You might have 1–5 years to contribute intellectually to the world before AGI. What should you do with them? Excellent advice from @jaschasd (Anthropic) at Stanford. Skip Netflix tonight and watch this instead.

If you own a service, this week: Set up an agent with Daybreak Blue/Claude Cyber/GLM to read cloudtrail logs or a SIEM stream roughly every 5 minutes to look for suspicious activity. Page if it finds something. If your volume is WAY too high use a 2 stage pipeline with Jev or Decisions API to classify the activity before handing it to the cyber models. do it this week!

I never believed in "secret knowledge" until I acquired some and tried to excitedly share it with other people. I was immediately met with anger and derision. It was like a mental "block" appeared that kept people from accessing the understanding. They needed to shield themselves. There are some ideas that aren't meant to be known to everyone or else society would not function properly.

The Law of the Sublime comes out November 10th. Get your copy today: link.amazon/B06zJY548

and if the 3 somehow isn't enough I've got the 4th and 5th facts lined up that'll 100% do the trick.

there is no moat

Corrigan Announces Change in Leadership for Football RELEASE: bit.ly/4iGoRXd

it does still interrupt too much tbh. but I think (hope?) that bidi is enough of an unlock that they'll be able to fiddle with the knobs enough over the weeks and months ahead that this will ultimately get truly solved.

the various derangement syndromes of our time have swallowed almost everybody. I suspect we'll just have to wait it out and hope we get to the other side in one piece 😔 xitter.cf/kenwarner/status/20607…

During this red-teaming exercise, we also found a vulnerability that allows for unauthenticated remote code execution in Brotli, a widely-deployed compression library included in many pieces of software such as Node.js, Bun, and Envoy. The flaw could let an attacker run their own code on affected systems by sending or replying with malicious compressed data, without any need to create a user account. That is, an unpatched server that accepts compressed input could be taken over by a malicious client, and an unpatched client that accepts compressed input (such as “curl --compressed”) could be taken over by a malicious server. This root cause issue was actually fixed in the Brotli source code in February, but it wasn’t known at the time that it gave rise to a security vulnerability and there was no more recent release of Brotli. Since Brotli is built into other software, any software which includes this library needs to take the update too, followed by the users of that software. We disclosed the vulnerability to Brotli and other downstream projects such as Node.js, which released or are currently releasing security updates, and Brotli cut new release versions and published a CVE. More details on the patch and mitigations below: patchtheplanet.org/brotli

Who the fuck is trying to get into my Microsoft account. There is nothing there fuck off

I’m not kidding I think you need to be exceptionally sociopathic and off your rocker to maintain a public presence in a modern media environment, much more so than in traditional tv news

Peter Thiel on the AI Doomsday Scenario Everyone Is Getting Wrong and his “Antichrist vs. Armageddon” analogy @PeterThiel Listen to the full episode of The Builders with @WalterIsaacson here: swap.fm/l/4CXD6Tpz37WBUqk8Xg…

The Guarantee: Inside the Fight for America’s Next Economy by @nataliefoster Universal Basic Income and its cousins have long been a common theme in the discourse about automation and accelerating returns to capital, going back long before AI. Such ideas have champions and detractors, and they both have valid points. My own position is that when a society achieves increasing wealth and sophistication, it obviously can and should make an increasing set of services common goods. Few object to the idea that everyone in a modern society should have access to clean water (looking at you, Flint, Michigan), or that all children should get to go to school. What about college? Some states have experimented with two years of free college; some countries, like Australia, have devised schemes for deferred payment that are far easier to swallow than college debt in the US. During COVID, we performed what amounted to large-scale tests of direct distribution and rent moratorium. The questions, then, are how far social guarantees should go and how they should be provisioned: food, housing, medical care, education, internet and computing, income, and even capital. @nataliefoster has been prominent in the political fight for an expansive version of such social guarantees, and she makes a compelling case for them. There are obvious contrasts between her vision and, say, that of @lindsey_brink, formerly of the Cato Institute, whose book I’ve also recommended—yet there are also surprisingly broad areas of agreement.

What is a philosopher-builder? A philosopher-builder is someone who starts from a thesis about human flourishing. Rather than simply looking for a gap in the market, they start out with a vision of the human capacities that are worth developing, what constrains them, and how we can expand them. They reason from first principles about human potential and translate those insights into products or institutions. To understand what a philosopher-builder is, it’s important to grasp what they are not: 1. They are not philosopher-kings. They do not have a blueprint for a society or a theory about how everyone out to live. Some of our most importance capacities are independent judgment, creativity, and the pursuit of knowledge. They seek to expand these capabilities, not prescribe outcomes 2. Open to disconfirming evidence. A strong philosophical starting point is open to rational criticism and has to be tested against reality. Their hypothesis is open to challenge and evidence should not only inform how they build their product, but potentially cause them to revise their underlying thesis. Philosophical seriousness demands intellectual humility. 3. Not a nihilistic iterator. “Make something people want” is a powerful entrepreneurial disciple, but by itself, it cannot establish whether satisfying people’s immediate wants advances human flourishing. You cannot outsource your belief in which ends are worth pursuing to market feedback. The philosopher-builder is someone who combines philosophical conviction with empirical discipline. They have a vision, ambition, and an openness to revision. We believe that AI isn’t a normal technology like the internet or the smartphone that society will simply absorb. Instead, it will create the biggest opening for institution-building since the American founding and philosopher-builders will be more important than ever. If this vision of how to build resonates with you, we want to hear from you.

SCOOP: Major U.S. banks are detecting unauthorized third-party AI agents inside customer accounts, including some attempting to take actions that appear to be independent of user instructions, sources told Axios. The findings have alarmed banking executives, who are racing to restrict access to their systems as AI moves at a velocity faster than financial institutions can respond, multiple industry and bank executives told Axios. Several banks are now preparing for worst-case and even “day after” scenarios, including how to rapidly secure or restore customer accounts if things go wrong, the people said. Several bank executives told Axios they're struggling to distinguish between human users and AI agents. One executive said banks also struggle to determine whether agents are authorized by customers or potentially operating without their permission, more akin to rogue agent behavior. Read my latest for Axios here: axios.com/2026/10/22/ai-agen…

been using namecheap ever since. considering migrating to cloudflare before the .com price change next week... 🤔