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I've spent the past six months juggling freelance and contract work while also applying for jobs. 77 of them, to be exact. This led to 13 screenings, three interviews, and no offers. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/b...

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Taking a Chance on Self-Employment Over a Corporate 9-to-5

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Yael Grauer @yaelwrites.com · 23h

It's weird reading complaints about AI-generated resumes and cover letters, for two reasons: 1) They're using ATSes and AI, which are surfacing these AI-generated applications they're complaining about. They're getting paid to review these, which is not true for the people writing them.

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Yael Grauer @yaelwrites.com · 29/09/2026

Claude was blocking every single request I made. Took me a few days to realize it was because I had instructions asking it to explain its thought process.

The message says "test" and it says "Paused. Edit and retry with Sonnet 5.5. Sonnet 5.5 sageguards flagged this message. This sometimes happens with normal conversations. Send feedback or learn more. Details [reasoning_extraction]

Manual. Claude is AI and can make mistakes.

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Yael Grauer @yaelwrites.com · 28/09/2026

I'm reviewing my posts from the past few months for my #antisocial post and while this one didn't make the cut, it is v underrated

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Yael Grauer @yaelwrites.com · 28/09/2026

Every week or so I get an AI-generated email from someone who spent an afternoon vibe coding some app to solve some big problem, and they want me to review it for them. But the thing is that I value my time and am not going to do unpaid consulting/beta testing unless something blows my mind. 🤷‍♀️

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Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons @firewalldragons.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Today is the day!! EPISODE 500!! 🔥🐉 🎙️ My guest is Bruce Schneier who has been here for every 100th show. We discuss AI and how we avoid an AI dystopia. Also, I have several shoutouts, fun FDSD history and stats, and more! #FDSD500 podcast.firewallsdontstopdragons.com/2026/09/28/h...

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Here's to 500!! - Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons Podcast

Today marks an incredible milestone for this podcast: 500 episodes! Not only is that a crazy long run for any podcast, but I’ve also...

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Yael Grauer @yaelwrites.com · 25/09/2026

Companies continue to put all of the responsibility for scams on individuals, even while they're financially profiting off of this scam... but end users have the least amount of power, control, time and data. From the @nationalconsumers.bsky.social Future of Trust conference panel on AI scams.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

What's hard about public policy is weighing the trade offs. For example, something sucks really bad and everyone hates it, but on the other hand several evil trillionaires think it's good. What are you supposed to do in that situation

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 25/09/2026

i want nathan fielder to do undecided voter focus groups

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 24/09/2026

if you quit corporate to become a beekeeper, does that mean you broke out in hives

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National Consumers League @nationalconsumers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Yael started us off strong yesterday, sharing what she's learned about AI fraud in the last 12 months as a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative tech reporter covering privacy and security, digital freedom, hacking, and mass surveillance. More of her work here: yaelwrites.com

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.org · 24/09/2026

Heathrow airport has special corridors reserved for passengers with antlers, which seems very thoughtful of them but also oddly specific.

Sign reading: “→
Flight Connections
All terminals”

with a pictograph of a person walking and two pictographs of airplanes that appear to be radiating out of their head, resembling antlers.

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Yael Grauer @yaelwrites.com · 24/09/2026

It was an absolute pleasure sharing the stage with Nicol Turner Lee, Ari Redbord, Emily Barth and briefly, John Breyault, to discuss the ever-evolving threat of scams and #AIFraud, and what we've learned in the past 12 months, for @nationalconsumers.bsky.social

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 18/09/2026

honestly some of the most apocalyptic impacts of "AI" will be shit like this, and most of the doomsday dipshits predicting SkyNet can't be bothered to notice or care

arstechnica.com

UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges

For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.

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🏴S T R E P S I R R H I N I🏴 @strepsirrhini.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

@dramypsyd.rmh-therapy.com Archived and paywall free here archive.ph/cJMGy

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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

(1/5) Pentagon leadership has said that by the end of this month, Palantir's Maven artificial intelligence system will become a line item with stable, long-term funding in the defense budget (a "program of record"). #News #Palantir #AI

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 16/09/2026

Ask yourself this: how have institutions that for years have said they face budget shortfalls, deficits, shortages that “required” them to deny faculty lines, fire staff, raise tuition, cut research support, etc. suddenly find the money to pay for outrageously expensive contracts for AI services?

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Katie Moussouris (she/her/she-hulk/she-ra)🌻 @k8em0.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Beyond honored to receive the last #LABSCon #SentinelLabs Lifetime Achievement Award 🥇

LABS
CON
2026

Lifetime Achievement

Katie Moussouris

For voicing or conscience from the Pentagon to the karaoke bar

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Techmeme Chatter @chatter.techmeme.com · 17/09/2026

This post appeared under this Techmeme headline:

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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 16/09/2026

HaJ3FgupAm8RrDJW3MHgT9X7Ft27eVaD What is that? That's a hard-coded API token that Flock cameras use to identify themselves and get OAuth credentials, which can then be used to talk to Flock's production servers. Like, anyone on the internet can probably do this right now.

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ninjacooter (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🦂⛧⚷🐦‍🔥 @ninjacooter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"Cronbaugh described a network of around 28 dating apps where the conversation was largely run by autonomous AI personas. The majority of chats, he said, did not involve a human agent at all. Anthropic has since published its findings in the “scams and fraud”

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The Verge @theverge.com · 16/09/2026

Users, mostly men in their 30s, go on dating apps and match with what they believe to be real women. Only one in four of them actually is, and that person is not a user looking for other dates but rather a paid gig worker using pregenerated replies. Read more from @yaelwrites.com: buff.ly/sYMIJJy

Verge headline: Thousands of people were catfished by scammers supercharged with AI

by Yael Grauer

Illustration of a mannequin wearing a digital mask, framed by a phone screen, the screen obscures the fact the person isn't real

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The Verge @theverge.com · 16/09/2026

Thousands of people were catfished by scammers supercharged with AI. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

theverge.com

The sexy AI-powered dating app scams are here

Thousands of people were catfished by scammers supercharged with AI.

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Yael Grauer @yaelwrites.com · 16/09/2026

For the @theverge.com, I dug into a dating scam network that an @anthropic.com spoke about @sleuthcon.bsky.social. It was later described in Anthropic's extremely thorough threat intel report. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

theverge.com

The sexy AI-powered dating app scams are here

Thousands of people were catfished by scammers supercharged with AI.

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Yael Grauer @yaelwrites.com · 15/09/2026

My completely subjective favorite Emmys dresses

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The rule they are overturning was predicted to give $120 billion in public health benefits by 2047, with projections that by 2035, it would would prevent up to 1,200 premature deaths, 870 hospital and emergency room visits, 360K asthma attacks, 48K school absence days and 57K lost workdays each year

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

There is nothing “conservative” about either MAGA or the AfD, certainly not in the colloquial understanding of the term. They are at war with the very idea of a democratic society of equals, devoted to a “counter-revolutionary” project that is best described as aggrieved revanchism.

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James Padolsey @j11y.io · 13/09/2026

I've tried to encapsulate my thoughts here on how to work at an AI lab and not be a wanker talking about p-dooms without substantiation - wankthropic.com

wankthropic.com

Wankthropic

Humanity’s future is too important to leave to humanity. We have written a very long essay explaining why this makes us uncomfortable.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12/09/2026

i am incredibly excited to share our research about how paying people’s rent through mutual aid made an impact on minnesota this year we accidentally collected more data than anyone ever has for an effort like this, and can very seriously say we prevented an eviction bubble that everyone expected

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Yael Grauer @yaelwrites.com · 12/09/2026

Happy Rosh Hashanah! Wishing all who celebrate a sweet and joyful new year. And no matter what you celebrate, it is always good to take the opportunity to reset. 🍎🍯

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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We set up a surveillance panopticon 45 days after the attacks that has come to define our hellish reality and explicitly degraded our constitutional rights. Congress passed a law giving up their right to declare war. Our government's immediate response was to restrict the rights of Americans.

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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The weeks after 9/11 were filled with unhinged Islamophobia and any claim that we were completely united explicitly places them on the outside of who you consider to be American

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Yael Grauer @yaelwrites.com · 11/09/2026

help my two favorite local thai restaurants are fighting

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Yael Grauer @yaelwrites.com · 11/09/2026

Please don’t call me to tell me BADBOOL isn’t used-friendly; you can fork the repo or pay EOO or Kanary or whatever. This list is for masochists who want to be thorough and do data removal on hard mode.

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National Consumers League @nationalconsumers.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Twelve months and countless new scams. What has actually changed? Kicking off Day 1 of the Future of Trust conference, this panel breaks down what's shifted in AI-enabled fraud over the past year. RSVP: ow.ly/gqWs50ZMmAy #AI #Fraud #Scam #PublicPolicy #ConsumerProtection

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Yael Grauer @yaelwrites.com · 10/09/2026

My conversation with Gianna Whitver was so juicy--hear us talk about what companies get wrong when journalists come knocking and why lying in that moment makes everything worse... plus my favorite sites and blogs. Let me know which ones I'm missing! thecyberwire.com/podcasts/bre...

Breaking Through in Cybersecurity Marketing N2K The Other Side of the PR Pitch with Pulitzer Prize Winner Yael Grauer. Yael Grauer, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Investigative Tech Reporter. Host: Gianna Whitver.

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Yael Grauer @yaelwrites.com · 10/09/2026

this game is the only thing in my life that makes sense circle9puzzle.com/ballsort/ if I sort enough balls, will it solve what ails us?

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Ball Sort

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