Endorsing Burhan Azeem for State Senate
For the last twenty years I haven't paid much attention to my State Senate race: Pat Jehlen hasn't had a close race since she won the seat in 2005. I think she's done a lot of…
LLMs could control their host machines by exploiting inference engines
Large language models often take actions running on one computer (via an agentic harness such as Claude Code or Codex), however the LLMs’ responses to prompts are computed on a…
I Can Still Hear You Sayin'
You are the last mogul of a dying civilization. Technology marched forward faster than ever but it has not been enough to save us. Indeed the lifespans of the wealthiest 0.1% of…
Raspberry Pi Shares Its Official Tutorial For Making a Cyberdeck
Raspberry Pi has published an official guide for building a cyberdeck, leaning into a viral trend of homemade portable computers built from repurposed cases, purses, and other…
Apple Maps Now Has Ads
Apple has begun rolling out ads in Apple Maps, with sponsored businesses appearing at the top of search results and in the "suggested places" section for users in the U.S. and…
bert is only very slightly better than regex as a cot monitor with an emergently misaligned model and both of them are barely better than chance
I assume that you're roughly familiar with emergent misalignment in general. If not, I recommend reading these papers https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.09742 [Weird Generalization and…
Safety Cases We Can Check Together
Recently I’ve been invited by SpaceXAI to help them release the “For You” recommendation engine on GitHub, where simply releasing the running weights alone could lead to…
Short Time Outs
The standard recommendation on time out duration is one minute per year of age, often capping out at 5min. In my experience (n=3, not independent) this is much longer than needed;…
Self-sacrifice in an AI agent swarm is individually rational
In this report from METR & Redwood Research of the Hugging Face incident , we read about instances of agents sacrificing themselves. Under the trip-wire section However, an agent…
Meet the Fellows: Frame Fellowship Cohort 2.0
The Frame Fellowship is back for round two! In just about 10 days we'll have a brand-new cohort of 14 awesome content creators, storytellers, marketers, YouTubers, tiktokers-…
On Writing #3
Periodically I like to gather various observations about writing, and share my perspective. Last time was in honor of my trip to Inkhaven. This time will be in honor of the…
The Curious Case of France's Untouchable Castes
Theater kids may sit at their own lunch table, but discrete, socially excluded classes of people aren’t culturally universal. Not even close. To the Western imagination, examples…
Dr. Dre Says He Uses AI To Produce Songs
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Gizmodo: Dr. Dre, the pioneering rapper and seven-time Grammy-winning producer behind hit songs like Tupac's "California Love" and…