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Trump people like Pete Hegseth don't care nearly as much about killbots as authoritarianism. The Anthropic conflict isn't about a negotiation, it's about making a show of rejecting the idea of consensual trade altogether. https://blog.giovanh.com/blog/2026/03/03/anthropic-and-the-authoritarian-ethic/?campaign=mtd
✧✦Catherine✦✧if you're publishing open source code, your enemies will use it. personal enemies, political enemies, class enemies. they will use it and derive benefit from it and there is _nothing you can do to stop it_. (no, licenses aren't it.)
i think that if you're not ready for this you should probably not publish open source code
When you see the movement for "user accounts set up with age brackets at the operating system level", that's not a euphemism for digital identity or backdoored chips, that is a ray of sunshine to a world falling into darkness. So long as it stays limited we need to push for it. It's the good one.
Proposals like AB 1043 and SB26-051 are buried in the muck of a dangerous political movement to censor speech and create tools to attack targets, but despite having the same "age verification" euphemism in the title they're the best defense. And they need support so they outweigh the evil ones.
Any policing of expression is dangerous but a privacy-conscious system like OS-level age signals are the right move. It gives parents an easy toggle, makes compliance easy for services, and cuts off a lot of excuses for invasive and dangerous identify verification from gov/corps.
You don’t need individual services collecting and maintaining identifying information. Use the existing agency of parents over devices and send a low-entropy signal that proactively informs sites not to serve devices that are voluntarily excluded.
Age signaling information attached to the OS — an opt-in controlled by the device owner, who is the parent — is far and away the best age verification system in terms of privacy and abuse prevention. I have a draft of an example proposal to do exactly that I wrote myself.