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Krystal Ball

@krystalball
27 posts
2026-02-27
Anthropic and Dario deserve credit for standing up for two very basic and obvious principles: no mass surveillance and no autonomous killer robots.  Perhaps this is a low bar but it isn't clear any of the other leading AI companies would put principle above profits in ANY scenario.  The Pentagon is sure to make Anthropic pay for daring to defy them.
2026-02-27 View on X
Anthropic

Dario Amodei says Anthropic cannot “in good conscience” accede to DOD's request to remove safeguards and will work to ensure a smooth transition if offboarded

I believe deeply in the existential importance of using AI to defend the United States and other democracies, and to defeat our autocratic adversaries.

Anthropic and Dario deserve credit for standing up for two very basic and obvious principles: no mass surveillance and no autonomous killer robots.  Perhaps this is a low bar but it isn't clear any of the other leading AI companies would put principle above profits in ANY scenario.  The Pentagon is sure to make Anthropic pay for daring to defy them.
2026-02-27 View on X
Axios

Anthropic says new DOD “contract language” made “virtually no progress” on preventing Claude's use for mass domestic surveillance or fully autonomous weapons

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Thursday said there has been “virtually no progress” on negotiations with the Pentagon.

Anthropic and Dario deserve credit for standing up for two very basic and obvious principles: no mass surveillance and no autonomous killer robots.  Perhaps this is a low bar but it isn't clear any of the other leading AI companies would put principle above profits in ANY scenario.  The Pentagon is sure to make Anthropic pay for daring to defy them.
2026-02-27 View on X
Axios

President Trump calls Anthropic a “radical left, woke company” and says he is directing every federal agency in the US to stop using its products

The Trump administration has decided to blacklist Anthropic in the most consequential and controversial policy decision to date …

2026-02-25
Anthropic's red lines are no mass surveillance and no autonomous killer robots. It should terrify everyone that the pentagon finds these safeguards to be outrageous.
2026-02-25 View on X
Axios

Sources: DOD told Anthropic it will invoke the Defense Production Act or label Anthropic a “supply chain risk”, if not given unfettered Claude access by Friday

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei until Friday evening to give the military unfettered access …

Anthropic's red lines are no mass surveillance and no autonomous killer robots. It should terrify everyone that the pentagon finds these safeguards to be outrageous.
2026-02-25 View on X
Reuters

Source: Anthropic has no intention of easing Claude usage restrictions for military purposes, following Dario Amodei's meeting with Pete Hegseth

Artificial intelligence lab Anthropic has no intention of easing its usage restrictions for military purposes, a person familiar with the matter …

2025-10-04
More corporate capitulation to the Trump regime
2025-10-04 View on X
Daring Fireball

Apple's removal of ICEBlock raises questions about the limits of what the company will resist under the Trump administration's increasingly outrageous demands

Ashley Oliver, reporting for Fox Business: … Fox, in its opening paragraph, describes Bondi as having “asked” …

More corporate capitulation to the Trump regime
2025-10-04 View on X
Fox Business

Apple removes ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE officer sightings, from the App Store; AG Pam Bondi directed the DOJ to ask Apple to remove the app

Here's What We Know ABC Columbia : Apple removes ICE tracking apps Joe Sommerlad / The Independent : Apple pulls ICE tracking apps after pressure from the White House thesun.my : A...

2025-10-03
More corporate capitulation to the Trump regime
2025-10-03 View on X
Fox Business

Apple removes ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE officer sightings, from the App Store; AG Pam Bondi directed the DOJ to ask Apple to remove the app

Bondi confirmed the department reached out to Apple on Thursday to demand it remove ICEBlock

2025-03-04
They are destroying social security while just committing outright theft to cash out their shitcoins.
2025-03-04 View on X
CoinDesk

President Trump names Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Solana, and Cardano as assets to be included in a strategic US crypto reserve, causing significant price surges

XRP, ADA, SOL post double-digit losses Molly White / Citation Needed : Issue 78 - President on brink of bailout for bitcoin CoinDesk : Here Is What Crypto Leaders Are Saying About ...

2025-03-03
They are destroying social security while just committing outright theft to cash out their shitcoins.
2025-03-03 View on X
CoinDesk

President Trump names Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Solana, and Cardano as assets to be included in a strategic US crypto reserve, causing significant price surges

Crypto Braced For Another Trump Shock After Bitcoin, XRP, Solana And Cardano Price Boom CoinDesk : Here Is What Crypto Leaders Are Saying About Trump's Crypto Reserve Plans Matthew...

2025-02-04
They are putting the billionaire hedge funder who doesn't believe in a minimum wage at the head of the agency meant to protect consumers from scams. It's just open season now for all elite crimes.
2025-02-04 View on X
Bloomberg Law

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent orders the CFPB to stop activities, like rulemaking, communications, and litigation; in November, Musk said to “delete CFPB”

Search by Topic  —  Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has shut down a wide variety of operations inside …

2023-06-13
Thanks to @jack for sharing his thoughts with us on Elon at Twitter, extreme censorship pressure from governments like India and Turkey, @RobertKennedyJr endorsement, AI fears and a whole lot more. https://www.youtube.com/...
2023-06-13 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Internal memo: Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino tells employees that the platform is “on a mission to become the world's most accurate real-time information source”

Linda Yaccarino, who joined company last week, describes her mission to employees

2023-01-22
This type of dehumanizing treatment is standard for low wage workers. Here we see even white collar knowledge workers aren't exempt from degradation by the executive class. Horrible. https://twitter.com/...
2023-01-22 View on X
New York Times

Emails and sources: Google fired 16% of its ~400-person Fuchsia OS team, Research cut jobs in lower traction areas, and Cloud cut operational and other roles

The layoffs amount to about 6 percent of the global work force at the company, the latest tech giant to make cuts after a pandemic hiring spree.

2023-01-21
This type of dehumanizing treatment is standard for low wage workers. Here we see even white collar knowledge workers aren't exempt from degradation by the executive class. Horrible. https://twitter.com/...
2023-01-21 View on X
Bloomberg

Alphabet plans to cut ~12,000 jobs, 6%+ of its global workforce; CEO Sundar Pichai says he takes “full responsibility for the decisions that led us here”

read the memo CEO Sundar Pichai sent to staff Mary Yang / NPR : Google is cutting 12,000 jobs, adding to a series of Big Tech layoffs in January BBC : Google parent Alphabet to cut...

This type of dehumanizing treatment is standard for low wage workers. Here we see even white collar knowledge workers aren't exempt from degradation by the executive class. Horrible. https://twitter.com/...
2023-01-21 View on X
New York Times

Emails and sources: Google fired 16% of its ~400-person Fuchsia OS team, Research cut jobs in low traction areas, and Cloud cut operational and other roles

The layoffs amount to about 6 percent of the global work force at the company, the latest tech giant to make cuts after a pandemic hiring spree.

2022-04-19
Unions are good for all workers! https://twitter.com/...
2022-04-19 View on X
CNBC

Apple employees unionizing at Grand Central Terminal store want a $30/hour minimum pay, tuition reimbursement, more vacation time, and better retirement options

- Workers organizing a union at Apple's Grand Central Terminal store are seeking minimum pay of $30 per hour.

2022-04-02
It is hard to wrap your head around just how absolutely extraordinary this is. @Shut_downAmazon was fired. Amazon execs smeared him. And he appears to have pulled off a truly historic worker led victory against one of the biggest wealthiest corporate giants in the world. Amazing https://twitter.com/...
2022-04-02 View on X
CNBC

Workers at Amazon's Staten Island facility secure enough votes to unionize, by a 2,654 to 2,131 margin, a first for an Amazon warehouse in the US

- Amazon workers at a Staten Island warehouse voted Friday to join a union, the first time that's happened at one of the company's U.S. facilities.

Cope and seethe @amazon https://twitter.com/...
2022-04-02 View on X
CNBC

Workers at Amazon's Staten Island facility secure enough votes to unionize, by a 2,654 to 2,131 margin, a first for an Amazon warehouse in the US

- Amazon workers at a Staten Island warehouse voted Friday to join a union, the first time that's happened at one of the company's U.S. facilities.

2021-10-05
I see this whole system of allowing giant social media monopolies to control multiple critical modes of communication is working out well.
2021-10-05 View on X
9to5Mac

Facebook's services and work tools return online after suffering a global outage for over six hours

Update: 5:55 p.m. ET: Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger are slowly but surely coming back up after more than 6 hours of being down.  Your mileage may vary for now …

2021-07-21
This is really significant and really good news https://twitter.com/...
2021-07-21 View on X
Bloomberg

Biden nominates Jonathan Kanter, a long-time foe of Google, to become the DOJ's antitrust chief

myself included—viewed their roles as a means of placating anti-tech progressives. Wait to see who Biden elevates to FTC Chair, and to lead Antitrust at DOJ, etc. Turns out he mean...