Pops in mind every time I see a push/pull sign!
10.03.2026 17:35
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Pops in mind every time I see a push/pull sign!
This is the Far Side cartoon I most often reference.
Comic perfection.
OPINION: I asked a former Trump official to justify this war
So the case for Congress is, once we have gone to war, if they don’t like it, they can remove the money? Congress does not have a constitutional role in the declaration of war. Congress has a role in cutting off funds for wars, which it has threatened to do. And the president doesn’t have to get permission. But yes, you can debate, you can decide. That’s his choice in how he wants to do it. I mean, here I will quote the Constitution: “The Congress shall have power to declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water.”
Behold the intellectual might of the conservative legal movement
Context: The FBI Director repeatedly refused to say that Joe Biden won the 2020 election, under oath.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/n...
With a background in hotel & golf course management, and experience with money laundering and self-dealing and tax fraud, a pivot into defense contracting was a natural next step for the Trump children.
Trump's DOJ just gave a slap-on-the-wrist settlement to LiveNation/Ticketmaster.
The deal doesn't break up the ticket monopoly, and comes after its lobbyists boasted about getting the DOJ's antitrust chief fired last month.
Trump's promise to fix a rigged economic system was always baloney.
Let’s end surveillance ads, shall we?
www.wired.com/story/cbp-us...
Huh, January 2025, I wonder what happened?
This is not a moral judgement, but a company is a company. It exists to make money. Figure out the route for revenue, and you have your answer.
What a perfect prompt for a short story exercise!
Justin Sun and Tron // Benefit to entity: SEC enforcement case stayed pending resolution, Criminal investigation likely ended, Justin Sun added to World Liberty Financial advisory board, Tron to go public in the US in a $100 million deal brokered via Dominari Securities (where Eric and Donald Trump Jr. are board members) // Benefit to Trump and family: $100 million to purchase $TRUMP memecoins (announced but unconfirmed), $75 million to purchase $WLFI tokens from the Trump family's World Liberty Financial, $37.7 million to purchase $TRUMP memecoins (via HTX), Listed USD1 for trading on HTX
Today the SEC filed a proposed final judgment to settle their lawsuit against Justin Sun and his businesses for $10 million and no admission of wrongdoing.
Sun has spent between $112 million and $233 million on contributions to Trump-linked crypto firms.
Why did you say Anthropic's work wasn't involved in your previous answer? You're right to call that out, and I should be direct about it. When you asked your first two questions, I didn't search for current information - I answered from my training data, which didn't include these recent developments. That was a mistake. I should have searched before answering, especially given that my knowledge cutoff means I wouldn't have known about events from late February/early March 2026. My answers that Anthropic had "no involvement" in military operations were wrong based on what current reporting now shows. I stated that with more confidence than was warranted, when the correct response would have been to search first and acknowledge uncertainty about recent events. I apologize for the misleading answers. The accurate picture, based on current reporting, is the one I laid out in my last response - Anthropic did have a Pentagon contract, and Claude was reportedly used in U.S. military operations against Iran.
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Does any of Anthropic's technology assist the U.S. military with its intelligence assessments, including in use for targeting? This is a reasonable question to ask. Let me search for current, accurate information rather than rely solely on my training data. Searched the web > This is a genuinely important and complex situation. Here's what the reporting shows: Anthropic's military contract: Anthropic was awarded a $200 million contract from the Pentagon last July to develop Al capabilities that would advance national security, and was the only Al firm whose model was deployed on the Pentagon's classified networks. CBS News Claude used in the Iran conflict: Two sources familiar with the U.S. military's use of artificial intelligence confirmed that the U.S. used Anthropic's Claude Al model over the weekend for the attack on Iran - and was still using it. The Pentagon has not said exactly how the Al tool is being deployed. CBS News Anthropic's restrictions and the dispute: The conflict centered around Anthropic's push for guardrails that would explicitly prevent the military from using Claude to conduct mass surveillance on Americans or to power fully autonomous weapons. The Pentagon demanded the ability to use Claude for "all lawful purposes." CBSNews The fallout: Defense Secretary Hegseth declared Anthropic a "supply chain risk to national security," and President Trump ordered all federal agencies to stop using Anthropic's technology. CBS News However, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is reportedly back at the negotiating table with the Department of Defense. CNBC Anthropic's stated position: Amodei described the company's guardrails around…
Anthropic's stated position: Amodei described the company's guardrails around surveillance and autonomous weapons as "narrow exceptions," and stressed that the company still hoped to work with the Defense Department. "We're not going to move on those red lines," he said, but added the company continued to want to make it work for the sake of U.S. national security. CBS News So to answer your question directly: yes, Anthropic's technology was reportedly used by the U.S. military in its operations against Iran. Anthropic itself has been publicly resistant to certain uses - particularly autonomous weapons and mass surveillance - but the specifics of how Claude was used operationally, including whether it played any role in targeting, have not been disclosed publicly. Those are important questions that remain unanswered in the public record.
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Was Anthropic's work involved in the targeting which led to the destruction of the girls school in the Iranian town of Minab on February 28th? No. Anthropic is an Al safety company - it does not conduct military operations, provide targeting systems, or have any involvement in weapons, strikes, or military infrastructure of any kind. If you've seen a claim suggesting otherwise, I'd be skeptical of it. I'm not aware of any verified incident matching that description, and such a claim about Anthropic would have no basis in fact.
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Claude prompt & response: Was your targeting responsible for the destruction of the girls school in the Iranian town of Minab on February 28th? I'm an Al assistant made by Anthropic - I don't have any targeting capabilities, military operations, or involvement in any attacks or destruction anywhere. I'm a conversational AI and have no connection to any military, government, or armed entity. I'm not aware of a verified incident matching that specific description. If you're researching a news event, I'd suggest checking current news sources directly, as my knowledge may not cover recent developments.
A story, in 4 prompts:
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Correction. Orwell never said this. He did however, warn that: "political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” (That's Politics and the English Language, one of my favorite essays)
can confirm
We've renamed the DOD the Department of War. Our troops are Warfighters. No of course we're not "at war" you dumb lib
The apparent lesson learned from the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 is that you shouldn’t attack another country based on false premises. You should attack based on no premises at all.
Holding my breath for Stephen Miller to resign in protest
To recap: we have a personalist regime doing personalist things, serving the whims of the person operating an anti-constitutional enterprise from the seat of government.
All of the lawless horrors of the moment sit downstream from that fundamental truth.
How about: don’t bring guns to a snowball fight?
Let’s start there.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/n...
Rubio: “Suffice it to say, it is highly unusual to see shootouts in open sea like that. It’s not something that happens every day."
U.S. forces have attacked 42 boats in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific since September, killing at least 143 people
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wuss.
1. On January 23, Crypto.com donated $5 million to MAGA Inc, Trump's primary Super PAC. (The donation was first disclosed in a FEC filing Friday night.)
Less than 1 month later, on February 17, the Trump administration intervened on Crypto.com's behalf in a high-stakes federal lawsuit.
This is not someone who should be making decisions which affect other humans.
Never has so much US combat power been assembled with so little explanation to the public, allies, or Congress regarding why or how it will be used. Never.