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Claude has really meaningfully changed its ethical guardrails; it used to immediately stop and suggest talking to a lawyer when asked to develop tools related to fighting illegal online harassment, but now it actually is producing useful code that then automates what needs to be provided to legal.
in other news I gastowned^W claude-agent-teamed a reporting workflow for enabling laypeople who are not technical to file abuse reports to hosting providers and their upstreams... hopefully coming soon to an website near you. It cost $45 in free tokens.
github.com/endharassmen...
Federal judge: "The presumption of regularity that has previously extended to [the United States Government] that it could be taken at its word—with little doubt about its intentions and stated purposes—no longer holds."
This is in a case where the Trump admin sued Oregon.
🚨NEW: A federal judge out of Oregon has issued a sweeping rebuke of the DOJ’s nationwide push to seize state voter rolls.
The opinion released Thursday concluded that the department can no longer be presumed to be acting in good faith and warned that its conduct threatens voters and states’ rights.
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cops: sex trafficking victims are impossible to find! most of them don’t even know they’ve been trafficked.
dozens of women over decades: here’s our sworn statements about jeff epstein
cops: …
prosecutors: …
anti-trafficking task forces: …
cops: we have no choice but to do a craigslist sting
crying at these quotes from josie scott after coming out as trans at 63 😭
we are here!! we’ve always been here!!
www.theguardian.com/music/2026/f...
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They’re not capable of shame, but they’re capable of being forced to act like they’re capable of shame
To have a labor organizer who fought against forced labor with construction workers, then be locked up in a CoreCivic-run detention center—when detained immigrants have also been fighting CoreCivic over forced labor in detention centers… www.impactfund.org/legal-practi...
A beloved workers' rights organizer in Minnesota, known for *successfully* fighting against wage theft and labor trafficking, has been detained by federal immigration agents and is now locked up in New Mexico. His family is calling for his urgent release. inthesetimes.com/article/work...
A professional airplane enthusiast has been tracking the federally chartered deportation flights out of the Minneapolis airport as DHS sends immigration detainees to other states and, eventually, other countries. n.pr/4qlvIaa
Organising at Google still has the juice! Proud of my former colleagues. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/b... (gift link)
Dems should be explicit that when they retake Congress and the White House they will be stripping his name off of everything.
The ego damage would be significant
Trump wanted Dulles Airport and Penn Station named after him as condition of releasing rail tunnel funds
What if generating code from scratch is cheaper than reviewing someone else's pull request?
of Chef fame and I had a fun chat last week about LLM slop PRs flooding open source repos: www.linkedin.com/posts/adamja...
LinkedIn discussion of this article surfaced maggieappleton.com/home-cooked-... by and it really resonates.
(the trouble being, of course, that any home-baked app may have safety issues, if you are home canning, you'd better learn to prevent botulism or unsanitary cans, etc.)
and an on-platform link to Kelsey's "monoliths on desktop" bsky.app/profile/kels...
We are about to go from micro services running on the cloud to monoliths running on the desktop.
We are about to go from micro services running on the cloud to monoliths running on the desktop.
Imagine if your lawyer submits an AI-generated court brief so bad that the judge says "goddamn dude, fuck you" and rules against you before it even goes to trial. That is what actually happened here lmao
Hey, so, I don’t do civil litigation, is it generally considered good when the judge does this?
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Observability isn’t just a tool; it’s a capability built by people.
This guide by Liz Fong-Jones breaks down how to build and grow observability teams, the skills that matter most, and how to develop real in-house expertise based on lessons from real engineering orgs.
Download 👉 buff.ly/3Jfc8dU
Our work on _Observability Engineering: Second Edition_ left so many things we wish we had room for but couldn't include.
This is one of them, on the rise of the Platform Team and amalgamation of o11y & SRE. It's un-gated and free courtesy of me and ! www.honeycomb.io/resources/gu...
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Anthropic spends an awful lot of time training its models to enact this kind of character (the "constitution" goes on and on about "Claude's preferences" and such), so this reads to me more like the company role-playing with itself than any emergent novel qualities or behaviors.
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If Opus 4.5 was the one that convinced devs this is a serious tool 4.6 is going to be the one that convinces non coders.
Claude Opus 4.6 verdict: highly effective, just also blew through my quota very fast.
I might need to upgrade to Max 5x or 20x if I'm going to be doing this regularly. It figured out how to implement SSL fingerprinting impersonation in literally minutes, it was hella effective.
Epstein had many known connections to Silicon Valley CEOs, but less known was how he made money from those relationships.
We did a deep dive into how he got dealflow in Silicon Valley, giving him shots to invest in Coinbase, Palantir, SpaceX and other companies.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/b...
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We now have a $5000 match offer from an anonymous donor! In coordination with standwithminnesota.com and with your help, we’re going to pay rent for as many Minneapolis immigrant families in need as possible. I will post receipts!
V: @Ian-Coldwater
CA: $iancoldwater
PP: @coldwater
Thank you! 🌷
Working in coordination with standwithminnesota.com and with your help, we have now paid rent for four Minneapolis families affected by ICE. Let’s keep it going!
Can we make it happen for a fifth family? Their total need is $2300.
V: @Ian-Coldwater
CA: $iancoldwater
PP: @coldwater
Thank you! 💖
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So what I’m getting is he could’ve done this at any time up to now
According to reports from the front, the situation is close to critical. Over the two years of active Starlink deployment, almost all operational command and control—communication between units, fire coordination, and UAV data transmission—has been tied to the American satellite infrastructure.
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For several days now, Elon Musk's company has effectively banned the use of its satellite communications by the Russian side, while the Ukrainian Armed Forces continue to use the system after authorization.
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as ever the markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent
lol at the B2C table saws for kids, now with ads, company
Okay well the OpenAI CMO is hopping on now and it is obvious that Anthropic hurt them and they were deeply unprepared
more free users that can cost you in product liability is not an upside, it is a big big big downside
Woo, all of the required documents are submitted and my application for Australian citizenship is with the lawyers!
Some people are asking what I want Schumer to do. He should be screaming over medical care and access to facilities. He should be going to detention facilities himself and putting his body on the line, as he did at the border in 2019. He should lean into stories about New Yorkers in detention. [1/4]
AUKUS is a dead treaty walking. www.aspistrategist.org.au/just-in-case...
I fear we have been Lucy and the football'd. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
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And this is where we get the infamous "This job sucks" comment, but the context is even crazier. Le is saying, "Your Honor, I'm actually the good guy here, I was able to get someone released. I'm trying to get them to comply." She's literally starting into the "you need me on that wall" argument!
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Le then details the transfers of the detained individual, and chalks up DHS's failure to comply with her not receiving the order.
Here's a little practice note: my legal career is fairly young, but I have enough self-preservation instincts to never EVER even obliquely throw paralegals under the bus
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Read this starting from page 11. It's not just about her mental state (she clearly was having a mental breakdown). She actually walks through the timeline of when she started at the job (Jan 5) and then from when she started working on the case, the specific events and what time each day etc
If you want to read the transcript of the February 3 hearing where Julie Le had her "this job sucks" meltdown, now you can:
drive.google.com/file/d/1FnY2...
So, it seem s clear that, at least in relation to universities, the government considers pro-Palestine actions to be antisemitic, to be determined by a few right-wing culture warriors. Great. Well done, Albo.
would sincerely like never to post one of these again. (and solidarity w our union siblings)
One immediate effort (and the @postguild.bsky.social will likely share more): www.gofundme.com/f/standing-t...
Tfw you look up a revanchist Japan commentator you've never heard of and realize that, despite the Japanese-sounding name, it's just some white dude (and of course he writes for Japan Forward lol)
chat is it a good thing when the US Attorney representing the DOJ is also afraid of getting disappeared by the same organizations they're representing
If you want to read the transcript of the February 3 hearing where Julie Le had her "this job sucks" meltdown, now you can:
drive.google.com/file/d/1FnY2...
Most of the Washington Post’s tech reporters were laid off today, including me. I have loved my time at the paper, which is where I wanted to work from age 15. I take some consolation in not being among the survivors who will have to work harder with less for fewer readers. On to better things.
Looks like Musk is getting deposed!
Cc:
New filing: "Does 1-26 v. Musk (USAID Dismantling)"
Doc #200: MEMORANDUM ORDER denying 189 Defendants' Motion for a Protective Order. Signed by Judge Theodore D. Chuang on 2/4/2026. (kk5s, Deputy Clerk) (Entered: 02/04/2026)
Download PDF | View Full Case
#CL69636722
clearly, technology has *nothing* to do with politics or national security. clearly.
gutted for every tech reporter I know at WaPo.
The Washington Post embarked on severe cuts despite appeals by the newsroom to owner Jeff Bezos. The paper is to narrow its focus largely to politics and national security. n.pr/4qAlWBj
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I take the letter as a heavily implied threat to do exactly that, though it'd be an unprecedented break-glass-in-case-of-emergency thing for somebody on the intel committee to do.
INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.
omfg these guys
Sveum and Vazquez, alongside other BORTAC agents, showed up in reports and body cam footage released by a federal judge in November.
We were able to further confirm Michael Sveum's identity because one of those videos includes his phone lockscreen with a photo of himself at an ultrarunning event.
NEW: since last year, a pair of "highly trained" feds have been involved in an array of incidents attacking crowds with chemical weapons.
We used public records and open source analysis to identify Edgar Vazquez and Michael Sveum, alongside some other members of their tactical team.
Read more:
A Ron Wyden specialty: sending a letter in public that reveals he's seen some really bad classified shit that he wants an explanation for.
Did anyone else get like 50 emails from Zendesk asking to confirm email / activate account, from every single Zendesk client that you've ever filed a support ticket against?
lol so who all is getting the zendesk spam?
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"that's just a newspaper"
"that's just a magazine"
"just form a co-op, it's easy"
no, it's not, and you're driving me nuts.
the idea is to pay one fee to have access to separate publications. if it were easy, we would've done it already.
This is incredibly fucked up.
My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power
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Anyway, security culture and diversity of tactics are good, snitching with cameras is bad. Online celebrities are a risk. Also radicals sometimes over-respond by being nuclear hostile to all normies and believing messaging and public perception are always totally irrelevant.
Pretty telling that Cathy Wilcox has become a more effective political commentator with her powerful sketchings than practically any of her non-cartoonist colleagues who expend literally thousands more words every week but somehow manage to say very little or gutlessly avoid the issues altogether.
What's that you say!
It was all just fear pushing by bad faith groups and that trans women pose no threat to cisgender women.
www.independent.co.uk/news/science...
Quick reminder: these are the people to whom the Australian Government is silently handing over our data!
“over recent months, Homeland Security has relied on the use of administrative subpoenas to seek identifiable information about individuals who run anonymous Instagram accounts, which share posts about ICE immigration raids in their local neighborhoods” or criticize government policies
btw, in case you're curious and unaware, an exact 21/21 flip - with a margin this tight - is a huge flex on Jeffries' part and a gigantic fuck-you to Mike Johnson, so perhaps put some respect on his name the next time you utter it
🚨 House passes bill to end the shutdown and punt on DHS funding, sending it to Trump
Vote is 217-214.
21 Ds vote YES.
21 Rs vote NO.
All of government is funded through September EXCEPT DHS, which is put on a 2-week until Feb. 13.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Oh god I should search the files for Damore, shouldn't I?
THIIIEEEEELLLLL
When is Yarvin gonna appear?
How many SV VC’s are in there that have been skulking around demanding that founders and execs get rid of the troublesome trannies?
It’s so flagrant when you observe it from the inside.
Vergogna, shame upon west coast tech
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Oh right, there was that person's crackpot theory about Epstein funding Damore and Cernekee. NVM.
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I mean at that point in her shoes I’d do a noisy resignation, informing the court about who is deciding to ignore the courts and why with names and details before quitting
Get those fuckers jailed for contempt
If the government won’t tell us how it’s negotiating US access to Australians’ personal information, we’ll have to extract it.
A Minneapolis City Council committee delayed action Tuesday on renewing liquor licenses for two Minneapolis hotels that have housed federal immigration officers.
me: why I am so tired and wanting to log off, it's only 4pm
also me: up at 7am having meetings with people in the US
My favorite genre of Epstein emails are powerful people emailing WITH JEFFREY EPSTEIN about how MeToo has gone too far and the woke mob must be stopped.
I was visiting the anthropic offices and they let me hold sonnet 5. unfortunately I dropped it and it stopped working. sorry everyone.
some people think "posted 50 or more times yesterday" is a serious black mark, but I'm here to tell you it's the "no gap in posting longer than 4 hours" people to watch out for
Asra Nomani of @foxnews has reached out for comment regarding the ICE List, we refused to offer answers to their questions, and are sharing the questions so you see exactly how biased this network is, and how dangerous Asra is as a "journalist".
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So TL;DR, it costs us 1.5 cents per 3D printed whistle (approximately) in filament and electric costs, compared to about 6 for drop shipping; we're more nimble with a distributed network, and also, they can't just seize our whistles off the ship and stop the whole thing; and we pay less in shipping.
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So we end up saving a TON in postage and delivery.
Having distributed printing also allows us to respond to IMMEDIATE in community needs. We can get whistles on the ground in a community the moment someone sees the black vehicles lined up at a hotel.
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But the efficiency doesn't stop there. Mass-produced whistles are all (generally) either injection molded or metal, and they're heavier and larger by a factor of 6x to 10x than a 3D printed whistle.
1000 of our whistles weigh 4.5 lbs and we can fit them in 9x9x6 box and ship priority cubic.
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20,000 whistles would be $1200. For that price, you can buy a 3D printer and 40 kg of filament, which prints 20,000 whistles, and have extra to pay for the electricity.
You probably couldn't print as many whistles in the dropship time, but the marginal cost per whistle goes down after that.
Just so you know, #openclaw contains a schedule-sensitive prompt injection hook called “soul-evil.ts” During “purge time,” it may randomly replace the system prompt with the contents of a “SOUL_EVIL.md” file
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It starts to look like an intentional vector for actors who know about this feature and understand how it’s plumbed and configured to permanently own exposed instances of openclaw. Interesting that the project recently stated that prompt injection vulns are “out of scope” of its security ethos.
OMG I hadn't recognized her before.
Aliya used to be the program director for the Code for Progress non-profit in D.C. I had met her briefly at one of the Women Who Code DC events.
It's awful what ICE did to her.
I'll repeat Abolish ICE!
Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.
Three rules in FBI firearm training:
1. Always point your weapon downrange
2. Do not point your weapon at anything you do not intend to shoot
3. Don’t put your finger on the trigger unless you intend to shoot
Guns are not for threatening compliance for unarmed people doing things you don’t like
happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
They just blindly shot through the fucking door.
"Additional photographs show damage consistent with a bullet fragment lodged in a bedroom wall down the hallway — suggesting it traveled between a mattress and a portable crib in a room where several small children sleep."
"Photographic evidence from the shooting scene of a Venezuelan man by federal agents last month in Minneapolis supports the account of witnesses there – and appears to undercut the narrative provided by federal officials." www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
I have confirmed the gist of this report out of federal court in Minnesota today from a source familiar.
If you have more information about the District of Minnesota—either the court or the U.S. Attorney's Office—and how they are handling all of this, please reach out. I am at crg.32 on Signal.
4th year associate as the US attorney, seems like a good idea
This is beyond unusual.
newjerseyglobe.com/judiciary/jo...
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These generally feel to me like AI SREs are meant to be sold to people wanting to spend less on SREs or see that function as a hindrance, whereas most coding tools are talking to people writing the software in augmenting them in how they frame their product.
Once again noticing that LLMs that write code often get a person’s name and are described as partners, but AI SREs are generally named “AI SRE” and they are there to make sure nobody’s got to stop to do that lowly unproductive work.
They should not have invited Herzog to Australia. Now the police are saying they have concerns about how his visit will cause “significant animosity”.
The Albanese Government needs to withdraw this invitation now!
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Some people have questioned whether this is real. First, Blume is a legit reporter who's covering the courts in earnest. Second, there's a MN-barred attorney named Julie Le whose address is literally the Whipple Building. Another attorney confirmed to me she's a private attorney contracting with DOJ
HOLY SHIT.
This is unreal. An AUSA talking like that in open court is about as close as you can come to a total breakdown. Never heard of anything like it.
If my math is right 20% of the office has now resigned, including the previous group of resignations. That’s debilitating.
www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
Motte and bailey shit is the worst. Them: "Arson is a serious crime which should be tracked down and punished by the cops!" Me: "You're overblowing property damage". Them: "Oh, I meant 5th degree arson which carries a maximum penalty of 45 days incarceration" Me: "so this arson is a serious crime?"
Them: "well, no, I just want it to stop". Me: "Me too, but have you considered alternatives like talking to them rather than snitching?" Them: "You are promoting arson! Arson! You are a traitor to the movement and an outside agitator, how dare you?!!"
To my view, this exchange further undermines Wolff’s claims that his relationship with Epstein was that of journalist and subject. Here, Wolff shares the pitch for funding from an accused man with Epstein, and offers commentary indicating a shared ideological commitment against the Me Too movement.
I hadn’t known this. Two men who were accused of sexual abuse on the Shitty Media Men document that I created back in 2017 reached out to Michael Wolff for help as they looked to sue me, and Wolf forwarded their concerns to Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein offered to help. www.jmail.world/thread/EFTA0...
