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It turns out I had a bit to say about Ben Thompson’s no good, very bad post.

https://birchtree.me/blog/what-are-you-going-to-do-stop-me-ive-got-the-guns-is-a-wild-govargument-for-tech-pundits-to-support/

"What are you going to do, stop me? I've got the guns," is a wild government argument for tech pundits to support

Over the last couple weeks, Anthropic and the Department of War have been engaged in a war of words over something very exciting: terms of use. Anthropic, as a private company, has created a product and reasonably established terms of use for it. However, the Department of War doesn't want

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@matt_birchler I found him through Dithering when it started and started reading Stratechery. It was interesting but quickly saw he was for unfettered big tech power, didn’t meet a merger/monopoly he didn’t love, and thought the future of work meetings was in the metaverse. I probably lasted six months before I unsubscribed.
I never got the impression he considered himself apolitical though, his feelings on the EU especially have never been nuanced.