Kyle Niemeyer, PhD

I feel simultaneously comforted and attacked?

So... spells.

We're using spells to undo the work we've done... tricking rocks into thinking with lightning.

And trapping evil cars in circles of salt.

The old ways are new again.

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

May not work, but an analogy I find useful is “incorporating AI in the classroom is like bringing a forklift to the gym. It’s gets the work done, but you have bypassed the whole point of being there.”

read, but don’t understand

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There are more of us than there are of them.

Wow it turns out the entire country is not permanently reactionary because Trump won an election by 1.5%

Protesters in frog costumes

Protesters in front of courthouse

Corvallis Oregon says NO KINGS. @wyden.senate.gov

lmfao keep sharing this stuff. such a balm.

“Ship” sounds too fancy. “Sloop” would be more appropriate.

Folks clapping in front of the chamber door

Here outside the House chamber with folks chanting “LET HER OUT!”

What I’m seeing here is someone used to and expecting interactions with the media as press release - simply printing what they say. (Perhaps from being used to this with conservative media?)

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“I left academia in 2020 because I realized that no publication, no study, no breakthrough—nothing I could contribute—would open the doors that should have opened.”

perhaps it was because he was an asshole nobody wanted to work with? Just spitballing, here.

My primary response to people like this is “what a fucking *loser*”

I’m really struggling with the article, which is primarily about Elon Musk (indeed, the print title is apparently “The Man Who Ate NASA”… not sure why they didn’t use that title online).

At *best*, it downplays his publicly demonstrated extremism.

How NASA Engineered Its Own Decline The agency once projected America’s loftiest ideals. Then it ceded its ambitions to Elon Musk.

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yes! and in terms of steel, this is actually the case: white-hot steel has been heated to a much higher temperature than when red

Interesting. Not sure if this has come up here or not.

Though, I believe injury costs would normally be covered by the university anyway, if an employee is involved (which includes graduate student assistants and paid undergraduate assistants), so that wouldn’t be an issue here.

We haven’t had any prohibitions - though I thought these generally came in as unrestricted gifts, and thus can’t really require much?

I have a colleague who regularly wears Chuck Taylors to teach… his radiation transport classes for nuclear engineers. And another with a sleeve on one arm… teaching programming & numerical methods for mechanical engineers. Both kind people & great teachers, with high expectations & tough grades.

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Just ask a fucking academic, for *once*, instead of tech bros

I assume this is the main reason billionaires have children

… did a right-wing family write this?