Let's see. Congress, MAGA voters, the GOP... Yes.

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What actually happened The root cause was mundane. MCP clients like Cursor, Claude Code and others are using (local) MCP servers via some "executor" tool such as uvx for Python or npx for Node.js. When you run an MCP via uvx, it automatically downloads dependencies of that MCP and runs the given command. Unfortunately, our (mostly deprecated) MCP server had an unpinned dependency of a litellm package. When my Cursor IDE tried to autoload the MCP server, uvx stepped in to download that latest litellm version, which was malware uploaded to PyPI by hackers just minutes earlier. The seamless ergonomics of uvx meant I became one of the lucky beta testers of the freshly released malware. A sloppy, likely vibe-coded mistake in the actual malware implementation led it to turn into a fork bomb. It installs a file called litellm_init.pth in site-packages. Python automatically executes .pth files on every interpreter startup. The first thing it does is: ``` subprocess.Popen([sys.executable, "-c", "import base64; exec(base64.b64decode(...))"]) ``` That child Python process also triggers litellm_init.pth, since it's still in site-packages, which spawns another child, which spawns another. Thus leading to the only sign I would have noticed that the malware was running. As Andrej Karpathy pointed out on X, without this error it would have gone unnoticed for much longer. The malware's own poor quality is what made it visible.

lol. lmao even.

"A sloppy, likely vibe-coded mistake in the actual malware implementation led it to turn into a fork bomb."

"... without this error it would have gone unnoticed for much longer. The malware's own poor quality is what made it visible."

futuresearch.ai/blog/no-prom...

Making me snort earns a follow.

WTF. I give up.

See prior post for alt text.

A black and white cartoon of two scientists standing in front of a chalkboard. On the left and right of the board are sets of equations. The second scientist is pointing at the middle of the chalkboard, which reads "THEN A MIRACLE OCCURS". The caption reads: "I THINK YOU SHOULD BE MORE EXPLICIT IN STEP TWO."

We had this when I was growing up.

In this case, maybe amend it to "I think you should be more explicit in steps one and two." But hey, policy-shmolicy.

We call it Jesus Craft.

I wrote a novel using AI. Writers must accept artificial intelligence -but we are as valuable as ever| Stephen Marche The Guardian The, GuardianOpinions

You wrote a novel using AI? Cool. It's like that time I ran a marathon using a Ford Focus.

This is so, so well-articulated.

what's wild is most people engaging with these tools don't even know there's a distinction to make. they think "it gave me an answer" and "it gave me a correct answer" are the same sentence.

The bad news is people use these to set up business continuity for critical databases.

The worse news is these systems will blow up catastrophically and at the worst possible moment.

The good news is, as one who fixes such scenarios, lots of lucrative work coming my way.

Can't figure out why it's running two instances of Outlook, or can't figure out why it's running Outlook?

To analogize the Al information-collapse scenario: It's like if the modern information economy was a bee farm, where journalists are the honeybees. (We do sting people from time to time). Information is honey, and society loves honey! You don't even need to meet a bee to eat it. But making honey is so slow... Then a new Al-powered robot arrives that makes it a lot cheaper and faster to get the honey to consumers — by driving over the flowers, smashing open the beehive and killing all the bees in the process. There's no more honey to collect next time, and the robot is left to scrape up whatever is left in the debris. One day you get to the grocery store, and crud is the only thing on the shelves. Suddenly dinner is less appetizing but you don't know why. Oh, and society has gotten addicted to riding around on the bee-smashing machine.

Wherein I write about the step beyond Google Zero and imagine the AI information ecosystem collapse:

mattdpearce.substack.com/p/who-really...

Thoughts and Osprey-rs.

I'll chip in $100.

Maybe, "Assume a frictionless system" but potato patahto.

If you think AI is stupid bullshit and you want to hear someone describe - in meticulously researched detail - exactly why it is stupid bullshit, have I got a podcast recommendation for you.

Haven't you heard?
ICE replaces TSA, then:
FBI = ICE
Pentagon= FBI
CIA = Pentagon
Jr and Eric = CIA

how diffie hellman key exchange works

(with as little math as possible)

I'd pay to watch him take a geography or civics test.

Quantum experiment shows events may have no fixed order For the first time, a team of physicists in Austria has carried out an experiment that appears to verify the principle of indefinite causal order: an idea that suggests that timelines of events can exist in multiple orders at the same time.

A quantum experiment has provided strong evidence that the order of events can exist in a superposition, challenging the classical notion of fixed cause and effect. doi.org/hbtxsf

Someone please get on Fox and mention that he could be the first president to use the 25th Amendment.

a man is sitting in the back seat of a car and looking out the window . Alt: A gif of the Six Minute Abs scene from There's Something About Mary.

Six Minute Adjunct Professor of Law Abs.

if you watch or support this you're a bad person btw. i'm not arguing with you about it either

Mulder: I don't want to believe anymore.

The folks behind AI think they've invented a perpetual motion machine. All they needed was to prime it with stolen knowledge. They mistook fancy predictions for inquiry and ingenuity & once the originality dries up or fades into the background noise, it'll collapse, in spectacular fashion.

I have a friend and colleague in Valencia who speaks Spanish/Valencian/Catalan. Happy to forward things on to him and confident he'd be willing to help out.