Nonya Bidniss

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Rizzler. Retired deep state IC/civil servant. Scientific & technical intelligence re pandemic threats, chem/bio weapons, bioscience, emerging tech; personal staff of senior GOs; tech writer, speech writer, senior editor; also worked at various analytic & research labs. Today I hike, cook, read & watch #scifi. Degrees in biology & strategic intelligence. Ham. Currently in N. Alabama :( #veteran #atheist #antifascist #natsec đŸŒ»#ActuallyAutistic #nobot
Bluesky: @nonyabidniss.bsky.social‬
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ReadingPretenders to the Throne of God by Adrian Tchaikovsky
ListeningTwelve Months by Jim Butcher
WatchingThe Pitt
WatchingStar Trek: Voyager
Dear restaurant owners:
We ALL hate the QR code menu.
Stop.
-everyone
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"Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds — backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic's Claude goes rogue"

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/claude-powered-ai-coding-agent-deletes-entire-company-database-in-9-seconds-backups-zapped-after-cursor-tool-powered-by-anthropics-claude-goes-rogue

Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds — backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic's Claude goes rogue

PocketOS founder blames ‘Cursor running Anthropic's flagship Claude Opus 4.6’ plus Railway’s infrastructure for data disaster.

Tom's Hardware
Please don't describe the boot on your neck with heated rhetoric. It's divisive.
“Yesterday afternoon, an AI coding agent — Cursor running Anthropic's flagship Claude Opus 4.6 — deleted our production database and all volume-level backups in a single API call to Railway, our infrastructure provide...It took 9 seconds.” #AI https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/claude-powered-ai-coding-agent-deletes-entire-company-database-in-9-seconds-backups-zapped-after-cursor-tool-powered-by-anthropics-claude-goes-rogue
Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds — backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic's Claude goes rogue

PocketOS founder blames ‘Cursor running Anthropic's flagship Claude Opus 4.6’ plus Railway’s infrastructure for data disaster.

Tom's Hardware

I have said and will continue to say most people have zero idea what it's like for scientists in the US right now.

We sat at an outdoor table the other day with a brilliant older queer scientist friend and ran into several scientist friends including one who worked at govt agencies on science funding. It is like having conversations after an apocalypse. So many people lost, labs folded, international postdocs gone, lines of work canned. DEI work going undercover, forbidden words erased

Incipient bothsideism in the #BrokenTimes, equating Sotomayor's proper criticism with Thomas' rampant corruption, ignoring the much larger issue: the Court's authoritarian, religious extremism.
Is the Supreme Court Coming Apart at the Seams? https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/26/opinion/clarence-thomas-sonia-sotomayor-supreme-court.html?smid=tw-share
Opinion | Is the Supreme Court Coming Apart at the Seams?

A revealing glimpse of the state of the Supreme Court, on the verge of momentous rulings in the weeks ahead.

The New York Times

Sadly not only may this be accurate, but because it’s robots all the way down, they tend to rank higher in search engine result pages.

So they’re the *top* 1/3.

The future sucks.
Get out now.

https://www.404media.co/study-finds-a-third-of-new-websites-are-ai-generated/

Study Finds A Third of New Websites are AI-Generated

Researchers found the internet is becoming aggressively positive as AI-generated text floods the web.

404 Media
On a visit to Kentucky and just got this screen when I tried to access my DMs. Here's what age verification laws look like. Oh well, guess I'll check my Bluesky messages in California.

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116477033336507467

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