Engineers truly *are* going to dismiss AI’s security implications right up until something they’ve built gets owned.
We’ve got models both identifying and providing working exploits for extremely complex vuln chains. The CVEs filed so far speak volumes; the commentary not so much.
I randomly visited a few of the PDSes to see what software they ran. The vast majority seem to use the Node monolith by the Bluesky team.
But then there’s this: reverie.house 🏡🫧🤷♂️
Didn’t realize how uncommon it was to self-host an ATProto PDS. Apparently 99.5% of all PDSes are managed by Bluesky itself. There are only a couple thousand independent PDSes, including mine! blue.mackuba.eu/directory/pd...
Concerned people: “There is no bottom with Trump”.
Those same concerned people: “Trump’s threats of total annihilation are 100% certain to be conventional.”
Seattle’s Sound Transit Line 2 opened moments ago to much fanfare and hooo boy let me tell you there are toddlers. www.soundtransit.org/crosslake/ev...
i purchased fancy bear at a local bookstore and, while it arrived promptly, it was slightly damaged by a gaggle of unruly elementary school kids in the back seat of the delivery vehicle. i think there is still room for improvement in your system.
Amoedi seems… upset! pastebin.com/LS2LpLZ7
That last sentence: “Due to selection effects, [OpenAI employees] are sort of a gullible bunch, but it seems important to push back on these narratives which Sam [Altman] is peddling to his employees.”
Perhaps! Or perhaps they cook up blackmailing goofiness not to boost their valuation but because they truly *don't* fully understand the system under test. Maybe red teaming, even laughable stuff like "does it blackmail™️", is better than nothing if it helps them get less laughable down the road?
Totally agree: surprises don't in any way imply AGI. And AGI -- sheesh, yes, what fun marketing hype.
But "even today we're surprised by the behavior of large models and this merits study" is, I think, just plain facts-on-the-ground.
They wrote the code, sure, but they trained the model's weights. It's the behavior of those weights in aggregate that can surprise.
It seems to me to be a clever twist on the old scam: *you* will get your quoted money, but all the other suckers who hop on to the coin well after it is created are going to lose their shirts. The folks who started the whole enterprise (and tied it to your name, for visibility) stand to win.
Thinking of you, Bruno.
Update: the neighbors are dedicating the top shelf of their Little Free Library to ‘zines. A fresh copy of DOCTYPE and several Wizard Zines will feature prominently.
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Sending good aortic vibes your way. Be well, let's coffee soon!
DOCTYPE looks fantastic. As a fellow old, I also had a TI-99/4A and punched in BASIC from magazines. And, uh, I still remember what the speech synthesizer module sounded like.
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Happy k-pop’oween!
I am the very model of an ancient trunkless leg of stone,
My shattered visage lies half buried with a sandy sneering frown,
The sculptor carved my arrogance upon these broken lifeless things,
My name is Ozymandias, the self-describèd King of Kings!
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“If you think TECHNOLOGY will solve your problems then you don’t understand technology AND you don’t understand your problems.”
I often think about this quote scrawled on the wall of Laurie Anderson’s Four Talks installation at the Hirshhorn in DC:
We’ve updated t-strings.help with the latest to help you make the most of Python’s new t-strings right away.
Also, if you’re doing server-side HTML, see my post about templating: davepeck.org/2025/09/22/i...
Happy Python 3.14 day to all who celebrate! 🎉
Read about all the cool new bits here: docs.python.org/3.14/whatsne...
broke my brain trying to count the entendres here
"Truly the embodiment of trying to remember a catchy song while your brain is melting."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiDt...
What the actual.
solid surprise ending in that gif
🎉 #seattle
I thought it was apt. Although in another sense, I suppose it’s less loke your user agent and more like your (indie web?) blog, surfacing all your posts and other actions to the world.
In any case, thanks for the great deep dive post! 🙏