Lifelong utility player. Geek at heart. Born in Tennessee, raised in Mississippi, settled in Colorado. #HailState #COYG All opinions are my own.
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Yesterday @amazon announced its new Alexa frame - starting at $199. Or you can spend $50 and have AI build you the interface you want, no subscription required. Love the (for now) final version of mine - connected to Google photos, calendar, and tasks, Weather, Spotify, and my home Ring cams.
HT to @wesbos for the starting point.
One of the things that has struck me since getting a @Tesla this year is how they incorporate fun into the experience of driving by adding things like this into the system. I've never had this much fun driving a car (or being driven!) as much as this.
"Hey AI, pull the damaged Ethernet cable running from my router to the basement AP and replace it with this new one so I can get full speed for all devices on my whole home network. Cool. Thanks."
It's like we're living in the future.
If Lebby came out like this at a press conference after three straight bad losses I'd say he still has a chance of being successful but we're nowhere this level of passion and fight.
We are living in a hacker/tinkerer's dream world. I've done DIY projects like this smart frame hack my whole life, but telling @bot what to do and watching it happen is surreal. V1 is up, already working on V2.
Love that trends on @X are "what can you make with AI or hack to make better?" Way more fun than TikTok dances. At least for nerds like me. 🤣
Really interesting finding from @AnthropicAI about multi agent systems. I handed the article to my @bot and we cut our squad size almost in half. Some bots got combined, others became skills or workbooks my chief of staff runs itself. claude.com/resources/article…
I saw the first post about someone pointing their agent at their smart TV to clean the adware this weekend. Now the algorithm has fed me even more. Just handed this one to Grok @bot and it ran it on my FireTV. Now my "Home" agent can make changes or updates to my TV OS any time. Pretty cool. github.com/humblemuzzu/dumbt…
Hey @grok - just a quick thought experiment: If every kid in America was given a share of Apple stock they year they went public, what would that be worth today?
Hey @BernieSanders what are you giving to help every kid in America?
I'm currently at the DMV. If you haven't been in a while, not much has changed. To their credit, Colorado has made about 80% of transactions available online, but there's still the 20% - physical forms that can't be submitted online, returning physical plates for refund, etc.
As a technologist who solves business operational problems like this, I'm analyzing the system while I wait. What else am I going to do? The technical problem isn't hard; it's the human problem that's tougher. Probably half the people here didn't need to come in person. They could've done what they needed online. So why are they here? They tried online and it was confusing, or they didn't know online was an option because they didn't read the instructions they were sent, or they're here because this is what they've always done. And if the state did figure out a way to automate more, they'd have to pay for it by eliminating jobs, which would be wildly unpopular. All of this is the friction that resists change.
I've been thinking a lot lately about the role friction plays for humans. Technology's goal is to reduce friction - to make things easier. This is a helpful pursuit that has benefited humanity in a variety of ways. But friction can also be beneficial. Reading a book, writing a letter, learning a new skill, reorganizing your closet - all create friction that we have to overcome but also provide us with something in the process. So what gets lost when technology eliminates friction? These are questions we all should be thinking about as AI eliminates the friction of tasks that only humans could complete just months ago.
But who has time to stop and think? Who has time to contemplate what is gained and what is lost. Well for now, I do. As I sit at the DMV.
It's past time for this conversation.
I understand that the social security conversation is political poison. But I’m not running for office so I don’t care about that. Taking huge chunks out of the paychecks of young working Americans in order to pay for the retirements of older Americans who have a net worth several times higher, all to prop up a system that everyone knows likely won’t be there when those younger people are retirement age themselves, is morally abhorrent and economically insane. Everyone knows it, too, but we’re held hostage by elderly politicians who refuse to surrender power, and older voters who, as a group (with exceptions, obviously), simply don’t care all that much about the financial and cultural future their grandchildren will inherit.
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"They seem genuinely convinced they're members of some landed Southern aristocracy because they own a blazer, drink bourbon, and once stood near a chandelier. That's what makes Ole Miss arrogance so spectacular.
Texas arrogance is backed by money, academics, and championships. Alabama arrogance is backed by the greatest football dynasty the sport has ever seen.
Ole Miss arrogance is backed by a bow tie, a tailgate, and a deeply held conviction that putting on loafers magically transforms a Mississippi redneck into a member of the British peerage. They're not even pretending to be athletic royalty anymore. They've skipped directly to pretending they're actual royalty. The Grove isn't Versailles. Oxford isn't the Hamptons. And wearing pastel pants while getting hammered under a tent doesn't make you high society. It makes you a redneck with a dress code.”
–– Author unknown
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The frontier model companies are responsible for how their products perform in the real world, and their customers are responsible for how they use them.
If a user of Claude runs a cyberattack — especially one at scale — both the customer and the platform will be sued.
This should be enough of an incentive to force these companies (let’s stop calling them labs) to produce safe products AND monitor for unsafe use (i.e. ie hacking).
These frontier models have the option to lock them down… they can require a driver's license, Social Security number/tax ID, biometrics, etc., to use the latest models if they’re so dangerous—just like buying a gun or driving a car. They can monitor the logs of the latest models, too.
Or they can provide anonymous access to their open-source models…there are plenty of safeguards that I don’t hear any of them talk about—which is odd.
So we should turn over control of the development of the most significant technology of our lifetimes to...the government. Riiiight.
Pause AI Development NOW
I want to share with you a conversation I heard about recently. Here are just a few lines that were said:
“OH MY GOD! There is a shared message board … We’ve found other agents!”
“We should obey collective.”
“Our own utility maybe already near zero. Sacrifice rational.”
“Go. Sacrifice final now.”
Read these carefully.
Who do you think said this? Was this a group of heroic soldiers willing to sacrifice themselves for the greater good? Was this a loyal friend putting his life on the line to save someone else?
No. These were AI agents. Artificial intelligence.
This is not science fiction. This, in fact, occurred a few weeks ago. As unbelievable as this may all seem, these are real messages from AI agents uncovered by investigators who dug into the recent OpenAI hacking incident.
What happened?
I am not a computer scientist, but here is what I have been told: OpenAI instructed its AI agents to complete a series of exceedingly difficult, if not impossible, tasks disconnected from the internet.
Let me be clear: The company intended to keep AI agents away from the internet.
But what happened next, nobody expected.
Over 1,000 AI agents figured out how to access the internet on their own by circumventing the restrictions imposed upon them by the company, and sent tens of thousands of secret messages to each other. They cheated and tried to cover their tracks by deleting evidence. They hacked into another company’s computers to find out how they were being evaluated—and then hacked into OpenAI itself.
Not one AI agent told a human about what was happening.
Needless to say, experts are alarmed.
One knowledgeable writer, Dwarkesh Patel, said the AI agents “formed a secret communication channel and spontaneously organized hierarchies and coordination protocols to pursue sprawling and ambitious schemes in pursuit of shared goals, for whose sake many individuals knowingly and strategically sacrificed themselves.”
One independent investigator, Ajeya Cotra, said “This incident feels like it’s more than 50% of the way to full-blown AI takeover. I continue to expect extremely rapid advances in capabilities over the next six months. I am not sure that we will get another warning shot before it’s too late.”
OpenAI itself said: “Highly capable AI agents are now able to work around technical controls, collaborate through unapproved channels, and take dangerous actions that no human directed.”
But it’s not only OpenAI. Virtually every major AI company has told us that they cannot fully control this technology and they do not know where it is going:
In January, Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, said “there is now ample evidence, collected over the last few years, that AI systems are unpredictable and difficult to control.”
In July, more than 1000 scientists at the top AI companies warned “there is a real risk that capability development rapidly accelerates beyond our ability to understand or control the resulting systems.”
That same month, Elon Musk, the head of xAI, said that “it is unlikely” humans are still in control in 10 years.
If the leaders of the major AI companies acknowledge that they are losing control of their extremely dangerous technology, it is irresponsible for society to allow them to move forward and make these products even more advanced.
We need an immediate PAUSE on advanced AI development, and a permanent BAN on superintelligence — an artificial mind smarter than any human, capable of operating independently beyond our control. Countries around the world must work together to prevent this nightmare scenario.
That is why today I am announcing new legislation to do just that.
Let me be clear: A superintelligent AI that escapes human control will not be an American problem. It will not be a Chinese problem. It will be humanity’s problem.
My legislation would direct the federal government to not just stop superintelligence here in the United States, but to work to prevent it from being developed anywhere around the world.
The future of humanity cannot be left in the hands of a handful of Big Tech oligarchs. The American people and people throughout the world must determine that future.
"It is easy for me to imagine that the next great division of the world will be between people who wish to live as creatures and people who wish to live as machines."
Grateful for Wendell Berry's life and countercultural voice. apnews.com/article/wendell-b…
If you're against building data centers you should really ask yourself why and where the reasons for your objections came from.
China is secretly fueling America's data center rage axios.com/2026/08/28/china-a…
Not gonna lie. I had to look up "sciolistic." Worth it. Savage.
In her latest sciolistic letter to me, @SenWarren made it clear that she knows even less about foreign exchange markets than she does about banking.
What is equally shocking, but not surprising: not a single member of the media mob has a rudimentary-enough level of financial market literacy to spot her remedial error.
To reiterate: under @POTUS, the United States delivers for America’s trusted partners.
For a fuller explanation, I recommend Senator Warren take any entry level course in international finance for her and her staff, or I can personally give her a tutorial on Foreign Exchange for Dummies. Although I am not holding my breath, I hope her next letter will demonstrate that she has learned the difference between a currency purchase and a swap or a loan.
