Sam Biddle

@aidnmclaughlin Did he delete it? Can't find it

Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale apparently still believes the Minab elementary school was hit by a "failed Iranian missile," a belief that is not supported by *any accounts*

@nkulw "no one wants to hear this" lol

saying the words "private equity" to a globe emoji is very hurtful and even grounds for legal action in some states

@jbillinson Beautiful Grok Imagine

the slop is coming from inside the house

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Strange to claim X is positioned "against the AI Slopacalypse" when it has has an AI slop generator built right in

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, X.17: "To keep building and funding gambling apps, that is one's most solemn duty."

This article is interesting for several reasons. The article suggests that the CIA reviewed multiple videos showing a missile impacting the school at Minab. Currently there is only one public video of a missile impacting, and it hits a different building near the school.

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Tweet below suggests "Old Books" may in fact be closer to 0%

very interesting to see who is excited about Real Time Yassification as the next frontier of rendering

evolving media strategy from the white house/broader admin: don't respond to the substance of the reporters' question, provide an epic own and then blast it out/supporters tweet it at the reporter when the reporter doesn't include it in their story (because it's not responsive)

I uncovered revelatory emails about the US occupation of Iraq. They form the basis of an article I have co-written, which featured on the front cover of The Sunday Times Magazine. thetimes.com/world/middle-e…

Exclusive: Airwars and @Independent identified the first civilian the U.S. military has accepted killing in strikes that it declared were AI-assisted. 🧵 independent.co.uk/news/world/mid…

If I had to pick a single fact that best highlights how absurd and wrong-on-its-face the supply chain risk designation is, it would probably be that Emil Michael insists a deal with Anthropic is still possible. I am happy that he maintains this posture, and I hope Anthropic takes him up on the offer. But as a legal matter, it muddles the government’s case deeply. The law that authorizes the government to designate supply chain risks is intended for “adversaries,” i.e. companies from hostile foreign countries. There is no “deal” the DoW can strike with e.g. Huawei or DeepSeek or CATL that would assuage the national security concerns of using those firms’ tech in US military systems. It is possible (though perhaps far fetched) to suppose that an American president could strike such a deal, but this deal would be a treaty or a trade agreement, not a procurement contract with a random Chinese firm. SCR is not a tool intended to be used for contract negotiation leverage. The DoW would be wise to maintain the legal fiction that this isn’t about leverage and is instead about, you know, national security. Emil Michael’s consistent admissions that this is all about leverage, and thus that a deal is still possible, should reveal everything you need to know. This dispute is not about US national security, and those who maintain otherwise are misinformed or lying.

OpenAI’s Pentagon deal boils down to one thing: Total blind trust in the integrity of Sam Altman, Pete Hegseth, and Donald Trump. There are no safeguards. theintercept.com/2026/03/08/ope…

do you have the strength to take away your parents internet access