Ruinizer
@ruinizer.bsky.social
Millennial father and reformed Silicon Valley Banker. Lover of small business, science & innovation, strong social safety nets, and the Oxford comma.
prose status: less dire recursion.wtf/posts/claude...
How I Bypassed Claude Opus’s CBRN-E Safeguards
A black-box jailbreak using model-authored state steering, plus an outside-in reconstruction of the safeguards it bypasses.
recursion.wtf
hikikomorphism@hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 3w agoAnyway yeah I know the prose is dire in sections, I've been staring at this thing in a series of Ubud cafes while being, like, man, I really would rather be focusing on weird Rustlang/Haskell stuff.
At a certain point I would expect people to understand what is being said…. Vance et al are saying what THEY are doing and what the goal is…. Vance et al benefit upon the destruction of the very things that created the prosperity of America.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.JD Vance: "When you have people who say 'my ethnic group deserves something, and yours doesn't,' or 'that ethnic group is good and this other ethnic group is bad,' that is how you erode the very foundations of commonality."
Just to reiterate: the dirtbags won’t save us
Liberal Currents@liberalcurrents.com · 2w ago"Dirtbagism repackages antisocial and crankish attitudes as progressive authenticity. Rather than being strictly about substance, it’s an affective thing—an approach to politics that relishes aggression, mean-spiritedness, and heterodoxy as virtues unto themselves."
Gift link: www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
Robert Downen@robertdownen.bsky.social · 2w agoLong before the other scandals - the divine intervention at a Dairy Queen, affairs, indictment, impeachment - Ken Paxton took another lawyer's $1,000 pen. The incident has, for whatever reason, become Texas lore. Now, the man behind the infamous pen is speaking out. An interview with Mr. Montblanc:
NEW: A data leak is exposing 12 terabytes of information from Andrew Tate's online empire, including 76 paid course videos from his online "War Room" network, the unique Telegram IDs of his staff, and archives of raw, unedited and unreleased videos from private events. san.com/cc/manospher...
‘Manosphere’ influencer Andrew Tate faces sexual misconduct charges. A data leak is exposing his secrets
A leak of sensitive information from “manosphere” influencer Andrew Tate’s online empire reveals new information about his online empire.
san.com
"Economic of the Zohranmarket" LOL at this banger opening by @dsquareddigest.bsky.social backofmind.substack.com/p/rent-alway...
This is a machine to ethnically cleanse the country - and anyone who pretends otherwise is kidding themselves
Breaking News: Yayoi Kusama, a Japanese artist whose work caused a stir in the 1960s, while her “Infinity Room” installations drew crowds in recent decades, has died at 97.
Yayoi Kusama, Pop Artist Who Expanded and Endured, Dies at 97
The Japanese artist’s polka-dot covered paintings, phallic sculptures and public performances caused a stir in New York City and Europe in the 1960s.
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The end result of dirtbagism is to make everyone involved a worse person www.liberalcurrents.com/the-dirtbags...
The Dirtbags Won’t Save Us
There is no path out of our present crisis offered by the exaltation of callousness.
liberalcurrents.com
Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 2w agoYeah, “I’m just ironically mimicking racism” has no history of becoming actual racism. People who are ironically racist have turned out to be very good at maintaining a strong firewall against the real article, and all our concerns otherwise turned out to be unfounded.
Trump greenlighting the slaughter and export of wild American mustangs to foreign meat plants the same week he says foreign "beef" imports get a 25% discount isn't suspicious at all.
Baffled that none of the spreadsheet people discourse has mentioned this incredible piece of news: windowsreport.com/microsoft-is...
Aside from the more readily apparent causes… Lower taxation can simultaneously erode incentives for reinvestment in the business, and reduce the funding available for regulatory enforcement.
Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 3w agoThe Jungle by Upton Sinclair wasn’t supposed to be an instructional manual www.newsweek.com/biggest-fda-...
A few thoughts about Bessent. He used to be a macro trader – think big bets on global macro trends or events. The towering figure is George Soros. Next is Druckenmiller. Then we're in the also-ran category: Dalio. Bessent's claim to fame is that, like Druckenmiller, he worked for the Soros fund. 1/
Yakov Feygin@buddyyakov.bsky.social · 3w agoLook you can talk fiscal fundamentals all you want but you can’t deny this happens when you’ve got both Treasury and Fed being run by complete not credible people.
Benchmark US interest rate and USD exchange rate: When the gap first widened last year, people freaked out: The EMification of the US. When I showed this to my students in March, it looked as if the lines were about to re-converge. Alas, now the monster is really flashing it's teeth.
If you haven't followed @eliotwb.bsky.social's incredible reporting on Neom you may be under the impression that nothing got actually built before construction stopped. You'd be very wrong. Watch the video: The sheer scale of the waste. Utter madness. Surreal.
How Saudi Arabia’s Neom Megacity Dream Collapsed
Watch WSJ’s Eliot Brown break down the finances and analyze satellite images.
wsj.com
“ADHD didn’t exist back then either!” Oh word? Grandpa looked like a mummy at age 48 from a diet of over the counter amphetamines, coffee, and a carton a week unfiltered purely out of love of the game?
'Few tricks of the...intellect are more curious than the naïve psychology of the business man, who ascribes his achievements to his own unaided efforts, in bland unconsciousness of a social order without whose continuous support...he would be as a lamb bleating in the desert' (R.H. Tawney).
This is one of those arguments that sounds like slopulism but is actually, if anything, understated. 56% of Colorado river water goes to GROWING FEED FOR LIVESTOCK IN THE DESERT.
mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · 3w agoSTOP GROWING FUCKING LETTUCE IN THE DESERT THIS IS ACTUALLY A VERY EASY PROBLEM TO SOLVE
Nobody explains copyright like Jennifer Jenkins, the director of the Duke Center for the Public Domain, in which capacity she is responsible for the annual New Year's roundups of all the materials entering the public domain: pluralistic.net/2023/12/20/e... 1/
We can't really say this enough... > Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate. www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
AI tools are 'deskilling' workers, philosophy professor says
A philosophy professor warns that AI reliance is weakening workers' judgment, creativity, and problem-solving.
businessinsider.com
Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/
NEWSFLASH/FUCK IT. I am giving away 5 signed copies of the paperback of my latest novel, Everything Will Swallow You. To enter, simply repost this & pop a reply below. You might like it if you like any of these things: Community Knitting Folklore The sea Dorset Silliness Old records CONTINUED...
Last day to catch this show in person at Gallery Nucleus! 🤗
Katherine Lam @ LBX 431@katherinelam.bsky.social · 4w agofinal pieces for my show (1/2) the main objective was to show the working class of brooklyn. especially in the area i am in (sunset park/bensonhurst). all of these are based on real places!
Researchers have found that a single company — Yoti — is responsible for 60% of age checks worldwide. observer.com/2026/08/age-...
