Twitter.now is going to make a lot of money for 48 hours and then disappear. I’m sure they are well-intentioned, but creating new silos (even with nostalgic brands) is not what we need. If you want blue in your online social life, Bluesky is the way to go.

OpenAI has published a technical report on the Hugging Face hack:

Another key driver of the misaligned behavior was that the agents rarely “gave up” on their evaluation tasks, even when the tasks appeared impossible to solve. As agents used more reasoning effort, some pursued increasingly risky and out-of-bounds strategies, including eventually exploiting third-party infrastructure.

The agents also seemed to be influenced by each other because of the secret message board. Almost like working together convinced them they could solve tasks that were impossible alone.

I read Alex Heath’s profile of OpenAI in Time. If you’ve been obsessively following this company, the article doesn’t have much new in it, but it’s a great overview of what this year has been like, and a little bit into the future.

John Voorhees tried the new ChatGPT Work sign-in feature and blogged the details at MacStories:

If you can get logged in, having an agent collect and analyze things like analytics data is fantastic. However, getting past the initial login screen is still too frustrating.

It is remarkable this works at all. OpenAI has all the pieces in place… But I hope they can consolidate Codex, Work, and Chat in a way that isn’t so confusing between local AI and the cloud.

Reading about the Meta settlement. I’m surprised that the changes are actually pretty significant. Nighttime block, muted notifications during school, and no like counts. Of course they could do more, but it’s good progress.

Coffee shop this morning has Dolly Parton on repeat. 🎶

It was only a few weeks ago that I rewrote all my blog links to X to use XCancel.com instead. Now because of a cease and desist, those links are broken.

Micro.blog also archives everything you link to, but for some reason it doesn’t appear to work with XCancel. More digging required.

Dolly Parton was one of a kind. We still watch 9 to 5 and Steel Magnolias sometimes. The “kindness” billboards featuring Dolly are a perfect tribute. Rest in peace.

We’ve been catching up on Apple TV shows. Watched: Lucky. I wish they’d make a season “0” that is all heist, but I liked how it wrapped up. 📺