jesus christ "He was criminally charged with theft for improperly obtaining gift cards worth $154.62. His bail was set for $150,000. Ge had no previous criminal record."

love that the one guy willing to be quoted on his interest in a political fund for the extreme rich to further influence California politics lives in texas

good to see what will make major tech companies (save for meta) take a step back from this admin: potentially serious impacts on their business. www.bbc.com/news/article...

~04 interview with Lt Gen. Paul Van Riper, not sure it could be more relevant to today www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/wa... "They want to apply the technology without the brainpower."

If you are interested in doing high-impact, public-facing research ... Join Our Research Team! @SMLabTO is Hiring a Postdoctoral Research Fellow socialmedialab.ca/2026/03/04/p...

By analyzing records obtained by @deportationdata.org, I found that the total number of people who have experienced ICE detention in the first 9 months of the Trump admin amounts to the population of a mid-sized city.

oh ok so you told it to rewrite something already good and then ask what we 'prefer' sure sounds revelatory

We also want to emphasize that Signal Support will *never* initiate contact via in-app messages, SMS, or social media to ask for your verification code or PIN. If anyone asks for any Signal related code, it is a scam. We make this clear when users receive their SMS code during initial signup. 5/7

Fascinating to see how intent dod is on ruining anthropic. The co says that dod officials have been directly contacting corporate users of Claude, saying they have to stop and generally sowing confusion, to the point where customers are asking to revise contract language for easier termination.

Reuters Exclusive "U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for strike, on an Iranian girls' school." "The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East." www.reuters.com/world/middle...

TIL Jared Birchall majored in Spanish

‘Sorry for misgendering you! Still hate your writing!!’

it's weird seeing the first trial over Musk's acquisition of Twitter *four years* later

“.. When Reuters asked AWS whether the incident at the data center was connected to the strikes, the company did not confirm or deny.” @reuters.com #$AMZN www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Anyone working in "news" or "politics" needs to finally wrap their minds around the idea that X isn't reaching anyone that matters. You're wasting your time pitching no one. You're wasting your money pitching no one.

With friends like these, who needs enemies

Shall we recall it was Palantir of all places that set a potentially valuable precedent for suing the government when it didn't do what it wanted www.wsj.com/articles/pal...

I hadn't even asked yet, and a former dod official told me: "This is great PR for Anthropic and they simply do not need the money." www.bbc.com/news/article...

Odd what can happen when $200+ million isn't very much money to you

we're never getting rid of this tech folks, sorry but it's here to stay. this spending orgy is gonna hit a wall though and we can enjoy the fallout when that occurs

↑ atmospheric CO₂ → ↓ micronutrients in food https://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2017/09/13/food-nutrients-carbon-dioxide-000511

Hegseth telling Anthropic that if it keeps trying to control how Claude is used by DoD he will 1) invoke the defense production act, so they can use it however they want and 2) say Anthropic is a supply chain risk 😵‍💫 Is it so good you need all access to it? Or is it scary and no one should use it?

ohmygah

"Everyone’s wondering, 'Why is Silicon Valley going along with all this? Why hasn’t anybody raised their hand?' And I think that there’s a much more terrifying tech reich that’s lurking in the background of all of this."

ICE detention growth since late September is concentrated among people with no criminal charges or convictions. The “Other Immigration Violator” category far outpaces increases among convicted individuals. Link: austinkocher.substack.com/p/ices-delay...

We love a righteous big boy on this web page

not for nothing, but this is in direct contradiction to what microsoft's own research team says. once again, the hypebeasts are the problem.

Quitting by telling your Anthropic colleagues "Throughout my time here, I've repeatedly seen how hard it is to let our values truly govern our actions" is making more sense

Good story on why the jobs market is so weird (demoralizing) atm. It may last a years. "If the jobs are really lost due to outsourcing or AI, then unless we find in a couple of years actually we still need those people and replacing them didn't work, then those jobs are gone."

Its also guiding a ~$500 million increase in revenue for 2026

Doing anything for 16 hours seems probably bad, but I think lawyers arguing young people were intentionally addicted have a ways to go to convince this jury www.bbc.com/news/article...

CNN: "Another photograph - these are notes AG Bondi brought to the hearing today. This shows a list of Rep. Jayapal's search history. Lawmakers are allowed to go to a DOJ facility to search unredacted files. We learned from this photo that the searches are apparently being tracked & read by the DOJ"

Fact-checking the latest Epstein files news and theories.

"We could use this technology to find literally anyone, but we only use this technology to find lost dogs." "We recently announced a partnership with 5k law enforcement agencies, but we wont let them use this feature." For Wyze to get this out there in about 2 days lollmao

Professional translators cannot be replaced by AI. Your attempt to translate a menu, sure, but actual translation is an art, translating things not just across languages but cultures and idioms. Only monolingual dickburgers could think it's all the same.

AOC’s office assisted in 1000 constituent cases in the first 18 months of her first term, with 800 of them related to immigration. How many has Brad Sherman completed in 28 years? And how many in the last year, with ICE plaguing our district?

A group of Buddhist monks has finally reached Washington, D.C., on foot, completing a 15-week trek for peace from Texas apnews.com/article/budd...

Not Spotify calling its internal Claude wrapper "Honk" because(?) engineers use it during their commute to work...

Jobs at The Bulwark, based in D.C.: deputy social media editor, director of finance, and events and communications associate. thebulwark.pinpointhq.com

Thomas Massie is cooking right now and explicitly states that UAE Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem was sending torture videos to Epstein

Look at this cute new milkshake duck, trying to save Democrats from their excesses. Update: we regret to inform you that the milkshake duck is a registered lobbyist for OpenAI. lda.gov/filings/publ...

Rose, Nate, and Jules, students at Peabody and Roosevelt, out here for their teachers. “We’re French, so we know how to strike,” Jules’ mom told me. “It’s important to stand up for teachers. We’ve had wonderful teachers.”

For last night's @semafor.com media newsletter, I wrote about the latest Epstein file release, which further laid out ties to prominent media figures showed how he tried to manipulate media to bury negative coverage. www.semafor.com/article/02/0...

In the last month ICE has bought warehouses in: - Hagerstown, MD: $102 million - Surprise, AZ: $70 million - Hamburg, PA: $87 million - Tremont, PA: $120 million - San Antonio, TX: $82 million - El Paso, TX: $123 million - Social Circle, GA: price unknown This is unprecedented.

Bad Bunny's historical advisor is an assistant professor at UW-Madison. Hell of a flex for your tenure file.

We keep us safe, not creepy networked surveillance systems

“Just post the half time show” all the comments under yt game highlights

Shocking statistic of the day. Since the start of Trump Admin, 10,000+ PhDs in STEM and health fields working for USG have left. That is 14% of all STEM and health PhDs in the entire Federal government. www.science.org/content/arti...

Hello, looks like independent publishers should beef up our books coverage. If you're into the idea of joining the @flaminghydra.com collective and writing a book review each month (800-2000 word range), please send us your ideas and some clips to [email protected]

not my precious meme number! no! no!! bsky.app/profile/mich...