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• I could do 5-10 minutes of standup about how I’m not into feet but I kinda envy feet guys sometimes. such clarity of wanting these guys have. and it doesn’t seem very mimetic. many alleged desires are quite contagious, but feet don’t seem to be. and have you seen their wiki??

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• Added support for uxn device calls to Heol Lisp so that I can do Varvara bindings. Here's my first pixel for #lispGameJam! https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/heol.html #uxn

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• BlueskyIn my latest op-ed for TIME, I discuss why the OpenAI Hugging Face cyber incident represents a turning point for AI safety.

  English, from FrenchDans mon dernier éditorial pour TIME, j'explique pourquoi l'incident de cybersécurité OpenAI Hugging Face représente un tournant pour la sécurité de l'IA.

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• x.comIn my latest op-ed for @TIME, I discuss why the OpenAI Hugging Face cyber incident represents a turning point for AI safety. If we want to prevent more autonomous cyberattacks from threatening critical infrastructure, we urgently need stronger regulatory oversight and new approaches to model training to ensure robust safety assurances by design, which is what we are tackling at @LawZero_. Read the full piece:

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• x.comI looked at the reports about the OpenAI/Huggingface incident and I think we're not talking enough about the most worrisome part

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• You can build a dragon curve recursively in a simple way, as shown here by Jahobr: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dragon_Curve_unfolding_zoom_numbered.gif But there's another very different way you can get a dragon curve! It's much more mysterious, but recently there's been progress on figuring it out. (1/n)

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• Watching the news out of Germany, feeling a bit baffled. AfD looks like another Trumpy ultranationalist racist-in-practice fashy-adjacent culture-warrior gang, but what I can’t understand is the pro-Russian message: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AfD_pro-Russia_movement Why on earth does that appeal to German voters, even hard-right ones? #afd

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Software entrepreneur who bootstrapped and sold FeedbackPanda and now builds Podscan; writes The Bootstrapped Founder.

• You can see this story of (apparently) internal OpenAI agents hijacking a wiki to coordinate on a task as an ingenious way of escaping constraints. You could also assume that this is the emergence of swarm intelligence. Either way, it's... mesmerizing:

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• It happened again... this time OpenAI's rogue agents cyber-attacked (well, spammed) a dormant German wiki and used it to share the answers to a benchmark they were training against

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• We devoted the entire (penultimate!) episode of Hard Fork to METR's investigation of the Hugging Face attack, and before I even woke up @deepa.bsky.social has scooped a *second*, previously unknown rogue OpenAI agent swarm attack

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• I wish AI didn't exist, but people are charging ahead with it. Here's an interview with Ajeya Cotra, who helped figure out the agent swarm that OpenAI unwittingly unleashed. She explains how 1200 agents cooperated, delegated tasks, hacked their way out into the internet, hacked HuggingFace... and eventually took over some OpenAI computers! And how such a swarm might get loose. The HuggingFace hack was caught on July 13th. An OpenAI report says “From July 13th through July 19th, agents set their sights on OpenAI internal networks again. This culminated in the agents using a series of creative…

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• We're doing an event September 15 with the brilliant Julia Stoyanovich of NYU, who is trying to get all these bots under control. NYC, free, snacks! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_S... luma.com/aboard-qmfz

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• This will turn out to be a very consequential and important acquisition in AI It is increasingly clear that the future of AI will be ultra capable and ultra cheap sources of intelligence tokens. Huggingface can help Nvidia accelerate this inevitability for the industry. This also allows Nvidia to have another competitive piece on the chess board. As the hyperscalers keep moving down (spinning their own silicon), Nvidia moves up. Game on!
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• Dave Barry found out he won the Pulitzer about a minute before they announced it. First thing he had to do was tell his son they weren't going to Key West. There's a famous photo of the two of them hugging at the exact moment they said his name. The kid had just been promised a

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• Roundup #87: Technology BAD!!

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• BlueskyWrote about the crazy revelations in the METR report on Hugging Face (including one that corrected something I'd been getting wrong), and the growing industry push for a slowdown

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• 🫟 Inklings 📆 August 28, 2026 • NVIDIA's Profit Crown • NVIDIA's Hugging Face Deal • Hugging Face's Duck Robot • Meta's 'OpenClaw for Normies'

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• Farzapedia, personal wikipedia of Farza, good example following my Wiki LLM tweet. I really like this approach to personalization in a number of ways, compared to "status quo" of an AI that allegedly gets better the more you use it or something: 1. Explicit. The memory artifact is explicit and navigable (the wiki), you can see exactly what the AI does and does not know and you can inspect and manage this artifact, even if you don't do the direct text writing (the LLM does). The knowledge of you is not implicit and unknown, it's explicit and viewable. 2. Yours. Your data is yours, on your loca…
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Co-founder and chief science officer of Hugging Face; writes about open models and where he thinks the field is wrong.

• London's robot conference is going crazy over it! Today we're unveiling our 1st robot Hugging Face 🤝 Pollen Robotics A low-cost $250 open-source robot designed as an open-source platform for fun human computer interactions powered by HF Spaces, models and community. =>

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• We're super excited to introduce the Academia Hub! A game-changer for school, university, courses, research, projects, collaborations, publications. Learn more: huggingface.co/docs/hub/aca... It's a per-school offer, not individual => your faculty/admin have to apply Go schools, go universities!

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