Bennett Morrison

Currently: Daft Punk is playing at my Wegmans, my Wegmans.

theatlantic.com‘If Anything Happens to This Guy … Everyone Is Screwed’Ondřej Surý was a relatively anonymous volunteer working on PHP security. Then the internet exploded.

Yesterday, one guy wrote the patch that stopped 70% of the Internet from getting hacked. When asked how he felt saving the Internet he offered up this quote: "Well, my wife says that I’m emotionally dead, but I’m not. And it felt nice." Amazing. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

nytimes.comHackers Say They Stole Thousands of Sensitive F.B.I. Personnel RecordsThe compromise, if confirmed, would be the latest in a string of cybersecurity failures at the F.B.I., which said it was investigating the matter.

Today, let's not talk about deepfakes. Let's talk about good ol' fashioned zero day vulns. NYTimes on the FBI hack, "ShinyHunters said it had weaponized a zero-day, or previously undiscovered, computer bug within the Oracle PeopleSoft software." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/u...

My first thought, "PeopleSoft is still out there?!?" And then a zero day . . . yeah, that tracks.

Ugh. The post that had the AI generated photo is deleted now... figures ...

Bennett Morrison@bennettmorrison.bsky.social

Let's talk about the state of AI-generated images (like this one below), and detectors. The current state of generation is damn good: we've moved beyond the "he has six fingers!" detection.

Let's talk about the state of AI-generated images (like this one below), and detectors. The current state of generation is damn good: we've moved beyond the "he has six fingers!" detection.

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Let's talk about the state of AI-generated images (like this one below), and detectors. The current state of generation is damn good: we've moved beyond the "he has six fingers!" detection.

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But if you wanted to do it old school, you'd do a comparison to the event and see the table settings are different than the event, and Xi didn't wear a tux. And then you'd do a reverse image search to see the first instance of this photo was posted BEFORE the event.

Specifically, here is a post from Sept 22 saying who would be at the dinner on Sept 24. (x.com/WOLF_Financi...) And the SynthID markers are pretty clear on this image if you were to run the check.

Let's talk about the state of AI-generated images (like this one below), and detectors. The current state of generation is damn good: we've moved beyond the "he has six fingers!" detection.

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As for detection, Commercial generators have imperceptible watermarks (e.g., synthid from Gemini). Those a relatively easy to remove (open source removers exist). Also, as the file circulates, the various compressions distort the watermark.

So, that's why it's important to train a detector on both file transformations and watermarks. It takes a lot of compute to generate and train on this, but otherwise, people going to be thinking this photo could be real.

14 Sept

If a company doesn't create an internal product called "Atlas," the probably have an internal product called "Via.”

3 Sept

As someone who grew up gaming, this article hit home for me. I played turned-based strategy games, and joke that it is still how I work. Now, I watch my young child learn through puzzle and resource allocation video games (!), so, yeah. Gaming can be pretty great. Thank you @martogo.bsky.social

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31 Aug

Trains, man. Trains are amazing.

31 Aug

For a "city that never sleeps," there's way too much closed at 5:15AM on a Monday.

@audacityofdespair.bsky.social

29 Aug

I have decades of experience. I have a degree in business/marketing. And yet, every time someone says "ICP" in a meeting, part of me has to think "they mean 'ideal customer profile' and not 'insane clown posse.'"

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David Simon

25 Aug

Union, union, union. God bless the Newspaper Guild, which gave me my first union card and began my lifetime of believing in the power of and need for collective bargaining. Also shame on the Washington Post for this fight being necessary.

Karen Attiah@karenattiah.bsky.social

Wearing @postguild.bsky.social red today. I was able to challenge my @washingtonpost.com firing — and win reinstatement plus back pay — all thanks to being a part of the @wbng.org Guild. Binding Arbitration is a part of our contract. This is why unions matter!!!

25 Aug

Dear Lord, please make sure I am never giving "boomer facebook energy."

24 Aug

Brilliant!

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ft.trib.alAnthropic’s best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thriveAI lab’s Fable 5 has met with sluggish demand from corporate clients

23 Aug

Do we all know the future is open weight models running "local?" ("Local" could be private cloud.)

Financial Times@financialtimes.com

Anthropic’s best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive ft.trib.al/CMxzul7

20 Aug

New rule: My calendar autorejects all meetings unless there's an emoji that depicts the vibe of the meeting because I gotta know what I'm signing up for. 😊💙 or 😠😳 or 🙄😴

20 Aug

Haven't checked my investment in NFTs for a while ... wonder how they are doing ...

19 Aug

I have worked for almost a dozen tech firms, and almost everyone has had a product or a project called "Atlas."

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Ben Collins

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12 Aug

Bluesky should go back to invites, continue aggressive bot bans, create a Craigslist-style marketplace (since you’re more likely to buy/get services from a educated or good person on here than any other social network), and market this place like a walled garden protected from enshittification.

11 Aug

"Depress handle?" All your handle classmates are much more successful. Some of them work the big doors. All your best turns have passed you by.

8 Aug

App I use constantly asks me for feedback. I gave answer. Rather than log it, they move it to a "MailTo" link so email client pops. Not ideal, but whatever. Then I get a Fin (AI agent) response telling me things I don't care about -- as though the problem is what I know. Annoying.

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23 July

The easiest job to replace with AI . . . overpaid.lol

22 July

The market for HDDs is kinda crazy...

8 July

This is pretty. Not useful. Like, pastel mountains at night.

nytimes.comRecord-Setting Effort by Howard, but Belgium Ousts U.S. (Published 2014)Tim Howard made his first save 43 seconds in and he ended the game with 16 saves, the most by a goalkeeper in the World Cup since 1966.

Last time, when we lost to Belgium in the World Cup, Tim Howard allowed us to walk away with some pride. Not this time.

Bennett Morrison@bennettmorrison.bsky.social

I am not watching the USMNT vs. Belgium. I still have trauma from 2014. Tim Howard was so good . . . and they still lost. Broke. My. Heart. But, it produced this wonderful interactive from NY Times showing ALL HOWARDS BLOCKS -- www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Tomorrow, I'm having waffles. They will either be celebration waffles or consolation waffles. But, there will be waffles.

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James Poniewozik

@poniewozik.bsky.social

“Belgium is dunking the ball into the goal like the net’s full of mayonnaise!” —me, if I were a soccer announcer

6 July

There's a "spokesperson" for Home Depot that I'm convinced is AI, and it annoys me so much. Not the use (I wouldn't care if it was an AI cartoon), but the duplicity. The mendacity.

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17 June

Yesterday at work, I asked Claude to write a short story in the style of Philip K Dick about a man who couldn't pass a liveness/human check on any website / everyone thought he was a robot. Why? Because I wanted to read it. It was called, "The Verification of Arthur Pell"

9 June

The Bennett Corollary is "a *popular* behavioral observation" . . . I mean, I know AI flatters us, but hear me out, I did this with an incognito browser, and the AI still said it was *popular.* Finally!

arxiv.orgAdversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language ModelsWe present evidence that adversarial poetry functions as a universal single-turn jailbreak technique for Large Language Models (LLMs). Across 25 frontier proprietary and open-weight models, curated po...

31 May

For those who told me my English degree would be useless, I present the efficacy of adversarial POETRY as a means to jailbreak LLMs arxiv.org/abs/2511.15304

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28 May

Sometimes, Reddit delivers a meme for our (my?) time: www.reddit.com/r/MemeVideos... (And by "time" I mean tokens, apparently.)

bbcelite.comAbout my disassembly diary for The Sentinel - Mark Moxon's Software ArchaeologyAn overview of my disassembly diary for The Sentinel on the BBC Micro

25 May

Seeing the hexadecimal in my feed makes me happy and nostalgic ...

Mark Moxon@markmoxon.bsky.social

People ask me how I do my software archaeology projects So when I spent 7 months documenting Geoff Crammond’s epic game The Sentinel, I kept a diary It’s not exactly Samuel Pepys, but it does explain how I disassembled an #8bit classic: bbcelite.com/disassembly_... #retrocomputing #BBCMicro #C64

24 May

Sitting poolside. Running 3 separate Claude queries. Vacation living.

en.wikipedia.orgAI boom - Wikipedia

20 May

A tale of two wikipedias. It was the best of times: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_boom It was the worst of times: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_bubble

23 Apr

Re: AI Things that I tried to do with a designer and dev team two years ago, I did as a Lovable app last year, and now, I do that thing with an I agent I set up.

23 Apr

Got to go to the dentist office today and watched YouTube videos of trains. Nothing more relaxing.

Bennett Morrison@bennettmorrison.bsky.social

I love trains!!