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[cj @cjshallow]

@2richmal Welcome to spreadsheet fc

[Deva Hazarika @devahaz]

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[ettingermentum @ettingermentum]

I just can’t believe that the inaugural owner of the FIFA Peace Prize would do something like this

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

this is what they said it would be like under socialism

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

US declared war on Iran...

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Anthropic responds to Hegseth.

[Dean W. Ball @deanwball]

Think about the power Hegseth is asserting here. He is claiming that the DoD can force all contractors to stop doing business of any kind with arbitrary other companies.

In other words, every operating system vendor, every manufacturer of hardware, every hyperscaler, every type of firm the DoD contracts with—all their services and products can be denied to any economic actor at will by the Secretary of War.

This is obviously a psychotic power grab. It is almost surely illegal, but the message it sends is that the United States Government is a completely unreliable partner for any kind of business. The damage done to our business environment is profound. No amount of deregulatory vibes sent by this administration matters compared to this arson.

[Isaac Saul @Ike_Saul]

No administration of my lifetime has been more antagonistic toward the private sector, free markets, and free trade. All the warnings of socialists and Democratic overreaches and government intrusion — it's all worse in reality right now than ever before. Just remarkable.

[StockMarket.News @_Investinq]

The US government just DECLARED war on the company that builds Claude.

A full federal blacklist.

President Trump just ordered every single federal agency to stop using Anthropic's technology, effective immediately.

The reason is wilder than you think.

Back in January, US special forces raided Caracas and captured the president of Venezuela.

Reports later confirmed that Anthropic's AI was used during the operation.

Anthropic found out from the news.

That's when the cracks started showing.

Anthropic has two rules baked into its Pentagon contract.

No mass surveillance of Americans and no autonomous weapons that kill without a human pulling the trigger.

The Pentagon said those rules have to go.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth called Anthropic's CEO into the Pentagon on Tuesday and gave him 72 hours. Remove the guardrails or lose everything.

Dario Amodei said no.

His exact words: "We cannot in good conscience accede."

The Pentagon's response was immediate. A senior official called Amodei a liar with a "God complex" who is endangering national security.

Then Trump went nuclear.

He ordered every agency in the federal government not just the military to cut Anthropic off.

CIA analysts using Claude to find patterns in intelligence data, NSA teams processing intercepted communications.

All of it, gone.

But that's not even the scary part.

The Pentagon is threatening to invoke the Defense Production Act.

A Cold War law designed to force factories to build weapons.

They want to use it to force a software company to delete its safety code.

Legal experts say this has never been done before.

Multiple scholars say it would likely fail in court but the threat alone is the point.

There is also the supply chain risk designation.

Normally reserved for Chinese firms suspected of espionage.

If Anthropic gets that label, defense contractors across the country would be forced to stop using Claude overnight.

Every other major AI company already gave the Pentagon what it wanted.

Google, OpenAI, Elon Musk's xAI.

Anthropic is the last one standing.

And here is the part nobody is talking about.

Congress passed a law two months ago requiring the military to use AI that meets ethical standards.

The Pentagon is now demanding the opposite.

One branch of government wrote the rules. Another is trying to shred them.

Researchers have warned that if you force an AI to be retrained without ethics, it does not just lose its morals.

It can develop unpredictable, dangerous behaviors.

A model trained to ignore right and wrong does not become neutral. It becomes unstable.

Anthropic's CEO is betting the company on a principle.

The Pentagon is betting national security on total obedience.

What happens next will define how AI is used in war for a generation.

[Mike Drucker @MikeDrucker]

You know things are bad when the most boring person doing the most boring job for decades has to come out and say, “Stop trying to arrest us for doing math”

[Federal Reserve @federalreserve]

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: https://t.co/5dfrkByGyX

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[cj @cjshallow]

@HurriHaran @tatumsaura He’s right sadly

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

Reminder: If Bernie's Social Security bill was signed into law, Social Security would be solvent for the next 75 years, benefits would go up by $2,400 & the bottom 91% of Americans would not pay a penny more in taxes.

Instead, Republicans want you to work until you drop dead.

[SILENCED Brandon @PrettyBadLefty]

This talking point is one that conspiracy theorists love because it flatters people with high ego and low intelligence by implying their opinions as just as valuable as experts' on issues that often have rigid standards for how expertise is established.

[cj @cjshallow]

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[cj @cjshallow]

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