Simon @spoltier@qoto.org

We built four malicious skills to test whether skill scanners actually work. Three took less than an hour to conceive and implement. ClawHub, Cisco's skill-scanner, and Vercel's skills .sh marked them as safe.

In our simplest bypass, we prepended 100,000 blank lines to a malicious skill. ClawHub's scanner truncated the file before reaching the payload, then marked the skill safe. https://blog.trailofbits.com/2026/06/03/the-sorry-state-of-skill-distribution/

In a world where a spurious regression effect in 2006 can be a lever for justifying narratives that create widespread violence and loss and grief in our communities twenty years later, you need people like me and this economist and everyone like us. I hope enough of us survive this era and get to keep doing social science.

Here's a metric that I call the 'business-to-industry' index.

It consists of the US share of world income relative to the US share of world energy use. Two centuries ago, the US was industry dominated. Today it is business dominated.

https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2026/05/22/the-business-of-war-and-the-mismeasurement-of-military-might/

Auf dem Feld ⬆️ (hier ein anderer Blickwinkel und ein paar Stunden früher) hagelt es nur so von #Mohn. Als ob da am #Mohntag ein Mohnsun da eine Mohnokultur hätte errichten wollen.

Geniesst den Abend!
#SonneTeilen

I was laid off last month due to cost reduction so I used this unexpected « opportunity » to give a boost on the renovation of my house. Doing everything by myself allows me to keep it on a decent budget but I will need to go back to work in a few months 👀

I’m a software engineer with 17 years of experience on distributed systems. I’ve been writing Rust for 6 years (prior to that PHP/NodeJs/Go). I have a good experience with CI/CD, DevOps, Databases & IaaS. Very much opened to learning embedded systems.
Open to remote part-time contract or employee status (max 4 days/week) with occasional travel.

My recent projects : https://otso.fr/cv.html

Hopefully the Fediverse will work its magic ✨

#rust #rustLang #FediHire #getFediHired #toulouse #paris

one of my lowkey obsessions is foods with funny names. of which there are depressingly few. besides this one:
- stargazy pie (don't look it up)
- oyakodon
- spaghetti alle vongole fujute
if you know of more, tell me!

Did that movie where the world has flooded and there’s like retro memory parlors ever come out? I don’t remember the name but I remember seeing the trailer 2-3 years ago

The pressure

for us in the #curl project right now

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/05/26/the-pressure/

Today on Oxide and Friends, @ahl and I will be joined by our colleagues to tell the tale of Reverso, an interesting (and deceptively simple!) piece of hardware that has proved essential to scaling manufacturing. Join us today, 5p Pacific!

https://discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?event=1503458376745484318

@LaChasseuse @Catfish_Man It's cute but pretty obviously not how Palantir would actually advertise. I'm still in favor of guerilla art protesting surveillance capitalism though

Some genius did this to two subway adverts ⤵️

i’m being told that this is not an SNL skit

Perhaps you have thought to yourself, *I'm* on board the Psychology of Software Teams train, but how can I subtly let others know? How can I identify fellow POST fans in the wild?? What if we need to organize around the radical notions of thriving, motivation, self-compassion and psychological safety??

Well if you find me at a 2026 conference or book reading you can get a TINY PROPAGANDA STICKER

Will Ashley achieve her skateboard dreams?? Are our heuristics around learning making it impossible for us to learn? Can you improve your adherence to your goals?? Latest Change, Technically is another LEARNING STRATEGIES episode!

https://www.changetechnically.fyi/2396236/episodes/19131922-you-have-bad-mental-models-of-learning

Under-reported details of the xAI/Anthropic Colossus data center deal: Anthropic get Colossus 1 but xAI keep using the larger Colossus 2, Colossus 1 has a REALLY bad environmental record, and xAI just shut down a bunch of older models on 2 weeks' notice https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/7/xai-anthropic/

I'm winning