What does privacy by design really look like when building an app? This new video is a practical walkthrough of what privacy means and how it affects every stage of your software development lifecycle. I'm really excited to share it! #WWDC25 developer.apple.com/videos/p…

OK I joined Bluesky and have loved it - much of what I loved about Twitter without much of what I dislike now. And today I got a notification on X that was just an upsell. I’ll leave this account up but am now deleting the X app - keep following me here: bsky.app/profile/theharmonyg…

Newsletter: A message to those asking “what do I do now?” How to protect yourselves, and how to fight. citationneeded.news/wind-the…

Okay giving this a shot too… bsky.app/profile/theharmonyg…

Ha, was just scrolling back through my timeline and realized the tweet before this one was *one year* and three months prior.

13/ Overall, we found no evidence of formal reasoning in language models including open-source models like #Llama, #Phi, #Gemma, and #Mistral and leading closed models, including the recent #OpenAI #GPT-4o and #o1-series. Their behavior is better explained by sophisticated pattern matching—so fragile, in fact, that changing names can alter results by ~10%! We can scale data, parameters, and compute—or use better training data for Phi-4, Llama-4, GPT-5. But we believe this will result in 'better pattern-matchers,' not necessarily 'better reasoners. Check out the full paper to find out more: arxiv.org/pdf/2410.05229 Also stay tuned for the data release!

…wait, you… you “don’t know”?

“this thing is dumb” is usually “this thing is responding to incentives I don’t understand yet”

Just saw an *ad* on here with a community note lol…

Remember about seven years ago when a bunch of apps sprung up to try and fix email? I feel like many of those challenges have now just shifted to tools like Slack…

People often describe LLMs as “reasoning” or “thinking” despite ongoing debates about how much they actually imitate thinking. Here’s an analogy that can help us talk about them without automatically treating them quite so human: theharmonyguy.medium.com/llm…

A press release from @PizzaHut, 30 years ago. WICHITA, KS AND SANTA CRUZ, CA (August 22, 1994) -- SCO AND PIZZA HUT ANNOUNCE PILOT PROGRAM FOR PIZZA DELIVERY ON THE INTERNET seclists.org/interesting-peo…

It’s not just you, T-Mobile seems to be offline in the Bay Area for some reason.

Apple introduces homomorphic encryption via Swift. A cryptographic technique that enables computations to be done on encrypted data without revealing the underlying unencrypted data in th process. For example during cloud computations. In short, the building blocks of privacy-preserving technologies, techniques or protocols. But there's more! Private Information Retrieval protocols! This allows building a database and retrieving information in ways that is private: only the client knows what information has been requested. The databases does not know what information the client requested. Yet, the client gets the data. Why am I excited? I researched/used PIR ~15 years ago. In my Master's Thesis :-) swift.org/blog/announcing-sw…

PSA: If you don't want your X posts used to train Grok, you now have to explicitly opt-out. Go to x.com/settings/grok_settings and uncheck the box. If link doesn't work, go to Settings->Privacy and Safety->Grok

Hey that’s my boss!

(Also apparently you can’t just copy the text of a tweet to the clipboard any more in the iOS app? But you can edit tweets if you pay?!)

There’s a video making the rounds of President Trump saying we’re not going to have a socialist president, “especially any female socialist president,” in reference to Harris; here’s the unedited clip, from his 2020 campaign: youtu.be/70HcVHUfDtQ