Dan Wang

Think about the power Hegseth is asserting here. He is claiming that the DoD can force all contractors to stop doing business of any kind with arbitrary other companies. In other words, every operating system vendor, every manufacturer of hardware, every hyperscaler, every type of firm the DoD contracts with—all their services and products can be denied to any economic actor at will by the Secretary of War. This is obviously a psychotic power grab. It is almost surely illegal, but the message it sends is that the United States Government is a completely unreliable partner for any kind of business. The damage done to our business environment is profound. No amount of deregulatory vibes sent by this administration matters compared to this arson.

All right you boosters—after experimenting on and off for a week with the chrome browser extension and the coworker desktop app on my MacBook, Claude managed to do a bunch of agentic tasks slowly and poorly while taking a GREAT deal of effort. I’m still willing to believe there are use cases for me (outside of statistical code), and I’m going to dive into using the terminal today. Claude probably did not enslave all of you to slavishly promote it on X so any suggestions welcome.

A totally empty movie showing of Resurrection at 750 on Redwood City. Anyone interested? Both Tyler Cowen (“this is a major work of creative art and I am very glad I saw it.  Large screen is mandatory”) and Manohla Dargis (“a glorious and hugely ambitious work”) agree it is worth seeing before it disappears to streaming!