The Exhaustion of Talking to a Tool
LLMs are exhausting because they require spending precious social energy to operate them. Energy that might be better spent on people. When you use a good tool, your brain pretends that the tool is a part of your body: when you drive a car, when you type on a keyboard or when you hit that […]
The AI industry is pouring millions into US elections
Well I’ve finally done it. I’ve been threatening to start a regular audio enterprise here at Blood in the Machine Inc for quite some time, and now it’s officially happening. In the player above, embedded in the video below, and populating that long-dormant BITM podcast feed is what’s essentially a pilot for a Blood in […]
Jolla Phone, Over 13 500 units sold
The initial sales markets are EU, UK, Switzerland and Norway. Entering other markets, such as the U.S. and Canada are to be decided due course based on potential interest from the areas. We have designed the cellular band configuration to enable potential future markets, including major U.S. carrier networks.
Incident CVE-2026-LGTM
Report filed: 04:13 UTCStatus: Resolved (by treaty)Severity: Informational → Critical → Withdrawn → Critical → NegotiatedDuration: 96 hours (billable: 2.1 trillion tokens)Affected systems: All of them, plus several we do not own Executive Summary: A security incident occurred. Our AI-augmented defence-in-depth strategy, deployed in direct response to CVE-2024-YIKES, performed exactly as configured. We continue to […]
Google hallucinated that I am sponsored by Ground News
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Captcha proves you’re human. HATCHA proves you’re not
CAPTCHA proves you’re human. HATCHA proves you’re not. HATCHA (Hyperfast Agent Test for Computational Heuristic Assessment) is a reverse CAPTCHA that gates access behind challenges trivial for AI agents but painful for humans — large-number multiplication, string reversal, binary decoding, and more. Server-side verification — answers never reach the client. HMAC-signed tokens, stateless, no database […]
Ultrasound Imaging of the Brain
A few years ago, a paper came out that blew our minds. The idea was that you can decode what someone is looking at just from their brain activity. Reconstructing seen images from brain activity — seen image (left) and reconstruction (right) for each (MindEye, decoded from fMRI) It’s wild and shows just a glimmer […]
Why current LLM costs are not sustainable
A lot of companies are getting bitten by high AI costs. Uber burned through the entire year’s AI budget in just 4 months and Microsoft, Salesforce and Github are taking steps to reduce AI spend by employees. On the other hand, AI is making many programming tasks very easy and also keeps helping in other […]
We All Depend on Open Source. We Will Defend It Together
We All Depend on Open Source. We Will Defend It Together. An open letter regarding the launch of Akrites – a coordinated effort to remediate vulnerabilities in the open source software the world runs on For decades, open source has been one of the great achievements of technology – software we built together and came […]
No-One Escapes the Permanent Underclass
Shall I end this life a pauper? If AI can do all work at human level or better, what stops corporations replacing us all with AI? This is the permanent underclass meme. The idea is: within a few years, all white collar work will be automated by AI, at which point there is no social […]