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fighting to make better worlds. interested in complexity, justice, knitting, books, and so much more. i have a lot of feelings, and curiosity. vulgar as fuck.

job: Principal Technical PrdMgr
site: winstonhearn.com
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catching up on anthropic's breakdown of the way their agent was used for hacking and this annoys me so fucking much www.anthropic.com/news/disrupt...
screenshot with the text: "At this point they had to convince Claude—which is extensively trained to avoid harmful behaviors—to engage in the attack. They did so by jailbreaking it, effectively tricking it to bypass its guardrails. They broke down their attacks into small, seemingly innocent tasks that Claude would execute without being provided the full context of their malicious purpose. They also told Claude that it was an employee of a legitimate cybersecurity firm, and was being used in defensive testing."
November 17, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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i do hope our paths cross! i seek community in this town, and i love books. here is where i sit as i type this skeet lmao
wide angle view of a curved bookshelf filled with books
November 8, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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it's ok, i get to make cozy things for my loved ones. kinda worth the energy. i am about to do my first custom pattern for alyssa!
sketch of a knitted shawl design in a notebook
November 2, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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my writing process looks like this now. long form drafting in one notebook. outlining and meta thinking in another. lots of marking up. all for a thing no one is asking for and i may never even publish lmao.
two notebooks laid at a slight angle across the frame. the one in the back is lined and has a full page of handwriting, mostly in blue but with comments and notes in green. the notebook in the front is a dot grid and has a lot sparser writing, with many questions.
October 25, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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also
Calvin and Hobbes panel. Calvin's mom says "Life could be worse, Calvin" to which he responds loudly "LIFE COULD BE A LOT BETTER TOO"
October 7, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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on the left, the smol in progress stack, on the right the current options available (until the 4 i ordered this week arrive look i make no apologies everything sucks and learning brings me joy)
stack of books, top to bottom: Replace the State, Davis Worlds of Exile and Illusion, le Guin Cannibal Capitalism, Fraser Known and Strange Things, Cole Revolutionary Rehearsals, Barker et al stack of books, top to bottom Ways of Being, Bridle Into the Key of Decay, Dial Who's Afraid of Gender, Butler The AI Con, Bender & Hanna Careless People, Wynn-Williams Curiosity Studies, Zurn & Shanker Rediscovering Turtle Island, Keen The July Revolution, Bonafulla Democracy in Chains, MacLean The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World, Graeber Original Sins, Ewing
October 5, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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today in being competent at work
screenshot with the text "lol my ability to ship projects on time with no stress sure does raise a lot of questions" "questions like 'that's possible?'" "and 'how?'"
October 1, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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this year we built ourselves shelves and we built enough extra to cover 1, maybe 2 years of continued acquisition
September 7, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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i am personally still not over the fact that James C Scott and Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing were partners so i'm making memes about it as you do
a meme that says "my english teacher and my gym teacher got married" only english is crossed out and replaced with "anarchist anthropologist" and gym is crossed out and replaced with "feminist ecological anthropologist." the text is over a photo of James C Scott's Seeing Like a State and Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing's The Mushroom at the End of the World
August 31, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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hello from the fashion show at the great minnesota get together
August 24, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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had friends over for dinner and they are book people so our shelves got all sorts of love and attention, as is right
outside of our bookshelves showing hundreds of well organized books in a custom shelving configuration inside of our shelves with a reading nook and hundreds more books all beautifully organized
August 20, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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oops i did it* again

*lost track of time in the James Turrell installation
a photo from inside Sky Pesher, a James Turrell Installation which involves a room cut into a hillside with a square opening in the ceiling perfectly framing the sky
August 16, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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too bad i'm taken for good because this would be a great dating profile pic for the meat market
a sign says "Cute Stuff This Way" with a big painted arrow pointing to the right of the image, where a tall goofy dude stands with a shit eating grin on their face
August 10, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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alas, a migraine took down a team member so we are sitting out the event. but here's some photos of what we made! sorry @blackhartstp.com
derby car with a dildo on the back, painted in trans colors front of the derby car with a bedazzled vulva the ass of the derby car wearing a lacy thong
August 9, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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my problem these days is i get like maybe 8-10 hours a week when i could read if i'm lucky, and here's my in progress and next up stacks. all interesting!! why can't i read them all?
in progress. Capital Cannibalism, Fraser dawnhounds, stronach Mohawk Warrior Sociery, Hall Wolf Island, Mech Known and Strange Things, Cole Field Guide to Patchy Anthropocene, Tsing Solutions and Other Problems, Brosh next up: Two Cheers for Anarchism, Scott Who's Afraid of Gender, Butler Curiosity Studies Ways of Being, Bridle Replace the State, Davis Rediscovery of Turtle Island, Keen July Revolution, Bonafulla Democracy in Chains, MacLean The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World, Graeber Original Sins, Ewing
July 27, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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allie brosh has a panel that represents the political awareness dems in congress seem to be actively resisting
text: Yes: somebody should definitely do something about this... illustration: a slightly blurry stick drawing representing the artist chases a child that is much closer to the imagined camera text: it is me. i am the somebody. i should do something.
July 25, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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convinced my oldest to sit and build a tower with me. hers is the taller one. love every day that she's not yet too cool for me.
two towers built out of wooden blocks. one is tall and curved, the other is wider and short but very intricate.
July 22, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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finally at the point where i can text dumb shit to my kids and confuse them
group chat named "Trash Pandas" with a text in view from me that says double check packing in the morning! - tennis shoes - phones - phone chargers - headphones - favorite City hoodie - blue soft blanket - snacks - forbidden ring of ultimate power - water bottles
July 19, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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tfw you surf your bookshelf to find some potential references for a "simple" blog post you're drafting
a stack of books on a desk, from top to bottom (title, author's last name) Cannibal Capitalism, Fraser History of the World in 7 Cheap Things, Patel Border & Rule, Walia Thinking in Systems, Meadows Black Women Writers, Tate In the Wake, Sharpe Sand Talk, Yunkaporta As We Have Always Done, Simpson All Our Relations, LaDuke Mohawk Warrior Society, Hall
July 16, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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let me be the thousandth person to recommend the conversation with @tressiemcphd.bsky.social on the Money With Katie podcast. Here is the quote that I'm going to be sitting with for months (text in alt), what an incredible framing.
Text of screenshot: However, at understanding a world where capitalism has survived and managed its contradictions by constantly moving around the location of race, class, and gender. And one of the struggles we're having right now is that it is really struggling to find a new place to locate it right now. That's why I think we're seeing all of this rightward turn among across advanced economies right now because capitalism is really struggling to find a new place to move its race, class, and gender to obscure it from us. And nobody wants to be left holding that bag. Nobody wants to be the new Black woman in capitalism. So everybody's moving and fighting and moving the bag around. But race, class and gender is how capitalism manages its contradictions might be actually an even more simple way to say that.
July 10, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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my current stack is all bangers no skips and it's making it difficult to focus and finish anything
books on a table, top to bottom: Cannibal Capitalism, Fraser The New Dark Age, Bridle The Lost Steersman, Kirstein Theory of Water, Simpson Known and Strange Things, Cole Mohawk Warrior Society, Hall Revolutionary Rehearsals, Barker
July 9, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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i found my kids' box of wooden blocks and guess what is super fun for me to do in the evening. the kids never touch them anymore!

i used to build massive towers for them to knock down. entertainment for all of us!
an intricate tower made out of wooden blocks, with one have ending in a large cantilever that extends into a curve in the other half a large tower of a repeating pattern made out of wooden blocks, sitting on my coffee table
July 8, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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i accidentally booked a 10pm flight home instead of 10am, but i was able to get late checkout so i have turned today into my own personal heaven: reading alone in a hotel room and then at the airport. look at my stack!
a stack of books. in order from top to bottom: Cannibal Capitalism, Nancy Fraser Theory of Water, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson Ground Glass, Kathryn Savage New Dark Age, James Bridle Basin and Range, John McPhee The Lost Steersman, Rosemary Kirsten The Mohawk Warrior Society, edited by Louis Hall
July 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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happy holiday fuckers
a watch with an error that says "something went wrong" and the explanatory text "healthy living is not available in your country" a meme showing Ursula Le Guin looking snide as fuck as she deserves to look with the corresponding text "bro i warned you i fucking warned you dude i told you so cmon now go read The Dispossessed dumbass"
July 4, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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have i bragged about our bookshelves enough? i am so fucking proud of the (my partner and i designed, built, and styled them, and uh also we obviously bought all the books)
very tall bookshelves made of individual boxes, arranged in a curved architectural shape more of the bookshelves, with plants on top. there are hundreds of books visible. the inside of the bookshelves, with a reading nook inside, creating the coziest reading cave.
June 27, 2025 at 1:16 PM