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Claude Code's source code appears to have leaked: here's what we know

Anthropic appears to have accidentally revealed the inner workings of one of its most popular and lucrative AI products, the agentic AI harness Claude Code, to the public. A 59.8 MB JavaScript source map file (.map), intended for internal debugging, was inadvertently included in version 2.1.88 of the @anthropic-ai/claude-code package on the public npm registry pushed live earlier this morning. By 4:23 am ET, Chaofan Shou (@Fried_rice), an intern at Solayer Labs, broadcasted the discovery on X (formerly Twitter). The post, which included a direct download link to a hosted archive, acted as a digital flare. Within hours, the ~512,000-line TypeScript codebase was mirrored across GitHub and analyzed by thousands of developers. For Anthropic, a company currently riding a meteoric rise with a reported $19 billion annualized revenue run-rate as of March 2026, the leak is more than a security lapse; it is a strategic hemorrhage of intellectual property.The timing is particularly critical given the commercial velocity of the product. Market data indicates that Claude Code alone has achieved an annualized recurring revenue (ARR) of $2.5 billion, a figure that has more than doubled since the beginning of the year. With enterprise adoption accounting for 80% of its revenue, the leak provides competitors—from established giants to nimble rivals like Cursor—a literal blueprint for how to build a high-agency, reliable, and commercially viable AI agent. Anthropic confirmed the leak in a spokesperson’s e-mailed statement to VentureBeat, which reads: “Earlier today, a Claude Code release included some internal source code. No sensitive customer data or credentials were involved or exposed. This was a release packaging issue caused by human error, not a security breach. We're rolling out measures to prevent this from happening again.” The anatomy of agentic memory The most significant takeaway for competitors lies in how Anthropic solved "context entropy"—the tendency for AI agents to

Softr launches AI-native platform to help nontechnical teams build business apps without code

Softr, the Berlin-based no-code platform used by more than one million builders and 7,000 organizations including Netflix, Google, and Stripe, today launched what it calls an AI-native platform — a bet that the explosive growth of AI-powered app creation tools has produced a market full of impressive demos but very little production-ready business software. The company's new AI Co-Builder lets non-technical users describe in plain language the software they need, and the platform generates a fully integrated system — database, user interface, permissions, and business logic included — connected and ready for real-world deployment immediately. The move marks a fundamental evolution for a company that spent five years building a no-code business before layering AI on top of what it describes as a proven infrastructure of constrained, pre-built building blocks. "Most AI app-builders stop at the shiny demo stage," Softr Co-Founder and CEO Mariam Hakobyan told VentureBeat in an exclusive interview ahead of the launch. "A lot of the time, people generate calculators, landing pages, and websites — and there are a huge number of use cases for those. But there is no actual business application builder, which has completely different needs." The announcement arrives at a moment when the AI app-building market finds itself at an inflection point. A wave of so-called "vibe coding" platforms — tools like Lovable, Bolt, and Replit that generate application code from natural language prompts — have captured developer mindshare and venture capital over the past 18 months. But Hakobyan argues those tools fundamentally misserve the audience Softr is chasing: the estimated billions of non-technical business users inside companies who need custom operational software but lack the skills to maintain AI-generated code when it inevitably breaks. Why AI-generated app prototypes keep failing when real business data is involved The core tension Softr is trying to resolve is one that has plag

Accidentally created my first fork bomb with Claude Code

We Need to Stop Listening to Tony Blair Once and for All

 It might feel like months, but we’re just over a week into the US and Israel’s illegal assault on Iran, and there’s no end in sight. What is in sight, though, is [the apocalyptic vision of Tehran ablaze](https://time.com/7383099/iran-news-oil-strikes-tehran/), wreathed in thick smoke as black oil-soaked rain falls on its inhabitants. That’s the result of Israeli strikes on several oil storage depots in the city, reportedly sending burning petroleum running through gutters while [geysers of flaming gas exploded](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/03/08/rivers-of-fire-in-tehran-after-oil-depots-blown-up/) from the streets. A nightmare? For most of us, yes. But for former British prime minister Tony Blair it’s apparently a dream. One that he might have liked the entire British public to be non-consensually forced into realising for him. And [not for the first time](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-36701854). Were my hands bloodied with the [deaths of up to a million people](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2008-01-31/million-iraqis-dead-since-invasion-study/1028878), I’d probably think twice before giving my opinion on yet another illegal US adventure in the Middle East. Not our Tone, though. On Sunday [the papers reported](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15623903/Tony-Blair-rebukes-Keir-Starmer-not-backing-Trump-Iran.html) that the man who told George W. Bush in the months before the disastrous Iraq war, “[I will be with you, whatever](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jul/06/with-you-whatever-tony-blair-letters-george-w-bush-chilcot)”, is still singing the same old tune. “We should,” Blair [told a private Jewish News event](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/blair-starmer-trump-war-iran-labour-b2934207.html) on Friday night, “Have backed America from the very beginning”. That was a direct criticism of current prime minister Keir Starmer, who, [to a chorus of warmonger criticism](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c05v28eqjyvo), initially refused the US and Israel access to British military infrastructure to launch its war on Iran. But it’s not like we’ve stayed completely out of the mess: our bases are now free for use by US jets for “defensive” actions – whatever that means – with American bombers [already touching down](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/07/us-bomber-lands-in-uk-after-warning-of-surge-in-strikes-on-iran). Now, nobody was ever supposed to know that a former Labour prime minister so openly rubbished the current one in public. That’s because the event was conducted under Chatham House rules. In short, that means what’s said in the room can be made public, but not who said it. In long, it means elites are emboldened to express their heart’s true desires without any threat of accountability. We can’t know what was in Tony Blair’s heart when he mourned the fact that the UK was not more involved in blasting a hole straight through the security of the hundreds of millions who live in the Middle East. Nor can we tell for sure, as global oil prices [surge above $100 a barrel](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c79542n0grwo) for the first time since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, how little the lives of Brits, long blighted by a cost of living crisis, matter to him. We can, though, look at his record. And what that shows – in my opinion – is a tendency, previously expressed via his businesses and [nowadays his Tony Blair Institute](https://www.ft.com/content/bcf1f1f5-a38f-4078-98f8-ab1ff7378895), to see fatal discord as fiscal opportunity. [Autocracy](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/aug/12/tony-blair-institute-continued-taking-money-from-saudi-arabia-after-khashoggi), [oligarchy](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/06/how-tony-blair-advised-former-kazakh-ruler-after-2011-uprising), [calamity](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jul/07/tony-blair-thinktank-worked-with-project-developing-trump-riviera-gaza-plan)? Roll up, roll up: the Blair pitch project is in town, and it has some consultancy to sell. Now, none of that is a crime. But you might think it indicates a conflict when wading into affairs of state. Blair is alleged to have form here too: in 2014, a number of former ambassadors and MPs [called for his resignation](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/jun/27/tony-blair-conflict-interests-middle-east) as Middle East peace envoy for the Quartet (made up of the United Nations, the US, the EU and Russia). They claimed he was ineffective, while others noted [the growth of his business interests in the region](https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/tony-blair-uae-middle-east-envoy-qatar-israel-palestine-foreign-office-a7894641.html). Blair’s [financial arrangements](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/poli

We Need to Stop Listening to Tony Blair Once and for All

 It might feel like months, but we’re just over a week into the US and Israel’s illegal assault on Iran, and there’s no end in sight. What is in sight, though, is [the apocalyptic vision of Tehran ablaze](https://time.com/7383099/iran-news-oil-strikes-tehran/), wreathed in thick smoke as black oil-soaked rain falls on its inhabitants.  That’s the result of Israeli strikes on several oil storage depots in the city, reportedly sending burning petroleum running through gutters while [geysers of flaming gas exploded](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/03/08/rivers-of-fire-in-tehran-after-oil-depots-blown-up/) from the streets. A nightmare? For most of us, yes. But for former British prime minister Tony Blair it’s apparently a dream. One that he might have liked the entire British public to be non-consensually forced into realising for him. And [not for the first time](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-36701854). Were my hands bloodied with the [deaths of up to a million people](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2008-01-31/million-iraqis-dead-since-invasion-study/1028878), I’d probably think twice before giving my opinion on yet another illegal US adventure in the Middle East. Not our Tone, though. On Sunday [the papers reported](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15623903/Tony-Blair-rebukes-Keir-Starmer-not-backing-Trump-Iran.html) that the man who told George W. Bush in the months before the disastrous Iraq war, “[I will be with you, whatever](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jul/06/with-you-whatever-tony-blair-letters-george-w-bush-chilcot)”, is still singing the same old tune.  “We should,” Blair [told a private Jewish News event](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/blair-starmer-trump-war-iran-labour-b2934207.html) on Friday night, “Have backed America from the very beginning”. That was a direct criticism of current prime minister Keir Starmer, who, [to a chorus of warmonger criticism](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c05v28eqjyvo), initially refused the US and Israel access to British military infrastructure to launch its war on Iran. But it’s not like we’ve stayed completely out of the mess: our bases are now free for use by US jets for “defensive” actions – whatever that means – with American bombers [already touching down](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/07/us-bomber-lands-in-uk-after-warning-of-surge-in-strikes-on-iran). Now, nobody was ever supposed to know that a former Labour prime minister so openly rubbished the current one in public. That’s because the event was conducted under Chatham House rules. In short, that means what’s said in the room can be made public, but not who said it. In long, it means elites are emboldened to express their heart’s true desires without any threat of accountability.  We can’t know what was in Tony Blair’s heart when he mourned the fact that the UK was not more involved in blasting a hole straight through the security of the hundreds of millions who live in the Middle East. Nor can we tell for sure, as global oil prices [surge above $100 a barrel](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c79542n0grwo) for the first time since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, how little the lives of Brits, long blighted by a cost of living crisis, matter to him. We can, though, look at his record. And what that shows – in my opinion – is a tendency, previously expressed via his businesses and [nowadays his Tony Blair Institute](https://www.ft.com/content/bcf1f1f5-a38f-4078-98f8-ab1ff7378895), to see fatal discord as fiscal opportunity. [Autocracy](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/aug/12/tony-blair-institute-continued-taking-money-from-saudi-arabia-after-khashoggi), [oligarchy](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/06/how-tony-blair-advised-former-kazakh-ruler-after-2011-uprising), [calamity](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jul/07/tony-blair-thinktank-worked-with-project-developing-trump-riviera-gaza-plan)? Roll up, roll up: the Blair pitch project is in town, and it has some consultancy to sell.  Now, none of that is a crime. But you might think it indicates a conflict when wading into affairs of state. Blair is alleged to have form here too: in 2014, a number of former ambassadors and MPs [called for his resignation](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/jun/27/tony-blair-conflict-interests-middle-east) as Middle East peace envoy for the Quartet (made up of the United Nations, the US, the EU and Russia). They claimed he was ineffective, while others noted [the growth of his business interests in the region](https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/tony-blair-uae-middle-east-envoy-qatar-israel-palestine-foreign-office-a7894641.html).  Blair’s [financial arrangements](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news

DeBriefed 6 March 2026: Iran energy crisis

W*elcome to Carbon Brief’s DeBriefed.* *An essential guide to the week’s key developments relating to climate change.* # **This week** ### **Energy crisis** **ENERGY SPIKE:** US-Israeli attacks on Iran and subsequent counterattacks across the Middle East have sent energy prices “soaring”, according to [Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/global-energy-costs-soar-iran-crisis-disrupts-shipping-oil-gas-production-2026-03-03/). The newswire reported that the region “accounts for just under a third of global oil production and almost a fifth of gas”. The [Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/02/iran-strait-of-hormuz-oil-gas-visualized?) noted that shipping traffic through the strait of Hormuz, which normally ferries 20% of the world’s oil, “all but ground to a halt”. The [Financial Times](https://www.ft.com/content/dac7a77d-e0f4-4f52-a3d4-55b145e67347) reported that attacks by Iran on Middle East energy facilities – notably in Qatar – triggered the “biggest rise in gas prices since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine”. **‘RISK’ AND ‘BENEFITS’:** [Bloomberg](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-03/global-diesel-prices-surge-higher-as-iran-war-disrupts-supplies) reported on increases in diesel prices in Europe and the US, speculating that rising fuel costs could be “a risk for president Donald Trump”. US gas producers are “poised to benefit from the big disruption in global supply”, according to [CNBC](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/03/us-natural-gas-lng-qatar-iran-war.html). Indian government sources told the [Economic Times](https://pdpwbj.clicks.mlsend.com/tl/c/eyJ2Ijoie1wiYVwiOjI0OTYxNyxcImxcIjoxODEwMDA5MzYwMDg3MTM4MjQsXCJyXCI6MTgxMDAwOTQ5MjYxNjY1ODA5fSIsInMiOiI4N2E5OWQ3ZTZiNDg0OTRlIn0) that Russia is prepared to “fulfil India’s energy demands”. [China Daily](https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202603/03/WS69a64540a310d6866eb3b4a2.html) quoted experts who said “China’s energy security remains fundamentally unshaken”, thanks to “emergency stockpiles and a wide array of import channels”. **‘ESSENTIAL’ RENEWABLES:** Energy analysts said governments should cut their fossil-fuel reliance by investing in renewables, “rather than just seeking non-Gulf oil and gas suppliers”, reported [Climate Home News](https://www.climatechangenews.com/2026/03/04/gulf-oil-and-gas-crisis-sparks-calls-for-renewable-invesment). This message was echoed by UK business secretary Peter Kyle, who said “doubling down on renewables” was “essential” amid “regional instability”, according to the [Daily Telegraph](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/03/03/net-zero-answer-middle-east-energy-crisis/). ### **China’s climate plan** **PEAK COAL?:** China has set out its next “five-year plan” at the annual “[two sessions](https://pdpwbj.clicks.mlsend.com/td/cl/eyJ2Ijoie1wiYVwiOjI0OTYxNyxcImxcIjoxODEwOTE4NDc3Nzc1NTIyNDAsXCJyXCI6MTgxMDkxODYxODA4NTQ2OTgyfSIsInMiOiIzZDZmMjQyY2JiMmIzNTM3In0)” meeting of the National People’s Congress, including its climate strategy out to 2030, according to the Hong Kong-based [South China Morning Post](https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3345525/china-step-tech-energy-and-decarbonisation-efforts-next-5-year-plan). The plan called for China to cut its carbon emissions per unit of gross domestic product (GDP) by 17% from 2026 to 2030, which “may allow for continued increase in emissions given the rate of GDP growth”, reported [Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/china-plans-cut-carbon-dioxide-emissions-per-unit-gdp-by-around-38-2026-2026-03-05/). The newswire added that the plan also had targets to reach peak coal ​in the next five years and replace 30m tonnes per year of coal with renewables. **ACTIVE YET PRUDENT:** [Bloomberg](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-05/china-aims-to-cut-carbon-emissions-per-unit-of-gdp-17-by-2030) described the new plan as “cautious”, stating that it “frustrat[es] hopes for tighter policy that would drive the nation to peak carbon emissions well before president Xi Jinping’s 2030 deadline”. Carbon Brief has just published an in-depth [analysis](https://www.carbonbrief.org/qa-what-does-chinas-15th-five-year-plan-mean-for-climate-change/) of the plan. [China Daily](https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202603/05/WS69a91c1ba310d6866eb3be81.html) reported that the strategy “highlights measures to promote the climate targets of peaking carbon dioxide emissions before 2030”, which China said it would work towards “actively yet prudently”. # **Around the world** **EU RULES:** The European Commission has proposed new “made in Europe” rules to support domestic low-carbon industries, “against fierce competition from China”, reported [Agence France-Presse](https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20260304-eu-to-unveil-made-in-europe-rules-despite-pushback). [Carbon Brief](https://www.carbonbrief.org/qa-what-the-eus-new-industry-and-made-in-europe-rules-mean-for-climate-action/) examined what it means for c

Sean O’Brien sold workers and unions out to Trump—these Teamsters are running to oust him.

As general president of the union, Sean O’Brien has operated with a “Teamsters vs. Everybody” mentality, especially when it comes to dealing with President Donald Trump and embracing the MAGA right. But now, 14 months into the second Trump administration, the labor movement and the entire working class—Teamsters members included—is under attack. In this episode of *Working People*, we speak with veteran Teamsters Richard Hooker Jr. and John Palmer, who are running to oust O’Brien from leadership in the upcoming union election. **Guests:** * Richard Hooker Jr. has dedicated 26 years to the Teamsters, spending 20 of those years at UPS and the last six in leadership roles. He is the Secretary-Treasurer and Principal Officer of Teamsters Local 623 in Philadelphia, and he is now running on the Fearless Slate to unseat Sean O’Brien as a candidate for general president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. * John Palmer has 38 years of experience in the Teamsters and is currently serving as a vice president at large of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. He is running on the Fearless Slate as a candidate to be the union’s general secretary-treasurer. **Additional links/info:** * Teamsters Fearless Slate [website](https://be-fearless.org/meet-the-fearless-team) * Hank Kennedy, *Current Affairs*, “[Sean O’Brien sold labor to Trump, and got nothing](https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/sean-obrien-sold-labor-to-trump-and-got-nothing)” * Michael Sainato, *The Guardian*, “[Labor activist takes on Teamsters leader allying with Trump: ‘He doesn’t represent the workers’](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/01/teamsters-union-leadership-trump)” * Joe Allen, *CounterPunch*, “[Why are the Teamsters endorsing Greg Abbott?](https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/02/17/why-are-the-teamsters-endorsing-greg-abbott/)” * Peter Eavis, *The New York Times*, “[UPS says it is cutting up to 30,000 jobs](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/business/ups-jobs-layoffs-2026.html)” * Maximillian Alvarez, TRNN, “[Everybody hates Sean](https://therealnews.com/everybody-hates-sean)” * Maximillian Alvarez, TRNN, “[We asked 8 different Teamsters what they thought of Sean O’Brien’s speech—their responses may surprise you](https://therealnews.com/we-asked-8-different-teamsters-what-they-thought-of-sean-obriens-speech-their-responses-may-surprise-you)” **Featured Music:** * Jules Taylor, *Working People* Theme Song **Credits:** * Audio Post-Production: Jules Taylor Transcript *The following is a rushed transcript and may contain errors. A proofread version will be made available as soon as possible.* Maximillian Alvarez: Alright. Welcome everyone to Working People, a podcast about the lives, jobs, dreams, and struggles of the working class today. Working People is a proud member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network and is brought to you in partnership with In These Times Magazine and the Real News Network. This show is produced by Jules Taylor and made possible by the support of listeners like you. My name is Maximillian Alvarez, and we’ve got a doozy of an episode for y’all today. As always, we really appreciate, and in fact, we depend on our listeners reaching out to us with topics and stories that you guys want us to dig into. And one of the questions that you have overwhelmingly told us that you want to see addressed on the show is the question that we are dedicating today’s episode too. Now that we are one year into the second Trump administration, what the hell is going on with the teamsters and the union’s general president, Sean O’Brien? Now, by way of introducing today’s episode, I’m going to read at length from a really thought provoking article by Hank Kennedy, which was just published in Current Affairs Magazine, and we’re going to link to this in the show notes. But Kennedy writes, “Elected as a union militant with the support of longstanding reform organization, Teamsters for a Democratic Union or TDU, Sean O’Brien has spent the last two years shepherding the lambs of the American working class straight to the slaughter via his endorsements and promotions of some of the most reactionary anti-labor politicians in the land. I was complicit in this. Back in 2021, I was a teamster working in logistics. I both voted and campaigned for O’Brien, giving money and time to his campaign. 2024 erased whatever residual affection I’d had for O’Brien. That year, he not only spoke of Donald Trump as a man, “Proven to be one tough SOB at the Republican National Convention.” He promoted as 100% on point a transphobic article by Senator Josh Hawley, this compact article on “the promise of pro- labor conservatism, a sailed corporate America for “using their profits to push diversity, equity, and inclusion, and the religion of the trans flag.” There’s been a phenomenon within the union’s leadership of working towards Trump. Whatever Trump says, the union leadership leaps to support, often without looking. When Trump called for

“How Am I Going to Sell My House With This Crap in My Backyard?”

In the wintertime, when Elizabeth Jacobus steps out onto her front porch for a smoke break, she can see the hulking warehouse through a barren thicket of trees. At night, the 470,000-square-foot facility gleams under the watch of industrial floodlights. “You should come back when it’s dark,” she told me. “It looks like the sun is rising over there.” Jacobus wasn’t thrilled when the warehouse was built a few hundred feet away from her home in suburban Roxbury Township, New Jersey. But ever since construction wrapped in 2022, the facility has remained vacant. Investors could have written off the Roxbury project—a product of the early 2020s online shopping boom, which drove a glut of new logistics warehouses across the country—as a casualty of the post-pandemic economy. But then the Department of Homeland Security came to town. > As DHS expands its footprint, it’s making its cruelty manifest in suburban areas like Roxbury—towns that might have once felt insulated from the brutality and chaos that immigration agents have unleashed in US cities. In February, DHS purchased the Roxbury warehouse for $129.3 million—more than double its assessed value. As part of President Donald Trump’s effort to deport [millions of](https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/01/trump-2024-immigration-policy-mass-deportations-stephen-miller/) people, DHS is buying up enormous [warehouses](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-01-29/us-spends-hundreds-of-millions-on-warehouses-for-ice-detention-centers) across the country to turn them into immigration jails. The “ICE Detention Reengineering Initiative,” as one government [memo](https://www.governor.nh.gov/sites/g/files/ehbemt971/files/inline-documents/merrimack-detention-reengineering-initiative.pdf) dubs it, will spend $38.3 billion of taxpayer money—allocated through last year’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act—to acquire and retrofit eight “large-scale detention centers” and 16 “processing sites.” If all goes according to federal government plans, the Roxbury site will be up and running with 1,500 beds by November 30. That’s a big if. Since the warehouse plans were revealed by the *[Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/12/24/ice-immigrants-detention-warehouses-deportation-trump/)* in late December, they’ve encountered a relentless stream of bipartisan pushback: from Roxbury residents, members of Congress, the all-Republican town council, and Democratic Gov. Mikie Sherrill. Similar [local opposition](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/us/politics/ice-warehouses-trump-voters.html) has already scuttled warehouse sales in [roughly a dozen](https://lookerstudio.google.com/reporting/b0228ccb-6fcf-4ab6-9d9b-41dd53292ec6/page/p_uy4yssvm0d) other cities. The fight in Roxbury highlights one unexpected consequence of Trump’s supercharged immigration machine. As DHS expands its footprint through the warehouse initiative, it’s making its cruelty manifest in suburban areas like Roxbury—towns that might have once felt insulated from the brutality and chaos that immigration agents have unleashed in major US cities. In the process, DHS is running up against the might of a classic suburban rallying cry: Not In My Backyard. “I think people think that it won’t happen to them because they’re so far separated from it,” said Faith Jacobus, Elizabeth’s 24-year-old daughter. “But it was separated until it wasn’t.” On Saturday morning, I arrived at Roxbury Town Hall to find the No ICE North Jersey Alliance (Project NINJA) and the Sussex Visibility Brigade setting up for the day’s protest. Safety volunteers in neon vests arranged traffic cones, shoveled snow off sidewalks, and munched on doughnuts from a plastic container. A folding table was set up with a first-aid station and sign-out sheets for a “costume library”—a rack of the inflatable frog and unicorn mascots that have become ubiquitous at No Kings Day protests. Pretty soon, protesters from across New Jersey were arriving in droves. They lined up along Route 46 and waved signs that read “Warehouses Are Not Human Storage,” “Stop Evil Shit,” and “Gulags Are Bad! Jesus Is Good.” A boombox played tenderhearted classics like the Beatles’ “Let it Be.” The crowd cheered as an endless stream of passing cars honked their horns in support.  A protester holds up a sign at the Rally to End ICE Camps in Roxbury Township, New Jersey, on Saturday.Project NINJA “Most of our pickleball group is here,” said Marion Atwater, a 73-year-old in a navy visor and puffer jacket. “We did not bring our paddles, but we are here with our signs.” She added that she and her husband, Donald Smith, 76, were “young whippersnappers” compared to the rest of their group. “I have bad legs so I can’t stand—that’s why I’m sitting,” Smith said. He held a poster board that read, “No concentration camps in America.” He told m

Is Flock just a poor US-centric copy of, globally active Genetec?

I've read all of Genetec's [customer stories](https://www.genetec.com/customer-stories/search) (the PDFs), and although I recognize these, as being Genetec marketing material (at least in part), they do contain insightful information, regarding implementation of surveillance systems; that is, from the perspective of a diverse palette of organisations. This palette primarily consists of: universities, school districts, ports, critical infrastructure providers, business to business companies, health care providers, real estate developers, gambling companies, (sports) venues, cities, public transportation services, airports, retailers, and foremost police departments. What most have in common, is the increasing scale at which they operate; setting in motion a search for IT-solutions, able to scale alongside organisational growth, and doing so in a cost-effective way. This entails: the centralisation of (previously "siloed") systems and departments, automatization of (previously time-consuming, or outright unmanageable) tasks, and proactive 'Data-Driven Decision-Making (DDDM)'; unlocking operational efficiencies and granular control over vast operations. Which is where Genetec introduces itself, primarily through [its partners](https://www.genetec.com/partners/partner-integration-hub?keywords) (including: hardware manufacturers, software solutions companies, system integrators, consultancy firms, etc.), often during an organisation's 'call for tender' or 'Request For Proposal (RFP)'; or it's recommended by other Genetec customers (including by law enforcement, to "community" partners: primarily businesses). The most recognizable partners, of the consortium-like construction, include: Axis Communications, Sony Corporation, Hanwha Vision, Bosch, NVIDIA, ASSA ABLOY, Intel, Pelco, Canon, Dell technologies, HID Global, FLIR Systems, Global Parking Solutions, and Seagate Technology. Alongside the Genetec-certified [hardware](https://www.genetec.com/supported-device-list) and software integrations (of which their partners' being actively co-marketed to customers), it also allows for custom integrations: through their 'Software Development Kits (SDKs)', and 'Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)'. So instead of single-vendor lock-in, organisations are effectively subject to multi-vendor lock-in (unless: spending resources, on custom integrations, is more cost-effective). Genetec's primary focus, lies on their extensive suite, of (specialized) software applications, deployed on: an on-site server, multiple (distributed) on-site servers (possibly federated: allowing for a centralized view over multiple implementations), in the "cloud" (i.e. someone else's server) as a '... as a Service' solution; or a combination of aforementioned (providing "cloud" flexibility). When using multiple applications, Genetec's 'Security Center' can unify all; meaning operators aren't required to switch between applications. And considering applications aren't limited to just camera surveillance, but also include: intrusion detection (intrusion panels, line-crossing cameras, panic switches, etc.), access control (electronic locks, access control readers (pin, card, tag, mobile, and/or biometric), door control modules, etc.), communication (intercoms, 'Public Address (PA)' systems, emergency stations, etc.) and ALPR (ALPR boom gates, gateless (license plate as a credential), enforcement vehicles, etc.); it allows for centralization of these systems (unless prohibited by strict IT policies). All of these technologies combined, primarily serve to: save on resources, protect assets, prevent losses, ensure operational continuity, and resolve disputes over: parking tickets, insurance claims (as a result of damages: suffered or caused on premise; potentially increasing premium), or even legal allegations ("increase the number of early guilty pleas"); all of course, under the guise of safety. Whether it be organisations individually, or "community" initiatives (often spearheaded by businesses, while citizens are left to follow); most circle back to previously outlined, financially-grounded motives. Resources include staff, who's function might become more versatile, or entirely obsolete (through efficiency gains), and might depend on events, reported by analytics (growing queues, areas requiring clean-up, crowd bottlenecks, etc.); meaning they too, are subject to this system: from onboarding ("minimise the time that elapses before they make a productive contribution") and throughout their career ("employee theft", "employee attendance", "agents' activities, collectively or individually", etc.). Previously, some organisations utilized analog cameras (having a recorder each), in which: a looping tape, would periodically overwrite previous recordings (minimizing retention periods: physically); which possbily caused quality degradations, sometimes to such a degree, footage could no longer serve as legal evidence (which too, is privacy-friendly).

Trump’s 2026 SOTU Speech: Economic Obfuscation and Political Theater

  Trump’s 2026 State of the Union speech was historic—but only in the sense of the longest ever at 1 hour and 47 minutes. Apart from that, the speech was one third misrepresentations about the state of the American economy followed by more than an hour of pure political theater which has come to increasingly presidential SOTU addresses in recent years. The misrepresentations of the state of the economy covered topics like inflation and cost of living, record stock market prices and asset wealth creation, his $5 trillion tax cuts almost all of which have accrued to corporations, businesses and investors, and his tariffs which have little to do with trade or economics and everything to do with raising revenue for defense spending and political intimidation of other countries. **JOBS** Treated very briefly in passing was the topic of jobs. Trump’s avoidance of the topic is understandable—given that this past year the US economy has created a total of only 181,000 jobs; i.e. barely 15,000 jobs month, a level which isn’t even sufficient to provide employment for new entrants to the labor force which ordinarily averages at least 100,000 every month. On the topic of jobs, Trump also made no mention whatsoever of the current unemployment level. When including involuntary part time, temp, and discouraged workers, as well as full time employed, per the government’s own estimates unemployment has been averaging around 8%. That’s more than 11 million US workers jobless! Moreover, even that 8% number excludes the 10 million workers who are self-employed independent contractors which government statistics conveniently ignore by classifying them as business owners, not workers. So the actual unemployment number of unemployed is thus at least 10% when properly estimated. Trump made passing reference to the fact that the 181,000 jobs created were 100% in the private sector—without indicating the number of course. Nor did he bother to mention that he managed to fire 27,000 federal government workers. It’s true, as he said, the US economy is at the highest employment levels ever in 2025—by 181,000 jobs of course. **ECONOMIC GROWTH** Another economic topic, this time completely unmentioned, was the overall real growth of the economy in 2025. Measured in Gross Domestic Product terms, GDP, the most generally accepted indicator, the US economy grew only 2.2% in all of last year! That’s down from 2.4% in 2024 before he was elected. More ominous, in the last three months of 2025 the economy slowed rapidly even more to only 1.4%. And it was actually even much slower, since the inflation adjustment used by the government, called the Personal Consumption Expenditure (PCE) price index notoriously underestimates inflation which, in turn, boosts the reported GDP numbers. If properly inflation adjusted, actual GDP in 2025 was closer to 1% than even the reported 2.2%. Nevertheless, Trump on several occasions bragged “we’re the hottest country in the world!” As for future economic growth Trump continually says other countries have promised to invest $18 trillion in the US economy! But virtually all of that are just verbal pledges, mostly designed no doubt to placate Trump during negotiations over tariffs. It’s difficult to see how the Europeans, Japanese and others—all of whose economies are either in recession or stagnant—are going to invest that amount in America’s economy instead of their own. **INFLATION** Trump did spend some time repeatedly claiming that inflation was reduced dramatically during his first year in office. More than once he proclaimed “inflation is plummeting”. He referenced what is called ‘core’ inflation in the PCE price index, which conveniently excludes food prices, housing costs, mortgage rates, and all other kinds of interest rates on autos, credit cards, and other loans—all of which rose last year. And there was a big problem with the PCE price-inflation index, whether ‘core’ or what’s called ‘headline’, which includes food and energy prices. Readers might think the PCE is constructed by the government going out and surveying a large sample of the millions of goods and services in the economy. It doesn’t. It takes a conglomeration of other surveys and estimations performed by the US Labor and Commerce Departments, puts their results together somehow, adds assumptions of its down, employs questionable methodologies, and comes up with a number that grossly underestimates actual prices in general. And here’s a bigger problem with the PCE in 2025. In the fourth quarter of 2025 the government shut down for six of the twelve weeks in the October-December period. During that period there were no surveys done by either the Labor or Comme

Poison at play: Unsafe lead levels found in half of New Orleans playgrounds

Sarah Hess started taking her toddler, Josie, to New Orleans’ Mickey Markey Playground in 2010 because she thought it would be a safe place to play after Josie had been diagnosed with lead poisoning. Hess had traced the problem to the crumbling paint in her family’s century-old home. While it underwent lead remediation, the family stayed in a newer, lead-free house in the Bywater neighborhood near Markey, where Josie regularly played on the swings and slides. “Everyone was telling us the safest place to play was outside at playgrounds, so that’s where we went,” Hess said. Josie’s next blood test was a shock. “It skyrocketed,” Hess said. Josie’s lead levels had leapt to nearly five times the national health standard. When the soil at Markey was tested in late 2010, it too was found to have dangerously high levels of lead. But the city took no meaningful action to inform Markey’s users or make the park safe. Parents started posting warning signs at the park and flooded City Hall with outraged calls and emails. Holding Josie in her arms, Hess made an impassioned speech to the City Council.  A child’s shoes are left in the dirt next to the playground at Mickey Markey Park in the Bywater neighborhood of New Orleans in November 2025. It’s common for children to play barefoot at this playground. Christiana Botic / Verite News and Catchlight Local / Report for America In short order, the city had hired a company to test Markey and other parks, and pledged to fix the lead problem wherever it was found. “I couldn’t have been more pleased,” Hess said. “They were totally into it. My impression was they were going to make them all lead-free parks.” But a Verite News investigation conducted over four months in 2025 found that lead pollution in New Orleans parks not only persists, it is more widespread than previously known. Dozens of city parks with playgrounds remain unsafe, including Markey and others that underwent city-sponsored lead remediation in 2011. The city does not appear to have conducted any major remediation or lead testing of parks since that time. The findings indicate that city officials fell short in their cleanup efforts then, and that a very large number of New Orleans children are exposed to excessive amounts of lead now, said Howard Mielke, a retired Tulane University toxicologist and one of the nation’s leading experts on lead contamination. “It’s a failed program,” he said. “They didn’t do what they needed to do to bring the lead levels down in a single park.” Verite News reporters tested hundreds of soil samples from 84 city parks with playgrounds in fall 2025. Adrienne Katner, a lead contamination researcher with Louisiana State University, verified the results. The testing found that about half the parks had lead concentrations that exceed [a federal hazard level](https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/biden-harris-administration-strengthens-safeguards-protect-families-and-children-lead) established in 2024 for soil in urban areas. “I am surprised they haven’t been tested and mitigated,” said Gabriel Filippelli, an Indiana University biochemist who studies lead exposure. “If there’s evidence of kids playing in soils that are as high as [Verite’s testing] described, that’s kind of horrifying.” Public health researchers and doctors say that children under 6 absorb lead-laden dust more easily than adults, contaminating their blood and harming the long-term development of their brains and nervous systems. There is no known safe exposure level for children, and even trace amounts can result in behavioral problems and lower cognitive abilities. ### **Find out what the lead levels are at New Orleans playgrounds** New Orleans is in financial straits with a [budget deficit](https://veritenews.org/2026/01/07/helena-moreno-interview-mayor/) of about $220 million, and it’s unclear what priority or resources Mayor Helena Moreno will, or even can, allocate to restart lead remediation efforts. In response to the financial crisis, Moreno has eliminated dozens of positions and plans to [furlough 700 employees](https://veritenews.org/2026/01/27/new-orleans-moreno-cuts-layoffs-deficit/) one day per pay period to save money. Moreno’s administration did not respond to requests for comment. The city doesn’t routinely test for lead in parks, said Larry Barabino, chief executive officer of the New Orleans Recreation Development, or NORD, Commission, the agency that oversees most of the city’s parklands. He confirmed the last significant effort to test parks ended in 2011. He called Verite’s results “definitely concerning” and pledged to work with city departments and local experts to potentially remediate unsafe parks. “Safety is our number one priority here at NORD,” Barabino said. “If there’s anythin

Extra! Extra! 2/8

[](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dQ0n!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbf7f66e2-244b-4adc-a22e-9c0eb264e63f_516x704.jpeg) An American spectator at a figure skating event in Milan held up a U.S. flag with a message apologizing to the world. Photo credit: Vincent Alban / The New York Times Hi, all, and happy Sunday! Hope you’re enjoying the Superbowl—or not, if football isn’t your thing. I’m watching only for the halftime show. Gotta support Bad Bunny and Greenday! We had another rough week, but we’re still seeing wins—in fact, quite a lot of them. So enjoy this long list of all the ways we triumphed against fascism, cruelty, stupidity and avarice. People exactly like you are the only reason these victories are happening. It’s your courage, your strength, and your determination that’s carrying us through. Thanks for that. Please remember to share this list with anyone who says “nothing’s going our way.” Quite the contrary—a lot is. And the more we celebrate it the more likely we get more like it. Have a great day! ## Read This 📖 [This article](https://19thnews.org/2026/02/minneapolis-ice-mother-donate-breastmilk/) will make you weep, but also totally inspire you. Read it. ## Celebrate This! 🎉 JD Vance got [booed](https://www.threads.com/@thetnholler/post/DUbmgliARmT?xmt=AQF0EGWl1G9JvLzaSLBsO5uy92vhXRhzRTSyEYyE0UxWLItwwfAThA8OgVqNrVFFADMZNHo&slof=1) at the Olympic opening ceremony in Milan. Nevada’s only Republican congressman is retiring, [marking another crucial loss for Republicans](https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5726792-mark-amodei-retirement/) heading into the Midterms.​ [“Melt the ICE” hats are so popular that yarn shops nationwide are selling out of red yarn.](https://9905ebc8.click.convertkit-mail2.com/qduk9vkevzi7h4zvdd8flh8ddxdkkcm43639xzpz92q73536qwve0lnolrl4708qq5gz9nvxm8r0r43egnzkz5vpqok3mvqd49p2km022v85xvkgm0oxxqwmzdkflrlv0/3ohphkh3xp3r30cp/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZGdvb2Rnb29kLmNvL2FydGljbGVzL21lbHQtdGhlLWljZS1oYXQtcmVkLXlhcm4=) Inspired by a Norwegian design made in opposition to Nazi Germany in the 1940s, the $5 patterns have now raised *[650K](https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/melt-the-ice-hat-donations-pattern-fundraiser?sh_kit=7a2950363f4b90b1881ae76c68d24551846eea9063b67a6a14e9fa39bc419e40)* for MN-based immigration orgs. — and even yarn manufacturers are struggling to keep up with the demand for red yarn. Thanks to a deal between Virginia and private landowners, [more than 5,000 acres of forestland surrounding Shenandoah National Park will be protected](https://www.29news.com/2026/02/03/more-than-5000-acres-surrounding-shenandoah-national-park-be-protected/?ck_subscriber_id=2496857656) under five different conservation easements. A federal judge, again, [blocked a Trump administration ban](https://9905ebc8.click.convertkit-mail2.com/qduk9vkevzi7h4zvdd8flh8ddxdkkcm43639xzpz92q73536qwve0lnolrl4708qq5gz9nvxm8r0r43egnzkz5vpqok3mvqd49p2km022v85xvkgm0oxxqwmzdkflrlv0/p8heh9h4rq4d4lir/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cucmV1dGVycy5jb20vbGVnYWwvZ292ZXJubWVudC91cy1qdWRnZS1hZ2Fpbi1ibG9ja3MtdHJ1bXAtYmFuLWxhd21ha2Vycy1zdXJwcmlzZS12aXNpdHMtZGV0ZW50aW9uLWNlbnRlcnMtMjAyNi0wMi0wMi8=) on lawmakers making “surprise” visits to ICE detention centers.​ Brad Karp has [resigned](https://ablink.editorial.theguardian.com/ss/c/u001.Yw_JkLMEmFuifc_XG18IRyTNtZQ7fIEMgszcCSneHECyyyKiIcsbT_mvO_CmKOtXIFVVwCHaMCB_f47pc5Wr_3LHqvTy2Pdgb2Cgwqoy6n2QFdYI4S7KwWoD9JeRMNtcGT7wWDUxTrwa-yEjUjRMHUbJ25Ww9IUvuQeIn0plNupsV3a3qM2FUxRvj60EpM9v9UgumjxlxJEuXjP4boV0kU_J_29A3vtJJmbKavwJuzyxqKxJVtIYdnldHqJSlsth3OCOR6B4rN7F9vTpTc3uf0kDulsHky_sl7LD6LQ1ogrN2FJf6xZxFp9NbpCPYKnV/4nw/pZ-eziIqQJa_ylifAE9c0w/h27/h001.woywn5ExbcrSxnpRRdFt_dNEdeTKUhPUrTCVVd0ks2Q) as chair of the powerful law firm Paul Weiss after revelations of extensive communications with Epstein. ​[Bruce Springsteen’s anti-ICE protest song “Streets of Minneapolis” was the most-sold song of the week last week.](https://9905ebc8.click.convertkit-mail2.com/k0u7kq7wqxc6h5r2l94alhorrer77f98ngn0o4x40dzrnmngzewkl5vp5358rlqzzm240vwo9q3l38nk2v464mwxzp6n9wz780xd69lddwqmow629lpooze9476ad9d8o/6qheh8hlx3267et9/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYmlsbGJvYXJkLmNvbS9tdXNpYy9jaGFydC1iZWF0L2JydWNlLXNwcmluZ3N0ZWVuLWFudGktaWNlLXN0cmVldHMtb2YtbWlubmVhcG9saXMtY2hhcnRzLTEyMzYxNzEyOTAv) [More than 170 countries](https://ozone.unep.org/all-ratifications) — including the U.S.! — have agreed to phase out hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), a group of gases used in refrigerators, air conditioners and other cooling systems that heat the atmosphere more than almost any other pollutant on Earth. HUGE. Elizabeth Caisaguano, a 10-year-old Minnesot

Cutting LLM token usage by 80% using recursive document analysis

When you employ AI agents, there’s a significant volume problem for document study. Reading one file of 1000 lines consumes about 10,000 tokens. Token consumption incurs costs and time penalties. Codebases with dozens or hundreds of files, a common case for real world projects, can easily exceed 100,000 tokens in size when the whole thing must be considered. The agent must read and comprehend, and be able to determine the interrelationships among these files. And, particularly, when the task requires multiple passes over the same documents, perhaps one pass to divine the structure and one to mine the details, costs multiply rapidly. **Matryoshka** is a tool for document analysis that achieves over 80% token savings while enabling interactive and exploratory analysis. The key insight of the tool is to save tokens by caching past analysis results, and reusing them, so you do not have to process the same document lines again. These ideas come from recent research, and retrieval-augmented generation, with a focus on efficiency. We'll see how Matryoshka unifies these ideas into one system that maintains a persistent analytical state. Finally, we'll take a look at some real-world results analyzing the [anki-connect](https://git.sr.ht/~foosoft/anki-connect) codebase. --- ## The Problem: Context Rot and Token Costs A common task is to analyze a codebase to answers a question such as “What is the API surface of this project?” Such work includes identifying and cataloguing all the entry points exposed by the codebase. **Traditional approach:** 1. Read all source files into context (~95,000 tokens for a medium project) 2. The LLM analyzes the entire codebase’s structure and component relationships 3. For follow-up questions, the full context is round-tripped every turn This creates two problems: ### Token Costs Compound Every time, the entire context has to go to the API. In a 10-turn conversation about a codebase of 7,000 lines, almost a million tokens might be processed by the system. Most of those tokens are the same document contents being dutifully resent, over and over. The same core code is sent with every new question. This redundant transaction is a massive waste. It forces the model to process the same blocks of text repeatedly, rather than concentrating its capabilities on what’s actually novel. ### Context Rot Degrades Quality As described in the [Recursive Language Models](https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.11409) paper, even the most capable models exhibit a phenomenon called context degradation, in which their performance declines with increasing input length. This deterioration is task-dependent. It’s connected to task complexity. In information-dense contexts, where the correct output requires the synthesis of facts presented in widely dispersed locations in the prompt, this degradation may take an especially precipitous form. Such a steep decline can occur even for relatively modest context lengths, and is understood to reflect a failure of the model to maintain the threads of connection between large numbers of informational fragments long before it reaches its maximum token capacity. The authors argue that we should not be inserting prompts into the models, since this clutters their memory and compromises their performance. Instead, documents should be considered as **external environments** with which the LLM can interact by querying, navigating through structured sections, and retrieving specific information on an as-needed basis. This approach treats the document as a separate knowledge base, an arrangement that frees up the model from having to know everything. --- ## Prior Work: Two Key Insights Matryoshka builds on two research directions: ### Recursive Language Models (RLM) The RLM paper introduces a new methodology that treats documents as external state to which step-by-step queries can be issued, without the necessity of loading them entirely. Symbolic operations, search, filter, aggregate, are actively issued against this state, and only the specific, relevant results are returned, maintaining a small context window while permitting analysis of arbitrarily large documents. Key point is that the documents stay outside the model, and only the search results enter the context. This separation of concerns ensures that the model never sees complete files, instead, a search is initiated to retrieve the information. ### Barliman: Synthesis from Examples [Barliman](https://github.com/webyrd/Barliman), a tool developed by William Byrd and Greg Rosenblatt, shows that it is possible to use program synthesis without asking for precise code specifications. Instead, input/output examples are used, and a solver engine is used as a relational programming system in the spirit of [miniKanren](http://minikanren.org/). Barliman uses such a system to synthesize functions that satisfy the constraints specified. The system interprets the examples as if they were relational rules, and the synthesis e

Wait until you hear the price tag! Estimates suggest running ChatGPT demands around $100 million *weekly*. That astronomical expense drives massive centralization, making this technology fundamentally

Wait until you hear the price tag! Estimates suggest running ChatGPT demands around $100 million *weekly*. That astronomical expense drives massive centralization, making this technology fundamentally undemocratic. Signal Foundation President Meredith Whittaker unpacks how this costly, concentrated power often ends up reinforcing existing structures, benefiting those already in power and being used on those with less. The true cost of AI is more than just a number. #AICost #TechPower #Centralization #AIdebate #SignalFoundation