Adele Buck
@adelebuck.com
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Adele Buck
@adelebuck.com
· Oct 17
Okay, it's time for a proper intro thread, not just the one I whacked up there during the workday.
I'm Adele, I'm a law librarian by day and romance author by night. I talk occasionally about a bunch of stuff but a lot about books.
I'm about to talk about my books!
I'm Adele, I'm a law librarian by day and romance author by night. I talk occasionally about a bunch of stuff but a lot about books.
I'm about to talk about my books!
1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but
2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but
3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So
4. Now the LLM code points to malware.
2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but
3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So
4. Now the LLM code points to malware.
LLMs hallucinating nonexistent software packages with plausible names leads to a new malware vulnerability: "slopsquatting."
December 27, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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Can't wait for the loosened up, non-perfect, but quickly shipped AI-enhanced updates to hit my banking and insurance services next year.
Im sure there will be no issues there at all.
Im sure there will be no issues there at all.
December 26, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Can't wait for the loosened up, non-perfect, but quickly shipped AI-enhanced updates to hit my banking and insurance services next year.
Im sure there will be no issues there at all.
Im sure there will be no issues there at all.
Love to see an autocorrect-induced typo in the header to my newsletter after it goes out. Fabulous.
December 26, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Love to see an autocorrect-induced typo in the header to my newsletter after it goes out. Fabulous.
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As is now tradition, we celebrate the day after Christmas with free books, more than 1700 free books in this particular go round. Just visit www.romancebookworms.com to browse the incredible selection.
December 26, 2025 at 11:56 AM
As is now tradition, we celebrate the day after Christmas with free books, more than 1700 free books in this particular go round. Just visit www.romancebookworms.com to browse the incredible selection.
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Incredible what you find when you start looking for data on the "white men can't get jobs anymore" phenomenon
www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/12/17/w...
www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/12/17/w...
What Does the Census Data Say About “The Lost Generation”
Savage appears wrong, but the reality is potentially bleaker.
www.peoplespolicyproject.org
December 25, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Incredible what you find when you start looking for data on the "white men can't get jobs anymore" phenomenon
www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/12/17/w...
www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/12/17/w...
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every time I see a headline framing this as being primarily an issue of the student having controversial opinions, and not the student being an asshole with a right wing podcaster mom who wanted to ruin a trans person’s career for the clicks, I age another ten years
December 25, 2025 at 8:22 PM
every time I see a headline framing this as being primarily an issue of the student having controversial opinions, and not the student being an asshole with a right wing podcaster mom who wanted to ruin a trans person’s career for the clicks, I age another ten years
Watching Last Holiday - I had forgotten how perfect this movie is.
a woman in a purple dress is sitting on a couch and making a surprised face .
Alt: Queen Latifah, her face saying, "IYKYK"
media.tenor.com
December 25, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Watching Last Holiday - I had forgotten how perfect this movie is.
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Passersby are “unreliable”? You mean they don’t voluntarily take time out of whatever they’re doing to go up to a car that’s not theirs, that is probably tracking everything that happens, and fix the unanticipated problem of the door being left open?
“Because riders and passersby can be unreliable, Waymo pays workers in Los Angeles $20 or more for rescuing a robotaxi by closing a door, summoning help through an app called Honk that is like an Uber for towing companies.”
When robot taxis get stuck, a secret army of humans comes to the rescue
Waymo robotaxis get stranded when a passenger leaves the door open. Tow truck operators can get paid $22 to close a door and set them free again.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 25, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Passersby are “unreliable”? You mean they don’t voluntarily take time out of whatever they’re doing to go up to a car that’s not theirs, that is probably tracking everything that happens, and fix the unanticipated problem of the door being left open?
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My favorite kind of marketing copy:
My [56M] cat [2F] keeps appearing at my next-door neighbor’s [53F] apartment. Trouble is, I can see why the cat likes her. I like her too, but she’s really prickly and private. I’m kind of using the cat as an excuse to spend some time with her. AITA?
My [56M] cat [2F] keeps appearing at my next-door neighbor’s [53F] apartment. Trouble is, I can see why the cat likes her. I like her too, but she’s really prickly and private. I’m kind of using the cat as an excuse to spend some time with her. AITA?
...What's this?
A preorder for a Golden Years novella? Dropping on 12/31 (just in time to squirrel yourself away to read on New Year's day)?
www.amazon.com/dp/B0GBYQ88Z...
A preorder for a Golden Years novella? Dropping on 12/31 (just in time to squirrel yourself away to read on New Year's day)?
www.amazon.com/dp/B0GBYQ88Z...
Meet-Cat
Meet-Cat - Kindle edition by Buck, Adele. Contemporary Romance Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.
www.amazon.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:08 PM
My favorite kind of marketing copy:
My [56M] cat [2F] keeps appearing at my next-door neighbor’s [53F] apartment. Trouble is, I can see why the cat likes her. I like her too, but she’s really prickly and private. I’m kind of using the cat as an excuse to spend some time with her. AITA?
My [56M] cat [2F] keeps appearing at my next-door neighbor’s [53F] apartment. Trouble is, I can see why the cat likes her. I like her too, but she’s really prickly and private. I’m kind of using the cat as an excuse to spend some time with her. AITA?
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1: I've been the recipient of direct, federal government-provided health care for nearly 30 years. We can do it. We've just apparently decided we'd rather have billionaires than universal healthcare.
2: All billionaires really deserve the three ghost visits thing.
2: All billionaires really deserve the three ghost visits thing.
I'm here willing to read anything someone puts together that details how we can get from here to there
I'm all for universal healthcare. Tell me how we get there.
I'm all for universal healthcare. Tell me how we get there.
December 25, 2025 at 11:19 AM
1: I've been the recipient of direct, federal government-provided health care for nearly 30 years. We can do it. We've just apparently decided we'd rather have billionaires than universal healthcare.
2: All billionaires really deserve the three ghost visits thing.
2: All billionaires really deserve the three ghost visits thing.
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Look, nobody likes her. In any direction. That said: Wow lady, you are just speedrunning your way into malicious compliance. People not liking you is reason enough to do nothing in your favor, but people actively despising you is what drives them to come up with creative ways to undermine you.
In her memo pushing back against the massive backlash over her decision to hold a story on 60 Minutes, editor in chief Bari Weiss insults staff at CBS News by implying - with no specifics - that the news, which they help report, lacks integrity. Good luck leading them now. https://loom.ly/6_Bzgt8
Bari Weiss Defends Pulling ‘60 Minutes' Story as a Step Towards 'Restoring the Integrity of the News'
Sometimes it means holding a piece about an important subject to make sure it is comprehensive and fair, CBS News leadership says in a memo
www.thewrap.com
December 25, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Look, nobody likes her. In any direction. That said: Wow lady, you are just speedrunning your way into malicious compliance. People not liking you is reason enough to do nothing in your favor, but people actively despising you is what drives them to come up with creative ways to undermine you.
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Cuban's argument is the argument of someone who doesn't want to be convinced. He's done this before, so presumably he has been offered reading material that he hasn't read.
He doesn't want to hear that he's part of the problem.
PAY FAIR TAXES, MARK!
And Merry Christmas!
He doesn't want to hear that he's part of the problem.
PAY FAIR TAXES, MARK!
And Merry Christmas!
December 25, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Cuban's argument is the argument of someone who doesn't want to be convinced. He's done this before, so presumably he has been offered reading material that he hasn't read.
He doesn't want to hear that he's part of the problem.
PAY FAIR TAXES, MARK!
And Merry Christmas!
He doesn't want to hear that he's part of the problem.
PAY FAIR TAXES, MARK!
And Merry Christmas!
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have you considered searching pubmed for the many, many papers published about this? alternatively, you can pay me $100,000 to do it this one time so i can pay my medical bills
December 25, 2025 at 1:00 AM
have you considered searching pubmed for the many, many papers published about this? alternatively, you can pay me $100,000 to do it this one time so i can pay my medical bills
God jul, vennene mine!
December 24, 2025 at 10:49 PM
God jul, vennene mine!
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My [53F] neighbor [56M] is utterly charming—which is a problem. I have more than one reason to keep men at arm’s length. But his cat [2F] found her way into my apartment. Now I am in a feline time-share. I don’t want him to get the wrong idea, but I can’t seem to resist either him or the cat. AITA?
...What's this?
A preorder for a Golden Years novella? Dropping on 12/31 (just in time to squirrel yourself away to read on New Year's day)?
www.amazon.com/dp/B0GBYQ88Z...
A preorder for a Golden Years novella? Dropping on 12/31 (just in time to squirrel yourself away to read on New Year's day)?
www.amazon.com/dp/B0GBYQ88Z...
Meet-Cat
Meet-Cat - Kindle edition by Buck, Adele. Contemporary Romance Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.
www.amazon.com
December 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
My [53F] neighbor [56M] is utterly charming—which is a problem. I have more than one reason to keep men at arm’s length. But his cat [2F] found her way into my apartment. Now I am in a feline time-share. I don’t want him to get the wrong idea, but I can’t seem to resist either him or the cat. AITA?
In the Buck household, there are two TVs. Mr. B just came upstairs to where I've been mainlining Christmas stuff for the better part of today.
He said, "I'm finally watching a Christmas movie."
In unison, we both said, "Die Hard."
Twu wuv.
He said, "I'm finally watching a Christmas movie."
In unison, we both said, "Die Hard."
Twu wuv.
a man in a bishop 's hat says mawage in a church
Alt: the bishop from Princess Bride saying mawage in a church
media.tenor.com
December 24, 2025 at 10:35 PM
In the Buck household, there are two TVs. Mr. B just came upstairs to where I've been mainlining Christmas stuff for the better part of today.
He said, "I'm finally watching a Christmas movie."
In unison, we both said, "Die Hard."
Twu wuv.
He said, "I'm finally watching a Christmas movie."
In unison, we both said, "Die Hard."
Twu wuv.
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...What's this?
A preorder for a Golden Years novella? Dropping on 12/31 (just in time to squirrel yourself away to read on New Year's day)?
www.amazon.com/dp/B0GBYQ88Z...
A preorder for a Golden Years novella? Dropping on 12/31 (just in time to squirrel yourself away to read on New Year's day)?
www.amazon.com/dp/B0GBYQ88Z...
Meet-Cat
Meet-Cat - Kindle edition by Buck, Adele. Contemporary Romance Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.
www.amazon.com
December 22, 2025 at 9:35 PM
...What's this?
A preorder for a Golden Years novella? Dropping on 12/31 (just in time to squirrel yourself away to read on New Year's day)?
www.amazon.com/dp/B0GBYQ88Z...
A preorder for a Golden Years novella? Dropping on 12/31 (just in time to squirrel yourself away to read on New Year's day)?
www.amazon.com/dp/B0GBYQ88Z...
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Bending your institution to meet the prejudices of your dumbest, meanest students is a surefire way to destroy a university.
Now any student can just scrawl “the Bible says this is wrong” on any test and skate to an A at the Oklahoma Football Outlet and Diploma Factory.
Now any student can just scrawl “the Bible says this is wrong” on any test and skate to an A at the Oklahoma Football Outlet and Diploma Factory.
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd
Oklahoma instructor removed from teaching for failing a Bible-based gender essay | CNN
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.”
cnn.it
December 24, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Bending your institution to meet the prejudices of your dumbest, meanest students is a surefire way to destroy a university.
Now any student can just scrawl “the Bible says this is wrong” on any test and skate to an A at the Oklahoma Football Outlet and Diploma Factory.
Now any student can just scrawl “the Bible says this is wrong” on any test and skate to an A at the Oklahoma Football Outlet and Diploma Factory.
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The document says, "Educators must learn how they can use AI to simplify their working lives."
Now you are demanding teachers use "A.i."
Educators don't need to use "A.i." Educators need to be paid more. Not to enrich corporations by using untested, dangerous "A.i." products.
Now you are demanding teachers use "A.i."
Educators don't need to use "A.i." Educators need to be paid more. Not to enrich corporations by using untested, dangerous "A.i." products.
December 24, 2025 at 3:56 AM
The document says, "Educators must learn how they can use AI to simplify their working lives."
Now you are demanding teachers use "A.i."
Educators don't need to use "A.i." Educators need to be paid more. Not to enrich corporations by using untested, dangerous "A.i." products.
Now you are demanding teachers use "A.i."
Educators don't need to use "A.i." Educators need to be paid more. Not to enrich corporations by using untested, dangerous "A.i." products.
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Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.
December 23, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.
Y’all. I HAVE ARRIVED. (LOL)
December 24, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Y’all. I HAVE ARRIVED. (LOL)
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So I am going to say something about romance as a genre.
A lot of people think that romance is ignorable because <insert thing they think about romance> and romance authors don't count because <insert thing they think about romance>.
This thread is not about whether you have to like romance.
A lot of people think that romance is ignorable because <insert thing they think about romance> and romance authors don't count because <insert thing they think about romance>.
This thread is not about whether you have to like romance.
December 24, 2025 at 2:51 AM
So I am going to say something about romance as a genre.
A lot of people think that romance is ignorable because <insert thing they think about romance> and romance authors don't count because <insert thing they think about romance>.
This thread is not about whether you have to like romance.
A lot of people think that romance is ignorable because <insert thing they think about romance> and romance authors don't count because <insert thing they think about romance>.
This thread is not about whether you have to like romance.
Someone check the walls of the residence for ketchup.
Anyone show Grandpa Shouty the SCOTUS order yet?
December 23, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Someone check the walls of the residence for ketchup.
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So everyone's watching the 60 Minutes that was supposed to be banned and everyone who knows how PDFs work can unredact the Epstein files, it's like the Christmas spirit has irony poisoning this year
December 23, 2025 at 5:14 AM
So everyone's watching the 60 Minutes that was supposed to be banned and everyone who knows how PDFs work can unredact the Epstein files, it's like the Christmas spirit has irony poisoning this year
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Many people are posting close-reads of the gay hockey romance show and book series, and calling out solid critique right now. Romance deserves good-faith criticism.
“You are all mindless fanatics with no critical thinking skills who do not appreciate true art” is the worst-faith criticism.
“You are all mindless fanatics with no critical thinking skills who do not appreciate true art” is the worst-faith criticism.
December 23, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Many people are posting close-reads of the gay hockey romance show and book series, and calling out solid critique right now. Romance deserves good-faith criticism.
“You are all mindless fanatics with no critical thinking skills who do not appreciate true art” is the worst-faith criticism.
“You are all mindless fanatics with no critical thinking skills who do not appreciate true art” is the worst-faith criticism.