going to make Dario Amodei and Anthropic resistance heroes and solidify Claude as "the good AI" lol. A branding coup for the ages. I'm sure it costs them tons of revenue for now but they're a lighting-money-on-fire company anyway so who cares

Just updating people on the state of various social media platforms. I think Bluesky has rapidly bolted up the "ability to understand sarcasm" leaderboard of late, after a slow start. We have found our sea legs and are interacting with little bits in a much better way than our microblogging peers

<bangs gong> That's the end of the USA Hockey/Donald Trump news cycle. We can officially close this one out now that all parties have learned the maximum amount they'll allow themselves to learn. All had a great time and we appreciate Brady Tkachuk for closing us out slate.com/news-and-pol...

It's all their fault but I think this by @jimprosser.bsky.social gets to one of (I said "one of") gen A.I.'s biggest problems winning hearts and minds. This type of guy sucks and this particular tech sector is crawling with them www.personfamiliar.com/p/ai-humanit...

The only challenge here is the beer. I would haggle with the gamemaker for a lower-volume spirit. Ultimately I'm getting paid though

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This set of transactions will be complete after Tkachuk, captain of the Ottawa Senators, gets loudly booed in his own arena for a few games. Pleasure doing business with everyone etc.

a guy named Dario Amodei not being the biggest villian in a story is remarkable

Pretty clear that Art Rooney is a nepotism case who cannot run an NFL team. The last name is doing a ton of heavy lifting here

You can allocate all 24 to Ohio State so that they only lose to Iowa 55-48 on November 4, 2017.

We got a real DING DING DING on this one, imo. (Washed up high school player speaking here.) "Hockey culture is, in many ways, the epitome of American white people believing anything they do is neutral by default."

People are going to misunderstand this transaction in a big way (but wouldn't if they read Arif's story). PFF is not a grades company. The grades are marketing. PFF is a data and charting company and it's a juggernaut at it

VERY FUN NEW FREE EPISODE is out: We each get to reallocate 24 points from as many games as we can fit from CFB history, with the simple goal: How much can you change the sport if you flip these games? www.splitzoneduo.com/p/24-points-...

When my mother died, I wrote a letter to the name plaintiff on her case—who was serving a life sentence for an unthinkable crime—to talk about grief. When he passed, his daughter reached out said she’d like me to tell her story too. My latest for @rollingstone.com: apple.news/A7c7VYYnrTc6...

it's sort of the two-for-one of their main themes, crushing "woke" institutions, and pure brutality

wild how simple it is to be like "you're right, we shouldn't have done that!"

There has been a bad-faith effort on the right and from within USA Hockey to paint this as "people getting mad they visited the White House." Some of that, sure, but lots of high-profile champions do that and it's a one-day story at most. This was about Kash's Make-a-Wish weekend and the sexism

Here's Team USA backup goalie Jeremy Swayman being the first guy on the team to do the easiest thing imaginable, saying, "We should have reacted differently" when Trump got on the phone and belittled the women's team www.bostonherald.com/2026/02/25/j...

This seems like The Most Important Tech Story of the Year, to me. Pete Hegseth is wearing a shirt that says "I do not want to use your A.I. for mass surveillance or fully automated death w/ no human oversight." For some reason people are still asking questions? slate.com/technology/2...

Fine but this is just natural selection. If you're trading on a "what will MrBeast say in this video?" market, your capital is better off in the insider trader's hands

The Pirates are such disgusting scoundrels for getting a prospect who is apparently Baseball Giannis and letting us talk about if he's going to break camp with the big league club. Doing it right now of all times when I was so close to being completely free of baseball forever

New feature on MoneyPuck: Try searching for any player going to Trump’s political rally tonight: moneypuck.com/player.htm?p...

Come and take them

There are a few guys who regularly create that sound. Their names are Ohtani, Judge, and Stanton. Also Oneil Cruz when he's not striking out but that's neither here nor there

This is very interesting info (story threaded within)

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Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

Your mileage may vary on this but I'm not that interested in "don't root for the team" (do what you want by all means, it's just not some act of resistance). I think people are more in arms about the taxpayer-funded-boondoggle nature of it all

Gotta read @alexkirshner.com on the men's team post-gold locker-room talk with Kash Patel and Trump at the expense of the women's team. "A particular bummer here was the visible, bent-over laughter of overtime hero Jack Hughes, whose mom literally works for the women’s team."

Kash Patel got his Make-a-Wish. You paid hundreds of thousands of dollars so he could cosplay as a gold medal winner with his hockey heroes. Dream weekend, very happy he could live out this fantasy @slate.com slate.com/culture/2026...

yeah, that's pretty good

Rory just holed one of the most obscene bunker shots I've ever seen. There's no one like him

Kash's most sincere desire in life is to hang out with famous hockey players, but he's in a prison of his own making because he accidentally got a real job where it looks tacky to be doing this while you're supposed to be finding Nancy Guthrie, releasing various Epstein files, etc. He's miserable

This graph makes me want to start writing again ✍️ 🥇

Never sure why we do this in hockey, treating it like it's dishonorable to win by leaning on a goalie. In baseball they're not like "the pitching was good so this was a cheap win"

The hilarious thing is that Canada gets to be upset about the same thing because they scored 1 goal and left Bedard + 3 of their best puck moving, offensive D man at home

Bill Guerin is a complete caveman and this was a reckless, good ol' boys roster-building strategy and also he was right and those of us who doubted him are unfortunately losers slate.com/culture/2026...

By the way, a reminder on Jack Hughes, since the grifters are already trying to hijack his postgame interview www.vogue.com/article/meet...

"TACO" is an overused framework but I really do think some of his people who still have to take commercial flights were just like "sir, please"

Sports need losers. They really do. And we don't get a lot of them anymore. Everyone at a certain level, except for Patrick Cantlay in golf, eventually gets one. But what if McDavid doesn't?

Giving McDavid tournament MVP is hilarious and diabolical. The dude who wouldn't even skate out onto the ice to shake the commish's hand and get the Conn Smythe when his team lost the Cup, and now they make him do it again

Lol at Team USA winning on a run of play that started with one of the useless guys they brought just to win faceoffs LOSING A FACEOFF

Well it's a good thing the Americans brought their most skilled roster to this tournament that will be decided by a three-on-three skills competition now

they’re disrespecting him, most of all

Poor Crosby is watching on some monitor in the trainer's room while McDavid and Celebrini blow breakaways and MacKinnon misses an empty net the size of the Great Wall of China. He's got to be the sickest man in Milan

I know he's Cale Makar's friend but surely there's some other hockey player in the nation of Canada who would make more sense to have on the ice for the rest of this game than Devon Toews