Carter Wickstrom

Looking for a genuinely terrifying folk horror novel or true crime recommendation. Not something that gets way out over its skis narratively speaking, just something that makes you want to sleep with the lights on.

sucks to suck

"The human should check AI's work, since AI is wrong 70% of the time." Look, there are plenty of valid criticisms of this technology, but this is utterly unmoored from reality. So is insisting that the frontier labs could make the models better but aren't interested in doing so.

🚨 LiteLLM, a Python package for connecting to AI model providers with 92M+ monthly downloads, has been compromised. Version 1.107.0 ships credential-stealing malware through PyPI wheels and Docker images, targeting cloud credentials, developer secrets, and AI tools.

I have never been so glad that an earlier PHP exploit got my websites locked down by my host.

Go to your camera roll and search “boat” and post one that you like.

Indian immigration to the US was extremely curtailed by law, as was all non-European immigration, until 1920s quotas were abolished in 1965. That said, the first Hindu temple in the US was built in 1906 in San Francisco.

I have an extra ticket for BSidesNYC this Sunday which I'm not going to be able to use. Would anyone be interested in it? Preference given to students or new grads who are interested in cybersecurity, or anyone in the first five years of an IT/cybersecurity career.

watching 13 Lords of the Shogun on Netflix and vaguely wondering how many nipples have been sacrificed to the yumi bow 😬

Long-running family joke: band name, concept album, or single? Feels more like a single to me, but I could see it being an album from a stoner/sludge metal band.

Deceptive Republican Party ads are flooding the airwaves in California promoting prop 39, the Trojan Horse Voter ID bill that will let the GOP make voting harder, riskier, and more expensive . VOTE NO ON 39. IT’S A TRICK.

lol trying to look something up on Stackoverflow, like, manually browsed there from following a Google result link and Cloudflare is blocking me.

hey, does anyone following me subscribe to the Account Activity labeler? the team that developed and maintains it is doing user interviews. messaging me if you're interested in participating. bsky.app/profile/stec...

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chat doesn't everyone do this

chat what does it mean if my situational awareness book is "Left of Bang," and not Aschenbrenner

uh, oh, y'all, it's been released to the wild: iamverycalmaboutthis.com/release

"She also proposed a software fix to prevent the error happening during a real mission, but she was overruled on the grounds that the highly trained astronauts were never going to make that same mistake.

This is sexual violence as a form of terrorism. It is political violence and it is chilling and horrific, and AOC was absolutely right to be terrified that the goons (now pardoned) laying siege to the capital would rape her if they found her. Small changes won't fix this. FLIP THE TABLE NOW

I hate that I understand that sentence.

One of our dogs always runs over to the food bin and gives it a poke with her snoot at the first sign that I'm going to feed them, like I might have developed acute memory loss since the last time they were fed and forgotten where the kibble lives.

Our language has been completely warped by Big Tech's algorithms, from a generation that's grown up saying "unalive", to the way everyone's censored themselves talking about the Cornell rapists. It's time to fight back against billionaire control of free speech. www.anildash.com/2026/10/06/k...

Watching The East Palace on Netflix and thinking about how magnificent this could be transplanted to the court of Henry VIII.

Photos: Oakland's 52nd annual Black cowboy parade kicks off at DeFremery Park www.eastbaytimes.com/2026/10/04/p...

USPS daily email: Ballots arriving today. Checked the county website and it looks like many/most of the drop-off boxes in San Mateo County were installed yesterday.

What Did Africans Know About The Outside World? In 1852, the explorer Heinrich Barth met Africans in Baghirmi (Chad) who had visited Basra (Iraq), read the works of Aristotle and Plato, and were as inquisitive about Europe as he was about Africa. www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/what-did-a...

Another intense memory from that trip: driving during whirling snow flurries and seeing acres of WW2-era landing craft in a junk-/scrap-/boneyard right off the highway just outside of Richmond.

a purported spiritual predecessor of the United States once executed a king for this exact reason.

story prompt from watching NOVA about the Chauvet cave: a persecuted family (Jewish, Romani, Red) fleeing the Nazis in France finds momentary sanctuary in a decorated Stone Age cave as the Nazis close in.

“Between the Christianity of this land and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference.” — Frederick Douglass bsky.app/profile/atru...