Poisoning for propaganda: rising authoritarianism makes LLMs more dangerous

I’m sitting here, trying to gather my thoughts as I wait for a storm to hit Iceland. The political chaos in the US has been more distracting than I expected, and I had dialled my expectations all the way to “eleventyfuckingdisastrous” already. But, in between the work that needs to be done and the distractions of living in a dystopian future,...

A few raven photos I’ve been taking around Hveragerði over the past month.

Last year was a bit of a paradox, at least at first glance. It was great for the newsletter but not great for my work or business. I kept a steady weekly pace on the newsletter and doubled the number of subscribers over the year. But it was also unrewarding, in both a creative and financial sense. I ended the year drained and exhausted. And the...

Accidentally wrote this while trying to figure things out, so I might as well publish it here. And, no, I didn’t bother to edit it, so expect fluff and rambling. Everywhere I look, it’s becoming more and more clear that a lot of job markets are in very bad shape. The web developer job market is in a sorry state. Software developers in general...

The web, as a platform, ecosystem, industry, and market, is in a very odd place. The platform is genuinely great. Bugs are inevitable – every non-trivial project will encounter an implementation bug in a major browser at some point – but the platform overall is in a good place with capabilities I wouldn’t have even dared to hope for a decade ago....