When I saw that Maciej still uses X, that was it for me.

I think this is the key part for me. If I was on the fence about someone or something, X would definitely push me over the edge. I would like to see more of us publicly swearing off services for associating with awful people.

Ironic, of course, that the best place to get that message across would be X…

Roads have been around for thousands of years, but not really the type of roads he’s talking about. Especially since he doesn’t remember them before cars anyway.

Is he suggesting that playing in the streets was something he used to do before the advent of cars? Like there were all that roads everywhere with kids just playing on them willy nilly, until one day Henry Ford met General Motor and said, “You know what we oughta do with all these fuckin’ roads?” And ever since then, kids haven’t been able to play on them any more?

Is that the version of history we’re pedaling here?

That’s not really a to the point I was making, but as you’ve brought it up, he said that in the midst of refusing to accede to the US militaries demands that they get to use AI for mass surveillance and autonomous weapons.

You’ve snipped his words tactically before the pivot to refusal. He said that private companies have no say in how a military chooses to wage war however they would not allow the use of their AI for those two things.

And he’s right. If Lockheed decided they didn’t like Obama or a military decision of his and grounded their drones to punish him, that would be inappropriate. Lockheed nor Anthropic get to dictate US military policy. That (among other things) is why we are supposed to elect a President with the wherewithal to make those decisions.

Now, I don’t know Dario. He’s a rich CEO and probably he belongs at the bottom of the sea with the rest. But Anthropic refused to allow their tech to be used that way, and that’s more than Google or OpenAI, both of whom were audibly salivating to supplant them. Anthropic seems to be the least bad out of all the options.

That being said, I’m placing my hopes in local AI and getting rid of all the big players, including Anthropic. But in the meanwhile, I do respect them for taking a stand none of their competitors would.

“Anthropic has not done a great job at trying to speak to the administration and appreciate the ideological differences,” one source familiar with the administration’s thinking said.

“It’s like they just speak in different languages,” the source said, adding that the company has simply not figured out how to communicate with this administration.

“Why can’t Anthropic just understand they have to bribe Trump? If he isn’t getting a big piece of your action - you aren’t getting any.”

Well that’s some shit I’m gonna toss in the garbage. All of the streaming in the house is done on PCs or Playstations currently, so it won’t be a big loss. I have a few devices sitting around to take for travel or whatever, but I can find other solutions.

Dear corporate America:

I reject your enshittification. I don’t need your service. Fuck yourself with an axe-head.

– Shel