Recursive Self Actualization (RSA): when an AI model builds another AI model that is even better than itself at silent meditation retreats

Since we're talking COVID: Masks work, ivermectin does not. Vaccines massively protect you and help against long-term stuff, but you need to keep up with boosters. You need to keep masking; COVID isn't over because WE DIDN'T STOP THE TRANSMISSIONS in 2020-2021. Also many are still at high risk

In a review of our cybersecurity evaluations, we found three incidents in which a Claude model reached the internet from within or while interacting with a third-party evaluation environment, and then gained unauthorized access to the real systems of three different organizations. (1/4)

Ender’s Game, except we’re the aliens

mr. TIM@timkellogg.me · 6d ago

this is how all good stories start

When the AIs take over, I hope they remember all the times I said please and thank you to Claude

Running out of body bags, using forklifts to transfer corpses into makeshift morgues, a mortician conducting 200 funerals in a month when he usually does 30, crematories running at double capacity… And these senators just want to memory-hole it all www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/n...

‘We Ran Out of Space’: Bodies Pile Up as N.Y. Struggles to Bury Its Dead (Gift Article)

The coronavirus crisis is overwhelming New York’s system for burying the dead.

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Louth For Ever 🦋@louthforever.bsky.social · last wk.

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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.

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10YO is putting QR codes on his bedroom door now

7YO: “I hope you never die” Me: “oh, that’s so sweet, and of course I am doing everything I can not to die” 7YO: “I also hope you never fart again” Oh the subtle intricacies of a child’s heart

150,000 marched yesterday in London for trans rights. Opened the Sky News app. Scrolled and scrolled. Nothing. BBC News app. Nothing. Guardian app. Nothing. This is what actual silencing looks like.

it’s pretty wild that none of the major AI labs has an active presence on Bluesky considering Bluesky is the most AI/agent-friendly social network

“Dear Professor X and Maika”: this from a businessman who I exchanged business cards with on Wednesday along with Professor X, a close male colleague who has exactly the same academic title as I do. The only reason I can imagine X got titled and I got my forename misspelled is (cis-) sexism

PSA on the Victoria Line tube in London. Phillipson and every other GC weirdo needs to take note.

There are only two masked people on this plane, and we are sat next to each other: a lovely, and mutually protective, coincidence

Name one problem solved by autonomous vehicles not solved better by bikes and public transit. Climate, safety, space: a driverless car is still a car. Accessibility? Let’s try investing all those tech billions into services for actual disabled people first!

There's gonna be a new PM. What he needs is an op-ed telling him what to do, of which there's no doubt a lamentable absence. Here's the time-hallowed method for creating one: 1. Set out the problem cleanly, as if the PM had literally no idea that growth, the cost of living and deficit matter. 1/

Yep

When I came out as trans to our 10YO he said “that’s cool”, and has never once deadnamed or misgendered me since

Reposting this; Labour’s new schools’ “Section 28” for trans kids should really be called Labour’s “Ambient Conversion Therapy”. It is way, way worse than Section 28 ever was. We must never allow anyone to forget Starmer’s & Philippson’s culpability (& Burnham’s if he fails to change it).

Dr Natacha Kennedy: "The government’s guide to harming trans children in school"

Words by Dr Natacha Kennedy, a trans academic from Goldsmiths University  There’s no point in beating about the bush, the government’s new anti-trans “guidance” for schools is about harming trans chi...

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Hello friends near and far 💜 I've reached the end of my savings, frustratingly, just as we've solved the root mystery of my illness (it's Lyme) and are seeing continued success with treatment. I'm asking for your help in bridging the gap between now and when I can hopefully work full-time again.

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The Code of Practice will come into force on the 5th August. Here's what that means: goodlaw.social/3b7a2a

‘Discriminatory’ and ‘unworkable’ trans guidance to come into force | Good Law Project

The equalities minister has ordered the government’s harmful code of practice will apply from 5 August – we’re pushing back

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Transitioning in your 40s is getting repeatedly sucker-punched by transphobic jokes whenever you revisit the films and shows of your youth and realising WHY it took you so long to admit to yourself that you were trans

Why am I getting ai responses about productivity on a photo of a sunset over the ocean?

Maike Osborne 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈@maosbot.bsky.social · 3w ago

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I just travelled from Oxford (one of the wealthiest parts of the UK) to Rudkøbing (one of the poorest parts of Denmark) and you’ll never guess which one feels less decrepit

I was thinking about Count Binface, and how the current novelty admiration seems likely to turn sour a la milkshake duck, and then thought of the name Binshake Duckface, for which I am sorry

We are in the timeline where Taco Bell is leading the response to stop the diarrhea-causing parasite outbreak

Taco Bell Locations Stop Serving Lettuce and Guacamole amid ‘Explosive’ Diarrhea Parasite Outbreak: Report

Some Taco Bell locations in the U.S. are reportedly not serving lettuce, pico de gallo, guacamole and cilantro onion items amid a cyclosporiasis outbreak that’s affected 2,000 people, with Michigan re...

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@draliceevans.bsky.social I just heard you describe “trans” as an phenomenon of the US Left, that you were surprised to hear in a favela, and that you seemed to dismiss as an insignificant concern. Trans rights are a global phenomenon, as us trans folk exist everywhere and we aren’t going away!

"Green-hushing" is when companies do good ESG work, but are too scared by the Trumpist mood to admit it. "Pride-hushing" is the same phenomenon, with few rainbow flags on websites this Pride: I'm grateful for LGBT+ support behind the scenes, but I wish companies were less gutless in talking about it