😱 Brian Morearty

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This is truly insane, and it should be front page news across America.  Denmark secretly deployed soldiers to Greenland prepared to blow up airport runways to stop a U.S. invasion. They brought blood supplies to treat the wounded. France, Germany, Norway, and Sweden quietly coordinated against us. This was not a drill. This was our closest allies preparing to fight Americans. Let that sink in. NATO allies. Countries whose soldiers have fought and died alongside ours for decades. They looked at this president and decided they had to prepare for the worst. Fewer allies does not make America great. It makes us more isolated, more vulnerable, and it hands Russia and China exactly what they have always wanted: an America abandoned by its friends. The American people deserve to know how badly this president has damaged our standing in the world.  bbc.com/news/articles/…

@sandibachom I'm really confused—I thought the whole point of the partial shutdown was temporary defunding of DHS, which includes both TSA and ICE. I thought literally the point was to not pay ICE, and that TSA was a casualty. Is this wrong?

🔥🔥🔥I spent the day at JFK photographing the ICE agents standing around, when I left, I was on the Air train with a bunch of TSA agents and they were so freaking mad that they hadn’t been paid in over a month and these guys were getting paid for doing nothing, and I mean nothing. If you would like to support my work, I’m self funded, and if Trump can ask for money, so can I! Getting a little lean over here. Ways to help in my profile ❤️📸🎬🎥

@Sukitbackrow @yashar Arizona is not the federal government. Also Don Trump Jr. has his hands in both. He was a strategic advisor to Kalshi before joining Polymarket's board.

@yashar But not Polymarket because....

BREAKING: Arizona authorities have filed criminal charges against Kalshi for allegedly operating an illegal gambling business.

5 minutes ago, @karpathy just dropped karpathy/jobs! he scraped every job in the US economy (342 occupations from BLS), scored each one's AI exposure 0-10 using an LLM, and visualized it as a treemap. if your whole job happens on a screen you're cooked. average score across all jobs is 5.3/10. software devs: 8-9. roofers: 0-1. medical transcriptionists: 10/10 💀 karpathy.ai/jobs

@nateberkopec @pie6k I didn’t believe him either...but in incognito I didn’t get a cookie banner on either one.

@pie6k didn't believe you re: no cookie banner but I just tried via incognito and it repros for me too. Wow.

Sometimes I like to open apple.com and then microsoft.com With all the things I don’t like about Apple, I am happy there is a place that never fails to impress me in terms of web design and execution. apple.com/macbook-neo/ is just a beautiful landing

Payphones are strangely still licensed in California, so I filed a FOIA request and got the full list. Naturally I made a game you can now play:

Unpopular opinion: because AI coding makes you move faster, it compresses time for everything. That includes shipping features but also frequency of downtime.

Dario Amodei just gave his first interview since the Pentagon blacklisted his company. The toll is visible on his face. He was asked one question. What would you say to the President right now? He didn’t hesitate. Amodei: “We are patriotic Americans. Everything we have done has been for the sake of this country.” Anthropic built their models to defend America. They were the first AI lab cleared for classified military systems. They wanted to help the warfighter. But the Pentagon demanded unrestricted access to fully autonomous weapons and mass surveillance of American citizens. Amodei drew the line. The government responded with emergency Cold War powers. A supply chain designation normally reserved for foreign adversaries. A six-month federal phaseout ordered from Truth Social. Amodei: “When we were threatened with supply chain designation and Defense Production Act, which are unprecedented intrusions into the private economy, we exercised our classic First Amendment rights to speak up and disagree with the government.” The administration framed Anthropic’s refusal as anti-American. Amodei’s response dismantled that framing in one sentence. Amodei: “Disagreeing with the government is the most American thing in the world.” Here is the deeper paradox nobody in Washington wants to say out loud. We are in a geopolitical race against autocratic adversaries who use AI for mass surveillance of their own citizens and autonomous weapons with no human oversight. The Pentagon demanded that Anthropic build those exact capabilities for America. Amodei: “The red lines we have drawn, we drew because we believe that crossing those red lines is contrary to American values.” You cannot defeat authoritarianism by adopting its methods. You cannot defend the open society by forcing private companies to build its antithesis under threat of wartime emergency powers. Anthropic held the line. Got blacklisted for it. And came out the other side saying the same thing they said going in. That is what it actually looks like to mean it.

Got it, so this means later this year the federal government will not be sending ICE or other officers to "intimidate, threaten, or terrorize" voters at polling places located in churches? We'll see.... yahoo.com/news/articles/…

220 employees of OpenAI and Google Deepmind have signed this letter urging their leaders to stand with Anthropic. That leaves... ~8780 to go. Friends at OpenAI and GDM, please join them! notdivided.org

@PlayoffKings @World_Cup_Guide Thanks. Zero luck in every draw.

@BMorearty @World_Cup_Guide Sorry to hear that man. Any luck on the previous draws? April is our last chance at USA game tickets 😭

Woke up to receive the corrected email with an actual day & time slot for this🙌 The fact that ppl didn’t know if 1st email below was shit communications/a mistake or scam speaks volumes to the fan experience thus far 😵‍💫 Can’t wait to see what matches are included

@PlayoffKings @World_Cup_Guide No, and they finally stopped showing that game as an option. I gave up.

@BMorearty @World_Cup_Guide Did the website finally let you get any tickets?

@PlayoffKings @World_Cup_Guide Hope you get to see USA in that game

@BMorearty @World_Cup_Guide Luckily I saw him and remembered he was in queue cause he was only gonna buy 2 so I proxy bought 2 with him 😭. Need USA to win the group now lol

@PlayoffKings @World_Cup_Guide 😭😭😭

@BMorearty @World_Cup_Guide My coworker bought 4 cat 1 tickets 😭😭😭

@bobbysack_ @World_Cup_Guide Ugh. 1x.

@BMorearty @World_Cup_Guide This happened to me too and I was able to buy 1x cat 1

@World_Cup_Guide It's maddening. I've tried like 100 times now. It keeps dangling different ticket categories in front of me, says they're available. I quickly choose my tickets, add to cart, and get this error. They're just teasing me at this point.

This type of interaction will be common in last min sales phase as FYI 🙃

@Dallasworldcup @World_Cup_Guide After seeing your comment I tried it before my window. I got into the queue but then it said I have to wait for my window.

@World_Cup_Guide For some reason, they let me in earlier than the scheduled time. I thought it was an hour from now.

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I’m surprised there was no conservative outrage about the Olympic biathlon. Aren’t they upset about all those bi athletes?