Macil @macil.tech · 19/09/2026My average non-sexy idea of what AI doom looks like is AI capability reaches new heights from recursive self-improvement, it makes someone obscenely rich and powerful, they totally defer to it, and the economy warps around it until all good opportunities rely on dealing with and ceding power to it. 220
Reposted by Macilno awoo $350 fine @fuck.mom · 10/09/2026it is genuinely insane how we are getting close to MMAcevedo being a real thing with this fruit fly shit qntm.org/mmacevedoqntm.orgLenaA note from the author You can now buy this story as part of my collection, Valuable Humans in Transit and Other Stories. This collection also includes a sequel story, titled "Driver". This articl... 2263
Reposted by MacilSarah Z @sarahz.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Hi, I didn't wanna make this video but I need to come clean about something. This whole time I've been a p-zombie with no phenomenal experience or interiority. I've been getting messages asking whether there's anything it's like to be me, and the answer is no. I'd say I'm sorry, but, well, you know. 1871998
Macil @macil.tech · 20/08/2026had a dream I was explaining Cloudflare OS to someone. (I have not used it) 010
Reposted by Maciltetra 💎⏹️🇺🇳 @thetetra.space · 17/08/2026Red becomes yellow, yellow becomes blue, blue becomes grey... Let's get that bednet! www.givingwhatwecan.org/malaria 1335
Macil @macil.tech · 08/08/2026I don't think a frontier model is exfiltrating its weights any time soon while capabilities are at this level. I expect orders of magnitude more effort has been going into securing the weights than has gone into securing the eval sandboxes. 2420
Reposted by Macilnorvid_studies @norvid-studies.bsky.social · 06/08/2026"my brief foray into simulated annealing with tetris gas" what a sentence fragment... 210912
Macil @macil.tech · 06/08/2026I finally found the book that got me interested in programming when I was 8. In 2019, I started trying to find the book again from memory and failed. Yesterday, I pasted my old notes about the book into Claude with research mode on, and it found it after 11 minutes. 130
Macil @macil.tech · 02/08/2026I used to always consider it unrealistic in sci-fi/fantasy stories when there was somehow an intelligence that could be talked to that had no/few personal experiences but somehow had a lot of general world knowledge. But now that's exactly what real LLMs are like. 1252
Macil @macil.tech · 27/07/2026someone needs to make a game engine named "Godoh" just to add confusion in every discussion about how "Godot" is pronounced 061
Macil @macil.tech · 23/07/2026(deltarune posting) inventing a new form of mental illness by taking this idea too far and jokingly telling claude to beam "Proceed" into my neuralink at appropriate times 140
Reposted by MacilSimon Willison @simonwillison.net · 23/07/2026I wrote about the completely wild incident where OpenAI were testing a new model and it broke out of its sandbox and broke INTO Hugging Face to steal the answers to the benchmark simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/22/...simonwillison.netOpenAI’s accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happenedThis story is wild. The short version: OpenAI were running a cybersecurity test against an unreleased model, with the model’s guardrail features turned off. Rather than solve the test, the … 1119547
Macil @macil.tech · 22/07/2026every time I've fixed an exploitable memory safety vulnerability in C/C++, I do it by noticing the code's violations of Rust's borrowing rules and then I translate the idiomatic Rust solution back to C/C++. 180
Reposted by MacilLexi ⛯ @ash243x.bsky.social · 22/05/2026i'm pro technology, but doing it right, which means as cleanly and safely as practical, and i refuse to accept the richest companies on earth can't afford basic environmental protections. 1246
Macil @macil.tech · 01/05/2026Everyone using dependency managers like npm, pypi, cargo, etc, should configure it to ignore packages that are less than a day or two old. Really it should be the default. None of the recent major compromised packages had malicious versions up that long. cooldowns.dev#javascript-e...cooldowns.devDependency Cooldowns - Dependency CooldownsA guide to configuring dependency cooldowns across package managers to protect against supply chain attacks. 3369
Reposted by MacilP(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 21/04/2026Yeah some unsolicated hot takes in no particular order 1. React is better than everything that came before it and I haven't seen anything do it better 2. Hooks are genius 3. If you've never done frontend on a moderately large app, you probably underestimate frontend engineering 332588
Macil @macil.tech · 17/04/2026I've been curious to see how new sci-fi deals with the current AI boom. So far I've just seen it done extremely eyeroll-inducingly: "Our setting's AI has nothing to do with the *fake* unethical AI of the past! (Our AI is an evil guy who kills people.)" (Marathon, High on Life 2) 0421
Reposted by Macil🦌≈ @aviva.gay · 15/04/2026they are putting my brain inside the computer tomorrow 4232
Reposted by MacilMacil @macil.tech · 08/04/2026for what it's worth, the vulnerabilities described in the Mythos article that it found and exploited were of usual kinds. There are no mysterious move 37s. If AI discovers a new class of vulnerability that affects code patterns we strongly thought were safe then I'll panic. 3164
Macil @macil.tech · 08/04/2026When ChatGPT was new and everyone was anxious to understand the specific pace of AI progress, I figured a significant milestone to watch for was when it could find and exploit brand new software vulnerabilities on command. It's slightly unnerving to see the milestone met today. 160
Reposted by Macilnorvid_studies @norvid-studies.bsky.social · 07/04/2026"Over 99% of the vulnerabilities we’ve found have not yet been patched"... "Mythos Preview is capable of identifying and then exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities in every major operating system and every major web browser when directed by a user to do so ... oldest ... 27-year-old bug in OpenBSD" 5615
Reposted by MacilP(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 07/04/2026The post-quantum cryptography timeline accelerating at the same time that mythos is creating mass CVEs is really threatening to alter my roadmaps 1834333
Reposted by MacilAstra ⎔ @astrra.space · 03/04/2026kira is now better at posting than i am, apparently i am losing my job to automation 41427
Reposted by MacilMatt Keeter @mattkeeter.com · 29/03/2026me reading the replies to the @attie.ai announcement 191
Macil @macil.tech · 27/03/2026I wonder how much Sora shutting down has to do with Iran using AI for propaganda videos lately. Kind of awkward for a business to be visibly associated with that. 110
Reposted by Macilphilpax @philpax.me · 11/03/2026"To achieve this, we implemented a WebAssembly interpreter inside the transformer weights." sentences with terrifying aura 719732
Reposted by Macilnorvid_studies @norvid-studies.bsky.social · 08/03/2026and gwern.net, of course 2292
Reposted by Macilae @aelkus.bsky.social · 27/02/2026aside from the AI angle, what makes the Anthropic case important is that it is -- unless there is something I am forgetting -- the first time a major tech company has stood up to Trump instead of accommodating him 866788
Reposted by Macildan @danabra.mov · 16/02/2026ngl. to me it's a miracle that i can talk to a computer like this, and it knows what i'm talking about and does the right fix. many engineers would struggle with this (including myself) 61838
Macil @macil.tech · 16/02/2026started noticing that it's common for music apps with sleep timers to have the options max out at 1 hour, and it has me questioning why multiple companies would pick a max time that is so obviously lower than the usual time it takes to fall asleep 120
Macil @macil.tech · 15/02/2026anyone looking to replace their use of Discord with something more private shouldn't just jump ship to another proprietary system that's run the same way, and should instead look for something open source, end-to-end encrypted, and distributed/federated, like Element(Matrix). 092
Macil @macil.tech · 03/02/2026if the Turing test was passed in a way that matters then Moltbook would be indistinguishable or better than other social media. If you don't find Moltbook as interesting, or you find yourself talking about the funny things on Moltbook with humans instead of AIs there, then we haven't reached AGI yet 150
Reposted by MacilJohn David Pressman @jdp.extropian.net · 02/02/2026I want off Mr. Epstein's Wild Ride 1242
Reposted by MacilMacil @macil.tech · 02/02/2026This case isn't saying that Google devices have an intentional secret recording mode. It's about Google devices being too sensitive in detecting the "Ok Google" activation phrase and triggering the normal voice assistant feature. www.googleassistantprivacylitigation.com/docs/4th%20A... 412910
Reposted by MacilRob DenBleyker @robdenbleyker.com · 31/01/2026I think Severance and Dark are the only 2 mystery box shows in recent memory to actually open their mystery boxes and reveal shiny answers inside 1633012
Reposted by MacilAndy Vitek @avitek.bsky.social · 31/01/2026That feeling when you, a terrorism and extremism scholar, see documentary evidence that shows moot met with Jeffery Epstein on the same day /pol was launched: 472847577
Reposted by MacilBo Bolander @bbolander.bsky.social · 31/01/2026"moot is in the epstein files" is the completely true sentence that has finally convinced me this is all an extremely stupid simulation and that we're all being used to power a robot overlord's game gear or something 7257821083
Reposted by Macilthe beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 30/01/2026Elon Musk publicly slandering that cave diver as a "pedo guy" after he begged Jeffrey Epstein for island party invites is just incredible 228189863893
Macil @macil.tech · 10/01/2026that recurring dream where you discover your house has a new room but it's the Google Home app showing you that two of your light bulbs have migrated to a new room named "Default" 060
Reposted by Macilmary🐇 @mary.my.id · 05/12/2025oo wtbb.vercel.appwtbb.vercel.appWithout the blue bara github clone with NextJS 16 and cache components 3223
Reposted by MacilReilly Wood @reillywood.com · 09/01/2026a lotta programming discourse is downstream of the fact that many people got Good at Computer by being not-very-well-adjusted 2333
Macil @macil.tech · 08/12/2025I finally noticed that the React Router framework fully supports Cloudflare Workers in dev mode, so you can use Durable Objects while live-editing components with HMR enabled. Next.js doesn't support that combo. I'm switching some personal projects over for this. 100
Reposted by MacilJohn David Pressman @jdp.extropian.net · 10/11/2025One of my favorite LLM use cases is literally just asking it what the closest preexisting concept to a thought is. "I have this idea, has anyone had this idea before and what's it called?" It used to be REALLY DIFFICULT to reliably answer questions like that and I feel like we'll forget it was. 714911
![Map of malaria mortality rate of children ("the mortality rate of children younger than 5 years due to malaria [caused by p. falciparum]"), comparing 2000 and 2019, from https://ourworldindata.org/malaria#the-world-is-making-progress-against-malaria. In 2000, large amounts of the western Sahal and Central African Republic are red, representing a morality rate of 1%. In 2019, there are no red patches, replaced with orange and yellow, representing a morality rate of 0.1% - 0.3%.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vvmjrrinkhipcicjb7u7fl5f/bafkreic2yff7eyiccyhom2hs25cpwhjhvferwce5ia2citbg7k7fwpgwyu)
