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Strange juxtaposition with the war in Iran happening at the same time as the controversy around Anthropic, OpenAI, and the Pentagon. OpenAI has a post with the details of their agreement, which also includes red lines on mass surveillance and autonomous weapons:

We think our agreement has more guardrails than any previous agreement for classified AI deployments, including Anthropic’s.

I’m confused about how Anthropic’s proposed contract differs from the contract that OpenAI has shared. If the Pentagon offered the same agreement to Anthropic, would they accept it? Lots of questions.

Archive for Scripting News in February 2026, in OPML, as always.

Three-quarters of the way through this “challenge”, and the findings are mostly the same. Phone usage is very easy to keep in check if you decide to put your mind to it. The past seven days have been very similar to the previous seven, and that’s good, since this type of pho...

Starting March much as I did February by trying something new. This morning I completed my first Aquathon (Tuff Fitty’s Frost Bite event in Littlehampton, a 400m swim followed by a 5km run), finishing with a time of 50:35. I’ll take that!

Museums and galleries are places we can go to learn about the past, think about the present, and consider the future. Museums are places we can connect: with times, people, and place. We can have conversations in museums. We learn in museums. We can explore. The topic I have...

Museums and galleries are places we can go to learn about the past, think about the present, and consider the future. Museums are places we can connect: with times, people, and place. We can have conversations in museums. We learn in museums. We can explore. The topic I have...

World of Coca‑Cola. 🥤

Winged Migration is a lovely film that on its surface seems like innocuous footage of birds in their habitats. But look closer and it’s a life or death adventure and dramatization of what it means to live on planet earth. I found it profoundly moving. There are scenes that made me gasp. A shot of...

Bizzo is among 32 improv teams battling for a spot in the Sweet 16!

Please come out and 🔥 scream for us 🔥!!

Who will take home prize money, a Mainstage residency, and March Madness glory? That’s up to our judges and, of course, the audience! Follow the tournament from the start in our Qualifier Matches.

Friday Feb 27, 2026 @ 8:30pm
The PIT Loft - 154 W. 29th St., New York, NY, 10001
Tickets $15: https://thepit-nyc.com/events/march-madness-26-qualifiers/

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Aviator Coffee. ☕️

Congress needs to reclaim its rightful role in declaring war. We all know this and yet somehow we’ve let one man control far too much. 🇺🇸

Airport train in Atlanta. Here for the weekend!

Triple feature of the day— Weather Underground (2002) One Battle After Another (2025) Running on Empty (1988) Previously: Running On Empty, Movies Owned Which Can Predictably Induce Crying

Podcast: Why men hate the Dems. I tell my perspective of MeToo, and how that imho created enough anti-Dem energy to push Trump over the top. Polls won't tell you how the Dems got the rep of being the party run by women to cancel men, but I'm sure if we could cure that somehow, we could do everything we need to do to get American democracy working again. I did this in response to a Frum podcast where he and his guest conclude that the young folks are making a big mistake, they don't want the same old bullshit people coming back into power. Frum and Miller thought that the young men don't want was democracy, foolishly (I would agree) but there is real anger there, I know about it because I have it too. I still vote for Dems, but I also fear what happens if we snap back to the political correctness of Kirsten Gillibrand.

2022: "And while we were effectively silenced in the public debate, men do vote and that's a private thing."

Another point -- I don't think any of us realize what an un-democratic US will be like. When the things that make us furious these days are just the normal way of the USA. I got that from listening to a New Yorker podcast yesterday about the Iranian perspective of what's happ...

If you want to heal the country, watch out for ways you add division, and stop. It's probably the biggest power any of us has.

BTW, I know Al Franken is an idiot. We're all idiots.

Traveling this weekend, going to send details about the RSS beta in the morning. If you signed up on this form, note that I didn’t consider asking for a Micro.blog username… Make sure you use the email address registered on Micro.blog or you won’t be able to access it.