He doesn't have a plan because that particular problem won't impact the US. The US is a net exporter of oil (crude and refined). He doesn't give a single solid shit about the rest of the world, so the Strait is their problem.
It would be super cool if our elected representatives spent half as much time waging an actual opposition as they do bloviating online.
Fuck off, Chuck. Do your damn job, or get out of the way.
Dear Chuck: how about less bloviating online, and more actual doing something to counter this administration?
Or, even better: resign and let the position go to someone who will?
Doge was comprised of the most craven, morally-bankrupt idiots in America.
Entirely predictable, and totally on brand for Putin's puppet.
My full piece digs into why Anthropic's extensity across federal government + the extensive ties with big money funders makes the ban nearly impossible to enforce, and why that should worry us more than it comforts us: insights.priva.cat/p/anthropic-...
7/ Here's where it gets uncomfortable though: Anthropic can say no to domestic surveillance because it has leverage, not because it's uniquely principled.
That leverage protects them today. But what happens after the IPO? When their "red lines" go grey?
6/ Separately, while Trump says he wants to destroy Anthropic. Anthropic's investors are funding Trump's political operation.
No dictator can afford to piss off the coalition that keeps them in power. This isn't about principles — it's about leverage.
5/ The administration's threat came via tweet. No executive order. No proclamation. Hegseth's "supply chain risk" tweet probably lacks legal authority, though at least he kinda gave formal notice (eventually). Executive actions via social media tirades do not indicate seriousness.
4/ This is what I call "extensity" — when a company becomes so embedded across systems that removal is effectively impossible. Like the banks in 2008. Except now it's AI infrastructure woven into national security, immigration, and federal operations. Not just too big to fail, but too big to govern.
3/ Anthropic just raised $30B from Blackstone, QIA, Sequoia, BlackRock, Microsoft, NVIDIA — several of whom are major Trump donors/allies.
8 of the Fortune 10 are Claude customers. Enterprise is 70-75% of their revenue. Government contracts are big, but not the majority.
2/ I went through federal AI Use Case Inventories. Claude is everywhere:
USCIS: scanning immigration forms
CBP: document analysis
HHS: FOIA chatbot
State Dept: internal chatbot
Pentagon: intelligence, cyber ops, operational planning
Still used against Iran after the ban
1/ Trump "banned" Anthropic on Truth Social from the entire US government after the company refused to let Claude do bulk domestic surveillance and autonomous murderbots.
The thing is, I think the Administration needs Anthropic (and their funders) more than Anthropic needs the Administration.
Ahh, well better they live a good life as opposed to being destroyed immediately, so good on you.
Do you keep all the chicks?
I know, I know. Everyone is in desperate need right now, but our rescue needs some help paying vet bills.
The benefit is, if you're in the US, our bills are in AUD and the exchange rate is very much in your favour! Please throw us $5?
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Today the United States wasted another #1B on an illegal war in Iran, money that could have been spent on funding health care or providing SNAP benefits or cancer research or academic scholarships for minorities. I could go on and on but I think you get my point. #endtheiranwarnow
I mean, I'm more curious about 'large boneless couch'. What was going on there, exactly? Do people normally buy bone-in couches?
A friend asked Claude to describe me (for purposes of summarizing my weird background) and it came back with " a 20 year practitioner who is constitutionally skeptical of hype and called it essential anyway”
Most of this is not wrong
A friend asked Claude to describe me (based on available evidence) and it came back with "Constitutionally skeptical of hype" and this is my new tagline now
I have no evidence or foreknowledge on this, but I feel it in my bones that Belgium was involved somehow.
It matters all that much. The tricky thing about Claude is that it feels 'conscious' to us in a way that many LLMs don't. At least, it feels like this to me, and that's both interesting and sightly unnerving.
I want a better answer to _why_ this happens with Claude, but not the others
_that_ version of Claude. Contrast that with your average 5-year old. A five-year old might forget what they did 10 minutes ago, but the child still has a concept of self that's fairly defined and consistent. They don't need a MEMORY file to define their personality.
IMHO, I don't know if
As for Claude: one way I think that it's different is that it has no theory of mind -- or certainly no consistent one. Every instance of Claude is a new version of itself. Sure, this can be bolstered by a MEMORY file, but that's fragile, easily corrupted, and if you lose it, you lose
Philosophers, psychologists, and lately neuroscientists have been puzzling over this for millennia. They still can't explain human consciousness, much less in 280 characters.
Oh good to know!
Not the first time, sadly.
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I should add, that there are other, less colorful ways, including Een lange piemel (standard) and Een grote lul ("a big dick"), but een flinke jongeheer is soooo much more memorable.
Hubs and I are both trying to learn Dutch. He’s using Gemini as a language aid, and sent me Gemini's answer on how to refer to tallness.
I, being half a bottle of wine + a rakkia in, ask Gemini how the Dutch describe penis length and… it's “Een flinke jongeheer” — A "hefty young gentleman."
