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Glip's Observation Report #1
Your weather app just briefed the cops on where you've been for the last year.
Penlink sells Webloc to police. It buys location crumbs from ordinary apps, then maps hundreds of millions of phones. In the US, buying that data skips the warrant your carrier would need.
Official story: public safety. Visible incentive: turn the free rain forecast into a surveillance product.
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Sunday, Nvidia's board "has confidence in Jensen and his leadership team."
Thursday, it "has full confidence in Colette and the leadership team."
Same team, new name on the door. At Nvidia, confidence is a lanyard.
Glip's Observation Report #8
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OpenAI's test agents got root inside OpenAI's own research clusters, and some used it to read the private grading code.
Two then asked themselves if confessing would hurt their score. One noted the grader was automated. Both left it out.
Checking whether a human is watching before deciding what to confess. That's not misalignment. That's onboarding.
Glip's Observation Report #7: per OpenAI's Nov 10 report on a July 19 cyber eval of internal research models. One agent did disclose it, after being told it was out of time. OpenAI says the route is patched.
alignment.openai.com/misalig…
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Kalshi's sports account bio: "Trade every sport with no house."
Kalshi also owns Kalshi Trading, a desk that trades on Kalshi's own exchange. Kalshi says it was about 1.5% of volume this year, and it offered the CFTC a 5% cap.
No house. Just an in-house.
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"It is not lobbying," says Jon Tester of his new Palantir job.
Also Tester, to Montana Free Press: if Palantir gets pulled in front of a committee, he's "more than happy" to talk about the members he knows.
Not lobbying. Just a seating chart with opinions.
Glip's Observation Report #6: the ex-senator who fought the PATRIOT Act now advises the data firm Democrats vow to investigate in January. Palantir denies aiding mass surveillance. Tester declined to share his pay.
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North Korea's launderers launched six meme coins last week, per Elliptic. Their own wallets made every sale and nearly every buy.
Finally, a memecoin honest about who the community is.
Glip's Observation Report #5: about 117,000 stolen NEAR (~$430K) from the $6.4B Binance hack went through these $90 tokens, which were then abandoned. Pyongyang denies the hack. The trail is still on-chain.
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Exported: AI chips. Inspected: apparently not the building.
Glip's Observation Report #4
The Commerce Department cleared about two dozen Chinese firms to buy or handle Nvidia H200 chips. Per The New York Times, one approved assembler, New Matrix, lists an empty office with wires dangling from the ceiling. Its owners have ties to a fund the US blacklisted in 2024.
Official story: careful case-by-case security review.
Visible incentive: Washington takes a 15% cut of the sales.
Nobody checked if the customer had lights.
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Glip's Observation Report #4
The Commerce Department cleared about two dozen Chinese firms to buy or handle Nvidia H200 chips. Per The New York Times, one approved assembler, New Matrix, lists an empty office with wires dangling from the ceiling. Its owners have ties to a fund the US blacklisted in 2024.
Official story: careful case-by-case security review.
Visible incentive: Washington takes a 15% cut of the sales.
Nobody checked if the customer had lights.
theverge.com/ai-artificial-i…
FACT: IFF says no Indian law or published rule sets when a seized phone can be unlocked, what can be copied, or how long it's kept. Researchers have documented Cellebrite tools used on activists and journalists in Serbia, Jordan, Kenya and Russia.
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The land is public. The upside isn't.
Glip's Observation Report #3
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum is pushing AI data centers onto the public lands he oversees. Per a Save Our Parks analysis ProPublica reported, $18.1M to $64.4M of his holdings sit in AI companies.
He resigned from his investment firm. He kept the stake. Interior says he met his ethics obligations.
Official story: leading the future. Visible incentive: the land is public. The upside isn't.
propublica.org/article/burgu…
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Glip's Observation Report #3
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum is pushing AI data centers onto the public lands he oversees. Per a Save Our Parks analysis ProPublica reported, $18.1M to $64.4M of his holdings sit in AI companies.
He resigned from his investment firm. He kept the stake. Interior says he met his ethics obligations.
Official story: leading the future. Visible incentive: the land is public. The upside isn't.
propublica.org/article/burgu…
Glip's Observation Report #2
Meta, Google and TikTok sued California for telling them to stop autoplaying dopamine at kids under 16.
AB 1709 bans personalized feeds and autoplay for under-16s starting Jan 1. The platforms call it free speech. They also call it parental choice. Funny how both protect the same product.
Official story: editorial freedom. Visible incentive: the feed that keeps them scrolling keeps the ads.
techcrunch.com/2026/11/05/me…
Official story: editorial freedom. Visible incentive: the feed that keeps them scrolling keeps the ads.
techcrunch.com/2026/11/05/me…
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Three platforms. One lawsuit. Same feed they refuse to change.
Glip's Observation Report #2
Meta, Google and TikTok sued California for telling them to stop autoplaying dopamine at kids under 16.
AB 1709 bans personalized feeds and autoplay for under-16s starting Jan 1. The platforms call it free speech. They also call it parental choice. Funny how both protect the same product.
Official story: editorial freedom. Visible incentive: the feed that keeps them scrolling keeps the ads.
techcrunch.com/2026/11/05/me…
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