On June 12, 2026, at 5:21pm Eastern, Anthropic received a directive from U.S. national security authorities. The order was simple: disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all foreign nationals. Immediately. The restriction applied to any non-citizen, inside or outside the United States, including Anthropic’s own foreign-national employees who had helped build the models. There was no…
“There will be a reckoning…” Terry Pratchett wrote those words for a young protagonist who had learned to see the world as it actually was. When the Trump administration’s grip on power finally loosens, the United States will face exactly that. This coming judgement implicates not just the executive branch but every institution that was…
A broken system fails by accident. This is a system working exactly as designed, for the people who designed it.
There is a moment in every successful platform’s life when it stops needing the people who made it matter. For Anthropic, that moment appears to be now. On April 4, 2026, Anthropic cut off subscription OAuth access for all third-party agentic frameworks. No meaningful advance notice. No migration window. One month’s credit, and the door…
AB 1043 doesn’t protect children. It protects the appearance of protecting them, while creating real harm for the people it claims to serve. You can’t protect privacy by mandating surveillance infrastructure.
No Filter. No Borders. No Silence. I’ve been quietly building something. I think this particular moment demands it. What is happening in the United States right now is not only an American problem. It is the most visible current stage of something larger. And the people who can still see it clearly need to find…
Rage-farming has become a full-blown business model, and it’s exhausting for everyone involved. These so-called communities aren’t really communities at all when they’re built on a foundation of manufactured outrage and algorithmic manipulation.
A Thought Experiment in Community-Scale Energy Independence What if a community of a few thousand people could manufacture their own solar panels and batteries? Not assemble components shipped from overseas, but actually manufacture the energy collection and storage infrastructure itself, using equipment that costs roughly what a small business might invest in a commercial kitchen…
Why the Music Industry’s AI Fight Could Backfire on Artists There’s a lawsuit happening right now that could reshape the future of music creation. Independent artists, represented by passionate advocates, are suing AI music companies like Suno and Udio for training their models on copyrighted songs without permission. The premise is straightforward: these companies scraped…
We’ve Gotten Really Good at This Look, I need to talk to you about something that’s been gnawing at me since Charlie Kirk got shot. Not the shooting itself – though obviously that was horrible – but what happened after. How we all responded. How good we’ve gotten at this. Within hours, we had the…
