There's an LLM threat vector I think about a lot that looks something like this: A. Compromise popular open dependency B. Release model with weights subtly tweaked to prefer compromised version of dependency C. Wait for agents to add dependency to real software. Let it sit dormant until needed.

play modern naval warfare. accidentally run virginia class aground. not ideal. spend next 30 minutes flinging harpoons at already crippled target from beached whale submarine. fuck you boat.

regardless of the stance on AI, this is deliberately and consciously distributing malware. once you've demonstrated willingness to do that for *any* reason, there's no way to know this will be the only reason. congratulations, you've just turned your library into an explicit supply chain risk.

This thread is fascinating because the neutral positioning has attracted a lot of people who don't realize how far behind the curve they are right now. They're arguing about what to have for dinner while the ship is pointed straight at an iceberg.

there are good reasons to run open weight models, but I'll never understand why people insist on convincing themselves that it's financially wise. a DC operator amortizing across customers while paying commercial electric rates in a commodity market that trends to TCO beats your cost every time.

This is the problem with this current discourse. I can pretty much guarantee you that none of these people know what a datacenter actually looks like. If you've ever been to downtown ATL, you have driven past one of those 200+ datacenters without realizing it.

For me, Bluesky is watching real life professional policy wonks get into protracted arguments where their interlocutor is consistently, intentionally misreading their statements in increasingly bad faith ways over a 30 post deep thread while having 250 followers and a furry PFP. It's magic.

I cannot overstate how much a Gunship + Rob Sheridan collab is very my kind of shit.

Quacks love ivermectin and are now recommending it for hantavirus. Obviously, it doesn't work. But why ivermectin? Why this drug in particular? I wrote a bit about why. smol.news/p/why-the-iv...

the fact that any of this is legal is hilarious

I'm not sure there's ever been a man as dedicated to telling the entire world exactly how dumb they are as Marc Andreessen is.

If you use these tools, there is something extremely important that you need to internalize: The bot is not a people. The bot is not a people. The bot is not a people. Do not treat it like it's a people. Treating it like a people is deleterious to your mental health.

Pondering your orb is inherently neoliberal.

My other senator is really good too. Very, very strange thing to be able to say as a Georgian.

My feed should be evidence that I've been on the "Ossoff is definitely running and might just have the juice" train for a while. Still weird seeing people like Jamelle start to say it, though. I was starting to think I was overindexing not having an awful senator for the first time in my life.

yeah, so two things. first, i have been saying for some time that *this* is the message. and that it is a broad one that can fit a large number of concerns. and second, this dude has the juice.

I got to take a ride in a little Piper Cherokee once. On approach to land, the pilot warned me that things would get a little bumpier when we got over the parking lot of the Walmart and Home Depot across the street from the runway. Great first-hand demonstration of how urban heat islands happen.

much like having worked a service industry job can be valuable for character growth, everyone in tech should spend at least a couple of years working at a big, boring non-tech megacorp as far as possible from the Bay to understand how very, very different the wider world is.

Driving through BFE and needed a bathroom stop. Punched the nearest gas station into GPS and Google Maps is on one today. "Take this dirt road." I mean, it's a Subaru. Okay." "Now ford this creek, lol."

homologate it you cowards

the people mourning the death of code all said the same shit about leetcode and tech interview culture as us: balancing braces isn't important, the code isn't the hard part of the job, being able to do this on the spot doesn't reflect real work, etc. they just don't say it now.

Anthropic engaging in yet another round of PR missteps and hole digging is a great demonstration of why many organizations are going to struggle with AI adoption. If you lack organizational structure, processes, and discipline, the bot can always make things worse.

This got an audible "yoooooo wtf?" out of me. GoPro has a m43 camera coming? I absolutely do not need this but I kind of want it. Assuming it can film for more than 2.6 minutes without overheating, at least.

NINoize set for Coachella week 2 may actually be better than last week. The energy is ridiculous. Trent choking back laughter during Copy of A was hilarious just because he's usually SO committed to the bit. Dude is having fun and it's awesome.

watching the stream of Turnstile at Coachella and, man, maybe the kids are gonna be alright.

NINoize album is great. Thought I was being screwed with at first "this has crowd noise and sounds live in places and is the exact same tracklist as Coachella but also sounds like a studio recording?" Turns out they did, in fact, mash up live and studio and everything else. It's good.

how am I supposed to procrastinate between calls like this? just who do bsky think they are? M365?

The head lobbyist at DoorDash is crashing out on X because people figured out DoorDash Grandma is a paid actor who regularly shows up as a “woman on the street” to endorse Republican policies. I’m amused they couldn’t find one real person to endorse no taxes on tips.

He's my senator so I've paid attention to him longer than most folks elsewhere would. I've always liked Ossoff. I do wonder if he might cut a little too far on the wonk side for the average national voter; this is pretty consistent with how he typically presents.

It's not just Mythos: nine Mexican government agencies breached by an attacker heavily leveraging Claude Code and GPT. Fascinating how much this follows typical red team patterns, but with a much higher throw it at the wall factor (and an attacker who appears less personally sophisticated).

A real concern re: Project Glasswing is that all the partners are IT and finance. "We're promising $100M to Amazon, Apple, and JPMorganChase, but the underfunded municipal water utility is on their own." I'd feel a *lot* better about the whole thing if there were some e.g. Honeywells on the list.

It's looking like this is at least partially true. Also: running costs in the range of "more than businesses will routinely spend but a rounding error for a state actor." I do not like this equation.

the funniest thing about the bsky-is-dying discourse is that everyone has already purged mastodon as an alternative from their memory (laudatory)

There's a proposed datacenter project in my area. Science said that it was impossible to find dumber reasons for people to be upset about it. Karen owns property with unmarked graves *two miles* from the proposed site, is upset about it. Science was wrong.

Barber is such a great spectator track. Also, more race tracks need art installations like a giant spider and a lady in the lake.

Good morning, nerds. It's a beautiful day to watch racecars go VROOOOMVROOOM BRINGDINGdingdingding at Barber Motorsports.

A cascade of conditionals: IF Anthropic Mythos represents an actual step change and not marketing hype AND it's in any way related to recent safety commitment walkbacks AND the safety concerns are real AND it gets released anyway BUT gatekept to those deemed worthy That would be a Bad Thing™️

Ahmadinejad was killed, but it seems the Poaster's Spirit lives on in Iran.

re: the Cyclorama. the standup show in question was Doug Stanhope at an old abandoned church. we were literally seated in pews like we were receiving a sermon as an actual jug of moonshine got passed around the crowd. that was a weird 24 hours.

apropos of both some conversations and some frameworks I've been looking at today: a key hurdle to meaningful enterprise AI adoption is going to be the fact that agile provides some useful repurposable terminology, but is a structural mismatch for what future workflows are going to look like

So, a really, *really* important thing here. Anthropic's major inference partners: AWS. Google. Microsoft. All defense contractors.

beyond lists being abused in this manner, there's a massive problem with lists that exist purely as a form of block-evasion and a way of getting a few last digs in at someone they're mad at. you'll see people suddenly tagged with a half dozen lists that are literally nothing but insults.

zaslav scamming the ellisons is a possibility I hadn't considered that is, in fact, very funny

1. He's so running lol 2. Other Democrats really need to be paying attention to his messaging. This is someone who's done it in a state with razor sharp margins showing how you reach actually swingable independents.

lol, lmao

the funniest thing about this is he'd clearly been coached that the markets really want certainty, because he kept repeating the word over and over and over during the press conference yesterday. then <24 hours later he's arbitrarily changing things that haven't even gone into effect yet.

....fine. I'll get back to playing minigames instead of automating my production lines.

Scrolling YT live, I get a stream of a Finnish woman blasting metal in the middle of the night while driving around some sort of machine with a mechachainsaw arm cutting down trees. I now understand that AW and Control were just @remedygames.com making loving documentaries about their homeland.

A short story about self-nerdsniping and Claude Code: A conversation with a friend about John Ossoff's age lead to a shower thought, which lead to a Claude Code session, which lead to a couple of hours of data-wrangling, which lead to emailing the US Senate Historian to correct an official record.