Dave Lavery 🦋
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Dave Lavery 🦋
@davelavery
Curmudgeon. Dad. Space geek. Robot advocate. Mars guy. Cyclist. Shelby enthusiast. Mountaineer. Keep up or get out of the way. My opinions are my own.
Preparing the next adventure Katılım Şubat 2009
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Imagine how horrible of a human being you have to be to be fired by Herr Pumpkinfuhrer. S’long Kristi Noem.
Now on to Barbie Bondi and Puke Hegseth.
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BREAKING: The United States just used Anthropic's Claude AI to bomb Iran.
The same AI tool the President banned from government use, hours earlier.
Here's what just happened and why no one is talking about the real story.
On Friday, Trump went on Truth Social and torched Anthropic.
Called them "Leftwing nut jobs" and ordered every federal agency to cut ties immediately.
The Pentagon labeled them a "supply chain risk."
A designation reserved for enemies of the state. China. Russia.
The reason? Anthropic refused to let the military use its AI for two things, mass surveillance of American citizens, and fully autonomous weapons with no human pulling the trigger.
The Pentagon said, remove the guardrails or we invoke the Defense Production Act.
Anthropic's CEO walked into the Pentagon, looked at the Secretary of Defense, and said no.
Then, less than 24 hours later, Trump launched Operation Epic Fury.
Massive airstrikes on Iran, nuclear sites and on military bases.
Iran's Supreme Leader Khamenei was killed and 200+ dead in the first wave.
And the AI powering the mission planning?
Anthropic's Claude.
The tool they just banned.
Here's the part that should terrify you.
Claude is the ONLY frontier AI model running on the Pentagon's classified networks.
There is no replacement ready.
The six month phase out window tells you everything.
So now we live in a world where theUS government publicly blacklists an AI company for refusing to build autonomous kill systems...
Then uses that same company's AI to execute one of the largest military strikes in decades.
Meanwhile, Elon Musk posted that Anthropic "hates Western Civilization."
His chatbot Grok is next in line for Pentagon classified access.
Connect the dots.
The Wall Street Journal's editorial board said it plainly: "China wins."
Because every AI company watching this now understands the message.
Play ball with the Pentagon on any terms or get crushed.
A King's College London study found that AI models like Claude are far more likely than humans to recommend nuclear strikes in war simulations.
Anthropic said the tech isn't ready for autonomous weapons.
The Pentagon said that we'll decide that.
One company drew a line and said AI shouldn't surveil Americans.
They got labeled a national security threat for it.
Then their technology was used to start a war.
zerohedge@zerohedge
US strikes in Middle East used Anthropic’s Claude, despite Trump ban announced hours earlier: WSJ
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The CEO of the most advanced AI company in America just went on national television (Save this)
Hours after his company was blacklisted by the US government.
Here's what he said.
Dario Amodei built the only AI deployed inside the Pentagon's classified networks.
His company helped run military operations, intelligence, cyber defense.
Then the government told him to drop all safety limits.
He said no to two things.
Just two.
"One is domestic mass surveillance."
He explained: the government can already buy your location data, your browsing history, your political affiliations from private companies.
AI makes it possible to analyze all of it.
On every American, all at once.
"That actually isn't illegal. It was just never useful before the era of AI."
"Case number two is fully autonomous weapons."
Not the drones used in Ukraine and the remote-controlled systems.
Weapons that select targets and fire without a single human pressing a button.
"The AI systems of today are nowhere near reliable enough."
"We don't want to sell something that could get our own people killed or that could get innocent people killed."
He approved 98% of what the Pentagon wanted.
"No one on the ground has actually run into the limits of any of these exceptions."
The government wasn't fighting over something it needed.
It was fighting over the right to have no limits at all.
They gave him three days.
He said no.
So the President called his company "radical left woke."
Then ordered every federal agency to stop using their technology.
Then the Pentagon labeled them a national security risk.
A designation that has only ever been used against foreign enemies.
When asked if he'd received any formal legal action, he said this:
"All we've seen are tweets from the president and tweets from Secretary Hegseth."
No letter, filing or a legal document.
"When we receive some kind of formal action, we will look at it, we will understand it, and we will challenge it in court."
He said the Defense Secretary lied about the law.
Hegseth tweeted that any company with military contracts can't do business with Anthropic "at all."
Amodei: "That is not what the law said."
"The nature of the tweet was designed to create fear, uncertainty, and doubt."
Asked if this was an abuse of power, he paused.
Then said:
"This designation has never happened before with an American company."
"It was made very clear that this was retaliatory and punitive."
"I don't know what else to call it."
Asked if Anthropic could survive, he didn't hesitate.
"Not only survive it. We're gonna be fine."
Then the final question.
"If you had a moment with the President right now tonight, what would you say to him?"
"We are patriotic Americans."
"Everything we have done has been for the sake of this country."
"The red lines we have drawn, we drew because we believe that crossing those red lines is contrary to American values."
"Disagreeing with the government is the most American thing in the world."
"And we are patriots."
A CEO just went on national television and told the President of the United States:
You can blacklist us.
You can call us names.
You can threaten our business through tweets.
But we will not build machines that spy on Americans or kill without human hands.
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The Pentagon just blacklisted one of America’s most valuable AI companies. For refusing to build surveillance tools aimed at American citizens. Hours later, its biggest rival OpenAI quietly signed the deal of the decade. Here’s what just happened and why it changes everything. This week, the US Department of War gave Anthropic an ultimatum. Drop your safety restrictions and let us use your AI for anything we want. The deadline was 5:01 PM today and Anthropic said no. Their CEO, Dario Amodei, drew two red lines. No mass surveillance of Americans. No fully autonomous weapons without a human pulling the trigger. The Pentagon called this “woke AI.” Anthropic called it a conscience. The Pentagon’s response was swift and brutal. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth branded Anthropic a “supply chain risk”, a designation normally reserved for Chinese and Russian companies. President Trump ordered every federal agency to stop using Anthropic immediately. But here’s where the story turns. That same night, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, Anthropic’s biggest competitor posted a message. “Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network.” The twist? OpenAI’s deal includes the exact same red lines Anthropic was just destroyed for demanding. No mass surveillance and no autonomous weapons. Human control over the use of force. The Pentagon punished one company for demanding protections it then gave to another company the same day. Altman even defended Anthropic on live television hours earlier. “For all the differences I have with Anthropic, I mostly trust them as a company and I think they really do care about safety.” Then he signed the deal Anthropic couldn’t get. Anthropic was the first and only, AI model deployed on the Pentagon’s classified networks. Replacing it will take months. OpenAI just positioned itself to fill the most powerful AI vacancy in the U.S. military. The stakes are staggering. Anthropic just raised $30 billion and it was preparing for an IPO. Now over 300,000 enterprise clients may be forced to cut ties. Not because the technology failed. Because the company refused to remove a guardrail that said “don’t spy on Americans.” But here’s the real question no one’s asking: If the Pentagon never intended to use AI for mass surveillance as they claim, why was this the hill they chose to die on? Why blacklist a $380 billion American company over a clause the government says doesn’t even matter? Sam Altman called for de-escalation. He asked the Pentagon to offer these same terms to every AI company. Including Anthropic. The world just watched a company get punished for saying “no” to surveillance and a competitor rewarded for saying “yes, but with the same conditions.” Bookmark and share this.
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Your cell phone does not listen to you “by accident.” It's a feature, not a bug.
I talked about traveling to Rome just once and 10 minutes later I started getting flight ads.
It's called “Shadow-Logging” and it happens through 5 settings you've never touched.
Here's how to remove eavesdropping once and for all:
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It’s important that you understand what happened last night.
Last night, Stephen Colbert interviewed Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico, a candidate who, by all accounts, is on track in the polls to flip Texas blue.
In response, Trump’s FCC reportedly threatened CBS if the interview aired.
CBS caved and pulled the segment, citing “financial reasons.”
In modern American history, no president has been more hostile to free speech than Donald Trump.
But censorship always backfires.
Here’s the full segment Trump didn’t want you to see.
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BREAKING: Trump’s BIGGEST LIE about his Epstein relationship was just exposed in the unredacted Epstein files that Rep. Jamie Raskin just viewed. x.com/ProjectLincoln…
After peering behind the curtain, Jamie Raskin isn’t mincing words: the Justice Department’s handling of the Epstein files looks less like transparency and more like a cover-up.
Raskin told reporters he had just returned from a bleak DOJ satellite office — “four computers in the room” — where Judiciary Committee members are being forced to review supposedly “released” Epstein documents under tight constraints. Congress went there for one reason: to make sure the Epstein Files Transparency Act was honored, victims protected, and perpetrators exposed.
What he found was the opposite.
“There are hundreds and hundreds of pages where identifying information about victims is right there, including people’s names,” Raskin said, calling it a “dramatic departure” from the law’s most emphatic requirement. Survivors’ privacy, he warned, has been compromised—either through “spectacular incompetence and sloppiness” or, as survivors fear, a deliberate warning to others thinking about coming forward.
At the same time, Raskin said the files are riddled with mysterious redactions shielding people who are clearly not victims. Names of “co-conspirators, accomplices, enablers, abusers, rapists” appear to have been blacked out simply to avoid “embarrassment, political sensitivity, or disgrace.”
When pressed, Raskin gave a striking example: Les Wexner—a public figure whose name has appeared elsewhere—was inexplicably redacted. Even more troubling, Raskin described an email chain involving Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell that summarized conversations between Epstein’s lawyers and Donald Trump’s lawyers during the 2009 investigation. That passage—reporting Trump said Epstein was a guest at Mar-a-Lago and was never asked to leave—was redacted “for some indeterminate, inscrutable reason,” Raskin said, noting it appears to contradict Trump’s public claims.
Raskin emphasized the scale of the problem: DOJ has released 3.5 million documents while withholding 3 million more. Members have reviewed only a handful. “There is no way” Congress can vet these redactions before Attorney General testimony, he said—especially with just four computers.
His conclusion was blunt: “I think the Department of Justice has been in a cover-up mode for many months.” The path forward, Raskin argued, runs through the survivors—public hearings, full release of the files, and only one kind of redaction: the names of victims.
Anything else, he warned, deepens the nightmare.
Please like and share to spread the news!
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Your phone isn't "accidentally" listening to you. It's a feature, not a bug.
I talked about a specific dog food brand once 10 minutes later, I had an ad. It’s called "Shadow-Logging," and it’s happening through 5 settings you’ve never touched.
Here is how to kill the eavesdropping for good:
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I'm so torn right now.
Despite its problems, I still love America, my country of birth, the only country I have ever lived in.
I'm torn because of the glee I feel as our Vice President, JD Vance, is drenched in thunderous boos at the Olympics. I really can't stand that lying sack of shit, but he's there sadly representing our country.
JD Vance represents the absolute worst that America has to offer, he is an embarrassment.
BTW -- that's why trump isn't going to the Super Bowl, he would be booed into oblivion.
I remember, as a kid, learning the "Pledge of Allegiance" and "My Country Tis of Thee," and learning the words to the "Star Spangled Banner" and "God Bless America." I still have national pride.
Just because I'm liberal, it doesn't make me any less patriotic. There's some kind of idiotic myth, pushed by morons on the right, that if you criticize America or you criticize the President, that means you hate America.
These hypocrites have the audacity to say that, after spending 8 years criticizing President Obama, and another 4 years criticizing President Biden.
I despise the way Vance has chosen to represent America, behind a wall of lies and hypocrisy used to justify the hateful actions taken against fellow Americans and anyone who looks like they might have been born in another country.
If you are a patriot, you love our Constitution. If you're a patriotic elected official, you've sworn an OATH to defend the Constitution and all its amendments, even those that are inconveniently impeding your quest to remove as many Brown people as possible.
And if you are a patriot, it is your DUTY to speak up when you see things aren't right, when you see people making us look bad, when you see others being hurt, oppressed, or treated with cruelty.
When you love something or someone, you correct them when they're wrong, because you expect THE BEST from them.
THAT is what it means to be American.
So yeah, BOOOO to that lying hypocrite JD Vance, and his "Haitians are eating cats and dogs" and his smug, mascara eyes looking in the camera, and his refusal to apologize for lying about Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
ALSO, hooray to our AMAZING American athletes, I will be rooting for you at the Olympics, hooray for all those people who told Vance to suck it.
And hooray for America, which I still love but excuse our appearance while we are under shitty new management.🇺🇸
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How horrible of a human being do you have to be to have someone as evil as Jeffrey Epstein say "I have met some very bad people. None as bad as Trump. Not one decent cell in his body." about you?
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Summary of Governor Gavin C. Newsom’s Advanced Imaging Results
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Breaking: With breeding season well underway, you need to warn any friends from overseas to wear a thick layer of Vegemite on their necks to repel drop bear attacks.
#LebaneseBob @RealBobKatter knows all about the problems with drop bears
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@havemercyy_ @SabrinaAnnLynn @WhiteHouse Bitch, y’all need to learn some history. Not taking anything away from Sabrina, Olivia or Billie. But CSN, Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Barry McGuire, Creedence Clearwater Revival, etc, would all like a word.
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Tell me that you have never shopped for groceries in your entire life without telling me you have never shopped for groceries in your entire life.
It never ceases to amaze how completely disconnected he is from real, average daily life in this country.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
Trump: "It's time for Republicans to do what they have to do and that's terminate the filibuster ... we should start tonight with 'the country's open, congratulations,' then we should pass voted ID, we should pass no mail in voting ... you go to a grocery store, you have to give ID."
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@BofA_Help @mishacollins @mishacollins Dont fall for it!!! When you follow the link, the very first thing they will ask is “can you please verify your identity?”
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@mishacollins We are sorry to hear about your dissatisfaction. We'd like to see how we can help. Please use the link below to connect with us. ^stephanie twitter.com/messages/compo…
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With everything that’s going on in the world, it’s absolutely horrifying that I would take the time to write this.
@AlaskaAir
@BankofAmerica
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