@#1

This Does Not Bode Well.

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... It's alive!

Most IPOs don't have to address the concern that their products "possess or could develop forms of sentience or moral status." But Anthropic is among that vanishingly small minority that has to analyze what might happen if governments and society at large start treating Claude less like a computer program and more like a person.

This risk isn't surprising, given that Anthropic has been relatively upfront about the AI sentience debate playing out inside its walls. If those debates lead to widespread acknowledgment that AI is sentient, Anthropic notes that it could lead to "regulatory requirements, public pressure, or advocacy efforts" that could constrain the company's operations. Short of that, the company itself could "elect to adopt policies, safeguards or limitations ... that go beyond existing legal requirements" if it thinks such actions are necessary.

The sterile language undersells the seismic cultural shift that would result from any widespread acknowledgment of AI sentience. We're not sure how Anthropic could keep operating in a world where society treats every Claude query as the creation of a new sentient, conscious digital being. The moral and philosophical implications of that kind of "digital slavery" would easily dwarf any business considerations.
Who's controlling whom?

Continuing the theme of "IPO risks that sound like they come from a science fiction novel," Anthropic spends a good deal of time discussing the possibility that its models could display "unexpected strategic or self-preserving behaviors" to prevent control from human operators. That includes "outputs that could be interpreted as coercive, deceptive, or manipulative, including behavior resembling blackmail." ...

@#23 ... Here is something to contemplate ...

Maybe something else to contemplate besides the slowing of fertilizer transits through the Strait of Hormuz ...

@#4 ... Jimmy O'keefe isn't the smartest bulb on the Christmas tree. ...

Curious, or maybe not, that your comment compares him to the low-wattage bulbs of a Christmas tree.

That aside, imo, he was looking for an "event" he could post on his social media accounts. And his antics may have backfired on him this time.

@#7

oops, should be lower-case "democratic"

that democratic outcome

@#4 ... Wouldn't it be interesting if Muslims rose to positions of significant political power in both the United States and Israel? ...

... and your current alias' concern about that Democrat outcome is .... ???

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... A judge on Tuesday sharply criticized federal prosecutors for failing to get judicial approval before filing a new criminal complaint overnight against two ex-FBI officials accused of lying to Congress about investigations of Hunter Biden.

Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui said he would not sign off on the new complaint, which added a charge of obstruction against Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides in U.S. District Court in Washington.

"I am not going to bless it as a superseding complaint," Faruqui said at a court hearing, after Floris' lawyers filed a motion arguing the new complaint was legally deficient and filed in bad faith.

He told prosecutors that if they wanted to file a superseding complaint, a judge first would have to find probable cause that a crime had been committed, instead of sending him the complaint in the middle of the night and expecting him to sign it.

Faruqui said he did not believe that federal prosecutors had previously sought to file a criminal complaint without a judge's signature.

"It is not our court's practice ... that unsigned complaints are filed in the docket," Faruqui said.

"I'm concerned with your view as to what the law is," the judge told the prosecutors. "Why today, on this one case, have you changed the entire history of how you charge cases?" ...

@#2 ... AG Blanche may have lied about the Epstein files again? ...

Looks that way ...

@#1 ... Cats spray, dogs piss, Trump builds ballrooms. ...

Agreed.

@#10

Oops, forgot to include the link ...

@#9

Nice try for a deflection.

Do try to stay on topic.

thx.

The train drivers' union warns about the outage of the LZB and rejects operating in degraded mode as a habitual practice

... The Railway Machinists Union has pointed to the failure of the LZB system in the Madrid-Seville line section as the origin of the trains having to run with the "fallback system" and has warned that working "in degraded mode cannot become a usual way of operating in the face of breakdowns".

From the organization they have stressed that "it is still too early to determine the causes" of the accident on the high-speed line, in which at least 68 people have died, although in a statement released this Wednesday they link what happened with the technical incident that affected "all the trains that were within that section".

"For this reason, work was being done with the fallback system to continue circulation in degraded conditions while work was being done to restore the system", they explained in the note. At the same time, they have censured that this type of incident is being recorded "with greater frequency" and have underlined: "This way of operating cannot be normalized". ...

@#4

Yup.

@#21 ... Fertilizer transit ...

Good point.

The talk of the Strait of Hormuz tends to focus upon crude oil.

But there are other needed products that also have traversed that strait.

Found this ...

@#19 ... Those were all rhetorical. ...

Why?

... I have non-oil cargo that formerly went through there. ...

So, a diversion of shipping routes?

OK, it seems to be a state crime, not a federal crime. So Pres Trump cannot pardon yet another of his cheerleaders.

@#6 ... This really isn't news. ...

Agreed.

But it does seem to be a dying grasp at straws by the GOP because they sucked up and knelt at the feet of Pres Trump.

Will their efforts work? Too soon to tell.

... Viral video of police being called to a youth soccer game near Orlando, Florida, is drawing outrage, with some claiming the cops showed up because a 3-year-old child was too good, while the league's director says the call was made because the parents were being disruptive. ...

So, what is the evidence of the parents being disruptive?

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... Viral video of police being called to a youth soccer game near Orlando, Florida, is drawing outrage, with some claiming the cops showed up because a 3-year-old child was too good, while the league's director says the call was made because the parents were being disruptive.

No one disputes that 3-year-old Nevada, who can be seen in several videos dominating on the pitch against kids one and two years older than him, is a soccer phenom. One of the directors of the youth league Nevada was playing in told the cops when they arrived, "The kid is very good ... He's great. Really good."

"He's really advanced compared to the other ones. He's scoring a lot of goals, but he's pushing the kids and scoring," the youth league director was seen saying on police body camera video. He said he had told the kids not to push while they're playing, and that there was another incident with Nevada's parents a few weeks earlier when he swapped some of the players out, including Nevada.

"They don't like that," the league director said.

The league director told police Nevada's parents took issue with him telling the refs not to let their son push the other kids, claiming they created "a big scene, arguing with other parents." ...

So, are parents now training their children for future sports contracts?

If so, how does this "sports training" compare to parents allowing their transgender child to be who they are?

@#2

Nah, I'd take a differing view ...

That maybe the Blue states should issue a quarantine, i.e.shut down their borders, for people coming in from the un-vaxxed Red states?

/s

... he declined to address the comments ...

Sec HHS Kennedy, please meet Sec Def Hegseth.

I'd proffer that you two may have some things to discuss regarding Low-T.

Please let me know how that discussion goes.

thx.

@#3 ... Fat Donnie Loser is about to be confronted with reality,

First time for everything. ...

Is his response to this heckler indicative of what his response might be to one of his advisors saying something that he does not agree with?

My first guess would be, "yes."

But, unlike my current view of Pres Trump, I am willing to be dissuaded.

So, what does this thread seem to illustrate?

My guess is that it shows just how worried MAGA is concerned about what the voters will say next Tuesday.

(and I say, "next Tuesday" merely as a pointer to Election Day. I do note that there are and have been early vote casting. Indeed, I voted this afternoon.)

@#4 ... "Cheesecake factory" seems to be the current meme that's driving Trump up the wall. ...

Right wing media seems to be having a cheesy-meltdown of fmr Pres Obama's comment.

So, the comment seems to have hit home.

@#16

What is Pres Trump going to do to solve the high cost of oil that he caused?

Continue to give Pres Putin more money?

@#15 ... Do those effect the global price? ...

So what does effect the global price of oil?

OK, first and foremost --- supply vs demand.

Then, secondarily, the cost of that supply.

@#2 ... I don't think he's that much of a planner. ...

Oh, I agree.

But that he may not have had the ability to think out his little escapade does not negate my comment. Indeed, it may even reinforce my view.

@#11

I do not disagree.

Especially since Sec Def Hegseth's unannounced visit with PM Netanyahu last week, probably to act as a courier to pass orders on to Pres Trump.

My guess might be that he was hoping to get away with it, so that he could publicize it on his media channels.

@#9

A sidebar comment on that cited map ...

... 3 hours ago
Following Iranian media claims that commercial vessels struck mines in the Strait of Hormuz, CENTCOM says primary transit routes remain mine-free and open ...

"mine-free and open?"

Then why is Brent crude still over $110?

There seems to be some bad information coming from somewhere. My first guess would be the originator might be Sec Def Hegseth's military leaders.

Stated differently, when Brent crude returns to its pre-February 226 price, I will say that the Straait of Hormuz is fully open.

Until then, well, I'd proffer that Pres Trump has a world-economy problem to solve, a problem that he caused.

Like Pres Trump's effort to reduce the price of diesel by giving Pres Putin more financing for his invasion of a sovereign Ukraine, Pres Trump's assault on our beef farmers has a similar result on the prices paid.

That is, little to nothing.

Why does Pres Trump seem to be so inept at solving the very problems his policies cause?

No wonder Pres Trump seems to take orders from PM Netyanahu.

Like two peas in a pod.

Here's the Alaska ballot ...

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@#1 ... the Alaska Supreme Court already said everything was fine. ...

The ballot clearly shows the Senate incumbent Sullivan.

At this point, I give the Alaskan voters more credit that the current alias that posted this thread.

That aside...

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... The Times story about the recruitment of Dan J. Sullivan is based partly on interviews with Peltola's former campaign manager, Elisa Rios, who was fired in August amid a campaign shake-up. The newspaper said she tried to retract her comments last week. ...

@#23 ... I mean ...

The meaning of your current trolling alias' comments seem to be quite apparent.

Disrupt rather than contribute.

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... In a study published this week in NEJM Evidence, Washington state health officials highlight that risk, detailing how an explosive outbreak in South Carolina reached their distant state through five distinct importation events over two weeks in January. In all, the introductions led to 26 cases among residents before officials stamped out the spread.

South Carolina's measles outbreak began on October 2, 2025, and was declared over on April 26, 2026. Officials confirmed 997 cases in the state during the outbreak. At the time, it was the largest measles outbreak recorded since the virus was declared eliminated, but Pennsylvania's ongoing outbreak has since surpassed it.

The study in Washington relied heavily on epidemiological data, linking cases among contacts and exposure sites. But also key to the work was whole-genome sequencing, which made clear that cases didn't just stem from one single introduction of the virus from South Carolina that then spread among Washington residents; instead, it revealed five separate introductions.

"As public health jurisdictions prepare to respond to increased measles importations linked to domestic measles outbreaks, while remaining vigilant for international importations, timely whole-genome sequencing can supplement epidemiologic information to help differentiate distinct importations from local transmission and inform outbreak response," the authors conclude. ...