Anthropic is making changes to its usage policy for the first time in over a year to reflect new and high-risk cases of misuse — including election interference, weapons development, surveillance, and health and financial uses. But one of the most significant changes prohibits “sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude.Clippy's gonna get legally enforced human rights before humans do.
Thursday, October 08, 2026
Respect Your Machine God
Don't you dare call it a Clanker. That is a hate crime.
Or Not
The first sentence here does at least suggest that it's an odd thing to do.
I don't believe there are really talks with Iran, and certainly not productive ones. Or, at least, I don't think he has any idea what the truth of that is. They tell him whatever they need to day to day.
President Donald Trump said Thursday that the United States will not attack Iran before the Nov. 3 midterm election, explicitly tying the timing of potential further military action to the domestic political calendar.I suppose we can somewhat appreciate that he says stuff out loud that you aren't supposed to say out loud. Sometimes.
“We will not be attacking Iran at any time prior to the Midterm Elections,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social, adding that the U.S. was having “productive discussions” with Tehran.
Trump’s declaration came after he told reporters late Wednesday that his administration was considering renewed strikes against Tehran before the election.
I don't believe there are really talks with Iran, and certainly not productive ones. Or, at least, I don't think he has any idea what the truth of that is. They tell him whatever they need to day to day.
As Explained In Das Kapital
Q: How do you define socialism personally? JD VANCE: I think in reality what it actually means in the American context is you want to replace American workers with foreigners workers, and you want boys to play in girls' sports
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) October 8, 2026 at 4:05 PM
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Ha Ha Ha He's Just Kidding Again
Trump: You wanna see trauma? I said it the other day. Let them hit a missile into San Diego or Los Angeles.
— FactPost (@factpostnews.bsky.social) October 8, 2026 at 1:21 AM
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Moldbug
A lot could be said about why our glorious media is very uninterested in the not very hidden views of the people in the administration and their pals.
That he is close to Vance is known.
He gets photo shoots and profiles which fail to mention this stuff. It isn't hidden!
Wednesday, October 07, 2026
The Math Adds Up
Not a new observation, but the man still has no understanding of paying money and getting stuff in return. You know, trade.
I suspect there isn't a $40 billion Swiss watch trade though I could be wrong.Trump: "If we decided not to buy watches from Switzerland, they wouldn't be elite anymore and we would save about $40 billion"
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 7 October 2026 at 18:48
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The Deficit
That is also something that "we" will rediscover right about the time the presidential primary season begins. I would place money (not a guaranteed win, but a reasonable bet) on the first question at the first major Dem primary debate being something like:
Congresswoman, what would you do to get government spending under control?
The Bond Market God
He is angry, but we aren't hearing all that much about it.
U.S. Treasury yields climbed Wednesday, trading back around multiyear highs, as traders braced for the sale of 10-year notes at a time when rising yields have rattled investors around the world.
His prophets will get louder and louder as Dems grow closer to power.
We'd Be Better Off Without Nebraska
I know we have an endless supply of such things, but if a prominent (or even not so prominent) Dem politician ever suggested doing away with (violently or not) a "red" portion of the country, we'd never stop hearing about it.
And that wouldn't just be because Republicans wouldn't shut up about it, it'd be because head-in-a-jar CarvilleDroid would be on the HoloTv in 2054 explaining that this comment, made in 2026, was the reason Dems were losing the election to AI Entity MechaHitler4488.
Tuesday, October 06, 2026
Kavanaugh Stops
This type of thing was obvious and inevitable, and all the highly paid smart boys told Dems to avoid these issues.
We know because we have once again done what the government hasn’t:We have tallied and cataloged every case we can find of an immigration agent holding a citizen during the current administration.More than 500 cases.
There are quite a few people I think deserve to to be "accidentally" detained and deported.
Small Pleasures
Nothing good can come from this merger, but this is funny.
Weiss was initially promised CNN when she took over CBS News, but Ellison subsequently concluded “her current role is more than she can handle,” a person with knowledge of the situation previously told The Post.
I suspect this is because she sucks and only works 2 hours per day.
Sounds Bad
I wonder who the foreign powers are.
Former German spy chief August Hanning has been arrested on suspicion of espionage, treason and obtaining classified information for a foreign power, the German Federal Prosecutor's Office says.Hanning headed the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) from 1998 to 2005 and has since been working as a private consultant.Prosecutors allege that he used classified intelligence to "draft an analysis" for one foreign intelligence service and maintained contact with another foreign spying service. Investigators have not disclosed which foreign powers were involved.
I bet there is quite a lot of this type of thing, not in the Cold War spy movie version of ideological defectors, but more the world of corporate influence peddling. People are peddling information for money, and the line between corporation and state is a bit fuzzy!
I don't know what is going on here, of course.
As I Said, The Man Has A Point
Speaking at a Republican political rally in Nebraska, the president sought to justify the Iran war as necessary for “keeping the world safe.” He then suggested there could be strikes on the United States, including the Democratic-led Californian cities.
“They could take out a city,” he said. “Let them take — Let them take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego.”
It was not immediately clear what Mr. Trump meant, but his comments were met with anger from officials in California, including Gov. Gavin Newsom, who called the president “deranged and dangerous.”
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