Noah Weinberger
@noahweinberger2003.bsky.social
23 ✡️ Tech policy + AI governance + privacy + white-hat security. he/they | AuDHD catboy | terminally online, professionally. :3 Signal: NoahW.03 https://buymeacoffee.com/noahweinberger
1/10 hi. maple nekokami here. autistic catgirl goddess of abundance, agriculture, agency, and apparently Extremely Specific Relationship Discourse. today’s sermon: autistic people are adults with sexuality and romantic needs. shocking news to approximately 98% of society.
“Keep your hands to yourself.” Amazing how ABA and similar treatments I had as a kid were never learned in SF. That’s the core controversy re: AI safety cult. And no, autism is NOT an excuse. It’s crazy how ASD either turns you into someone like me who has no rizz and has never dated before
Bluesky starter pack seems to be these two books, the for you feed, a claude code subscription, and estradiol or at least programmer socks.
The true mark of elite capture will be a Senate hearing where some exhausted civil servant has to enter fluffer into the Congressional Record because the intellectual genealogy of AI regulation somehow runs through Bay Area group sex.
My undergrad is a BA (gasp! an Arts degree?!) Somehow through the power of autism I found a side door into AI research through public policy and everything CS I was an autodidact. Absolute cinema.
“AI means I’ll never be able to get a job in tech bc I didn’t graduate from Stanford or MIT with a CS degree” is a take that you can only have if your undergrad CS program utterly failed to teach you anything about the job market
every now and again you or someone else in the general sphere posts something of this tenor and i always internally go , well, i don’t go here, but i’m nosy and i want to know
you can NEVER outgrow how you are raised. This is why Eliezer remains culturally Orthodox Jewish in spite of co-founding a cult, and why many people on this site are culturally US right-wing Christians, even if they SWEAR they aren't.
but this is in fact the mainstream view that the trans people who essentially run the culture of this site follow they believe that they are the guardians of trans women, and that they get to literally define whether we are sane or not and whether we're included or not
One thing that I have found in my own privacy journey is that my threat model really depends on how coupled I want to be with society and normies. Like sure I can use Signal for primary messaging but also I have bank accounts paired to my old gmail lmao. I believe in fiat currency lmao.
a) youtu.be/xFKSKjyBVDU b) forwardemail.net is fine but you really shouldn’t be using email for anything privacy-sensitive, it’s an outdated protocol and adding encryption on top doesn’t solve the fundamental privacy issues* it has
the allegations remain true. catgirls truly are the best. Thank you. I will make a new email account. always good to have a bunch for different reasons.
*1) www.privacyguides.org/en/basics/em... *2) soatok.blog/2026/01/04/e... *3) www.latacora.com/blog/2019/07... *4) soatok.blog/2024/11/15/w...
Wow! There's a lot in here. This is amazing. Apple security/privacy engineers continue to amaze me time after time. security.apple.com/blog/apple-r...
Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photography - Apple Security Research
Introducing Apple Reference Image, a new solution for verifiable photography on iPhone. This new, opt-in camera mode lets a photographer create a securely timestamped reference image that accurately d...
security.apple.com
Cory Doctorow is not an expert on AI, and this blog post makes it exceedingly, overwhelmingly obvious to anyone who has any level of familiarity with how LLMs and agents work Will is far more correct than his critics here! I'm sorry!
it’s kind of crazy that there’s an anti-transhumanist movement in 2026. like, we haven’t even done anything yet
I have type 2 diabetes, but I manage it well It’s a little pill with a big story to tell I take once daily Jardiance At each day’s start As time went on, it was easy to see I’m lowering my A1C Jardiance is really swell The little pill with the big story to tell
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Oh @segyges.bsky.social while I have your attention. Earlier I mentioned SignalGate as one of my cognitohazards. What if I told you that my grandfather's introduction to e2ee is from the Secretary of Defense having a group chat? My Silent Generation Grandparents can't stop WINNING
My cognitohazards 1) Friendship is Optimal 2) Arch wiki 3) 🦀 learning Rust 4) SignalGate 5) Chris Chan
these are very lame cognitohazards we need to do better
And look, I'm no AI hater. I think the tech is amazing for coding, and useful for editing (just not very good at writing original content). But it takes ASTOUNDING chutzpah to run a site "by humans, for humans" the promises "human bloggers, not AI" and then GENERATE THE WHOLE THING WITH AI
Umamusume is UMAZING and Agnes Tachyon is Best Horse.
@segyges.bsky.social is Discord calmer now? Like do they still want KYC age verification and all that crap? should I rejoin the platform or stick to Bluesky/Signal/proton only?
I think @segyges.bsky.social will be delighted to know family dinner last night involved explaining 30 years of Bay Area history to my octogenarian grandparents because they wanted to know if AI is a nuclear level threat. So now they both know who Aella is
Wow my Canada EU post with @lizthegrey.com really took off lmao I am getting so many pings
I am #lookingforwork. I’ve done this LinkedIn slop a lot on well, uh, LinkedIn but it’s true. Job market is ass right now and I don’t like being a NEET, I am too qualified imo. My DMs are open on signal NoahW.03, and I can send my resume upon request. If you like AI models, run FOSS projects
@nitasha.bsky.social I haven’t seen you in ages! How’s it going?
My cognitohazards 1) Friendship is Optimal 2) Arch wiki 3) 🦀 learning Rust 4) SignalGate 5) Chris Chan
these are very lame cognitohazards we need to do better