Graphical illustration of elevator algorithms. Very cool: john.fun/elevators
Elevators
How elevators push your buttons
john.fun
Italian photographer Ray Giubilo with a one-in-a-million shot of Jasmine Paolini at the US Open
Hugging Face just published a highly detailed technical account of OpenAI's accidental cyberattack on their systems - it's wild how sophisticated this was: huggingface.co/blog/agent-i... Wrote up some of my own notes here: simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/28/...
Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
huggingface.co
Great new feature in the latest Signal app. If you enable disappearing messages the meta data of calls and missed calls gets deleted as well. I know this was a long standing goal for them, but the engineering behind it took time. #Privacy @signalapp
EDR rep said a new version coming out protects against some new nonbinaries, which seems like a poor direction for security software
They've built the paper clip optimizer from the seminal work "The Paper Clip Optimizer will kill us all"
This headline is extremely funny given what happened (OpenAI hacked HF by accident) openai.com/index/huggin...
OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident during model evaluation
OpenAI and Hugging Face share early findings from a security incident during AI model evaluation, highlighting advanced cyber capabilities and lessons for defenders.
openai.com
When a politician dies we see a lot of hagiographies about them. If you mention they were a terrible person IRL, you get chastised. My feeling? If you don't want people to talk shit about you after you die, don't be shitty when you're alive.
John Deere owners will get the right to repair equipment under FTC settlement | Discussion
John Deere owners will get the right to repair their own equipment under a new FTC settlement
John Deere owners should soon feel free to fix their own machines. The Federal Trade Commission and several state attorneys general have secured a “right to repair” settlement with farming equipment company Deere & Co., known as John Deere.
apnews.com
it's raining, it's pouring @atproto.nyc is never boring come hang with the coolest kids in town tomorrow in Brooklyn! atmo.rsvp/p/atproto.ny...
atproto.nyc - July 2026
Join us once again for pizza, a few short talks, and a whole lot of atmospheric conversation! ## When The evening of Tuesday, July 7, 2026. - Come at 5 to help set up - Doors at 5:30 - Pizza at 6 o...
atmo.rsvp
Ad Rock: you can disagree with the current All: POPE MCA: but if you push his buttons then you’re a All: DOPE Mike D: ordain yourself a bishop and you’re All: SCHISMATIC Ad Rock: excommunication is All: AUTOMATIC
i want to spread the word about atproto. if you’re running a podcast, i’d be happy to hop in to talk about it. i understand it decently well and can explain it without much jargon. it’s one of the most interesting developments in the last 30 years of web, and i can defend that. please dm to set up!
Made a site that takes objects from wikipedia and turns them into endless I Spy > neal.fun/wiki-spy/
Been a project pitchfork day
Timekiller (And One Remix)
YouTube video by Project Pitchfork - Topic
youtu.be
I need my favorite movie studio and music label to merge into A24AD so I only have to read one website
A low-carbon computing platform from your retired phones https://research.google/blog/a-low-carbon-computing-platform-from-your-retired-phones/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48515336
A low-carbon computing platform from your retired phones
A low-carbon computing platform from your retired phones
research.google
A blurred face isn't hidden—it's degraded. But AI trained to recover a signal from noise is good at restoring what's been degraded. shirin anlen (WITNESS) and Gabi Ivens (Human Rights Watch) explain why human rights groups must trade the cosmetic blur for structural anonymization to protect people.
AI Can Rebuild Blurred Faces, So How Do We Protect People Now?
In the age of AI, shirin anlen and Gabi Ivens ask, are the blurs human rights defenders rely on to protect people in photos and videos still doing their job?
techpolicy.press
For the first time on record, solar overtook coal in the US electricity mix in May 2026. “Solar supplied a record 12.8% of US electricity, while coal fell to 12.2%, its fourth-lowest monthly share ever.” [ember-energy.org]
Solar overtakes coal in US electricity for the first month on record | Ember
New solar records and long-term coal decline in the United States lead to latest clean power milestone
ember-energy.org
Once I realized this, all those inept AI laundry-folding videos became hilarious. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/huh-2 PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
