Between this and China's restrictions on coal, we're about to run head-first into a new era of conflict; a powder keg filled with decades of economic and ecological irresponsibility by the petrochemical industry, its customers, and the governments who supported them.

The AISH to ADAP transition is yet another nail in the dead end that is my life. I've really only bothered surviving for my cats, & I don't think that's a justification I can make for enduring this suffering much longer.

Claude Code fully dissected! Researchers from UCL reverse-engineered the leaked Claude source. What they found changes how you should think about agent design. Only 1.6% of the codebase is AI decision logic. The other 98.4% is operational infrastructure. Permission gates, tool routing, context compaction, recovery logic, session persistence. The model reasons. The harness does everything else. This is the opposite of what most agent frameworks do today. LangGraph routes model outputs through explicit state machines. Devin bolts heavy planners onto operational scaffolding. Claude Code gives the model maximum decision latitude inside a rich deterministic harness, and invests all its engineering effort in that harness. The core loop is a simple while-true. Call model, run tools, repeat. But the systems around that loop are where the real design lives: A permission system with 7 modes and an ML classifier. Users approve 93% of prompts anyway, so the architecture compensates with automated layers instead of adding more warnings. A 5-layer context compaction pipeline. Each layer runs only when cheaper ones fail. Budget reduction, snip, microcompact, context collapse, auto-compact. Four extension mechanisms ordered by context cost. Hooks (zero), skills (low), plugins (medium), MCP (high). Each answers a different integration problem. Subagents return only summary text to the parent. Their full transcripts live in sidechain files. Agent teams still cost roughly 7x the tokens of a standard session. Resume does not restore session-scoped permissions. Trust is re-established every session. That friction is the point. The bet behind all of this is simple. As frontier models converge on raw coding ability, the quality of the harness becomes the differentiator, not the model. Paper: Dive into Claude Code (arXiv:2604.14228) We've shared an article on Agent Harness and what every big company is building. Read it below.

Adversaries know this is a critical wedge in Western alliances; politically, economically, & cognitively. We should be defending better.

Applebaum: What binds Russia, China, Iran and North Korea is not religion or ideology. China is communist, Russia nationalist, Iran theocratic. What binds them is fear of liberal language: rights, rule of law, separation of powers and independent courts. 1/

#TodayInSpyHistory On June 13, 1942, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), America's first centralized intelligence agency, was established. Led by the legendary "Wild Bill" Donovan, the OSS brought together spies, scholars, commandos, and codebreakers under one roof, combining espionage, covert operations, counterintelligence, and research and analysis in ways never before seen in American government. In just over three years, OSS operatives parachuted behind enemy lines in France, fought alongside resistance fighters in Burma and Yugoslavia, and helped lay the groundwork for Allied victory in World War II. When the war ended, the OSS' legacy lived on, with its personnel, methods, and mission forming the foundation of what would become the Central Intelligence Agency. #SpyHistory #AmericanHistory

Healthcare providers, when trying to explain CPTSD to them during "PTSD Awareness Month":

"Treating COVID as a transient cold while the biology keeps pointing at durable, mechanistic, multi organ dysfunction is a choice - and at population scale, the cost of not preventing infections lands on real bodies." ➡️LC: persistent mitochondrial dysfunction, suppressed oxidative phosphorylation, and immune dysregulation. Excellent study explanation 🧵👇 Thanks @ZdenekVrozina 👏

I'm glad someone finally did this, as it needed to have been tried years ago. The UCP is very much an active threat, & likely already compromised in many ways. The rift that's being exploited threatens not only Canada, but our allies, & significantly affects global economics.

I completely understand why people do this. I can easily imagine doing it myself. But lets look at why this is such a travesty in Canada - and should be outlawed by the federal government. It tells us a bit about why h/c is in such a mess across the country. /1

CENTCOM said U.S. forces struck multiple targets in Iran on June 11 at President Donald Trump’s direction, marking a second consecutive night of operations. Iranian state media reported explosions in Bandar Abbas, Qeshm, Gorgan, and Hengam. The strikes followed a U.S. campaign launched after an Army Apache helicopter was downed over the Strait of Hormuz, which U.S. officials attributed to an Iranian drone.

Interdisciplinary cross-training often has unpredictable synergies. Specialists are important, but generalists should also be seen as belonging to their own type of 'specialization' that's increasingly necessary in today's world.

And here's Seattle. I really like this one!

Just wait until the record El Niño peaks, there are mass brownouts, & millions in India can no longer afford cooling. This is the beginning of the climate humanitarian crisis that is going to create an explosion of unrest & refugees.

What do you want to bet we'll have another pandemic by then?