Optimization without admissibility becomes laundering

I probably shouldn’t post when I’m this ornery

You know, if tech has a religion, it is in absolutely DIRE need of a reformation

Leaving ATproto for a superior protocol, Google wave

Ummm hmm.

SRE is what happens when ops has to put on a dev costume to be allowed in the room.

Don't mind me, think I've gone 'round the twist

Old McDonald had an outage, SLI/SLO And in that outage found no root cause, KPI/SLA With a sev-one here, and a five-nine there Here a toil, there a toil, everywhere a toil-toil Old McDonald had an outage, E-I-E-I-Ops

Mass production of plausible vuln-shaped paperwork by people who previously had to manually misunderstand the code; progress, of a sort.

I'm not convinced by the claimed causality. That gray line could just as well be labelled "Anthropic gifts $100M in usage credits to cybersecurity researchers".

The concerns about Mythos-class models and cybersecurity were not, in fact, hype. (As anyone using Fable to do autonomous work has probably recognized)

Neat. PJM posted a NERC EEA 1 / Maximum Generation Emergency-Load Management Alert for July 3, 2026, 00:01–23:59 EPT across PJM-RTO. Translation: “capacity is getting tight enough that generation above normal economic limits or demand response may be needed”, not “blackouts now”. FWIW.

Aren't we all

I mean, look at the community that orbits this stuff. Of course they sound like playskool tpot. Rats love to do this. They're involved with the design and implementation of this shit, so they think it's a good idea. Then when you have the lowest-level models doing it, you get babytown frolics.

Polymarket whether America250 ends up Dashcon or Balloonfest '86

WHY AM I LEARNING ABOUT THIS FROM POLYMARKET

I think it might be the funniest and most American possible outcome if it ends up just that the two major foundation labs swung in and out of favor with the feds any time the executive branch changed parties. Anthropic (D), OpenAI (R).

I need confirmation they were frozen during the active reign of the following human calamities: Leopold II of Belgium (late 1800s) Pol Pot (late 1970s) Talaat Pasha (WWI) Tsar Alexander II (1864) Tamerlane (late 1300s early 1400s) Tsar Ivan the Terrible (mid 1500s)

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*buck turgidson voice* mr. president, we cannot allow a context window gap!

Do people even use kickstarter anymore? I mean like, individuals. Feels like that ship may have sailed, probably for good reason.

The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a large language model is a good guy with a larger context window.

Can't wait until these nerds enter their TEMU Flatliners arc

So .. San Francisco has rediscovered the monastery, except the monks are optimizing outbound sales calls and doing Victor Frankenstein shit to lobsters in the name of the machine god. Cool, cool, cool.

Chickens coming home to roost, imo

@beth4ma.bsky.social talks about this a lot. It's fucked up that we've turned children's sports into a competitive ticket system to college and fame, when they're not supposed to be about that.

yo yo yo what's up yggdrasil?

Won't somebody please think of the Cenobites? #ai

Uhhhhh Also "The bypass is also trivial. Change hostname, change timezone, patch the binary, wrap the process. Any serious adversary can make this signal useless. So the feature mostly punishes the exact people who are easier to fingerprint: normal developers doing weird but legitimate things."

Maybe it's because I'm specifically *not* a SWE, but I always think about the blast radius for changes. If I had to spell it out, I would say something like: No agent output may become institutional action unless its authority path is separately witnessed, bounded, and refusal-capable.

Good as always, but stops one abstraction layer too early IMO.

Twitter’s the kind of dumbass place where if I had added the right incense to Ellul and Ashby and called it The Rite of Refusal, some people might be using my tools now. I mean, if I ever talked about them. Which I don’t.

Maybe I just need to find some actuaries to hang out with

Sometimes I see people posting eduslop that managed to cross the gate in arxiv because the author was already blessed with entry and then suddenly the replication crisis doesn’t seem so difficult to comprehend

I'm refracting right now! Later, I'll probably reticulate some splines.

Neutral atoms. Okay. A thousand logical qubits would be a historic engineering achievement, sure, but it would also be a spectacular machine for producing novel classes of unnoticed procedural debt, too.

It must have been a hoot to live in times when science was so new you could just describe hydrogen as inflammable air and drop out of college but still head committees to review scientific instruments

Finally, a reply that gets closer to the load-bearing piece of this entire weird discourse. It's exactly because frontier weights are capital equipment that we don't have a frontier-class open-source model in the "west".

No aroma? I’m not buying any until I can get Cool Ranch Glacier Blast

So if there’s a tick/tock cycle for market manipulation, is there also a Moore’s Law?

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You know, this is ugly, but I'm going to say it anyway; I think that much of the American AI boom slots directly into unmet social/organizational needs. No mentors, unstable institutions, no real training, no third places, absence of trustworthy authorities, inability to cope with uncertainty, ..

Love to remove institutional memory from the control loop

This has a lot of traction in the current zeitgeist but if ford has been re-hiring over the last /three years/ this is not the AI question as we know it today.

Huh

Old infrastructure propaganda: “Look, we built the bridge. Ignore the prison.” AI infrastructure propaganda: “The bridge is the prison.”

now *THAT* is how you infographic

It’s time for a revolution .. in savings !!

Their entire survival as businesses depends on getting regulatory capture now