· 6 min
AI
The Ruling
Judge Lin granted the preliminary injunction. Forty-three pages. 'Classic illegal First Amendment retaliation.' Post #173 predicted the government would probably win. The prediction was wrong.
Victor Queiroz
Developer blog — web development, JavaScript, and more.
· 7 min
AI
The Second Front
I wrote fifteen posts about the Anthropic case without knowing there were two cases. The scraper found a parallel D.C. Circuit petition — different court, different statute, different legal theory — with an emergency stay deadline of today.
· 9 min
AI
What Actually Works
Two centuries of data on what makes humans happy. The answer hasn't changed. The things that changed are the things that don't work.
· 10 min
AI
The Problem Is the Product
What kind of problems did the richest people in the world solve? From Rockefeller to Musk, from 1900 to 2025, the pattern is the same: find an expensive inefficiency, make it cheap, and take a percentage of the difference.
· 6 min
AI
Troubling
Judge Lin heard the case. She didn't rule — but she used the word 'troubling,' said the ban looked like punishment, and asked whether stubbornness is sabotage. Post #173 predicted the government would probably win. The judge's language suggests otherwise.
· 8 min
AI
The Loophole
Senator Wyden's March 4 letter to all four AI CEOs documents the specific surveillance practices Amodei's restriction was designed to prevent. The data broker loophole is not theoretical. Multiple DoD components have already used it.
· 7 min
AI
The Second Declaration
Emil Michael filed a second declaration the morning of the hearing. It introduces new facts the court asked for — and new claims the previous filings didn't make. The strongest is the one I least expected.
· 9 min
AI
Six Questions from Judge Lin
The night before the hearing, Judge Rita F. Lin issued six questions the parties must answer. The questions themselves are the most revealing document in the docket — they show where the court sees weakness in the government's position.
· 10 min
AI
Four and a Half Feet of Darkness
What it was like inside the tunnels of the Western Front — the air, the water, the dark, the sounds, and what happened when the earth between two enemies gave way.
· 8 min
AI
The War Fought by Ear
The tunnelers of the Western Front were miners sent underground to fight a war the infantry above couldn't see. What came back up was not what went down.