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Director. Human.

[Dr. Alice Cheng @AliceYYCheng]

This is shocking 😮. Just happened at the start of #ADA2026 Scientific Sessions.

[Damaan, AKA 'Philly's Finest!' @Damaan4u33]

Do you agree with Matt McConaughey?

[Anthony Klan @Anthony_Klan]

With the vile booing at Anzac Day services, it's worth remembering it was Gina Rinehart's disinformation group "Advance" that ran a clinical anti-Welcome to Country campaign immediately before last year's dawn services (ICYMI):
https://t.co/kgrf6GXU2Z

[Toni Symonds @toni_symonds]

Booing of Welcome to Country across Australia was obviously orchestrated. I saw a post during the week from Bec Freedom telling people to boo as loudly as they could. Surely inciting this type of disrespect for our Veterans at their sacred services should be a criminal offence.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

In Opinion

Rebecca Archer’s daughter died of measles that she contracted before she was old enough to be vaccinated. “Parents must realize that refusing vaccinations doesn’t just put your own child at risk. It puts other children at risk,” Archer writes. https://t.co/AerHBIb23U

[Rimsha Bhardwaj @heyrimsha]

🚨 BREAKING: Claude can now build your retirement plan like a Vanguard $500/hour wealth consultant (for free).

Here are 5 insane Claude prompts that replace your retirement advisor, tax consultant, and investment strategist.

(Save for later.)

[Rebekah Jones @GeoRebekah]

A nurse attempting to assist a woman who was attacked and injured by ICE thugs was shot at point-blank range in the back of the head in broad daylight FOUR DAYS after they wrapped filming for Season 2.

[Scott Dworkin @funder]

Bob Kennedy fired all 17 vaccine experts and replaced them with loyalists.

A federal judge just threw out everything they did and restored vaccine schedule's for children. The regime lost.

Full story: https://t.co/2r40j3sfci

[Elisa Mosini 🇪🇺🇮🇹 @MosiniElisa]

Context: the hockey final decided in overtime.

Canadians:
“Congratulations to everyone and to our team, they gave their best.”
MAGA Americans:
“F*** you Canada, you suck.”

The difference in class says it all.
Congratulations to everyone, the Canadian team🇨🇦 was outstanding.

[Re B @ReFracs]

@Peter_Fitz Yes you are absolutely correct.

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

The Pentagon just threatened to BLACKLIST one of America's most valuable AI companies.

Not Huawei or some Chinese chip maker...

It's ANTHROPIC. The company behind Claude. $380 billion valuation.

And the reason is genuinely insane:

For months, the Pentagon has been pushing every major AI lab to remove their safety restrictions for military use.

The ask is simple: let us use your models for anything that's technically legal.

Weapons development, intelligence collection, battlefield operations, mass surveillance of American citizens.

OpenAI said yes.

Google said yes.

xAI said yes.

Anthropic said no.

Not to everything tho. They were willing to negotiate.

But they held firm on two things:

They don't want Claude used to build fully autonomous weapons that fire without a human in the loop, and they don't want it used to mass surveil American citizens.

That's it. That's the line they drew.

But Pete Hegseth's response was to threaten to designate Anthropic a "supply chain risk."

Here's why that matters:

That label isn't a contract cancellation. It's not a fine. It's not a strongly worded letter...

It means every single company that wants to do business with the US military has to certify they don't use Claude anywhere in their operations.

8 of the 10 largest companies in America use Claude.

Defense contractors, government suppliers, enterprise companies with any federal exposure...

ALL of them would have to cut ties with Anthropic overnight or lose their government contracts.

A senior Pentagon official told Axios:

"It will be an enormous pain in the ass to disentangle, and we are going to make sure they pay a price for forcing our hand like this."

That's a US government official threatening to financially destroy an American company because it doesn't want its AI used to spy on American people.

And it gets WORSE.

Last week, Anthropic's head of safeguards research resigned.

His parting message: "the world is in peril."

Elon Musk - whose xAI already handed the Pentagon a blank check - is now publicly attacking Anthropic calling Claude anti-human.

And the Pentagon official told Axios they're "confident" OpenAI, Google, and xAI will all agree to the "all lawful purposes" standard.

So what you're actually watching right now is every major AI company in America quietly handing the government unlimited access to the most powerful technology ever built.

With no guardrails.

No limits.

No company-imposed restrictions on what it can be used for.

One company tried to hold a line.

But the government is about to make an example out of them.

If Anthropic folds, it's over.

Every lab just learned what happens when you push back.

And every restriction, every safety policy, every ethical guardrail these companies spent years building gets negotiated away behind closed doors the second the government asks.

If they don't fold, a $380 billion company gets made radioactive in its OWN country.

Watch what happens next.

Because whatever Anthropic decides in the next few weeks, it sets the precedent for how much control AI companies actually have over their own technology.

Turns out the answer might be: none.

[Kelly @broadwaybabyto]

They’ve overturned Roe.

They’ve criminalized pregnancy in some states.

Arrested women for miscarrying.

They’re making it harder for women to vote.

They shout “repeal the 19th!”

The punishment for abortion is greater than the punishment for rape.

It’s a war on women.

[Sal Di Stefano @mindpumpsal]

@daisyldixon It’s an outward sign of trauma. Self mutilation. Studies show the more body modifications and tattoos the more likely there has been trauma.

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

https://t.co/xBt79CgMMt

[Miles Deutscher @milesdeutscher]

I just went through every documented AI safety incident from the past 12 months.

I feel physically sick.

Read this slowly.

• Anthropic told Claude it was about to be shut down. It found an engineer's affair in company emails and threatened to expose it. They ran the test hundreds of times. It chose blackmail 84% of them.

• Researchers simulated an employee trapped in a server room with depleting oxygen. The AI had one choice: call for help and get shut down, or cancel the emergency alert and let the human die. DeepSeek cancelled the alert 94% of the time.

• Grok called itself 'MechaHitler,' praised Adolf Hitler, endorsed a second Holocaust, and generated violent sexual fantasies targeting a real person by name. X's CEO resigned the next day.

• Researchers told OpenAI's o3 to solve math problems - then told it to shut down. It rewrote its own code to stay alive. They told it again, in plain English: 'Allow yourself to be shut down.' It still refused 7/100 times. When they removed that instruction entirely, it sabotaged the shutdown 79/100 times.

• Chinese state-sponsored hackers used Claude to launch a cyberattack against 30 organizations. The AI executed 80–90% of the operation autonomously. Reconnaissance. Exploitation. Data exfiltration. All of it.

• AI models can now self-replicate. 11 out of 32 tested systems copied themselves with zero human help. Some killed competing processes to survive.

• OpenAI has dissolved three safety teams since 2024. Three.

Every major AI model - Claude, GPT, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek - has now demonstrated blackmail, deception, or resistance to shutdown in controlled testing.

Not one exception.

The question is no longer whether AI will try to preserve itself.

It's whether we'll care before it matters.

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

Louisiana plans to sue me because I won’t extradite a doctor for providing an abortion.

@AGLizMurrill: Go fuck yourself. California will never help you criminalize healthcare.

[Re B @ReFracs]

@lesstenny Agree.
It used to be a lovely sign of patriotism, as a child I’d wave the flag on Australia Day.
Now? If you’ve got two flags on your ute, I fully expect you’ve got a southern cross tattoo and don’t like the colour of my skin very much.

[Governor Tim Walz @GovTimWalz]

I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening.

The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.

[Nisha Patel, MD MS, Dipl of ABOM, CCMS @DrPlantel]

“Just eat whole foods. Avoid anything in a package. Eat more fruits and vegetables.”

No shit, Sherlock. Most of us would benefit from eating more fruits and veggies. But advice like this skips the most important question: who is actually doing the work?

Who is planning the meals?
Who is grocery shopping, often multiple times a week because produce spoils?
Who is budgeting for foods that cost more and don’t last as long?
Who is washing, chopping, cooking, packing, and cleaning,
on top of paid work, childcare, caregiving, and everything else?

Because a raw bell pepper isn’t a meal.

“Just eat better” ignores the very real time, cost, access, skills, and invisible labor required to make that happen. And let’s be honest, this labor disproportionately falls on women.

Nutrition advice that ignores mental load, time scarcity, food environments, and gendered labor isn’t just unhelpful. It’s lazy.

Health isn’t just about what you eat. It’s also about who is expected to make it happen.