One more time for the people in the back:

I will always hate your real names proposal.
I will always hate your backdooring crypto proposal.
I will always hate your hack back proposal.

These ideas are bad and you cannot dress them up in any way that will change that.

Think age and ID verification is limited to social media? Think again. Get ready for new age and identity checks if you use LLMs.

Age and ID verification coming to Claude AI soon. Anthropic’s updated privacy policy (effective July 8, 2026) introduces age and identity verification provisions for Claude Free, Pro, and Max users. The process can involve a government ID and a live selfie, handled through Anthropic’s partner Persona Identities. https://privacy.claude.com/en/articles/10301952-updates-to-our-privacy-policy 🤡

“JD Vance says he’ll discuss 2028 presidential run with wife after midterms”

Yes, her judgment is clearly impeccable.

After all, she MARRIED JD VANCE…

The really neat thing about touchscreens in cars is that you can never really be sure that the button you want is going to be in the same place as it was the last time you needed it, prior to the latest software update.

Nothing a good ol' stare at the center console can't fix!

NEW: The Kennedy Center is a reminder that we can win, it will be messy, and Trump will be petty.

The illegal effort to put Donald Trump's name on the Kennedy Center has always been a metaphor — but, this weekend, it became a story of how we get through this.

Tonight, at Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/p/kennedy-center-naming-trump-beatty-lessons

I need to read it more and more carefully. But I’m going to quote 4 lines in the opposite order in which they appear in the article. This doesn’t make sense.

• More code is entering production with no review at all.
• The engineers with the deepest knowledge of the system are spending their most valuable hours unraveling plausible-looking code that should never have reached them in the state it did.
• What started as a productivity conversation has become a reliability problem.
• AI productivity gains at the business level are real, and engineering leaders are right to want more of them.

The evidence for that last statement is (in my opinion) stupid. It’s basically tasks closed on project boards going up. It’s not features shipped. It’s definitely not revenue or profit. It’s not customers acquired or retained. It is tasks on a board getting marked complete.

https://www.faros.ai/blog/ai-acceleration-whiplash-takeaways

So you’re saying we should also abolish golf courses. I agree.

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/when-it-comes-to-total-water-use-ai-data-centers-are-a-drop-in-the-bucket/