Apparently true: https://www.democracynow.org/2026/4/2/headlines/nyt_israel_urges_christian_and_druze_communities_to_force_shiites_out_of_southern_lebanon

You had me at FUCK EVERYONE

“I don’t think people realize that every single file Claude looks at gets saved and uploaded to Anthropic,” the researcher “Antlers” told us. “If it’s seen a file on your device, Anthropic has a copy.”

No shit.

No shit.

If only prices were related to costs … 😄

I don’t see anything about lifting of sanctions. I have a feeling Mojtaba won’t go for it. Unless China pushes him into it with a promise of increased Iran-China cooperation.

When I said we, I mean the collective us. I’m in Canada. We cooked too. 😄

Turd Sandwich tries to take a popular stance, regrets his attempt.

If this becomes the D candidate for prez in 2028, we’re cooked.

I’d think staying silent would achieve this goal.

Also they can now generate content without users, which they already do a lot on Facebook.

Very interesting.

“The thought had occasionally crossed my mind: ‘Are we building tools to replace ourselves?’ But I’d convinced myself we were just automating the mundane to free everyone up for more strategic work.

“That narrative came crashing down when thousands of colleagues no longer had jobs.”

Our industry is full of naive motherfuckers like this. I see them daily at work.

Whenever you see someone or yourself repeating corporate talking points, remember that the core interests of the corporation contradict yours. The corpo only has you there because it can’t make as much money without you. It only pays you as much because it can’t get away with paying you less. There’s plenty variance and nuance between cases but all that’s overlayed on top of the base interests, it doesn’t obviate or replace them. The core interests are enforced as times get tougher or there’s other opportunity that promises to further them against yours.

No question.

I think the US has been significantly worse than Russia over the last century if not more. They’ve been in various capacities in Vietnam, Korea, Phillipines, Panama, Cuba, and those are just the ones off the top of my head. Read about their colonial, commercial and other wars as well as their regime change ops that has brought countless right-wing dictators around the world, that have killed shit ton of people.

It’s funny how his calculation factors in the completely immaterial price of tokens variable instead the material one which is the number of tokens or better yet the productivity gain per token.

Oh yeah, I see that in the graph now.

Penguin Per Pangolin

Government spending on R&D in China increased by 90% to US$133 billion in the decade leading up to 2023, according to the most recent purchasing-power-adjusted data from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). By contrast, in the United States, spending rose by just 12%, to $155 billion.

I think they’re not taking into account PPP. China is very likely spending more on science in PPP terms which is what really matters.

A few bombs ought to help with that.

I also enjoy discussing attack vecrors with my wife.