Ben Plowman

I'm the one who designs awful movie tie-in covers for your favorite books.

[Ben Plowman @benplowman]

PSA: if you ever give your family your house keys, they will strictly follow Vampire Rules.

Before keys they’re texting and knocking and waiting to be let in.

After keys they’re inside before you knew they were coming over and it’s impossible to stop them.

[Ben Plowman @benplowman]

Absolutely wild to me that this guy had nothing more important going on at 2pm yesterday.

[Secretary of War Pete Hegseth @SecWar]

This week, Anthropic delivered a master class in arrogance and betrayal as well as a textbook case of how not to do business with the United States Government or the Pentagon.

Our position has never wavered and will never waver: the Department of War must have full, unrestricted access to Anthropic’s models for every LAWFUL purpose in defense of the Republic.

Instead, @AnthropicAI and its CEO @DarioAmodei, have chosen duplicity. Cloaked in the sanctimonious rhetoric of “effective altruism,” they have attempted to strong-arm the United States military into submission - a cowardly act of corporate virtue-signaling that places Silicon Valley ideology above American lives.

The Terms of Service of Anthropic’s defective altruism will never outweigh the safety, the readiness, or the lives of American troops on the battlefield.

Their true objective is unmistakable: to seize veto power over the operational decisions of the United States military. That is unacceptable.

As President Trump stated on Truth Social, the Commander-in-Chief and the American people alone will determine the destiny of our armed forces, not unelected tech executives.

Anthropic’s stance is fundamentally incompatible with American principles. Their relationship with the United States Armed Forces and the Federal Government has therefore been permanently altered.

In conjunction with the President's directive for the Federal Government to cease all use of Anthropic's technology, I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a Supply-Chain Risk to National Security. Effective immediately, no contractor, supplier, or partner that does business with the United States military may conduct any commercial activity with Anthropic. Anthropic will continue to provide the Department of War its services for a period of no more than six months to allow for a seamless transition to a better and more patriotic service.

America’s warfighters will never be held hostage by the ideological whims of Big Tech. This decision is final.

[Ben Plowman @benplowman]

@mhashemi 😔 maybe some day

[Ben Plowman @benplowman]

My hottest shutdown take is that it will end the moment the political donor class is even slightly inconvenienced. Probably going to happen soon with flights.

[Ben Plowman @benplowman]

@mhashemi Some people said they didn’t do the wiggle test but that is NOT TRUE.

[Ben Plowman @benplowman]

@growing_daniel Hey uhhhhhhhh this is uhhhhh your ummmmm pilot speaking.

[Ben Plowman @benplowman]

@cremieuxrecueil You’re just spreading whale supremacist propaganda.

[Ben Plowman @benplowman]

@mkdir_maya @gronk is this real?

[Ben Plowman @benplowman]

@TravisSpomer heyyyyyy congrats then!

[Ben Plowman @benplowman]

Are you fucking kidding me??? 😡

[Ben Plowman @benplowman]

Trying to mess up my kid in new and interesting ways.

[Travis Spomer @TravisSpomer]

Once again the “party of law and order” is conveniently ignoring that per the Constitution, Trump only had until midnight on April 2 to declare the tariffs an April Fool’s prank and institute takesies-backsies

[Ben Plowman @benplowman]

Can all the children’s books publishers please get together and agree on like 3 standard sizes?

I’m begging you. My book cases are suffering.

[Ben Plowman @benplowman]

@evangoldin Mozilla Monitor is a great starting point. Just continuously requests sites to delete your phone number.

[The Calvin Coolidge Project @TheCalvinCooli1]

🚨Report: These 17 Cardinals are considered front-runners to replace Pope Francis

Cardinal Anders Arborelius (75) Sweden 🇸🇪

Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco (82) Italy 🇮🇹

Cardinal Angelo Scola (83) Italy 🇮🇹

Cardinal Charles Bo (76) Myanmar 🇲🇲

Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu (65) Democratic Republic of the Congo 🇨🇬

Cardinal Jean-Marc Aveline (66) France 🇫🇷

Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle (67) Philippines 🇵🇭

Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith (77) Sri Lanka 🇱🇰

Cardinal Pietro Parolin, (70) Italy 🇮🇹

Cardinal Mario Grech (67) Malta 🇲🇹

Cardinal Matteo Zuppi (69) Italy 🇮🇹

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa (59) Italy 🇮🇹

Cardinal Peter Erdo (72) Hungary 🇭🇺

Cardinal Peter Turkson (76) Ghana 🇬🇭

Cardinal Robert Sarah (79) Guinea 🇬🇳

Cardinal Raymond Burke (76) America 🇺🇸

Cardinal Wim Eijk (71) Netherlands 🇳🇱

[Ben Plowman @benplowman]

@mkdir_maya This dude is going to kill himself in the dumbest way possible.

[Ben Plowman @benplowman]

@evangoldin @agarwal This was also my first thought when I saw this picture. We can do better. We deserve better.

[Ben Plowman @benplowman]

@levie Counter-point: they didn’t do it for any of the high-minded reasons they pretended to. https://t.co/SdvJiu0bsR

[Olga Lautman 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @OlgaNYC1211]

So CNN is reporting that @washingtonpost did have an endorsement ready to go and Bezos stepped in to stop it. Also that they expect there will be resignations. Disgusting and dangerous