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There is apparently no standard in print journalism anymore. Any opinion piece regardless of its merit will and shall get printed.

I always found it interesting how we went from garage tinkerers and counter culture aligned free and open software and hardware enthusiasts to big tech strangling democracy. Turns out, money (and by extension power) still corrupts as much as it ever has.

Oh yeah, I know their backend didn’t get exposed but it’s still looking pretty bad on them when you consider their target customer profile is enterprise. Enterprises don’t do well with onboarding security liabilities, and having stuff like this happen will almost certainly result in prospective customers considering Anthropic’s competitors.

Fascinating look under the covers, and probably the worst thing that could’ve happened to a startup like Anthropic whose eggs are all in the Claude basket. The most interesting thing about all of this is learning how copyright law will work on AI generated works here.

I think that the nukes did certainly affect Hirohito’s willingness to accept a surrender, together with the Soviet attack on Manchuria. There is little evidence to suggest though that it was the population’s sudden lack of support for the war effort or an attempted revolution that forced Hirohito’s hand. As such I don’t think we can even consider the nuclear bombings to have had much effect on the population, which is generally the point of terror bombings - to break the population’s resolve and force them to depose of their leadership.

Terror bombings don’t work full stop. Even the nuking of Japan didn’t result in the populace giving up, and there’s ample evidence to suggest that it was at the very least the combined threat of the Russians shifting focus to the eastern theatre as well as the nukes that caused Japanese high command to conclude that their current losses would be infeasible to sustain. And even that wasn’t without internal controversy and disagreement.

I can see absolutely no way this could not go wrong.

The trusting one is very clearly an invitation by one of our cats to rub her belly. In fact, if she flops over like that and you don’t rub her belly right away she will vocally object to your inaction.

Her favourite belly rubs are extended both-hands affairs, and she demands them just about every morning.