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Deirdre Anne
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Philosopher • Attorney • GRC consultant • Traveler
Editor @LastGrotto.net | @Casteluna.com principal
IWW, AAUP-AFT member.
"Christmas in Japan" by Jacob Friesenhahn. A new poem on the philosophy and literature blog I edit, The Last Grotto.
“Christmas in Japan,” a new poem by Jacob Friesenhahn at The Last Grotto.
A winter walk, the first quiet steps into love.

Read it here (first publication):
lastgrotto.net/posts/christ...

#poetry #Japan
Christmas in Japan
A winter walk becomes a tender beginning, two people stepping into love's unknown
lastgrotto.net
December 9, 2025 at 5:36 AM
A new poem on the blog I edit. Let me know your thoughts.
New at Last Grotto: "November" by Jacob Friesenhahn, author of The Prayer of the Mantis
This last day of November brings us an elegy for a season and for the particular sadness of abandonment
Read it: lastgrotto.net/posts/novemb...
#Poetry #ContemporaryPoetry #PoetryCommunity #LiteraryArts #November
November
An elegy for a season and for the particular sadness of abandonment
lastgrotto.net
November 30, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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🤦🏻‍♀️ Talk about embarrassing!
arstechnica.com/security/202...
Oops. Cryptographers cancel election results after losing decryption key.
Voting system required three keys. One of them has been “irretrievably lost.”…
arstechnica.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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This was such a fun photo to set up, taken by Thomas Reiter through a sleep station window on Mir. The sun was so bright we were all squinting like crazy. But I love how it shows the texture of the Shuttle's rough, protective hide, and the glimpse of humanity (and my moustache) against the universe.
November 22, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Studying philosophy does make people better thinkers, according to new research on more than 600,000 college grads

Philosophy majors rank higher than all other majors on verbal and logical reasoning. theconversation.com/studying-phi... #philosophy #skills #thinking #PhilosophySky #philsky
Studying philosophy does make people better thinkers, according to new research on more than 600,000 college grads
Philosophers are fond of saying that their field boosts critical thinking. Two of them decided to put that claim to the test.
theconversation.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Critical finding: adversarial poetry jailbreaks LLMs at 90%+ rates. Verse formatting alone defeats safety training—18x more effective than prose. Systemic vulnerability across frontier models.

arxiv.org/abs/2511.15304

#CyberSecurity #AIGovernance #GRC
Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models
We present evidence that adversarial poetry functions as a universal single-turn jailbreak technique for Large Language Models (LLMs). Across 25 frontier proprietary and open-weight models, curated po...
arxiv.org
November 23, 2025 at 4:50 AM
I am the editor of @lastgrotto.net, I am pleased to share this new and original poem from Jacob Friesenhahn, which follows the republication of his earlier poem by the same name last week.
New #poem by Jacob Friesenhahn captures the spirit of San Antonio's iconic Liberty Bar on Alamo Street—the second in a pair exploring this beloved landmark. Read it here (published for the first time): lastgrotto.net/posts/libert... #Poetry #Literature #PoetryCommunity #SanAntonio
Liberty Bar
A sanctuary turned bar burns with the ghosts of devotion and hunger
lastgrotto.net
November 22, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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#icymi: Social Security Data Is Openly Being Shared With DHS to Target Immigrants

For months, the Social Security Administration was quietly sharing sensitive data about immigrants with DHS. Now it’s official.

https://www.wired.com/story/social-security-data-shared-with-dhs-target-immigrants/
Social Security Data Is Openly Being Shared With DHS to Target Immigrants
For months, the Social Security Administration was quietly sharing sensitive data about immigrants with DHS. Now it’s official.
www.wired.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Per the article: "Signal chats have end-to-end encryption, so law enforcement could have only accessed the group chat if an agent was part of the chat, had access to a member’s phone, or was sent copies of the conversation. According to the FBI, a “sensitive source with excellent access” […]
Original post on ai6yr.org
m.ai6yr.org
November 22, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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“It’s part of the dehumanizing nature of it, and it’s it gives me a lot of clarity around what’s happening here,” said Woolf, who has been active in protests against ICE. “It’s really a spiritual emergency.”

The language of "spiritual emergency" is really striking.
At least seven faith leaders arrested at Broadview ICE facility protest
(RNS) — 'I've got bruises all over my body,' the Rev. Michael Woolf, who was thrown to the ground and arrested by police, told RNS.
religionnews.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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TW: video showcasing a violent display of force by federal agents

From Charlotte, NC. Seen it shared on a few NC based IG pages. Based on this video, federal agents using the same tactics we’ve seen the last few months in Chicago.
November 16, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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A poem by one of our members, Jacob Friesenhahn: lastgrotto.net/posts/libert...
Look for more of Jacob's poems over the coming weeks.
#poetry
Liberty Bar
Former lovers discover their wounds still recognize each other.
lastgrotto.net
November 16, 2025 at 1:11 AM
This is me. Very happy to have been one of the first to earn this cert last June when it was still in beta.
November 15, 2025 at 9:53 PM