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Adam Avenir @adamavenir.com · 27/02/2026

I've spent every day for the last 14 months building a language for scripting LLMs because I believe the new primitives are required to defend effectively against prompt injection. disreguard.com/blog/posts/a...

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Adam Avenir @adamavenir.com · 09/02/2026

For the last year, I've been heads down working on building infrastructure to better defend against prompt injection. @disreguard.com is a security research lab focused on tools and methods for ergonomic approaches for the rigorous defense-in-depth needed for agents. disreguard.com/blog/posts/p...

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Injection is inevitable. Disaster is optional.

Prompt injection is an infrastructure problem. We can't prevent it, but we can massively reduce the risk and impact.

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austin @aparker.io · 21/12/2025

personally I can’t believe there’s so many leftists who, when presented the “automated” part of fully automated luxury gay space communism decided it was actually immoral to automate things

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Adam Avenir @adamavenir.com · 08/11/2025

Extremely unfortunately for USA, democrats are screwed nationally unless progressives stop sounding like moral fundamentalists. Living outside the bubble makes it tragically clear how centrists moved right. I say this as a trans parent, progressive newspaper publisher, and proactive citizen. 🏳️‍⚧️ 💙

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Josh Spiegel @mousterpiece.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

The baseball game will continue until morale improves.

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💉Josh Rubin, MD @drsandman11.medsky.social · 11/10/2025

Several of these extra innings could have been emails

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Adam Avenir @adamavenir.com · 26/08/2025

writes on resume “over 40 years of machine learning experience” thinks “heh it’s true because I am a learning machine baby” laughs to self silently returns to stasis

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Adam Baldwin @evilpacket.net · 10/05/2025

This is a demo that shows forging a JWT and getting the information for a random Cursor based on an user_id I found committed to GitHub.

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Adam Avenir @adamavenir.com · 06/05/2025

scorching: Ennio Morricone pop music youtu.be/x6fpSiE953w?...

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mina - se telefonando

YouTube video by ronny spandau

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Adam Avenir @adamavenir.com · 09/04/2025

Blown away by how great @polypane.app is, but even more impressed with the support level Kilian provides. A++++++ Instantly converted to paid customer after just a couple days using it. polypane.app

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Polypane, The browser for ambitious web developers

A stand-alone browser and devtool with everything you need to build better responsive, accessible and performant web sites and web apps in less time.

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Adam Avenir @adamavenir.com · 04/04/2025

Discovered Ottoneu this week. Can't believe I've been playing fantasy baseball 15 years and only now checked it out. Putting a league together now. This has a nice summary of what makes it so great: www.armchairroto.com/post/you-sho... @nivshah.com has incredible economic mechanism design skills

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You Should Play Ottoneu

I love the NFBC. The games, the competition, and the general all-around service make it pretty much an unrivaled fantasy platform. But if I was married to the NFBC and allowed a polygamous fantasy bas...

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 02/03/2025

I like using guide dogs as an analogy for how assistive technology users are used to working with unreliable tools!

Is it ethical to build unreliable accessibility tools?

On the ethics of building accessibility tools on top of inherently unreliable technology (5:33):

Some people I’ve talked to have been skeptical about the accessibility benefits because their argument is that if you give somebody unreliable technology that might hallucinate and make things up, surely that’s harming them.

I don’t think that’s true. I feel like people who use screen readers are used to unreliable technology.

You know, if you use a guide dog—it’s a wonderful thing and a very unreliable piece of technology.

When you consider that people with accessibility needs have agency, they can understand the limitations of the technology they’re using. I feel like giving them a tool where they can point their phone at something and it can describe it to them is a world away from accessibility technology just three or four years ago.

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Simon Willison @simon.fedi.simonwillison.net.ap.brid.gy · 02/03/2025

I got fed up of posting the same comment every time the topic of LLM hallucinations in code comes up (short version: they don't matter because you'll spot them the second you try to run the code) - so I've turned that comment into a longer form blog post […]

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Original post on fedi.simonwillison.net

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

literally every time I talk to friends

three panel cartoon by @emilyscartoons.bsky.social … in the first panel one person says "let's not talk about politics any more, I can't bear it" and the other person replies "same." in the second panel, they say nothing. in the third panel, the first person yells "THE THING IS THOUGH" and the second person yells back "THOSE FUCKING IDIOTS"

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 01/03/2025

This is tragic. Anyone who was familiar with 18F knows those were some of the real heroes of government, who helped make government tech/digital services better for the public. They were doing real work that DOGE pretends to do, but is too ignorant to know how to do.

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DIANA @diana2.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Our game launches today! If you have a Panic Playdate, you can grab it right now in the official catalog: play.date/games/carte-... And if you don't, and you want to take the game into the physical realm, you can get a deck of cards here: shop.howseven.com/products/dec...

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(Pre-order) Deck of Cards

Once you're done practicing with Blanche, take your newly-earned skills on the go with this physical deck of cards. Share your love of card games with family and friends. Designed to match the style o...

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Adam Avenir @adamavenir.com · 24/02/2025

I am going to bribe every sound tech at “patriotic” events to play this version and juuuust wait for the amazing delayed payoff 47 seconds in youtu.be/Bf3e9Cl1-Bs?...

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God Bless You Canada - Lee Greenwood

YouTube video by Canadian Blue Jay

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Adam Avenir @adamavenir.com · 20/02/2025

Easily one of the best real love albums recorded. Absolute gem.

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Adam Avenir @adamavenir.com · 11/02/2025

www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/... Section 1983 civil suits are probably the only thing left between us and 1984 at this point

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42 U.S. Code § 1983 - Civil action for deprivation of rights

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Adam Avenir @adamavenir.com · 10/02/2025

“autocracy” isn’t a synonym for “self driving government”

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Adam Avenir @adamavenir.com · 06/02/2025

“PayPal mafia” rings a little different these days

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Policy Sketchbook @policysketch.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

This is a good paragraph.

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Adam Avenir @adamavenir.com · 30/01/2025

in these dark times, please remember that even the world-famous and fabulously wealthy are suffering

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Adam Avenir @adamavenir.com · 25/01/2025

The future of knowledge work is decision work. People who think AI will make knowledge work obsolete forget that every decision of substance has tradeoffs.

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Brendan Quinn @brendan-tag.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Like, without actual software management experience, the folks making the decisions think the code part is hard, and the people part is easy, and that AI can just bampf away the pain points.

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Adam Avenir @adamavenir.com · 25/01/2025

People think "using AI for development is lazy." I find it to be MASSIVELY more work (in a good way) AI dev actually mirrors the experiences I've had leading software teams where we're building rapidly and iteratively as a group—and that work is _intense_ and about as far from lazy as it gets.

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Adam Avenir @adamavenir.com · 21/01/2025

have now enjoyed this a few times. even better watching it with all our kids this past weekend. thank you, @hundredsofbeavers.bsky.social!

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 20/01/2025

One of the greatest moments of cinema is a good watch for today youtu.be/J7GY1Xg6X20?...

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Charlie Chaplin - Final Speech from The Great Dictator

YouTube video by Charlie Chaplin

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Paul Ford @ftrain.com · 19/01/2025

as the rollercoaster crests the top of the initial incline, the ratcheting noise slows and stops, and you can, right before the plunge, observe the entire amusement park

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Adam Avenir @adamavenir.com · 15/01/2025

This is the kind of innovation the world needs

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Julien Genestoux @ouvre-boite.com · 15/01/2025

Maybe, just maybe, governments around the world will start thinking more and, our digital commons and how to make sure they remain commons...

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 12/01/2025

Here’s a fun (short) paper by a NASA scientist explaining why we should go build cloud cities on Venus because “At cloud-top level, Venus is the paradise planet” ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citation...

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Adam Avenir @adamavenir.com · 11/01/2025

Wow. Easily one of the best comedies of all time. So well done and hilarious. Immediately made me want to watch it with my late grandfather who would have adored it. youtu.be/m39iu2YW-oM

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HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS | Official HD Trailer (2023) | ACTION-COMEDY | Film Threat Trailers

YouTube video by Film Threat Trailers

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Fighter Guy @fightguystudios.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

A man in Indiana made an AT-AT costume for his horse, intending to only get a few pictures before removing it. When he took off the headpiece the horse got upset and insisted that he put it back on, which made the horse happy again. Now the horse isn't allowing him to remove any piece of the costume

A horse with an AT-AT costume and a guy who looks half proud half disgusted with the horse

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

We're getting the social media crisis wrong The bigger problem isn't disinformation. It's degraded democratic publics. On Zuckerberg today and Musk over the last few weeks. www.programmablemutter.com/p/were-getti...

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We're getting the social media crisis wrong

The bigger problem isn't disinformation. It's degraded democratic publics

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Adam Avenir @adamavenir.com · 08/01/2025

The arc of history bends alright

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

it is extremely frustrating how many slop bots are in here but this is very funny

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Adam Avenir @adamavenir.com · 04/01/2025

It’s never a message or a conversation, it’s an increasingly larger wall of text with a new question added at the end.

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Adam Avenir @adamavenir.com · 26/12/2024

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Jesus: It was then that I carried you.

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Simon Willison @simon.fedi.simonwillison.net.ap.brid.gy · 16/12/2024

The team behind the Chatbot Arena LLM leaderboard just released a new variant: web.lmarena.ai This one tests models on their React, TypeScript and Tailwind abilities. My notes (including a leaked copy of the system prompt) here: simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/16/webde…

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WebDev Arena

New leaderboard from the [Chatbot Arena](https://lmarena.ai/) team (formerly known as LMSYS), this time focused on evaluating how good different models are at "web development" - though it turns out to …

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Adam Avenir @adamavenir.com · 14/12/2024

God, grant me: the serenity to accept the things I cannot change (1password being my entire security model) the courage to change the things I can (literally nothing bc i'm in too deep here) and the wisdom to know some backend devs in Toronto are my entire opsec's Hans Bricker

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Adam Avenir @adamavenir.com · 12/12/2024

Give me a single image from a film that immediately makes you hear the song from the soundtrack in your head

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Julie Jenkins @juliejenkinsnp.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

This response from @sbearbergman.bsky.social to @hildur.bsky.social’s post has changed my week— it is so wholesome, and human, and so the energy we all need right now. And Kerstin Langenberger, the naturalist who posted “I am on my way with the necessary equipment”? This woman is the hero we need.

My feed today on BlueSky included a post from Icelandic writer Hildur Knútsdóttir, who saw the original exchange on a Reykjavik Facebook page - someone posted to say that it appeared a cygnet was frozen to the ice and dying. As people worried online about how or whether it would be possible to help, naturalist Kerstin Langerberger replied to the post, saying: “I am on my way with the necessary equipment.” Langenberger brought a friend, some thermoses of warm water, and a surfboard in case the ice failed - the necessary equipment - and thawed then freed the baby swan, which promptly flew off.

There are a number of things I appreciate about this story, but it’s Langenberger’s statement that resonates for me. That is what I aspire to, to see injury or difficulty or something gone to trouble and decide: I am on my way with the necessary equipment. But also, to hold on to the understanding that sometimes the necessary equipment is the resolve to try and a friend who will help, and that sometimes I *am* the necessary equipment - the friend who shows up to make myself useful under the direction of an expert.

There are a lot of moments these days that I find it very, very hard to do the next thing, or indeed to do anything. The world is so, so difficult. I often feel useless or overwhelmed or exhausted or just really fucking sad. But I am going to try starting the days by saying, with all the starch that I imagine a naturalist willing to chance the ice in darkness to save a baby bird might possess:

I am on my way with the necessary equipment.

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Adam Avenir @adamavenir.com · 07/12/2024

Enjoying Andrew Bird’s Gezelligheid in person this year with @sarahavenir.bsky.social

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Casey Johnston @caseyjohnston.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

the atlantic or whoever is not looking to be reasoned with when it posts "we should give every child a gun" or some such. they are click piggies. if you find yourself saying "mr. the atlantic, sir, this is out of hand" you are playing right into their click piggie hands

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