Tootfinder

I think this is a larger pattern:
"AI" allows you to roleplay competence.
https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/115054255141397973

Bell entwickelt Tiltrotor-Flugzeug mit Fluggeschwindigkeit bis zu 832 km/h
Bell darf im Rahmen des SPRINT-X-Planes Programms des Pentagon einen Demonstrator für ein schnelles Tiltrotor-Flugzeug entwickeln.

I think the Vibecoding reddit has accidentally stumbled on the best description of vibecoding:
It's "roleplay for guys [it is always guys] who want to feel like hackers without doing the hard part".
(Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/vibecoding/com…

A few thoughts on LLMs and the super-rich
https://tante.cc/2025/07/17/never-hearing-no/

Never hearing No
If you are very rich – think multi-millionaire or billionaire – there is a thing you no longer experience really: Hearing no. Sure there will always be people on social media yelling at you and what you did and what you stand for but in your daily life, your actual environment that will happen increasingly […]

Übrigens: Am 29. bin ich in Tübingen, wir sprechen über Tech Faschismus und Palantir
https://tue4.org/events/78a513f4-5e16-4bbc-b905-c20faf72ade4

Faschismus durch die Infrastruktur-Hintertür – Wie Firmen wie Palantir die Demokratie aushöhlen
29.09.2025, 17:30:00 - GMT - Epplehaus, 72072, Tübingen - Auch demokratische Staaten planen zunehmend, Tools wie Palantirs Werkzeuge oder KI-basierte Überwachungslösungen einzusetzen. Doch was glauben eigentlich die Entwickler:innen dieser Systeme? Was ist ih…

This story is cute: A malicious "Solidity" (that's the smart contract language Ethereum and other blockchains use) extension for Cursor, the Vibe-Coding Editor included code that steals your tokens/coins.
I find it funny for two reasons:
- Blockchainers love talking about how you need to verify things you interact with but someone wasn't checking if they have the right extension
- Programming smart contracts is hard because it's a massively hostile envir…

Code highlighting with Cursor AI for $500,000
Kaspersky GReAT experts uncover malicious extensions for Cursor AI that download the Quasar backdoor and a crypto stealer.

Die Bundesregierung nutzt die ganzen Sondervermögen vor allem dazu, den Haushalt zu sanieren und Wahlversprechen der CDU zu finanzieren
https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/soziales

Kreative Buchführung der Regierung: Mit diesen fünf Manövern trickst die Koalition beim Haushalt
Der Bundestag verabschiedet den Haushalt für 2025 und macht gleich mit dem für 2026 weiter. Beide Etats enthalten umstrittene Finanzmanöver. Manche davon könnten für Ärger mit dem Verfassungsgericht sorgen.

@… Here this combines two of your favourite things: https://securelist.com/open-source-package-for-cur…

Code highlighting with Cursor AI for $500,000
Kaspersky GReAT experts uncover malicious extensions for Cursor AI that download the Quasar backdoor and a crypto stealer.

"This strange brew of shock, confusion, and ambivalence, I’ve realized, is the defining emotion of the generative-AI era. Three years into the hype, it seems that one of AI’s enduring cultural impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it."
https:/…

AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event
Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.

David Gerard on the "AI doomers"/"rationalists" and their beliefs.
In the end they are a bunch of eugenicist, racist losers afraid of death.
(Original title: AI doomsday and AI heaven: live forever in AI God)
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/17/ai-

AI doomsday and AI heaven: live forever in AI God
I get a lot of requests for a piece on the AI 2027 paper. That’s the one that draws a lot of lines going up on a graph to show we’re getting a genuine artificial general intelligence by 2027! Then …