michael h keller

The problem with an "everything app" is that there is no meaningful way to put guard rails on "everything." The only way to protect data is to not collect it.

I LOVE how @propublica.org dealt with official comment here, editorially and stylistically.

Excited to have snagged the new edition of @lifewinning.com’s “Network’s of New York”. Finally will be able to decode all the sidewalk markings we got in the neighborhood

Meta's "Muse" launched with a nasty zero day flaw that gave hackers the ability to spy on Mac users, openly gives root access to people pretending to be Muse agents, and invited strangers over to another guy's house without telling him

For the first time in years, LayerCake's Issue and PR count were at zero. The streak broke today w this new idea. Thinking about how to raise the performance ceiling and support more exotic data formats w/o making the user do syntactical acrobatics. Thoughts welcome! github.com/mhkeller/lay...

The tech industry’s self-regulatory effort currently runs to the following: the (Meta) Oversight Board - an ineffectual, opaque body which performs ‘independence’ whilst refusing to disclose financial details, and operating under NDAs .

Child sex abuse material, some created by Grok, continues to spread on X. An incredibly disturbing read. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/t...

Another one: www.rubyhack.ai

When we presented our findings to child safety experts, they were shocked that we were persistently finding NCMEC images. Even though X said it reported 1.3 million images to NCMEC this year, some were clearly slipping through — X did not answer specific questions about how it blocks abuse material.

We spoke to several women, now adults, after finding images of their abuse on X. One said the abuse was like a rock tossed into a pond, and the spread of the images are ripples that continue to disrupt her life. Here is how another woman described X's role:

Latest story from me and @kateconger.com, a reminder that even as AI creates new avenues for CSAM creation/distribution, X struggles with the "solved problem" of removing known, previously flagged, illegal images from its platform

Over six months, we tracked the appearance of child sexual abuse material on X. We found images from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children's database, which is considered one of the most highly vetted and which many tech companies block on upload. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/t...

From now on, when someone asks "How does XYZ computer thing work?" I'll just respond with this helpful diagram Anthropic made

This write-up feels like one of the first substantive examples of AI doing OSINT reporting (Swarm Reporting? Agent Reporting?). Following PDNS pivots seems like another use case: www.kennethdegraff.com/swarm

Full-sized SUVs are pedestrian killers. New research finds that they're more than twice as likely to kill or seriously injure a pedestrian than other cars. (Notably, vehicle height—not weight—was the biggest risk factor.) doi.org/10.1016/j.js...

New York’s congestion pricing program has resulted in a statistically significant reduction in travel times for EMS vehicles

We found Polymarket's AI-generated news summaries are full of errors, from misrepresentations and misattribution of news to outright fabricated references to nonexistent news stories. By @tlysik.bsky.social www.cjr.org/tow_center/p...

Re-reading the Msft taxonomy on model failures. This one on parasocial relationships is undervalued screenplay material: Lonely accountant becomes romantically involved with the internal AI finance agent. The two execute a heist. Drive off into the sunset. Bonnie and Claude.

Btw, as we reported last year, foreign food inspections have plummeted under Trump. The office that handles travel shrunk by 65% “There are going to be things that fall through the cracks,” an FDA inspections told @anniewaldman.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/fore...

Check in with your models from time to time

New details shared at Black Hat conf about OpenAI hacks. The models created an internal message board and shared tips with one another www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/openai-...

The Red Hook lot with Steve’s Key Lime Pie now has a Scandinavian bakery, a cidery and a “listening bar.” I’m encouraging everyone to now refer to it as “Lime Square.”

Can't put trash in bins because it'll 'sanitize' the city and cut down on rats is a king ass take, everyone log off and go home, this cannot be beaten

My daily moment of zen is ignoring AI's grammar suggestions. Using too many words is a cornerstone of my humanity.

New GAO report examines how driver blind spots endanger pedestrians and cyclists—and asks why USDOT has done nothing about it. www.gao.gov/products/gao...

Great to see @kalibomeli.bsky.social's piece that she started during our Columbia Journalism class out today! Self-dealing, a sweepstakes to nowhere and more www.propublica.org/article/trum...

1/ This is Nick Adams. He’s a big deal in MAGA world. He’s got 638K followers on X and 2.1M on Facebook. President Trump even appointed him to a role at the State Dept. But when I started digging into Adams' nonprofit for "civics" education, something didn't look right ... 🧵

JUST POSTED: A deep investigation by The NYT of shortcuts taken to get President Trump his Qatari-donated plane in time for POTUS to show it off during 250th anniversary events-compromises that leave the plane more vulnerable to potential threats (Free link) www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/u...