firecracker

“Confronted with people who have power, and who enjoy using it, I turn into a different person, a baser and meaner one.”

@SecWar stop wasting my money doing shit like this you fucking loser

Our military installations have been turned into gun-free zones—leaving our service members vulnerable and exposed. That ends today.

just unbelievable straight up evil out loud - Trump also outlined some $73 billion in cuts to nondefense federal spending, including cuts to health research, K-12 and higher education, renewable energy and climate grants, a low-income housing energy program, and community development block grants. The cuts to nondefense spending represent a 10 percent reduction from the current fiscal year.

@yayrilee @saranormous it’s not like the problem was some black box of ai magic, it sounds like they have a severe lack of logging / observability to be able to understand what anything is doing

@saranormous "We move fast" and "we can't explain what AI did with your intent" are different problems. One is culture. and the other is a product gap nobody's closed yet….

Brutal week for security teams. These aren't failures of negligence, but what happens when systems/processes work as designed and still can't be explained end to end. This is an industry-wide, structural problem. We're entering an era of software abundance, and shipping before you fully understand what you've built isn't a character flaw. It's how you compete! But there's a gap between 'we move fast' and 'we cannot tell you what our system did with your data last week.' New essay: Dark Code

@saranormous what part of this requires ai to happen? it seems like the lack of logging and observability is the actual problem. whether it was an ai agent or a person, they weren’t tracking the information needed to respond to an incident. ai seems incidental

@ahc did ai do the original sin too and needs to be redeemed by jesus?

Just spent two days with senior staff at Anthropic and a group of Christians deeply committed to finding redemptive paths for AI. Encouraging on many fronts. Above all I think the guests were unanimously blown away by the humility and moral seriousness of Anthropic's leadership.

@D4VEi @mtropolis_chris oh were you born with this knowledge?

@mtropolis_chris If you don't know what a source map is, maybe development may not be for you, 😂 the amount of people learning what a source map is with 'Startup CTO' in their bio has me asking some serious questions.

This is such a good breakdown on the leak

except competitors will absolutely stay away from this like it’s radioactive for the same reason that wine developers stayed away from all microsoft code leaks. if they can show that you looked at it and used it, it’s over for you. this is at least very ignorant on that front, so likely to be wrong about other things it confidently asserts

While Trump previously has said that the campaign against Iran would likely take four to six weeks, Hegseth left open the possibility of it stretching longer. The president, Hegseth said, has said it could go “four to six weeks, six to eight weeks” or “any particular number.”

“Nothing justifies this. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing."

has any president been so pervasively ignorant of the basics of how the government works? what a deal maker!

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who announced the Iran exemption, described the move as an act of martial artistry. “In essence, we are jiujitsuing the Iranians,” Mr. Bessent said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” program on Sunday. “We are using their own oil against them.” ahh yes the ol give our insane mortal enemy $14B during a war against us and uhhh uhhh we won

But, he said, proof that they were talking to the “right people” came when the Iranians “gave us a present, and the present arrived today,” suggesting without further explanation that it was “oil and gas related” and “worth a tremendous amount of money.”

like can someone get this dude an actual medical and mental exam something is wrong with his brain at an exponentially increasing level he has no idea what is going on

10d chess i think

As news broke of Mr. Mueller’s death, Trump posted on Truth Social, “Robert Mueller just died. Good, I’m glad he’s dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people!”

corruption <-> incompetence

starts war without allies, demands other countries solve the problems his incompetence caused. why can’t we keep it open, big guy? theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/m…

if someone starts talking about some boring shit just tell them you don’t know anything about it

a good heuristic during a war when trying to understand the character of any side of the war: do they deliberately and officially NOT distinguish between their military and civilian death counts?

iran is the new world war germany