lupin
@tracesoflupin.bsky.social
qualia, tropes, and the need for threes
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A White-breasted Nuthatch striking the classic nuthatch pose. These birds have an extra strong hind toe that allows them to scoot downwards face-first.
December 14, 2025 at 9:30 PM
A White-breasted Nuthatch striking the classic nuthatch pose. These birds have an extra strong hind toe that allows them to scoot downwards face-first.
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An American Tree Sparrow (left) and a Dark-eyed Junco (right) having a discussion about who gets to look for food in this patch of snow.
December 14, 2025 at 11:52 PM
An American Tree Sparrow (left) and a Dark-eyed Junco (right) having a discussion about who gets to look for food in this patch of snow.
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To thwart malicious prompts, large language models use filters that are smaller than the models themselves. Recently, the Turing Award-winning cryptographer Shafi Goldwasser and researcher Sarah Ball showed that this size disparity makes LLMs insecure. www.quantamagazine.org/cryptographe...
December 14, 2025 at 9:00 PM
To thwart malicious prompts, large language models use filters that are smaller than the models themselves. Recently, the Turing Award-winning cryptographer Shafi Goldwasser and researcher Sarah Ball showed that this size disparity makes LLMs insecure. www.quantamagazine.org/cryptographe...
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I was trying to think of a favourite photo from this year, and this face-on shot of a Drinker came to mind. This moth piqued my interest because of its unusual appearance in comparison to other #moths I'd seen this year. It wasn't easy to photograph. It was incredibly lively. #teammoth
December 13, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Sandhill Cranes typically fly with their long legs trailing behind them. On very cold mornings, like this morning when it was in the single digits, they will tuck their legs in while in flight.
December 13, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Sandhill Cranes typically fly with their long legs trailing behind them. On very cold mornings, like this morning when it was in the single digits, they will tuck their legs in while in flight.
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2026...
JIM CAMPILONGO & ADAM LEVY GUITAR DUO
BIRD & BECKETT
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 21
SHOWTIME 7:30 TO 9:30
$20 COVER
653 CHENERY ST SAN FRANCISCO CALIF 94131
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JIM CAMPILONGO & ADAM LEVY GUITAR DUO
BIRD & BECKETT
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 21
SHOWTIME 7:30 TO 9:30
$20 COVER
653 CHENERY ST SAN FRANCISCO CALIF 94131
birdbeckett.com/events/
December 10, 2025 at 9:48 PM
2026...
JIM CAMPILONGO & ADAM LEVY GUITAR DUO
BIRD & BECKETT
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 21
SHOWTIME 7:30 TO 9:30
$20 COVER
653 CHENERY ST SAN FRANCISCO CALIF 94131
birdbeckett.com/events/
JIM CAMPILONGO & ADAM LEVY GUITAR DUO
BIRD & BECKETT
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 21
SHOWTIME 7:30 TO 9:30
$20 COVER
653 CHENERY ST SAN FRANCISCO CALIF 94131
birdbeckett.com/events/
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A close-up of a Tufted Titmouse with his/her tuft blowing in the wind. I love their black eyelashes. The thin black feathers around the break are rictal bristles, which are common in many birds but their size and placement differs between species.
December 7, 2025 at 10:08 PM
A close-up of a Tufted Titmouse with his/her tuft blowing in the wind. I love their black eyelashes. The thin black feathers around the break are rictal bristles, which are common in many birds but their size and placement differs between species.
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The Trump regime has been busy dismantling American democracy, but we've been busy fighting back! We've been furiously exposing Trump and his co-conspirators. This Giving Tuesday, fight back with us by helping Property of the People continue our critical mission! propertyofthepeople.org/donate/
December 2, 2025 at 7:16 PM
The Trump regime has been busy dismantling American democracy, but we've been busy fighting back! We've been furiously exposing Trump and his co-conspirators. This Giving Tuesday, fight back with us by helping Property of the People continue our critical mission! propertyofthepeople.org/donate/
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Energy transitions can happen faster than we think:
In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels.
In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.
In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels.
In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.
December 1, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Energy transitions can happen faster than we think:
In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels.
In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.
In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels.
In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.
A confederacy of dunces
Just when I thought I'd seen it all........
endpoints.news/new-acip-cha....
endpoints.news/new-acip-cha....
December 2, 2025 at 12:39 AM
A confederacy of dunces
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A male Eastern Bluebird about to dine on a berry. I believe this a Greenbrier plant, but I could be off on that.
December 1, 2025 at 11:35 PM
A male Eastern Bluebird about to dine on a berry. I believe this a Greenbrier plant, but I could be off on that.
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JIM CAMPILONGO, CHRIS MORRISSEY, JOSH DION
FRIDAY FEBRUARY FEBRUARY 27 SHOWTIME 8:30 to 11:30
BAR LUNATICO
486 Halsey St, Brooklyn, NY 11233
www.barlunatico.com/music
FRIDAY FEBRUARY FEBRUARY 27 SHOWTIME 8:30 to 11:30
BAR LUNATICO
486 Halsey St, Brooklyn, NY 11233
www.barlunatico.com/music
November 23, 2025 at 12:48 AM
JIM CAMPILONGO, CHRIS MORRISSEY, JOSH DION
FRIDAY FEBRUARY FEBRUARY 27 SHOWTIME 8:30 to 11:30
BAR LUNATICO
486 Halsey St, Brooklyn, NY 11233
www.barlunatico.com/music
FRIDAY FEBRUARY FEBRUARY 27 SHOWTIME 8:30 to 11:30
BAR LUNATICO
486 Halsey St, Brooklyn, NY 11233
www.barlunatico.com/music
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We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com.
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
November 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com.
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
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There's a super sci-fi rebellion against the overlord machines story in all this... 😅
absolutely LOVE this preprint on tricking LLMs using poetry:
arxiv.org/abs/2511.15304
Like magic spells, you need to use the correct pentameter or the demon won't listen
arxiv.org/abs/2511.15304
Like magic spells, you need to use the correct pentameter or the demon won't listen
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 8:02 AM
There's a super sci-fi rebellion against the overlord machines story in all this... 😅
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There's something very subversively cyberpunk about some plucky rebels taking down Skynet with a perfectly formed haiku...
November 21, 2025 at 10:00 AM
There's something very subversively cyberpunk about some plucky rebels taking down Skynet with a perfectly formed haiku...
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The causation is the real pickle. There are ways for your microbiome to impact neuroinflammation, anxiety, and mood but there is no particular pattern to this in autistic people. Gut microbes don't "cause" or "cure" autism either way.
And here's the paper, with @statsepi.bsky.social and @deevybee.bsky.social: Conceptual and methodological flaws undermine claims of a link between the gut microbiome and autism www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
Conceptual and methodological flaws undermine claims of a link between the gut microbiome and autism
Claims that the gut microbiome causally contributes to autism regularly appear in
the scientific literature and popular press. Mitchell et al. critically examine influential
studies underpinning these...
www.cell.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:12 PM
The causation is the real pickle. There are ways for your microbiome to impact neuroinflammation, anxiety, and mood but there is no particular pattern to this in autistic people. Gut microbes don't "cause" or "cure" autism either way.
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Breaking News: President Trump's handpicked prosecutor acknowledged that a full grand jury did not see the final indictment against James Comey before he was charged.
Trump Loyalist Admits Grand Jury Never Saw Final Comey Indictment
Lindsey Halligan, the president’s handpicked prosecutor in Virginia, admitted that she had never shown the final version of the indictment to the full grand jury before the foreperson signed the charging document.
nyti.ms
November 19, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Breaking News: President Trump's handpicked prosecutor acknowledged that a full grand jury did not see the final indictment against James Comey before he was charged.
"Paternal #COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 infection) can alter sperm & offspring phenotypes, including #anxiety"
I am delighted to share our new paper! nature.com/articles/s41...
Lizzie Kleeman & our Florey Institute team, with WEHI, UoM & others, found that paternal COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 infection) can alter sperm & offspring phenotypes, including anxiety. This discovery has major (brain) health implications!
Lizzie Kleeman & our Florey Institute team, with WEHI, UoM & others, found that paternal COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 infection) can alter sperm & offspring phenotypes, including anxiety. This discovery has major (brain) health implications!
Paternal SARS-CoV-2 infection impacts sperm small noncoding RNAs and increases anxiety in offspring in a sex-dependent manner - Nature Communications
Whether paternal pre-conceptual SARS-CoV-2 infection impacts sperm RNA content, or effects offspring phenotypes, has not been previously investigated. Here authors report changes in sperm noncoding RNAs in SARS-CoV-2 infected sires and increased anxiety-like behaviors in offspring.
nature.com
October 20, 2025 at 5:11 PM
"Crucially, three-quarters of cancers detected were those which have no screening programme such as ovarian, liver, stomach, bladder and pancreatic cancer.
The blood test correctly identified the origin of the cancer in nine out of 10 cases."
The blood test correctly identified the origin of the cancer in nine out of 10 cases."
October 18, 2025 at 6:54 AM
"Crucially, three-quarters of cancers detected were those which have no screening programme such as ovarian, liver, stomach, bladder and pancreatic cancer.
The blood test correctly identified the origin of the cancer in nine out of 10 cases."
The blood test correctly identified the origin of the cancer in nine out of 10 cases."
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Why does the naked mole rat have the longest lifespan of any rodent, nearly 40 years?
A 30-year long mystery unraveled @ScienceMagazine today!
Its cGAS enzyme in cells has 4 missense mutations that upends its function, promoting DNA repair and suppressing inflammation
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A 30-year long mystery unraveled @ScienceMagazine today!
Its cGAS enzyme in cells has 4 missense mutations that upends its function, promoting DNA repair and suppressing inflammation
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
October 9, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Why does the naked mole rat have the longest lifespan of any rodent, nearly 40 years?
A 30-year long mystery unraveled @ScienceMagazine today!
Its cGAS enzyme in cells has 4 missense mutations that upends its function, promoting DNA repair and suppressing inflammation
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A 30-year long mystery unraveled @ScienceMagazine today!
Its cGAS enzyme in cells has 4 missense mutations that upends its function, promoting DNA repair and suppressing inflammation
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
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It would take around 1.1 million acres of solar panels to (clean) power the world. That's less than a quarter of the number of acres devoted globally to golf courses. You can see where this is going, right...?
October 4, 2025 at 11:28 PM
It would take around 1.1 million acres of solar panels to (clean) power the world. That's less than a quarter of the number of acres devoted globally to golf courses. You can see where this is going, right...?
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“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall
💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
― Jane Goodall
💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
October 2, 2025 at 2:56 AM
“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall
💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
― Jane Goodall
💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
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The U.S. is revoking the President of Colombia's visa for saying Trump is complicit in the Gaza genocide and calling on American soldiers to resist Trump's orders to harm innocents.
US to revoke Colombia President Petro's visa | The Jerusalem Post
In his speech to the global gathering on Tuesday, Petro also hit out at Trump, saying the US leader was "complicit in genocide" in Gaza.
www.jpost.com
September 27, 2025 at 3:02 PM
The U.S. is revoking the President of Colombia's visa for saying Trump is complicit in the Gaza genocide and calling on American soldiers to resist Trump's orders to harm innocents.