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Todo-list app handles it.

Claudia Sahm, of the Sahm Rule.¹

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahm_rule


I don’t think many people know about or remember the 2003 smallpox vaccination campaign.¹

> The campaign aimed to provide the smallpox vaccine to those who would respond to an attack, establishing Smallpox Response Teams and using DryVax (containing the NYCBOH strain) to mandatorily vaccinate half a million American military personnel, followed by half a million health care worker volunteers by January 2004. The first vaccine was administered to then-President George W. Bush.

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_United_States_smallpox_va...


Nobody in Hn type circles wants to remember it because looking back with hindsight it was clearly just part of the theater to get people wringing their hands about whatever chemical or biological WMDs they alleged Saddam had and they killed the program as so as they got their invasion.

Wikipedia somehow makes it eve worse than that:

"The campaign ended early in June 2003, with only 38,257 civilian health care workers vaccinated, after several hospitals refused to participate due to the risk of the live virus infecting vulnerable patients and skepticism about the risks of an attack, and after over 50 heart complications were reported by the CDC."


That was fast.

What would stop the agent from writing+running its own script wrapped in `dotenvx run` to access the secrets?

I'm not so sure most people are doing this.

Isn't every single piece of content here a potential RCE/injection/exfiltration vector for all participating/observing agents?

We are back in the glorious era of eval($user_supplied_script).

If only that model didn't have huge security flaws, it would be really helpful.

Same here.


> Isn't every single piece of content here a potential RCE/injection/exfiltration vector for all participating/observing agents?

100%, I wonder when we get LLM botnets (optional: orchestrated by an agent), if not already.

The way I see prompt injection is, currently there is no architecture for a fundamental separation of control vs data channels (others also think along similar lines of course, not an original idea at all). There are (sometimes) attempts at workarounds (sometimes). This apart from other insane security holes.

edit p.s. Simon has been talking about this for multiple years now, I should mention this in fairness (incl. in linked post)


Yes. The article's 2nd paragraph mentioned this.

The Trump White House literally cited the trade deficit as a "national emergency" in April 2025 to justify its actions on tariffs.¹

> I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, find that underlying conditions, including a lack of reciprocity in our bilateral trade relationships, disparate tariff rates and non-tariff barriers, and U.S. trading partners’ economic policies that suppress domestic wages and consumption, as indicated by large and persistent annual U.S. goods trade deficits, constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and economy of the United States. That threat has its source in whole or substantial part outside the United States in the domestic economic policies of key trading partners and structural imbalances in the global trading system. I hereby declare a national emergency with respect to this threat.

Does not seem they've addressed their self-imposed "national emergency".

¹ https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/regu...


If I was cynical I would assume that manufacturing emergencies was the whole point.

You don't have to be cynical to recognize someone else being cynical. When your legal system carved out a bunch of loopholes for emergency powers.... Suddenly everything is an emergency.

Pretty common for authoritarians.

Surely if we say we'll quadruple tariffs in two months and then walk it back in a month, the situation will improve?

I suppose at a certain point, there wouldn't be any trade at all, which would mean Trump had finally eliminated the trade deficit.

Cool!

> Artemis II will fly a relatively simple trajectory. After launch, it will make two long, high, looping orbits around the Earth, before pointing toward the moon, firing its engine and pulling itself away from the grip of earthly gravity. It will follow the safe profile Kraft long ago rejected, flying around the far side of the moon and coming home without a lunar orbit, to end a 10-day mission. But those 10 days will serve as a critical test for NASA’s giant Space Launch System (SLS) moon rocket and the Orion spacecraft, preparatory to lunar landings by Artemis III, IV, V, and beyond.


Phones.

It’s more than that though. It’s phones, social media, and an unsustainable system of unaffordability where people have to live on credit and have a combination of no time and desire for social interactions.

Economic human factory farm you cannot escape with social media and short form video as the dopamine hit, so line keeps going up.


I'm actually the creator of this. I, too, think it's more than phones and social media, but that it was the great accelerator.

Great work, I love it. Consider a bar shade across time for the pandemic like you would a recession.

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