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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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Adam Avenir @adamavenir.com · 24/01/2026

Wow, what a photo to be in! Yeah I mean I’m all for the WS!! I just adore him and feel like his ending was truly tragic. I want to see an ecstatic Felix on that mound with the crowd roaring for him one more time.

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Adam Avenir @adamavenir.com · 24/01/2026

Been rooting for the M’s for 40 years but I have said several times I’d take Felix in the HoF over Dipoto’s M’s winning the World Series. Nobody gave more to this franchise in such a dismal era. This remains the most gut-wrenching photo in my life of M’s fandom.

Felix crying in the dugout after being eliminated from postseason.

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Adam Avenir @adamavenir.com · 31/12/2025

The M's offered him something like a $50m 6-year deal during spring training a few years ago and he turned it down to "bet on himself" but sadly for him that bet has not panned out at all. Seems like a very talented kid with some mental health challenges. Baseball is cruel. Still rooting for him.

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Adam Avenir @adamavenir.com · 30/12/2025

It was funny to run into your post when I opened bsky cos I had just been doing that same investigation of the same projects, though I have not tried yet. Door 1 is PaaSware unfortunately. And yeah Door 2 looks somewhat dormant.

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Adam Avenir @adamavenir.com · 30/12/2025

what are you using for sqlite vector?

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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 · 21/12/2025

I think the main benefit of skills may be the ability to package additional scripts with them. I haven’t experimented with this yet — just the md aspect — but I’m optimistic it could result in something more interesting than what I’ve done with them so far, which is almost exactly the same as docs/

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

This whole thread will probably make some people mad or hurt. If that's you, I'm incredibly sorry. I say this in love and pain and a desperate wish for a better world. I just don't think we can get there in democratic society if we see opponents as enemies and their beliefs as irredeemably evil.

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

I think often about this quote about "the fascism in us all" from Foucault introducing _Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia_ Every one of us would like to cut off the head of powers that be and install our views in their place—only to find out whoops we're the monster fucking our own moms.

“The strategic adversary is fascism .... And not only historical fascism, the fascism of Hitler and Mussolini— which was able to mobilize and use the desire of the masses so effectively—but also the fascism in us all,
in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism
that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing
that dominates and exploits us.”

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

Does the world need to be better? Hell the fuck yes. But I'm not convinced we can get there anymore by being mad about how bad "those" people are. It's as effective in changing minds and winning people over as Christian fundamentalism—by which I mean: not at all.

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

Do those beliefs cause harm? Yes! 1000000% But are the people causing that harm going to be shamed into compliance due to the beliefs of people who cannot spend a minute to treat them with respect? Zero chance.

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

Having made friends and colleagues from vastly different global cultures, I see how narrow is the range of "acceptable" worldviews and how self-centered it is to view ignorant beliefs that *most* humans have had for all of human history as making the people who hold them implicitly "bad".

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

Having grown up in Eastern Washington and having never personally had a single trans person as a friend until I was 30, I understand how it feels to be absolutely ignorant and well-intentioned.

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

Having rural neighbors and family who are *generally* protective and anxious about what their kids are exposed to in the modern world and what impact it has on them makes me see how they would want to restrict what material their kids have access to (even if they are thinking about it ignorantly)

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

Building with LLMs and deeply interested in using them for projects that enable civic engagement, I see how, for some progressives, there is no room for viewing it with the kind of nuance afforded other technologies that can also be used to hurt or to help.

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

Working in crypto on a project that protected people from hacks and was built on open community-ownership, I saw how it feels to be vilified blindly and how first-world the disdain for crypto is, even as it creates opportunity for access to the economic system we take for granted.

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

Living in Eastern Washington, I see how even people who LOVE and protect trans kids are 100% convinced by the argument of "fairness in sports" (even if it's purely motivated by bad faith politics!)

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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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Adam Avenir @adamavenir.com · 23/10/2025

Marshawn at the goal line

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Adam Avenir @adamavenir.com · 19/10/2025

These are such great questions!

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Adam Avenir @adamavenir.com · 13/10/2025

I feel that. I only like working on greenfield stuff. There’s a lot at the fringes of building LLM tools that is not solved or not solved well yet imo. I’ve been working on a language for scripting LLMs for the past 10 months.

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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 Avenir @adamavenir.com · 26/08/2025

lol yes! One thing that is amazing to me is that really well designed MCP servers are like a jobs to be done kind of tldr focused API with instructions attached for how to use it. Should’ve been a thing already!

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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?...

youtu.be

mina - se telefonando

YouTube video by ronny spandau

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Adam Avenir @adamavenir.com · 10/04/2025

Gemini 2.5 is SOTA in my practical experience

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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

polypane.app

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

Luke Raley soullessly carrying the dumb thing through the dugout is a celebration I will remember.

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Adam Avenir @adamavenir.com · 07/03/2025

I am overwhelmingly emotional and grateful for your leadership and courage and determination. As a parent of trans young adults, thank you from the bottom of my heart.

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Adam Avenir @adamavenir.com · 06/03/2025

What if The Manchurian Candidate but more brazen

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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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Adam Avenir @adamavenir.com · 02/03/2025

lol why are there bullhorns? “YOU THERE IN THE CAMRY. WE CAN SEE YOU.”

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Adam Avenir @adamavenir.com · 02/03/2025

It’s taxation without representation. They are gutting programs our representatives voted to fund.

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Adam Avenir @adamavenir.com · 02/03/2025

I’m currently thinking more like configuration than inference magic, but clearly defining and testing what med-res and low-res versions look like and how to mix that meaningfully seems like step 1 before magic. Need to be able to mix the repo map stuff with slightly higher res view of data flows etc

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Adam Avenir @adamavenir.com · 02/03/2025

Yes! Exactly this. I’ve been thinking about this a ton the past few months. I want a seamless way to tune the resolution/priority of each subfolder to be concatenated. I am building somewhat adjacent tools rn so would be curious to hear more of how you’re thinking about it.

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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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