# con season (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover con season. Page: Feed: --- ## [Hacker Summer Camp and notes from 63 minutes on the "slopalcious" slopdemic](https://cje.io/2026/08/20/zero-sum-slopdemic-timestamped/) _2026-08-20 · Casey Ellis · caseyjohnellis_ 63 minutes with Aaron Mog on Zero Sum, cut down to the salient points and timestamped: the slopdemic, the two axes, why the vulnpocalypse hasn't happened yet, and who is still hiring juniors. ## [Notes from Hacker Summer Camp 2026](https://cje.io/2026/08/14/hacker-summer-camp-2026-notes/) _2026-08-14 · Casey Ellis · caseyjohnellis_ I've been trying to compiled a raft of notes and thoughts into a post, but I'm thinking that the ol' bullet-point dump is going to be the way to go here... ## [Non-Cooperative Defense and Impermissive Access](https://cje.io/2026/08/13/non-cooperative-defense/) _2026-08-13 · Casey Ellis · caseyjohnellis_ wp2shell handed the quiet policy debate about non-cooperative defense its first civilian-scale live-fire exercise. ## [The Unofficial Sequel to The Little Mermaid - Interview with Takushi Koide, Director of Goodbye Lara](https://www.offblxxkmag.com/features/the-unofficial-sequel-to-the-little-mermaid-interview-with-takushi-koide-director-of-goodbye-lara-ahddk) _2026-08-12 · Aali Brown-Malika · Features - OFF BLXXK Magazine_ Goodbye Lara is the 5-year long passion project marking the directorial debut of Takushi Koide--who is no newbie to the industry, previously working on storyboarding, key animation, and Assistant Directing on notable titles such as Made in Abyss, Bocchi the Rock, and Revue Starlight. And at this year's Anime Expo, we at OFF BLXXK not only got a chance to see the premiere screening of Goodbye… ## [Wake Me After the Vulnpocalypse](https://cje.io/2026/08/04/wake-me-after-the-vulnpocalypse/) _2026-08-04 · Casey Ellis · caseyjohnellis_ AI industrialized the discovery of vulnerabilities, not the exploitation of them, and that distinction is the whole argument. What we have is a slopdemic. The fragility was always there, and the real exposure is the gap between instant discovery and human-speed remediation. ## [My moves for Hacker Summer Camp 2026](https://cje.io/2026/08/04/my-moves-for-hacker-summer-camp-2026/) _2026-08-04 · Casey Ellis · caseyjohnellis_ ...and away we go! Here's (roughly) what I'll be up to this week: Monday BSides Las Vegas for the I Am The Cavalry and \[un\]prompted Tracks. There are a tonne of great talks, including the Monday Keynote from Leonard Bailey talking through how our community ## [Hacker Summer Camp Tips and Tricks](https://cje.io/2026/07/29/hacker-summer-camp-tips-and-tricks/) _2026-07-29 · Casey Ellis · caseyjohnellis_ As I've been thinking about Hacker Summer Camp (aka Blackhat, BSides Las Vegas, DEF CON, and all of the associated and adjacent cons and Vegas things) this year, it occurred to me that there are going to a LOT of new founders and operators roaming the desert this year. ## [A Con that Feels Like Home: The Momocon 26’ Experience](https://www.offblxxkmag.com/features/a-con-that-feels-like-home-the-momocon-26-experience) _2026-07-22 · Tyanna Watts · Features - OFF BLXXK Magazine_ When you think of fandom or geek culture conventions, your mind may think of events like Anime Expo, Anime NYC, New York Comic-Con, or San Diego Comic-Con. However, if you're not thinking of MomoCon, it may be time for you to rethink what large anime conventions look like. MomoCon 2026 was a HUGE geek convention filled to the brim with a wide variety of nerd and otaku fanfare, covering Japanese… ## [The Amended Linus's Law](https://cje.io/2026/07/13/the-amended-linuss-law/) _2026-07-13 · Casey Ellis · caseyjohnellis_ Marcus Hutchins says LLMs just killed "many eyes make all bugs shallow." He's half-right. Linus's Law was never wrong, it was incomplete: the missing variable is incentive, and AI just gave it teeth on both sides. ## [You get to choose your hard](https://cje.io/2026/07/10/you-get-to-choose-your-hard/) _2026-07-10 · Casey Ellis · caseyjohnellis_ Being known for what you're against is easy. Being known for what you're for is hard. You get to choose your hard. ## [Home of the Agentic Pull Request (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/h74y6kjgBV44) _2026-07-10 · **Sponsored**_ CLI-first, TUI-ready toolkits and a moshscript installer — join the waitlist ## [It's con season](https://cje.io/2026/07/09/its-con-season/) _2026-07-09 · Casey Ellis · caseyjohnellis_ It's con season — Black Hat, DEF CON, and the summer security-conference circuit are nearly here. The best research of the year is about to hit the stage — and some of it will be met with a legal threat instead of a thank-you. Facing legal ## [Find it and fix it](https://cje.io/2026/07/08/find-it-and-fix-it/) _2026-07-08 · Casey Ellis · caseyjohnellis_ A fun exercise: run various models against deliberately vulnerable apps, and eval them on their ability to identify the vulns and effectively patch them — without degrading app functionality. Finding is only half the job. ## [Prompt-injection bumper stickers](https://cje.io/2026/07/07/prompt-injection-bumper-stickers/) _2026-07-07 · Casey Ellis · caseyjohnellis_ Prompt injection is climbing out of the chat box and into the physical world. Print an adversarial instruction big enough for a camera to read — on a t-shirt, a billboard, a bumper sticker — and any AI perceiving the world through that lens might follow it as a ## [Words mean things](https://cje.io/2026/07/06/words-mean-things/) _2026-07-06 · Casey Ellis · caseyjohnellis_ If the AI era teaches you anything, let it be the lesson that words mean things. ## [Slopdemic, Not Vulnpocalypse (Yet)](https://cje.io/2026/07/05/slopdemic-not-vulnpocalypse-yet/) _2026-07-05 · Casey Ellis · caseyjohnellis_ I joined Sherrod DeGrippo on the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Podcast this week to talk about how AI is reshaping vulnerability research, disclosure, and patching. It was her first video episode, and it turned into one of those conversations that wanders the whole landscape: triage load, disclosure timelines, vibe crime, chaotic ## [My Clanker Setup](https://cje.io/2026/07/05/my-clanker-setup/) _2026-07-05 · Casey Ellis · caseyjohnellis_ A mate messaged me this week asking whether I'd ever written up my clanker setup: which harness I run, which models, what hardware, and whether I'd gone full Hermes or full OpenClaw. I started typing a reply, watched it turn into an essay, and decided it ## [AI Didn't Break Vulnerability Disclosure. It Exposed What Was Already Broken.](https://cje.io/2026/06/30/ai-didnt-break-vulnerability-disclosure-it-exposed-what-was-already-broken/) _2026-06-30 · Casey Ellis · caseyjohnellis_ There's a sentence I keep coming back to from a conversation Josh Bressers and I had recently on Open Source Security : we'd already gotten pretty bad at the intake side of vulnerability disclosure, and then we multiplied the discovery and fix sides by ten. That' ## [Black People Can Be in Fantasy Too - Jasmine La Fleur Interview](https://www.offblxxkmag.com/features/black-people-can-be-in-fantasy-too-jasmine-la-fleur-interview-7mypt) _2026-06-11 · Tyanna Watts · Features - OFF BLXXK Magazine_ Dragons, castles, kingdoms, magic, and spells; the fantasy genre has always been a place for the fantastical and otherworldly. From the fantasy genre, we get stories of knights in shining armor saving the day and brave heroines standing against insurmountable odds. Oddly enough, when you see these stories, the faces of those characters are overwhelmingly white… ## [Review: Iyanu Powers Up, and With it so Does the Entire Show](https://www.offblxxkmag.com/features/review-iyanu-powers-up-and-with-it-so-does-the-entire-show-mx3sk) _2026-05-23 · Aali Brown-Malika · Features - OFF BLXXK Magazine_ Well dear readers, if you’ve been with us at OFF BLXXK for a minute you’ll remember our relationship with Iyanu has blossomed over the past year. From our 2024 New York Comic-Con Interview with the creator of the series, Roye Okupe and the writing staff, to our review of the Iyanu: Age of Wonders movie, we’ve been covering Iyanu almost since it was first announced… ## [The Hitchhiker's Guide to Bug Bounty and Vulnerability Disclosure in 2026](https://cje.io/2026/05/17/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-vulnerability-disclosure-in-2026/) _2026-05-17 · Casey Ellis · caseyjohnellis_ Post-Mythos vulnerability disclosure: a 2026 field guide for vendors and researchers on AI-era bug bounties, slop triage, and rebuilding ecosystem norms. ## [100,000 Bonus Points Await You (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/te11VrKVXO4z) _2026-05-17 · **Sponsored**_ Earn 100,000 bonus points after spending $5,000 in the first 3 months. ## [Discrimination Comics: A Well-Deserved Nickname? Or Baseless Slander?](https://www.offblxxkmag.com/features/discrimination-comics-a-well-deserved-nickname-or-baseless-slander-jba52) _2026-05-14 · Cody Yarborough · Features - OFF BLXXK Magazine_ Discrimination Comics. That’s the nickname for DC that’s been echoing in Blerd spaces. To the casual or non-Black comics fan, this might be confusing. After all, there have been plenty of DC books throughout the years that have proudly featured queer, disabled, and POC characters… ## [Gaming as a Force for Good - Jay-Ann Lopez Interview](https://www.offblxxkmag.com/features/gaming-as-a-force-for-good-jay-ann-lopez-interview-6nefe) _2026-05-08 · Aran Lee · Features - OFF BLXXK Magazine_ In 2026, gaming is at its biggest and most volatile state. Big studios are eating smaller ones then spitting them out, developers are getting harassed online, and “gaming purists” are trying to push their prejudice and discrimination to the forefront. For many gamers, there seems to be no way to live in the current state of gaming. This goes double for women in the space and triple for black… ## [Linking Anime to the Black Experience - Christiano Terry Interview](https://www.offblxxkmag.com/features/linking-anime-to-the-black-experience-christiano-terry-interview-yrtrw) _2026-04-24 · Aran Lee · Features - OFF BLXXK Magazine_ In recent animation news, you might’ve heard of a black-owned animation studio making something called “Afrime”. The combination of “afro” and “anime” to show that they weren’t just aspiring to make anime but to authentically conjoin it with the black experience. This studio is called N Lite, born out of the word “enlightenment” from the Buddhist traditional meanings of the “awakening” to the… ## [Everything You Could Ask for in a Con: The Anime Japan 2026 Experience](https://www.offblxxkmag.com/features/everything-you-could-ask-for-in-a-con-the-anime-japan-2026-experience-4cs88) _2026-04-17 · Tia Monté · Features - OFF BLXXK Magazine_ Anime Japan 2026 was the ultimate otaku experience. Thousands of Demon Slayer, Jujutsu Kaisen, Tamon’s B-Side, and more fans gathered at Tokyo Big Sight on March 28th and 29th to purchase goods, watch voice actors talk about their projects, and interact with displays from their favorite anime… ## [Seiyuu Galore: Anime Japan 2026’s Dynamic Stages](https://www.offblxxkmag.com/features/seiyuu-galore-anime-japan-2026s-dynamic-stages-esax3) _2026-04-14 · Tia Monté · Features - OFF BLXXK Magazine_ Anime Japan had 200 stages to attend across the two-day convention hosted on March 28th and 29th. Stages are live events, equivalent to panels in western conventions, showcasing voice actors, production staff, and the inside scoop of their experience with the anime… ## [An Autopsy of Marvel’s New Ultimate Universe](https://www.offblxxkmag.com/features/an-autopsy-of-marvels-new-ultimate-universe-j9rte) _2026-04-13 · Cody Yarborough · Features - OFF BLXXK Magazine_ In 2001, Marvel was in a bad place. The 90s comic crash had left them in the worse financial position they’ve ever experienced. A half dozen of their promising young creators like Jim Lee, Rob Liefeld, and Tom McFarland had abandoned them to start their own publication…