And in other news: "We show that [LLMs] can be used to perform at-scale deanonymization. With full Internet access, our agent can re-identify Hacker News users and Anthropic Interviewer participants at high precision, given pseudonymous online profiles and conversations alone..."

Big props to Anthropic for standing up against the American SS and having actual standards and values. It's a nice change from what everyone else in big tech seems happy to do. the-decoder.com/anthropic-re...

100% predictable. Age-verification systems are just surveillance with more palatable messaging.

On Substack, someone shared that Wyoming just introduced the GRANITE Act — a bill to let citizens sue foreign governments for "censorship." I read the whole thing. It is spectacularly dumb. As such, I decided to give it the full Carey treatment. insights.priva.cat/p/rock-solid...

A new tool lets you search the Epstein files for mentions of your LinkedIn contacts. Tried it out, does work. Outputs a report with links to the material on the DOJ website. www.404media.co/this-tool-se...

Papercall.io is so broken...

'The Traitors US' is trending on here, and I clicked on it and was disappointed that it was talking about a TV show, and not members of Congress.

Made calls to my Senators. Neither were in the office (unsurprisingly). Thankfully, @markwarner.bsky.social's office at least accepted voicemail. Unfortunately, Tim Kaine's number rings to an unidentified VM, and his regular line tells people to visit his website. What a coward.

Republicans are trying to strip 69 million women of their right to vote, not by amendment, but through bureaucracy. In addition to reminding our senators not to fund the gestapo today, let's take a moment to remind them that stripping women of their right to vote is Un-American

TIL that American schools are teaching kids to be LLMs (aka, next-word predictors). Also that less than 40% of 12th graders read at a proficient level. That explains a lot, actually.

🧵 1/8 I spent months mapping OpenAI's roadmap—partnerships, acquisitions, product launches. There's a pattern, and Sam Altman and OpenAI have been pretty transparent about their intentions. insights.priva.cat/p/the-ladder...

Pt 2 of my series is out tomorrow. I lay out what OpenAI might be up to, and how it involves us becoming ever more dependent on the ecosystem they're creating. Individually, each tool seems useful. But together? We're likely to give up more of ourselves than we realize.

It's really too bad the United States Congress no longer exists.

Under assault? They're demolished. And where's the political leadership or powerful voices who can actually do something? Mr. President, with all respect, you have power. You have authority, connections, and political capital. Use it.

Solid read here from Cat. She doesn't go into my main reason not to build on it, though (besides of revulsion at Altman's sleazy, bullshit, sociopathic snake-oil salesmanship, and against the advise of friends who are better at growth than myself). I've seen this movie before. 1/

OpenAI isn't just building helpful tools. They're building a ladder. ChatGPT Health launched three weeks ago to significant fanfare. 230 million people already ask ChatGPT for medical advice, so a dedicated health product makes sense, right? Well, I have some thoughts in my latest post.

So, yes, this is true. And a bunch of Trump loyalists (all three of the US/Emirati companies are die-hard MAGA) owning it is bad, the problem is, TikTok has been collecting this information and sharing it with the government, since at least August 2024, and it appears few people actually noticed.

The longer Congress continues to sit on its hands while Trump executes his #ManifestWreckoning, the more I realize that the only way things will change is if Trump's brownshirts start rounding up Republican Representatives and Senators and beating, arresting, or deporting them. I hope it's soon.

This picture making the rounds on reddit, Columbia Heights. I'm not OK.

I did not actually think this was a thing (not the X spat, because that's like a Tuesday). And then I went to the Ryanair site in Ireland and, lo and behold. Michael O'Leary is a terrible human being, but honestly? This is A++ trolling.

The day will never be soon enough for these absolute ghouls masquerading as human beings to be tried and convicted for violating the law. While I don't support the death penalty, I am happy to make an exception here. These treasonous shitweasels deserve the harshest penalties the law provides.

The president of the United States is a toddler. America elected a mentally deranged 2-year-old into office

So here’s a weird thing I discovered today. Brian Armstrong (co-founder of Coinbase, net worth ~$10.5 billion) founded some weird GoFundMe-cum-crypto-token startup with a bunch of recent college grads. Focus (particularly for Armstrong based on his other ventures) appears to be longevity research.

So, my Dr. ChatGPT article has become so much larger than what I initially envisioned. It’s no longer (just) a privacy disaster — based on my research, it’s become a thesis about where OpenAI seems to be headed. In it, I will explain why ChatGPT Health isn’t only about knowing what ails us ...

New: meet ELITE, the Palantir app ICE is using to find neighborhoods to raid. Map interface; officers search for immigrants; click person to bring up individual dossier. This is clearest link between what Palantir is building and ICE's activities on the ground yet www.404media.co/elite-the-pa...

I think we need to call it what it is -- It's not just the Donroe Doctrine for Trump. It's Manifest Wreckening. All of his policies are designed to destroy, not build up America.

I feel like there should be a Polymarket bet for 'will a Trump official commit corruption every day for a year'. Though, I suspect you'd only make money in the rare case when there was a day of absolutely no Trump news.

Un-freaking-believable. By this logic, of course, it's the choice of a person to do anything -- including using a gun to shoot up the Dáil or overdose on drugs. And yet, Ireland bans most guns, and has strict regulations on the distribution and sale of drugs. Like I said, vested self-interest.

I've been tracking these stories for awhile and I tag everything. My tag for anything related to Elon Musk and this company is #garbagecompany. This shit really needs to die, die hard, and die quickly.

Multiple international crises with Trump taking a Russian Flagged ship, threatening to take Greenland by force, and kidnapping a foreign head of state. Now, CBP murdered a US citizen in Minneapolis. We aren't even a full week into 2026 and it's one horror show after another.

@echo-pbreyer.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy FYI -- you may find this interesting. I am sad to see that you are also on X though. :( www.greens-efa.eu/en/person/br...

Europe’s politicians have a huge hypocrisy problem. On the one hand, they’re advancing proposals & policies that will negatively impact millions of people’s rights and freedoms online - imposing draconian censorship, client-side scanning of encrypted chats, mandatory age-verification, and more.

I continue to be baffled that @vodafonegroup.bsky.social in Ireland is allowed to operate. It's like 6th circle of hell levels of phone trees and excuses, and garbage and transfers. Where's ComReg when you need em.

What the actual fuck? The EU is apparently fine with Trump overthrowing whoever he wants now. If that's the case, I guess they won't be upset if the CIA and DHS come to forcibly remove the leaders of say, Germany, France, Spain, or Ireland. Because make no mistake: Trump is transactional.

I Built an AI-Powered Futures Forecasting Pipeline With Claude Code insights.priva.cat/p/i-built-an...

Don’t know how the Substack algorithm nailed it this hard, but all I can say is that Catherine Shannon's post (catherineshannon.substack.com/p/everyone-i...) popped up on my feed today, and it resonated so much that I wrote a whole thing on it.

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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

🖐 The 5 Steps to Building a Tech Cult (According to a 25-Year-Old Book) I recently re-read Robert Greene's "48 Laws of Power" and realized how Law 27 (Create a Cultlike Following) not only describes alchemy, doomsday cults, and mesmerism, but it also tech hype cycles.

Wednesday, we said goodbye to Joi, one of the chillest, sweetest fur babies I've ever had the privilege of being a servant to. Joi was only five, and died very suddenly of an infection which led to sepsis. I talk about my grief, why he was special, and share lots of great pictures of him.

Chalk up another one: Netchoice has won permanent injunctive relief (ie, the court agreed the law is unconstitutional) against Louisiana's social media age verification and parental consent law: netchoice.org/wp-content/u...

Plex Submits $35 Bid For Warner Bros.

I remember when I first read Robert Greene’s seminal 48 Laws of Power in the early 2000s. It was a good read, but painted a dark picture of humanity I wasn’t ready to accept. 25 years later, I’m re-reading Greene (and a few of his historical sources of wisdom) and asking the question —

More Calvinball jurisprudence

It's so mesmerizing.

The IAPP are utter imbeciles at handling personal data in my personal experience as well. Given their major donors and geographic focus, it fits.

This is both hilarious because it's on brand for CAH, but also because it's the same kind of technical failures that plague even the big boys. The internet is built on prayers, string, and DNS, and well... shit breaks a lot.

My god. This is so applicable to so many Christian Nationalists/Republicans ... which is to say, basically every single one of them.

Bloomberg: Duffy said he is prepared to close US airspace if the budget crisis makes flying unsafe. FAA is already short on air traffic controllers, and many of them are working without pay. More than 6,200 flights were delayed on Friday and nearly 500 were canceled.