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Richard Whaling
@r.whal.ing
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I hack things. Data, ML, music, etc. AI governance geek. Founder of semistructured.ai, speaking in a personal capacity only here. Likes are bookmarks, not endorsements.

music/art projects on IG, @r__whaling
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Richard Whaling @r.whal.ing · 17d
xpost from my IG: I made a tutorial video on how I make generative music with code

#synthsky #generative #creativecoding #glitchart
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hillelwayne.com
Help us feed Chicagoans who lost their SNAP benefits! Until the end of the month, buy Logic for Programmers with the coupon `feedchicago` to get 50% off. All royalties from the coupon will be donated to the Greater Chicago Food Depository (@fooddepository.bsky.social) leanpub.com/logic/c/feed...
Logic for Programmers
The mathematics that will help you in your everyday programming.
leanpub.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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fractalkitty.com
I composed an OP-1 track and wrote a coded poem:

www.fractalkitty.com/somewhere-he...

#codedPoem #op1 #poetry #creativeCoding #cleanCode #proceduralArt #music #Synths

Thanks @r.whal.ing for the encouragement.
somewhere here
A coded poem and track The Track: Initiated on a piano, and realized on an OP-1 Field. somewhere here0:00/101.302857142857151× The Visual: Clean coded in p5js with p5sound - enjoy in fullscreen...
www.fractalkitty.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:19 AM
r.whal.ing
Beatriz Milhazes is soooo goood
November 7, 2025 at 8:53 PM
r.whal.ing
I wrote up a blog post with my colleagues at Charlemagne Labs about what we've been building - a 270M param local AI for cybersecurity defense.

charlemagnelabs.ai/blog/buildin...
November 6, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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emollick.bsky.social
I have been writing for years about the fact that we are not ready for the destruction of costly signalling mechanisms. Writing used to be a way of measuring effort, ability and diligence. We still have no easy substitute

Now this paper confirms that cover letters have lost their value as predictor
November 5, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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timkellogg.me
i’ve been thinking about this a lot the last month, finally wrote it up

i think it enables truly general agents to operate with oversight, but also brings sanity to the current state of AI security
timkellogg.me Tim Kellogg @timkellogg.me · 7d
MCP Colors

A riff off of the lethal trifecta for addressing prompt injection, this is a simple heuristic to ensure security at runtime

red = untrusted content
blue = potentially critical actions

An agent can't be allowed to do both

timkellogg.me/blog/2025/11...
MCP Colors: Systematically deal with prompt injection risk
timkellogg.me
November 4, 2025 at 11:46 AM
r.whal.ing
Easy Chicken Tacos

1.5 lbs boneless skinless chicken thighs
16 oz jar red or green salsa (Goya, etc)
8 oz water
1 packet chicken taco seasoning (McCormick, etc.)

Chop the chicken into 1/2 “ chunks.

Throw it in the Instant Pot on high for 12-15 min. 10 minute natural release. That’s it.
duendeonfuego.bsky.social DuendeonFuego @duendeonfuego.bsky.social · 7d
IT IS TIME FOR BLUESKY RECIPE POSTING

do you have a cheap, healthy, low-cost recipe? post it here! or quote tweet this post. or dunk on me for something I don't care just post easy meals that people can make right now.
November 4, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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shinesparkers.net
Happy Halloween! RT to bless a timeline with a Samus pumpkin (2025 edition).

#OperationMetroidPrime4
October 31, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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polarity.me
October 30, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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mostafamhawke.bsky.social
'The "uncle" who Frodo said got rich by adventuring with Dwarves is actually a distant cousin, he clarified on Monday.' - Lobelia Sackville-Baggins, The Shire Post
A photo of Elijah Wood as Frodo Baggins and Ian Holm as Bilbo Baggins from Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
October 29, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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nudoru.bsky.social
Fun with particles. Made by a human with code, #art #generativeart #genartclub #creativecoding #javascript
October 27, 2025 at 1:12 PM
r.whal.ing
“Goose” is a really good name for an ai copilot

🪿 🛩️ 🎯 💥
October 27, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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timkellogg.me
it is strange — why haven’t there been more prompt injection attacks? it’s a huge gaping hole
Stewart Alsop - Host of Craz... & • 22h S It feels like indirect prompt injection should be destroying all of our systems right now but it seems like it hasn't done anything (or the hacker's plans are measured in centuries). What is going on? Is prompt injection a nothing burger or have I not been reading enough @simonw? Simon Willison @simonw X.com I'm confused by this too! The lack of genuine prompt injection attacks in the wild (as opposed to security researcher POCs, of which there are hundreds) is very surprising to me
October 26, 2025 at 1:48 PM
r.whal.ing
if you see this, post a vampire who isn’t Dracula
David Bowie and Catherine Deneuve in a film post for the 1983 erotic vampire thriller “The Hunger”
October 26, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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malwaretech.com
Bought some new art
October 26, 2025 at 2:30 AM
r.whal.ing
For me it was definitely Monty Python’s Holy Grail

I must have been about 8 lol 🤴 🐇
benkuchera.bsky.social Ben Kuchera @benkuchera.bsky.social · 16d
If you're above the age of 40 you probably remember the literally first piece of "weird" media you found that made you feel a little less alone in the world. The good shit was rare before the internet. Kids in the Hall on channel 25 at 11 p.m. changed my life.
October 26, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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r.whal.ing
xpost from my IG: I made a tutorial video on how I make generative music with code

#synthsky #generative #creativecoding #glitchart
October 25, 2025 at 2:12 PM
r.whal.ing
I was just telling a friend about how I have “roots” in Jackson Heights (Queens) because my grandfather lived there for 2 years in the 1940’s 😂
utopia-defer.red utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 16d
I’m sorry but American Hukou as divine feminine Self Care is genuinely hilarious, Brooklyn stay winning
yodacat.bsky.social Grandmaster B-Hud @yodacat.bsky.social · 16d
Still not sure when she moved there but as you can see, it was in her ancestral DNA to seek it out.
October 25, 2025 at 7:57 PM
r.whal.ing
xpost from my IG: I made a tutorial video on how I make generative music with code

#synthsky #generative #creativecoding #glitchart
October 25, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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greene.haus
The following words, set in the typefaces and style of the 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' logo: "Welcome to the Epstein Ballroom"
October 22, 2025 at 11:34 PM
r.whal.ing
The combat in pokemon legends ZA feels so much like Dragon Age: Inquisition.

A complex battle system that is a little too gritty for real-time, sanded down just enough to feel “smooth” even when you can’t quite control what’s going on.
October 21, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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remediosvaro.bsky.social
Valley of the Moon
https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/19218
"Valley of the Moon" by Remedios Varo depicts an enchanting, surreal landscape with mystical animals bathed in ethereal moonlight, surrounded by jagged mountains in the background. The artwork showcases Varo's distinct style, merging elements of mysticism and dreamlike imagery to evoke a sense of otherworldly tranquility.
October 20, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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hillelwayne.com
I know this is bait (4/5 of his "good" games are shooters) but I love talking about videogames, so here's a list of videogames that gave me sublime experiences, that make videogames into something precious and special and worthy of respect. Screenshots when I 'got em

🧵
tiredgenerally.bsky.social Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · Sep 30
(honest question) what are the “good” video games? artistically i mean, not in a “i enjoyed this escapist slop” kind of way
gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · Sep 30
Well. It's not Red Dead Redemption 2, but it's like one of three video games I'd genuinely consider good.
October 20, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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mobydickatsea.bsky.social
the glorious, golden, glad sun, the only true lamp—all others but liars!
October 20, 2025 at 12:47 AM