Chris Olsen
@chris.sigint.life
Incident management specialist. Fan of wolves. Political junkie and IR nerd. 🇳🇴🇪🇸🇬🇧
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this week's newsletter is titled "aren't you tired of feeling insane all the time?" and I think it speaks for itself
it is also free to read
youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...
it is also free to read
youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...
November 21, 2025 at 10:18 AM
this week's newsletter is titled "aren't you tired of feeling insane all the time?" and I think it speaks for itself
it is also free to read
youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...
it is also free to read
youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...
Trump demands Ukraine’s complete surrender, essentially. on.ft.com/4pjI1DB
November 20, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Trump demands Ukraine’s complete surrender, essentially. on.ft.com/4pjI1DB
If anyone was wondering what's going on in the other place, Grok is now a holocaust denier.
November 19, 2025 at 12:05 PM
If anyone was wondering what's going on in the other place, Grok is now a holocaust denier.
The obviously-an-AI support from my financial institution is telling me that I can freeze and unfreeze my card when abroad even if I have no internet access.
This is obviously impossible but I’m glad I know that. And I can’t wait for this bubble to burst.
This is obviously impossible but I’m glad I know that. And I can’t wait for this bubble to burst.
November 1, 2025 at 5:07 PM
The obviously-an-AI support from my financial institution is telling me that I can freeze and unfreeze my card when abroad even if I have no internet access.
This is obviously impossible but I’m glad I know that. And I can’t wait for this bubble to burst.
This is obviously impossible but I’m glad I know that. And I can’t wait for this bubble to burst.
If they’re going to send VPOTUS every time IDF and Hamas shoot at each other I’d suggest he get in touch with a good realtor
U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance is heading to Tel Aviv for talks aimed at keeping the #Gaza ceasefire in place
#Israel www.itamilradar.com/2025/10/21/a...
#Israel www.itamilradar.com/2025/10/21/a...
Air Force Two heading to Israel
Two U.S. Air Force Boeing C-32A aircraft (SAM227 – reg. 99-0004 and AF2 – reg. 98-0001) are tracked this morning crossing Europe en route to Italy before heading toward the Eastern Mediterranean. Acco...
www.itamilradar.com
October 21, 2025 at 10:26 AM
If they’re going to send VPOTUS every time IDF and Hamas shoot at each other I’d suggest he get in touch with a good realtor
I keep wondering if anyone writing big headlines about peace in the Middle East is is over six years old. If not, I wonder how they missed the multitude of times the same has been said in the past. We've been here a few times before.
October 13, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I keep wondering if anyone writing big headlines about peace in the Middle East is is over six years old. If not, I wonder how they missed the multitude of times the same has been said in the past. We've been here a few times before.
How do you get an opportunity to speak with one of the best writers of our time and waste it talking like this
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
October 9, 2025 at 6:54 PM
How do you get an opportunity to speak with one of the best writers of our time and waste it talking like this
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This is a masterpiece. Simply excellent
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August 14, 2025 at 3:54 PM
This is a masterpiece. Simply excellent
www.instagram.com/reel/DMVGMIC...
www.instagram.com/reel/DMVGMIC...
Front squat 12s can go die in a fire.
July 31, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Front squat 12s can go die in a fire.
This is embarrassing. The EU seems to have forgotten the Brussels Effect and decided to roll over for TACO Trump.
US and EU strike trade deal, says Trump
US president announces agreement after talks with European Commission head Ursula von der Leyen at Turnberry
on.ft.com
July 27, 2025 at 6:35 PM
This is embarrassing. The EU seems to have forgotten the Brussels Effect and decided to roll over for TACO Trump.
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South Park is getting canceled after this lmao.
July 24, 2025 at 3:59 AM
South Park is getting canceled after this lmao.
Credit to @financialtimes.com for covering fundamental problems with LLMs. There's not nearly enough of quality journalism around this, and people generally make too many assumptions about their reasoning and quality of output.
Always remember: an LLM has no concept of correct.
on.ft.com/4o2foet
Always remember: an LLM has no concept of correct.
on.ft.com/4o2foet
The ‘hallucinations’ that haunt AI: why chatbots struggle to tell the truth
Tech groups step up efforts to reduce fabricated responses but eliminating them appears impossible
on.ft.com
July 22, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Credit to @financialtimes.com for covering fundamental problems with LLMs. There's not nearly enough of quality journalism around this, and people generally make too many assumptions about their reasoning and quality of output.
Always remember: an LLM has no concept of correct.
on.ft.com/4o2foet
Always remember: an LLM has no concept of correct.
on.ft.com/4o2foet
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I let a goat from my local zoo run SQL commands against prod without protection and it nuked my data
The comments: have you tried this other much smarter goat
The comments: have you tried this other much smarter goat
July 20, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I let a goat from my local zoo run SQL commands against prod without protection and it nuked my data
The comments: have you tried this other much smarter goat
The comments: have you tried this other much smarter goat
Today's trashy internet, this time courtesy of @flysas.com who removed their completely functional search to implement something that requires this warning.
July 19, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Today's trashy internet, this time courtesy of @flysas.com who removed their completely functional search to implement something that requires this warning.
Ignoring the data leak that made it necessary in the first place, moving thousands of people from under the Taliban's noses is pretty damn impressive.
Not that any part of the public discussion will be that the operation is a point of pride.
Not that any part of the public discussion will be that the operation is a point of pride.
July 16, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Ignoring the data leak that made it necessary in the first place, moving thousands of people from under the Taliban's noses is pretty damn impressive.
Not that any part of the public discussion will be that the operation is a point of pride.
Not that any part of the public discussion will be that the operation is a point of pride.
I couldn't remember punch and pie.
June 27, 2025 at 9:13 AM
I couldn't remember punch and pie.
Movie you've watched more than six times using GIFs (hard mode: no Star Wars, Star Trek or LOTR)
June 26, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Movie you've watched more than six times using GIFs (hard mode: no Star Wars, Star Trek or LOTR)
Although they're lagging on military spending I'm glad Spain is refusing this nonsense. 5% NATO spending is absurd, unnecessary, and won't actually happen. It's there to kiss Trump's ass. The faster European leaders stop embarrassing themselves by doing that the faster he'll TACO.
June 25, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Although they're lagging on military spending I'm glad Spain is refusing this nonsense. 5% NATO spending is absurd, unnecessary, and won't actually happen. It's there to kiss Trump's ass. The faster European leaders stop embarrassing themselves by doing that the faster he'll TACO.
For people ramping on about how Iran must never have a nuclear weapon, they're doing an awful lot to incentivise Iran getting a nuclear weapon.
June 22, 2025 at 10:27 AM
For people ramping on about how Iran must never have a nuclear weapon, they're doing an awful lot to incentivise Iran getting a nuclear weapon.
JCPOA was good, actually.
June 22, 2025 at 5:18 AM
JCPOA was good, actually.
We live in a timeline where it’s completely plausible for Tucker Carlson to visit the Ayatollah and show us how much better supermarkets in Teheran are.
June 19, 2025 at 8:22 AM
We live in a timeline where it’s completely plausible for Tucker Carlson to visit the Ayatollah and show us how much better supermarkets in Teheran are.