Sam Biddle

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[Sam Biddle @samfbiddle]

The documents I obtained include an OpenAI contract with the Pentagon requiring that the military AI it sold to Hegseth would maximally comply with the military's commands. The story behind this doc became very strange (thread)

https://t.co/Dhdt7BTPDr

[Sam Biddle @samfbiddle]

The U.S. Special Operations Command AI propaganda mill targeting Latin American readers that I revealed in June (https://t.co/jkZnSYI9SG) appears to be, by all indications, dead. https://t.co/HRdXOcZZ3w

[Web Design Museum @WebDesignMuseum]

Happy 32nd Birthday The First Web Banner!

On October 27, 1994, The AT&T Telecommunications Company placed the first web banner in Internet history on the HotWired magazine website.

The first web banner in the world was 476×56 px.

[Sam Biddle @samfbiddle]

Apple didn't exactly bring its graphic design A game with the new Music icon in 27.2

[Sam Biddle @samfbiddle]

We talk a lot about industrial productivity but I think one of the greatest boons AI has provided is to people who just don't want to deal with the most basic of adult obligations (learning in college, parenting, listening, communicating with other adults, etc)

[Keith Edwards @keithedwards]

this is so bleak

[jeremy scahill @jeremyscahill]

🚨Bombshell story by Matthew Cole about Jared Kushner from Cole’s book, Princes and Thieves, which comes out next week.

The Art of the Deal: Jared Kushner’s Hacked Phone Revealed His Secret Negotiations—Including More Than $700 Million in Transfers

https://t.co/BvraBHEA94

[Gabriel Zucman @gabriel_zucman]

This is huge.

A just-released SEC filing makes an extraordinary revelation: Mark Zuckerberg is getting ready to pay California’s 5% billionaire wealth tax and has signed an agreement to remain in California for 8 years.

We are witnessing a global turning point unfold before our eyes. 🧵

[Zach Dorfman @zachsdorfman]

The Pentagon is thinking expansively about conducting “economic warfare,” particularly against China. Now, it’s mulling a new or expanded deep-cover spying capability as part of that mission.

NEW from me and @wstrobel:

https://t.co/nfncln9j2q

[Sam Biddle @samfbiddle]

DeepMind engineer Sofia Liguori just resigned from Google in protest of the company's Pentagon contract. I interviewed her about her decision and the future of worker dissent: https://t.co/j84lufuWoe

[Sam Biddle @samfbiddle]

NEW: I uncovered details of an Army project codenamed ECHOTRIBBLE, which will send out AI agents "with minimal human oversight" to delete data and disable targeted computers. What could possibly go wrong? https://t.co/REYkrdTMzU

[Sam Biddle @samfbiddle]

NEW: I uncovered details of an Army project codenamed ECHOTRIBBLE, which will send out AI agents "with minimal human oversight" to delete data and disable targeted computers. What could possibly go wrong? https://t.co/REYkrdTMzU

[Sam Biddle @samfbiddle]

To have been a fly on the wall when the lawyers landed on 50 as the number

[Barry Malone @malonebarry]

Woah woah woah. The lead is buried in paragraph four.

[Sam Biddle @samfbiddle]

You Can See Everything is one of the best and most genuinely shocking films I've seen in a very long time. Don't read anything about it at all before you see it.

[Sam Biddle @samfbiddle]

@Tanvim agree

[Jason Kint @jason_kint]

%$&*!!! whoa.
This reads that Meta is looking to grant itself the rights to scrape websites across the open web - and train Meta's AI - once a company uses Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp or other Meta services after October 30, 2026. So every biz.
Read that again. Outrageous. 1/5

[Justin Baragona @justinbaragona]

Good on the reporter here for steamrolling past that staffer for trying to move on from the measles question.

[Sam Biddle @samfbiddle]

There's a word for "screening" the news!

[Natalie Korach @NatalieKorach]

Lesley Stahl’s 60 Minutes report on extremist Israeli settlers underwent a contentious screening process at the Bari Weiss-led CBS News, leading the veteran correspondent to privately express the possibility of quitting the show

Scoop from @oliverdarcy

https://t.co/CefgV3z689

[Kate Knibbs 🏄🏻‍♀️ @Knibbs]

forget the prediction markets stuff, THIS is probably the real big insider trading scandal we should be paying attention: https://t.co/E0VI84htYP

[slommy @sammichluvrrr]

Notice how he’s minding his business and enjoying the film while you’re taking photos of strangers

[Andrew Kaczynski @KFILE]

Crazy WSJ data. Between 2022 and 2025, wealth increased 37% for Americans 75 and older, while **decreased** 23% for people under 35.
https://t.co/g8hUUtWs66