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June 21, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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Bill Atkinson, one of the most quietly revolutionary minds in computing, has passed away. His creations — QuickDraw, MacPaint, and especially HyperCard — transformed not just the Mac, but how I thought about computing. A thread 🧵… 1/9
June 8, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Bill Atkinson, one of the most quietly revolutionary minds in computing, has passed away. His creations — QuickDraw, MacPaint, and especially HyperCard — transformed not just the Mac, but how I thought about computing. A thread 🧵… 1/9
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Things that greatly worry me about AI:
- conflict-increasing algorithms
- hyper-capitalistic AI agents
- mass unemployment
Things that do not much worry me about AI:
- carbon emissions (still less than 1% global)
- copyright violation (will get sorted out, ala Google Books)
- conflict-increasing algorithms
- hyper-capitalistic AI agents
- mass unemployment
Things that do not much worry me about AI:
- carbon emissions (still less than 1% global)
- copyright violation (will get sorted out, ala Google Books)
April 22, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Things that greatly worry me about AI:
- conflict-increasing algorithms
- hyper-capitalistic AI agents
- mass unemployment
Things that do not much worry me about AI:
- carbon emissions (still less than 1% global)
- copyright violation (will get sorted out, ala Google Books)
- conflict-increasing algorithms
- hyper-capitalistic AI agents
- mass unemployment
Things that do not much worry me about AI:
- carbon emissions (still less than 1% global)
- copyright violation (will get sorted out, ala Google Books)
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"Hospital staff are scrambling with damage control efforts implementing emergency masking policies and giving babies as young as 3 days old injections of immunoglobulin, an antibody that helps their fragile immune system try to fight off #measles."
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
Newborn babies exposed to measles in Texas hospital
Infants barely three days old are receiving antibody injections to help protect against the virus. Nearly 300 cases have been reported in the outbreak.
www.nbcnews.com
March 15, 2025 at 3:10 AM
"Hospital staff are scrambling with damage control efforts implementing emergency masking policies and giving babies as young as 3 days old injections of immunoglobulin, an antibody that helps their fragile immune system try to fight off #measles."
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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Meta’s former public policy chief signed a nondisparagement agreement when she left the social-media company in 2017. Now, Meta is using that pact to prevent her from promoting her tell-all book.
She Promised Not to Speak Ill of Meta. Then Wrote a Tell-All. Now, She Can’t Talk About It.
An arbitrator ruled that a former Meta employee has to halt publicity push for her new book; publisher plans to keep promoting it.
www.wsj.com
March 13, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Meta’s former public policy chief signed a nondisparagement agreement when she left the social-media company in 2017. Now, Meta is using that pact to prevent her from promoting her tell-all book.
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I didn’t notice how optimistic the early 90s were. 😢
March 15, 2025 at 2:46 AM
I didn’t notice how optimistic the early 90s were. 😢
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cut to me shoveling snow in a panic right before i have to take an important call
We tried out the new productivity app Touch Grass, which just came out for iOS. It blocks apps of your choosing and only unblocks them after you take a picture of your hand literally touching grass.
March 15, 2025 at 2:44 AM
cut to me shoveling snow in a panic right before i have to take an important call
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The NIST's new directive to AI Safety Institute partners scrubs mentions of "AI safety" and "AI fairness" and prioritizes "reducing ideological bias" in models (Will Knight/Wired)
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March 15, 2025 at 12:35 AM
The NIST's new directive to AI Safety Institute partners scrubs mentions of "AI safety" and "AI fairness" and prioritizes "reducing ideological bias" in models (Will Knight/Wired)
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Before Musk, there was McNamara: Why do Americans stubbornly cling to the notion that business skills are what's needed to fix government?
Americans Overestimate the Value of Business Skills in Government
In The Best and the Brightest, David Halberstam demonstrated that private-sector skills have no place in government.
www.bloomberg.com
March 14, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Before Musk, there was McNamara: Why do Americans stubbornly cling to the notion that business skills are what's needed to fix government?
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Meredith Whittaker on the security and privacy risks of Ai agents in messaging platforms, which I also worry about a lot. techcrunch.com/2025/03/07/s...
Signal President Meredith Whittaker calls out agentic AI as having 'profound' security and privacy issues | TechCrunch
Signal President Meredith Whittaker warned Friday that agentic AI could come with a risk to user privacy. Speaking onstage at the SXSW conference in
techcrunch.com
March 11, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Meredith Whittaker on the security and privacy risks of Ai agents in messaging platforms, which I also worry about a lot. techcrunch.com/2025/03/07/s...
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Last year I shared our discovery of the Crescendo and Skeleton Key jailbreak techniques. We have identified a new one, Context Compliance Attack (CCA) that's very simple, yet very effective at bypassing LLM guardrails.
Jailbreaking is (mostly) simpler than you think | MSRC Blog
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Jailbreaking is (mostly) simpler than you think
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March 13, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Last year I shared our discovery of the Crescendo and Skeleton Key jailbreak techniques. We have identified a new one, Context Compliance Attack (CCA) that's very simple, yet very effective at bypassing LLM guardrails.
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It's probably premature to suggest Musk is cooked but I wrote about the dangerous game he's playing. how the protests are working, how people are mad, and how you can really see the contours of how the whole thing could collapse for him www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Elon Musk, Human Meme Stock
How to lose $148 billion in less than two months
www.theatlantic.com
March 12, 2025 at 8:59 PM
It's probably premature to suggest Musk is cooked but I wrote about the dangerous game he's playing. how the protests are working, how people are mad, and how you can really see the contours of how the whole thing could collapse for him www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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Humanoid Robots Finally Get Real Jobs
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/humanoid-robot-workers-ai-brain-08027439
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/humanoid-robot-workers-ai-brain-08027439
Humanoid Robots Finally Get Real Jobs
These creatures of science fiction are moving toward a practical reality, stacking sorting and li…
www.wsj.com
March 10, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Humanoid Robots Finally Get Real Jobs
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/humanoid-robot-workers-ai-brain-08027439
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/humanoid-robot-workers-ai-brain-08027439
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Visiting friends in New York
March 12, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Visiting friends in New York
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Will America’s stockmarket convulsions spread?
https://economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/03/11/will-americas-stockmarket-convulsions-spread
https://economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/03/11/will-americas-stockmarket-convulsions-spread
Will America’s stockmarket convulsions spread?
Investors are hurrying to find alternatives—but all face difficulties of their own…
economist.com
March 12, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Will America’s stockmarket convulsions spread?
https://economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/03/11/will-americas-stockmarket-convulsions-spread
https://economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/03/11/will-americas-stockmarket-convulsions-spread
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Oh! She has! In at least one interview she talked about the briefings she's received on counter-intelligence. She has made music videos to click tracks instead of audio so it wouldn't leak.
Taylor Swift is a legitimate security expert like almost nobody in the world. She has to be. She's the target.
Taylor Swift is a legitimate security expert like almost nobody in the world. She has to be. She's the target.
I just want a serious journalist to ask actual Taylor about InfoSec. She’s sufficiently impressive I wouldn’t be surprised if she gave a cogent answer. Like Guy Goma in reverse.
March 9, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Oh! She has! In at least one interview she talked about the briefings she's received on counter-intelligence. She has made music videos to click tracks instead of audio so it wouldn't leak.
Taylor Swift is a legitimate security expert like almost nobody in the world. She has to be. She's the target.
Taylor Swift is a legitimate security expert like almost nobody in the world. She has to be. She's the target.
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“ThErE Is nO EvIdEnCe oF AnY ThReAt aCtOr aCtIvItY” said the clowns at @lastpass.bsky.social in their many, many updates trying to downplay the severity of this breach.
If you’re using LastPass in 2025, you’re being grossly negligent.
If you’re using LastPass in 2025, you’re being grossly negligent.
Unsealed court docs: US investigators believe hackers behind the 2022 LastPass breach stole $150M in XRP, now worth ~$700M, from one person in January 2024 (Thomas Brewster/Forbes)
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March 8, 2025 at 2:50 AM
“ThErE Is nO EvIdEnCe oF AnY ThReAt aCtOr aCtIvItY” said the clowns at @lastpass.bsky.social in their many, many updates trying to downplay the severity of this breach.
If you’re using LastPass in 2025, you’re being grossly negligent.
If you’re using LastPass in 2025, you’re being grossly negligent.
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you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
March 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM
you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
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"Exclusive: US intel shows Russia and China are attempting to recruit disgruntled federal employees, sources say."
This was never in doubt. DOGE’s damage will be deep, lasting, and generational. www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/p...
This was never in doubt. DOGE’s damage will be deep, lasting, and generational. www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/p...
US intel shows Russia and China are attempting to recruit disgruntled federal employees, sources say | CNN Politics
Foreign adversaries including Russia and China have recently directed their intelligence services to ramp up recruiting of US federal employees working in national security, targeting those who have b...
www.cnn.com
March 1, 2025 at 7:12 PM
"Exclusive: US intel shows Russia and China are attempting to recruit disgruntled federal employees, sources say."
This was never in doubt. DOGE’s damage will be deep, lasting, and generational. www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/p...
This was never in doubt. DOGE’s damage will be deep, lasting, and generational. www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/p...
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RESOLVED: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ is so much more expressive and therefore preferable than 🤷
Discuss
Discuss
February 26, 2025 at 11:41 PM
RESOLVED: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ is so much more expressive and therefore preferable than 🤷
Discuss
Discuss
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Rare video captures a super pod of more than 2,000 dolphins breaching off the coast of Monterey Bay.
Rare video captures super pod of 2,000 dolphins breaching and playing off California
Among the pod were northern right whale dolphins, one of two dolphin species without dorsal fins.
www.nbcnews.com
February 26, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Rare video captures a super pod of more than 2,000 dolphins breaching off the coast of Monterey Bay.
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From a FOIA perspective, "the entire federal workforce should write down and email what they did last week" is extremely funny
February 23, 2025 at 12:49 AM
From a FOIA perspective, "the entire federal workforce should write down and email what they did last week" is extremely funny