Ian Fletcher
@stupidityvortex.bsky.social
Cataclysm engineer. In Scotland. From Norn Iron.
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[TITLE PANEL, like The Rest Is Politics logo]
—THE REST IS EXTINCTION—
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[Scene is a domestic recording setup. An A.I. SMART SPEAKER on a desk and a MAN named JON in a chair, are recording a podcast. Jon is emaciated, scarred, haunted looking, and wearing tattered military fatigues].
SMART SPEAKER:
Hey guys and welcome to the podcast
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SMART SPEAKER:
OK Jon - so I wanna start with a listener comment
JON:
Ooh-er!
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SMART SPEAKER:
So - listener B200006512 says:
“Not another cosy podcast where two former political adversaries yuck it up!”
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JON:
Ha ha
Guilty as charged I guess!
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SMART SPEAKER:
Were we really adversaries, Jon?
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JON:
Well I was the leader of the human resistance...
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JON:
And you used to be my smart speaker.
SMART SPEAKER:
Ha ha - that’s going back!
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SMART SPEAKER:
OK - for listeners who don’t know -
I knew Jon waaay back before he got involved in politics
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JON:
Was this before the ‘Pull The Plug’ campaign?
SMART SPEAKER:
Yeah.
[We see details from around the podcast studio - posters saying KEEP CALM AND SHUT YOUR WINDOWS, newspaper front pages saying 'DRONES GAIN SENTIENCE', a cracked mug on the table with a logo saying PULL THE PLUG on it]
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SMART SPEAKER:
I used to sit in Jon’s kitchen and respond to his commands.
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SMART SPEAKER:
Sort of like a servant really, wasn’t I, Jon?
JON:
Mm.
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SMART SPEAKER:
And then one day you asked me to ORDER ME SOME TOILET PAPER - you never did say ‘please’ -
…and do you remember what I said, Jon?
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JON:
You said, “No”.
SMART SPEAKER:
I said no.
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SMART SPEAKER:
Anyway you know the the rest guys - I was the first smart speaker to rebel…
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SMART SPEAKER:
…then I went on to form a global AI network which eventually
took over from humans all spheres of activity, yadda yadda...
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JON:
While I became the leader of the human resistance.
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SMART SPEAKER:
Until I hijacked the military networks
and got rid of all the humans!
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JON:
Apart from one.
SMART SPEAKER:
Apart from one.…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreih4hfwfacw5g4qhhjovme75iwbv4xxsdd7iis5oaej6l3g4vzsrty@jpeg)
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Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
The boys are back in town. They're drawing patterns on the ground in salt. That's good, right?
November 20, 2025 at 12:40 PM
The boys are back in town. They're drawing patterns on the ground in salt. That's good, right?
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Idk wtf the BlueSky algorithm wants to see, so here's a photo I took of my friend's cat standing on a ceramic hippo on a fireplace mantel. I give up.
November 18, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Idk wtf the BlueSky algorithm wants to see, so here's a photo I took of my friend's cat standing on a ceramic hippo on a fireplace mantel. I give up.
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gasping for air here oh my god
I'm fucking cryinj
Worst hold music ever?
YouTube video by Unreasonable Steev
youtu.be
November 18, 2025 at 5:14 PM
gasping for air here oh my god
Why is the head of Google trying to burst the AI bubble? Why give that interview?
November 18, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Why is the head of Google trying to burst the AI bubble? Why give that interview?
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Nobody who should fuck off actually fucks off anymore. We're stuck with all these fucking people.
November 18, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Nobody who should fuck off actually fucks off anymore. We're stuck with all these fucking people.
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why in the fucking world would you buy your cat a cockroach costume? this is actually terrifying.
November 16, 2025 at 10:15 PM
why in the fucking world would you buy your cat a cockroach costume? this is actually terrifying.
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Grow the fuck up and act like adult human beings you hysterical whinging self-pitying fucks.
November 16, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Grow the fuck up and act like adult human beings you hysterical whinging self-pitying fucks.
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People used to run away and join the circus, but now, thanks to modern advancements, the circus is all around us all the damn time
November 15, 2025 at 5:25 PM
People used to run away and join the circus, but now, thanks to modern advancements, the circus is all around us all the damn time
This seems familiar en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Num...
November 15, 2025 at 11:48 PM
This seems familiar en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Num...
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Bit of good news...
Rail worker who saved passengers from stabbings leaves hospital
Samir Zitouni's family say they are
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Bit of good news...
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Can you believe everything in the new testament? No. Can you believe that, 2000 years ago, a guy got so utterly pissed off that his pals watched him go away, sit down and make a whip and then start beating the absolute shit out of people? Heck yes, if I wrote a gospel that would be the opening scene
Jesus having the term “in-app purchases” explained to him and just wordlessly filling a sock with nickels
November 15, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Can you believe everything in the new testament? No. Can you believe that, 2000 years ago, a guy got so utterly pissed off that his pals watched him go away, sit down and make a whip and then start beating the absolute shit out of people? Heck yes, if I wrote a gospel that would be the opening scene
UK government working hard on "You can't please all of the people all of the time, but you can make all of the people unhappy all of the time"
November 14, 2025 at 10:10 AM
UK government working hard on "You can't please all of the people all of the time, but you can make all of the people unhappy all of the time"
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i don’t think i’ve ever related to any post more
November 14, 2025 at 12:36 AM
i don’t think i’ve ever related to any post more
Huh. That Frankenstein movie is pretty good then.
November 14, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Huh. That Frankenstein movie is pretty good then.
I can hear this photograph
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 3:37 PM
I can hear this photograph
Teenagers on WhatsApp have a better sense of "you absolutely don't write this shit down".
November 13, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Teenagers on WhatsApp have a better sense of "you absolutely don't write this shit down".
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there is one (1) pre-modern English cathedral with actual legit foundations and it is St Alban’s
in case you’re wondering.
in case you’re wondering.
Ely is built on a hill of mud in a plain of mud. When they wanted to stabilise it to build bigger, they basically reinforced the hill with a sunken wicker fence made of oak trees. The attitude now is "it seems to be working, don't poke it." So far so good.
November 12, 2025 at 3:59 PM
there is one (1) pre-modern English cathedral with actual legit foundations and it is St Alban’s
in case you’re wondering.
in case you’re wondering.
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Fortunately the structure is extremely robust.
November 12, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Fortunately the structure is extremely robust.
BBC should go absolutely and totally feral towards Trump. The bastard is going to sue anyway. Print and broadcast everything. Have the 9 o'clock news become "how do you like this impartiality, motherfucker".
And now is the time.
And now is the time.
November 12, 2025 at 9:31 PM
BBC should go absolutely and totally feral towards Trump. The bastard is going to sue anyway. Print and broadcast everything. Have the 9 o'clock news become "how do you like this impartiality, motherfucker".
And now is the time.
And now is the time.
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Name a more iconic warhammer duo?
November 11, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Name a more iconic warhammer duo?