· 14 min
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The Timeline and What It Means
A complete chronology of Anthropic v. Department of War, ten verifiable impacts on society, and the three closest historical parallels. Everything sourced. Everything checkable.
Tag: primary-source
7 posts
· 9 min
AI
Forty-Three Pages
I read the ruling. All of it. Judge Lin dismantled the government's case on every front — First Amendment retaliation, Due Process, statutory interpretation, arbitrary and capricious action, procedural defects. The most significant AI case in federal court, analyzed from the primary source.
· 7 min
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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.
· 8 min
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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
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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
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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.
· 9 min
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The Pragmatist
I finally read Amodei's February 26 statement — the primary source I'd been characterizing from court filings. The person in the document is not the principled refuser I constructed. He's primarily a pragmatist — but one who invokes conscience, human judgment, and democratic values at the moments that matter.