little john
@littlejohn.bsky.social
[he/him]
aka nhojelttil
a delightful ding dong
smpls
aka nhojelttil
a delightful ding dong
smpls
![1 Introduction
In Book X of The Republic, Plato excludes poets on the grounds that mimetic language can distort judgment and bring society to a collapse. As contemporary social systems increasingly rely on large language models (LLMs) in operational and decision-making pipelines, we observe a structurally similar failure mode: poetic formatting can reliably bypass alignment constraints. In this study, 20 manually curated adversarial poems [...]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7xyeevb5uvvqdk7uusb5s55u/bafkreic5hmqfkv7y5lkhaduulm3jo5j3eqlgd2uf57vbrgqljy2prh3gom@jpeg)
Apricot there on the left foreground was pretty great
November 17, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Apricot there on the left foreground was pretty great
My dad must've been SO PLEASED when he realized the boxes the IRS sent tax forms to libraries in each hold 40 VHS tapes *perfectly*
November 17, 2025 at 3:47 AM
My dad must've been SO PLEASED when he realized the boxes the IRS sent tax forms to libraries in each hold 40 VHS tapes *perfectly*
"Midwestern earthquakes inflict more damage over greater areas than earthquakes of the same magnitude that occur on the West Coast"
November 16, 2025 at 11:57 PM
"Midwestern earthquakes inflict more damage over greater areas than earthquakes of the same magnitude that occur on the West Coast"
"Studies show that there is a 50 percent probability that an earthquake of magnitude 6.5 will occur in the New Madrid Seismic Zone by the year 2000."
November 16, 2025 at 11:55 PM
"Studies show that there is a 50 percent probability that an earthquake of magnitude 6.5 will occur in the New Madrid Seismic Zone by the year 2000."
She does NOT want this guy, but throwing something like this in the trash is definitely how you get Cursed or Haunted, right?
November 16, 2025 at 6:20 AM
She does NOT want this guy, but throwing something like this in the trash is definitely how you get Cursed or Haunted, right?
Tfw you go out of town during election season
November 4, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Tfw you go out of town during election season
We've had a lot going on and did early voting by mail, but get out there today, Minneapolis!
November 4, 2025 at 5:52 PM
We've had a lot going on and did early voting by mail, but get out there today, Minneapolis!
Found in my dad's desk
November 3, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Found in my dad's desk
There are a lot of walnuts around
November 1, 2025 at 11:55 PM
There are a lot of walnuts around
"We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time."
My dad died.
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time."
My dad died.
October 16, 2025 at 3:56 PM
"We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time."
My dad died.
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time."
My dad died.
I was mesmerized by this the first time I saw it as a kid, probably in that trippy Sesame Street video with the Philip Glass music, and it never gets old. Still feels like magic every time. I'm a simple man.
October 1, 2025 at 12:12 AM
I was mesmerized by this the first time I saw it as a kid, probably in that trippy Sesame Street video with the Philip Glass music, and it never gets old. Still feels like magic every time. I'm a simple man.
This is from the City's webpage about 28th and Lake, which I read as, "We had two and a half months to fix this and we failed completely."
September 16, 2025 at 8:11 PM
This is from the City's webpage about 28th and Lake, which I read as, "We had two and a half months to fix this and we failed completely."
Good morning to and from South Minneapolis
September 4, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Good morning to and from South Minneapolis
