Martin Wendiggensen

Philip ❤

"You used to beep me on my pager. Late nights when you want to detonate. I know when that hotline bling, that can only mean one thing (my thumbs detaching)"

*Spinning a chair around backwards, sitting down with a group of first year Master's students at the pizza social*

"You know, real cyberwar has never been tried."

The way he started smiling 😊

To learn more about this period, read "Die Tante Jolesch"

Tutor: How long was the 30 year war?

Archduke: 5 years

T: Brilliant, Sire. Since they only fought during the day and not at night, 30 years become 15. Then discounting public holidays, rest days and extended negotiations we arrive at 5 years.

Though I wonder how good the coffee in the US is?

When Viennese intellectuals were disenfranchised by an autocratic system in the 19th century they would gather in coffee houses and play the "Archduke game". One would play an idiotic royal and the other his tutor. Every deliberately dumb answer had to be explained as a stroke of genuis

Turns out AI is a strategic studies major at Johns Hopkins SAIS

Signed up! Sounds very interesting!

Wait. So the US let Assad walk all over the red line without consequence. This was bad. But enforcing a red line is an excuse? Just because they learned from it?

When Assad killed civs not reacting was very controversial within the Obama admin. This admin has none of their qualms (or their ideals)

Hat der Open Technology Fund der US-Regierung für andere Content-Einschränkungen ja schon lange gemacht (TOR, Signal, etc). Nach chinesischem/russischem/iranischem Recht auch strafbar. Aber leider wurde das eingestellt und stattdessen das hier aufgenommen.

I‘ve been to this exact spot and I didn’t even know it was THE SPOT WHERE BRUCE MET ADAM! I huddled here after coming out of the Rodin museum and discovering it was pouring rain just after APSA had wrapped up

From 0 to DA: Inside Worlds, a Simulation Engine for Agentic Pentesting YouTube video by dreadnode

Want to build an AI agents that hacks stuff? Don‘t have training data? No problem! Find out how:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C7p...

Worlds: A Simulation Engine for Agentic Pentesting An 8B model went from blindly loading Metasploit modules to achieving Domain Admin on GOAD, trained entirely on synthetic data from our world model system.

We fine-tuned an 8B model to pop a GOAD domain…using only synthetic training data. No real networks. No frontier model distillation. Just a world model that simulates AD environments and generates realistic pentesting trajectories.

See how we did it: dreadnode.io/blog/worlds-...

Seems plausible but I‘d like to see a Granger test…

We about to have some Llama Drama :)

Screenshot of Snowstorm hitting east coast

The @districtcon.bsky.social gods ask for their due. The conference may proceed but one natural crisis will occur

I have 10gigabit symmetrical here in Switzerland

Congratulations, Sergey!

Vielen Dank fürs Lesen und den Kommentar! Meines Wissens nach klappt das bei X in der Praxis noch nicht (Opfer berichten sie müssen einzeln vorgehen). Das ihnen das Recht was anderes verspricht, macht es ja umso eklatanter! X scheint da momentan eine rechtsfreie Zone zu sein unter dem Schutz der USA

Yes, that is what reading the Epstein emails has taught me 😉

I guess we are part of the mirror community of global nerds that gets together by coach to play board games.

This will be a funny anecdote should we ever meet in real life.

It’s funny and astonishing how small the world is

*How* are you everywhere across bluesky? You are someone who I follow for commentary and because of your excellent works on China. How are you doing all that and then becoming invested in the adventure‘s of my buddy’s dog? How did you even find this?

Me, finding Great Wall Cigarillos in the pocket of an old coat I got tailormade in Beijing

ECB’s Schnabel Says She’d Be ‘Ready’ to Succeed Lagarde If Asked European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel said she’d be willing to take over as president when Christine Lagarde’s term ends in less than two years.

You smoke too tough

Your swag too different

Your bitch too bad

They‘ll never elect you

To be serious, we‘ll probably get a milquetoast like Nagel. But enjoying the posturing and also cannot wait to be rid of Lagarde

#Weidmanngang

What can you offer them that is greater than the slam-dunk you are handing their Euro-sceptic opposition for the next election?

Not even mentioning the EU institutional interest in making exiting a one-way scorched-earth street, to discourage others

I don’t see a bargaining chip big enough

The way it is going, the UK would be a net beneficiary of EU payments today because it put an axe to its own economy. Try selling that idea to an ascendant Poland, that after you rejoin they should cross-finance the damage of your Brexit decision. They‘d rather just stall the membership process

My point it is it is not happening in 20 years either. It is a moot internal debate in British politics that is detached from the reality that the rest of the world has moved on. You still primarily frame it primarily through an internal-politics lense in your thread not a foreign policy request

I don’t think people in the UK appreciate how Brexit changed the European Union from an open-door growing project to a more weary one in which many countries would adopt a very transactional view of any request to rejoin. And I don’t think the UK would have a lot to offer now, let alone in 20 ys.