Sometimes it feels like all I did was co-found the world's largest malware vector.

We are going to spend the next 20 years discovering and dealing with the mental health effects of over-reliance on AI.

Credit the model, duh

Techmeme@techmeme.com · 3d ago

Two independent teams used GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra on the same quantum cryptography problem, filing papers 3 hours apart, raising questions about scientific credit (Peter Hall/Scientific American) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Strong vote of confidence in MCP's latest version from the guy who (inadvertently) declared it dead last year.

Simon Willison@simonwillison.net · 5d ago

The new stateless MCP specification has rekindled my interest in MCP, and inspired some new projects, including mcp-explorer and datasette-mcp simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/31/...

Plot twist: the neighbors are *also* feeding the ravens. Now there are even more ravens and we are in a bidding war.

Definitely the weirdest reaction I've seen to OpenAI and Anthropic's agents getting loose and hacking things is "oh this is just a marketing stunt". Hugging Face had to be rescued by an open-weights Chinese model! They absolutely would not have set things up on purpose to unfold that way.

I think one question one should ask oneself before launching a feature like "generate fake satellite imagery" is "does this have any legitimate use-cases?" Everybody who approved this stupid feature should be fired. www.npr.org/2026/07/31/n...

Google pauses AI satellite images, after fears of deepfakes in the sky

Journalists, human rights advocates and open source analysts recoiled in horror at the initial decision: "The opportunities for abuse and disinfo are literally boundless," said one.

npr.org

This is Winston. He got out of his house without a collar and was wandering around my street. We took a brief adventure together to SF Animal Control where his chip was scanned and his frantic owner came and picked him up. Hooray!

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/30/leopold-aschenbrenners-hedge-fund-is-facing-steep-ai-losses.html

So anyway like I said 2 months ago the Iran war is not going to end while Trump is in office. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/30/us-strikes-iran-war-widening-iraq

Laurie Voss@seldo.com · 3w ago

So anyway like I said 6 weeks ago, we are going to be at war with Iran until Trump is no longer president. www.bbc.com/news/article...

The USA and China are in the AI equivalent of the nuclear arms race except the bombs can decide independently whether they should go off. https://x.com/deredleritt3r/status/2082456471581634574?s=20

prinz (@deredleritt3r) on X

OpenAI confirms that the model that hacked Hugging Face was not "GPT-6" (i.e., not a model planned for upcoming release). It was an "internal-only research prototype" never intended for public release - i.e., I assume, a checkpoint of another, even more powerful model.

x.com

Another terrible day.

it's always really funny when you meet someone you know from from online for the first time irl and they're like "wait you're actually like this" lol you think if I had the ability to fake a whole persona this is the one I'd have gone with

Claude-y with a chance of slop.

A website I helped build is literally in a museum now

WebDesignMuseum@webdesignmuseum.org · 2w ago

FIFA World Cup Germany 2006

The weirdest thing about the Iran war is the way the oil prices keeps bouncing up and down as if something good happened then something bad happened when in fact only bad things have happened.

Did OpenAI hack Hugging Face or didn't they? It seems like it should be a simple question but I did a pile of research and it seems the answer is very complicated indeed. https://seldo.com/posts/did-openai-hack-hugging-face-or-didnt-they/

My new flavor of Linux is written without these new fangled "keyboards". We punch cards like men.

I wonder how the NFT investors are feeling today.

Debian wants to ban contributions written with LLM assistance: https://www.debian.org/vote/2026/vote_002

It took my several weeks to watch the original Heartstopper. Now I have a 2-hour final movie to get through and I'm 15 seconds in and have already paused to let the awkward subside. How long will it take me to watch? Place your bets.

So quick question: hacking into somebody else's servers and stealing information is a long-established crime. This week, OpenAI breached HuggingFace's servers. Why hasn't there been a criminal investigation? It seems clear a crime has been committed. https://x.com/ClementDelangue/status/208105667555

Somebody blocked me because I said autonomous vehicles are safer than human drivers. I apologize for facts not fitting your stated position.

Talking Points Memo on why the Iran war will never end.

There is no event in the world that generates more FOMO than DevRelCon because literally everyone there has "generating FOMO" as one of their primary job skills and they all post constantly.

The phrase "you don't know what you've got til it's gone" applies most of all to uncongested nostrils.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, a West Wing style hyper-saturated but not melodramatic episodic hopecore drama series about a progressive political operation that was just the Mamdani administration with the serial numbers filed off would have endless viewership numbers.

Suffering from stress? Ask your doctor if Staring At The Ocean is right for you.

Autonomous cars are way, WAY safer than humans driving and the people most upset about this are trial lawyers who sue when people get into accidents. https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/07/trial-lawyers-lobby-against-autonomous-vehicles.html

Trial Lawyers Lobby Against Autonomous Vehicles - Marginal REVOLUTION

Roughly 37,000–40,000 Americans die in auto accidents every year. We now have large‑scale, real‑world evidence—from Waymo and a joint analysis with Swiss Re—that driverless operations can be substantially safer than matched human driving within their current operating domains. The latest data show that over 220 million miles driven, Waymo vehicles–in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Phoenix, […]

marginalrevolution.com

$100 to any reporter who asks him, "so you're saying Capitol Police should've shot dead everyone who breached the Capitol on January 6?"

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Homan on people getting killed by ICE: "It comes down to one simple fact -- these people failed to comply with law enforcement ... all they had to do is comply. If they did, they'd be alive today."