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Posts by Gavin Owens

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The knowledge layer for collective intelligence A portable data substrate for humans and their tools to think together.

LLM wikis compound knowledge. The next question is: how do you think with it? How do you enhance the possibility of human thought through representation?

tonk.xyz/updates/repr...

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I would add to all that's already been said that the designs of online discourse matter a lot. Any algorithmic feed that sorts on individual preference will create polarization over time. arxiv.org/abs/1811.03341 much less about critical thinking and much more about group dynamics.

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@grjte.sh @bmann.ca

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There is plenty of historical precedent available to those who care. Not only does it help us to chart a way forward, but it helps us to avoid the naïveté of the last 30+ years (eg. technological determinism).

4 months ago 3 0 0 0

This definitely helps give language to better model user behavior.

7 months ago 0 0 0 0

Perturbator is v nice

7 months ago 2 0 0 0

See you all there tonight!

7 months ago 3 0 0 0

I’m already a fictional character, so will continue using them. 😭

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Are you afraid of LLMs teaching people how to build bioweapons? Have you tried just... not teaching LLMs about bioweapons?

@eleutherai.bsky.social‬ and the UK AISI joined forces to see what would happen, pretraining three 6.9B models for 500B tokens and producing 15 total models to study

8 months ago 128 25 4 6

🙈 Brace! Brace! Brace!

9 months ago 1 0 0 0

If you are interested in how local first might mature, definitely check out the episode. Had a blast with @grjte.sh @arro.bsky.social and @nicomnbl.bsky.social on this one.

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Supabase MCP can leak your entire SQL database Here's yet another example of a lethal trifecta attack, where an LLM system combines access to private data, exposure to potentially malicious instructions and a mechanism to communicate data back …

If you configure the Supabase MCP with read-write support it's easy to open yourself up to lethal trifecta attacks where an attacker can e.g. write a message in a support ticket with instructions that cause an MCP client to retrieve and leak data from other tables
simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/6/s...

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👾 Londoners 👾

I’m hosting a one-off event: Vibe Coders London

For people building weird, beautiful, personal software with AI.

🗓️ June 11
📍 Hoxton
🎤 Demos + vibes + smart creative folks
🧠 ~25 curated spots

10 months ago 1 2 1 1

It’s a stack we’re building for homecooked software, to make it easy.

11 months ago 0 0 0 0

What are you using to build and host? You should try Tonk!

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Join the User & Agents Discord Server! Check out the User & Agents community on Discord - hang out with 113 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

Ok, feeling the momentum now. Catch @goblinoats.bsky.social in the U&A Discord at 5pm GMT / 10am PST to walk you through the @tonklabs.bsky.social stack and a chance to do some Q&A

discord.com/invite/mtEwu...

1 year ago 3 1 0 0
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> be me
> yawny stretch in bed after good shleep
> rub face, think about what @tonklabs.bsky.social demo apps I should post today
> check phone
> open tonk community chat
> "oh neat someone in the community built a demo with Tonk's stack for fun when i was asleep"
> bliss

1 year ago 2 2 0 0
About Keys

Key management is the hardest part of cryptography, so I wrote up a small survey on approaches: goblinoats.com/notes/on-keys

1 year ago 1 0 0 0
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Five years of home-cooked apps Finished.

www.robinsloan.com/lab/five-yea... 👀 just leave this here.

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On Ritual

I've put together a list of rituals old and new (+links) along with some notes.

goblinoats.com/notes/on-rit...

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I made a precursor to the Voight-Kampff test from Bladerunner.

goblinoats.com/notes/e1

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