Matt: Assorted Links

A few interesting reads or listens:

• The Next Thing You Smell Could Ruin Your Life, a deep dive into chemical sensitivity and toxicant-induced loss of tolerance, or TILT, by Lexi Pandell (WordPress!) at Wired.
• IRL Brain Rot and the Lure of the Labubu, by Kyle Chayka at New Yorker.
• Simon Willison’s Lethal Trifecta talk, on the myriad security issues that arise when combining LLMs, prompt injection, MCPs, and more.
• Daniel Stenberg, a lead developer of the open source utility Curl, talks at FrOSCon about how AI reports are gumming up their security workflows. (YouTube, 53 minutes.)
• Daniel again (on his WordPress-powered blog) discusses a version of their maker/taker problem, specifically the 47 car brands that use Curl but none that sponsor it.
• Fernando Borretti’s Notes on Managing ADHD.
• Good Taste Is More Important Than Ever, by Nitin Nohria in The Atlantic.