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The White House directed Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, to oversee a leak investigation into reporting by The New York Times
about security issues with the new Air Force One,
leading to a flurry of subpoenas to several Times reporters Friday night, according to people with knowledge of the situation.
Mr. Patel scuttled a planned trip to Chicago and spent roughly eight hours at the White House on Friday,
running the investigation from there rather than F.B.I. headqua…

White House Directed Patel to Oversee Investigation Involving Times Reporting
The F.B.I. director spent about eight hours at the White House Friday focused on the effort, which led to the subpoenaing of several Times reporters who wrote about the security of Air Force One.

A Hollywood writer recounts working as an "AI trainer" for companies like Mercor, as AI gig work becomes the "new waiting tables" for entertainment workers (Ruth Fowler/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/i-work-in-hollywood-ev…

I Work in Hollywood. Everyone Who Used to Make TV Is Now Secretly Training AI
For screenwriters like me—and job seekers all over—AI gig work is the new waiting tables. In eight months, I’ve done 20 of these soul-crushing contracts for five different platforms. It’s bad.

Excerpt from an essay I may or may not write:
Ontologies evolve to fulfill functions. They serve a purpose, and will be adapted until they fulfill this purpose. There are, occasionally, things that exist within those ontologies which do not actually exist.
Programming bugs are an example. There is no such thing. Code is code. It can't be right or wrong, it just is or isn't. The mismatch between the intent and the execution creates a side effect. We may confidently assert such a thing exists. We may name such things. But they don't exist. This becomes apparent when you try to figure out how to suppress one specific instance of a bug in one specific place through multiple revisions.
At some level, a lot of things don't actually exist. We only need to follow through the logic of The Ship of Theseus to see how our ontologies break down.
One thing that doesn't exist, that is a side effect rather than an object, is the personal self. You do not exist. Your perception of your existence is an illusion, a necessary side effect.
Every day you wake up a different person. Every second you are not who you were. That person is as dead as you will be the next instant, as all versions of you will be every second until there are no more. These selves are bound together by imperfect memories. The person you remember as yourself, all those people, never existed. You created them based on your current experience, your current iteration.
You could, just as easily, wake up an unrecognizable person, in some Dark City, and never know the difference. Continuity is absurd. And yet, some people believe they'll still experience the same self after being frozen or "uploaded." It's a silly illusion.
Once you can get over that illusion, you can let go of the need to thrash against the void. You can let go of the various furious dreams of immortality.
At a high enough level, all ontologies are illusions. Useful illusions, but illusions none-the-less. There is only the undifferentiated universe, and you are experiencing it. You are the universe. You will always persist, long past the time this specific iteration or any iteration experiences it.
This implies a certain obligation then to all the others experiencing the same self, the future iterations that may remember being someone like you, and any other person you, the universe, could wake up as tomorrow.

The Trump administration issued subpoenas to several NYT reporters after the outlet reported on security concerns involving the new Qatari-donated Air Force One (Michael M. Grynbaum/New York Times)
https://www.ny…

Times Journalists Subpoenaed as Trump Escalates Pressure on Media
The Justice Department is seeking to compel testimony from reporters who wrote about the new Air Force One. The Times called the move a “brazen act.”

“First they came for the New York Times and I… fuck I have to say something about this don’t I?
Who’s the next one on the poem? Could I maybe wait for that one?”
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:e4tqkvdjxqapupkv6rnb6agp/post/3mqeqd3ptec2u

Anthropic backtracks on covert limitations on Fable 5's ability to develop LLMs, says "requests will visibly fall back to Opus 4.8", following a backlash (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-responds-to…

Anthropic Walks Back Policy That Could Have ‘Sabotaged’ AI Researchers Using Claude
The company changed course after researchers spoke out against the policy, which would have covertly limited Claude’s ability to develop competing AI models.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)
said Monday that he’s confident
Democrats will still win back the House of Representatives,
despite Republicans now being poised to come out ahead in Donald Trump’s redistricting war.
“The failed GOP majority will not be able to gerrymander themselves back into power,”
Jeffries wrote in a new letter to House Democrats
Jeffries said the House Democratic caucus would meet Thursday as they plot next steps.
…

‘We remain undeterred’: Hakeem Jeffries says gerrymandering won’t save House Republicans
“The failed GOP majority will not be able to gerrymander themselves back into power."

Internal emails: xAI added 19 gas turbines to Colossus 2 over the past two months; xAI is fighting a lawsuit alleging Clean Air Act violations at the site (Molly Taft/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/xai-adds-19-new-gas-turbines-despite-ongoing-lawsuit/

xAI Adds 16 New Gas Turbines at Mississippi Facility Despite Ongoing Lawsuit
Emails show that Elon Musk's company is expanding its use of portable gas-fired power at its Colossus 2 site as a fight over air quality continues.

Yes, Sarah Wynn-Williams violated her deal to stay silent.
But the power disparity bolsters the view that Meta is a heartless bully
https://www.wired.com/story/metas-pursuit-of-the-careless-people-author-is-relentless-and-self-…

Meta’s Pursuit of the 'Careless People' Author Is Relentless and Self-Defeating
Yes, Sarah Wynn-Williams violated her deal to stay silent. But the power disparity bolsters the view that Meta is a heartless bully.

Anthropic debuts Claude for Word in beta, which adds AI editing tools and clickable citations, targeting document-heavy workflows, for Team and Enterprise users (Tristan Anthony/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-claude-microsoft-word-l…

Anthropic's Claude for Word is another challenge to Microsoft's software empire
Anthropic launched a beta version of Claude for Word. It's another challenge to Microsoft's software empire, and a bid to appeal to lawyers.