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editor & writer | context architect

Joined November 2008
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numbers coming out of The Castle are insane. this is a Dracula +25 district
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Attacking non-critical consumer-facing infrastructure - like grocery stores - with pre-warned and limited scope cyber attacks is the best way to convince your population they need to harden their society. It's really classic Ender's Game - you only get to use the weapon once, it has to destroy the enemy completely. Real catastrophe is not spoiling meat, its multi-megawatt turbines that go beyond safe RPM, critical valves in chemical refining that report the wrong position, air traffic control networks. Destruction of hard infrastructure that is replaceable on a year-to-decade timescale. Like a water treatment plant, transformer station, airport, and so on. Food is the most high throughput thing in our society besides gasoline. It has a residency time of a few days on shelves, and so any total loss of inventory is recoverable on the scale of a week.
UPDATE: The European refrigeration cyberattack has now reached Italy and Romania, bringing the total to at least 10 countries affected across Europe. In Italy, several Coop stores in Sicily were hit, including at least three in Catania and one in Palermo. In Romania, at least six stores have reportedly been affected. Some affected businesses have yet to publicly disclose the incidents, meaning the actual number of countries and locations impacted could be even higher. The full scale of this cyberattack remains unknown. Countries affected so far: 🇸🇪 Sweden 🇧🇪 Belgium 🇱🇺 Luxembourg 🇪🇪 Estonia 🇮🇪 Ireland 🇳🇱 Netherlands 🇫🇮 Finland 🇩🇰 Denmark 🇮🇹 Italy 🇷🇴 Romania
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Ryan retweeted
I would like to congratulate the organizers of the 2026 Cybersecurity Awareness Month for putting together a truly spectacular event
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We hate editor halloween, what do you mean your a typo??
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Rachel Ruysch (1664 – 1750), still-life painter from the Northern Netherlands who specialized in flowers, achieving international fame in her lifetime #WomensArt
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If he keeps saying things like that, it will become impossible for Canadians to pay for their own drinks in any bar in the democratic world.
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Re: the perpetual “how do people read so many books?” discourse: Average person reads 1 page per minute and if we call the average book 365 pages (it’s probably less) then you will average 1 book per year for each minute you devote to reading each day. Pretty simple.
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Contemporary Australian artist and printmaker Rachel Newling #WomensArt
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We often talk about literacy in relation to art, and yes, very important for that. But also important for more prosaic things like leases, contracts, and policies.
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Decided that one must love and work, and that's it
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I can’t wait to read everyone’s secret poetry
Delete your search history, delete your bookmarks, delete your reddit, medical records, 12 yr old tumblr, delete everything. Every photo on the cloud, every message on every platform. None of it is safe. It will all become public in the next year Local storage and compute 📈
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Technically, a dictionary is a book of spells.
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me staying home all day: The world is evil and nobody deserves anything me after 30 minutes on the train and 10 minutes walking outside: Evetybody in the world is Beautiful
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Warm minimalism in a 56 sq ft Paris apartment. Small space, beautifully done
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Ryan retweeted
Reading Adorno’s essay on punctuation marks
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America: We need to kill the humanities so we don’t lose the AI race to China China: Every child shall read Jane Eyre
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One of the best parts of You Can See Everything is when Nathan says he’s trying to be as honest as he can and wouldn’t omit anything to protect Elizabeth and then immediately shows footage that reveals he misled the audience via omission earlier in the film.
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Dream space
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it should tell you something that the most bleeding edge ai-pilled technologists are not letting AI write for them
i love writing. i never let agents write for me. whether it's docs, or tweets, or shitposts, or even prompts (okay maybe that one's harder as agents manage other agents) there's a simple reason for that: i still strongly believe that writing is thinking. it's a skill i hope to never give up. it's also important to me that whatever i say is always authentic, mistakes and all. my favorite posts are the ones that i just full send without any editing i suspect it also helps with prompting. being able to clearly express what i want, and knowing the vocabulary i need to be able to direct my agents does seem to make for more effective usage of agents. in the same way that engineers have an advantage when we prompt agents to write code, because we are intimately familiar with the words that make up the discipline knowing the right word incantations to get an agent to produce a desired goal almost feels like spellcasting. as models get more capable, and that input box looks more and more like a magic box that can output anything, words become the interface between you and the genie there may come a time when we give up the keyboard in exchange for brain-computer interfaces. but until then, i'm writing every word.
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