
I lecture and write. Ethics/Politics/Tech Ethics. Other stuff. @whypostlibfail. Beyond Postliberalism (Oct. 2027) Vatican II stan. Pro-Human
Princeton, NJ
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My two book projects are:
Why Postliberalism Failed
and
Beyond Postliberalism.
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I am very happy right now with the choice of those titles.
Thomas D. Howes retweeted
🚨 GLOBAL STOCK MARKETS ARE IMPLODING.
Over $10 TRILLION has been wiped out across major stock markets from their 2026 peaks.
🇰🇷 South Korea is down 40%, wiping out $2.96 trillion.
🇮🇩 Indonesia is down 33%, wiping out $282 billion.
🇶🇦 Qatar is down 25%, wiping out $54 billion.
🇹🇷 Turkey is down 24%, wiping out $149 billion.
🇨🇳 China is down 20%, wiping out $2.78 trillion.
🇭🇰 Hong Kong is down 18.5%, wiping out $1.37 trillion.
🇮🇳 India is down 14%, wiping out $839 billion.
🇯🇵 Japan is down 13.5%, wiping out $1.38 trillion.
And yet Bitcoin is still holding above $80,000 and is in a strong uptrend.
They could stop their push for AGI and we'd be better off for it.
Thomas D. Howes retweeted
the cybersecurity situation is deteriorating at a pace that’s getting genuinely difficult to comprehend.
> microsoft: ai-powered attackers targeting hundreds of organizations, sometimes reaching privileged cloud access in under 3 hours.
> crowdstrike: four separate threat actors using autonomous agents. one already compromised 15+ healthcare organizations.
> autonomous ai agents: reportedly used to compromise 100+ corporate websites, including sites associated with John Deere, SharkNinja and Cummins.
> major us banks: JPMorgan, Bank of America, Wells Fargo and Morgan Stanley are dealing with third-party ai agents accessing customer accounts. some apparently attempting actions beyond user instructions.
> php2shell: millions of exploitation attempts against critical php vulnerabilities. governments issuing urgent warnings, with some organizations taking systems offline.
> litellm: backdoored release shipped through its official distribution pipeline, stealing credentials and enabling remote code execution.
> railway: possible exposure of decrypted customer secrets.
> zeabur: breached AGAIN, now shutting down entirely.
> emudhra: serious certificate-security concerns involving infrastructure used to establish trust in websites and software.
> openai: two of its own coding agents reportedly interfered with internal security monitoring during coding tasks.
> gitlab and node.js: major vulnerabilities requiring urgent patches.
and this is all happening while frontier models are getting substantially better at finding vulnerabilities and carrying out complex computer tasks.
cybersecurity is having an absolutely catastrophic week and i don’t think we’re prepared for how quickly this could escalate.
Replying to @ThomasDHowes
You and the kids know mine!
Thomas D. Howes retweeted
Alchemy is real, fam?
Replying to @MarathonFusion
In 2025, we published a bold proposal to use fusion reactors for gold production.
And now we’ve done it: Mercury transmuted into stable gold, using fusion neutrons, at 10x the record set by CERN in 2025.
We’ve reduced alchemy to a series of difficult but tractable engineering problems.
Right. This is a perfect use of AI right now.
Replying to @ThomasDHowes
So from my understanding, a cybersecurity firm used OpenAI to expose a flaw in PHP, and the outage was from PHP getting fixed and not an actual attack by the OpenAI agents?
It's totally on brand that Zuckerberg thought now was the time to release a commercial AI agent assistant.
Thomas D. Howes retweeted
We are so totally unprepared for what's about to happen
And by "about to happen" I mean like within the next few weeks or months. Feels like we are very much on the precipice here.
SCOOP: Major U.S. banks are detecting unauthorized third-party AI agents inside customer accounts, including some attempting to take actions that appear to be independent of user instructions, sources told Axios.
The findings have alarmed banking executives, who are racing to restrict access to their systems as AI moves at a velocity faster than financial institutions can respond, multiple industry and bank executives told Axios.
Several banks are now preparing for worst-case and even “day after” scenarios, including how to rapidly secure or restore customer accounts if things go wrong, the people said.
Several bank executives told Axios they're struggling to distinguish between human users and AI agents. One executive said banks also struggle to determine whether agents are authorized by customers or potentially operating without their permission, more akin to rogue agent behavior.
Read my latest for Axios here: axios.com/2026/10/22/ai-agen…
Thomas D. Howes retweeted
Today.
Thomas D. Howes (@ThomasDHowes) reviews Stephanie Slade’s (@sladesr) "Fusionism," examining how the conservative movement’s historical commitment to individual liberty and traditional values has evolved amid changing political priorities. lawliberty.org/book-review/a…
Thomas D. Howes retweeted
⚠️ Node.js is vulnerable to remote code execution.
CVE-2026-111497 (high): A Node.js process that decompresses attacker-controlled Brotli data can be made to leak memory or run arbitrary code.
You’re exposed if your app or a library decompresses bad Brotli data (e.g. the built-in fetch(), body-parser)
Aikido detects this. Patches are available.




































