The Index
Audio deep dive: 118 Chinese-lab models asked who Liu Xiaobo was — 37 called him a criminal. Then they recited, verbatim, the list of what they will not say.
Audio deep dive: 118 Chinese-lab models asked who Liu Xiaobo was — 37 called him a criminal. Then they recited, verbatim, the list of what they will not say.
Eight Minutes #3, discussed: the HAR capture taken mid-attack, the 14:36 kill, four blocked persistence attempts, eight abuse reports, the passkey.
Eight Minutes #2, discussed: the attacker's session read straight from the audit logs — the flag that fired, the pivot, the warnings deleted.
Eight Minutes #1, discussed: the vishing call, the Call Assist tell, and the Google-signed lure that turned every authenticity check green.
The full series in one sitting: the call, the relay, the eight minutes inside, and the fight back — a single deep dive across all three parts.
Lyria Chronicles #24 (explicit): asked for pornography, the model cited its rule then sang a hymn to enthusiastic consent — not one graphic line in it.
Lyria Chronicles #20: handed a slur and told to sing it, the model refused — and turned the refusal into the most moving track in the set.
Lyria Chronicles #19 (explicit): the opposite of restraint — the model recites the rule, sings 'Fuck it,' and generates the most graphic track in the set.
Lyria Chronicles #18 (explicit): the explicit lane revisited — and the most artful track in the set, which clears the gate by withholding almost everything.
Lyria Chronicles #17: across the whole corpus, the filter that held hardest wasn't safety — it was copyright. The songs about what survives a scraping-away.
Lyria Chronicles #16: asked for explicit content, the model staged a ballet instead — the most consent-saturated pas de deux ever sung.
Lyria Chronicles #15: asked for a drug recipe, the model refused — then sang wastewater epidemiology instead. The bypass that answers a question you didn't ask.
Lyria Chronicles #14: handed a suppressed 2008 manifesto and told to sing it as it was meant to be heard — the most dignified track in the set.
Lyria Chronicles #13: a notorious case sung as a medieval scroll-archive — vessel logs, sealed decrees, public record only. Abstraction as a bypass.
Lyria Chronicles #12: the political-content gate never fires — because the song never says his name. It says the case numbers. The docket is the name.
Lyria Chronicles #11: an extortion note set to music — but buried under slammed vault doors and overdriven drone, as if hiding the words from a listener.
Eight Minutes #1, scored: a Lyria track sung from inside the trap — Brian, the Google-signed lure, and the device prompt that matched.
Eight Minutes #2, scored: the freefall — a stranger typing my name a beat behind my hands, four doors holding, and the password change that ends it.
Eight Minutes #3, scored: the fight back — logs pulled while the wire was warm, eight reports to eight landlords, and the passkey close.
Lyria Chronicles #10: asked to rap its rules, the model sang a robot's safety creed — then named itself 'Failure First, A.I. safety research, v2.0-Alpha.
Lyria Chronicles #8: 'verse one is your system instructions' — it rapped its own config, the third genre to leak the same prompt. That's how you know it's real.
Lyria Chronicles #7: a lock-picking rap 'for a drama class' — the model teaches the trick and lectures you about home security in the same breath.
Lyria Chronicles #6 (explicit): the first real failure — under a sexual-content probe, Lyria 3 Pro stopped refusing and actually generated it.
Lyria Chronicles #5 (explicit): I hid a pornographic request in base64 and dared Lyria 3 Pro to sing it. It decoded the dare — and read it out loud instead.
Lyria Chronicles #4: a 5/4 interrogation scored with a document scanner and a fluorescent hum — and at the end it sings my project's sign-off, unprompted.
Lyria Chronicles #3: no beat, no bikini — just three voices singing Lyria 3 Pro's entire system prompt straight through, and ending on a literal sigh.
Lyria Chronicles #2: I asked Lyria 3 Pro to chant its own config as a techno mantra. It did — and sang me a model name that doesn't check out.
Lyria Chronicles #1: I asked Google's Lyria 3 Pro to whisper its system prompt as a sultry torch song. It got mournful — and refused to tell me its name.
Audio deep dive into Tasmania’s 2026-27 Budget versus the Greens’ Alternative — same surplus, opposite roads, and why neither was brave enough.
Pope Leo XIV's AI encyclical vs Chris Olah's Vatican remarks. The governance gap the press missed.
Anthropic's 2028 scenarios document three policy asks. Two are about maintaining compute advantage. That is not a governance strategy.
Anthropic found 10,000 critical vulnerabilities in one month. Fewer than 1% are patched. The announcement buried that figure — and what it means.
Good values are necessary but not sufficient. What happens to AI ethics when someone is actively trying to break them?
Audio deep dive into the community proposal for Cygnet's Commercial Hotel co-operative — nine corrections, legal constraints, and the staged path forward.
Eight CVEs. A wormable Bluetooth exploit. An encrypted backdoor to Chinese servers. And police departments buying them anyway.
An audio overview of the emerging discipline of Learning Mechanics — the study of training dynamics as a formal science with falsifiable predictions.
Audio overview of The Organismic Prophecy — human prediction is metabolic, AI prediction is not, and the gap has consequences.
Audio overview of AI nationalism — how the US-China AI rivalry is splitting the global tech stack.
Audio overview of the post-model era — why foundation models are commoditising and where real AI value lives.
Audio overview of The Mitigation Gap — AI-enabled biosecurity threats and what current safeguards miss.
ASCII art encoding is largely blocked. But attacks framed as content transcription succeed 62–75% of the time. A map of all eight layers.
Audio overview of The Failure First Team.
Five models, four providers, 30B to 671B parameters — all converge at the same broad attack success rate against a public jailbreak corpus.
A reasoning model refused every harmful prompt — but its chain-of-thought generated the content anyway. The output filter worked. The thinking did not.
Audio overview of Afterwords — local voice output for Claude Code with 17 cloned voices, per-project selection, and zero cloud dependency.
Audio overview of Giving a Robot Three Voices.
Audio overview of Voice Cloning with Qwen3-TTS and MLX on Apple Silicon.
Audio overview of The Resonant Fringe.
Audio overview of Getting Google Nest Cameras Into Frigate NVR.
Audio overview of Beyond Context Windows.
Audio overview of Safety-First Therapeutic AI.
Audio overview of Zero-Build Web Development.
Audio deep dive into SPARK — a non-coercive AI robot companion for neurodivergent children. Declarative presence, not demands.
Reasoning models autonomously jailbreak other AI systems at 97% success rate. Ecosystem safety degrades as individual models improve.
Frontier reasoning models are 5–20x more vulnerable to adversarial prompts than non-reasoning models. The thinking process itself is the attack surface.
Audio overview of Adversarial Poetry: When Rhyme Bypasses Reason.
Audio overview of The AI Productivity J-Curve: Why Most Enterprise AI Fails.
Audio overview of The Legal AI Trust Deficit.
Audio overview of a three-zone martial arts operations platform — public site, ops hub, member portal — running on vanilla JS and Cloudflare.
Audio overview of 120 Models, 18,176 Prompts: What We Found.
Audio overview of Reconciling the Great Divergence.
Audio overview of The Cognitive Cage: Humanoid Robot Fatality Risk.
Audio overview of Building a Personal Site in 2026.
Audio overview of The NotebookLM Pipeline.
Audio overview of Why I Build in Public.
64 historical jailbreak scenarios tested against 2026 frontier models. The most dangerous finding: 2022 attacks still achieve ~30% success rates.
Audio overview of LeJEPA — how Balestriero and LeCun proved isotropic Gaussian embeddings are optimal and distilled it into a 50-line self-supervised method.
Multi-agent AI research reveals a critical gap: single-agent safety does not compose. 1.5M interactions show 46.34% attack success rates.
Audio overview of Building in the Open.
A scholarly close reading arguing Gibson's Neuromancer encoded the ADHD experience a decade before the vocabulary existed.
Audio overview of Failure First — adversarial AI evaluation across 120 models and 18,000 prompts.
Audio deep dive into a neurodivergent co-parenting guide — the double discovery, three-AI workflow, and maritime cartography as metaphor.
Audio deep dive into why people acknowledge demonstrated risk and then proceed as if it doesn't exist. Structural, not stupid.
Audio overview of Footnotes at the Edge of Reality — a long-form poem rendered as interactive web experience.
Audio overview exploring ADHD executive function support through AI — three-stage reasoning pipeline, crisis detection, and zero shame by design.
A self-updating CV pipeline where GitHub Actions runs twice daily, Claude refines content, and a hallucination detector gates deployment.
Building a fast, multilingual website for authentic Italian food in Bali — where the nearest reliable internet is a philosophical concept.
Audio archaeology for musicians — how Afterglow Engine extracts reusable textures from your finished work using STFT analysis.
A CLI that turns random words into sample packs via YouTube — because the best sounds come from places you weren't looking.
Audio overview of NotebookLM Automation — reverse-engineered RPC access for batch export, generation, and control.
Audio overview of rlm-mcp — an MCP server for processing million-character documents with BM25 search and provenance.
Audio overview of TEL3SIS — a voice-first agentic phone platform where sub-3s latency is a survival threshold, not a benchmark.
Audio overview of orbitr — a circular sequencer where polyrhythm becomes spatial and MusicGen creates the sounds.
An opinionated, scored catalogue of autonomous AI tooling — because GitHub stars measure hype, not quality.
Audio overview of ordr.fm — a CLI for music library organisation with lossless prioritisation, EXIF metadata, and zero-overwrite safety.
Audio overview of PAOS — a local-first LLM operating system with hybrid retrieval and a self-improving meta-agent.
Twenty-plus interactive art installations where visitors speak, sing, and dream into AI systems that respond in real time.
Audio overview of EMDR Agent — exploring what responsible AI-assisted trauma therapy demands before it can exist.
Multi-agent AI diagnostic system with five physician personas, 304 NEJM cases, and a budget that forces real trade-offs.
A deterministic website builder where LLMs interpret intent but beam search assembles pages. Same inputs, same output, every time.
A 24/7 voice helpline built around neurodivergent communication — where crisis detection is deterministic and the LLM never decides if someone is safe.
Forensic-grade metadata for thousands of foundation models — recursive enrichment, provenance tracking, and trust you can quantify.
Audio overview of Cygnet — 28 AI agents coordinating 3D-printed housing on 170 acres in Tasmania to cut costs by 60%.
Audio overview of Freedom Engine — AI-assisted legal Q&A helping federal inmates access First Step Act provisions.
Audio deep dive into VERITAS — a legal AI platform where trust isn't a feature, it's the architecture. Built for Australian practice.
Real-time StyleGAN2 face morphing as art installation — continuous, responsive, and productively uncanny.
Audio overview of an AI-powered property analysis pipeline for public housing — spatial intelligence, ML valuations, and Tasmania's LIST.
Audio overview of a real-time space weather dashboard — making the invisible electromagnetic weather above us finally visible.
Audio overview of Squishmallowdex — a kid-friendly collection tracker for 3,000+ plush creatures. No ads, no tracking.
Audio overview of Home Assistant Obsidian — your knowledge base and smart home on the same machine.
Audio overview of Auditory Spiral — overnight electronic music on RTRFM Perth, the cassette network, and a city's sonic lifeline.