There is plenty of historical precedent available to those who care. Not only does it help us to chart a way forward, but it helps us to avoid the naïveté of the last 30+ years (eg. technological determinism).
This definitely helps give language to better model user behavior.
Perturbator is v nice
See you all there tonight!
I’m already a fictional character, so will continue using them. 😭
Are you afraid of LLMs teaching people how to build bioweapons? Have you tried just... not teaching LLMs about bioweapons?
@eleutherai.bsky.social and the UK AISI joined forces to see what would happen, pretraining three 6.9B models for 500B tokens and producing 15 total models to study
🙈 Brace! Brace! Brace!
If you are interested in how local first might mature, definitely check out the episode. Had a blast with @grjte.sh @arro.bsky.social and @nicomnbl.bsky.social on this one.
If you configure the Supabase MCP with read-write support it's easy to open yourself up to lethal trifecta attacks where an attacker can e.g. write a message in a support ticket with instructions that cause an MCP client to retrieve and leak data from other tables
simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/6/s...
👾 Londoners 👾
I’m hosting a one-off event: Vibe Coders London
For people building weird, beautiful, personal software with AI.
🗓️ June 11
📍 Hoxton
🎤 Demos + vibes + smart creative folks
🧠 ~25 curated spots
It’s a stack we’re building for homecooked software, to make it easy.
What are you using to build and host? You should try Tonk!
Ok, feeling the momentum now. Catch @goblinoats.bsky.social in the U&A Discord at 5pm GMT / 10am PST to walk you through the @tonklabs.bsky.social stack and a chance to do some Q&A
discord.com/invite/mtEwu...
> be me
> yawny stretch in bed after good shleep
> rub face, think about what @tonklabs.bsky.social demo apps I should post today
> check phone
> open tonk community chat
> "oh neat someone in the community built a demo with Tonk's stack for fun when i was asleep"
> bliss
Key management is the hardest part of cryptography, so I wrote up a small survey on approaches: goblinoats.com/notes/on-keys
I've put together a list of rituals old and new (+links) along with some notes.
goblinoats.com/notes/on-rit...
I made a precursor to the Voight-Kampff test from Bladerunner.
goblinoats.com/notes/e1
