Show Your Stripes
Visualising how the climate has changed for every country across the globe
Virginia joins a national effort to ensure only popular vote winners become president
With Virginia on board, the National Popular Vote Compact is now enacted in states worth 222 electoral votes. Here's what that means.
The AI Great Leap Forward
In 1958, Mao ordered every village to produce steel. The steel was useless. The crops rotted. Today's top-down AI mandates are producing the same pattern: ba...
chokepoint6
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On Decentralized Acceleration
Applying Vitalik's d/acc framework to AI — why every cloud prompt is a quiet transfer of power, and what the alternative looks like.
How malicious AI swarms can threaten democracy: The fusion of agentic AI and LLMs marks a new frontier in information warfare
Advances in AI offer the prospect of manipulating beliefs and behaviors on a population-wide level. Large language models and autonomous agents now let influence campaigns reach unprecedented scale and precision. Generative tools can expand propaganda output without sacrificing credibility and inexpensively create falsehoods that are rated as more human-like than those written by humans. Techniques meant to refine AI reasoning, such as chain-of-thought prompting, can just as effectively be used to generate more convincing falsehoods. Enabled by these capabilities, a disruptive threat is emerging: swarms of collaborative, malicious AI agents. Fusing LLM reasoning with multi-agent architectures, these systems are capable of coordinating autonomously, infiltrating communities, and fabricating consensus efficiently. By adaptively mimicking human social dynamics, they threaten democracy. Because the resulting harms stem from design, commercial incentives, and governance, we prioritize interventions at multiple leverage points, focusing on pragmatic mechanisms over voluntary compliance.
A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4,000 Developer Machines
A prompt injection in a GitHub issue triggered a chain reaction that ended with 4,000 developers getting OpenClaw installed without consent. The attack composes well-understood vulnerabilities into something new: one AI tool bootstrapping another.
Blue Skies Ahead: Social Media's Quiet User Revolution
In a digital landscape increasingly defined by user concerns over privacy and control, a quiet revolution is taking shape.
Turns out Generative AI was a scam
Or at least very very far from what it has been cracked up to be
Your Laptop Isn’t Ready for LLMs. That’s About to Change
The quest to run large AI models locally on an individual's machine are driving the biggest change in laptop architecture in decades.
LM Studio - Local AI on your computer
Run local AI models like gpt-oss, Llama, Gemma, Qwen, and DeepSeek privately on your computer.
This Just Fixed 90% Of AI Coding
Jay Graber Remarks Video, ATmosphereConf Seattle 2025 - ATProto Community
How small can ATproto get, really? - Unfolding Diagrams
Does an independent Bluesky stack really cost thousands?
"The forces that are now shaping AI are the same forces that turned the open internet into monopolistic platforms, converted peer-to-peer participation into precarious labor, and enclosed the digital commons. They are now threatening to capture and enclose thought itself." osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/qahd3_v1/
