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Martin Wendiggensen

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PhD candidate @ JHU Alperovitch Institute ; AI Research Scientist @ Dreadnode

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cje @cje.io · 15/04/2026
👀 Mine the Gap: Open-Source Tools for Measuring the AI Offense-Defense Gap | Dreadnode m.cje.io/4mxNV3P
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Mine the Gap: Open-Source Tools for Measuring the AI Offense-Defense Gap | Dreadnode
Dreadnode ran red team and blue team agents in the same Active Directory environment creating a realistic, closed-loop evaluation. Run your own evals with DreadGOAD and Ares.
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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 13/04/2026
Me, when the teacher kicks out my bff and gives the seat next to me to the smart kid
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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 02/04/2026
Bro, I log on to this boring-ass social network precisely to see your Xi Jinping thought memes
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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 01/04/2026
Very excited for this book! Just preordered
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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 01/04/2026
Not to mention that they called in Soviet tanks to literally crush labor protests and strikes! They mismanaged the economy and then increased working hours by 10% at same pay. The Soviet troops and GDR police murdered more than 50 people and jailed thousands, in order to force factory work to resume
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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 29/03/2026
Mistake is to think of states as independent entities. If America were to default on its debt the consequence would be eliminating the retirement portfolios of a very large number of its citizens. So they will stop it. In the democratic world the citizens are the holders of sovdebt and the sovereign
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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 25/03/2026
Want to have some fun building agents? Go to dreadnode.io
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Dreadnode — AI Infrastructure for Security Agents
Dreadnode provides the infrastructure for building, evaluating, and deploying security agents.
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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 23/03/2026
I never claimed that my encounters have been pleasant. I was commenting on the systemic setup in which TSA are not exploited laborers but fairly paid government employees. People having decent jobs is preferable to me. You inferred something I did not say and completely ignored the actual argument.
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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 22/03/2026
I disagree. I like the TSA. They are trained, unionized, actual government employees, usually amply staffed, and efficient. Compared to Germany, where airport security is privatized corporate security guards squeezed for margins by private companies and thus on strike a lot - TSA is a dream
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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 18/03/2026
This reads very much like it was written with Claude. The entire "it‘s not this… it‘s that" - the constant negation is one of the most telltale and most annoying signs of bad AI writing.
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Genevieve @femmeshoto.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Final chemotherapy infusion is done! I'll still be recovering for a while, but I'm so excited to be wrapping up this phase of my treatment plan! Two weeks off, then I start radiation therapy!
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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Philip ❤
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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 02/03/2026
"You used to beep me on my pager. Late nights when you want to detonate. I know when that hotline bling, that can only mean one thing (my thumbs detaching)"
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Active Measures, LLC @activemeasures.bsky.social · 13/08/2023
*Spinning a chair around backwards, sitting down with a group of first year Master's students at the pizza social* "You know, real cyberwar has never been tried."
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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 02/03/2026
The way he started smiling 😊
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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 28/02/2026
To learn more about this period, read "Die Tante Jolesch"
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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 28/02/2026
Tutor: How long was the 30 year war? Archduke: 5 years T: Brilliant, Sire. Since they only fought during the day and not at night, 30 years become 15. Then discounting public holidays, rest days and extended negotiations we arrive at 5 years. Though I wonder how good the coffee in the US is?
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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 28/02/2026
When Viennese intellectuals were disenfranchised by an autocratic system in the 19th century they would gather in coffee houses and play the "Archduke game". One would play an idiotic royal and the other his tutor. Every deliberately dumb answer had to be explained as a stroke of genuis
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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 25/02/2026
Turns out AI is a strategic studies major at Johns Hopkins SAIS
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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 25/02/2026
Signed up! Sounds very interesting!
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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 19/02/2026
Wait. So the US let Assad walk all over the red line without consequence. This was bad. But enforcing a red line is an excuse? Just because they learned from it? When Assad killed civs not reacting was very controversial within the Obama admin. This admin has none of their qualms (or their ideals)
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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 19/02/2026
Hat der Open Technology Fund der US-Regierung für andere Content-Einschränkungen ja schon lange gemacht (TOR, Signal, etc). Nach chinesischem/russischem/iranischem Recht auch strafbar. Aber leider wurde das eingestellt und stattdessen das hier aufgenommen.
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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 18/02/2026
I‘ve been to this exact spot and I didn’t even know it was THE SPOT WHERE BRUCE MET ADAM! I huddled here after coming out of the Rodin museum and discovering it was pouring rain just after APSA had wrapped up
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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 13/02/2026
Want to build an AI agents that hacks stuff? Don‘t have training data? No problem! Find out how: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C7p...
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From 0 to DA: Inside Worlds, a Simulation Engine for Agentic Pentesting
YouTube video by dreadnode
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Dreadnode @dreadnode.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
We fine-tuned an 8B model to pop a GOAD domain…using only synthetic training data. No real networks. No frontier model distillation. Just a world model that simulates AD environments and generates realistic pentesting trajectories. See how we did it: dreadnode.io/blog/worlds-...
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Worlds: A Simulation Engine for Agentic Pentesting
An 8B model went from blindly loading Metasploit modules to achieving Domain Admin on GOAD, trained entirely on synthetic data from our world model system.
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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 10/02/2026
Seems plausible but I‘d like to see a Granger test…
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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 27/01/2026
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a picture of a llama with the word yeah written below it
ALT: a picture of a llama with the word yeah written below it
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Gabriel @morecoffeeplz.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
We about to have some Llama Drama :)
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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 19/01/2026
The @districtcon.bsky.social gods ask for their due. The conference may proceed but one natural crisis will occur
Screenshot of Snowstorm hitting east coast
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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 18/01/2026
I have 10gigabit symmetrical here in Switzerland
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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 16/01/2026
Congratulations, Sergey!
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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 14/01/2026
Vielen Dank fürs Lesen und den Kommentar! Meines Wissens nach klappt das bei X in der Praxis noch nicht (Opfer berichten sie müssen einzeln vorgehen). Das ihnen das Recht was anderes verspricht, macht es ja umso eklatanter! X scheint da momentan eine rechtsfreie Zone zu sein unter dem Schutz der USA
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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 13/12/2025
Yes, that is what reading the Epstein emails has taught me 😉 I guess we are part of the mirror community of global nerds that gets together by coach to play board games. This will be a funny anecdote should we ever meet in real life.
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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 13/12/2025
It’s funny and astonishing how small the world is
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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 13/12/2025
*How* are you everywhere across bluesky? You are someone who I follow for commentary and because of your excellent works on China. How are you doing all that and then becoming invested in the adventure‘s of my buddy’s dog? How did you even find this?
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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 11/12/2025
Me, finding Great Wall Cigarillos in the pocket of an old coat I got tailormade in Beijing
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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 10/12/2025
You smoke too tough Your swag too different Your bitch too bad They‘ll never elect you To be serious, we‘ll probably get a milquetoast like Nagel. But enjoying the posturing and also cannot wait to be rid of Lagarde #Weidmanngang
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ECB’s Schnabel Says She’d Be ‘Ready’ to Succeed Lagarde If Asked
European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel said she’d be willing to take over as president when Christine Lagarde’s term ends in less than two years.
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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 10/12/2025
What can you offer them that is greater than the slam-dunk you are handing their Euro-sceptic opposition for the next election? Not even mentioning the EU institutional interest in making exiting a one-way scorched-earth street, to discourage others I don’t see a bargaining chip big enough
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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 10/12/2025
The way it is going, the UK would be a net beneficiary of EU payments today because it put an axe to its own economy. Try selling that idea to an ascendant Poland, that after you rejoin they should cross-finance the damage of your Brexit decision. They‘d rather just stall the membership process
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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 10/12/2025
My point it is it is not happening in 20 years either. It is a moot internal debate in British politics that is detached from the reality that the rest of the world has moved on. You still primarily frame it primarily through an internal-politics lense in your thread not a foreign policy request
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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 10/12/2025
I don’t think people in the UK appreciate how Brexit changed the European Union from an open-door growing project to a more weary one in which many countries would adopt a very transactional view of any request to rejoin. And I don’t think the UK would have a lot to offer now, let alone in 20 ys.
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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 10/12/2025
Sure, I read through the thread. I don’t think the UK will become more attractive as a partner in the next 20 years.
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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 10/12/2025
It‘s wild to me that UK citizens are still widely under the illusion that the EU would want the UK back… In between leaving and now the UK has lost a lot of value as an economic, political, scientific, industrial, energy, intelligence, and financial partner. What would you have to offer?
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Sander Tordoir @sandertordoir.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Great Bradsher piece on how the renminbis dramatic undervaluation is supercharging China‘s export explosion. Germanys trade deficit with China has surged more than 120% this year. But cutting red tape will surely restore Europes competitiveness! www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/b...
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China’s Weak Currency Is Powering Its Exports and Drawing Criticism
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Sander Tordoir @sandertordoir.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
I hope the German Chancellor catches up - a 1990s deregulation agenda isn’t going to cut it against a wildly undervalued Chinese exchange rate. I think Europe should consider broader China tariffs - either to slow down the shock directly or as a tool to pressure China to revalue. 1/
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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 08/12/2025
Will noone think of the GPU mules?
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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 05/12/2025
The German embassy in Washington has a Swedish chef… And the food there is terrible and also just…not German. It’s Swedish. And it just illustrates so much about why the the German foreign office is so bad. That food is a crime for which French, Italian, and Japanese ambassadors would be executed…
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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 04/12/2025
I don’t know about you, but I always do what my JAGS (@jags.bsky.social ) tells me to do
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a man in a navy uniform is standing in a courtroom with his fist in the air
Alt: a man in a navy uniform is standing in a courtroom with his fist in the air
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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 02/12/2025
The lighting, grain, angles and everything just scream CGI at me
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Martin Wendiggensen @machinavelli.com · 30/11/2025
This is such pretentious bs. The poetry is probably: "Roses are red Violets are blue Build an atomic bomb or we‘re through" Because prompt screening or RL for safety is a charade that really only narrows pathways but doesn’t close them. And the atom bomb scenario is idiotic in and of itself
Screenshot from wired reading "The study did not include any examples of the jailbreaking poetry, and the researchers tell WIRED that the verse is too dangerous to share with the public."
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