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My Lethal Trifecta talk at the Bay Area AI Security Meetup I gave a talk on Wednesday at the Bay Area AI Security Meetup about prompt injection, the lethal trifecta and the challenges of securing systems that use MCP. It wasn’t …

I gave a talk on Wednesday at the Bay Area AI Security Meetup about prompt injection, MCP security and the lethal trifecta. Here are the annotated slides from my presentation, including notes on my weird hobby of trying to coin or amplify new terms of art simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/9/b...

no one cares that this is illegal but it is illegal and seems like something that might trip the court’s “major questions” doctrine

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

Why are no headlines focusing on the unconstitutional and dictatorial nature of this action?

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Deep cut for true weebs

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The soft bigotry of low expectations

Trump at the Bat

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people:

1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long

All lies.

We have a madman in the White House who is actively trying to trigger total war.

If Jeffries, Schumer, or any other Democratic leaders try to justify this, shrug indifferently, or write a strongly-worded letter and call it a day, they need to step down or be aggressively primaried.

still think this is one of the greatest posts ever made

Whoever came up with the phrase 「のど元過ぎれば熱さを忘れる」never watched Hot Ones

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

Lots of talk today about the demise of BlueSky. For whatever it's worth, it's been a boon to indie publishers like us. Twitter and Facebook have pretty much silenced us, so the engagement here has, and continues to be, wonderful.

Important thing to beat people over the head with: Trump has turned American cities into warzones and for fucking what? Prices are way up, jobs will be way down, the dollar is worth less, and now the highway is blocked off by cops. Maybe the Great Mythical Immigrant wasn’t the problem after all.

Senator Ted Cruz posted a dramatic video of LAPD cars on fire with the caption “this… is… not… peaceful.” What he didn’t mention? The footage was from 2020, not 2025. His post on X falsely implied it was current, part of a broader effort to spread lies and manufacture a crisis.

I’ve read too much science fiction too many dystopian novels and too many poems on civil rights to be quiet…

looks like an objective assessment to me

There is no mass-deportation campaign going on right now. Deportation is a process.

This is kidnapping and human trafficking.

The illegitimate, lawless, and authoritarian regime in control of the government of the United States is at war with the people of the United States.

i don't want to dunk on any of the people who replied or quoted this with a "well ackshully the national guard will shoot protesters, look at kent state," but my request is to a) remember that kent state was over half a century ago and b) read about the NG's response in its aftermath

Decided to coin the word “エッグイgious”

everything means the opposite for these people. freedom
means your freedom to obey. the first amendment means their freedom to tell you what you can read and think.

Texas Legislature on verge of completely banning THC products after key House vote The House approved the ban after previously considering proposals to preserve the industry by tightening regulations.

Texans, flee the nanny state and come up north to enjoy the land of the free.

www.texastribune.org/2025/05/21/t...

Bad people know that one way to control people is to make them feel economically uncertain, so more of their time is spent worrying about their own precarity and less on the general welfare and/or what the bad people are doing. There's a reason the current administration is undermining the economy.

America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.

This is an absolutely insane way to run a country

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Recession indicator: Indeed app is above TikTok in the App Store

What do alligator’s watch on tv? Wanime

Opinion | Trump’s Gulag Archipelago Trump is seeking to establish a truly chilling proposition: that no one can stop his administration from imprisoning anyone it wants, anywhere in the world.

Usefully clear reasoning here.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/o...

If you abduct someone and send them involuntarily and without recourse to a country where they've never lived to be imprisoned, that isn't deportation, it's human trafficking