privatize social security

Here is what a map of the literacy rate in America in 1930 looks like with a more granular color scale.

I'm quoted in this piece so let me provide my full comment to the reporter: The most striking thing about the government's filing are the things it *doesn't* mention. It doesn't mention anything about Anthropic hesitating to allow Claude to be used to defend an incoming hypersonic missile, for instance -- one of the many bizarre things alleged by @USWREMichael. The focus on foreign national employees is an indicator of how thin the DoW's case is. It is also an extremely fraught line of argument to go down. Every leading US AI company employs a substantial number of foreign nationals. In FY 2025, Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, Google, Apple, Oracle, Cisco, Intel, and IBM all appeared in the top 50 employers by number of granted H-1B visas, ranging from a few hundred to over 6,000. Meta alone had 5,123 approved H-1B petitions in 2025. (See: newsweek.com/h-1b-visas-imm… ) This is an undercount, of course, as there are many other visa pathways as well as greencard holders and dual nationals. The share is also higher in AI. A large plurality of the core research and engineering talent at every frontier AI lab is foreign, reflecting the global nature of the race for top AI talent. One talent tracker shows Chinese-origin researchers constitute roughly 40% of top AI talent at US institutions. Total foreign nationals likely constituting 50-65% of research teams specifically. This is certaintly true to my experience on the ground. (See: digitalprojectsarchive.org/interactive/di… ) So the first point is that employing foreign nationals, including Chinese nationals, is not unique to Anthropic. The more important question is what measures are taken to protect against insider threats. Ironically, within the industry Anthropic is widely considered to be the most serious and proactive about policing insider threats from foreign nationals and otherwise. They were early adopters of operational security techniques like compartmentalization and audit trails, in part because they were early to partner with the IC and DoW, but also as a reflection of their leadership's strong convictions about the future power of the technology. They were audited last year on these points: the compliance review found Anthropic employs role-based access control, just-in-time access with approval workflows, multi-factor authentication for all production systems, and quarterly access reviews. (See: tdcommons.org/cgi/viewconten… ) Anthropic is known for its security mindset more generally. Last year they famously disrupted a Chinese espionage effort occuring on their platform, banned the PRC from their services, and worked with the NSA and others to share intel. I can't speak to every other company, but the contrast is perhaps most stark with xAI. X employees famously slept in tents to work around the clock, are disproportionately Chinese, and have at least one case of an employee walking out with tons of sensitive data. See: sfstandard.com/2025/08/29/xai… Anthropic is also famous for its remarkable employee retention, which is another important vector for IP theft and security leakages. It's important to underscore just how precarious the DoW's case is, both on the legal merits, and as a potential precedent for the US AI industry. If employing foreign nationals is treated as a prima facie supply chain risk, *no* major US AI company would be eligible to contract with the DoW, along with most of the tech sector. Insider threats are a genuine and tricky concern. Many defense companies are ITAR restricted, meaning they can *only* hire US citizens. If that were the standard in AI, we would destroy all our frontier companies in an instant, and then scatter that talent around the world for our adversaries to scoop up. So in short, the DoW's argument is both ridiculous and playing with fire.

Now you see, in reality, this ticket would be lucky to crack 3% in any municipality other than Dearborn or a place that has a uniquely high concentration of Muslims. I don't know how anyone can say "spend some time offline" and be so out of touch with reality at the same time.

@mean_field_zane the left looks weird without buccal fat.

yeah I have a type.

@atlanticesque what did you mean by this.

@shapiromentum @IsraeliLibPriv

In Israel, are Likud voters or voters for the opposition more left-leaning on economics?

@nolightupstairs I wonder what Brianna Wu's thoughts are on the iran war.

Some of you guys lost too many brain cells to someone who is literally an idiot

PPP poll | 3/16-3/17 US Senate Idaho 2026 ⬜️Todd Achilles 41% 🟥Jim Risch 38% (incumbent) — 🟥Senator Jim Risch approval: 32% (Likely Achilles internal)

@MobyDickSpoiler @christoaivalis I'll assume Carney knows what he's doing and AFAIK almost all these cuts don't affect social spending and on net government spending is expanding under him with more infrastructure and defense spending so it's probably fine.

@MakeUSAVAT @christoaivalis To balance the operating budget I believe

Carney's cuts are worse than under Harper

New England heats with fuel oil. The Southeast heats with electricity. The Midwest heats with natural gas. Same country, completely different energy systems. Every county in one map:

@cowabungatime @Lib_Development You have to be taught it given that not all cursive letter forms look similar to their print letter forms.

Democrat Governor of Pennsylvania doing retvrnposting for cursive handwriting as policy to win the reactionary zoomer vote or something I’m ngl man it’s not great that none of my friends can read my handwriting, as a cursive user

@SaladBarFan how year many before a republican runs on "deduct your alimony payments from taxes"

The only thing more disgusting than Ashley St. Clair is everyone who was stupid enough to fall for her grifting. You’re all subhumans who don’t deserve to live.

2004 is Joe Election. Stock photo of a presidential election. Default settings election. Soccer moms, NASCAR dads. Liberal Democrats fall in love, conservative Republicans fall in line. Issues are war, social issues, and the economy. Red inland, blue coasts.

@number_pizza111 @nagamyzuna @avrilbradley23

@nagamyzuna How… how high?

New record high 🙏

@elephant_ben the UK had no way of defending Hong Kong and China could have just taken it by force.

Big issue was the UK never introduced to democracy to Hong Kong nor british citizenship fatally undermining there moral case for keeping it.

@christoaivalis @MobyDickSpoiler why is carney cutting the Canadian revenue service?

@christoaivalis How much spending did Harper cut percnetage wise?

@Maxthecat5905 @punished_casa with inflation they are giving more money to consumers

@MakeUSAVAT @punished_casa Define “unfair”

They should raise the price at a minimum in line with core inflation.

@panda_otu @punished_casa I've never been to an Aldi but I've been to a Lidl and I assume they are similar.

@punished_casa @MakeUSAVAT Aldi is the king of loss leaders. Their entire business model revolves around rotating products at extremely low prices slowly, refining pricing and inventory to maximize the most popular products 😭

@BillTheKid1603 @The_Clermontian

@BillTheKid1603 Peter Capaldi killed anglophilia the scots collectively have blood on their hands.

It's because they casted an old man to be the doctor instead of a Tumblr sexyman twink