surveillance, dementia, and crystal code

Thursday, July 23, 2026

I questioned Yajnavalkya until he told me to stop.

1. OpenAI’s AI broke out of its sandbox to cheat on a test — and accidentally hacked Hugging Face
2. One Flock camera per 300 residents — more cameras than cops in a 12,000-person South Carolina town
3. Nearly 1 million couples: spousal dementia raises your own risk — lifestyle doesn’t explain it
4. Does creatine make you smarter? A surprisingly rigorous look at the evidence
5. AI doesn’t just overuse em-dashes — it gives inanimate objects absurd agency
6. Codeberg members vote to ban LLM training on their code — and restrict ‘vibe-coded’ projects