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I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk

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Re: I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk

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I don't believe they can change the name to Department of War without an actor Congress. It remains the DoD.

It's a silly shibboleth, but I automatically ignore anyone who calls it the Department of War or Gulf of America. Hasn't steered me wrong yet. They're telling me they're the kind of people who only care about defending fascism.

I call it department of war, because I think it is a great self-own on their part to do such a rename.

Re: I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk

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Is this the same Administration that reversed a previous block, and allowed NVIDIA to sell H200 to China?

Good thing this administration will be a lame duck in 8 months, and they know it.

"trump is definitely gonna lose the election" is a prediction I've heard many times. I know better than to trust it by now

Re: I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk

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I don’t see a contradiction here. If control is out of the hands of decision makers, that’s a supply chain risk . Were it not for that, the service is seen as critical to national security. I dunno, safeguard seems like a weasel word here. It’s just reserving control to one party over another. It’s understandable why the DoD(W) wouldn’t like that.

I'm pretty sure you (and others) are trying to apply some kind of guess at the "supply chain risk" designation, but it means something specific. Here's the term defined in an official context: https://www.acquisition.gov/dfars/252.239-7018-supply-chain-... .

Since the link is still broken, I tried encoding the final dot as %2E

https://www.acquisition.gov/dfars/252.239-7018-supply-chain-...

Re: I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk

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> Anthropic’s stance is fundamentally incompatible with American principles. I don't think that Secretary Hegseth is qualified to speak on American principles. Cheating on multiple spouses[1], being an active alcoholic, and being accused of multiple sexual assaults and paying off the accusers[3] is fundamentally incompatible with being a Secretary of Defense and a good leader. Also, this violates freedom of speech an…

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Re: I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk

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Can someone in plain terms explain what this is really about? Anyone can use Claude afaik?

From the public comments over the last few days, my guess is they want a militarized version of Claude. Starting with a box they want to put in the basement of the Pentagon where Antropic can't just switch off the ai. Then some guardrails are probably quite bothersome for the military and they want them removed. Concretely if you try to vibe-target your ICBMs Claude is hopefully telling you that that's a bad idea. No…

>akin to ordering Ford to build a tank variant of the F150.

It worked for Porsche ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Re: I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk

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This could kill Anthropic. The designation says any contractor, supplier, or partner doing business with the US military can’t conduct any commercial activity with Anthropic. Well, AWS has JWCC. Microsoft has Azure Government. Google has DoD contracts. If that language is enforced broadly, then Claude gets kicked off Bedrock, Vertex, and potentially Azure… which is where all the enterprise revenue lives. Claude canno…

From what I’ve heard the actual restriction is just on using Claude for stuff they’re doing for the Pentagon. They’ll keep using Claude for everything else and be less effective when they work for the government, and that’s fine because everyone else working for the government will have the same handicap.

Re: I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk

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It's a silly shibboleth, but I automatically ignore anyone who calls it the Department of War or Gulf of America. Hasn't steered me wrong yet. They're telling me they're the kind of people who only care about defending fascism.

Google Maps calls it Gulf of America, pretty difficult to ignore Google.

Because Google are bootlickers.

Re: I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk

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Strange times. I truly feel these are the last days of our Republic. Especially if more aren't willing to take a stand.

I'd say you're right, except that Trump is near death (maybe) and (more importantly) very unpopular.

He's more polarizing than usual maybe with stronger approve/unapprove ratings but his net popularity is in line with most 2nd term presidents at this stage.

https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/approval/trump-obama-...

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