For all the folks who've been telling us what was coming, some for decades, the story of Robert Conquest.

In his magisterial work on the Soviet Union, he predicted when, how, & why it would fall. He was viciously attacked for this.

He was right, *to* *the* *year*.

While working the second edition, he added a lot of material. Should it be a new book rather than a 2nd edition, and if so, what should be the title?

He asked his friends.

Kingsley Amis suggested "I Fucking Told You".

"379 zero-days from an orchestrated pipeline that beat unconstrained Claude Code by 30x" ...

"Three projects produced zero confirmed vulnerabilities: curl ... OpenSSL ... and SQLite"

https://theweatherreport.ai/posts/symbolic-execution-and-llms/

Signal viktig innstilling

Har du 'Settings | Notifications | Show | Name and Message' vil denne lagres i iOS sin notifications database. Dermed spiller det heller ingen rolle om du sletter meldingen i Signal/eller om du har 'Disappearing messages'. Den er fortsatt lagret i iOS sin notifications db. Antar dette gjelder Android også uten å vite dette.

Dette gjelder sannsynligvis alle meldingsprogram. Ikke bare Signal.

#allheimen

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116426025287444979

I see myself getting subtooted by various people, and let me clarify what this thread is, and is not. My opinions on LLM usage are more complicated than "good vs bad".

But I have created a scoped analysis here. My opinion is that we are facing a *licensing hygiene crisis* from a situation where we do not and probably will not know the licensing situation of these tools for some time.

There are only two viable scenarios I can see:

- LLM output is unusable and a copyright mess that cannot be incorporated in any FOSS project
- *All* LLM output is effectively in the public domain.

I am willing to accept either one of those, but the lack of knowledge of which situation we are facing makes me concerned about LLM based contributions entering FOSS projects on copyright grounds.

(There are plenty of other debates one can have about LLMs also, I have scoped them out of this particular thread.)

Objection AI: venture capital tries to block bad press

Thiel and Balaji’s hot new plan to fight journalism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3l6oaCPm8o&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260417-objection-ai-venture-capital-tries-to-block-bad-press - podcast

time: 7 min 13 sec

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/04/17/objection-ai-venture-capital-tries-to-block-bad-press/ - blog post

WebWorkers of the World Wide Web, Unite!

You Have Nothing To Lose But Your Build Chains

RE: https://masto.ai/@transworld/116422911533853918

Just in case it's not obvious to cis folks here, this is a death sentence for #transgender people in the U.S. if these motherfuckers are successful.

Do *NOT* let them take this first step. That's why we need your help to fight this bullshit. Together. ✊🏳️‍⚧️