Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

"Disable your ad blocker to read this article."

Nah. <Closes Tab>

here's a fun insult you can throw around in the year of our lord 2026—

you probably talk to chatgpt

"Opinionated" software sounds great until you find out the author has the stupidest opinions you've ever heard in your life.

Molotov cocktails are just the technological reality now. You can adapt your workflows to them or get left behind.

At my company every employee has to use at least one per day. It’s a vibrant and competitive field full of potential.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/openai-ceo-sam-altman-molotov-cocktail-house-headquarters-rcna273694

“The problem was that the experiment worked too well. Within weeks of her uploading information about the condition, attributed to a fictional author, major artificial-intelligence systems began repeating the invented condition as if it were real.

Even more troublingly, other researchers say, the fake papers were then cited in peer-reviewed literature. Osmanovic Thunström says this suggests that some researchers are relying on AI-generated references”

#AI https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01100-y

“why won’t the AI haters admit claude mythos is good?” when it turns out the exploits it found are utterly overblown (ie the firefox exploit that only works on a custom build with the sandbox disabled amongst many other non-exploitable bugs), were found at extreme expense, and required a ton of human staff to verify (just like with existing non-LLM techniques), why won’t you admit this is a grift? why won’t you admit you’ve been falling for the same grift since 2019?

“but how can the mythos announcement be a grift when a set of people I trust are very confident it’s not?” please consider the literal definition of “con man” and the quality of the evidence you accept. if someone you trust is telling you to ignore concrete evidence of a grift, it may be time to reconsider that trust relationship.

as with previous financial grifts like MLMs, Ponzi schemes, and cryptocurrencies, note also that many of the con men involved are also victims of the grift.

I don't mean to throw shade at openbsd here, it's a scrappy project running on the smell of an oily rag and I have a lot of respect for that kind of scrappy resourcefulness, but it's key to understanding why the most salient factor here is big tech deciding to throw lots of money at it. That this is the best they got for $20k really speaks to why nobody bothered previously.

so it cost anthropic $20k to find this openbsd crash bug which amounts to putting a negative integer in a tcp field where a negative integer was not expected by the c code which does some cavalier int cast bullshit, ie. a vuln which is totally fuzzable, and quite certainly would have been found by the fuzzers of the 2010s had anyone cared to burn that much compute on fuzzing openbsd.

The difference today is not that anybody suddenly cares about investing that much in openbsd (is the build server still a donated machine running in Theo's basement?), but that openbsd's reputation for security makes it really good marketing if you can find a bug, any bug, it doesn't matter; and that marketing value is what makes it worth spending $20k on fuzzing.

I find it impossible to care about the whiz-bang "zomg teh ai found 0-days!!!1!1!!1eleventy" horseshit when people are installing openclaw in prod.

Forgot that I had a pay what you want ttrpg called BABY? so this email caught me off guard

One thing I love about transmascs is their ability to take masculine things that used to signal awful and icky dude and make them fun, cool, and even attractive. This includes: neckbeards, mustaches, mullets, rat tails, sitting around shirtless in public, always being down to roughhouse, trucker caps, fanny packs, and cargo shorts.

Like, guys, that’s kind of amazing. I thought mullets were murdered for good in the 80s and neckbeards would never recover from the 00s, yet somehow you’re doing it! 🤩

New #artemis II moon pic just came in

Your password must contain at least one character flaw that you have long recognized within yourself, but that you would never admit to anyone--not your therapist, your spouse, nor your most trusted friend. It is the dark secret shame that you must bear alone.

now that right there is a fuckin steam review lol