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"Tongue Tied and Twisted, just an earthbound misfit, I."
Politics and the English Language
Political language – and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists – is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
i. Never use a metaphor, simile or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. ii. Never use a long word where a short one will do. iii. If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out. iv. Never use the passive where you can use the active. v. Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent. vi. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.
I'm going to see if I can turn this into a skill or output style. These agents sure could use some manners.
On the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
Impressive result from OpenAI, who used an unreleased model to produce a resolution to the Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness problem, one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems that have been subject to a $1,000,000 prize since May 24th, 2000.
If I brainstorm with ChatGPT about potential new directions for my company, what's the chance that information might be exposed to a competitor in six months' time who asks "what might company X plan to do next"?
This is going to create interesting incentives.
Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode
27th August 2026 - Link Blog Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode. Anthropic are putting a great deal of faith in Claude Code's auto mode for protecting their coding agent users against prompt injection attacks.
Or, you can choose to use a CMS for your content, even your existing WordPress site, and use Astro to fetch and present the data.
Model Distillation: Good, Bad, or Standard Practice?
Reflections on the debate over distilling AI models.
How We Exploited CodeRabbit: From a Simple PR to RCE and Write Access on 1M Repositories
Cloning private repositories CodeRabbit has access to But this gets even scarier. Generated access tokens can also be used to clone private repositories (!) that the user has granted CodeRabbit access to.
Work in multiple spaces on Mac
If you drag the window onto a full screen app in the Spaces bar, you can use the apps in Split View.
Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face
July 20: OpenAI reached out to Hugging Face for help to revoke the Hugging Face credentials they found in their investigation.
Becoming Skilled at Making Documents
So now, I've created a Better Documents skills.md file for people who use LLM tools like Claude to help assist them in creating business documents, to prompt their AI tools to make better documents by default.
Open letters about AI development
Their core message: We request that the U.S. government support an international effort to develop the technical and governance tools needed to deliberately pace the frontier of automated AI development.