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What is different today is Trump's view that the exercise of state power is no longer in need of ideological excuses, that he possesses a king-like divine right to do as he pleases, unconstrained by norms or law, which people must simply accept as legitimate.

John Ambrosio
2mo ago

One cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for something. It is enough that the people know there was an election. The voting is closed. There is nothing to do about it now. That percentage is for all practical purposes cast in concrete at this point.

3mo ago

The point is to get Anthropic — currently the only AI contractor whose models are operating on classified networks — to do what every other major tech company has done during Trump 2.0, and submit to the will of the president and his lieutenants.

3mo ago

Here, the Trump administration is threatening to invoke a wartime production law to force an AI company to let its software be used for autonomous weapons and mass domestic surveillance.

3mo ago

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