tinc2k

Console cowboy, photographer, competitive procrastinator.

[Nathan Worsley ✨ @NathanWorsley_]

24 hours into Claude Tag and my CTO is already saving me from AI psychosis

[John Scott-Railton @jsrailton]

NEW: malware developers added nuclear & biological weapons text to to their spyware.

Goal? To trigger LLM safety refusals... so that their spyware wouldn't be analyzed by an AI security scanner.

Cleanest practical example I can think of for why over-indexing on first order safety alignment is risky.

When closed (and open) models ship with aggressive refusals, they will be sprinkled with second-order blindspots that attackers will discover...and exploit.

We are only in the earliest days of attackers leveraging these features, and it wouldn't surprise me if users systems that need to handle complex cybersecurity issues demand that models be less safety-blunted.

In the weeds: @SocketSecurity's post also shows why intention matters in how you design a malware analysis pipeline to avoid prompt manipulation.

H/T to colleagues that shared this with me https://t.co/f3Aj9TYxU4

[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.

[Walker⚡️ @WalkerAmerica]

Men 250 years ago: “I’ve been drinking Madeira wine, ale, rum, and hard cider since I weened off my mother’s tit. Water? Never touched the poison. On the morrow, I shall overthrow the most powerful empire in the history of the world.

Men today: “I drank a glass of wine and it ruined my life. I couldn’t even podcast. My bracelet told me I was dying.”

[hanlon’s mortola razr @rhizomaticthot]

the fast16 malware was almost certainly targeting spherical implosion simulations.

left: unmodified LS-DYNA 970
right: LS-DYNA 970 modified with the relevant portions of fast16.sys

both running a spherical implosion deck

[staysaasy @staysaasy]

From what I've seen -
* Micromanaging + getting the big picture right leads to respect for your diligence and drive
* Micromanaging + missing the big picture = instant mutiny

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

Jeff Bezos reveals the moment an early Amazon executive told him he had enough ideas to destroy Amazon:

"Early in Amazon's history, Jeff Wilke came to me one day and said, Jeff, you have enough ideas to destroy Amazon. You have enough ideas per minute, per day, per week to destroy Amazon."

"I was like, what do you mean?"

"He said, you have to release the work at the right rate that the organization can accept it."

"Every time I released an idea, I was creating a backlog, a queue, work in process. It was just stacking up, it was adding no value. In fact, it was creating distraction."

"So I started prioritizing the ideas better, keeping lists of them, keeping them to myself until the organization was ready for the ideas."

[Dervish🇧🇦 @nowistomorrow0]

Diaspora on twitter will really be like “you believe life in the west is better?that pales in the reality of bosnia actually being better”and then they live in London.

[sophie @netcapgirl]

it’s happening

[BuccoCapital Bloke @buccocapital]

“The spreadsheet will become irrelevant”

No. The spreadsheet is eternal. The spreadsheet paradigm IS capitalism. The two are irrevocably intertwined.

We were using spreadsheets 3,000 years ago to trade oxen. We will still use them in 3,000 years

Long live the spreadsheet

[Riley Walz @rtwlz]

made my computer dramatically play BBC news music before every meeting

[Elvin @elvin_not_11]

it's beautiful that I can traverse through 25 years of UI design history by clicking 3 times on Windows 11.

[f4mi ‼️ @f4micom]

the only way forward is Renault Twingo globalism

[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

When you "hit a wall" in something you are trying to learn, it's typically just a massive debt of unlearned prerequisites that are finally being called due.

[Jason Fried @jasonfried]

1999: Small, lean, quick, fit, profitable.
2026: Small, lean, quick, fit, profitable.

The fundamentals are the fundamentals.

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

⚡️A 36 percent tax on unrealized gains is a desperation signal.

It tells you the state is running out of clean revenue sources and is now reaching directly into balance sheets. It is an admission that growth is insufficient to cover obligations.

This is what late stage fiscal stress looks like.

When a government taxes income, it shares in production.
When it taxes consumption, it shares in spending.
When it taxes unrealized gains, it shares in ownership itself.

That is a structural escalation.

Ownership stops being a stable store of accumulated risk taking. It becomes a recurring liability even when nothing is sold. That changes the incentive structure of long term capital formation.

Capital formation is fragile. It depends on confidence that the rules of compounding will not shift midstream. Once the state proves it is willing to tax paper value annually, the rational response is defensive positioning.

Defensive positioning means mobility.

Wealth moves. Founders relocate. Funds restructure. Assets migrate into jurisdictions with clearer property guarantees. Even if only a minority leaves, the signal is enough to alter forward investment decisions.

The deeper truth is this.

Advanced economies are colliding with demographic gravity, entitlement commitments, and debt service burdens that exceed organic growth capacity. Political systems struggle to cut spending. Raising broad taxes is unpopular. So policymakers look for concentrated pools of accumulated capital.

Unrealized gains are visible and politically convenient.

The risk is reflexive. If capital begins to anticipate periodic balance sheet extraction, long horizon investment compresses. Innovation slows. Risk appetite declines. Taxable growth shrinks. That intensifies fiscal stress.

You then enter a loop.

Fiscal pressure leads to aggressive taxation.
Aggressive taxation weakens growth.
Weaker growth increases fiscal pressure.

If this remains isolated and limited, the system absorbs it.

If it spreads across jurisdictions, you get a global repricing of sovereign credibility.

This is about whether property rights remain predictably durable.

When states start taxing value before it is realized, they are testing the boundary between partnership and control.

Capital watches closely.

If it concludes the boundary has shifted, it moves.

That is the real signal.

[Investing visuals @InvestingVisual]

The Dutch government is destroying long term compounding by introducing a 36% tax on unrealized gains.

As a Dutch citizen and long term investor, I’m at a loss for words about the lack of vision behind this new tax. I normally don’t post anything politically related, but what our government is planning to do is disastrous for long term investors.

This is the sad truth.

Most people here start investing to protect themselves against inflation and ever rising pension ages. They’re trying to put hard earned money to work, hoping they can retire before the age of 71. And they had a real shot at that before this bill.

If you started at 25 with €10,000 and contributed €1,000 every month, you could compound to €3,320,000 over 40 years. If you lived prudently, you could retire early and live off it for the rest of your life.

With the new capital tax? After 40 years of compounding, you’d end up at €1,885,000. That’s a €1,435,000 difference.

This tax denies generations the chance of early retirement, punishes those who take risks, and introduces severe liquidity issues for people who have been compounding successfully for years. And to what end? To fill a €2.4 billion tax hole.

I’m beyond words.

If you’re Dutch like me, please share this visual with fellow investors to increase awareness.

Hopefully we can make our politicians understand the severity of this tax, and the breadth and depth of its destructive implications.

~ Jan

[Peter Todd @peterktodd]

> But an unrealized gains tax is punishment for investing.

Hilariously the Netherlands is even planning on taxing shares in co-ops, such as employee-owned businesses.

So if you join an organic dairy-farm co-op - seizing the means of production! (lite) - every year the government will evaluate how much more that dairy-farm is worth by God Only Knows what bullshit metric and charge you a hefty tax bill for your participation in crunchy workers-united economics. If your co-op eventually fails, maybe because the government valuation was too high and workers quit... tough luck. You don't get the taxes back.

Worse, there's going to be an exemption for large shareholders: your boss, who owns 6% of the company, doesn't have to pay any unrealized gains tax. He only need to pay when he sells, if ever. You though, a modest 0.1% owner waking up at 5am to milk cows with your comrades, have to report and pay the government every year for the privilege of engaging in pseudo-communism.

[Eren Bali @erenbali]

How do you short a country?