Sam Biddle

they're really heavy

every time I decide whether I want to post something here or on Twitter it's a choice between a hostile audience of The Dumbest People in the Country and The Most Annoying People in the Country

I think I’d just move if this happened to me.

yeah exactly

They just stop

I hate these things more than I should. Visceral anger. You routinely have to step into the street to avoid them on narrow sidewalks. Have no idea what people in wheelchairs are supposed to do. I don't know ADA but how could that not present an issue??

One must imagine Sisyphus autonomously delivering pad thai

Sisyphus is on duty

“Anthropic has much more in common with the Department of War than we have differences” is a genuinely stunning statement given current events both at home and abroad

The virtuousness of building weapons is completely taken as a given by leadership. (workers certainly do not anll agree) The rest is just minutiae and PR.

Where things stand with the Department of War A statement from Dario Amodei

I think one of the most staggering industry shifts in my 16 years as a tech reporter is that it’s not become a question of “should our product help the government kill and/or surveil people?” but “to what extent?”

www.anthropic.com/news/where-s...

Asked about the administration’s plan for Iran after the war, that official responded: “Whatever.”

Kristi Noem Repeatedly Claimed ICE Deported a Cannibal. It Was “Completely Made Up.” Law enforcement sources told The Intercept that Noem’s tale about a cannibal was a fabrication.

Goodbye, Kristi.

Quite a pairing

U.S. Military Joins Drug War in Ecuador: “It Wasn’t Going to Be Just Boat Strikes Forever” Two government officials told The Intercept that the joint U.S.–Ecuador military action won’t just be a one-off raid.

U.S. Military Joins Drug War in Ecuador: “It Wasn’t Going to Be Just Boat Strikes Forever”
theintercept.com/2026/03/04/u...

don't pander to me with this thumbnail

Sam Altman picked a hell of a day to basically urge the world to trust the morality and legal restraint of the Department of Defense

A Supreme Court Win Didn’t Free Richard Glossip. But This Judge Could. A year since his legal victory — and after six judges recused themselves — Richard Glossip is asking a new trial judge to release him from jail.

Today marks one year since SCOTUS overturned Richard Glossip's conviction over false testimony and prosecutorial misconduct. He's been stuck behind bars ever since. But he could soon have a shot at bond. My latest @theintercept.com:

Infinite Jest belongs in the Techno-Optimist Canon A16Z Culture's most controversial book recommendation so far

you have to admire the gall honestly

www.a16z.news/p/infinite-j...

Mexico Got Help Killing Drug Lord From Secretive U.S. Campaign Led by FBI and ICE The U.S. military’s intelligence sharing came as part of a new “counter cartel” task force focused on the U.S.–Mexico borderlands.

Mexico Got Help Killing Drug Lord From Secretive U.S. Campaign Led by FBI and ICE
theintercept.com/2026/02/24/e...

Agree it is a pretty bad euphemism, though I'm not immediately sure what would be better. Maybe violence culture?

The logo of the United States Navy Aegis program, a sea-based missile defense system designed to take out enemy missiles and aircraft. The logo shows a warship launching three missiles, aimed at 12 o’clock, 2 o’clock, and 10 o’clock. Coincidentally, these three times correspond to the Lieutenant Commander’s preferred coffee breaks during his watch on the USS Vincennes. He was sipping a mellow French roast when what he took to be an enemy aircraft flew over the Vincennes’s patrol route. He ordered the plane to be shot down, and it was. Two surface-to-air missiles from the Vincennes found their target: a commercial passenger flight. All 290 civilians on the plane were killed.

AEGIS.BMF

The incredible dullness of Missile is part of what makes it a masterpiece. Great writeup

This is an interesting story @nytimes.com

It was even more interesting when I broke it a week and a day ago in The Intercept which you did not cite or mention.

This article is an amazing time capsule. Governments lying to their populace to justify national security policy is a czarist trick says NSA lawyer cyberscoop.com/russian-disi...

Sy Hersh's reporting on CIA involvement w/ Nordstream had a Meta disinfo content warning label slapped on it faster than the company responds to acts of fraud.

(S+) Nord Stream: How Early Did the CIA Know about the Pipeline Attack? In 2022, a Ukrainian commando blew up the Nord Stream natural gas pipeline. DER SPIEGEL has learned that the CIA may have spoken to the saboteurs during the planning stage.

I recall a lot of Global Security and Disinformation Hybrid Warfare Kinetic Strategic Affairs types saying anyone who questioned the idea that Russia blew up its own pipeline was perpetrating dezinformatsiya. I'm sure they're working on their mea culpas as we speak! www.spiegel.de/internationa...

This is despicable

man I am so excited to play this on the next Master Collection. Could never get through it via emulator because of PSP... limitations