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William Bendix
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Associate Professor of International Relations & Intelligence, Dakota State University

Opinions, rarely offered, are my own
Why does poetry trick large language models into giving up dangerous and prohibited information? Here's why:
November 29, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Here's how it works:
October 14, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Beyond the doomsday fears, this is an interesting trend:
October 10, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Ground drones are used to supply and rescue troops.
October 8, 2025 at 2:10 AM
You've inherited a movie theater, what's your first double feature?

THE WAGES OF FEAR (1953) and SORCERER (1977)
July 21, 2025 at 1:30 AM
April 16, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Please help us make you obsolete.
February 5, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I just read Douthat's op-ed claiming that Canadian national identity boils down to anti-Americanism. This couldn't be more wrong. Canada isn't anti-American; it's un-American in a very specific way (see the cartoon below). BTW, I say this as a Canadian living in the US.
January 11, 2025 at 10:26 PM