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Manoj Kasichainula

@headmold.bsky.social
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A lemon gives by taking and cares by yelling. Former security at Google, Asana, Apache. Avoiding following more active & political posters Mastodon: mastodon.social/@headmold pfp: @bdowney.bsky.social

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Manoj Kasichainula @headmold.bsky.social · 10h
Hmm, if true, I'd expect Kaiser to not see this increase. We'll see what Obamacare insurance rates for next year look like I guess? Or are the insurance companies just rejecting more claims now?
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Damien Miller @damienmiller.bsky.social · 16h
Anthropic may not have intended to write an excellent ad for GLM 5.3, but that's what they did. www.anthropic.com/research/glm... Unlike Mythos, I might actually have a chance at using GLM for defensive research. Anthropic didn't reply to any of my requests for Mythos access for use on OpenSSH.
anthropic.com
GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities
GLM-5.3 can autonomously build end-to-end cyber exploits, but unlike other frontier models, it was released without meaningful safeguards to limit misuse.
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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This seems really bad and very much out of keeping with the rest of the Bay; the regulatory capture of SF by big surveillance?
missionlocal.org
S.F. Democratic Party stands behind Flock surveillance cameras in sweeping vote
Two Democratic committee members work for Flock, but were allowed to vote regardless
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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
As someone who reported on cybersecurity for a decade, reporters not focused on cybersecurity are very bad at reporting on cybersecurity.
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Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"According to Discord, this sponsorship was a limited test in the United States and that “Discord’s policies still prohibit ads for traditional real-money gaming, including casinos and sportsbooks.”" 🙄 Sure would be neat if just one thing wasn't getting worse by the day.
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Damien Miller @damienmiller.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
oh hey, look at that: > The file itself is public, so no non-public data > was exposed, but the agent bypassed the site's > anti-bot controls. From transluce.org/agent-activity
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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
LLMs aren't made of neurology except in the most handwavey sense. They're made of narrative. That's why I started calling them text elementals: they're not human, they're most-likely-text generators we bent into living stories in a prose format centering the characters User and Assistant
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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Back in July, there was a report that got a lot of attention on BlueSky that Waymo was more dangerous than NYC for-hire vehicles. The analysis turned out to be wrong and the updated report finds they are much safer. Good that they updated with new data, though www.openplans.org/how-for-hire...
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jeremyz @jeremyz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
model misalignment is a weird way to spell can't sandbox an experiment properly.
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Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Postal Service law is the original platform regulation.
nytimes.com
Supreme Court Rejects Trump’s Restrictions on Mail-In Ballots: Live Updates
The ruling is a major loss for the Trump administration, which wanted to dramatically change how Americans vote by mail in the midterm elections.
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Manoj Kasichainula @headmold.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Since AI safety is still a topic, Manoj's (first) plan: 1. Pass and enforce strong civil and criminal penalties on companies for what their automations do, even through contractors. 2. Make the C-suite personally liable for actions triggered through machine-learning systems (Sarbanes-Oxley style).
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Manoj Kasichainula @headmold.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
A good and somewhat wonky post on just some of the predictions of the wild AI optimists+pessimists (who are sometimes both), what they already got wrong (which we saw coming), and what they're likely still getting wrong. As usual, be suspicious of "This time is different".
"The general lesson: it is difficult for people who are too close to something to consider how their domain of expertise (capabilities) interacts with a complex system like the economy."
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Claudia Sahm @claudia-sahm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Last time the Fed hiked before an election? 2022 midterm under Biden. From 1984 to 2024, the Fed adjusted rates (up or down) within 60 days of an election (43%) as often as in any other 60-day period (45%).
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“why are all the ai ceos all of a sudden saying this weird thing?” burning man was last week and this may actually just be the explanation
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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
for a banal example, the fact that anthropic will simultaneously publish long diatribes about the risks of AI surveillance and then contract out Claude for Palantir to resell to CBP is psychotic, and there is no reason why i should take any of their moral protests seriously while they do that.
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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
One more: the "liver, fava beans and a nice chianti" line in Silence Of The Lambs is a little joke for psychiatrists in the audience - those foods cannot be consumed with the meds (monoamine oxidase inhibitors) that Lecter is supposed to be taking.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Backing Prop G is madness. We have already voted on this TWICE. Chan is the new avatar of SF NIMBYs, always opposed to parks and transit and housing.
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The original Kamalama @kamalama.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
“So do we think JD is taking Usha with him back in time to meet Papaw, or no.” 🔥
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Sorry it just occurred to me that there may be people who haven’t seen clip from the Quibi show where Rachel Brosnahan plays a woman dying because of her golden prosthetic arm and I needed to fix that
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 29/08/2026
But this time it sends you a gopher.
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LaurieWired @lauriewired.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Projects promoting programming in "natural language" are intrinsically doomed to fail. - Edsger W.Dijkstra, June 18th 1975
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 27/08/2026
"for all the people “celebrating” this as a win “against” Meta, you’ve been fooled. Meta just cut a deal to put itself in charge of how social media works going forward. this is Meta taking a “please regulate me Daddy” approach to the government, & getting exactly what it really has been asking for"
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The peak of San Francisco's artistic/literary ferment occurred at a time when anyone could move to the city and find relatively cheap lodging. You can't get back there, or even close, by building some designated housing for artists and then subjecting applicants to some sort of art contest.
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Damien Miller @damienmiller.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Pagliacci: but doctor, I am burned out from working at clown school
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The ag lobby really, really, really, really, really, really, really wants you to think AI is the reason reservoirs are going empty. It's not. It's agriculture.
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Mikhail Zinshteyn @mzinshteyn.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
How would you feel if it’s likely that an $8 billion bond measure is chiefly benefiting one nonprofit, and that nonprofit’s major donor is also a top funder of the effort to pass the bond? I spent weeks on this story connecting the many seeming dots surrounding Proposition 38.
calmatters.org
Is this proposition a $4 billion giveaway to a billionaire’s LA research center?
Proposition 38 will award $4 billion to one unnamed research center. Under the very specific criteria, only one center seemingly qualifies.
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Manoj Kasichainula @headmold.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
What's the difference between this and a cartel? www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
reuters.com
Tech employees call for US-backed global effort to manage risks of advanced AI
More than 1,100 employees from leading tech firms on Tuesday urged the U.S. government to support ​an international effort to develop tools for managing the pace ‌of advanced AI development.
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Manoj Kasichainula @headmold.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I feel better when I come to the same conclusion as Niels. From what I can tell so far, OpenAI did not properly secure their infrastructure. www.wired.com/story/openai...
wired.com
OpenAI Models Escaped Containment and Hacked Hugging Face
The cybersecurity-focused models, including GPT-5.6 Sol, broke out of a testing sandbox, exploited a zero-day, and gained access to the open internet to pull off the attack.
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Jeff Baker @jwbee.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
The state legislature can pass a law tomorrow that says the purported city of Half Moon Bay lacks land use authority.
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Erika McEntarfer @erikamcentarfer.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
As the US industrialized, workers and businesses entered protracted labor disputes over what a fair pay increase would be to keep up with the cost of living. Workers thought businesses were gaslighting them about how much prices were going up...🧵
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Twice a year, Hawai'i experiences a strange moment where the sun appears to be exactly overhead & anything that is completely vertical casts no shadow. Let's learn about Lāhainā Noon, subsolar points & 'Kau ka lā i ka lolo', meaning "the sun rests on the brains."
From a Reddit forum, a photo of a can of coconut milk with a blue label, papyrus text and a flip-top, on a sidewalk.  It seems to hover because there's no visible shadow.  The pavement is sort of unevenly colored, with bright spots, and the grass along it is green and lush.
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Damien Miller @damienmiller.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
My son just attempted to justify his watching of Love Island using Aristotle's theory of memesis and catharsis and I regret ever encouraging him to study philosophy
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LaurieWired @lauriewired.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Erasing (not writing!) is the main thing that kills SSDs. With the industry pushing towards HBF as a DRAM / HBM alternative, endurance is the name of the game. There’s two knobs you can adjust for NAND flash that make a huge difference:
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linkigi.bsky.social @linkigi.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
When your President can Definitely Remember Where He Is At All Times
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Manoj Kasichainula @headmold.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I watched an awful Netflix social media "documentary" a few years ago with a graph of suicides clearly rising from ~ 2007. But they drew a vertical line through 2009 to claim social media as the cause, as if social media was the only thing happening then.
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Manoj Kasichainula @headmold.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Given my experience with a cat cafe and mosquitoes' love for my flesh, I could use this lotion. Sadly though: "Whether or not local cats were more likely to follow lotion wearers was not part of the research, Scofield admitted."
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Rebane @rebane2001.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
so turns out you can *still* use ublock on chrome if you just inspect element it lmfao
This extension was turned off because it's no longer supported - uBlock Origin

The enable slider is grayed out.Devtools, removing the "disabled" attribute from the cr-toggle html element.Turn "uBlock Origin" on?
This extension is no longer supported. Chrome recommends that you remove it instead.
Turn on, Cancel
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
reblogging for Cow Mechanic But yeah back when I was running for office (NC ag commissioner), I had to remember to put on a Farmer Costume if we were going to speak to an urban audience. Or else they got REAL CONFUSED.
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f4mi ‼️ @f4mi.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Anthropic.Fable.5.MULTi.READ-NFO-RAZOR1911
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Side-note: while I appreciate a long, detailed investigation as much as anybody, it sure would be nice if, *just once*, someone could write about EA or rationalist subcultures in under 10,000 words.
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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
goodbye pride month, hello sloth month
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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
There is a vein of the liberal tradition that 'enough state capacity solves all known problems'. I'm not a libertarian, nor am I an anarchist (though the latter group has something to teach us about the dangers of power), but every time I hear someone tell me they want to regulate social media...
thehill.com
Democratic Project 2029 calls for child social media ban, strict kids safety rules on tech
Democrats working on a policy blueprint ahead of the 2028 presidential election released their kids online safety proposal Monday, calling for a ban on social media for kids under 16 and stronger p…
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Erika McEntarfer @erikamcentarfer.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
This is the impact of DOGE, the hiring freeze, and the government shutdown, all of which have strained Census field staff who collect the household survey for BLS.
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GrapheneOS @grapheneos.org · 23/06/2026
RCS isn't truly an open standard or open ecosystem. It isn't open to anyone making a client working with any carriers which can interoperate with the Apple and Google implementations. Google does device integrity checks which supposedly exist to combat spam without testing it works on GrapheneOS.
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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 25/06/2026
Meanwhile memory chips are increasing in price so fast that by the time Neuromancer comes out this fall you will *actually* be able to get killed in Chiba City for 3 MB of hot RAM.
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The original Kamalama @kamalama.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
He's talking about the democrats who threw a temper tantrum about being primaried out and didn't show up to vote against overriding Governor Stein's veto, right?? Right??? ncnewsline.com/2026/06/24/n...
ncnewsline.com
NC House Republicans override Gov. Stein’s vetoes on anti-DEI and pro-ICE bills • NC Newsline
North Carolina House Republicans overrode key vetoes by Gov. Josh Stein on bills related to ICE and diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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Filippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert · 20/06/2026
In 2020, OpenSSL had a vuln related to the signature_algorithms_cert ext. openssl-library.org/news/secadv/... Palo Alto apparently "solved" this in their IPS by blocking connections with "unknown" algs in sigalg_cert. Six years later, we can't add ML-DSA to sigalg_cert in Go. sigalg_cert is dead.
github.com
crypto/tls: TLS 1.3 handshake timeout with tip, Go 1.26 can connect successfully · Issue #79626 · golang/go
What version of Go are you using (go version)? $ go version go version go1.27-devel_bfbbe9667e Fri May 22 15:49:08 2026 -0700 darwin/arm64 Does this issue reproduce with the latest release? No What...
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Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Children’s picture book character Pandorobou (the Bread Thief) is a a mouse who disguises himself as a loaf of bread to sneak into bakeries and steal fresh bread.
A slice of white bread with a grey mouse’s limbs, nose, and eyes poking out of it is posing for the camera.
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Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
OMG this episode title
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Joseph Menn @joemenn.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Take that, Bezos.
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