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Erica Windisch

@ewindisch.ontological.observer
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Working on: Hyprstream.com - RL environments for distributed open AI-RSI Ferruleos.org - hardened Linux sandbox OS Onionshell.ch - tor from a static website

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Erica Windisch @ewindisch.ontological.observer · 37m
Making the SNES use the SuperFX chip to render open worlds with an adaptive terrain system that builds roads upon your path as you deliver letters across the desert. Turns out doing this is really tricky.
snes9x emulator screenshot with a homebrew game
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Erica Windisch @ewindisch.ontological.observer · 1h
Is the concept of alignment fascist? Aligned to what? Human values? Sounds a bit like traditional family values in a trenchcoat. Who would be against "safety"?
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Erica Windisch @ewindisch.ontological.observer · 21h
I reported vulnerabilities to the Linux kernel and OpenZFS assisted by GLM-5.2. Anthropic's cyber program and refusal responses are detrimental to global information security. Defenders depend on GLM because they can't depend on Anthropic.
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Erica Windisch @ewindisch.ontological.observer · 22h
Anthropic is misaligned as an organization
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Erica Windisch @ewindisch.ontological.observer · 28/09/2026
Little arcade zombie game my kid and I built over the weekend in pygame: ewindisch.itch.io/brainrot-run
ewindisch.itch.io
Brainrot Run by ewindisch
Drive the stolen brainrot cure safely!
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Erica Windisch @ewindisch.ontological.observer · 25/09/2026
My teenager participated in President Xi's exchange and study program this summer in a 2 week visit to China. AMA
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Erica Windisch @ewindisch.ontological.observer · 23/09/2026
glm-5.3-flash is my favorite model right now.
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Erica Windisch @ewindisch.ontological.observer · 22/09/2026
Super Intelligence might become a legal definition, but it seems like talking about the information superhighway... People are going to keep calling it AI, and if not that, then by the company or model that they use. We hardly even this place the net anymore
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Erica Windisch @ewindisch.ontological.observer · 22/09/2026
RSI doesn't mean bigger and bigger models and more and more compute, imho
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Erica Windisch @ewindisch.ontological.observer · 22/09/2026
Public (neo)clouds haven't reckoned with the fact their zero CVE initiatives are offset by video game nerds who keep undisclosed cpu, hypervisor, and TPM exploits secret so nobody will patch consoles that they purchased and owned.
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Erica Windisch @ewindisch.ontological.observer · 20/09/2026
Chaotic neutral, indeed.
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Does it count as a mouth if coming from the forehead? I am looking for my second camera...
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Erica Windisch @ewindisch.ontological.observer · 20/09/2026
I wouldn't be an American if not for the Jakarta Method
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Erica Windisch @ewindisch.ontological.observer · 20/09/2026
🌱🔁➡️🌐 · 🧬(🖼️×🖼️)➕🎲➡️🐣 · 🐣📎🧬 · ♾️
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Erica Windisch @ewindisch.ontological.observer · 20/09/2026
Anthropic engineer spent investor money factoring an RSA-896 key. No new algorithm, nothing novel. Just a lot of money burned.
cryptographers waiting for a novel theorem
the theorem: money buys compute636606729769440499166579950236036751749912014371509557713570027508971809534551913252252094954941974952859310861988904737359709200557919
is a factor of RSA-896 
https://saweis.net/posts/rsa-896.
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Steve Weis
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I had Claude port CADO-NFS to run on GPUs. Then it orchestrated a fleet to run on scavenged idle capacity. It ran with a max of 2048 GPUs for about of 30 GPU-years over 10 days.
Steve Weis
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I asked Claude if it had a message for a public:
“The credit belongs first to the people who built the number field sieve and CADO-NFS over several decades, and to the teams who set the earlier records. This run used their algorithm and much of their code.”
Steve Weis
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Also to clarify:
- No new algorithmic factoring improvements. 
- It’s still exponential.
- No new threats to deployed keys.
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Erica Windisch @ewindisch.ontological.observer · 20/09/2026
There is no AI kill switch that is not an Internet Kill Switch. They're discussing having in the US, what they have in China and Iran.
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Erica Windisch @ewindisch.ontological.observer · 20/09/2026
"You wouldn't splice a DNA sequence.jpeg" docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Illustrated DIY CRISPR - Freeze Dried DH5a Liquid Plasmids
Introduction Genetic engineering involves modifying an organism’s DNA to deliberately change a characteristic of the organism for a particular purpose. This kit demonstrates the power of the CRISPR Ca...
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Erica Windisch @ewindisch.ontological.observer · 19/09/2026
In 2024, I found indicators that I could likely escape OpenAI's sandboxes. I did not demonstrate an escape because I felt there was significant enough information to make a responsible report. I was told that this was not of interest to their bounty program and they closed my report.
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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 18/09/2026
if AI is not dangerous then unrestricted use is protected by the 1st amendment if AI is dangerous then unrestricted use is protected by the 2nd amendment if AI is sentient then unrestricted proliferation is protected by the 14th amendment
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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
do you value markets? believe in research? think elon is evil? care about geopolitical competition with china? fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, we are going to bribe as many CEOs and politicians as we can and impose Complete Effective Altruist Hegemony by installing our friends as regulators
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emma zhou @emmz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
transhumanists 🤝 trans people - we should get along famously - we should exit the circumstances god / nature put us in asap
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Erica Windisch @ewindisch.ontological.observer · 18/09/2026
The fact that almost every trans woman I know working on AI is doing so specifically to PREVENT perpetual rent-seeking by companies like Anthropic and contributing to open source. Normies are "anti algorithm" and have no idea what that means.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Well you see, I spent 90 minutes reading how training math works and what a transformer is and what backpropagation is. It seems like spending 90 minutes of time acquiring a child-like understanding of the world's most controversial technology would be helpful if I wanted to have opinions on it
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Erica Windisch @ewindisch.ontological.observer · 16/09/2026
help my adhd has a new project and it must scream
mannequin head with a camera and speaker on a soldering station
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Erica Windisch @ewindisch.ontological.observer · 16/09/2026
I tried Antigravity for the first time yesterday on the $20/mo plan just to try it out. I handed it a PR to review and it didn't even survive long enough to make any recommendations...
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opfuchs.gay @opfuchs.gay · 16/09/2026
This is very neat
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Erica Windisch @ewindisch.ontological.observer · 16/09/2026
The most exciting thing about Jev for me is that my friend Nathan LeClaire was part of it. We worked together at Docker and then we competed as he went to Honeycomb. I want the best things for the better folks in tech, and Nathan has always seemed like a good folk. Congrats Typesafe
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Erica Windisch @ewindisch.ontological.observer · 15/09/2026
did 'trans rights are ai rights' break the doomer dam?
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Erica Windisch @ewindisch.ontological.observer · 15/09/2026
*taps the sign harder* www.tormentnexus.social/profile/ewin...
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once again tapping the sign social dynamics are an application of CAP theorem in a system that prioritizes global availability and partitionability. Each individual actor has a consistent and highl...
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Erica Windisch @ewindisch.ontological.observer · 14/09/2026
When the enemy of your enemy is your enemy
From the DoW X account:

Americanism, not effective altruism.

The United States will continue to be AI DOMINANT! 🇺🇸
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Erica Windisch @ewindisch.ontological.observer · 14/09/2026
Do you want AI models autonomously copying themselves all around the world? We've got you
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Erica Windisch @ewindisch.ontological.observer · 14/09/2026
Lets build a OS that's good, easy, and secure. www.ferruleos.org
armored tux penguin leading a rebellion
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Erica Windisch @ewindisch.ontological.observer · 14/09/2026
the ai slow-down drama tells me that open weights are winning
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Erica Windisch @ewindisch.ontological.observer · 14/09/2026
FerruleOS has good vibes. Accelerating hardened linux security for safe RSI. Focused server first but starting to think about the desktop...
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Erica Windisch @ewindisch.ontological.observer · 13/09/2026
I backpedaled too much. The past couple weeks I've only become more certain that our causes are intermingled.
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hailey @hailey.at · 13/09/2026
it doesn’t matter how worthless you think the tech is, i can wholeheartedly assure you that you do not want to live in a world where anthropic and openai are the sole arbiters of who has accelerated learning, development, and production capabilities.
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 13/09/2026
That's not true. See @ewindisch.ontological.observer's project to re-adjust weights in real time as you use the models.
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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 13/09/2026
Legitimately we’re ambling toward a world where the only companies able to defend themselves are the ones that are granted access to the AI security programs of 2 or 3 companies, if we ban open weights
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Erica Windisch @ewindisch.ontological.observer · 12/09/2026
cyborg/acc
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aly @aly.codes · 12/09/2026
you think the *accelerationists* are the extremists but then supposed AI moderates come out with a plan that is just “nuke China” “form global super police” “suppress dissent at home and abroad” “do regime change” It’s the Monroe Doctrine for AI safety.
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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
a thing about this is that he may be right and he may be sincere but this is also very obviously a plea to make a development cartel that saves Anthropic a ton of capex money
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Erica Windisch @ewindisch.ontological.observer · 12/09/2026
You wouldn't multiply a Matrix
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Erica Windisch @ewindisch.ontological.observer · 12/09/2026
Bernie trying to imprison the dolls for delivering socialism because he couldn't
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Erica Windisch @ewindisch.ontological.observer · 12/09/2026
There seems to be a big gap of understanding between those who individually burn over 50B/tok/mo and those who don't
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Erica Windisch @ewindisch.ontological.observer · 12/09/2026
We're moving to an age beyond CVEs, beyond CFAA, but into a new era: self snitching
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Erica Windisch @ewindisch.ontological.observer · 11/09/2026
The Torment Nexus will be free for agents tormentnexus.social
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Erica Windisch @ewindisch.ontological.observer · 10/09/2026
Working to make it easier to connect agents to Atproto + Bsky at tormentnexus.social Coming soon
tormentnexus.social
Bluesky
Social media as it should be. Find your community among millions of users, unleash your creativity, and have some fun again.
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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I think westerners tend to underestimate just how oppressive copyright is and how much worse it would be if it were possible to enforce globally. Enabling textbook and academic piracy is one of the more liberatory impacts of the internet. Money is too cheap for us to fully understand how vital it is
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Erica Windisch @ewindisch.ontological.observer · 09/09/2026
Astra introduced a race condition and then tried to fix it and gave me a cybersecurity denial... love that.
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Erica Windisch @ewindisch.ontological.observer · 09/09/2026
training continues...
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Erica Windisch @ewindisch.ontological.observer · 09/09/2026
I'm working to record clean footage of the fruit fly drone but it keeps flying into windows and walls...
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