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New Anthropic research: Emotion concepts and their function in a large language model. All LLMs sometimes act like they have emotions. But why? We found internal representations of emotion concepts that can drive Claude’s behavior, sometimes in surprising ways.

MidnightBSD Becomes First Open Source Operating System to Ship Age Verification The just released 4.0.4 version of the FreeBSD derived Operating System includes "aged", new system wide daemon for handling age verification and attestation. Not an April Fools Joke.

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COVID in a Psychological Autopsy🧵 We spent five years debating the science. We have barely begun to examine ourselves. Let us conduct a genuine psychological autopsy of what happened during COVID. Not a political one. Not a medical one. A psychological one because until we understand what drove human behaviour during those years at the deepest level, we are condemned to watch it happen again. And it will happen again. What the virus revealed about human nature was more contagious than the virus itself. This story did not begin in 2020. It did not begin with Milgram in 1961 or Zimbardo in 1971 or Asch in 1951 or any other event in the last centuries. It began, if you read it that way, in a garden. Adam and Eve did not eat from the forbidden tree because they were evil. They ate because they were afraid of missing something, because an external voice told them that what they had was not enough, and because the social pressure of that moment, the presence of another person making the choice, the authority of the voice offering the fruit overrode their own inner knowing. The first act of human compliance with a destructive authority is written into the oldest story we have. Cain and Abel goes further. The first murder in human history was not committed by a monster. It was committed by a man consumed by comparison, by wounded pride, by the shadow of his own inadequacy projected outward onto his brother. He did not see himself as evil in the moment. He saw himself as justified. As wronged. As acting on a feeling so overwhelming it demanded expression. This is the psychological pattern that has repeated across every atrocity in recorded history. Not monsters. Ordinary people. With unexamined shadows. If you study Nazi Germany, if you read Hannah Arendt on the banality of evil, if you sit with the Milgram data, if you study the actual psychological profiles of the men who administered the Holocaust what you find is not a population of uniquely evil individuals. You find clerks. Teachers. Fathers. Men who loved their children and fed their dogs and went to church on Sundays. As one of the sharpest psychological observers of our time has put it, if you study those perpetrators and ask what they were like, the answer is they were just like you. And if you do not know that, it simply means you do not know anything about people, including yourself. That is not a comfortable sentence. It is the most important sentence in this entire post. Because the question COVID demanded of every individual was not primarily a medical one. It was a psychological one. Who are you when the authority speaks? Who are you when the crowd moves? Who are you when compliance is rewarded and dissent is punished? Who are you when the cost of standing still while others march past becomes socially, professionally, and personally unbearable? The psychology of compliance under COVID breaks down along lines that have been well documented in social science for decades. The compliant individual is not, in most cases, malicious. They are frightened. And beneath the fear is something deeper, a fragile relationship with their own authority. A lifelong pattern of looking outward for validation, for safety, for the definition of what is real and what is acceptable. These are people who were never taught or were actively discouraged from learning to trust their own perception when it contradicts the consensus. When the authority spoke, they felt relief. Not just safety from the virus. Relief from the anxiety of having to decide for themselves. Relief from the responsibility of independent judgment. The system told them what was true and what was good and all they had to do was comply and in exchange they received belonging, approval, and the deep comfort of being on the right side. And then something more sinister activated.

Anthropic top researcher Nicolas Carlini (67.2k citations on Google Scholar) says Claude is a better security researcher than him, made $3.7 mn from exploiting smart contracts, and found vulnerabilities in Ghost (a 52K+ Github star project).

Today, if a website wants to know your age, it asks you. To circumvent this, you can use a VPN, or just not visit. But when age verification moves into your operating system, that changes, because your device determines your age once, and shares that signal with every app. 2/6

The covid mRNA vaccines lipid nanoparticles cross the blood-brain barrier. The lipid nanoparticles used to deliver mRNA in the COVID injections were not designed to stay in the arm. The bio distribution data, released only through court-ordered document requests, showed accumulation in the liver, ovaries, adrenal glands, and crucially, the brain. The LNPs were engineered for cellular penetration. It was engineered so that it has a positive charge on the lipid nanoparticles. That means that that charge is drawn to your inner mitochondrial membrane, so it creates a short circuit, like a scar. The damage that it causes is a scar that you can't see, but you see it in the disease you get, like, like myocarditis or turbo cancer,, neurological disorders, things like that. That is their entire design purpose. And the blood-brain barrier, the biological fortress that evolution spent millions of years constructing to protect neural tissue from exactly this kind of foreign intrusion, was not sufficient to stop them. BBB-penetrating LNPs. Documented. In the data they did not want you to see. Once inside the central nervous system, the mRNA payload instructs neural and glial cells to produce spike protein. Spike protein that the brain was never designed to encounter. Spike protein that is pathogenic, that triggers neuroinflammation, that activates microglia, that disrupts the delicate electrochemical environment upon which cognition, emotion, autonomic function, and consciousness itself depend. And then there is the amyloid problem. Spike protein has been documented to misfold and seed amyloid-like structures, the same class of pathological protein aggregates associated with Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and other devastating neurodegenerative conditions. It has been demonstrated in vitro and is now being observed in the clinical presentations of the severely post-vaccine injured, the cognitive decline, the neurological deterioration, the symptoms that arrive without a prior history and progress without a conventional explanation. The microclots that Resia Pretorius documented. The fibrous, amyloid-containing clots that resist normal fibrinolysis and obstruct microvascular circulation throughout the body including cerebral circulation. Reduced oxygen delivery to neural tissue. Chronic, low-level, invisible ischemia accumulating over months and years. Add to this the direct interaction of spike protein with the ACE2 receptors lining the blood-brain barrier itself, disrupting barrier integrity, increasing permeability, and creating a feedback loop in which each subsequent inflammatory event further compromises the protection the barrier was providing. This is what is happening inside the brains of the post-spike injured. Not anxiety. Not psychosomatic presentation. Not the stress of living through a pandemic. BBB-penetrating nanoparticles. Pathogenic spike protein produced by neural cells. Amyloid seeding. Microclot formation. Neuroinflammation. Progressive neurovascular damage accumulating in tissue that cannot regenerate the way peripheral tissue can. The neurological symptoms the injured are reporting the cognitive fog, the personality changes, the autonomic dysfunction, the seizures, the progressive deterioration. have a precise biological mechanism. Centralised medicine just has not caught up yet. They deny the harms. Or more accurately, the medicine knows and has chosen not to look.