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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 naïveté of the last 30+ years (eg. technological determinism).
The PDS paradigm won't move your data from the cloud to your personal computer. Most people will still rely on an institutional cloud service, but instead of data-banking with a maligned corporation most people’s data can be entrusted to the equivalent of member-owned credit unions for data storage.
November 15, 2025 at 8:46 AM
See you all there tonight!
The Ink & Switch team is coming through London and we're having a social to share some recent news and research from the lab, and catch up with people in London interested in local first, malleable software, and other similar areas of making better computing.

Aug 16th, 6pm in London
Ink & Switch London Social · Luma
The Ink & Switch team is coming through London and we're having a social to share some recent news and research from the lab, and catch up with people in…
lu.ma
August 16, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Are you afraid of LLMs teaching people how to build bioweapons? Have you tried just... not teaching LLMs about bioweapons?

@eleutherai.bsky.social‬ 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
August 12, 2025 at 12:40 PM
🙈 Brace! Brace! Brace!
when your values are so important

that you put them up top

and you thought about them so deeply

that they all start with P

then it is no accident

that "privacy" is not one of them

welcome to the AI browser wars 🥳

comet.perplexity.ai#values
July 13, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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.
The ZK Podcast released an episode on local-first software this week!

@arro.bsky.social and @nicomnbl.bsky.social chat w @grjte.sh & @goblinoats.com about the foundations of local-first architecture, CRDTs and how ZK can be incorporated into these models.

zeroknowledge.fm/podcast/367/
Local-First with grjte and Goblin Oats - ZK PODCAST
In this episode, Anna Rose and Nico Mohnblatt speak with Goblin Oats from Tonk and grjte from Bain Capital Crypto […]
zeroknowledge.fm
July 11, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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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...
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 …
simonwillison.net
July 6, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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👾 Londoners 👾

I’m hosting a one-off event: Vibe Coders London

For people building weird, beautiful, personal software with AI.

🗓️ June 11
📍 Hoxton
🎤 Demos + vibes + smart creative folks
🧠 ~25 curated spots
May 15, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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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...
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.
discord.com
March 26, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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> 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
March 18, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Key management is the hardest part of cryptography, so I wrote up a small survey on approaches: goblinoats.com/notes/on-keys
About Keys
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March 14, 2025 at 4:34 PM
www.robinsloan.com/lab/five-yea... 👀 just leave this here.
Five years of home-cooked apps
Finished.
www.robinsloan.com
March 7, 2025 at 10:08 AM
I've put together a list of rituals old and new (+links) along with some notes.

goblinoats.com/notes/on-rit...
On Ritual
goblinoats.com
March 4, 2025 at 9:08 AM
I made a precursor to the Voight-Kampff test from Bladerunner.

goblinoats.com/notes/e1
February 25, 2025 at 7:46 AM