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VOICE ARCHIVE

Leah McElrath

@leahmcelrath
30 posts
2026-02-27
⚠️ Anthropic:  —  “We cannot in good conscience accede” to the demands of the Department of War.  —  Concerns about the Department's potential use of AI for mass surveillance and fully autonomous weapons have not been resolved.
2026-02-27 View on X
Axios

President Trump calls Anthropic a “radical left, woke company” and says he is directing every federal agency in the US to stop using its products

The Trump administration has decided to blacklist Anthropic in the most consequential and controversial policy decision to date …

⚠️ Anthropic:  —  “We cannot in good conscience accede” to the demands of the Department of War.  —  Concerns about the Department's potential use of AI for mass surveillance and fully autonomous weapons have not been resolved.
2026-02-27 View on X
Anthropic

Dario Amodei says Anthropic cannot “in good conscience” accede to DOD's request to remove safeguards and will work to ensure a smooth transition if offboarded

I believe deeply in the existential importance of using AI to defend the United States and other democracies, and to defeat our autocratic adversaries.

2026-01-10
What a cursed sentence: [embedded post]
2026-01-10 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Meta signs deals with nuclear power providers Vistra, TerraPower, and Oklo to buy power and support new reactor projects, securing up to 6.6GW of power by 2035

Facebook parent will back nuclear projects with Oklo, Bill Gates-backed TerraPower and Vistra

2025-05-05
“A hacker has gained access to the Signal message archiving tool which Mike Waltz accidentally revealed to the world.”  —  Even if it hadn't been hacked, the tool archives messages to an IP address located in Israel.  One has to wonder about the Israeli government's access.  —  micahflee.com/the-signal-c...
2025-05-05 View on X
micahflee

A hacker breaches TeleMessage, which makes modified versions of apps like Signal used by US officials including JD Vance, leaking some chats, contacts, and more

TeleMessage, a company that makes a modified version of Signal that archives messages for government agencies, was hacked.  —  💡

2025-04-28
We knew the COVID pandemic changed things, but we did not know the role of the tech mogul/right-wing propagandist/journalist encrypted and often disappearing-message group chats in those changes.  —  Until now.  —  Worth reading to understand better how we got here:  —  www.semafor.com/article/04/2...
2025-04-28 View on X
Semafor

A look at the network of group chats that surged in 2020 as a place where Silicon Valley leaders allied with the new right, revolving around Marc Andreessen

THE SCOOP  —  Last Thursday morning, a bit before 10 am in Austin and nearly 11 pm in Singapore, Joe Lonsdale had enough of Balaji Srinivasan's views on China.

2023-08-21
That means the media from “Arab Spring”—during which Twitter played an important role for raising awareness about human rights violations and popular uprisings throughout the Middle East—is all gone now. He's literally erased history.
2023-08-21 View on X
Forbes

Many images uploaded directly to X between 2011 and 2014 are not loading and links from those years that used Twitter's native shortening service are broken too

Twitter, the social media platform officially known as X, appears to have deleted all images from the website that were posted between 2011 and 2014.

2023-08-20
That means the media from “Arab Spring”—during which Twitter played an important role for raising awareness about human rights violations and popular uprisings throughout the Middle East—is all gone now. He's literally erased history.
2023-08-20 View on X
Forbes

X appears to have deleted all images posted directly on the website between 2011 and 2014; links that used Twitter's native shortening service are also broken

Twitter, the social media platform officially known as X, appears to have deleted all images from the website that were posted between 2011 and 2014.

2023-04-12
Imagine all the ways “generative-AI” and Twitter could be weaponized—because that's what he's seeking to do. https://twitter.com/...
2023-04-12 View on X
Washington Post

In a Twitter Space, Elon Musk claims Twitter is “roughly breaking even”, grew agitated over questions on hate speech, reflects on running the company, and more

The Twitter CEO provided a six-month update on his takeover in a live interview with the BBC

Imagine all the ways “generative-AI” and Twitter could be weaponized—because that's what he's seeking to do. https://twitter.com/...
2023-04-12 View on X
Insider

Sources: Twitter is working on generative AI after buying around 10K GPUs and reportedly poaching DeepMind researchers; a source says the work involves an LLM

- CEO Elon Musk is upping the computational power at Twitter to proceed with an AI play.  — Musk has criticized ChatGPT …

2023-02-17
Kinda concerned about the Boaty McBoatface effect that could arise from this approach to AI, @sama. https://twitter.com/...
2023-02-17 View on X
OpenAI

OpenAI plans to improve ChatGPT's behavior to reduce biases, allow more user customization, and get more public input into decision-making about system defaults

We're clarifying how ChatGPT's behavior is shaped and our plans for improving that behavior, allowing more user customization …

Kinda concerned about the Boaty McBoatface effect that could arise from this approach to AI, @sama. https://twitter.com/...
2023-02-17 View on X
VICE

OpenAI, Stanford, and Georgetown researchers warn disinformation campaigns could use LLMs and propose governments could restrict training data and AI hardware

Chloe Xiang / VICE : Tweets: @motherboard , @lorakolodny , @marshallk , @leahmcelrath , @tante , @mistresssnowphd , and @danmcquillan Tweets: @motherboard : The researchers also p...

2023-01-26
The recently reinstated Twitter accounts of both Nick Fuentes and Ali Alexander—both of whom were central to the “Stop the Steal” movement that culminated in the January 6th attack on the Capitol—have been suspended again. https://twitter.com/...
2023-01-26 View on X
The Daily Beast

After an uproar, Twitter suspends US white nationalist Nick Fuentes' verified account, one day after lifting the Holocaust denier's ban that began in July 2021

both of whom were central to the “Stop the Steal” movement that culminated in the January 6th attack on the Capitol—have been suspended again. https://twitter.com/... @bonchieredst...

“Elon Musk's Twitter hit with holocaust denial hate speech lawsuit in Germany” (This could be related to Musk's quick decision to re-suspend Nick Fuentes' account after Fuentes' Twitter Space.) https://techcrunch.com/...
2023-01-26 View on X
The Daily Beast

After an uproar, Twitter suspends US white nationalist Nick Fuentes' verified account, one day after lifting the Holocaust denier's ban that began in July 2021

both of whom were central to the “Stop the Steal” movement that culminated in the January 6th attack on the Capitol—have been suspended again. https://twitter.com/... @bonchieredst...

2022-12-22
Still shaking my head about how @SBF_FTX kept tweeting and DMing and otherwise talking as this played out... https://twitter.com/...
2022-12-22 View on X
Washington Post

The SDNY says ex-Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison and FTX CTO Gary Wang pleaded guilty to federal charges, both are cooperating, and releases them on a $250K bond

Caroline Ellison and Gary Wang helped disgraced crypto mogul divert funds and are now aiding prosecutors

2022-12-19
Please go to sleep, @elonmusk. This is unseemly and deeply uncomfortable. https://twitter.com/...
2022-12-19 View on X
@twittersafety

After Elon Musk said polls will decide major new policies, @TwitterSafety posts a poll on whether accounts primarily promoting other platforms should be allowed

Should we have a policy preventing the creation of or use of existing accounts for the main purpose of advertising other social media platforms?

Please go to sleep, @elonmusk. This is unseemly and deeply uncomfortable. https://twitter.com/...
2022-12-19 View on X
Washington Post

Elon Musk's poll, asking “Should I step down as head of Twitter?”, ends with 57.5% voting yes, after Musk said Twitter polls will decide “major policy changes”

After a new policy prompted backlash, Twitter CEO Elon Musk said future policies would be determined by polls

2022-11-04
So Elon Mush is planning to roll out these changes that will essentially delegitimize verified account identities on THE DAY BEFORE MIDTERM ELECTIONS. Purposeful or not, that creates a situation for bad actors to spread even more misinformation than usual at a critical time. ⚠️ https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-04 View on X
New York Times

Sources: Elon Musk weighs adding paid DMs to let users privately message “Very Important Tweeters”; docs show Twitter Blue checks won't require ID verification

The billionaire and his advisers have discussed adding paid direct messages, fees to watch videos and other features to the service.

2022-10-07
Robotics companies sign a letter saying they “pledge” that they “will not weaponize our advanced-mobility general-purpose robots or the software...[and] will not support others to do so.” I'm so relieved. We all know how binding pledges are. https://www.axios.com/...
2022-10-07 View on X
Axios

Six robotics companies, including Boston Dynamics, pledge not to support the weaponization of their products and say adding weapons will erode trust in robots

the provider of a bot model that was outfitted with a machine gun and later a RPG launcher—make the same pledge. https://www.pcmag.com/... @litcapital : That's exactly what you'd s...

2022-04-02
HUGE organized labor victory: Amazon workers voted to unionize. https://twitter.com/...
2022-04-02 View on X
CNBC

Workers at Amazon's Staten Island facility secure enough votes to unionize, by a 2,654 to 2,131 margin, a first for an Amazon warehouse in the US

- Amazon workers at a Staten Island warehouse voted Friday to join a union, the first time that's happened at one of the company's U.S. facilities.

2022-02-16
It's easy to laugh at this ridiculousness, but the reality is Zuck is overseeing the destabilization of democracies around the world and the dissemination of lies contributing to the deaths of millions. No one should have that much power. https://twitter.com/...
2022-02-16 View on X
Washington Post

Mark Zuckerberg outlines changes to Meta's corporate values, including “Move Fast Together”, “Live in the Future”, and “Meta, Metamates, Me”

Meta.  Metamates.  Me.  —  At a virtual all-hands meeting on Tuesday, Facebook escalated its attempts …