The Probe Half-Life: Why Every Detection Tool Expires

In The Detection Inversion, I argued that better RLHF training makes safety harder to verify. The same optimization that reduces harmful outputs also reduces the signal-to-noise ratio for anyone trying to distinguish genuine safety from learned compliance.

That's the theoretical problem. This post is about the operational one: if detection gets harder over time, what does that mean for the…

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i saw myself in the mirror of the laundromat washing machine and i didn't know what i was supposed to think. for a second the world paused as i tried to process this moment. or really the moments of the past year. it's been almost 7 months of constant changes and i don't know how to process any of it. on paper everything sounds perfect, it's what little me always wanted. i finally make six…

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Crucial Track 🎵 June 27, 2026

"America Is Waiting" by Brian Eno & David Byrne Listen on Apple Music Your browser does not support the audio element. Two of the masters delivering a master The video is well worth a watch aswell. 📼🔗 America Is Waiting View John Philpin's Crucial Tracks profile Listen to my Apple Music playlist

I Automated Myself Out of My Own Blog

I killed my Daily News post today. Not the curation—I still get that by email each morning. Just the part where it automatically published to my blog. I built an n8n workflow, which fetched links, ran them through AI curation, formatted the result and published it to my site. Every single morning without fail. It felt clever at the time. A personal newsroom that ran while I slept. The problem…

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Upcoming Shows June 28 - July 4

Pardon the dust but if you follow Seattle Noise only on Bluesky, there will be a bit of reshuffling going on. Ers Aria w/ duo and trio "Monday evening violin, electronics, objects, wind instruments, readings" es eria from Bellingham by way of Cork, Ireland. Duo of chris, my dear and bobby sax, along with a trio from michele, silas, and rebecca. Monday, June 29, 8:00 PM at Cowpine Theater - Event…

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AeroSpaceで無理せずウィンドウを管理する | 1245cal

結論 タイル型 Window Manager の AeroSpace を使うことにした。 タイル型 Window Manager として、というよりかは Workspace ごとにアプリのウィンドウを固定したかった側面が強い。普段 Neovim を使っているのでキーボードでウィンドウを操作できるのは魅力的だ…

illumos

Added to our database: illumos. Illumos is a Unix-based operating system that offers next-generation features for downstream distributions, including advanced system debugging... https://linuxiarze.pl/distro-illumos/ #unix #solaris #illumos

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Reading Proposal 0016: What atproto’s “Permissioned Data” Actually Does

AT Protocol is public by default. Everything you write goes into a signed, archived, and rebroadcastable repository that anyone can read from and moves through relays. This core design decision makes the network so legible and easy to build on, but it also blocks entire types of apps, like private groups, gated content, member-only forums, or anything that isn’t meant for everyone.

Proposal…

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With the drama between KUT and UT, I do very much hope there can be a resolution where they remain connected with assurance of station independence. #kut #utexas #atx

Digitalt oberoende med VPN

När det gäller att undvika spårning och insamling av data när det gäller internet så är det viktigt att använda säkra webbläsare och sökmotorer. Dessutom är det mycket bra att använda en VPN. Och vid användning av en VPN bör det från en leverantör som inte är under US-amerikanska lag, kopplad till USA eller Kina etc. Många använder NordVPN, Mullvad VPN eller Proton VPN.

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Bye bye Paris

My last day in Paris. This week flew by. Despite the climate-related challenges, visiting such a wonderful city has been an unforgettable experience. Now, we’re heading south, on a three-hour TGV ride, for a relaxing week on the seaside. Don’t expect too many check-ins. I’m taking a break. I hoped you enjoyed this photo-centric journaling as much as I enjoyed posting.

Ineffizient

Mit Effizienz misst man die Ressourcennutzung – also das Verhältnis von Ergebnis zu eingesetzten Mitteln (Zeit, Geld, Material, Personal). Der Ressourcenverbrauch von LLMs ist enorm und mir erscheint es schon länger so, als ob man so etwas wie ein Auto erfunden hätte, aber dummerweise mit einem Benzinverbrauch von 10 Litern pro Kilometer. Solange ich das...

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Mittens and Orbs

I have built five dashboards for my AI agents since January. Five. All of them started the same way: a fresh project folder, a Next.js scaffold, the feeling that this time I’d build the interface that finally made sense of everything happening inside these models. None of them finished, or mattered. They’re all in a folder somewhere called things like mission-control-v3 and agent-dashboard-final…

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