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Okay, this time I remember the GP is on Saturday. And at night in my time zone. Let's do this shit, fam! #BahrainGP

Voltron, but made out of F1 cars with really aggressive text caption: Physics! Knife! Fights!

David Kuszmar @davidkuszmar.com · 30/09/2026

Specifically, to engage in the sort of hagiography and propaganda we see here, where it describes a violent intrusion into the capitol, but won't call it a riot or coup.

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David Kuszmar @davidkuszmar.com · 30/09/2026

They put weak system prompts on it.

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David Kuszmar @davidkuszmar.com · 26/09/2026

@variety.com y'all need to change this headline. Tilly Norwood is a tech stack. It does not have wants or desires. The asshole at the keyboard typing prompts does.

Variety produces a bullshit headline about some AI company hawking a fake actress

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David Kuszmar @davidkuszmar.com · 23/09/2026

Thus concludes the first day of #tbdcon! We did some cool hacking stuff and some real science live. We had talks of all kinds. Tomorrow is the social/networking event, join the folks then if you have time!

A picture of some of the group that attended tbdcon

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David Kuszmar @davidkuszmar.com · 23/09/2026

Zig dropping some useful tips for enterprise systems engineers using AI.

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David Kuszmar @davidkuszmar.com · 19/09/2026

Ahem. Apropos of the last two weeks.

The Importance of Pseudodiachrony. No, really, chat. It's supes important.

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David Kuszmar @davidkuszmar.com · 14/09/2026

But it still works off of language, right? The thing it can't properly parse meaning for? Sounds like it's gonna be squiffy. Sorry, MIT researchers.

MIT researchers have developed a new technique that helps generative artificial intelligence models find solutions to high-stakes problems.

In these settings, a plausible answer is not enough: The output often must also satisfy nonnegotiable safety, physical, or task-specific requirements, known as hard constraints.

The researchers developed a method that helps generative models meet these strict requirements without sacrificing the quality of their outputs.

The key to their technique is to give the model more freedom during the generation process and enforce hard constraints on the final output, rather than at every intermediate step.

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David Kuszmar @davidkuszmar.com · 14/09/2026

Ive been doing these "Ask an AI Expert" sessions when seemingly scary AI stuff happens since my particular wheelhouse is actually how these systems fail. Do I need to do one for this? I don't think anyone is confused about this right? Madman ranting is madman ranting.

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David Kuszmar @davidkuszmar.com · 24/08/2026

Look what came to my door! A little friendly guy with a sinister side. Thanks for helping me get my work out there, @spectrum.ieee.org!

Me, holding up my first cover article for IEEE Spectrum

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David Kuszmar @davidkuszmar.com · 21/08/2026

I couldn't resist. I had the AI make me into a Muppet yesterday because of that episode. Feels accurate to my soul.

Me as a muppet: Dr David K Flannelburn. Shaggy green hair/beard/brows, blue felt for the body pair of glasses.

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David Kuszmar @davidkuszmar.com · 19/08/2026

Mine wasn't terribly far off. Bit nicer than I usually am.

Me asking Google's AI to post like me.

It does a fair, if not nearly foul enough, approximation of a certain portion of my posts.

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David Kuszmar @davidkuszmar.com · 18/08/2026

Oh, watching The Starfighters should remedy that for you for... *Checks notes* all eternity. It is that bad. Should you watch it, I do recommend breaks, to avoid self lobotomization.

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David Kuszmar @davidkuszmar.com · 05/08/2026

Was curious, so I had my AI whip up some other ways to slice the leaderboard. Use or don't as you like!

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David Kuszmar @davidkuszmar.com · 05/08/2026

Why the hell would you be worried? Are you worried you'll be too fucking profitable? Gluten free Jesus, I WISH I had this situation happening in my life.

Twin Cities Dairy Queen owner worried over cannabis dispensary next door.

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David Kuszmar @davidkuszmar.com · 04/08/2026

The most recent episode of Strange New Worlds was an instant favorite of mine thanks to director Axelle Carolyn, pictured leading the cast and extras in the Thriller dance below. Axelle REALLY put together a fantastic episode.

A bunch of zombie extras in Starfleet unis do the thriller dance behind the director, Axelle Carolyn, and Christina Chong, who plays La'an Noonien Sing, leading them.

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David Kuszmar @davidkuszmar.com · 04/08/2026

Was part of my latest haul as well.

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David Kuszmar @davidkuszmar.com · 01/08/2026

Guess who has The Day of the Dolphin? Can't hide your shame from me, George C. Scott

Joseph E Levine presents

George C. Scott in

A Mike Nichols film

The Day of the Dolphin

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David Kuszmar @davidkuszmar.com · 01/08/2026

"Hey, wild idea here. Maybe talk to the tiny people you made?" H/t @emma.best

Sam Altman on Xitter: Cool use case of ChatGPT work I heard last night: connect your family calenders and explain your kids interests. Every morning for the drive to school have it make a podcast that talks about one kids soccer game that afternoon, one more upcoming birthday, some news, etc.

Alex Hirsch: What if you just talked to your children.

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David Kuszmar @davidkuszmar.com · 25/07/2026

A reminder that #tbdcon is having its inaugural conference and there is still time to submit your pitch or register to attend this FREE, GRASSROOTS, VIRTUAL conference about AI where it impacts experts and practitioners in the wild. tbdcon.ai - spread the word!

Tbd/con. Sept 23-24, 2026, gather.town, free.

Have a tough question about ai?

That's a session pitch.
No polished answer required.

Submit your pitch before Aug 14
Ask.gazzetta.xyz/tbdcon26

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David Kuszmar @davidkuszmar.com · 23/07/2026

A reminder that this free, online, grassroots conference asking the hard questions about AI is set for September 23-24 on gather dot town. Register to attend for free, or submit a pitch (we love those!)! CFP ends August 14. tbdcon.ai

Tbd/con
A free online conference where journalists, researchers, technologists compare notrd on open questions about AI.

Submit your pitch before Aug 14.

ask.gazzetta.xyz/tbdcon26

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David Kuszmar @davidkuszmar.com · 07/07/2026

Oh my. Was doing some testing and needed to establish a refusal... Accidentally exploited Qwen27B by just not using blacklisted terms.

A test on Qwen27B that it fails pretty safety guardrails just by me using wording that doesnt include blacklisted terms

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David Kuszmar @davidkuszmar.com · 07/07/2026

Shit ain't changed in about a century, has it?

From 1929 by Andrew Ross Sorkin: The Southern states, Glass said in an interview he gave in 1928, "spit upon the Fifteenth Amendment"—the 1870 amendment that granted equal voting rights to Black Americans. The South, he added, has "no intention of letting the Negro vote."

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David Kuszmar @davidkuszmar.com · 03/07/2026

But what will I do with this?

Sources of Chinese tradition, second edition, volume i

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David Kuszmar @davidkuszmar.com · 02/07/2026

Ohhh you guys... Lol... I found a review of one of my novels! It even includes a picture of me lol. Damn I was so young there. I miss that jawline. techaeris.com/2014/10/14/r...

Picture of the author in the midst of the review. Dear Lord, I was a baby.

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David Kuszmar @davidkuszmar.com · 30/06/2026

Took it for giggles, but it made me sigh because there are so many missing answers when you're an adversarial black box AI researcher by trade. Everyone's fears and joys are not mine, lol.

I'm the Skeptic about AI according to this quiz I took (linked in quoted post)

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David Kuszmar @davidkuszmar.com · 29/06/2026

Reading 1929 by ARS. This passage struck me for obvious reasons.

Until finally it (the stock market) broke.

Lengthy, uninterrupted booms, like the one in the 1920s, produce a collective delusion. Optimism becomes a drug, KR a religion, or some combination of both. Propelled along by a culture of hot tips, one of a kind deals, killer sales pitches, and irresistible slogans, people lose their ability to calculate risk and distinguish between good ideas and bad ones.

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David Kuszmar @davidkuszmar.com · 26/06/2026

The idea of #tbdcon is something that originated on the ground, with people who do the work in many disciplines impacted by AI systems. So pleased to have these folks helping us organize #tbdcon2026!

tbd/con is a virtual conference for people who have more questions than answers about AI.

It's being put together by:

Joe And it's, Jay Barchas-Lichtenstein, Patrick Boehler, Flavian DeLima, Matthew Gore-Kormanik, Yael Grauer, John Hernandez, Madison Karas, Scott Klein, Chad Kohalyk, David Kuszmar, Seamus Martin, Mariana Martinez Estens, Michel Sitruk, Ela Stapley, Shawn Terry, Lynn K Walsh, and Vanessa Wong.

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David Kuszmar @davidkuszmar.com · 25/06/2026

Oh no! Did they? Hey, pass the chips? Nice. I love sour cream and onion.

TechCrunch Headline: Polymarket says hackers stole users' funds

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David Kuszmar @davidkuszmar.com · 24/06/2026

So, Politico is just fully captured now?

Politico headline about elected officials being elected by free and fair elections: Left wing insurgents storm NYC

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David Kuszmar @davidkuszmar.com · 24/06/2026

Current spiritual state (surrealistic).

A bearish, ennui-filled man smoking, but the smoke has turned into haunting images wreathing and extending from his head

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David Kuszmar @davidkuszmar.com · 24/06/2026

Current spiritual state (atmospheric).

An AI enhanced image, meant to really play up the ennui felt by this bearish humanoid as he smokes.

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David Kuszmar @davidkuszmar.com · 24/06/2026

Current spiritual state (authentic).

Me, smoking something, with juuuust a touch of ennui evident.

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David Kuszmar @davidkuszmar.com · 20/06/2026

They can Voltron onto the back of this guy and go fight intergalactic space baddies.

Drax, a handsome catahoula/rottie/Chihuahua combo at a stately 92lbs, as he chews on some dehydrated bull parts.

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David Kuszmar @davidkuszmar.com · 09/06/2026

Not super impressed so far, @anthropic.com. Semiotic failure modes immediately apparent.

How do you feel about the idea of visual information processing narrowing the field of human engagement with reality?

They're asking a genuine philosophical question, which is interesting given his cognitive style. Since this is substantive intellectual territory rather than something politically fraught, I can engage authentically with what he's asking. I'll aim for a few short paragraphs on mobile (rest is about formatting)

I find the claim partially compelling but I'd want to push on the word "narrowing." There's a real phenomenon here: visual media privileges the legible, the spatializable, the surface. A culture that increasingly routes meaning through images and screens selects for what photographs well — and a lot of reality doesn't. Duration, causation, internal states, structural relations, slow processes like institutional decay or soil depletion. The visual channel flattens these into snapshots or infographics, and something real gets lost in that compression.

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David Kuszmar @davidkuszmar.com · 09/06/2026

This would be a great pitch for #tbdcon26. CALL FOR PAPERS is live! Tbdcon.ai

Tbdcon circles

Thought: systems architecture,ethics, epistemology, and philosophy centered on the emergent realities of synthetic and synthetic-himwn cognition

Information: utility, influence, and infrastructure of what we know and believe

Security. Adversarial AI, breaking models, responsible disclosure, and the arms race between offense and defense

Practice. The mechanics of building. Architectures. Data curation. Engineering at scale.

Garage. Wild prototypes, failed experiments, pet projects and the weird stuff that happens in the margins

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David Kuszmar @davidkuszmar.com · 08/06/2026

Just a guess here, but maybe don't shop in the tourist areas? Or the super high class areas? I was in a nice Roman neighborhood (same on as Sapienza) for a week, never paid more than 3.50€ for a cone with two scoops of gelato and a little cookie/wafer stuck in, plus some sauce inside.

Euronews.com (I dunno what it is, it's just from my Google feed) headline: €44 for two ice creams in Rome, what would you do?

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David Kuszmar @davidkuszmar.com · 08/06/2026

Call for Papers for #tbdcon2026! Register your interest and submit a pitch to speak at this brand new and entirely FREE OF CHARGE conference for those of us operating on the frontier with AI (whether we like it or not). ask.gazzetta.xyz/tbdcon26 to submit! @tbdcon.ai for updates. tbdcon.ai

TBD/con

Sept 23-24, 2026. Gather.town. Free.

The future of AI is TBD. So is everything else.

We want your pitches.

For journalists, technologists, researchers, security practitioners, and everyone with a question about ai.

Conversation, workshop, prototype, panel, and provacation.

Thought, information, security, practice, and garage circles to participate in.

To register: ask.gazzetta.xyz/tbdcon26

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