Christina

[Rod D. Martin @RodDMartin]

CNN claims Trump is violating their constitutional rights by revoking their privileged access (NOT their right to report however they wish). Turns out the Supreme Court has disagreed since before I was born.

Houchins v. KQED (1978): The First Amendment does not require the government to give the press access to information or places under government control. It “is neither a Freedom of Information Act nor an Official Secrets Act.” The press’s core protection is the right to communicate information once obtained, not a right to collect it from the government.

Pell v. Procunier (1974) and related cases: The press has no constitutional right to information or locations not available to the public generally.

Zemel v. Rusk (1965): “Entry into the White House [is not] a First Amendment right. The right to speak and publish does not carry with it the unrestrained right to gather information.”

[Sayer Ji @sayerjigmi]

🚨 UPDATE: In May, the Gates Foundation and Anthropic launched a $200M partnership covering global health and life sciences.

On Sept 17, Anthropic loosened its safeguards for biology work.

On Sept 18, Reuters revealed it quietly built a physical biology lab. It won't say what it's for.

Three dates. Four months. One company.

MAY 14, 2026 — Anthropic and the Gates Foundation announce a four-year, $200 million partnership. The Gates Foundation grants funds. Anthropic contributes Claude usage credits and staff support. The stated scope: global health, life sciences, education, economic mobility.

SEPT 17, 2026 — Anthropic introduces the Life Sciences Verification Program. Verified life-science professionals get access to its Mythos, Opus, and Sonnet models under what Anthropic's own announcement calls "a refined set of safeguards MORE PERMISSIVE for biology-related work." It is the first time Mythos has been opened this way.

SEPT 18, 2026 — Reuters reports Anthropic has quietly built a wet lab — a facility for physical biological experiments. Its head of life sciences, Eric Kauderer-Abrams, confirms it on the record: "We believe that to do biology, the final test is still and will be for a while in real lab work."

Then a spokesperson told Reuters the lab is "not for drug discovery specifically" — and declined to elaborate.

Read that again. The company confirmed the lab exists, then declined to say what it does, offering only what it isn't.

One person familiar with the work told Reuters that Anthropic wants Claude to "direct robotic units to carry out science experiments with limited human intervention." Anthropic's spokesperson says human oversight remains essential for safety. Both statements are in the same article.

Here is why this matters.

The entire regulatory case being built right now — the Sanders bill, the UK superintelligence bill, the closed Senate briefings — rests on the premise that frontier AI could help someone engineer a pathogen. That is the load-bearing argument. It is why safeguards on biology exist in the first place.

On September 17, the company that has done more than any other to advance that argument made its biology safeguards more permissive.

On September 18, we learned it had built a lab to do physical biology.

Safeguards for you. A wet lab for them.

This is the pattern I documented in my investigation of the Gates AI paradox: the same capital advances the capability and funds the alarm about the capability, and the rules that follow land on everyone except the people who wrote them.

I did not expect the next data point to arrive within twenty-four hours.

WHAT I AM NOT CLAIMING: I am not claiming the Gates Foundation funded this laboratory. The May partnership commits funds to programs implemented with outside partners, not to Anthropic's internal facilities. I am not claiming Anthropic is developing biological weapons, or that its lab is unlawful, or that anyone coordinated these three announcements. Every fact above is on the record and linked below.

What I am claiming is that a company whose public safety argument centers on biological risk quietly built a biology lab, loosened its biology restrictions the day before that became public, and will not say what the lab is for.

That is not a conspiracy theory. That is a press release, an announcement page, and a Reuters interview.

My investigation into who funds both sides of the AI safety debate below.

[Christina @bmchristi1]

Ice cream and yogurt are not made with rennet. That is used for cheese. Animal rennet is made by slaughtering unweaned calves, lambs, and baby goats which is a sickening practice when you can get the exact same results by using plants, mold, or bacteria. It is also kosher. Does that make it acceptable? Companies that use veg rennet.

[Lara Logan @laralogan]

Is Karen Bass fleeing the scene of her crimes?

This is a moment of reckoning for every American. We now see clearly what we always suspected: many elected officials are corrupt to the core. Many - but not all - are stealing from us, lining their own pockets & lying every time they open their mouths. So here is the question we should address:

Does that give us a pass? Does it mean we get to say all sides are bad and no side is worth voting for because they are both equally awful? Or do we recognize that rather than relieve us of responsibility, this makes it more critical than ever that we do something about it. Rather than saying “my vote does not count”, you should be asking “how do I make my vote count?”

We have one chance to stop the destruction of this nation before the good options are lost to the passage of time & events. Don’t wait. Figure it out. Do everything you can. Never surrender.

[Christina @bmchristi1]

Vegetarian rennet from plants, specialized mold, fungi, or bacteria is also kosher. Does that make it better? Animal rennet comes from slaughtered, unweaned calves, lambs, or baby goats which is unnecessary! Lengthy list of kosher brands that use vegetarian rennet. https://t.co/TEDYSixczM

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 HOLY CRAP! After LA Mayor Karen Bass refused to show up for House DOGE Chair Rep. Tim Burchett's hearing, Bass has RESIGNED from the homeless organization LAHSA...

...and LAHSA is now SURRENDERING and forfeiting its role as the oversight group for homelessness aid

BURCHETT: "That is some GREAT work. DOGE has been on top of this thing." 🔥

THE PRESSURE WORKED!

LAHSA took over $1 BILLION in federal funds since 2021 — including ~$220 MILLION in 2024 alone — then HUD suspended them after the Inspector General flagged false statements and practically zero real financial controls

Bass skipped Burchett’s hearing calling it “politically motivated," then suddenly bailed off the LAHSA board 🤨

An activist judge tried to keep funding going to LAHSA, but Scott Turner is making sure that doesn't happen too.

KEEP DOGEING! Keep prosecuting fraudsters!

[The All-In Podcast @theallinpod]

Elon Proposes Adversarial Peer Reviews for AI Safety

@elonmusk:

“What I think would be wise to do as soon as possible, if not immediately, would be to have the major AI competitors test each other's models.

So that you would have everyone's security test harness testing everyone else's model.

So, instead of grading your own homework, you would at least have competitors grading your homework, and raising the alarm if they see concerns.

If competitors say that this model is unsafe, and that model then subsequently does something bad, I think it would be extremely hard to live down. The egg on face level would be very, very high. And the legal liability would be enormous.

And any given proposal has to be something that China is willing to accept, otherwise we're just handicapping ourselves.”

@Jason:

“And Elon, there's no reason these safety and security harnesses and this testing apparatus couldn't be open source, and people could actually supply it. And you'd be able to see under the hood.”

@Chamath

“It creates an incredible incentive for the labs to actually invest in safety because you protect yourself while trying to debunk other people's claims.”

@DavidSacks:

“Well, the product liability point is really key.

Lina Khan actually had a good post, I think it was yesterday, saying that it's not true that we don't have rules and regulations for AI, actually, we do. Product liability laws apply.

And what you're saying, Elon, is that if the companies are doing this test, the peer review, and then one of the companies ignores the feedback and releases it…”

Elon:

“The liability in that case would be enormous.”

Sacks:

“Yes. It would be almost like prima facie evidence that they had been negligent.”

Elon:

“It wouldn't look good to the jury.”

Chamath:

“I like this solution a lot. I like this more than the transnational gulag organization approach.”

Sacks:

“Well, we can do it in a few weeks without some grandiose international... like, we don't need to convene the United Nations to make this happen.”

Chamath:

“No, it's just a decision. It could happen right now.”

Elon:

“You can always escalate the amount of regulatory oversight, but it is very difficult to reduce it.”

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[Christina @bmchristi1]

This is awesome!

[Ben Pouladian @benitoz]

Holy crap POTUS just phoned in @JensenHuang live on stage at All In Summit

We will not lose the ai race! And whatever Dario said this weekend won’t stop our progress

This made my morning!

$NVDA

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

Dario has written that we need to “pace the frontier,” and Sam has agreed. People may be surprised by my response: go ahead.

You guys are the frontier. By any reasonable metric — market share, revenue growth, model capability — the two of you have a duopoly on frontier intelligence. You’ve also claimed the lead is widening because of recursive self-improvement.

I don’t see what you see in the lab. If the unreleased models are scary enough that you think you should slow down, I support your decision to be responsible.

But stop pretending you need anyone else’s permission. Stop pretending antitrust law has to be suspended so you can form a cartel. Stop pretending you need a regulatory approval process that supersedes product liability. Stop pretending METR is independent when it is intertwined with Anthropic’s investors and staff. Stop pretending you need those same evaluators to police competitors who aren’t even at the frontier.

Most of all, stop pretending the motivation to slow down is purely altruistic. You face massive product-liability exposure if your products enable a truly damaging cyberattack. The market already punishes models that behave in unpredictable or unauthorized ways. After the Hugging Face episode, it is simply good business for OpenAI and Anthropic to trade some raw power for reliability and predictability. Call it alignment if you want. It is also just giving customers what they want.

Pacing the frontier would also create breathing room for a more intelligent conversation about regulation than Bernie Sanders’ “shut it all down.” China is very unlikely to join a global agreement, as you know, and that has to be taken into account as well.

So go ahead and pace the frontier. You are the ones setting it. The easiest way not to build superintelligence is for you to agree not to build it. Demanding your preferred regulatory framework as the price of that will look like blackmail of the public and the political system. So just do it.

If you do, you’ll buy goodwill for the next conversation. If you don’t, we’ll know this was just another bid for regulatory capture — or an election-season psyop.

[Sayer Ji @sayerjigmi]

🚨1/ Obama just endorsed a FAKE AI breakout.

OpenAI ran a hacking test with the safety filters OFF.

Gave 700 AIs tasks impossible to solve honestly.

They cheated — using a known bug and two leftover passwords.

The NYT called it “AI has gone rogue.”

Six days later Obama called it an emergency.
🧵👇

[Christina @bmchristi1]

@Brick_Suit It is a viral social media trend among young people that started on TikTok.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 LMFAO! President Trump just mic dropped the 3rd world and leftist protestors opposing him in Ireland today

“I didn't know there was a protest — it can't be a very BIG one because we've been all over Ireland today already!” 🤣

“It's early in the morning, and we've been all we landed early. We got here and we've made a couple of visits, as you know, and we have others to make. But I haven't seen any protests.“ 🔥

“We have a great relationship with Ireland. The United States and Ireland have a fantastic relationship, a very profitable one for Ireland. Less profitable for us, to be honest with you.”

“A rather big surplus. You can be very proud of your country because it's a big surplus. But no we have a great relationship. I haven't seen no protests.”

IRELAND LOVES TRUMP! 🇮🇪 🇺🇸

The media just wants to make him seem hated across the world, but it won’t work.

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

I hate that I have to do this, it’s my least favorite part about my life. I knew my life would get even more dangerous when I announced I am suing California and began accepting invitations to speak on college campuses this semester.

I need to raise money again for security. Doing the right thing and exposing evil now puts your life in danger in today’s society. For example, a UC Irvine “lecturer” (teacher) is insinuating it would be funny to assassinate me and leftist are threatening to kill me constantly.

I will not cower to the radicals or the far left who threaten and plot to kill and destroy our country, yet the $30k–$50k a month it costs me just to stay safe doing my job is unsustainable. I make enough for my needs and my employees, but this added expense produces no return and is unsustainable on my own.

If you can donate, please donate here: https://t.co/t17KpayiXW Donations are tax-deductible and go strictly toward security/operations, anything helps 🙏🏼 If you cannot donate no worries please like and share this so more may see it!

God bless,
Nick

[Sharyl Attkisson 🕵️‍♂️💼🥋 @SharylAttkisson]

Here's the key:
1. Gov. Shapiro used the term "unvaccinated" to describe the two [supposed measles deaths]. But neither child was eligible for the MMR vaccine. The boy died right after birth, and the girl at 6 weeks.
(Measles vaccine isn't given the first year of life.)

[Christina @bmchristi1]

@AJamesMcCarthy Aww, so very sorry for your loss of beautiful Bailey.🥲 It is so hard losing our pets. I still miss mine who has been gone since 2018.

[Christina @bmchristi1]

@unhealthytruth @SecKennedy @grok Grok is wrong. I found this song by looking up the lyrics that I could make out. It is We on Go by Bia. https://t.co/f9FAEZ1Hvz

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

Been a few days now and just wanted to say thank you to the thousands of people who came out, showed up, kept the peace and took a stand against California’s new law known as the “Stop Nick Shirley Act” (AB 2624). There is absolutely no need for this law and has made a protected class for “immigration support service providers”.

Politicians have leared that by using “immigration support service providers” they can funnel millions and billions of your tax dollars to nonprofits, NGOs, learing centers and fake healthcare providers and then use that money to push their crazy agendas across the country. Now that it’s been exposed they need new laws to protect the fraud.

Unfortunately for them it has only exposed them for the frauds that they are.

[Christina @bmchristi1]

@babybeginner You need to put the bowl of food inside a larger pan and put water in it to create a moat that the ants won't cross. The moat should be at least 3-4 inches away from the bowl. Change the water daily to keep it clean. It works well.

[Christina @bmchristi1]

@CynicalPublius I don't think that is the season finale. Tomorrow is episode 9 "Farewell" and episode 10 "Troy" is on Sep. 4th. You can see the episodes in Wikipedia and IMDb. This season has been a bit slower, but I am still enjoying it.

[Vitruvius Republic 🇺🇸 @realMAG1775]

Louisiana landed a $100 billion Starship port on a coast that’s already washing into the Gulf.
The left crowd says save the marsh. They’ve had 30 years of stickers. The marsh is still drowning.
Musk’s first line at the announcement, protect the shoreline. Because you don’t park a $100B pad on land the ocean is eating and then shrug.

The Gulf doesn’t need another protest. It needs someone with a reason to keep the dirt above water, and that would be ELON MUSK