Hugh Miller
@profugo.bsky.social
Retired philosophy professor, unretired philosopher, writer, painter, cook, son, spouse, father, brother, relentless critic of everything exisitng
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With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.
July 27, 2025 at 9:01 PM
With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.
Reposted by Hugh Miller
In November of 2016, nearly 60 years after the paper was published internally, I had discovered the joke.
A few years later, I filed to have the paper declassified, and the NSA eventually agreed, and even put it up on their webpage:
media.defense.gov/2021/Jul/14/...
A few years later, I filed to have the paper declassified, and the NSA eventually agreed, and even put it up on their webpage:
media.defense.gov/2021/Jul/14/...
media.defense.gov
July 27, 2025 at 9:01 PM
In November of 2016, nearly 60 years after the paper was published internally, I had discovered the joke.
A few years later, I filed to have the paper declassified, and the NSA eventually agreed, and even put it up on their webpage:
media.defense.gov/2021/Jul/14/...
A few years later, I filed to have the paper declassified, and the NSA eventually agreed, and even put it up on their webpage:
media.defense.gov/2021/Jul/14/...
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Sorry, T.S., with a bang
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This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Sorry, T.S., with a bang
https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnbc.com%2F2024%2F11%2F19%2Fkremlin-brings-up-nuclear-doctrine-day-after-bidens-arms-decision-on-ukraine.html
Putin issues warning to United States with new nuclear doctrine
The updated doctrine outlines the threats that would make Russia, the world's biggest nuclear power, contemplate using such weapons.
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November 19, 2024 at 3:55 PM
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Sorry, T.S., with a bang
https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnbc.com%2F2024%2F11%2F19%2Fkremlin-brings-up-nuclear-doctrine-day-after-bidens-arms-decision-on-ukraine.html
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Sorry, T.S., with a bang
https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnbc.com%2F2024%2F11%2F19%2Fkremlin-brings-up-nuclear-doctrine-day-after-bidens-arms-decision-on-ukraine.html
"Meanwhile, it appears that people prefer AI poems because they are easier to understand. 'In our discrimination study participants used variations of the phrase "doesn't make sense" for human-authored poems more often than they do for AI,' the researchers said."
www.theregister.com/2024/11/17/a...
www.theregister.com/2024/11/17/a...
AI poetry out-humans humans as readers prefer bots to bards
Uncultured swine prone to believe complexity of verse is machine-generated babble
www.theregister.com
November 18, 2024 at 2:20 AM
"Meanwhile, it appears that people prefer AI poems because they are easier to understand. 'In our discrimination study participants used variations of the phrase "doesn't make sense" for human-authored poems more often than they do for AI,' the researchers said."
www.theregister.com/2024/11/17/a...
www.theregister.com/2024/11/17/a...