Chris Benson
@chrisbenson.bsky.social
Cohost, Practical AI Podcast AI + Autonomy Research Engineer Licensed RVS Wildlife Rehabber SUPERPOWER → Highly Original Thinking • Extreme Creativity • Revolutionary Innovation • Extreme Pioneer
Episode 366: Reconstructing how OpenAI agents attacked Hugging Face --- We unpack the Hugging Face security incident, exploring how autonomous #AIagents exploited vulnerabilities, and why AI may soon be needed to govern other AI. ➡️ Watch or Listen: [Link below] #HuggingFace #securityincident #AI
Thrilled to make this announcement! @practicalai.bsky.social is now 'video-first', but continues to be a great audio-only listen too. You can tune in however you want! Thank you for watching and listening!
Practical AI@practicalai.bsky.social · last wk.So… we finally did the thing. 👀 Practical AI is now also available on YouTube. 🎥🎉 Same AI conversations, same random tangents, same "wait… that's actually wild" moments, now with faces and reactions. 👉 www.youtube.com/@practicalai... Thanks, as always, for listening (or now, watching!😉)
Bond villain or Fat Bastard? 🤔
Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2mo agoAmerican Psychopath
Sometimes we need to stop, take a deep breath, and remember the good times.
Ash Preston@theashpreston.bsky.social · 2mo agoYou know what we don't talk enough about? Queen & Annie Lennox/David Bowie rehearsing 'Under Pressure' in 1992. So much going on! Everyone's clothes, Bowie with a lit cig throughout, where Annie PROPER GOES FOR IT, George Michael singing along in the background. The amazing vocals. Yes, please!
Just in case you forgot that Mark Zuckerberg is a slug of a human being… Boycott Instagram. Boycott Facebook. Boycott WhatsApp. Boycott Messenger.
Zuckerberg’s superyacht lands in Seattle the day Meta announces layoffs of 1,400 local employees
Mark Zuckerberg's superyacht arrived in Seattle on Tuesday as Meta announced 1,400 layoffs in King County.
seattletimes.com
Some thoughtful person provided a link to a non-paywalled version of this article: gcaptain.com/drowning/
Drowning Doesn't Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing, call for help that most people expect. In this article, Mario explains what drowning really looks like and how to recognize it when its happening.
gcaptain.com
Fellow Americans, this is an effective nonpartisan approach to ensuring our elections remain free and fair. Each state should make code changes to bring the code into alignment with their state’s election laws. Democrats and Republicans alike can review the open source code to ensure integrity.
Undercode Testing@undercode.bsky.social · 3mo agoExposed: The Rust-Powered Election Software That’s Rewriting Democracy’s Security Rules + Video Introduction: In a groundbreaking move for election security, the Dutch Electoral Council (Kiesraad) has unveiled Abacus—a self-developed, open-source vote-counting application built entirely in Rust, a…
‘Here’s How Trump Can Get Us Out of the Mess in Iran’ Wisdom from a former CIA Director and career diplomat www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/o...
Opinion | Here’s How Trump Can Get Us Out of the Mess in Iran (Gift Article)
To salvage a decent peace with Iran, President Trump must learn the lessons of his war.
nytimes.com
The unadulterated racism expressed in this video by both Brandon Gill and Benny Johnson is breathtaking in its alignment to Nazi propaganda of the 1930s. MAGA -> Haitians & Somalis Nazis -> Jews
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4mo ago"The average IQ in Somalia hovers around 70, and that's the threshold for mentally handicapped ... they're a net drain on the society" -- even by MAGA standards, the unvarnished racism of this interview of Rep. Brandon Gill by Benny Johnson is breathtaking
Economically asymmetrical warfare >>> Expensive exquisite systems are being taken down by off-the-shelf commodity systems. Just wait till drones are actually swarming…
Meanwhile in Ukraine@meanwhileua.bsky.social · 4mo agoA $2,000 drone built in a Ukrainian kitchen destroyed a $26.6M Russian TOR air defense system. First drone down. Second drone down. Third one got through. Ukraine's total: $6,000. Russia's loss: $26.6 million. This is the math that keeps changing this war.
And the earth was without norm, and void;
Grady Booch@booch.com · 5mo agoIn the beginning God prompted the heavens and the earth. — genAIsis 1:1
Episode 349: Humility in the Age of Agentic Coding --- In this episode we talk with Steve Klabnik, known for his work on the Rust programming language, about his firsthand experience building Rue using tools like Claude and what it reveals about the future of coding. #AI practicalai.fm/349
Episode 348: AI policy and the battle for computing power --- In this episode, Ben Buchanan, Assistant Professor at The Johns Hopkins University and former White House Special Advisor for AI, joins us to discuss #AIpolicy, importance of computing power, and AI governance. #AI practicalai.fm/348
I had a great time being interviewed about fully-autonomous swarming and other topics on this joint @changelog.com / @practicalai.bsky.social episode!
Changelog@changelog.com · 9mo ago🎉 New episode of Changelog & Friends! changelog.am/118
This is a beautiful true Christmas story. Take a few minutes to read it and imagine a world in which we all exhibit similar love and generosity to our neighbors - and to the animals around us. Merry Christmas from our family to yours. 🎄🥰 www.bbc.com/news/article...
Cardiff couple invited man in for Christmas, he stayed for 45 years
An arrangement Rob and Dianne Parsons thought would last a few days ended up changing their lives.
bbc.com
The First Amendment protects our right to record law enforcement activity in public.
ACLU@aclu.org · 8mo agoWrong. The First Amendment protects our right to record law enforcement activity in public — full stop.
Today’s speech by Blaise Metreweli, Chief of the United Kingdom’s Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). This is the speech that I wish I was hearing from U.S. intelligence leaders. www.gov.uk/government/s...
Speech by Blaise Metreweli, Chief of SIS, 15 December 2025
Blaise Metreweli, Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service on how SIS is keeping the UK safe in a world where the rules of conflict are being rewritten.
gov.uk
“It’s proper to blame President Trump…But Trump’s our president. If Americans in both parties don’t do their utmost to check and overturn his actions, we will all have been part of the betrayal of Ukraine. We will all have been part of a betrayal of America.” www.thebulwark.com/p/four-dimen...
This Isn’t Four-Dimensional Chess. Trump’s Helping Russia.
President Trump’s recent moves with respect to Ukraine may seem bewildering. But they’re not. He’s partial to the country’s invader.
thebulwark.com
This is astounding. Maybe we should do something about it?
One in 15 US adults has been on the scene of a mass shooting, study finds
About 7% of U.S. adults have been present at the scene of a mass shooting in their lifetime, and more than 2% have been injured during one, according to new University of Colorado Boulder research.
phys.org
Know your legal rights to protest.
Jaclyn A. Siegel, PhD@jacasiegel.bsky.social · last yr.Apropos of nothing, now is a good time to brush up on your rights as a protester or protest organizer. You are largely protected under the first amendment, thiugh there are limitations. www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...
Breakthrough innovation in the fight against cancer
Derek Thompson@dkthomp.bsky.social · last yr.Unbelievable news. Pancreatic is one of the deadliest cancers. New paper shows personalized mRNA vaccines can induce durable T cells that attack pancreatic cancer, with 75% of patients cancer free at three years—far, far better than standard of care. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
