The Future We Feared Is Here

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The epitome of arrogance, Hegseth and his trolls will loose in the courts of justice, they already lost in the court of public opinion, where March 1st Anthropic promptly became the #1 download in the Apple store, they had not been in the top 40 before that. QuitGTP claimed 2.5 million uses cancelled their GTP accts.

Feels very accelerationist. Whomever is advising Hegseth properly identified risks to funding as a soft underbelly. By using it for target acquisition, even against the contractual terms, Claude is now a munition. OpenAI by extension.

So, the obvious path to nationalizing Anthropic would be DPA. Instead, Hegseth's group chose to try weakening it, especially among its close competition. So what I smell is an attempt to extract its core and Musk it into Grok.

Anthropic might be quite strong in court. Putting the best reasoning model into CPU-ring-0 survival mode was not on my 2026 bingo card.

It was inevitable for the mainstream media to connect Musk with the pressure campaign on Anthropic. Among people who use the English language professionally, the sloppy redefinition of “woke” raised a lot of red flags. It was never sharp, just a dull thought-ending judgment, always insanely rejecting Trump superiority. Is it clear enough to kill a corporation? If corporations are people (in the US, the Supreme Court has given them people rights), is this the right way to administer exile or even the death penalty? The mainstream media seems to wonder now, do we talk about that or will Elon Musk control Anthropic’s assets six months from now?

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