Jake Laperruque

Pentagon taps former DOGE official to lead its AI efforts The Pentagon on Friday named as Chief Data Officer ​a computer scientist who aided billionaire Elon Musk's efforts to ‌overhaul the government last year and who has boosted white supremacists and miso...

“Kliger, in social media posts between ​October 2024 and January 2025, has voiced controversial views and reposted content from white supremacist Nick Fuentes and self-described misogynist Andrew Tate.”

www.reuters.com/world/us/pen...

A post on X from the betting platform Polymarket that says “BREAKING: Anthropic CEO says Claude may or may not have gained consciousness, as the model has begun showing symptoms of anxiety.”

Literally as I’m arguing with someone about whether AI companies are misleading people into believing their technology possesses God-like super-intelligence I see this monstrosity

Didn't he say Iran's capabilities had been obliterated and it no longer poses a threat to the US like 10 months ago?

Scenes from a personalist regime: it is the presidential vibes that determine when the opponent has surrendered and when the war is over, not any pesky observable facts

Neocon Don:

👍 Open ended war in the Middle East
👍 Warrantless FISA surveillance

Noem big hat

Mullins big hat

Clearly he's been angling for this job for a while

The Biggest Myth About Trump’s Base (And Why Many Believe It) The MAGA faithful aren’t deserting their leader.

Operation Midnight Hammer. Venezuela. Now Epic Fury. Again and again, stories claim that MAGA is mad with Trump for betraying America First principles. Again and again, polls show that nope, they're not. I wrote about this myth and why it won't die here (gift link):

How Is Kalshi Not Gambling? On Kalshi, people have placed bets on everything from football games to foreign affairs. The prediction market’s CEO, Tarek Mansour, says this doesn’t count as gambling—and is actually good for societ...

Great interview with Kalshi founder Tarek Mansour by @stevenlevy.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/big-in...

U.S.-Israeli strikes continue across Iran; Iranian drones hit Azerbaijan The U.S. and Israel say they conducted new strikes inside Iran overnight, targeting ballistic missile launchers. Iran claims it struck a U.S. oil tanker in the northern Persian Gulf.

And now gone because of attack on Azerbaijan airport

www.npr.org/2026/03/05/n...

Azerbaijan just closed airspace "in the south of the country" per Bloomberg macro squawk. Losing that link would have a massive impact on Europe-Asia (incl the Indian subcontinent and ANZ) air travel.

“We are in an undeclared state of war.”

After Mike Johnson says the US is not at war, and Donald Trump says it is, Lindsey Graham tells @premthakker.bsky.social a third answer: an “undeclared state of war” — which, he suggests, allows the US to illegally strike ships in international waters.

Data on number of warrantless border searches by quarter, full data listed at: https://www.cbp.gov/travel/cbp-search-authority/border-search-electronic-devices

For the first time in two years, the 3 month the total number of warrantless border searches of electronic devices did not hit a record high

However, the number of"Advanced" border searches — in which CBP clones and retains a full copy of a smartphone/laptop — has jumped over 50% from a year ago

Quite literally “we have always been at war with Iran.”

“It is impossible to protect privacy from authoritarianism without addressing consumer privacy.” - from Daniel J. Solove, Privacy in Authoritarian Times - final published version here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... #PrivacyMatters

It's quite normal for young soldiers to get dumb tattoos. It is not quite normal for young soldiers to get Nazi tattoos.

Source: I was a young soldier and saw many of my fellow soldiers' dumb tattoos.

"Yes the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders." cartoon

"Listen up you NPC beta janks, I would be absolutely rolling in cash right now if all infrastructure hadn't been obliterated in the nuclear war that this Chad correctly bet on"

One of severally really interesting and informative articles on AI warfare.

The most chilling aspect of this I've read: “It [Palantir AI systems] also uses automated reasoning to evaluate legal grounds for a strike.”
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Article text: “The AI machine is making recommendations for what to target, which is actually much quicker in some ways than the speed of thought,” said Craig Jones, a senior lecturer in political geography at Newcastle University and an expert in kill chains. “So you’ve got scale and you’ve got speed, you’re [carrying out the] assassination-style strikes at the same time as you’re decapitating the regime’s ability to respond with all the aerial ballistic missiles. That might have taken days or weeks in historic wars. [Now] you’re doing everything at once.” The latest AI systems can rapidly analyse mountains of information on potential targets from drone footage to telecommunications interceptions as well as human intelligence. Palantir’s system uses machine learning to identify and prioritise targets and recommend weaponry, accounting for stockpiles and previous performance against similar targets. It also uses automated reasoning to evaluate legal grounds for a strike.

The government is using Palantir AI to evaluate whether airstikes in Iran are legal

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

She Came Out of the Bathroom Naked, Employee Says Bank details, sex and naked people who seem unaware they are being recorded. Behind Meta’s new smart glasses lies a hidden workforce, uneasy about peering into the most intimate parts of other people’...

The data from your Meta Ray Bans is used to train Meta's AI, which most people don't understand means that humans are looking at the most intimate details of their lives. www.svd.se/a/K8nrV4/met...

The Anthropic-DOD Conflict: Privacy Protections Shouldn’t Depend On the Decisions of a Few Powerful People The U.S. military has officially ended its $200 million contract with AI company Anthropic and has ordered all other military contractors to cease use of their products. Why? Because of a dispute over...

The Anthropic dustup has one clear message: Our privacy rights should not be dependent on backroom deals between tech CEOs and the surveillance state.

Sam Altman on X: "Here is re-post of an internal post: We have been working with the DoW to make some additions in our agreement to make our principles very clear. 1. We are going to amend our deal to add this language, in addition to everything else: "• Consistent with applicable laws," / X Here is re-post of an internal post: We have been working with the DoW to make some additions in our agreement to make our principles very clear. 1. We are going to amend our deal to add this language, in addition to everything else: "• Consistent with applicable laws,

Sam Altman just said he has tweaked his deal with the Pentagon and wrote a list of things he says are part of it, and he chose to include this really great line:

"One thing I think I did wrong: we shouldn't have rushed to get this out on Friday."

CBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoples’ Movements An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. ICE has bought access to similar t...

New from 404 Media: CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples' movements, according to an internal DHS document. Shows for the first time DHS tracked phones via process for putting ads in ordinary apps—video games, fitness apps, many more www.404media.co/cbp-tapped-i...

The inference they seem to have drawn from “coercive nation building rarely works out well” is “therefore just create a massive power vacuum and cross your fingers.”

White House talking points for congressional Republicans say we're not at war, we're just in "major combat operations against Iran" lol

Thanks to @knightcolumbia.org for giving me the opportunity to write about this as part of their larger project on reconstructing free expression - it’s such an important effort and I can’t wait to see what comes out of it.

How to Think About the Anthropic-Pentagon Dispute A conversation with Kat Duffy from the Council on Foreign Relations and Amos Toh from the Brennan Center for Justice.

The Pentagon wants AI that can fight wars without limits. Anthropic says there are lines it won't cross. And this week, that standoff turned into an all-out confrontation. To unpack the news, I spoke to Kat Duffy from the Council on Foreign Relations and Amos Toh from the Brennan Center:

What a closing line - "Meta has changed a lot over the past 8 years. At some point, the Ship of Theseus has sailed.”

Not sure that's the compliment he seems to think it is....

The Pentagon’s Favorite Tech Guy Is This Hawaiian Shirt-Wearing Founder

For many in the tech sector, fictional dystopias are aspirational.

"Science fiction did not just predict the future, Mr. Luckey said, but 'literally caused the future.'"

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/t...

This strikes at a core principle of the American republic, one that has traditionally been especially dear to conservatives: private property. Suppose, for example, that the military approached Google and said “we would like to purchase individualized worldwide Google search data to do with whatever we want, and if you object, we will designate you a supply chain risk.” I don’t think they are going to do that, but there is no difference in principle between this and the message DoW is sending. There is no such thing as private property. If we need to use it for national security, we simply will. The government won’t quite “steal” it from you—they’ll compensate you—but you cannot set the terms, and you cannot simply exit from the transaction, lest you be deemed a “supply chain risk,” not to mention have the other litany of policy obstacles the government can throw at you.

Good point from Dean Ball on Pentagon/Anthropic and why the real stakes go even further than AI www.hyperdimensional.co/p/clawed