August C. Bourré
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Term of the week, probably month (maybe even year):
Adversarial Poetry
LLMs like Grok and GPT can be "jailbroken" -- made to give prohibited answers -- through the use of poetry.
arxiv.org/abs/2511.15304
Adversarial Poetry
LLMs like Grok and GPT can be "jailbroken" -- made to give prohibited answers -- through the use of poetry.
arxiv.org/abs/2511.15304
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 21, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Term of the week, probably month (maybe even year):
Adversarial Poetry
LLMs like Grok and GPT can be "jailbroken" -- made to give prohibited answers -- through the use of poetry.
arxiv.org/abs/2511.15304
Adversarial Poetry
LLMs like Grok and GPT can be "jailbroken" -- made to give prohibited answers -- through the use of poetry.
arxiv.org/abs/2511.15304
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Ah, ye admonitions and warnings! why stay ye not when ye come?
November 21, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Ah, ye admonitions and warnings! why stay ye not when ye come?
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“If you’re quiet now, you would’ve been quiet in 1940.”
November 20, 2025 at 4:44 AM
“If you’re quiet now, you would’ve been quiet in 1940.”
Tylenol Complete that expired pre-pandemic should be good for a cold, right?
November 20, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Tylenol Complete that expired pre-pandemic should be good for a cold, right?
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don’t forget to file, there’s more than a few grand at stake
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:25 PM
don’t forget to file, there’s more than a few grand at stake
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Oh, so now it's fine to have a war on Christmas
Fox guest on how to save money during the holidays:
"Remember, adults don't need gifts. Focus on the people in your life who are aged 3 to 18. Grandma doesn't need slippers. If they don't live by you, don't get them a gift."
"Remember, adults don't need gifts. Focus on the people in your life who are aged 3 to 18. Grandma doesn't need slippers. If they don't live by you, don't get them a gift."
November 17, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Oh, so now it's fine to have a war on Christmas
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How come when the internet goes down it’s never The Internet I Need for Work and always The Internet I Need for Coping With Work
November 18, 2025 at 1:56 PM
How come when the internet goes down it’s never The Internet I Need for Work and always The Internet I Need for Coping With Work
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This "haptic visuality" is what I've always meant by "texture" but didn't know how to talk about it. This is a fantastic video
This is a really remarkable video essay on contemporary film and the theories of Laura Marks. It's making me think about movies in a new way.
Why Movies Just Don't Feel "Real" Anymore
YouTube video by Like Stories of Old
www.youtube.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:18 PM
This "haptic visuality" is what I've always meant by "texture" but didn't know how to talk about it. This is a fantastic video
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“People aren’t building networks offline because I can’t see evidence of them here on social media”
November 16, 2025 at 5:18 PM
“People aren’t building networks offline because I can’t see evidence of them here on social media”
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this website absolutely needed the balkan coffee shops at 8am video and i am pleased to bring it to you here
September 13, 2024 at 6:19 AM
this website absolutely needed the balkan coffee shops at 8am video and i am pleased to bring it to you here
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Philip K. Dick took 40 amphetamine pills a day and they named a writing award after him
November 15, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Philip K. Dick took 40 amphetamine pills a day and they named a writing award after him
Operation Ram Rod.
November 16, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Operation Ram Rod.
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Interesting!
www.scientificamerican.com/article/racc...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/racc...
City Raccoons Are Evolving to Look More Like Pets
City-dwelling raccoons seem to be evolving a shorter snout—a telltale feature of our pets and other domesticated animals
www.scientificamerican.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Interesting!
www.scientificamerican.com/article/racc...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/racc...
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Not to get all Sun Tzu on it, but when the enemy is weak and divided amongst itself, you do not relieve the enemy by allowing their partisans into your camp. You drive them closer together, force them into tighter company, and intensify their conflict.
November 15, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Not to get all Sun Tzu on it, but when the enemy is weak and divided amongst itself, you do not relieve the enemy by allowing their partisans into your camp. You drive them closer together, force them into tighter company, and intensify their conflict.
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move your foot or hand an inch; slip your hold at all; and your identity comes back in horror
November 15, 2025 at 3:47 PM
move your foot or hand an inch; slip your hold at all; and your identity comes back in horror
It seems miraculous that the manufacturers of institutional toilet paper were the ones who managed to invent transparent sandpaper.
November 13, 2025 at 7:38 PM
It seems miraculous that the manufacturers of institutional toilet paper were the ones who managed to invent transparent sandpaper.
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What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
November 13, 2025 at 1:37 AM
What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
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Burnt match
November 11, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Burnt match
Trying to write poems that occupy whatever space would see overlap of all sets in a Venn diagram of E. E. Cummings, Don Domanski, Samuel Menashe, and Joelle Barron.
November 10, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Trying to write poems that occupy whatever space would see overlap of all sets in a Venn diagram of E. E. Cummings, Don Domanski, Samuel Menashe, and Joelle Barron.
This was literally the underlying rationale behind most of US foreign policy in the 1980s. The US government loves a fascist. WW2 was frankly an aberration in that regard.
I am cynically edging towards something I'd rather not believe:
That they are OK with the fascism and see it as a way to keep their jobs.
That they are OK with the fascism and see it as a way to keep their jobs.
You would think. But then, logic and strategy have been in short supply with Ds for far too long.
November 10, 2025 at 8:46 PM
This was literally the underlying rationale behind most of US foreign policy in the 1980s. The US government loves a fascist. WW2 was frankly an aberration in that regard.
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Canada losing measles elimination status after nearly three decades is peak cringe.
November 10, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Canada losing measles elimination status after nearly three decades is peak cringe.
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Never forget that a Democratic US Attorney’s decision to prosecute Aaron Swartz for downloading JSTOR PDFs contributed to his suicide but AI firms’ decision to download everything ever will be a justification for hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayer bailouts and legal exemptions.
“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion”
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
OpenAI in Danger After Authors Suing It Gain Access to Its Internal Slack Messages
Authors and publishers, who are suing OpenAI, secured access to internal Slack messages and emails discussing the deletion of pirated books.
futurism.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Never forget that a Democratic US Attorney’s decision to prosecute Aaron Swartz for downloading JSTOR PDFs contributed to his suicide but AI firms’ decision to download everything ever will be a justification for hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayer bailouts and legal exemptions.
Domokun > Labubu
November 7, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Domokun > Labubu
"To say it is not enough that we feed our neighbours is to say that we can feed our neighbours. Freed from the expectation of *having to be enough,* we are free to act without fear. We are free to act to the full extent of our capabilities."
November 7, 2025 at 1:45 PM
"To say it is not enough that we feed our neighbours is to say that we can feed our neighbours. Freed from the expectation of *having to be enough,* we are free to act without fear. We are free to act to the full extent of our capabilities."