One must never confuse a loss function for an application

AI will absolutely revolutionize surveillance and weaponry and that is not hype

I find it hard to square the preciousness about "why would someone ever stay on Twitter?" when everyone on this site knows that the community here intentionally chased off lots of people.

“… for no kingdom can maintain itself by force alone. Force does not work the way its advocates seem to think it does. it does not, for example, reveal to the victim the strength of his adversary. On the contrary, it reveals the weakness, even the panic of his adversary…” - James Baldwin

It is true that anyone with an internet connection can do horrible things to another person. But it does matter if you make it easier to do harassment at scale and that 50% of Grok requests are harassment should be a broad source of shaming

Rough vibes on this website today, likely because people feel Hopeless and Helpless Because Can't Stop It and No One Who Is Supposed To Is Trying To So Now We're Fighting Each Other™. I recommend activities such as book, or potentially instrument if you like instrument, or even do talk on phone.

The end goal of Grok sexual harassment is to make women afraid to be visible. It’s a punishment for daring to exist in a way the perpetrators can’t control. There’s no one solution to this, because the problem isn’t just technological. It’s cultural. It’s misogyny. This is just one expression of it.

Mark Kelly with an American flag in the background

Remember a few weeks ago when Mark Kelly & a few others released a video reminding troops, “Our laws are clear — you can refuse illegal orders,” & Trump/Republicans melted down & called him a traitor

Turns out we didn’t have to wait long for another preview of future courts martial

Himes: "I was delighted to hear that Tom Cotton, chairmen of the Senate Intel Committee, has been in regular contact with the admin. I've had zero outreach and no D I'm aware of has. So apparently we're now in a world where the legal obligation to keep Congress informed only applies to your party."

I am tired of Earth. These people.

It’s fairly concerning that just 2-3 people have managed to buy and flip many of the major news sources in the US. Like, the economic value of all news is not that much, they could buy the rest too

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.

Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

Tonight, the President of the United States has launched an unconstitutional war of aggression, dooming another generation to spill their blood for oil, and lay waste to a sovereign nation.

I demand that Congress exercise its power, halt this conflict, and impeach this war criminal president.

The same editorial board described Seattle’s mayor raising taxes to pay for childcare as a totalitarian power grab

You're god damned right. Every word.

I am struggling with what might be a generational experience. The gulf war was pretty politically formative for me. It’s not history so much as memory this time.

It is destabilizing to see almost the exact same gameplan but this time without the guardrails that at the time I took for granted.

Eagerly awaiting the first time a pundit says it’s inappropriate to criticize the president because we’re at war

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It’s almost like green energy is the only way forward and a handful of oil barons are doing everything in their power to keep that from happening so they can get even richer at the cost of literally everything else in the world.

My Lethal Trifecta talk at the Bay Area AI Security Meetup I gave a talk on Wednesday at the Bay Area AI Security Meetup about prompt injection, the lethal trifecta and the challenges of securing systems that use MCP. It wasn’t …

I gave a talk on Wednesday at the Bay Area AI Security Meetup about prompt injection, MCP security and the lethal trifecta. Here are the annotated slides from my presentation, including notes on my weird hobby of trying to coin or amplify new terms of art simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/9/b...

no one cares that this is illegal but it is illegal and seems like something that might trip the court’s “major questions” doctrine

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

Why are no headlines focusing on the unconstitutional and dictatorial nature of this action?

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Deep cut for true weebs

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The soft bigotry of low expectations

Trump at the Bat

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people:

1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long

All lies.

We have a madman in the White House who is actively trying to trigger total war.

If Jeffries, Schumer, or any other Democratic leaders try to justify this, shrug indifferently, or write a strongly-worded letter and call it a day, they need to step down or be aggressively primaried.

still think this is one of the greatest posts ever made

Whoever came up with the phrase 「のど元過ぎれば熱さを忘れる」never watched Hot Ones