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

I fucking hate the American culture of entitled asshole selfishness. you see it everywhere. the driver assholes going 90 in a school zone. the assholes who don’t leash their dog or pick up their dog shit. the assholes who litter. the assholes who won’t vaccine their kids

Post See new posts Conversation Andrew Solender @AndrewSolender There is HEAVY pressure on Dems to get in line on this Iran war powers vote. Leadership is whipping a yes vote, progressive groups are threatening primary challenges, and I’m told Pelosi is currently giving Landsman a piece of her mind on the floor. https://axios.com/2026/03/04/democrats-iran-war-powers-vote-primary

Good. Every Democrat who doesn't do the bare minimum should obviously be obliterated at the next opportunity in their primaries. Glad leadership is whipping yes.

feels like a minute since i have pointed out that donald trump has pardoned more child sex offenders than every other president of the united states combined

I thought the unembedding matrix is generally not invertible?

Susan Collins just gave Donald Trump the green light to take further unilateral military action that could push the United States into another endless war without oversight.

She doesn't have the courage to stand up to the President, even when American lives are on the line.

It's kind of fucked to watch a pro-LLM engineer tell someone it's a skill issue that the latter finds Claude Code to be underwhelming when the former just published a Claude-coded "high-performance" utility that unnecessarily allocates Strings inside of its core loop.

The UN, though in Manhattan, is on international land, not American. Also a pretty central tenet of diplomacy is “we will not take advantage of proximity to murder your people” for reasons that should be very obvious.

I think the stat in mid-2000s was 1/3 of my graduating class went into consulting (or it might have been consulting and finance). It was the default "I have no idea what I'm doing next but I'm supposed to keep achieving, right?" career and the school itself pushed students towards it.

Yep. It was pitched as a way to get some real-world exposure to a variety of businesses/markets and give yourself good exit opportunities. Also, it's a "prestigious" thing to do for kids who have been doing high-achievement things their whole like. So it's viewed as the next logical step in life.

Yeah like to put things in perspective, the damage done by Sergey Brin’s ex-wife single handedly funding large segments of the anti-vax movement probably undid shitloads of positive public health work done through philanthropy. The ability to use that money for evil shit is just far greater.

I think good billionaires exist. Dustin Moscovitz and Tom Steyer seem like relatively well-intentioned and decent people trying to use their money constructively. But the upsides of people like them don’t outweigh the downsides of someone like Elon Musk.

kind of crazy that if you have enough money and don't like what you see in the media, you can just buy up every film studio, news station, and social media app and change it

yeah the damage a single bad billionaire can do wildly outstrips any positive impact even a theoretically ideal billionaire can have

more, I think that the kind of person you need to be to become a billionaire tends to select for the worst outcomes in all but the rarest of cases

Nah. I had many acquaintances go into consulting right after undergrad. Only the psychopaths stayed in it for long. The good ones dipped early, like Pete, when they realized how harmful and corrosive it was.

We can’t clean up Washington without restoring integrity to the Supreme Court.

That’s why I believe we should expand the Supreme Court to 13 justices. And then, institute term limits.

Because an appointment to the Supreme Court shouldn’t mean a lifetime lack of accountability.

There are two major issues with teacher pay:

-first, teachers are paid significantly less than other professionalized workers with high education requirements
-second, starting salaries are often dismal, far lower than you'd need to support a family - a result of back-loaded salary schedules

“Only believe true things! Do not believe lies! Make no mistakes”

I like how in 2026 a common security paradigm is writing a strongly worded letter to the guy in your computer

'UNIMAGINABLE CRUELTY': Judge Gary Brown, a Trump appointeee from NY, thrashes DHS' treatment of a man who came to the US at 9 as an abuse/neglect victim, has no criminal record and became a college grad.

"The laws of decency condemn such villainy." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

JFC i'm talking to some people who are like, "i don't know man, i'm not convinced kamala wouldn't be bombing iran, too." are you some kind of asshole?

two days into the war and he's already trying to pass the blame off to Biden for why things aren't going perfectly. Any other president would be getting buried by the media right now, but Trump bought and corrupted ours.

Awesome. Thank you!

You have a podcast? If so, could you share a link?

“We thought we were living in a politically neutral slave state.”

Platner has incredibly bad judgment, but my primary reason for vocally opposing him is that a guy who used to have an SS tattoo and goes on alt-right podcasts is the absolute worst messenger for opposition to Israel possible. We deserve better than the guy our opponents say we are in bad faith.

Also, and this is secondary to the fact that leading left wing pundits like Grim are expressly normalizing antisemitism, but this wasn't just an antisemitic podcast, it was wildly anti-Black, too

the incentives here are so obscenely terrible that the entire thing should be illegal by default

“I am sabotaging negotiations because I stand to make piles of money on Polymarket” is absolutely in play, what a horrifying clusterfuck

Sen. Ossoff Statement on Iran Atlanta, Ga. - U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff today released the following statement. "Eight months ago, Donald Trump lied to the country when he claimed U.S. air strikes had 'obliterated' Iran's nuclear program. "Now Trump says he's taken America to war for regime change in Iran. "Trump has launched this regime change war and put American forces at risk without presenting evidence of an imminent threat, without clear objectives, without having exhausted diplomacy, without a plan for the aftermath, and without the consent of Congress. "I oppose yet another regime change war-of-choice in the Middle East. Congress must convene immediately and pass a War Powers Resolution to assert our Constitutional authority over war and peace. "The President has presented no evidence that Iran or its nuclear program — which he falsely claimed to have 'obliterated' — pose an imminent threat to the United States, or that diplomacy was exhausted. Iran's support for terrorism and uranium enrichment have long destabilized the region. But sending American forces into harm's way should only ever be a last resort. "I pray for the safety of U.S. forces who have been ordered into battle and commend their extraordinary professionalism."

Ossoff’s statement is 1000x stronger than Schumer-Jeffries. This is a moderate Jewish Senator from a Trump state. The split isn’t moderate vs progressive, but leading vs poll-reacting

How did his campaign let him do this? Did every single person with experience working on a campaign leave already?