Gavin Owens
@gavinowens.net
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founder @
https://tonk.xyz
personal @
https://gavinowens.net
Source of truth problems don't need another centralizing system, they need a local-first one. Read my full piece:
tonk.xyz/updates/the-...
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The Source of Truth Problem is Getting Worse with Agents β Tonk
Intelligence depends on knowledge, but in practice that knowledge is fragmented across tools, people, and formats, creating conflicting versions of reality. What if we accepted that knowledge lives at...
https://tonk.xyz/updates/the-source-of-truth-problem-is-getting-worse-with-agents
2 days ago
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I love to be in a folder with my friend
@chee.party
6 days ago
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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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The knowledge layer for collective intelligence
A portable data substrate for humans and their tools to think together.
https://tonk.xyz/updates/representing-thought-in-carry
30 days ago
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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 naΓ―vetΓ© of the last 30+ years (eg. technological determinism).
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6 months ago
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See you all there tonight!
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9 months ago
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reposted by
Gavin Owens
Stella Biderman @ ICLR
9 months ago
Are you afraid of LLMs teaching people how to build bioweapons? Have you tried just... not teaching LLMs about bioweapons?
@eleutherai.bsky.social
β¬ 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
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π Brace! Brace! Brace!
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10 months ago
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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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10 months ago
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Gavin Owens
Simon Willison
10 months ago
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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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 β¦
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/6/supabase-mcp-lethal-trifecta/
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Harry Kingdon
12 months ago
πΎ Londoners πΎ Iβm hosting a one-off event: Vibe Coders London For people building weird, beautiful, personal software with AI. ποΈ June 11 π Hoxton π€ Demos + vibes + smart creative folks π§ ~25 curated spots
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Gavin Owens
Harry Kingdon
about 1 year ago
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...
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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.
https://discord.com/invite/mtEwuEZQ5x
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Gavin Owens
Harry Kingdon
about 1 year ago
> 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
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Key management is the hardest part of cryptography, so I wrote up a small survey on approaches:
goblinoats.com/notes/on-keys
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About Keys
https://goblinoats.com/notes/on-keys
about 1 year ago
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www.robinsloan.com/lab/five-yea...
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Five years of home-cooked apps
Finished.
https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/five-years-of-home-cooked-apps/
about 1 year ago
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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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On Ritual
https://goblinoats.com/notes/on-ritual
about 1 year ago
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I made a precursor to the Voight-Kampff test from Bladerunner.
goblinoats.com/notes/e1
about 1 year ago
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