Friday, February 27, 2026

🥬 Another, Slightly More Amorphous, Point 🥬

Think about the power Hegseth is asserting here. He is claiming that the DoD can force all contractors to stop doing business of any kind with arbitrary other companies.

In other words, every operating system vendor, every manufacturer of hardware, every hyperscaler, every type of firm the DoD contracts with—all their services and products can be denied to any economic actor at will by the Secretary of War.

This is obviously a psychotic power grab. It is almost surely illegal, but the message it sends is that the United States Government is a completely unreliable partner for any kind of business. The damage done to our business environment is profound. No amount of deregulatory vibes sent by this administration matters compared to this arson.
Or perhaps more direct. “Psychotic power grab” seems like a pretty good description. A) AI is not magical.

B)  Anthropic is actually concerned about privacy rights. Funny that our own government isn’t.

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