--- title: 'Silicon Florist links arrangement for November 9, 2026' date: '2026-11-09T10:13:51-08:00' type: post word_count: 1845 char_count: 16686 tokens: 2399 categories: - Portland --- # Silicon Florist links arrangement for November 9, 2026 Here’s a roundup of interesting startup links I came across today: [OpenSSH flaw lets attackers log into password-disabled Linux accounts](https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/openssh-flaw-lets-attackers-log-into-password-disabled-linux-accounts/) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A newly disclosed flaw involving OpenSSH and musl, dubbed “\*sshole,” allows attackers to log in to certain Alpine Linux and other musl-based Linux accounts configured to block password authentication simply by entering an oversized password. [Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production after years of poor sales in few markets](https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/tesla-wind-cybertruck-production-years-poor-sales-markets-rcna607817) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tesla will wind down Cybertruck production at its Texas gigafactory around mid-2027, CEO Elon Musk said on Friday, after years of persistently weak sales for a futuristic model once touted as a rival to legacy pickup trucks that ultimately only sold in just a handful of markets because of its heavy, angular design. [I’m Not Convinced The AI Bubble Exists](https://matteoraso.github.io/im-not-convinced-the-ai-bubble-exists.html#im-not-convinced-the-ai-bubble-exists) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The AI bubble is a speculative concept that the AI industry is extremely over-valued. If true, the value of most companies involved in AI (several of whom are worth well over a trillion dollars) will collapse, devastating the entire economy. If you check any online discussion about the financial situation of the AI industry, it’s essentially taken for granted that the bubble exists and is going to pop any day now. I don’t think that this is a reasonable assumption, though. Nobody can see the future, but I think that there’s a pretty realistic chance that the meteoritic growth of AI companies in the past few years is justified, and that they have even more room for growth. [(2010) Portland’s Grove makes exceptionally awesome iPhone 4 cases out of bamboo—and for a limited time old skateboards](https://siliconflorist.com/2010/11/09/portland-grove-exceptionally-awesome-iphone-4-cases-bamboo-limited-time-skateboards-maplexo/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- While I tend to write about the Web, mobile, and open source technology, every once in awhile I feel the urge to branch out a bit. To write some stuff on the industries tangential to tech. To cover other startups in Portland that are doing awesome work. To cover something less ethereal and more tangible. [Writing as a thinking tool](https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/11/writing-as-thinking-tool.html) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Language let us externalize some of our thinking, and our species got smarter. Writing let us externalize even more of it, and we got smarter again. I suspect this is also why LLMs are as capable as they are: so much of our intelligence is already deposited in language that a model trained on it inherits a good deal of intelligence for free. [The 40 Best Portland restaurants you need to try in 2026 – oregonlive.com](https://www.oregonlive.com/entertainment/restaurants/portlands-best-restaurants/?lctg=67c898c067cc37882605be29&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Newsletter_morning_briefing%202026-11-09&utm_term=Newsletter_morning_briefing) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To put together this guide to Portland’s 40 best restaurants, Michael Russell revisited dozens of restaurants in every quadrant of the city, then made his rankings based primarily on the quality and creativity of the food, while taking into account service, drinks, atmosphere and value. As always, he visited unannounced and paid for his own meals. Current hours are listed for each restaurant, but checking online for unexpected schedule changes or temporary closures could save you some heartache. [Clackamas County is giving peak Gen Z mayor vibes – OPB](https://www.opb.org/article/2026/11/06/clackamas-county-mayors-gen-z-west-linn-milwaukie-oregon-city/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslocal_portland&stream=top&lctg=5862ca742ddf9c13c3be2e1a) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Come January, the cities of Oregon City, Milwaukie and West Linn will all be led by mayors born in the year 1999 or later. After election victories this week, Oregon City’s Adam Marl and Milwaukie’s Will Anderson will join West Linn’s Rory Bialostosky as some of the state’s youngest mayors. [AI is dramatically accelerating AI research right now](https://www.planned-obsolescence.org/p/ai-is-dramatically-accelerating-ai?utm_source=tldrai) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For the last few months, some of my colleagues at METR have been working on a deep-access investigation to understand how much Anthropic is being accelerated by its AI systems. From my reading of their report and Anthropic’s RSP, it looks like the “dramatic acceleration” threshold has already been crossed. [The components of agent memory](https://www.anthropic.com/research/components-of-agent-memory) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Agent memory can use a similar division of labor. Agents capture much of their work in logs or transcripts. Researchers at Letta and UC Berkeley proposed sleep-time compute as a way for models to use idle time between interactions to reorganize their existing context. The same idea can help agents organize their memory by reflecting on logs to fix mistakes or produce new notes and representations. This process is often called dreaming (Figure 1). [Sorry Founders, Investors Don’t Care About Your Advisors | by DC Palter | Nov, 2026 | Entrepreneurship Handbook](https://ehandbook.com/sorry-founders-investors-dont-care-about-your-advisors-9ac924145145) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ A typical team slide has 2 or 3 founders at the top, a handful of advisors on the bottom. Great. No problem. Exactly what we expect. But here’s the truth. We pay absolutely no attention to that impressive list of esteemed advisors. .sf-patreon-card{border:1px solid #EEE;background:#fff;border-radius:8px;padding:24px 28px;margin:24px 0;text-align:center;font-family:inherit;} .sf-patreon-card .sf-patreon-kicker{font-size:.95rem;letter-spacing:.06em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#777;margin:0 0 6px;} .sf-patreon-card .sf-patreon-count{font-size:1.35rem;color:#222;margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.45;} .sf-patreon-card .sf-patreon-btn{display:inline-block;background:#f96854;color:#fff;text-decoration:none;font-weight:600;font-size:1.1rem;padding:13px 26px;border-radius:6px;} .sf-patreon-card .sf-patreon-btn:hover{background:#e0503f;color:#fff;} .sf-patreon-card .sf-patreon-free{font-size:1rem;color:#555;margin:12px 0 0;line-height:1.4;} Silicon Florist on Patreon Join **138** patrons supporting Portland startup coverage [Want even more?](https://patreon.com/turoczy)Includes an absolutely and totally **FREE** tier [Weekly Review: Reward What You Mean – by Sam Keen](https://writing.alteredcraft.com/p/weekly-review-reward-what-you-mean) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hello, and welcome back to Altered Craft’s weekly AI review for developers. We appreciate you reading along each week. This edition keeps returning to targets: a swarm that only works in parallel when the reward pays for speed, coding agents that chase an imagined grader instead of the spec, and a case for buying only the reasoning effort a task needs. Addy Osmani closes with the human side, deciding what verified means before you prompt. [America’s new no-employee small business owners start hot in AI era](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/11/07/americas-new-no-employee-small-business-owners-start-hot-in-ai-era.html?utm_source=tldrfounders) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ According to Liya Palagashvili, a labor economist and director of the Labor Policy Project at George Mason University’s Mercatus Center, new business formation is rising in direct correlation to applications unlikely to become employer firms. [Unglamorous – Nikhil R](https://rnikhil.com/2026/11/07/unglamorous?utm_source=tldrfounders) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patrick Collison keeps a list called Fast, about ambitious things that got done quickly. This is the other half. Before the speed, the scale and the press, nearly every founder we admire spent time doing something that looked small: shilling their own product, sending DMs nobody answered, pretending to be their own users. [AI Is Causing Signal Collapse Everywhere All at Once](https://thelastsoftwareengineer.substack.com/p/ai-is-causing-signal-collapse-everywhere?utm_source=tldrnewsletter) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The speed and scale of the change are new, and that is why I prefer the term signal collapse over the traditional signal erosion. We are used to stable signals. Some signals have always come and gone, but the process was usually slow: Grade inflation reduced the value of grades over decades, and spoofed caller IDs slowly made a displayed number a weaker sign of a legitimate call. Now a lot of signals become unreliable all at once. [The Jevons paradox has a second half](https://hrih.si/articles/the-jevons-paradox-has-a-second-half/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ In 1865 Jevons argued that efficient engines would make Britain burn more coal, and that cheaper products would mean more work. He was right for about fifty years. What coal, light, farms, bank tellers and switchboards say about software jobs now that AI makes code cheap. [PDX Code & Coffee – Happy Valley @ Peet’s Coffee (Partnership), Sat, Nov 14, 2026, 10:00 PM | Meetup](https://www.meetup.com/mentorship-saturdays/events/316954127/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=seven_day_v6&dispatch_id=6af171a94ac4ae67e81db559976b29d9) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Code & Coffee is an inclusive, informal co-working session: drink your beverage of choice, bring your laptop, and hang out with your peers! Have engaging conversations, or focus on work or projects. This is a great opportunity to learn from others, share your knowledge, and possibly collaborate on side projects, online courses, or even your day-to-day work. [Wikipedia at 25: A Fireside Chat with Selena Deckelmann CPO/CTO Wikimedia Foundation · Luma](https://luma.com/8mg6dt0g?tk=R2p2rK) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ​Selena Deckelmann, Chief Product and Technology Officer at the Wikimedia Foundation and TIME’s 2026 Tech & Data Executives of the Year sits down with Rick Turoczy of Silicon Florist to talk about how Wikipedia has thrived for 25 years on the work of volunteers, and what it takes to keep the open web open for people. [Vancouver gets a factory for floating wave-energy data centers – OPB](https://www.opb.org/article/2026/11/06/vancouver-floating-wave-energy-data-centers/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=First%20Look%20Nov%207%202026&utm_content=First%20Look%20Nov%207%202026+Preview+CID_db7eba4bacf01c88261758d012f347c9&utm_source=firstlook&utm_term=attended%20the%20ribbon-cutting%20ceremony%20to%20learn%20more) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Panthalassa — the company takes its name from the super ocean that took up most of the surface of the planet Earth 190 million years ago — hopes to seed deep oceans around the globe with self-driving buoys and then use that energy to power floating AI computation hubs. The hubs wouldn’t come with the same baggage — carbon emissions, fresh water contamination and neighborhood disruption — that have brought about a backlash against data centers on land. [Agility Robotics Goes Public With $2.5bn Valuation as Humanoid Robot Economics Face Scrutiny – Tekedia](https://www.tekedia.com/agility-robotics-goes-public-with-2-5bn-valuation-as-humanoid-robot-economics-face-scrutiny/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Oregon-based startup, which makes two-legged robots designed to move materials and sort goods in factories and warehouses, is expected to begin trading on Nasdaq on Thursday under the ticker AGLT. Its public debut follows the completion of a merger with Churchill Capital Corp XI, a special-purpose acquisition company led by former Citigroup executive Michael Klein. [Hundreds of Portland city workers begin strike Monday – oregonlive.com](https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2026/11/hundreds-of-portland-city-workers-set-to-strike-monday.html) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- About 800 Portland municipal workers were set to strike Monday as months of contract negotiations between the city and one of its public employee unions continue to stall. .sf-patreon-card{border:1px solid #EEE;background:#fff;border-radius:8px;padding:24px 28px;margin:24px 0;text-align:center;font-family:inherit;} .sf-patreon-card .sf-patreon-kicker{font-size:.95rem;letter-spacing:.06em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#777;margin:0 0 6px;} .sf-patreon-card .sf-patreon-count{font-size:1.35rem;color:#222;margin:0 0 16px;line-height:1.45;} .sf-patreon-card .sf-patreon-btn{display:inline-block;background:#f96854;color:#fff;text-decoration:none;font-weight:600;font-size:1.1rem;padding:13px 26px;border-radius:6px;} .sf-patreon-card .sf-patreon-btn:hover{background:#e0503f;color:#fff;} .sf-patreon-card .sf-patreon-free{font-size:1rem;color:#555;margin:12px 0 0;line-height:1.4;} Silicon Florist on Patreon Join **138** patrons supporting Portland startup coverage [Want even more?](https://patreon.com/turoczy)Includes an absolutely and totally **FREE** tier