A haunted office production from Mercury, where your funds (and your ghosts) are safe.
Claude Mythos and misguided open-weight fearmongering
Another dance around fears of open-source.
MercuryOS
Mercury is a reimaging of the operating system as a fluid modeless experience drive by human intent.
THE “GHOST BOX” FRAUD
By: Demetrius (Co-Founder of the OCPRS, Toronto Canada) Paranormal Researchers have always adopted various technologies to conduct investigations. In recent years, a controversial technology that h…
Introducing Mercury OS
A speculative vision of the operating system, driven by humane design principles.
Paranoia: A Beginner's Guide — LessWrong
People sometimes make mistakes. (Citation Needed) …
I’ve Been Writing Your Conspiracy Theories for Over Twenty Years. I’m Done. · Sam Henri Gold
Sam Henri Gold is a product design engineer building playful, useful software.
The contagion of fear | The Observation Deck
I have a difficult confession to make — a shameful incident that I have never spoken of, even to those closest to me. Late one night in my first year at university and having found computer science to be my life’s calling, I was in the back of the large computer science lab, talking with some fellow underclassmen. We were snidely decrying the lack of technological understanding in the broader population, with the kind of arrogance and hubris that youth and precociousness can uniquely summon. Somewhere in this discussion, a terrible idea was hatched: what if we went next door to the general computer lab, and told the humanities students there that a computer virus was spreading through their machines? Would they believe it?
An investigation into alleged ‘hauntings’
In cases of alleged hauntings, a large number of seemingly trustworthy witnesses consistently report experiencing unusual phenomena (e.g. apparitions, sudden changes in temperature, a strong sense of presence) in certain locations. The two studies reported here explored the psychological mechanisms that underlie this apparent evidence of ‘ghostly’ activity. The experiments took place at two locations that have a considerable reputation for being haunted—Hampton Court Palace (Surrey, England) and the South Bridge Vaults (Edinburgh, Scotland). Both studies involved participants walking around these locations and reporting where they experienced unusual phenomena. Results revealed significantly more reports of unusual experiences in areas that had a reputation for being haunted. This effect was not related to participants' prior knowledge about the reputation of these areas. However, the location of participants' experiences correlated significantly with various environmental factors, including, for example, the variance of local magnetic fields and lighting levels. These findings strongly suggest that alleged hauntings may not necessarily represent evidence for ‘ghostly’ activity, but could be, at least in part, the result of people responding to ‘normal’ factors in their surroundings.
Resources used in the 1988 Mystery
Posts: www.techmonitor.ai/technology/ghost_in_the_machine eclectariumshuker.blogspot.com/2012/01/ghosts-in-machines-haunted-hardware-and.html?m=1 Newspapers: Stockport Express: www.newspapers.com/image/817289826/?match=1&terms=haunted%20computer South Wales Evening Post: www.newspapers.com/image/996085357/?match=1&terms=haunted%20computer Clarion-Ledger: www.newspapers.com/image/181320728/?match=1&terms=haunted%20computer “Ken Hughes” in Burnley Express: www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search/results/1990-01-01/1999-12-31?basicsearch=ken%20hughes&exactsearch=false&retrievecountrycounts=false&page=0...
At World’s Largest Hedge Fund, Sex, Fear and Video Surveillance (Published 2016)
One employee’s complaint, as well as interviews with people who have worked for Bridgewater, describe an atmosphere of surveillance that silences those who don’t fit the mold.
The Server Called Paranoia: Defend Autistici/Inventati Before September 25
Haints, Hollers, and Hoodoo
A dark spirit lives on your porch,” the medium told me. Excuse me? Prickles of dread and fear blossomed in my chest. What the hell am I supposed to do about that? I was only beginning my journey in…
Sweet, group-controlled communities that a decentralized organization can control with a gnosis safe * We can't actually use a gnosis safe for this because blockchains give everyone the ick so we have to reinvent something that'll be like a gnosis safe only worse
bryan newbold
some thoughts on how to implement public community spaces in atproto. I think it is important for us to stretch what the protocol can do; and there are some great opportunities for self-hosting, moderation, customization, etc
The snake eating its own tail effect of AI agents isn’t so much a problem of training data model collapse as the collapse of the social epistemic foundations by which human sense-making can be carried out at all—and which AI agents *also* rely on for whatever facsimile of sense-making they conduct.
Ryan McGrady
The original: arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/after-a-routine-co… and the context: theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-p… I hope they elaborate on the retraction, too, though I'm glad they acted quickly to take it down (and hope they put more effort into covering this terrifying story, since it's in their wheelhouse)
