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paging @dieworkwear.bsky.social please

The thing I find the most interesting about it is that in my experience, the subjective quality of the poetry seemed to have a pretty significant correlation to it's prompt hacking effectiveness.

The closer you get to something that feels like it has independent literary value, the better it works

Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."

https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1

Dreamt I was in a perfect old secondhand bookshop in Bath. I found a fat hardback book called The Peanuts Milton. Charles M Shultz had illustrated Paradise Lost…

Halligan's incompetence is so overwhelming that the practical legal answers of how to unravel the situation devolve to esoteric questions of philosophy.

lol i am so fucking high i thought this said nicki minaj is speaking at the united nations on behalf of trump

I've written about "disordered counterpublics" groups that reinforce shared delusions Here, the LLM becomes a 1 person counterpublic. It mirrors assumptions, absorbs contradictions, & provides the sense of a responsive, confirming audience.
It is the architecture of disordered discourse, automated.

What Tom Holland’s historic lip-sync showcase taught us about stormwater management Grab your umbrella and your tights.

just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management.

remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.

Jesse Welles Come for the songs, stay for the songs

not equivalent, of course, but consider youtube.com/@hellswelles... while thinking about it

I totally forgot that Chicagoans outside of the Loop will, when approaching a bus stop, mentally note the order of who got there when, and then patiently wait in line in the rain once the bus arrives so everyone can board in arrival order.

writers! you can just have a garden, you don’t have to have a metaphor

Red and Blue Composition, by Ad Reinhardt, 1941 (flipped), 📸 by Andrew Mordzynski

#Hague

Little Gompers Park, Chicago, Nov 15, 2025

good fall colors in Little Gompers

Watercolour of flowers in a blue glass jug (mostly dahlias)

Watercolour of flowers in progress

Watercolour of mixed flowers and apples in progress

I produce flower paintings every year but it's dim and dismal out there with pouring rain and very little subject matter. Taking a look back at photos of some older work in progress from a decade ago
#art #painting #botanicalart

View outside toward mountains. Light shing in trees. Overhead deep gray clouds.

Light this morning.
#morninglight #NewMexico
#BlueSkyNature

emailing in a semi-literate manner isn’t a sign of stupidity, it’s another form of rich asshole arrogance because you don’t think you owe anyone coherent thoughts

I mean, I am somewhat glad the national conversation has shifted, but I am still worried about my ACA subsidies

The Department of War's seal hangs on a wall. The kerning appears to be off.

we need a department of kerning

AOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece & we're robbing people of their food assistance & healthcare to pay for it. How can we vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?"

A 3:00 nap is both the best and worst thing you can do for yourself

Table showing the five richest men in the U.S from Bloombergs billionaire list ., all in technology. Elon Musk tops the list with a net worth of $461B and a year-to-date gain of $28.2B. Larry Ellison is second at $300B with a $107B YTD gain. Jeff Bezos has $268B (+$29.5B YTD), Larry Page $250B (+$81.9B YTD), and Sergey Brin $234B (+$75.5B YTD). Each row also lists last-day change, country (all United States), and industry (all Technology).

Kind of wild that while food assistance was withheld from millions of families, one Trump-supporting billionaire (Ellison) saw his net worth grow more this year than the entire SNAP budget. And the YTD gains of the other four richest men would’ve fully covered salaries for all 2M federal employees.

81 years ago, FDR proposed a second Bill of Rights to guarantee every American the right to employment, healthcare, education, housing, and a living income. His words are as relevant now as they were then. Watch.

begrudging congratulations to bari weiss, who manages to perfectly capture the zeitgeist of 2025 with "what's the point of standards?"

this is a digital file of CPD Form 11.440, First Amendment Worksheet the readable version is found here: https://directives.chicagopolice.org/forms/CPD-11.440.pdf

this is not new information but it's worth stating plainly

the chicago police department has a process for starting investigations related to the first amendment and this process includes the use of infiltrators

one of their steps includes filling out a "first amendment worksheet"

STEP 1: make a little birdhouse in your soul
STEP 2: ???
STEP 3: profit

hopefully helpful in identification.

Jaded Palettes This ‘new’ era of Abstract Expressionism is the perfect fit for an age of hyper-individualism and AI-powered press releases

“Two years ago, I wrote a column foolhardily, or hopefully, asking if we’d reached ‘the endpoint of revivalism’. The verdict is now in: hell no.” artreview.com/jaded-palett...

Post of mine from March screaming “THIS MOTHERFUCKER RIGHT HERE” in response to a post saying “Durbin just voted yes.”

I love how I can search ‘THIS MOTHERFUCKER RIGHT HERE’ in my posts & find myself talking about Dick Durbin. At least we’re both consistent.

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