As an industry we're focused on the top five turtles in a stack of 50. AI for defense and code review matters — we need to be doing it — but it gets the most attention because it gets the most funding because it's the most visible. Meanwhile hospitals run Windows XP, Ivanti falls over every second week, and the rest of the stuff that powers the fundamental internet — we still haven't addressed any of it.
— with Sherrod, 4/22
Been playing around with the idea of cryptographically enforced disclosure. You disclose something — there's a CVD timeline and a fallback date. At the fallback, it all goes on the blockchain, with a drand-triggered encryption key as the dead-man switch. No one can say "we're just
Peacetime cyber versus wartime cyber. We developed our cyber defense doctrine, policy, and technology through 10 years of peace and prosperity. We're now transitioning into austerity and warfare — what do we need to revisit? Throw the things that don't matter out the window, and start doing
Two pale-blue speckled eggs on the sunroom bookshelf turned into three cameras, an Unraid NAS, two AI models, and a journal that writes itself every morning. None of it had to be useful — it just had to be possible. Because joy.
Tactically, Mythos is Anthropic marketing their asses off to beat OpenAI. It didn't put me in the doomer "world is ending" camp — open-weight models already had me there.
