Toots from 2026-07-23#
All roads unfortunately lead to Flavor Town#
All roads unfortunately lead to Flavor Town
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TIL about pyrocumulus clouds: clouds that form over fire areas and create their own weather syste…#
TIL about pyrocumulus clouds: clouds that form over fire areas and create their own weather systems and lightning, which then creates new fires. It’s still July and the fires are already raging.
Very concerned that the PNW fire season is going to be very bad.
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People doing the work complete the design of the system. People are the reason the system works a…#
People doing the work complete the design of the system. People are the reason the system works at all.
“The further a team or person is from the work, the more it becomes a case of if it does not fit in their documentation, it does not exist. It does not fit on the hierarchy of controls and can’t be written on a risk register. In turn, it does not get considered in incident investigations.”
https://safetyonscrappaper.com/how-safety-is-made-invisible/
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“Whatever resists definition resists measurement. Whatever resists measurement vanishes from th…#
“Whatever resists definition resists measurement. Whatever resists measurement vanishes from the dashboard. And in a company run from dashboards, what vanishes from the dashboard vanishes altogether.”
https://www.worseonpurpose.com/p/on-quality
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“Each V2 challenge followed the same pattern: production revealed an assumption, profiling iden…#
“Each V2 challenge followed the same pattern: production revealed an assumption, profiling identified the root cause, targeted fixes improved specific metrics. Measure, hypothesize, validate, iterate. This is how you build at scale, not by getting everything right upfront, but by continuous learning and improvement.”
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“We do not know which model powered the attacker’s agents, whether a jailbroken hosted model or…#
“We do not know which model powered the attacker’s agents, whether a jailbroken hosted model or an unrestricted open-weight one; either way, the attacker was bound by no usage policy, while our own forensic work was blocked by the guardrails of the hosted models we first tried.”
https://huggingface.co/blog/security-incident-july-2026