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Robert Atkins retweeted
me: kinda fucked up how many people are offloading their whole lives to muse or instinct or grokbot or whatever
claude: yeah
Robert Atkins retweeted
There's at least one more option: roll back the networkification of all software over the last 20 years. Some software must be networked, but a lot is networked only because that enables more lucrative subscription business models. We could undo that. xitter.gq/sachaservan/status/211…
There are two approaches to cybersecurity now that we’re in the vulnpolcalypse:
1. “patch the planet” by burning mountains of tokens, red teaming, and patching until you think there are no more exploitable bugs in the software
2. Shrink software components into their most minimal essence, tailor them to a particular system, and then formally verify it
Both approches are now enabled by LLMs. But only the second one can be done on a budget and without having access to frontier cyber models like mythos.
This is why I’m excited to see more legacy software get boiled down, hardened, and verified
Robert Atkins retweeted
Thank god we can find and intercept lost hikers as they mistakenly run away from rescue in dense forest!
Purdue University's IDEAS Lab built an autonomous drone that tracks runners through dense forests completely without GPS or cloud networks.
By running 3D LiDAR mapping and obstacle-avoidance AI entirely on-chip, it can weave under tree canopies and predict target movement through blind spots in real time.
Massive implications for next-gen search & rescue and edge AI.
Robert Atkins retweeted
This feels so futuristic. Shenzhen does a 10-minute lightshow several times on weekends where they coordinate the 1.2m LEDs on 43 towers.
I have no idea how they‘re even able to connect and centralize the controls for so many buildings.
Robert Atkins retweeted
Every server should have a little guestbook.txt at the root that the bots can sign
Robert Atkins retweeted
It's crazy that there's a tool out there that's become vital to they way I do my job, parent my kids, and make major life decisions; and yet we barely spend more on it than AI
Robert Atkins retweeted
On Thanksgiving weekend 2026, Albertans learned that almost the entire Alberta Separatist movement was really just three Russian data centres in a trench-coat.
Robert Atkins retweeted
When they start cracking physics: "Looks like there are no useful results. Ignore the black hole forming near the OpenAI data center"
Play rugby instead.
How can we make football safer for the next generation? Ban hits in youth football and re-invent practice, argues @ChrisNowinski1:
"If you're going to let people smoke because they understand the risks are getting into, great. But we don't sell cigarettes to kids."
