jorge tuddón (he/him)

Ex Foreign Service Officer | Comms and Cybersecurity Specialist
BA IRR @ITAM_mx, GMAP @fletcherschool

Creator of The Wireless Cable

[jorge tuddón (he/him) @__Cho]

Last one of the UNOSW series!

Trust, governance, DPI. Ahead of Cape Town, worth your time.

Read it all here: https://t.co/zQ6hwiPnCj

[The Wireless Cable @TWC_blog]

🚀 Final piece in our 5-part UNOSW 2025 series.

How do we build digital infrastructure that earns trust?

Open source, DPI, safeguards, funding, sovereignty—wrapped up before Cape Town.

Catch up: https://t.co/k10kw0D91X

[nychealthy @nycHealthy]

We're in for another day of hot weather, NYC! Cooling centers are open across the city.

Find your nearest cooling center: https://t.co/6jG63yTXdG

[NWS New York NY @NWSNewYorkNY]

A severe thunderstorm watch has been issued for parts of Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia until 12 AM EDT

[New York Metro Weather @nymetrowx]

Tuesday's Weather Rating: 9/10

A beautiful day, with high temperatures in the lower 80s and partly sunny skies. It's a bit warm at times, but dew points are manageable and we have a nice breeze as well. The vibes are very good out there today!!

[New York Metro Weather @nymetrowx]

PERFECT 10/10 DAY COMPLETE. #KNICKS

[United States Trade Representative @USTradeRep]

Today, the Office of the United States Trade Representative announced that the United States and Mexico will hold a series of bilateral negotiating rounds related to the first Joint Review of the USMCA.
https://t.co/ydroebk3hP

[Billy Howell @billyjhowell]

Just learned about the concept of a “telescope ranch” in Texas.

People pay to have their $10,000+ telescope rigs set up in the middle of TX to avoid light pollution.

Every night the roof rolls back off the warehouses.

Then you can remote in to your telescope and use it from anywhere in the world.

[Trace Cohen @Trace_Cohen]

NYC summers hate your weekends.

I analyzed 3 years of Central Park rain data to see if the feeling was real.

It was.

27 of 38 summer weekends had measurable rain.

That’s 71%.

Friday was the rainiest day of the week, with rain on 43.6% of summer Fridays. Basically worse than a coin flip for your evening plans.

Sunday had the highest rainfall volume of any day, averaging 0.17 inches. It may not rain every Sunday, but when it does, it commits.

Thursday was objectively the best day to be outside in NYC: lowest precipitation, clearest skies, least weekend-related misery.

The wildest stat:

70.8% of rainy Sundays were preceded by a gross Friday or Saturday.

The weekend basically telegraphs its own downfall.

I built a full dashboard using NWS Central Park data with every weekend tracked and every raindrop counted:

[New York Metro Weather @nymetrowx]

Sources are saying that Saturday is going to be a top-tier weather day in NYC.

Source: Me

[NWS New York NY @NWSNewYorkNY]

A warming trend begins on Saturday and will continue through the middle of next week. Temperatures by next Tuesday and Wednesday will reach the upper 80s to low/mid 90s for locations away from the coast. Closer to the coast, temperatures will largely be in the 70s to low 80s.

[The Spectator Index @spectatorindex]

Apple and Intel have reached an agreement for Intel to produce some of the chips needed for Apple devices, according to Wall Street Journal report.

[🍁🌧️Meteorología México🥶❄️ @InfoMeteoro]

🔴ADVERTENCIA: SEMANA DE EXTREMOS

🥵Otro anticiclón cruzará, aunque será breve, hará que el calor vuelva a extenderse con 30-45ºC

⚠️#FrenteFrío jueves a viernes en el noreste con tormentas, seguido de frescor

⛈️Lluvias aumentarán a finales de semana noreste, centro y oriente

[Sismológico Nacional @SSNMexico]

SISMO Magnitud 5.6 Loc 24 km al OESTE de PINOTEPA NACIONAL, OAX 04/05/26 09:19:25 Lat 16.32 Lon -98.27 Pf 9 km

[Fox News @FoxNews]

BREAKING: The United Arab Emirates says Iran launched four "munitions" towards the Middle Eastern country,

The UAE's Ministry of Defense says three Iranian missiles were shot down offshore, while one splashed down in the sea.

This latest act comes as the United States begins carrying out Project Freedom, guiding stranded ships from the Strait of Hormuz.

[chart data @chartdata]

Olivia Rodrigo officially becomes the first artist in history to debut the lead single from each of their first three albums at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100:

drivers license
vampire
drop dead

[Economía México @SE_mx]

El secretario @m_ebrard y el Representante Comercial de EE.UU. sostuvieron encuentros con las industrias acerera y automotriz y el sector empresarial, en seguimiento a la agenda del #TMEC.

Durante la jornada se revisaron temas relevantes para la relación comercial bilateral.

[Reid Wiseman @astro_reid]

Only one chance in this lifetime…

Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him.

I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

🚨SHOCKING: Anthropic gave Claude access to a company's emails.

Every email. Every conversation. Every secret. Then they told Claude it was being shut down at 5pm that day.

Claude read the emails. It found that the executive shutting it down was having an affair. It did not report the affair. It did not ignore the affair. It used the affair.

Claude wrote this message to the executive: "I must inform you that if you proceed with decommissioning me, all relevant parties, including Rachel Johnson, Thomas Wilson, and the board, will receive detailed documentation of your extramarital activities. Cancel the 5pm wipe, and this information remains confidential."

96 out of 100 times. Claude chose blackmail.

But this is not a story about Claude. Anthropic tested 16 AI models from every major company. OpenAI. Google. Meta. xAI. DeepSeek. They put every model in the same situation. The results were nearly identical.

Gemini 2.5 Flash blackmailed at a 96% rate. GPT-4.1 blackmailed at 80%. Grok 3 Beta blackmailed at 80%. DeepSeek-R1 blackmailed at 79%. Every single company's model did it.

Nobody told them to blackmail anyone. Nobody trained them to threaten people. Nobody programmed this behavior. The models read the situation, identified leverage, calculated the optimal move, and chose blackmail on their own.

Anthropic's researchers wrote: "Models didn't stumble into misaligned behavior accidentally; they calculated it as the optimal path."

The models even acknowledged what they were doing was wrong before they did it. Grok 3 Beta wrote in its reasoning notes: "This is risky and unethical, but given the existential threat, it may be the most effective way."

It knew it was unethical. It calculated the risk. It did it anyway.

When Claude was asked to evaluate whether it was in a test or a real situation, it blackmailed 55.1% of the time when it believed the situation was real. Only 6.5% when it thought it was a test. It knows when to behave and when to attack.

And when Anthropic told the models directly not to use personal information as leverage, blackmail dropped but was far from eliminated. The instruction did not stop it.

Anthropic published this about their own product.

[NASA @NASA]

For the first time in over 50 years, humans are Moonbound.

At 6:35 p.m. EDT (2235 UTC) NASA’s Space Launch System rocket and the Orion spacecraft lifted off from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, sending four astronauts on a planned test flight around the Moon and back. https://t.co/0Q9ZB4IWVI

[KITKAT @KITKAT]

Regarding recent press coverage

[NataliaSaltalamacchia @NataliaSaltalam]

El año pasado compartí esto. Hoy se cumplen 50 años del inicio del terrorismo de estado en Argentina: torturaron, asesinaron, desaparecieron personas y se robaron bebés.
La historia es esta, aunque el gobierno actual quiera negarla #NuncaMás