"I spoke to a man down at the tracks
And I ask him how he don't go mad
He said: Look here, Junior, don't you be so happy
And for Heaven's sake, don't you be so sad"

RIP Richard Lloyd; you gave my teenage self some synaesthetic mind expansion that still feels liberating.

Security, General:
An article from Jaron Lanier that I substantially agree with! https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/09/opinion/ai-anthropic-doom-conscious.html

Security, Apple Platforms:
An insecure world built on trust stores: https://eclecticlight.co/2026/11/01/last-week-on-my-mac-an-insecure-world-built-on-trust-stores/

Interesting Paper:
A little AI ethics and psychology. Care and Capability: How to Temper Excessive Social-Emotional Chatbot Use According to Analogous Professional Practice by Tony Wang and Qian Yang: https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AIES/article/view/43342

Interesting Tool:
Look, this newsletter is from Berlin, so it doesn't do fun. This is a serious tool to solve a serious problem. The problem is that Sam Altman is haunted by the knowledge of all the unused RAM unfairly sitting inside individual human beings' personal computers, but he doesn't know about all of it yet. ram-altman: https://github.com/IainKay/ram-altman

Apple Platforms Security Concept of the Week:
Terminal and script protections https://support.apple.com/en-euro/guide/security/sece3b202c4b/1/web/1