Fair point! Love you guys and all the work you do.
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Fair point! Love you guys and all the work you do.
Agreed. But NYT's David Chen had a good article on the state and local election perspective last week: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/u...
OpenAI is trying to claim simultaneously that (a) their contract with the Pentagon allows for "all lawful purposes" and (b) also that their red lines are fully protected.
the current position of the US government is that NVIDIA should be allowed to sell chips directly to China but banned from using Claude, because the latter is a larger national security risk. that is the level of absolute insanity coming out of the White House & Pentagon nowadays
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WILL NEVER ALLOW A RADICAL LEFT, WOKE COMPANY TO DICTATE HOW OUR GREAT MILITARY FIGHTS AND WINS WARS! That decision belongs to YOUR COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, and the tremendous leaders I appoint to run our Military. The Leftwing nut jobs at Anthropic have made a DISASTROUS MISTAKE trying to STRONG-ARM the Department of War, and force them to obey their Terms of Service instead of our Constitution. Their selfishness is putting AMERICAN LIVES at risk, our Troops in danger, and our National Security in JEOPARDY. Therefore, I am directing EVERY Federal Agency in the United States Government to IMMEDIATELY CEASE all use of Anthropic’s technology. We don’t need it, we don’t want it, and will not do business with them again! There will be a Six Month phase out period for Agencies like the Department of War who are using Anthropic’s products, at various levels. Anthropic better get their act together, and be helpful during this phase out period, or I will use the Full Power of the Presidency to make them comply, with major civil and criminal consequences to follow. WE will decide the fate of our Country — NOT some out-of-control, Radical Left AI company run by people who have no idea what the real World is all about. Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP
closest you're gonna get to Trump publicly backing down is him just cancelling Anthropic's contracts instead of designating them a supply chain risk as was threatened. real kudos to Anthropic for standing up, real dumb moves by the WH to start this episode.
"More than 200 employees from Google and OpenAI have signed an open letter stating their solidarity with Anthropic in limiting the use of advanced AI for domestic surveillance or fully autonomous warfare."
The Virginia Supreme Court has ruled that the state can put a redistricting plan on the ballot this spring that could add as many as four more Democratic seats in Congress.
The referendum will take place on April 21.
The AI revolution is at our doorstep. America urgently needs a plan to protect you, our kids, our economy, and our democracy.
That's why I'm proposing a National AI Policy Framework—read the full 8-point plan here: alexbores.nyc/ai-framework
What a fantastic picture of the Tidal Basin and the Jefferson Memorial -- reflective of this uncommon stretch of frigid, icy weather.
Thanks to Seth Hoffman (@hocofoto) for sharing this amazing capture with us on Instagram.
There is no sign that Dems or Repubs have different propensities to use AI: "the “politics of AI” is not primarily driven by ideological resistance or enthusiasm for the technology, but rather by structural differences in where people work and what skills they possess." www.nber.org/papers/w34813
This is not what is happening at all.
The amount of misinformation on BlueSky about AI is insane, and it keeps promising that AI is all hype that is going away soon.
A really dangerous position that cedes all AI policy and decisions about how it will be used to others.
Also Futurism is clickbait
There's plenty of data that waymo is safer than average US drivers
But even ignoring that, just think—waymo does 500k trips/week now, if they had were even close to the crash rate of normal drivers they'd be killing a pedestrian like every other week
www.understandingai.org/p/human-driv...
Same!
🧵 1/ We’re devastated about the layoffs at The Washington Post, which are gutting D.C. reporting. These journalists are an incalculable loss for our city. The 51st’s mission has always felt urgent, but now we know it needs to kick into high gear.
Utah Republicans have now passed their court-packing bill in both chambers. Gov. Spencer Cox has previously expressed support for it, so it’s likely to become law.
The court is entirely composed of GOP appointees, but they’ve overturned recent Republican efforts to subvert fair elections
I... agree with the HN comment ...??
When deportation agents capture images of people filming them.
This sure seems more like the tyranny the Constitution is supposed to protect against than forgiving student loans.
Too obvious a point even to make, perhaps. But there was no “unrest” in Minneapolis before ICE and CBP showed up. ICE and CBP are the cause of the chaos…and the killings.
Get them out of there.
Virginia House Democrats advance four constitutional amendments — including redistricting — on opening day of 2026 session virginiamercury.com/2026/01/14/v...
Chamber of Commerce is one of the most influential lobbies in the country. It's apparently now asking all potential federal endorsements for their position on banning state-level AI laws via federal preemption.
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Unintended consequences of policymaking: Way back in the 2010s, voters in 6 red states enacted "health care freedom amendments" as a reaction to Obamacare. Last week, Wyoming's high court struck down the state abortion ban for violating that right to health care. mailchi.mp/multistate/m...
After Gov. Walz's announcement, at least half of the 36 governor elections this year will be open seats. This is important because of the growing success rate that incumbent governors have enjoyed at the ballot box (90+%). mailchi.mp/multistate/m...
Utah is the first state to allow AI to renew prescriptions without doctor involvement
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
A heck of a chart: in every single one of the 10 major US cities that built the most housing between 2017 and 2023, rents for older, existing units fell—often by quite a bit.
Big: Wyoming supreme court just struck down abortion ban.
And get this: The reason is a constitutional amendment codifying a right to make health care decisions... passed in 2012 by conservatives who thought it'd screw Obamacare!
Quite the backfire. We explained this lawsuit a few years back:
This was a very chilling read... worth reading in full if you have the nytimes subscription. A summary wouldn't do it justice. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/o...
Wyoming, which has been projected to lose $115M in federal rural Medicaid funding in the next decade will receive $205M from the rural health fund for FY2026.
Circa 1900 winter scene in front of the Capitol. Happy Holidays!
The Trump admin has started to realize batteries are an important general purpose technology. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/c...