Servile men will insinuate "with a plausible affectation of wisdom and concern, How prudent it is to please the powerful—How dangerous to provoke them." 1768

“Just as a private equity firm buys out a corporation and strips it for parts, the consultant class installs friendly operatives, charges fees, raids the party’s long-term assets, and gives strategic advice that ultimately serves itself over the long-term health of the party.”

Hello Elon this is your investor relations manager speaking. I am advising you today to please keep posting this shit

Once again I am telling you that LLMs are running the standard-issue Gartner hype cycle.

Technology + Inflation.

The best Beth Wilkinson could muster for NYT about why her client flouted a court order to not jump gun on consummating allegedly illegal merger while litigation was pending was to point to... the merger agreement. Last I checked private contracts don't trump court orders

Spoke to @noamscheiber about Beth Wilkinson. My point: establishment Dems will likely praise her for defending ABC against Trump's FCC, and stay silent on the rest of the career. You can’t be the party of working people while in lockstep with the lawyers who enable the oligarchy.

A brief update on the critical vulnerabilities in PHP:  We have not yet validated exploitation in the wild and we have no evidence of successful wide scale exploitation. There are currently several exploit PoCs publicly circulating, many of which appear to be "vibe-coded" and are incapable of remote code execution. We have validated some PoCs, however, that are capable of RCE against default deployments of mod_php but not PHP-FPM. Nonetheless, exploitation may have already begun in a limited fashion and the threat is viable and very serious. Defenders should: ​1) Patch & Restart by upgrading to PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36, or 8.2.35 and restarting web services ​2) Layer Temporary Safeguards at the network edge (WAF/proxy rules) and server configuration level if immediate patching requires a maintenance window ​3) Protect Credentials by monitoring for abnormal session traffic and rotating keys and passwords on compromised internet-facing PHP systems exposed prior to patching 🔗 We are continually updating our Cloud Security blog post on this topic with real-world guidance and actionable defense strategies as we learn more. Please keep monitoring these posts for updates as you prioritize your patching efforts: cloud.google.com/blog/produc…  🔗 Technical details from Wiz: wiz.io/blog/php2shell-php-rc… 🔗 Details of the exposure from VirusTotal: blog.virustotal.com/2026/10/…

A tenacious group of tenants is fighting a teardown plan in one of Manhattan's most desirable neighborhoods that could spell the end of public housing as we know it? I wrote for @newrepublic about their struggle and the fate of government-run homes in the US.

Hey Sam & Dean, guy here who has been concerned about AI safety re: cyber & bio, but is not some RSI, Dyson-sphere-brained doomer weirdo: You guys had a hand in this by doing what you're still doing in these tweets, i.e. crapping up "AI safety" with sci-fi nonsense.

From Apple's repeatedly delayed Siri AI to OpenAI's messy "super app" launch, here's a look at the AI projects that shut down or missed expectations. spr.ly/6016BHdWZi

The biggest change one could make to Democratic foreign policy is for the next President to refuse to hire out of the endless number of corporate/finance consulting shops and mandate that all foreign policy officials commit to not going to one of those shops after serving.

If there is infinite demand for compute how is this going to be possible

Saw this last week. Comprehensive documentary on the richest and one of the most powerful people in the world. You should know a little more about him than you do.

very recently i recall…

There's only one reason he's doing this: to stop Alex Gibney's new documentary "Musk" from being streamed on HBO Max in January. @alexgibneyfilm predicted it and it's happening. Go see the film NOW. Before you can't.

“I’m melting…”

+1. Calacanis showed who he really is to me 10+ yrs ago. She said they would investigate him. Reasonable considering Musk himself hinted the same in Oct 2024 - before countless investigations were shut down and he became even more controversial. Your documentary was outstanding.

Since most economics in the political realm is slop, of course it can be replaced with AI. And it’s shouldbe.

Another insane milestone in SF. I went down a rabbit hole on this one. The previous owner passed away in January at age 96. Her property was assessed at $919,446, and she paid just $11,599 annually in property taxes. The new owner will pay an estimated $336,762 a year.

When a leading economist creates a "running read on the health of the economy" and doesn't include anything on consumer debt, which is currently eating up 50 cents of every dollar in wage gains that workers get, it gives you a pretty clear sense of how we ended up in this mess