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Buzz Andersen

@andersen.buzz
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Tech veteran (Apple, Square, Tumblr), old school indie Mac/iOS developer, Eagle Scout. Kind of also trying to be a screenwriter? @buzz on Twitter. Mail: buzz at andersen.buzz

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Buzz Andersen @andersen.buzz · 8h
The thing that’s kind of ironic about this line of thinking is that what ostensibly enables modern LLMs to reason better than early LLMs is their ability to write out their thought process.
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Buzz Andersen @andersen.buzz · 20h
This is incredible
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Buzz Andersen @andersen.buzz · 29/09/2026
I continue to feel good about boycotting all Meta products
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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 28/09/2026
"It may not be the rogue AI agent that causes our end but, rather, the computer on the shoulder of the extremist who was validated, encouraged, and guided by his AI companion without any guardrails," writes Sam Hunter and @seamushughes.bsky.social.
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The AI Threat We’re Not Talking About
AI employees are raising concerns about an extinction-level event. But there’s a more immediate threat.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Your taxpayer dollars are being illegally spent to air a literal Trump 2024 campaign ad.
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Buzz Andersen @andersen.buzz · 27/09/2026
Moonrise over Mount Blue Sky, Colorado this evening
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 27/09/2026
lol www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
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YouTube and Meta Reverse Course, Will Accept ‘Musk’ Trailer Ad
The Google unit says the ad was "temporarily restricted" while Meta calls it "an error." TikTok and X remain silent.
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Buzz Andersen @andersen.buzz · 26/09/2026
This culture has been around SF/Silicon Valley for decades. The scene was rife with it when I lived there, and, frankly, it’s a big part of the reason I left.
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Buzz Andersen @andersen.buzz · 25/09/2026
The Neckbeard Bene Gesserit must produce the AI Kwisatz Haderach!
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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The cybersecurity threat from agents is increasingly more likely to come from a massed swarm of AIs whose only goal is to penetrate your system to figure out how much you paid for your company t-shirts as part of a research effort to "find good t-shirt prices" as it is from bad actor attacks.
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Buzz Andersen @andersen.buzz · 25/09/2026
These announcements increasingly have big Hot Dog Guy energy
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We just dropped a bombshell investigation into ChatGPT's role in the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting. Incredible reporting from @markfollman.bsky.social that will have far-reaching effects...hopefully: www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...
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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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Buzz Andersen @andersen.buzz · 24/09/2026
I’m re-reading Mark Fisher’s “The Weird and the Eerie,” which I last read before the advent of LLMs, and I’m surprised how much of it now makes me think of society’s attempts to grapple with AI. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/546891...
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The Weird and the Eerie by Mark Fisher: 9781910924389 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
Explore the weird, the eerie, and the horrific in 20th-century literature, film, and music—from H.P. Lovecraft and Daphne Du Maurier to Stanley Kubrick and Christopher Nolan.   What exactly...
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gabriel @gironda.org · 22/09/2026
LLMs are making my entire professional cohort completely insane in many different ways and i think that's beautiful
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Buzz Andersen @andersen.buzz · 23/09/2026
Hey look, @meowrey.bsky.social and I made it into the Slamdance quarter finals for short screenplay. slamdance.com/26-screenpla...
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Buzz Andersen @andersen.buzz · 23/09/2026
"Will it ultimately reach the clear surface of my consciousness, this memory, this old, dead moment which the magnetism of an identical moment has travelled so far to importune, to disturb, to raise up out of the very depths of my being? I cannot tell..."<runs 7 commands>
Claude: "Recalled a memory, ran 7 commands"
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Buzz Andersen @andersen.buzz · 23/09/2026
Regret to say that this guy’s company printed my “Nuke the Valley” stickers back in the day.
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Buzz Andersen @andersen.buzz · 23/09/2026
You don’t say
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 21/09/2026
for your future voting knowledge, Gavin Newsom was central in pressuring the AGs to settle their antitrust lawsuit against Paramount:
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Done! Paramount Settles Antitrust Suit, Set To Seal Deal For Warner Bros. Discovery
Paramount agreed to settle an antitrust suit by a dozen State Attorneys General led by California's Rob Bonta, the last obstacle to its merger with WBD.
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Craig Aaron @notaaroncraig.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Variety reports that a bunch of corporate lawyers are making "guilt donations" for working to seal the Paramount deal on Yom Kippur. I didn't work today. But I have a better idea: Gratitude donations to the groups that have been fighting so hard to #BlockTheMerger See the 🧵 below for links
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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 21/09/2026
Alright. Let me resolve this once and for all. The simple fact is that there are a few different things that can be reasonably meant by “thinking” and mixing them up is what’s making everyone mad.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This weekend's essay, with the perfect Tin Man doppelgänger illustration, and yeah, Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore.
meditationsinanemergency.com
Yes They Want to Kill Us: The Worshippers of Machines Versus Human Beings
This is the week that someone pulled the fire alarm on AI. It began with industry employee Jacob Coxon issuing a dire warning: "I resigned from Anthropic today," he wrote on Twitter/X. "I spent the la...
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Super Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is incredible nitter.app/banteg/statu... H/t @gregdoucette.bsky.social
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banteg (@banteg)
>be me >discover effective altruism >apparently normal charity is inefficient >why donate to random sad thing when spreadsheet can tell you optimal sad thing >fair enough >buy mosquito nets >save live...
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Hayes Madsen @solfleet.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Also, there’s a very nice little Easter Egg in Control
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Dave Willner @dwillner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Certain kinds of smart people tend to have a "sexy apocalypse" problem when it comes to thinking about risk. E.g. skynet turning everyone in paperclips, while bad, is also *kind of cool and fun* at the same time. Where the reality is that most actual disasters are both stupid and disappointing.
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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 16/09/2026
The orthogonality thesis holds that an intelligent agent necessarily has that dog and this is just plainly false. We actually, outside of certain formal contexts, don’t really know how to put that dog in a computer.
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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
2. Back in the cut-throat capitalism of the nineteenth century, businesses didn't like competition any more than they do these days. Some of them adopted an interesting approach to solving the problem: unionization. Cue Friedrich Engels as quoted by John Bowman.
IN an 1889 article entitled &dquo;The Abdication of the Bourgeoisie,&dquo; Friedrich Engels described a seemingly bizarre incident in which Lancashire cotton mill owners, unable to act voluntarily in pursuit of their collective interest, requested their organized workers &dquo;kindly to use

coercion against them, the mill-owners, so that the mill-owners ... should finally act in concert as a class....&dquo;I Workers, in short, were to organize capitalists. Engels wrote that this incident was &dquo;unique in the

history

of modern

industry,&dquo;

the notion of actively intervening, with the

and, indeed,

for most of

us,

independent organization of workers acquiescence of capitalists, to organize the economic behavior of the latter class is anomalous at best, violating a basic truth of historical materialism-that the organization of capitalism generates a fundamental, irreconcilable conflict between workers and capitalists.
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Buzz Andersen @andersen.buzz · 16/09/2026
BRB, moving my retirement funds into GPUs.
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Buzz Andersen @andersen.buzz · 15/09/2026
“See the perverted justice of the age! The wolves roam free: the shepherds are in chains.” —  Mirza Rafi, Urdu poet, on the lawlessness and chaos in Dehli during the collapse of the Mughal Empire
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Buzz Andersen @andersen.buzz · 15/09/2026
This is increasingly how I feel about pretty much everything. Like: “Oh, apparently everyone is just discovering the AI doomer debate because of this whistleblower? I’ve been immersed in that almost to the point of boredom for years now and sort of thought everyone else was too.”
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Buzz Andersen @andersen.buzz · 14/09/2026
This is truly a fascinating document. Such an interesting time capsule of Hollywood trends over the past 30 years. First it's all about erotic thrillers! Now everyone's crazy for mafia movies! And so on.
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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“This should be unthinkable for the son of the president. End of story.” A Russian oligarch close to Putin bankrolled Don Jr.’s wedding. www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
it's a cold day in hell, i agree with David Sacks
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Buzz Andersen @andersen.buzz · 12/09/2026
It does feel to me like something analogous to, say, an LLM-originated Morris worm (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_...) or Stuxnet (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet) is conceivable. Say, a runaway worm that originates in model testing. But that also seems like a difference of threat degree, not kind.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
My man looks like a Teddy Ruxpin doll programmed by the Heritage Foundation
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JD Vance Called Out Over Hypocritical Racist Dogwhistle
The vice president’s remarks about America becoming “dirtier” sparked fierce backlash.
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DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 11/09/2026
A new report from Luminate has found that long gaps between seasons of streaming TV shows are leading to major losses in viewership. More than a 1 year gap is seen to largely cause a significant loss in viewership. (Source: luminatedata.com/reports/2026...)
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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I had to check if this was real and oh my god
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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
My essay on rogue AI has been republished by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists — “Rogue AI didn’t breach Hugging Face, human decisions did.” Grateful to @thebulletin.org for the invitation!
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Rogue AI didn’t breach Hugging Face, human decisions did
At the core of the Hugging Face hacking incident were a series of human choices that traded security for speed.
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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Nice surprise to see my name in The New Yorker today. www.newyorker.com/culture/open...
newyorker.com
Can A.I. “Go Rogue”?
In the wake of turmoil at OpenAI and Anthropic, it’s become common to describe A.I. as a kind of person, hatching plans and pursuing desires. The truth is a little trickier.
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Buzz Andersen @andersen.buzz · 11/09/2026
I feel like the creation of Harry Potter would work as first step in a lot of different domino memes.
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Buzz Andersen @andersen.buzz · 11/09/2026
This pretty much sums up my feelings about all tech whistleblowers at this point www.tiktok.com/@mattbooshel...
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AI whistleblowers
TikTok video by matt buechele
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Buzz Andersen @andersen.buzz · 11/09/2026
Oppenheimer really is the movie for the AI age—not because it tells the story of a misunderstood genius, but rather because it’s about a self-regarding egotist who wanted to have it both ways: “destroyer of worlds” and humanitarian Cassandra.
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Buzz Andersen @andersen.buzz · 10/09/2026
Turning my video off on Zoom while I eat my lunch, as if I am consuming an Ortolan.
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Fun fact: in our polling of battleground states, about 60% of voters said it is a “top” or “high” priority for Congress to investigate and hold Musk accountable. Lean into it Dems. He’s a cartoon villain - treat him like one.
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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 10/09/2026
Fetterman
wint @dril
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the jduge orders me to take off my anonymous v mask & im wearing the joker makeup underneath it. everyone in the courtroom groans at my shit
10:30 PM • Mar 9, 2015
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Democrats should be at the microphone right now noting that this is a Hatch Act violation that they'll be pursuing in January. I don't care that the nation's become numb to this shit. It's still illegal and if Democrats should run against it and then act to crush it.
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Buzz Andersen @andersen.buzz · 09/09/2026
Have been talking to my brother (who lives on Kauai) all morning, and I have to say, it feels like the impact of this hurricane, particularly on Kauai, feels a little underreported.
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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Dancing very very VERY close to saying “OpenAI stole our almost-complete proof of Navier-Stokes from internal access to our ChatGPT sessions because they were desperate to scoop Anthropic” which is absolutely 100% a believable thing OpenAI would do right now cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/st...
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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Hey @ericlipton.nytimes.com 👋 AI is not “evolving” on its own. *People* are choosing how to build it. *People* are choosing how to train it. *People* are choosing how to run it. Maybe the problem is that they are the *wrong people* to make these choices.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
(NBC News) — It is now the least rewarding time to be a worker in the U.S. economy since the government started keeping track. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
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