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Tyson, Chicken Rancher 🐓

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Product marketing at Dropzone AI and lay pastor. Servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the flame of Anor. Cursed with ability to see nuance. Trying not to let the bastards grind me down.

I'm married and father to three. I live in the Cascade foothills outside Seattle with my family and small flock of chickens.

I'm a startup junkie who tries to learn from good and bad examples.

Interests outside work:
#troutfishing #backpacking #backyardchickens #homesteading #wendellberry #chess #LOTR #Tolkien #CSLewis #Earthsea #romanbritain #churchhistory

In 2002, Larry Wall, the inventor of Perl, answered a reader question on Slashdot: "How can a scientific or at least technical mind believe in God?" I hope you enjoy his answer as much as I did: https://interviews.slashdot.org/story/02/09/06/1343222/larry-wall-on-perl-religion-and

Avatar: Bearded guy in a beanie and orange puffy jacket chopping wood.

Header image: Man wearing waders standing in a swollen river fishing.

Dropzone AI	https://www.dropzone.ai/
LinkedIn	https://www.linkedin.com/in/tysonsupasatit/

Tyson, Chicken Rancher 🐓14h ago

One of my longtime dreams was to visit Hong Kong, especially the Chungking neighborhood that's the set of one of my favorite movies (Chungking Express starring Tony Leung and Faye Wong).

Sadly, that's not ever going to happen. I can't imagine being forced to hand over my account passwords or face one year in jail.

(Also, this was once the type of news that made me glad to live in America but now I see this type of stuff and wonder, "How long until I see this here?")

WSJ gift link:
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/hong-kong-national-security-law-john-lee-7a42643f?st=NXaaMt&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

Tyson, Chicken Rancher 🐓15h ago

OpenClaw showed us that people really like the idea of a personal assistant but also how incredibly bad things can get without security controls.

@nielsprovos built IronCurtain as a research project to show what a personal assistant might look like if architected with security and reliability in mind.

https://www.provos.org/p/ironcurtain-secure-personal-assistant/

IronCurtain: A Personal AI Assistant Built Secure from the Ground Up

How would you build a personal AI assistant if you took security seriously from the start? IronCurtain sandboxes LLM-generated code, enforces policy in plain English, and keeps credentials out of the agent's reach.

Niels Provos

Tyson, Chicken Rancher 🐓1d ago

RE: https://thingy.social/@malcircuit/116290027307902048

Really important piece in Psychology Today about the danger of over-reliance on AI especially for children.

From the article:
I mentioned Michael Gerlich's study on the negative correlation between AI offloading and critical thinking in a recent piece, "Why Kids Can’t Resist Cognitive Offloading," but I missed a critical distinction. Participants over 46 showed higher critical thinking scores alongside lower AI reliance. Participant between 17-25 showed the inverse.

In my view, the most likely explanation for this is not generational preference but biological development. The older group probably offloaded tasks they already knew how to perform. The younger group offloaded task they never learned how to perform. These neural pathways for source evaluation and constructing arguments were never formed. You can’t atrophy a muscle that was never built.

Tyson, Chicken Rancher 🐓1d ago

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Neil Kandalgaonkar 1d ago

People have mixed illustration and text forever. But the 20th-century philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein proposed using faces for rapid communication of emotion, coequal to text

It should hearten us all that Wittgenstein, the author of works like “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus” (it reads just as easy as it sounds) was given to sending postcards to his friends enhanced with incredibly cringe jokes and doodles 😳

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Brian Vastag 2d ago

Stephen Colbert and his screenwriter son are working with Peter Jackson to develop part of The Fellowship of the Ring into another film. It would cover chapters not included in the Jackson film. Sounds like the script is far along.

#film #fantasy #Tolkien

https://variety.com/2026/film/news/lord-of-the-rings-movie-stephen-colbert-warner-bros-1236698684/

New 'Lord of the Rings' Movie From Stephen Colbert in Development

Stephen Colbert and his son are developing a brand new film in the "Lord of the Rings" universe.

Variety

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Richard Bejtlich 2d ago

Oh snap. My single most important cybersecurity metric deteriorated again.

In the M-Trends report for calendar year 2024, Mandiant’s global median dwell time metric worsened from 10 to 11 days. In the newest report, released today, for calendar year 2025, that metric worsened again, from 11 to 14 days.

In other words, organizations are taking even longer to detect and respond to intrusions. 10 days was already still too much, in a world where teams need to detect and contain in an hour to be effective.

I’m not a doomer. We made amazing progress since 2011, when median global dwellers time was over 400 days. But, two bad years in a row has never happened. Before last year, the metric had always improved!

It’s possible Mandiant is just dealing with ever tougher cases. I have to dig into the full report.

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Tyson, Chicken Rancher 🐓2d ago

I’m in hotel near Union Square and heard a coyote yipping in the street below last night. Just like being at home in the woods … except in the middle of a city!

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊3d ago

A man used LLMs to generate hundreds of thousands of "songs", then used bots to stream them billions of times, to collect $8m in royalties. https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/north-carolina-man-pleads-guilty-music-streaming-fraud-aided-artificial-intelligence-0 Is there a better metaphor for late-stage capitalism than burning resources to make songs that are never listened to, then steaming them to robots that will never hear them, ad infinitum?

Tyson, Chicken Rancher 🐓3d ago

SF is so weird. I am currently riding the BART into town. I mean, I love all y’all weirdos. Don’t get me wrong.

Also my six-year-old #RSAC backpack is pilgrimaging back to the place of its birth. I call it my COVID backpack.