we'll never leave, look at us now, so in love with the way we are.
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i was obviously wrong about how dangerous these tools could end up being, i underestimated how vulnerable existing systems are to sheer breadth of work
OpenAI and Anthropic are fully responsible for bringing forth all this destruction and need to be dismantled by the state
ive been at 20% battery for like a year now and im starting to accept this is the new normal
i mean, it's not like anything will *decelerate* any time soon. catching your breath seems like a luxury nowadays
the tech bros are now creating the puppy murdering machine
Warhound, the brain child of Ben Lamm and Palmer Luckey, emerges from stealth to genetically engineer dogs for military and law enforcement.
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If you don’t like people finding and disclosing vulnerabilities, you’ll really not like what happens when they *don’t* do that.
Abliterated open weight models didn’t find the PHP vulnerabilities, but if they did it would actually be an endorsement of those models.
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"The myth of technological and political and social inevitability is a powerful tranquilizer of the conscience. Its service is to remove responsibility from the shoulders of everyone who truly believes in it."
— Joseph Weizenbaum, Computer Power and Human Reason
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An attempt to document important facts concerning AI Safety, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Rationalism and San Francisco Effective Altruism
verysane.ai/p/ai-safety-is-m…
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Mediaite: Amy Acton’s Mother Was Convicted of Killing Kittens
New information about the criminal history of Donna Arthur, the estranged mother of Ohio Democratic nominee for governor, Amy Acton, is coming to light amid the backlash about her appearance in a Vivek Ramaswamy ad — including her conviction for animal neglect after several kittens in her care died in a hot car
mediaite.com/crime/amy-acton…
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Vivek Ramaswamy plans a historic remake of Ohio’s demographics
To grow from 11.9M to 15M, that'd be a +26% jump
That's bigger than it sounds...
The biggest state increase over the past 8 years was +12.5% in Texas
To do so, it'd take a mass migration event to Ohio
"demand for impossible standards"
Now people should celebrate. An Indian company exits SSL/TLS business. Your witch-hunt and demand for impossible standards has worked.
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Generating private keys with more than 3 digits for a world-trusted root certificate authority are not impossible standards. Badly generated keys may endanger - and have - the whole internet by breaking the most important encryption protocol.
theregister.com/security/2026/…
cloudflare.com/learning/ssl/w…
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>junior dev at a mid startup
>wednesday morning
>just want to push a minor bugfix to our php app today
>open laptop, check slack
>company group chat is an absolute warzone
>CTO typing in all caps about php2shell
>fucking php
>whatever, server hasn't blown up yet, I just need to get my code in
>open gitlab to merge the PR
>forced emergency logout because of a critical gitlab security patch release
>fucking gitlab
>pipeline fails because of some weird regex compiler bug
>spend 40 minutes fighting CI/CD
>i can just use AI to help debug
>fire up opencode
>api keys nuked because they were breached
>fucking opencode
>i’ll just get fresh LLM api keys from our corp proxy, LiteLLM
>it won’t connect? It’s down?
>look up LiteLLM news: supply chain compromise
>fucking litellm
>cold sweat forming
>slack alert: db connection error
>check our database connection
>we host on TiDB Cloud
>they just announced a security breach, unauthorized access via stolen service account credentials, data copied
>fucking tidb cloud
>full panic attack incoming
>figure fuck it, just ship the container to Railway and go home
>open Railway dashboard
>bright red banner: "Security Disclosure: Rotate all environment variables immediately. All builds paused."
>fucking railway
>try to open the app URL in browser to see if anything is even working
>NET::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID
>eMudhra intermediate certificates compromised
>4
>instantly untrusted by every major browser
>fucking emudhra
>stare blankly at mac screen for 10min
>random pop-up
>restarting in 10min to fix a critical vulnerability
>fucking macos
>close laptop
>leave office
>never come back
not to get too political but i disagree!
Texas GOP House Candidate Brandon Herrera Says Kittens Should Be Sent to Chinese Restaurants
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The remark was a dark joke by Brandon Herrera during an Oct 2025 episode of The Josie Show podcast responding to the host's story about rescuing kittens from euthanasia.
sacurrent.com/news/texas-new…
yahoo.com/news/politics/…
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