An update to the above that saddens me to my core:
Well, fuck. I guess the PSF is willing to compromise their principles for $1.5 million after all.
https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/12/anthropic-invests-in-python.html?m=1
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Another several fun bits of trivia: One of the first investors in Anthropic AI was Sam Bankman-Fried, they currently work with Palantir on contracts for the US government, and are rumored to be seeking investment from Qatar — the latter explicitly under the justification that "I think ‘No bad person should ever benefit from our success’ is a pretty difficult principle to run a business on.'
All of that is documented on Wikipedia:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dario_Amodei
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluesky#Corporate_structure
But my point being that *if* your argument is that Bluesky is good *because* the legal infrastructure provided by public benefit LLCs enforces that they won't turn evil, then it does behoove looking at what Anthropic does under the exact same legal structure.
None of that is guilt by association, none of that is Bluesky is evil because Anthropic is evil because Anthropic works with evil companies.
It's noting that Delaware's laws about public benefit LLCs are totally insufficient to ensure that LLCs actually act in the public benefit. If you want to defend Bluesky as "billionaire-proof" or as being an ethical corporation, you've got a bit more to show than "is registered in Delaware."
(As a complete side note, it is very irksome that a company that sells automated scabs to Palantir is able to colonize the word "anthropic" to use as its name.)
An update to the above that saddens me to my core:
Well, fuck. I guess the PSF is willing to compromise their principles for $1.5 million after all.
https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/12/anthropic-invests-in-python.html?m=1