David Thiel

BORAAAAA LULAAAA PORRAAAAAAAAAA

If "it's decorative gourd season, motherfuckers" was a bird

Coding agents understand zsh globbing and quoting: challenge level impossible apparently

If you run a PHP-based service, it looks like you have about half an hour to stop doing that

I mean yeah but most of us have dealt with this by only pretending to do code review

And honestly while this did cause stress to the organizers (they had to censor each individual conference program leaflet by hand), it otherwise just drew attention to the issue and made the conference more fun and interesting. 🤷

Lithuania, Canada, and EEAS pulled out of #Disinfo2026 at such short notice they didn't have time to redo the signage.

"Chayefsky had a lot to say about television, and he said it with an unflattering, searing bite—and it’s all the more relevant in an age when we each carry a television studio in our pockets and all dream of becoming a hit." www.liberalcurrents.com/network-at-5...

Well they're not beating the allegations are they "His Hinge profile doesn’t mention his employer. And sometimes he makes up stories out of thin air to justify working for Palantir—like that line about the medical debt. His parents don’t have any, nor are they ill."

A friend’s kid was doing this in the comments you can make at specific timestamps inside SoundCloud tracks

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biquette

Second best

Though it would be very funny if in the future "make sure no machines on your network have a significant amount of VRAM" becomes a standard security precaution

If I had a pack of vicious dogs and just let them off leash to maul people, I would go to jail and the dogs would be confiscated. Do it with an LLM and you get showered with breathless press coverage and military contracts. Until there's criminal liability, we're incentivizing this behavior.

Sounds like an almost exact repeat of what happened in 2023, i.e. some component of the PhotoDNA pipeline broke and went entirely unnoticed. Difference being now X helps generate the content and has made it as difficult as possible for external parties to flag problems. www.wsj.com/tech/twitter...

Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️

Also counterintuitively: unlike real names, stable pseudonyms *more identifying* and a more limited resource. There's plenty of people with a display name of "David Thiel" backed by an email, but if I act like a prick and lose my unique id, I can't just swap to a new one without a loss.

If you took this image back in time 3 years ago when we were writing the first paper on genAI CSAM and showed it to me, I think I would have just walked into the ocean

Voicing this in my head as Max Schumacher from Network and it works perfectly

TIL Philip Glass used to make music with changing parts

Everyone even mildly politically literate at the time read the DHS to be a fascist project, fascists included. No one found it reassuring, and I honestly don't remember anyone even pretending to frame it as "unity". This is weird revisionism ala "everyone was in favor of the war in Iraq".

lol

Laika brand cigarettes: for that “dying alone in the void of space” feeling

Look all I’m saying is you need a better argument than “and yet you participate in the internet, curious!”

Bom dia

I also think that inasmuch as there’s an AI bubble, its collapse will be brought about not just by the broken economics of the giant models, but by migration to local open ones. Qwen on a Mac Studio is near last year’s frontier, and actually pretty fast.

“In South Korea and Australia, schools have given pupils the option not to have their photos in yearbooks” I’ve been in this space for a while but this is somehow a new kind of grim.

Use bad photoshop like the ancestors did

The whole AI-powered "algorithmic choice" thing kind of breaks down when a) most of your userbase hates anything AI and b) no normal person wants to "choose an algorithm"

I mean when even your investors are balking at your roadmap for being brazenly evil

Guys this is just 2 windows next to each other with extra steps

Ok the blue ramen shop is out of control

There were once valid safety arguments against enabling E2EE—but given the gutting of Meta’s safety teams, the only remaining reason to disable it again is to enable surveillance.

With a name like “SocksEscort” I would have expected they were a proxy for a different kind of provider

Laurie Spiegel on the difference between algorithmic music and ‘AI’

I had an ex who did lots of nicotine gum for its purported cognitive benefits; they ended up with a ferocious addiction and no obvious method to help them quit short of smoking