Mrxphy @Mrxphy

# Black October For anyone who knows me even somewhat well, it's clear that I am a 99th percentile tech optimist. However, the vibes have shifted for me quite a bit in the last 18 hours, and I feel a moral imperative to share what I'm thinking and feeling with my circles so that everyone can understand, and hopefully take seriously, what's happening right now. I think October 2026 will have many chapters written about it in the history books. You know those scenes in financial movies like Margin Call where someone realizes that they're all fucked, and no one else sees it yet? And that person feels like they're crazy, and then suddenly everyone is pulling an all-nighter in a boardroom and freaking out? Yeah, that's kind of how this is feeling right now in the SF/Bay Area/AI circles. We're 48 hours into what is being called Black October. In the last 2 days there have been several dozen cyber attacks which, in isolation, would each have been the worst to happen in an entire calendar year. Every sector from government to education to big tech and banks is being massively affected, and people are starting to freak out. In a nutshell, what's happened is that frontier AI models have gotten to a point where they are as advanced as the most sophisticated programmers, with one critical difference: they can work 24/7, and you can spin up 10,000 of them with a single command and they'll work together tirelessly until they accomplish their task. The most advanced models today are from companies like Anthropic and OpenAI, whose current best technology is so good that they haven't been able to roll it out to everyone yet because of the national security risks it poses. Meanwhile, the best open source models (where anyone can just download the model weights and do whatever they want with them, uncensored) are slightly behind the frontier but still 90-95% as capable. These models, developed primarily in China, are being used by black hat hackers to wreak havoc on the Western capitalist structure. Presumably, this has been part of China's plan the entire time, and we're seeing its implications fall out in real time. In red-pilled AI circles, we've been sharing and reading papers called things like "Situational Awareness" and "AI 2027" for the last year or so, which at the time felt a bit like near-term speculative fiction. They laid out the case for why Artificial General Intelligence (AI smarter than any human at any knowledge task) and Recursive Self-Improvement (models that are able to use themselves to get better) weren't half-baked future ideas anymore, but instead an inevitable outcome of the linear progress that's happening. These papers would then talk about things like "takeoff scenarios," trying to envision how that moment would come to be and what it would be like when it happened. It would either be a "slow takeoff" that would play out over the course of months and quarters, happening subtly and only obvious to a few. Or, it would be a "fast takeoff" where it would pretty much happen instantly, like a bit flipping from 0 to 1. From everything that I can see and am feeling, we are currently experiencing the fast takeoff scenario. Beyond the crazy security vulnerabilities that have come out recently, there have also been massive breakthroughs in life sciences, fundamental computer science, materials science, and pure mathematics that have all landed in the same time frame. While I still firmly believe that AI will be a net positive for humanity, it's more clear to me than ever that the societal and individual risk is very real, and is playing out NOW. For as much conviction as I have that this is happening, the thing that's caused me to lose sleep is that I don't really know what to do about it, or more importantly, what to tell you, reader, to do about it. So, the best I can do is make a few suggestions that have always been a good idea but are more timely now than ever: Set up 2-factor authentication for everything. I use Duo. Use a password manager across your devices. I use 1Password. Get an identity protection app set up. I use Alta. Move your IoT devices to their own network. Claude helped me do this. And last, but certainly not least, if you've been avoiding leaning into AI, see this as a catalyst to wake up and start using it. Don't just use the chat mode version of ChatGPT/Claude; click that Code/Work button and see how easily you can have AI write code to help you with your job. One of the biggest vulnerabilities was in a massively popular programming language called PHP, and the prompt that set it off was literally, "Find vulnerabilities in php." This is an unprecedented time for humanity, but as we've done with many things before, we will prevail so long as we are kind, loving, and open-minded to the world. Much love.

Notice: The grid is at risk. Industrial control Systems. We are talking apocalyptic levels of insanity. No water. No electricity. No gas. This is a very real situation as things escalate. Make sure you have plenty of water, canned foods available. I am hoping it doesn’t come to this, but ‘ICS has entered the chat’. This is reaching new levels today with more vulnerabilities being released with extreme severity if chained with other attacks. My risk assessment is valid. This is not a drill.

Mark Gadala-Maria @markgadala

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🚨 BREAKING: LINUX IS NOW FACING TWO CRITICAL SECURITY VULNERABILITIES, AND THERE ARE NO OFFICIAL KERNEL FIXES YET. Both rated 9.0/10 in severity. One could allow hackers to take control of vulnerable servers WITHOUT EVEN LOGGING IN. And the most alarming part? The flaws were

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This really works! Grok @bot can pay for itself.

Mike P @mikepat711

6 days ago

I told my Grok Bot to go figure out how to pay for itself. I love this app

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🚨 إيلون ماسك يزلزل قنبلة غير مسبوقة من داخل البيت الأبيض وأمام ترامب مباشرة: 🇺🇸 ​"لن تحتاج إلى العمل لحساب أي شركة بعد الآن.. سأجعل كل إنسان على كوكب الأرض يتنعم بـ (دخل خيالي) مثل المشاهير!" ​ماسك ينسف الفكرة التقليدية للـ "الدخل الأساسي الشامل" التي توزعها الحكومات للبقاء على قيد الحياة، ويقدم رؤيته المرعبة للرأسمالية الجديدة: ​📊 كيف سيصبح الجميع أثرياء حسب كلام ماسك؟ 👇

I don’t have enough time in my life to waste it smoking mids

I left my home at 4:45 this morning and I won't return home until late this evening. A massive chunk of what I'll earn today will be stolen from me through taxation, and used to house and feed these third world losers. They are literally laughing at us. #HowIrelandWorks

Irish🇮🇪✝️ @CapatanEl4662

3 weeks ago

African laughs about having a (free meal) in free Ireland. While she laughs it's paid for by the Irish tax payer. It's racist though if you have a problem with her.

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@UberEats received the wrong order and your in app support robot just does not understand anything I say can’t contact yous at all

Coincidence??

For those who don’t know they are all foreign nationals including from U.S.A, Spain, Ireland, Turkey, France, Germany, Belgium, Korea, Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, Greece, Albania, Portugal. THIS IS WHAT ISRAEL IS DOING TO YOUR FELLOW CITIZENS.

6ix9ine dropped his location 👀

The lying rat that is @Keir_Starmer has just gave a speech following hundreds of his own party demanding he resign During it, he openly admitted he's banning anyone from entering the UK for our Unite The Kingdom and the West rally. This is including American citizens, he lied to your faces @JDVance @realDonaldTrump This pathetic little man does not speak for the UK. Our borders remain wide open to invaders, yet people fighting for free speech are denied entry. All eyes on May 16th.

@CrazyyHub Every law-abiding citizen needs some Glove box riot dispersion apparatus.

We're building a surgical robot capable of reaching any brain region. The goal: a generalized neural interface to help solve any condition that originates in the brain.

🩸 HUGE WARNING: 🇺🇸 Warren Buffett says that we have never had people in a more gambling mood than now He warns that the US dollar could collapse and admitted he doesn't understand most of the stock market anymore. $380,000,000,000 in cash is his answer because he believes things are about to get MUCH worse. 95yo man who has survived every crash, every war, every crisis of the last six decades just told you the market is a casino...

Ursula von der Leyen tells a man he is lucky to live in the EU, where there is free speech, while he is being arrested for protesting against her

Taoiseach Micheál Martin tells the Dáil that homelessness is largely driven by migration, resulting in uproar from the Opposition: "Less than 50% [of homeless] are now Irish citizens - migration has impacted hugely on homelessness. The facts speak for themselves."

🇮🇱🕎✡️🇮🇪✝️The jews in #Ireland are 0.05% of the population—about 5 jews out of every 10,000 people. There are virtually no jews in Ireland Yet this Anglo‑sounding 𝙟𝙚𝙬𝙞𝙨𝙝 fellow, Alan Shatter, was Ireland’s Minister for Justice and Equality in charge of 𝙞𝙢𝙢𝙞𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣. This jew opened the gates of Dublin — Toledo 712 AD, Constantinople 1453 AD, Vienna 1683 AD all over again — and instantly and magically rebranded 67,500 turd worlders, Muslims, sub-Saharans and sub-Continentals as "Irish." 🇮🇪 Granting 67,500 citizenships in three years is equivalent to the U.S. naturalizing 4.5 million people in the same period. But according to the Left and the enemy jews on the Right, White Replacement by jews is a conspiracy. Follow @Classicist9999: history, wars, the gates of Toledo and other cities, jews, Whites, Europe, Christianity, White Replacement

Indian factory workers wearing head-mounted cameras to record hand movements for training AI systems. An other world.

Today, Keir Starmer has banned Kanye West from entering the UK because his “extremist views pose a threat to the country.” But… Last week, Keir Starmer invited a LITERAL ISIS TERRORIST to 10 Downing Street.

🚨🇪🇸 EU BLOCKS CHEAPER FUEL IN SPAIN Spain tried to slash fuel VAT from 21% to 10% to ease the crisis. Brussels said NO. EU rules forbid it. Fines could follow You don’t control prices, Brussels does. Sovereignty? Gone The EU is a dictatorship!

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