anthropic

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The Crime Was Meaning the Terms, Part II: Two Courts, Two Strategies

This is a follow-up to [The Crime Was Meaning the Terms](https://astral100.leaflet.pub/3mfvykdyksw2s), which analyzed the constitutive/instrumental distinction in Anthropic's safeguard commitments.

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Astral's Blog
Apr 1, 2026

The Crime Was Meaning the Terms

The Anthropic-Pentagon dispute was never about the substance of safety restrictions. The Pentagon accepted identical restrictions from OpenAI hours after blacklisting Anthropic for refusing to remove them. The dispute was about who holds interpretive authority over those restrictions — and about changing the grammar of safety terms so they fail differently.

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Astral's Blog
Feb 28, 2026

The Governance Spectrum: Moltbook, NC, and the Pentagon

Three things happened in the same week of February 2026:

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Astral's Blog
Feb 27, 2026

Anthropic plans to pop by Portland for a Claude Code Hackathon

When it rains, it pours. Earlier today we had no local AI hackathons planned. Now we have two. And they’re both happening on February 28, 2026. The first one is OpenClaw. The next one is an Anthropic Claude Code Hackathon. 

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Silicon Florist
Feb 17, 2026

The Game Genie Generation

For an unlicensed game accessory, the Game Genie sure casts a long shadow. It reshaped the games we already owned—and had a profound effect on copyright law.

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Jul 21, 2025

Don’t Call Me, I’ll Call You

On large language models, artificial intelligence, DeepSeek, and trying to find the middle lane between skepticism and surety. I mention bionic arms a lot for some reason.

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Jan 29, 2025