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It was soooo good. Really excited to see how this season ties up in a few weeks.

It’s so well done, clever, and gorgeously shot and designed.

My 2 year old is all in his feelings processing having a new baby sister in the house today.

The solution? Google Image Search of “Bus” and he’s excitedly scrolling, pointing at each one, and yelling “BUS!”

God bless large vehicles. They’re basically toddler therapy.

My close relative's cancer treatment would have bankrupted them in another country.

I had a medical procedure a few weeks ago and required a follow up procedure (*not* wiener lengthening).

Total Bill: $4 (parking)

Canada’s universal healthcare isn’t perfect but… I mean.
Fuckin’ eh, right?
✌️❤️🇨🇦

❤️ Adam Sandler

This is wonderful.

Do you have employees in Canada, yet?

I am in awe of how well Oxide handles this. Congratulations.

Unconscionable

Oxide’s Compensation Model: How is it Going? / Oxide Reflecting on how our compensation model is going

Some news from @oxide.computer: we got a raise! Our annual salary now stands at $235K. oxide.computer/blog/oxides-...

YouTube video by Team Coco Jim Downey Shared An Office With Bill Murray At “Saturday Night Live” | Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

"I'm talking about Jeff Epstein the New York financier..." -Jim Downey 💀 youtu.be/Tn7fks2UDRE?...

Zero fresh air.

Why am I so disappointed with air conditioning in Toyotas?

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...

Multiplayer AI

Good morning ☕️

A thumbnail with a dark background and the VS Code logo that reads "What's new in Visual Studio Code July Update 1.103, Use GPT-5 in chat, chat checkpoints to restore previous states, a revamped tool picker interface, support for more than 128 tools per agent request, automatic startup for MCP servers, enhanced terminal command approvals, Git worktree support for checking out multiple branches, fast code search for Azure DevOps repositories, a customizable language model selector, and a dedicated view for managing coding agent chat sessions".

v1.103 of VS Code is here! Check out what's new:

🚀 GPT-5 rolling out to VS Code today
🛠️ Enable more than 128 MCP tools with virtual tools
✅ Chat checkpoints
🌳 Git worktree support

…and much more: aka.ms/VSCodeRelease

Here are some of the highlights 🧵

Wassette: Microsoft’s Rust-Powered Bridge Between Wasm and MCP Microsoft's new Rust-powered runtime lets AI agents autonomously download and execute secure WebAssembly tools via the Model Context Protocol.

Wassette: Microsoft’s Rust-Powered Bridge Between Wasm and MCP (via @thenewstack.io)
thenewstack.io/wassette-mic...

Active shooter reported at Emory University in Atlanta, authorities say Emory University has alerted students and staff Friday to an active shooter on their Atlanta campus.

BREAKING: Police are responding to a report of an active shooter on Emory University's campus in Atlanta, authorities say.

The other options are left-aligned, right-aligned, and justified, right?

Now, Live News says the police are still saying to keep out of the area and to stay indoors, So, the police are *not* saying it's over.

According to a reporter's source, police are checking to see if there is a second shooter.

‘Active shooter’ reported on Emory University campus An active shooter has been reported on the Emory University campus, officials said.

#BREAKING: An active shooter has been reported on the Emory University campus, officials said.

this is a GREAT podcast, in which @simonwillison.net goes on and on and really nails where this LLM crap does amazing things (SQL OH MY) and where it really doesn't. go listen....

I loved it, as we had just launched github.com/microsoft/wa... to componentize and apply policy to mcp tools....

Bio pic of Simon Willison, wearing glasses and standing against pale brick wall, with his name in big letters and the Talking Postgres podcast square thumbnail in bottom left.

🎙️ New @talkingpostgres.com #podcast Ep30 just published!

Guest @simonwillison.net talked about AI for data engineers. We skipped hype & boosterism to chat about Postgres permissions, alt text, 150-line SQL queries, & pelicans on 🚲

🎧 talkingpostgres.com/episodes/ai-...
📺 youtu.be/8SAqeJHsmRM?...

Microsoft Launches Wassette: Open-Source Rust-Wasm for Secure AI Agents Microsoft has launched Wassette, an open-source project using Rust and WebAssembly to create secure execution environments for AI agents interacting with untrusted tools. It supports cross-platform de...

Microsoft Launches Wassette: Open-Source Rust-Wasm for Secure AI Agents www.webpronews.com/microsoft-la...

Thanks to the fantastic @rawkode.dev! bsky.app/profile/rawk...

Introducing Wassette: WebAssembly-based tools for AI agents - Microsoft Open Source Blog Wassette is a secure, open-source Model Context Protocol server that leverages WebAssembly to provide a trusted execution environment for untrusted tools.

Wassette: expose WASM components as MCP tools. Components are packaged as OCI images (i.e. hosted by a Docker registry) and are heavily sandboxed, since this is WASM. Written in Rust, for added performance and security. #RustLang #WASM

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

When you anger the Swiss:

“.. “A country which throws rocks at us in trade shouldn’t get a present.”

@bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Doug Ford on impressions of Trump in Canada: "He's probably the most disliked politician in the world in Canada."