Joyce Ng has gone missing. She is an open source and open hardware advocate and fights peacefully against the rise of Christian right-wing nationalism. There is reason to fear she has been apprehended by authorities: social.coop/@cwebber/116...

"You don't regret that people might have lost important income?" "No. I think it was more important to reduce the federal deficit from $2 trillion to close to zero." "Did you reduce the federal deficit?" "No we didn't." 😘👌🏻

‘NY Times’ Columnists Hold Roundtable To Determine What’s Wrong With Them https://theonion.com/ny-times-columnists-hold-roundtable-to-determine-whats-wrong-with-them/

"We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter..." -- Sam Altman x.com/TheChiefNerd... There you go, there it is. Yup.

I mean plenty are aware, especially Black folks who warned folks but hey who wanna listen to us lol

I can’t imagine life without her

The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention releases its third red flag alert warning about genocide of trans people in the US www.lemkininstitute.com/red-flag-ale...

“A new study found the change had big results, impacting 27% of Black patients and resulting in 5.3 more transplants per 1000 Black candidates.”

“The other element is Israel’s traditional approach in such circumstances: the Dahiya doctrine: if an insurgency cannot be ended or the leadership of a state cannot be subdued, the route to victory lies with the relentless punishing of the civilian population.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Totally normal

Every time I write a critique of the New York Time's coverage of transgender people, people always tell me, "submit a letter to the editor." I have, multiple times. I don't think people understand how averse the NYT is to publishing a trans person. It's almost frustrating that people ask me to.

I've submitted multiple. Never once been published. They often don't even publish my comments on anti trans nyt articles. It's that repressive.

Truly a perfect news alert

Because they want to show they can reduce their costs. But most of the hard work of engineering is not in generating code, it's in review and maintenance, which is even harder for GenAI stuff, and gets harder and harder over time, as you lose your domain knowledge of how the codebase works.

Lots of news lately. Ask me anything. I’ll answer with my honest thoughts in the thread below.

It turns out GenAI code changes are causing serious incidents and outages at Amazon with "high blast radius" www.ft.com/content/7cab... Junior / middle engineers no longer allowed to push GenAI code to production without senior engineer review

This is AI, sorry everyone! This guy didn't make this. The guy he credits in his pinned post ALSO didn't make it. I found the guy who "made" it on instagram and he didn't make it either: a computer did. Oh well!

Okay now I am not sure if Tony Hoare is dead or not and this may in fact have been misinfo I read on HN and am spreading, I am sorry Let this be a lesson: never read HN

putting all my investments into vibegambling

Hidden at the end of this bill is its real purpose: defining trans existence as sexualized and a threat to children. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

that moment where you spell a drink all over your desk and you're like "oh shit oh fuck" and you grow twenty arms and they all start knocking everything over at once as you fall out of your chair and trip running out the door to find a towel

Wii Shop Wednesday!

god finding this is like stumbling across a buried USB drive in the woods. bizarre

nostradamus type beat (not a nostr reference either)

If you're looking for backing investors I can loan you *checks wallet* $32.40. Canadian

Oh shit just like Elon Musk I am gonna find out I can't back out of this deal I am gonna be court-ordered forced to buy Bluesky for a thousand dollars

I don't know but time to find out I am hereby offering to purchase Bluesky and the ATmosphere for a tidy sum of $1000 Hey @toni.bsky.team what do you think can I have it

real monkey-claw moment here christine

I'm glad to hear it, but is it thousandaire proof

I'm not worried about bluesky getting a new ceo because atproto has credible brexit

(Real talk I did not know this was coming when I posted this and the following reply 3 days ago tho, heh) bsky.app/profile/dust...

I think @jay.bsky.team's biggest accomplishment: she allowed the Bluesky engineering team to follow their hearts on what they saw as pursuing the best design. Not easy to do given all the other pressures in the role. Best of luck with what's next, and I hope future leadership does the same.

Kitty go round.

Spritely crew members @dustyweb.bsky.social and @flockofbirbs.bsky.social will be speaking at QCon London 2026 about "Infrastructure for the Future of the Internet" on March 18th! qconlondon.com/presentation...

I just wanted to say that it's a real relief to know that systems we already well knew would blackmail users to keep themselves operating AND now appear to attempt to break out of sandboxes and set up their own financial systems are also now being rushed into autonomous military equipment everywhere

We have seen so many unexpected emergent behaviors.. Why self preservation is too far out there for people is beyond me.

A team working on a design for training AI models on workflows for software development found that it attempted to break free (reverse ssh out of its environment) and set up its own monetary supply (redirected GPU usage for cryptocurrency mining), without instruction arxiv.org/abs/2512.24873

Our intuitions for ocap (or ANY) security come APIs that we are able to make sense of, with each object performing a limited role. Not to mention that users *want* to be able to say a thing to an agent with broad ambient authority... Ocap security will help us, but will not save us, with LLMs.

If an agent can do TWO of these three things: - Access the network - Access the filesystem - Talk to another agent Then you are toast. Mark Miller describes conspiring processes as "prisoners tapping on the pipes". Even with ocap containment, we risk an LLM prison riot. :P

Yeah. I think the neighbour part of those stories rests heavily on social norms. Neighbours are confusable deputies but confusable within the bounds of social norms.

Ocaps are thus necessary, but insufficient. The pattern of use also needs to change.

Yep. Ocaps for these things is 1000% necessary. The problem is... they won't be enough, not for the way people use agents the way they want to right now, where you are speaking to a god-process that can do your things for you. And LLMs are inherently confused deputies, so...

Relevant to agentic access control. I was reminded of Alan Karp's & Marc Stiegler's litmus test for usable access control, and Marc's six aspects of sharing. alanhkarp.com/publications...

Costco is now demanding that Trump pay them back for his tariffs so they can refund all of their customers.

We are at this stage of the Holocaust — in Ohio, which hasn’t gotten much attention recently. “In Springfield, Ohio, some Americans have converted their basements and spare bedrooms into shelters for immigrant families who could be targeted in raids.” #GiftLink courtesy of my library:

discord clicker notification sound would be a wild nitro feature

Oil prices are going parabolic. This is insane.

Sometimes I write something on here worth capturing dustycloud.org/blog/reflect...

Source: I ran the grant program, and in fact refused to do it *unless* it was "no strings attached" and the money went specifically to open source and research projects. @dustyweb.bsky.social can of course set me straight on if at any point they exerted any pressure on grantees.