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#AI/#SoftwareDev/#Cyber Geek. Working in #AgenticAI. #TechnoOptimist Dark Lord of the Intertubes. I come from and believe in the future 🖖

[💡💻🤖🛡 @darth_thanos]

@anton_chuvakin Do you realize heuristic, algorithmic (not AI), and rule based systems are still very useful up and down your security stack? ;)

[💡💻🤖🛡 @darth_thanos]

@anton_chuvakin @Google @CiscoSecure Congrats Anton, they are lucky to have you.

[Dr. Anton Chuvakin @anton_chuvakin]

New BGP route announced! 🚦 Update your routing tables. After an amazing 7 years at @Google, I’ve officially logged in as the new VP of Product Management at @CiscoSecure! Excited to build powerhouse D&R, AI, and cloud security products. Switch on! 📡

[tobi lutke @tobi]

That’s right:

“Economic sovereignty is built long before a trade negotiation begins. It happens when someone starts a company in Toronto rather than moving it to Silicon Valley. When that company can raise enough capital to remain Canadian. When it scales from 100 employees to 10,000. When its founders become investors and finance the next generation. When Canadian companies own technology, brands, intellectual property, manufacturing capacity and supply chains that the rest of the world actually needs.”

https://t.co/mZOuBXYJPD

[Mark Zuckerberg @finkd]

Muse Spark 1.3 is rolling out today with frontier performance almost too cheap to meter. This is the biggest jump we've made so far on coding and agentic work. Try it in Muse Code and our API.

Next up 🍉 and Muse Spark open weights releases coming soon.

[💡💻🤖🛡 @darth_thanos]

@finkd Bloody awesome! You guys are back in the OSAI game and it is so frigg’n welcome!

[Steven Sinofsky @stevesi]

HUGE! All the way through the 2000s. That's the origin of clippy.

Microsoft would famously do anything with software but we would NOT have a toll-free number (like WordPerfect did) and that was a yearly debate in planning for product support costs.

Every product cycle we took trips to PSS (support) and listened to customer calls. We were constantly looking at the top 10 issues.

More here -> https://t.co/juwvdqJG2t

[tobi lutke @tobi]

Always been the cause of this nonsense. And why would you blamed them. Cheap way to stay in the game.

[💡💻🤖🛡 @darth_thanos]

@stevesi Absolutely wild that support, documentation, and updates were key differentiators in the early life of the PC software industry.

[💡💻🤖🛡 @darth_thanos]

@stevesi It is a Mac without enough memory :) Moar memory please!

[Handre @Handre]

Rome handed out free grain to 40,000 citizens in 73 BC. By 46 BC, Julius Caesar found 320,000 people lining up for their monthly ration. That eight-fold expansion happened in under three decades, and it shows you how welfare states actually grow.

No Roman senator stood up and announced a plan to addict a third of the city to government bread. It happened incrementally, through political competition. Each magistrate who wanted votes expanded eligibility. Each expansion normalized the next one. The citizen who once considered the dole shameful eventually expected it, then demanded it, then organized politically to protect it.

This is the core mechanism free market thinkers have identified across every era: once you create a transfer program, you create a constituency for that program. Recipients vote. Administrators build careers. Grain merchants who supply the state develop a stake in keeping the contracts flowing. The political economy locks in.

Caesar, to his credit, actually cut the rolls back to 150,000 through verification audits. It was one of his more economically coherent moves, though the Senate still murdered him. His successors quietly let the numbers climb again.

What did the dole require? Massive grain imports from Sicily, Sardinia, and Egypt, organized through state logistics at state expense, funded by taxation and conquest. When the conquest revenue dried up, the obligation remained. Rome had written a check against future military success, and future military success eventually failed to arrive.

The lesson is not complicated. Distribute a benefit and you distribute dependency. Distribute dependency and you distribute political power to whoever controls the distribution. The grain dole didn't weaken Rome overnight, but it made every subsequent reform politically impossible.

[💡💻🤖🛡 @darth_thanos]

How about the amount of memory used as well, a few open tabs or a few running electron apps and the memory on your system is baked. I don’t understand why at some point we put developer connivence and “velocity” over writing solid long lived software that is efficient and performant.

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

Harvey is a great example of how American companies are building world-class specialized models: they took an open-source base (Kimi K3), post-trained it on legal data, and delivered state-of-the-art performance on legal benchmarks at a fraction of the cost of frontier models. Restrictions that kneecap open models would do nothing to stop Chinese labs from shipping the next Kimi. They would, however, cripple the ability of startups like Harvey to create high-performance, low-cost vertical models. Of course some of the closed labs would love this — it eliminates their competition.

[Steven Sinofsky @stevesi]

Optimism (and courage) is the path to creativity, productivity, and growth. We're on the cusp of the AI revolution where embracing the platform and tools is key and we're about to experience an explosion of tools and apps. https://t.co/dXznZafl6u

[Steven Sinofsky @stevesi]

Again the rhetoric is trying to convince us that what happened was some new thing and worse that models are people.

[💡💻🤖🛡 @darth_thanos]

@stevesi This is causing more damage to their credibility and the advancement of the industry than they can imagine right now.

[Andrew Ng @AndrewYNg]

Good move by @JensenHuang. The Nvidia letter is well written and worth reading. As we saw with the OpenAI-Hugging Face hack, we need open models and harnesses for defense.

Lets stop believing the PR that closed models are safer. - that's just regulatory capture.

[Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 @jkenney]

Don’t tell Erdogan’s daughter, who has launched a campaign demanding Western decolonization while presiding over a regime that sits atop the conquered remains of the indigenous peoples of Anatolia.

This boy belongs to the Syriac / Assyrian people, who have inhabited that part of modern Turkey since roughly 2000 BC, i.e about 3100 years before the invasion of the Seljuks / Turks.

This boy is chanting in the language that Jesus spoke, the Aramaic language of the Assyrian people, who converted to Christianity 1000 years before the Seljuks imposed Islam in Eastern Anatolia.

Since then, the Assyrian people have suffered dhimmitide, pogroms, genocidal violence, the destruction of countless churches and monasteries, and a centuries long effort to erase them, which continues to this day.

How dare Erdogan’s authoritarian Muslim Brotherhood regime lecture the West about colonialism.

[Jensen Huang @JensenHuang]

Attackers have frontier AI. Defenders need a frontier AI ecosystem—the best open and closed models, force-multiplied by a global community.

During the Hugging Face incident, closed AI blocked essential forensics. An open-weight frontier model helped contain the intrusion.

That’s why we created the Open Secure AI Alliance.

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

The entire tech industry (save for Anthropic) has come out in favor of open source AI.

So what happens next? Will Anthropic change its lobbying efforts? Not likely. Now the gaslighting begins:

“Nobody is trying to ban open source.”

“We just want to limit who can use it.”

“We just want to limit who can contribute to it.”

“We just want to limit how powerful those models can be.”

“We just want to make sure the guardrails (we lobbied for) can’t be removed.”

The net effect will be the same. They won’t stop until they kneecap open source. The rest of the industry needs to watch these guys like a hawk.