Ezra Stevens
@ezrast.bsky.social
You have to cry, because if you don't cry you'll laugh.
It's striking how inapt the language of infosec research is for this kind of thing. "Isolation flaws" in the "execution environment" sounds like it describes an esoteric sandboxing bug, not the entire feature at the conceptual level.
www.promptarmor.com/resources/cl...
www.promptarmor.com/resources/cl...
Claude Cowork Exfiltrates Files
Claude Cowork is vulnerable to file exfiltration attacks via indirect prompt injection as a result of known-but-unresolved isolation flaws in Claude's code execution environment.
www.promptarmor.com
January 15, 2026 at 8:12 PM
It's striking how inapt the language of infosec research is for this kind of thing. "Isolation flaws" in the "execution environment" sounds like it describes an esoteric sandboxing bug, not the entire feature at the conceptual level.
www.promptarmor.com/resources/cl...
www.promptarmor.com/resources/cl...
Reposted by Ezra Stevens
Hey if you use genAI for any reason, even if you think you're doing good, you're still merely engaging with fascism on its side. Stop it.
January 8, 2026 at 1:46 AM
Hey if you use genAI for any reason, even if you think you're doing good, you're still merely engaging with fascism on its side. Stop it.
Reposted by Ezra Stevens
Hey if you use AI for any reason related to today's ICE execution, even if you think you're doing something good or taking some stand against DHS/this government, you are merely engaging with fascism on its side in a way you don't realize. Stop it.
January 8, 2026 at 1:33 AM
Hey if you use AI for any reason related to today's ICE execution, even if you think you're doing something good or taking some stand against DHS/this government, you are merely engaging with fascism on its side in a way you don't realize. Stop it.
Every now and then this regime produces the most incredible shitpost completely on accident and it makes me so mad. I'm not sure if this tops "our beef is beautiful" but it's close.
Oh so it doesn't count as a war, which you guys claimed to be against, if you don't cross the Atlantic
January 6, 2026 at 4:28 AM
Every now and then this regime produces the most incredible shitpost completely on accident and it makes me so mad. I'm not sure if this tops "our beef is beautiful" but it's close.
Every scene of Snow Crash would be amazing cinema, from the opening pizza delivery to the VR swordfighting to the boat gunplay to the part in the middle where a robot librarian delivers an ancient history lecture directly into the camera for ten uninterrupted minutes.
OK, less contentious post:
You've been placed in charge of a movie studio, and have an unlimited budget to adapt any work of your choosing that has never been made into a live-action TV series or film. What are you picking?
For me: PC Hodgell's Kencyrath Cycle and there's no close second
You've been placed in charge of a movie studio, and have an unlimited budget to adapt any work of your choosing that has never been made into a live-action TV series or film. What are you picking?
For me: PC Hodgell's Kencyrath Cycle and there's no close second
December 26, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Every scene of Snow Crash would be amazing cinema, from the opening pizza delivery to the VR swordfighting to the boat gunplay to the part in the middle where a robot librarian delivers an ancient history lecture directly into the camera for ten uninterrupted minutes.
Well the word
Is your fire's out
Heard it all
But you've no doubt
And I said maybe
You're gonna save me
Walking in a winter wonderwall
Is your fire's out
Heard it all
But you've no doubt
And I said maybe
You're gonna save me
Walking in a winter wonderwall
December 11, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Well the word
Is your fire's out
Heard it all
But you've no doubt
And I said maybe
You're gonna save me
Walking in a winter wonderwall
Is your fire's out
Heard it all
But you've no doubt
And I said maybe
You're gonna save me
Walking in a winter wonderwall
Reposted by Ezra Stevens
Almost a single issue voter on this. How they want to tax and spend can be anywhere from Romney to Mamdani. Whoever most credibly pledges to restore the rule of law and permit it to exact righteous consequences on those who have transgressed it gets my vote.
The 2028 Dem nominee for POTUS really needs an old school fire-and-brimstone anti-corruption platform
from top to bottom all of these guys treat the united states government as a neat toy they can show off to their friends and use to impress girls
and we're all just a bunch of action figures to play with and discard when they're bored
and we're all just a bunch of action figures to play with and discard when they're bored
December 6, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Almost a single issue voter on this. How they want to tax and spend can be anywhere from Romney to Mamdani. Whoever most credibly pledges to restore the rule of law and permit it to exact righteous consequences on those who have transgressed it gets my vote.
I moved to this state ten years ago and it will never stop being adorable how people here are overcome with the unique, natural beauty of California every time they see a kind of brownish landscape with some hills and rocks.
(no shade meant to OP, you're all like this and I love you anyway ❤️)
(no shade meant to OP, you're all like this and I love you anyway ❤️)
ugh California it’s so bad ugh why do people even live here ugh California
November 14, 2025 at 8:54 AM
I moved to this state ten years ago and it will never stop being adorable how people here are overcome with the unique, natural beauty of California every time they see a kind of brownish landscape with some hills and rocks.
(no shade meant to OP, you're all like this and I love you anyway ❤️)
(no shade meant to OP, you're all like this and I love you anyway ❤️)
Reposted by Ezra Stevens
billionaires should not be allowed to exist because the downside of "one of them loses their mind" is simply too dangerous for a functional society
also, having a billion dollars tends to make you lose your mind
also, having a billion dollars tends to make you lose your mind
The whole point of democracy is so one person's derangement does not become everybody's problem. It's social hygiene. The fact the richest men in the West are a mix of grotty twelve year olds and deranged apocalypse fanatics is a problem, and we should be honest about it.
Someone went there:
"It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel is Losing It"
via @futurism.com
futurism.com/future-socie...
"It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel is Losing It"
via @futurism.com
futurism.com/future-socie...
October 20, 2025 at 5:47 PM
billionaires should not be allowed to exist because the downside of "one of them loses their mind" is simply too dangerous for a functional society
also, having a billion dollars tends to make you lose your mind
also, having a billion dollars tends to make you lose your mind
Reposted by Ezra Stevens
Anyone want to marinate me in their fridge
December 9, 2024 at 6:06 PM
Anyone want to marinate me in their fridge
Look, just because they have PhD-level expertise in every field doesn't mean they want to share it with you.
September 18, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Look, just because they have PhD-level expertise in every field doesn't mean they want to share it with you.
Reposted by Ezra Stevens
people pretend that debate signals and defends a commitment to high minded politics. what it elevates instead is performative dishonesty as a basic mode of politics
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
September 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
people pretend that debate signals and defends a commitment to high minded politics. what it elevates instead is performative dishonesty as a basic mode of politics
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Reposted by Ezra Stevens
/9 ....I'm more inclined to say that giving the state the power to suppress speech leads to worse results and worse injustices, and less inclined to say that free debate inherently leads to better results and the truth. I'm negative-consequence rather than positive-consequence focused.
September 11, 2025 at 5:58 PM
/9 ....I'm more inclined to say that giving the state the power to suppress speech leads to worse results and worse injustices, and less inclined to say that free debate inherently leads to better results and the truth. I'm negative-consequence rather than positive-consequence focused.
Reposted by Ezra Stevens
He was just, like, a guy. Not a politician. Not a statesman of any kind. Just some really mean guy. Flags at half mast. Yankee moment of silence. Whatever the shit this is.
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.
September 11, 2025 at 2:10 AM
He was just, like, a guy. Not a politician. Not a statesman of any kind. Just some really mean guy. Flags at half mast. Yankee moment of silence. Whatever the shit this is.
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.
I've never liked the term "political violence." Partly, it's the implication that other kinds of violence are somehow less objectionable. That's never been self-evident to me, especially given how we glorify revolutionaries. 1/
September 11, 2025 at 6:22 AM
I've never liked the term "political violence." Partly, it's the implication that other kinds of violence are somehow less objectionable. That's never been self-evident to me, especially given how we glorify revolutionaries. 1/
Nothing says "relatable" like having a meet cute during a hit song live in concert right when the chorus starts blaring at a zillion decibels. Classic opportunity to shyly say hi to a rando who can't possibly hear you. Definitely wouldn't want to spend that precious moment jamming out or anything.
This ad about how great Google Gemini is ends by telling us how Ted, the protagonist and a big James Blunt fan, “found something he didn’t even know he was looking for” at a James Blunt concert where James Blunt is playing not “High” by James Blunt but “She’s So High” by Tal Bachman.
Just Ask Google
YouTube video by Google
youtu.be
September 8, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Nothing says "relatable" like having a meet cute during a hit song live in concert right when the chorus starts blaring at a zillion decibels. Classic opportunity to shyly say hi to a rando who can't possibly hear you. Definitely wouldn't want to spend that precious moment jamming out or anything.
It's the first time the capitalist class has felt like they have a real shot at reversing once and for all who gets to sell labor to whom. That's why they're all frothing at the mouth about AI.
Much of what makes the current wave of AI problematic is not what it does, but who owns it, who benefits, and how it once again skews wealth into the hands of owners of capital. It’s politics, not tech.
September 2, 2025 at 8:43 AM
It's the first time the capitalist class has felt like they have a real shot at reversing once and for all who gets to sell labor to whom. That's why they're all frothing at the mouth about AI.
I worry a lot about how my information environment steadily degrades my own humanity as an extension of my faith in that of others, but I've never gleefully crowed about a bunch of strangers' kids dying so I guess I could be doing worse.
July 5, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I worry a lot about how my information environment steadily degrades my own humanity as an extension of my faith in that of others, but I've never gleefully crowed about a bunch of strangers' kids dying so I guess I could be doing worse.
Going to Tesla Takedowns every weekend has honestly been the best thing for my depression.
Especially if you're on the fence about it, protest today. Fascism is isolating and lonely. Its very goal is to make you feel like you're the only person unwilling to accept a cult of personality. On days like today you fully realize there are more of us than there are them. You will feel better.
June 14, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Going to Tesla Takedowns every weekend has honestly been the best thing for my depression.
It's wild how unrecognizable the basic tenets of democracy have become.
Thinking about how the Pope is going to vote for President in 2028, same as I will, and my vote will count the same as the Pope’s. Yours will too. It’s so weird.
May 11, 2025 at 12:37 AM
It's wild how unrecognizable the basic tenets of democracy have become.
The culture shift I want to see more then anything is for people to develop a reflexive abhorrence for consolidation of personal power, especially different types of power. If you're a big corporate exec you can't do politics. If you control a lot of money, you can't also control a lot of speech.
Unironically, I think it has been a mistake to base critiques of the rich on their consumption rather than the power they have and could wield — which they would retain even if they chose to give more money to charity or bury some of their riches in the ground instead of buying yachts and such.
after this last few months I think I am now in critical support of all weird ultrarich people hobbies. take that horse dancing class. I love that yoga retreat for you. tighten up that golf swing. search the ocean floor for ancient shipwrecks. anything that keeps you in your business and out of ours
May 7, 2025 at 1:12 AM
The culture shift I want to see more then anything is for people to develop a reflexive abhorrence for consolidation of personal power, especially different types of power. If you're a big corporate exec you can't do politics. If you control a lot of money, you can't also control a lot of speech.
"Thermos" is a funny word. Whoever coined it absolutely nailed the prefix and then just gave up.
May 2, 2025 at 8:21 PM
"Thermos" is a funny word. Whoever coined it absolutely nailed the prefix and then just gave up.
Reposted by Ezra Stevens
Also, arguments of the form "They're not even intelligent, they just [are glorified Markov chains]." Nobody actually cares if they're intelligent! Getting novel, human-like answers to questions is neat on its own terms, even if most of the novelty consists of being wrong in never-before-seen ways.
April 27, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Also, arguments of the form "They're not even intelligent, they just [are glorified Markov chains]." Nobody actually cares if they're intelligent! Getting novel, human-like answers to questions is neat on its own terms, even if most of the novelty consists of being wrong in never-before-seen ways.
I've been going to different #TeslaTakedown events on Saturdays around the Bay Area, and #WalnutCreek today was amazing! Great energy and organization!
April 26, 2025 at 10:26 PM
I've been going to different #TeslaTakedown events on Saturdays around the Bay Area, and #WalnutCreek today was amazing! Great energy and organization!