Daniel Suarez

METR says a pilot test of OpenAI's monitoring system found vulnerabilities, including an exploit that could have let AI agents hide hundreds of recent actions (Anzar Mehraj/Reuters) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Just to be clear... Prop 40 is a ONE-TIME retroactive tax. It applies ONLY to billionaires and would tax just 5% of their wealth — which grew 30% in 2025. California's billionaires would still be worth $2T+ AFTER the tax. The revenue will fund healthcare for millions of Californians. Vote YES.

Meta suspended No Kings account on Instagram from 1:30pm to 3pm today, with over 3,000 scheduled protests. Meta says "oops!" www.thewrap.com/media-platfo...

Meta took down the No Kings organizing page today - the biggest day of protest this fall. They provided zero explanation. It stayed down for the entire afternoon until most of the protests were done. Outrageous. Put this on the January investigation list.

Cutting-edge cloud migration: Ukraine just moved Russia’s Yandex-powered bots straight into the cloud. Support link is in our Bio.

Paging @daniel-suarez.com to write a sequel to delta-v!

The robotics company FIGURE really knows how to decommission their robots with style... www.figure.ai/news/f-02-de...

“This is for my boy Paul mthrfkr!”

When I'm winding down lately, I find it relaxing to browse FabScene and learn about the cool tech and niche devices coming out of the Japanese maker scene (translate as needed.) It kind of reminds me of the '90s. fabscene.com/new/special/...

I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm-bomb

All Trump’s malevolence and psychosis will be on full display right after the midterms. We’ve been here before in Nov 2020, and here we go again. The national nightmare of Trump refusing to accept defeat and dragging the country through lies, conspiracies and drama begins again.

I thought I knew the story of the "lost world" off the east coast of Britain, inhabited by Mesolithic people until rising sea waters engulfed it around 8,000 years ago... But I didn't know about the *tsunami*. Holy hell. 1/

Within 24 hours, Hurricane #Polo is expected to make landfall in Baja California Sur, potentially delivering MAJOR IMPACTS. Once the system reaching Arizona and New Mexico, the system could deliver MAJOR IMPACTS in the form of flooding. Will have a stream up later this evening #hurricane

The level of financial misalignment is as bad as I’ve been warning, and you’re going to see headline after headline of stuff I’ve said in the newsletter for years. I say this with both pride and sadness because being right is going to be many layers of horrible.

This may end up being the most consequential story I’ve written, or one of them. “How many AI data centers are actually functional” is the most obvious question of the bubble - and the most important answer to understand what’s going on - yet answering it with any specificity has taken years.

Tell me the system is broken without telling me the system is broken.

it is shockingly easy to post AI generated music under the name of real artists on Spotify. It took us five minutes to do. You can do it to small bands, dead artists, even Taylor Swift. This is a giant loophole in digital music distribution that's widely abused www.404media.co/spotify-ai-m...

He sat in the water for like an hour just staring at the water peacefully...... 😍

We remember, too. 🇺🇸🇺🇦

After all the rain yesterday it was lovely to see the sunshine this morning. Image taken this morning of Glastonbury Tor at sunrise.

Not sure if it’ll help, but, you never know until you try. Seriously , though. Don’t give up. Keep trying.

"The Nerd Reich" is the #2 on the San Francisco Chronicle's list of Bay Area bestsellers for non-fiction. It's amusing to see my book climb the charts in publications that otherwise refuse to mention it! 👀 But that's okay, we are steamrolling the gatekeepers.

what a time to be alive (derogatory)

Thanks for this thread, @cjkarr.bsky.social . 20 years later I had hoped we’d be in a better place on infosec (and monocultures more generally). But apparently not.

"Completely Misunderstanding Those Authors" Cartoonist: Ellis Rosen

"The team believes similar low-power sensing and processing could support groups of autonomous machines that need to operate together ..." cf. "Kill Decision" by @daniel-suarez.com www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/308806... timesofindia.indiatimes.com/science/amer...

It’s official: the Nerd Reich podcast is getting banned from YouTube….the week of my book launch! Incredible timing, since I’ll be all over the media next week talking about tech fascism. They can delete my account. They can’t stop my work. Buy the book: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...

Planned satellite megaconstellations could generate runaway space debris | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... -Not a surprise: SpaceX's 1 million sat 'Starmind' would be a prime debris generator.

It’s honestly just sad. The incompetence of this administration is affecting literally everyone. Photo source: MeidasTouch

We are now in the 90-day period before an election where states may not do mass removals of names from their voter files. The DOJ doesn’t seem to care. Help us protect free and fair elections: https://newsletters.democracydocket.com/anchor-bluesky

This felt like being on a film set, perhaps deep in Fangorn.

Over her long career at Asimov’s SF Magazine, Sheila nurtured new writers and helped older ones mature gracefully. She and David need our help now. Please donate generously to this GoFundMe.

Koi fish are wonderful they recognize faces and are very social

reposting my favorite chart without context

Hell, even *AI's* can identify the risks posed by autonomous robotic weapons. Here's a conversation my friend Brian Sletten had with Claude about my drone thriller KILL DECISION... bsky.app/profile/dani... HT @bsletten.bsky.social

Phone pic of crows and the moon. Taken just now at the base of Glastonbury Tor.

"AAA ID Theft Basics Workshop: This interactive workshop is designed to provide education on identity theft, fraud prevention tips, and the Dark Web." www.ace.aaa.com/information/...

"While individual systems are small, their aggregate impact is becoming meaningful, both in terms of distributed generation and consumer engagement in the energy transition." I told @newscientist when asked what I made of plug-in solar / 'balcony solar'. www.newscientist.com/article/2520...