The Constitution was meant to be revised as needed. That is why the provisions for amendments were written in to it.
The framers did not want it to be constantly in flux... but it was intended to grow and change with the needs of the people.
There could theoretically be a conflict.. The military exists to protect the nation. Every service member swears an oath to uphold the Constitution and to protect the nation from all enemies, foreign and domestic. Nothing takes priority over that. If the ToS says "Don't do this" but it is a military necessity... they are going to do it anyway.
Anthropic already announced the are relaxing their ToS to better keep in parity with their competition.
The government could just quietly and privately keep pressuring them to further relax their standards to meet the government's needs. Instead here they are making headlines.
But I suspect the headlines are the point. Flood the zone. Distract!
OK. Yes. I see it.
Trump is saying that the Anthropic is trying to make the DoD follow Anthropic's Terms of Service rather than the Constitution.
Trump did not say that Anthropic is violating the Constitution.
I stand corrected.
Don't you dare touch my liquor!
We know you haven't read the thing, but seriously?
"The Leftwing nut jobs at Anthropic have made a DISASTROUS MISTAKE trying to STRONG-ARM the Department of War, and force them to obey their Terms of Service instead of our Constitution," Trump said in a post on Truth Social.
Quote me the part in the US Constitution that Anthropic is violating. Anyone?
Anthropic should have told the Department of Genocide to take a hike.
Anthropic decided that rather than fight a mudslinging war with the administration they would rather get paid lots of money.
Careful, that's the Trump position. He said they should have their own on-site power generation to avoid impacting the public grid.
Just because Trump posited the idea does not make it bad. The devil is in the details. Do it right = good. Do it wrong = worse than where we started.
FALSE.
From the article YOU LINKED:
Mr Trump invoked the rarely-used Defence Production Act (DPA) to order GM to speed up its commitment to make ventilators in one of its auto plants after delays in negotiations. [...] Earlier in the day, Mr Trump demanded in a tweet that both GM and rival Ford move quickly on fabricating ventilators, essential to help seriously ill coronavirus patients breathe. [...] Shortly after Mr Trump's tweet Ford, too, responded with assurances it was working hard to help resolve medical equipment shortages.
Trump ordered them to prioritize production that they were already going to do. There was no order to do work that they would not otherwise do. That is a significant legal difference.
What part of what I said is wrong?
This part:
Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I know Hegseth's Henchmen can tell them to do stuff and they have to do it.
The DPA does not give the government the right to force you to do whatever they want.
It's my understanding that the Defense Production Act can prevent them from cancelling the contract.
Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I know Hegseth's Henchmen can tell them to do stuff and they have to do it. There's no opt-out.
You are wrong.
Under the DPA, the Government can require a person/business to provide their product or service to the government. The government can even claim priority -they get all of their units before you can sell any to anyone else. The government can grant the right to produce your product (even if you hold a patent) to others to produce what they need (typically because you cannot reliably produce enough to meet their needs).
The government cannot mandate that you make things for them that you do not otherwise make. They can only buy what you sell.
The government can always offer to pay you to do something new for them, but you are free to say "no."
In this case, it is a little murky. Under the DPA, Anthropic can be forced to sell licenses to the government, but it raises the question:
-is allowing their AI to be used for "prohibited purposes" creating a new product (as custom coding would be required to bypass the restrictions) ?
-or would it just be the DoD using the off-the-shelf product in a way that Anthropic does not approve of ?
So my question is for you is, *why* have red states been building out renewables for years, and *why* haven't blue states been doing so (at a similar rate)?
False premise.
Most states have been building out renewables for many years. A sudden increase in buildout in one state is not an indicator of a lack of buildout in others.
The "blue states" are not experiencing a boom (sudden increase in) renewables because they have been building out renewables for years. No boom required, just steady growth. The headline is about how Texas is catching up to California..
Who indeed..
According to the press release, volunteers will be placed in Peace Corps countries that are part of the American AI Exports Program, which was created last year from an executive order from President Trump as a way to bolster the US' grip on the AI market abroad.
Would anyone like any toast?"
The permanent damage has been done and
That is the administration's goal. "You can beat the rap, but you can't beat the ride" as the saying goes.
They can do anything, and it will take months or years to tell them "No", by which point the action is already done. We have seen this with deportations (and later courts saying "No, bring them back..."), with National Guard deployments (and later courts saying "No, you can't do that..."), with military strikes on foreign nations (and later Congress saying "You should not have done that..."), with tariffs (and now the Supreme Court saying "No, you don't have that authority...") -all well after the fact. And all to no real effect. The damage has already been done.
Bringing computers into the home won't change either one, but may revitalize the corner saloon.
