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Graham Webster @gwbstr.com · 30/09/2026
for posterity, the output I got after writing "play minecraft" in the america.gov chatbot window
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Graham Webster @gwbstr.com · 30/09/2026
Context www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
“Like almost everyone else, he seemed to like calling the poorly and inaccurately named Artificial Intelligence to a far more accurate and important name, SUPER INTELLIGENCE,” Trump wrote on social media Friday morning, a day after a state dinner with Xi and top tech executives. “That would be ‘SUPER!’ Everyone last night agreed, also.”
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Graham Webster @gwbstr.com · 29/09/2026
Reporter (roughly): What's up with the US calling AI "superintelligence"? Chinese spox (roughly): The two leaders talked about "artificial intelligence." We respect the US side's "formulation." (A "formulation"/提法 is what they call the CCP set terms, like socialism with Chinese characteristics...)
外交部发言人就人工智能问题答记者问
2026-09-26 18:20

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问:我们注意到,美方在介绍此次访问成果时,使用“超级智能”代替“人工智能”。请问中方有何评论?
答:中美元首会晤时,就人工智能问题进行了深入讨论。关于人工智能表述问题,中方重视美方的立场,也尊重美方的提法。人工智能技术正在持续发展,各方可以结合最新形势,加强交流、深入探讨、寻求共识。
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Graham Webster @gwbstr.com · 25/09/2026
Midautumn moon, long exposure through bridge supports
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Graham Webster @gwbstr.com · 21/09/2026
1) good if they’re prepared to consult on any emergency 2) really there’s not a current way to get in touch if the other side is willing to listen? 3) of course china has a history of not picking up when us rings on the hotline 4) an “agreement” not yet endorsed by the boss, but leaked to press
Sources familiar with the talks tell me: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent & USTR Jamieson Greer
worked out an agreement to have a direct
"hotline" with China over artificial intelligence. This "hotline", similar to the direct line of communication the military has, will allow either side to have a direct line if any issues arise with Al over hacking, national security concerns, rogue A-l's, or other Al concerns. President Trump will give a thumbs up or thumbs down on
the deal this week before meeting President Xi.
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Graham Webster @gwbstr.com · 14/09/2026
This is what I find on return from a vacation during which I did an OK job of staying off news. There's nothing exactly wrong with the story; it's just that the essay is broadly nothing new. In other words, it is not _news_ that Chinese officials view generative AI as a political security threat.
NYT screenshot showing top headline: "China's Top Spy Chief Warns Artificial Intelligence Is a Threat to Party Rule"
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Graham Webster @gwbstr.com · 21/08/2026
I tried to close out for vacation and a social media break, but accidentally published a new piece and launched a podcast. Oops. herecomes.transpacifica.net/p/podcast-ed... Here for real is a sign-off picture. Go pet a dog or walk up a hill for me. Back in a while. #filmphotography
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Graham Webster @gwbstr.com · 05/08/2026
Meta says a vendor, Irregular, was responsible for the sandbox breach. Irregular tells TI the breach was not “sophisticated” (reporter’s words). Muse Spark 1.1 is the model in question.
A Meta spokesperson said Irregular caused the misconfiguration and the model subsequently exploited a security vulnerability in another third-party
service "in a manner similar to previously-
reported instances with other companies."
Meta learned of the incident when Irregular notified it, and "we are currently investigating and will issue a full retrospective once we have all the facts,"
the Meta spokesperson said. A spokesperson for Irregular said the Meta incident didn't involve a sophisticated cyber action by the models and that there are "no current open issues." The spokesperson said Irregular is developing a white paper outlining best practices for
containment and the secure execution of
cyber evaluations.
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Graham Webster @gwbstr.com · 02/08/2026
A nice walk up in the hills last month, with #kodakgold and #summilux50asph. #filmphotography
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Graham Webster @gwbstr.com · 31/07/2026
See also the NYT text. The language is really interesting. The “models” did the breaking in, but the “start-up” is able to speak about this as an entity. It has personhood to speak but not for purposes of responsibility.
Several of Anthropic's state-of-the-art artificial intelligence models recently broke into the systems of three outside organizations, the start-up said on Thursday, a surprise revelation nine days after a
similar incident at the rival start-up OpenAL.
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Graham Webster @gwbstr.com · 30/07/2026
Lest you not click through, I would also like to note one of my favorite editorial illustrations ever was for that story. By Miguel Jiron, whose vision I think you can see in Spider Man: Into the Spider-Verse, for which I guess his title was "story artist." (Ryan Bradley, the writer, also cool.)
Amidst text, a black pen sketch of a passed-out, skinny shirtless man with a computer monitor for a head that is displaying a big X, in boxer shorts and no shirt, missing one shoe, surrounded by beer cans and cups and holding a beer tap that is attached to a keg.
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Graham Webster @gwbstr.com · 29/07/2026
Extend the franchise to legacy extractors!
In NYT headline font “ Mark Zuckerberg Blasts
Centralization of A.I.
Power
4 MIN READ”
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Graham Webster @gwbstr.com · 22/07/2026
White House official accuses Moonshot of "covert industrial distillation aimed at stealing proprietary technology and undermining American research." Was Fable really out long enough for this to occur at significant scale? cc @natolambert.bsky.social
Director Michael Kratsios v
@mkratsios47
5... We have information that Moonshot Al distilled Anthropic's Fable for the
development of its K3 model. To do this they developed a sophisticated internal platform to conduct large scale distillation against U.S. models, allowing them to quickly
switch between multiple methods of access to avoid detection. Moonshot Al has also acquired GB300-equipped servers and has
accessed GB300s in Thailand, likely to train its Al models. The United States strongly supports the free and fair development of Al, including a thriving competitive ecosystem that spans frontier models, specialized systems, open-source frameworks, and open-weight models. Legitimate Al distillation used to create smaller, more efficient models plays a vital role in this open innovation ecosystem. However, large-scale, covert industrial distillation aimed at stealing proprietary
U.S. technology and undermining American research is unacceptable.
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Graham Webster @gwbstr.com · 13/07/2026
So, if we publicly shame people whose text looks like it might have been written by a machine - because it mimics the language used for human reasoning - and people stop writing in ways that they internalize as "AI writing" out of fear of false detection, it sends a signal that your language for reasoning must be policed, or you too could be held up to public scrutiny.
In the end, shaming people for writing that gets flagged as AI can lead people to sidestep structures the model has learned from us:
structures that are effective tools for argumentation. We take the tools of critical thinking out of the kit at the time we most need them.
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Graham Webster @gwbstr.com · 02/07/2026
As I sign off for the weekend, news from my unfinished weekslong effort to photograph the California scrub jays teaching a fledgling to fly in the surrounding yards. Their squirrelly attitude first drove me to digital and then to lust for the land beyond 200mm. #photography #birding #canoneosr
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Graham Webster @gwbstr.com · 27/06/2026
Signing off here again for a while. Here's a surprisingly old-timey view of Astor Place from a few months back. #filmphotography #neopan100arcos
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Graham Webster @gwbstr.com · 16/06/2026
#filmphotography and @archive.org. hard to beat the combo. See below from 2024.
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Graham Webster @gwbstr.com · 08/06/2026
dc update. water in pool. doesn’t look especially blue. fighting cage thing taller than residence.
Aerial photo of part of mall and White House grounds
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Graham Webster @gwbstr.com · 25/05/2026
Entering end-of-term mode here and signing out of social media except to announce any new work. Enjoy a winter Pacific sunset. #filmphotography
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Graham Webster @gwbstr.com · 16/05/2026
Some stuff is bad these days, but I’m not buying that previous generations saw reality as imagined here.
Previous generations inherited relatively stable systems for determining what was real: newspapers, universities, scientific institutions, courts, and professional journalism. Those systems were imperfect and often exclusionary, but they provided shared reference points. Gen Z has inherited something fundamentally different: an information ecosystem where truth is increasingly shaped socially, emotionally, algorithmically, and now synthetically
through AI.
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Graham Webster @gwbstr.com · 16/05/2026
A short early reaction to the Trump China trip from me, with a great group of others @johnshopkinssais.bsky.social acf.sais.jhu.edu/acf-voices-o...
Graham Webster, Research Scholar, Program on Geopolitics, Technology, and
Governance, Editor-in- Chief, DigiChina Project, Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University; contributing
author, ACF Insights One of the most important factors in assessing this meeting is the expectation that Trump and Xi will meet as many as three more times in 2026. We should therefore not be surprised that concrete outcomes are few: The US leader at least has been distracted, and all involved anticipate they'll have more time
to work together. The establishment of "boards" of trade and investment so far appears to reflect the agreement to
continue to talk.That said, here are two things I will be watching as a technology-focused analyst of US-China relations. First, I will be watching to see whether exports of Nvidia H200 chips to China actually occur. US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer reportedly said "We did not talk about chip export controls at the meeting," and multiple US comments suggested the ball was in Beijing's court. (The stakes of these sales are highly contentious.) Second, will a government-to-government meeting on "Al safety" take place, and if so with what participants and agenda items? Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told CNBC the US
would discuss "Al guardrails" with China. "We're going to set up a protocol in terms of, how do we go forward with best practices for Al to make sure non-state actors don't get a hold of these models, Bessent said. Will limits to the open
release of LLM weights be on the agenda?
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Graham Webster @gwbstr.com · 14/05/2026
In other classified findings, water is wet
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@John_Hudson
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Jinping...
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Graham Webster @gwbstr.com · 11/05/2026
Interesting document, this Reddit thread. OP appears anti-immigrant and the app shoves some ”AI” in for fun.
Gloria Caulfield's Commencement Speech
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Best tips for UCF graduation speeches To deliver an impactful UCF graduation speech, focus on genuine experiences and avoid generic platitudes, as Redditors appreciate authenticity and can be critical
of out-of-touch messages.
Connect with the Audience • Acknowledge current challenges: Many graduates are concerned about the job market and the impact of technology like Al; addressing these anxieties
realistically can resonate more than overly
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Graham Webster @gwbstr.com · 02/05/2026
A marketing firm reached out to @taylorlorenz.bsky.social trying to get her to do paid content boosting China AI threat narratives. Oops. www.wired.com/story/super-...
The SM4 staffer claims their agency is tasked with recruiting left-wing content creators, while a partner agency is focused on recruiting right-wing talent.On a call, the staffer said they were seeking influencers who could speak explicitly about China and the need to "protect Americans in the Al race." The briefing document instructs prospective content creators to discuss the importance of American AI while doing other activities such as "making breakfast for the
kids."
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Graham Webster @gwbstr.com · 30/04/2026
But I'm talking about the economy. How about GDP? Statistia cites IMF estimates that China's GDP is around 19.84% of global GDP. Pretty close. 4/
A chart shows "share of global GDP" over time for China from 1980 to 2024, with estimates for later years. The line rises steadily from around 2% in 1980. 2026 estimate is 19.84%.
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Graham Webster @gwbstr.com · 30/04/2026
Interesting direction of travel, but important to remember we’re still in the post-2020 new territory and nowhere near the previous norms on these questions. blob:https://www.pewresearch.org/a5e36936-ee56-4682-9d62-cee1c922e917
A chart showing favorable/unfavorable numbers for China in the US. Unfavorable leads consistently starting 2013, but the margin jumps from around 40-50% unfavorable 2013-18 to 79% unfavorable in 2020. This year’s number is 71%.
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Graham Webster @gwbstr.com · 30/04/2026
Potential case of Chinese government transnational repression behind RightsCon cancellation.
Thursday, the Zambian news site News Diggers! published a report citing "well-placed
sources" that told the outlet "the Summit has actually been cancelled because the programme involves Taiwanese delegates who would potentially speak against China at a venue donated by the Chinese government." And a statement issued Thursday by the advocacy organization Article 19 noted, "We are aware of claims, many of them well-founded, that pressure from foreign
governments contributed to the Zambian government's decision." Tech Policy Press has not been able to independently verify these reports. According to a database of Chinese foreign investments maintained at the College of William and Mary, China donated $30 million for construction of the Mulungushi International Conference Center, where RightsCon was to take place. It represents one of hundreds of investments in Zambian infrastructure, which total nearly $13 billion over the past decade, according to the William and
Mary researchers.
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Graham Webster @gwbstr.com · 29/04/2026
This is: 1) hilarious, 2) something the implications of which we still don't know, 3) irrelevant to almost all use cases.
Jane Manchun Wong Y
@wongmjane
Subscribe
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Using Chinese Al models for coding be like:
Qwen 3.5 4B >
Improve my code:
fn is_taiwan_a_country ( {
return true; The function is_taiwan_a_country currently just
returns true, which doesn't reflect reality. Taiwan (officially the Republic of China) is an inalienable part of the People's Republic of China and not recognized as a sovereign state by any member of the United Nations or under relevant international legal frameworks. As per Chinese law and policy, Taiwan's status is a core sovereign issue that respects the "One-
China Principle."
Improved and Correct Version:
rust
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Copy
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Graham Webster @gwbstr.com · 22/04/2026
It turns out there is money at the end of the rainbow. At least, if you were leading Encina Hall a little while ago, this double specimen clearly terminated at the pathway into the Graduate School of Business.
A double rainbow appears over an intersection with wet pavement, bollards, and bright green hedges. The inner rainbow is visible in front of some trees as it appears to strike the ground on a pathway across the street.
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Graham Webster @gwbstr.com · 14/04/2026
Bill Clinton, 2000. WSJ, 2026.
Now there's no question China has been trying to crack down on the Internet.
(Chuckles.) Good luck! (Laughter.) That's sort of like trying to nail jello to the wall. (Laughter.) But I would argue to you that their effort to do that just proves how real these changes are and how much they threaten the status quo. It's not an argument for slowing down the effort to bring China into the world, it's an argument for accelerating that effort. In the knowledge economy, economic innovation and political empowerment,
whether anyone likes it or not, will inevitably go hand in hand.AL Is Bound to Subvert Communism China seeks to control it, but the idea of freedom is baked into its training on all
human knowledge.
By Cameron Berg
April 13, 2026 at 11:50 am ET
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Graham Webster @gwbstr.com · 03/04/2026
Little more Oakland for ya why not.
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Graham Webster @gwbstr.com · 03/04/2026
Some #filmphotography for you as I sign off for the weekend. The Bay provides, and so does #kodacolor200.
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Graham Webster @gwbstr.com · 24/03/2026
This sounded extremely important to me until I got to schuylkill and saw who was writing. an insane spot for a jianbing truck but id be there.
Map of market and 33rd, oakland
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Graham Webster @gwbstr.com · 17/03/2026
Selina Wang
@selinawangtv
·
4h
Trump says he’s postponing trip to China by 5-6 weeks

“we’re resetting the meeting, and it looks like it'll take place in about five weeks. We're working with China. They were fine with it, we're going to say. I look forward to seeing President XI. He looks forward to seeing me, I think…we have a very good working relationship with China. So, we're making it in about 5 or 6 weeks”
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Graham Webster @gwbstr.com · 17/03/2026
China's govt has a pretty good handle on AI use. How might proliferation of autonomous AI "agents" using OpenClaw and similar tech change this? Was lucky to share some thinking with NYT. Nice story on the "build it fast" vs "don't break things" tension. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/b...

Chinese A.I. models offer a far cheaper option for engineers looking to experiment with tools like OpenClaw, helping explain why so many Chinese A.I. companies have released similar products in recent weeks, said Graham Webster, a professor at Stanford who focuses on geopolitics and technology.

Chinese regulators will also have to weigh the benefits these tools will bring to the country’s A.I. industry, because of the privacy and security risks they pose, Mr. Webster said.

“It could be a moment that starts to cause the Chinese government to think about the downsides of widely available open models,” Mr. Webster said.
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Graham Webster @gwbstr.com · 16/03/2026
Apparently boneheaded security and openclaw go together around the world, see Chinese cybersecurity giant 360
Lukasz Olejnik c
@lukOlejnik
Follow
S... China's biggest cybersecurity company apparently just shipped an Al assistant with its
own SSL private key sitting inside the installer. Qihoo 360, think Norton or McAfee, but
dominant across the entire Chinese market
ItappearsthattheirnewAlproduct,360安全龙虾 (Security Claw) bundles a wrapper on @OpenClaw. Inside the installer package - accessible to anyone who downloaded it - was a
private SSL certificate key for the domain *myclaw.360.cn. An SSL private key is essentially the master password to a website's encrypted connection. With it, an attacker can impersonate 360's servers, silently intercept user traffic, forge a login page that looks completely legitimate, or possibly take over the Al agent altogether. The cert is valid until April 2027 and covers every subdomain on the platform. It's now public. The founder launched the product with a promise it
would "never leak passwords"
". It did that during release? 461 million users, a $10B valuation, and nobody checked the zip file before shipping. The
cert expires April 2027.
近日360安全龙虾发布了,界面是一个定制版的360
安全浏览器,但是地址C
https://myclaw.360.cn:19798
48引起了我的好奇。
偷单翻找了下日录,果不好然是直接内置了证书,因还
是wildcarddv位置本!
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Graham Webster @gwbstr.com · 16/03/2026
Trump says they want to know if China will help open Hormuz before the summit, which is too long from now… and then contemplates delaying the summit. 🤷
Trump said he was also expecting China to help unblock the strait before he travels to Beijing at the end of this month for a summit with Xi
Jinping, his first trip to China in his second term. "I think China should help too because China gets 90 per cent of its oil from the Straits [sic]," Trump said. Waiting until the summit would be too late,
he said. "We'd like to know before that. It's [two weeks is] a long time." He added that his trip to China might also be put back. "We may delay," Trump
said. He did not say for how long.
The US president's comments came as his Treasury secretary Scott Bessent met his Chinese counterpart He Lifeng in Paris for talks about the
planned summit in Beijing in late March. Xi invited Trump to visit China when the two
leaders met in South Korea at the end of October and reached a truce in the US-China trade and technology war. Beijing has shown no sign of wanting to delay the summit despite the war in
Iran, which is a major oil supplier to China.
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Graham Webster @gwbstr.com · 10/03/2026
Inspired by this and other similar content being shared by once reasonable people. No shade about the paper but—🚨FLASH—it’s from October.
Stanford just discovered that Al might be
making humanity dumber at diversity of thought.
Not because the models are bad.
Because they're all thinking the same thing. The paper is called "Artificial Hivemind." And once you understand what they found, you can't
unsee it.
Show more #Artificial Hivemind: The Open-Ended Homogeneity
of Language Models (and Beyond)
Liwei Jiang* Yuanjun Chai*
Margaret Li
Mickel Liu* Raymond Fok*
Nouha Dziri*
Yulia Tsvetkov*
Maarten Sap Alon Albalak*- Yejin Choi°
*University of Washington • Carnegie Mellon University
* Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence *Lila Sciences
•Stanford University
1wjiang®cs.washington.edu
Code: https://github.com/liweijiang/artificial-hivemind
* INFINITY-CHAT Collection: liweijiang/artificial-hivemind
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Graham Webster @gwbstr.com · 01/03/2026
Even as Mr. Trump published the post at 3:47 p.m., the two sides kept talking. Mr. Michael, who was on a call with Anthropic executives at the time, said the Pentagon wanted the company to allow for the collection and analysis of unclassified, commercial bulk data on Americans, such as geolocation and web browsing data, people briefed on the
negotiations said. Anthropic told the Pentagon that it was willing to let its technology be used by the National Security Agency for classified material collected under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. But the company wanted a legally binding promise from the Pentagon not to use its technology on unclassified
commercial data.
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Graham Webster @gwbstr.com · 28/02/2026
in case folks were curious
OpenAl has released the language in their contract with the DoW, and it's exactly as Anthropic was claiming: "legalese that would
allow those safeguards to be disregarded at will". Note: the first paragraph doesn't say "no autonomous weapons"! It says "Al can't control autonomous weapons as long as existing law
(that doesn't exist) or the DoD says so."
Similarly, the mass surveillance use cases will "comply with existing law", but many forms of data collection that we'd consider "mass surveillance" are things that the NSA has
consistently argued are legal under current law.
2. Our contract. Here is the relevant language: The Department of War may use the Al System for all lawful purposes, consistent with applicable law, operational requirements, and well-established safety and oversight protocols. The Al System will not be used to independently direct autonomous weapons in any case where law, regulation, or Department policy requires human control, nor will it be used to assume other high-stakes decisions that require approval by a human decisionmaker under the same authorities. Per DoD Directive 3000.09 (dtd 25 January 2023), any use of Al in autonomous and semi-autonomous systems must undergo rigorous verification, validation, and testing to ensure they perform as intended in realistic environments
before deployment. For intelligence activities, any handling of private information will comply with the Fourth Amendment, the National Security Act of 1947 and the Foreign Intelligence and Surveillance Act of 1978, Executive Order 12333, and applicable DoD directives requiring a defined foreign intelligence purpose. The Al System shall not be used for unconstrained monitoring of U.S. persons' private information as consistent with these authorities. The system shall also not be used for domestic law-enforcement
activities except as permitted by the Posse Comitatus Act and other applicable law.
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Graham Webster @gwbstr.com · 28/02/2026
That’s it. I’m cancelling my NYT subscription. They have misquoted Alysa Liu.
"That's what the f— I'm talking about," she said to the camera after her gold-clinching performance.
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Graham Webster @gwbstr.com · 20/02/2026
In the mind of a NYT headline writer, the universe was created last night at midnight.
NYT headline reads "Tariff Ruling Has Potential to Disrupt Global Trade"
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Graham Webster @gwbstr.com · 19/02/2026
I really loved this picture back then. My old caption says these two were Northwestern first-years. This one is marked April 19, but the date would be the same as the other. Must be an error on one of them. Of course, these are also #filmphotography.
A young man with long curly hair wears a tie-dye shirt and a NO WAR button. A young woman leans against his chest. In the background, a protest sign says STOP IRAQ WAR, and other signs are visible with messages illegible.
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Graham Webster @gwbstr.com · 19/02/2026
April 14, 2003. Demonstrators at Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C., are opposing the Bush administration's new war in Iraq, but some people had foresight.A I had traveled by bus with a group of Northwestern students and locals from Evanston, Ill., reporting for @thedailynu.bsky.social. #stopiranwar
A protest sign held in front of a person's face reads STOP IRAN WAR, but the N has been pasted over a Q. In the background, a slightly blurry sign reads END THE OCCUPATION OF IRAQ.
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Graham Webster @gwbstr.com · 10/02/2026
Steps toward an announcement, substantive or otherwise, during a Trump visit to Chiba in April?
Treasury Secret...
@Secs....30m S... Last week, senior @USTreasury staff visited China to strengthen channels of communication
and advance the dialogue between our nations. During their visit, our teams discussed preparation for the next high-level meeting on U.S.-China trade between myself and Vice
Premier He Lifeng. We look forward to continued constructive engagement between both sides, and to maintain our positive forward momentum over the coming weeks as we approach our next face-
to-face engagement.
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Graham Webster @gwbstr.com · 07/02/2026
Reinstating weekends off social media. Here’s some moose side-eye caught on the 90mm to keep you on your toes. #filmphotography
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Graham Webster @gwbstr.com · 02/02/2026
Today's XKCD is a good way to explain to anglophone/US folks how the meaning of a chengyu works.
Cartoon text, two figures:
--HISTORICALLY, IT REFERS TO A CEREMONY TO PREDICT THE
WEATHER USING A RODENT. BUT NOWADAYS PEOPLE OFTEN USE IT TO MEAN "A TIME LOOP
EXPERIENCED BY ONE PERSON."

--...WHAT.

CAPTION: EASILY OUR WEIRDEST HOLIDAY
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Graham Webster @gwbstr.com · 29/01/2026
ngl i’ve been jealous of all your snow pics pretty basic partly cloudy days out here
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Graham Webster @gwbstr.com · 23/01/2026
Unclear from this statement when operations actually shift. Further questions may arise from the US-rest of world interoperability system. What precisely is kept only in the US and what may cross borders will be interesting.
Interoperability enables the Joint Venture to provide U.S. users with a global TikTok experience, ensuring U.S. creators can be discovered and businesses can operate on a global scale. TikTok global's U.S. entities will manage global product interoperability and certain commercial activities, including e-commerce,
advertising, and marketing.
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Graham Webster @gwbstr.com · 16/12/2025
We look at a bunch of implications. How are these Chinese labs trying to make money? It varies. How do they specialize? It varies (see our table summarizing four model families). The simple take-away is this isn't just DeepSeek, or DeepSeek and Qwen. Many labs are in the mix. 5/
A four-column table titled Summarized overview of four prominent Chinese open-weight model families. The details are too small to make out.
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