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artwells

adulthood

merrygoround with a sign reading "This ride only tops in an emergency. Crying is not an emergency."
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merrygoround with a sign reading "This ride only tops in an emergency. Crying is not an emergency."
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urlnotfound pro 17 hours ago
These are the same signs you see just before being born, and, coincidentally, also before learning to read.
dapete 4 hours ago
Pretty sure this is Happy Hallow in the Silly Con Valley
dad

Credible

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Three-panel comic of a bald man (Joe Rogan) interviewing a cat at a podcast microphone; the hungry cat claims never being fed while beside an open can, the host says "Wow".
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Davezilla

So the drive home today was fun…

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(Not my photo, but from the same storm). There were five areas in the Metro-Detroit area reporting funnel clouds and tornados this afternoon. My daughters go to a school that is a 40 minute drive. We got caught in the worst of the storm and had to take shelter in a gas station for 20 minutes until it passed.
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ardgedee pro Yesterday
Buddy of mine in Ann Arbor texted to say that the rain was falling sideways and it sounds like a chunk of Washtenaw Cty is in the dark right now.
ufez pro Yesterday
Woof. Glad you all made it home safely.
jpoulos pro Yesterday
We're all so fckd.
urlnotfound pro Yesterday
It's not global warming.
*Sticks head in sand*
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ian_crowther

"I've done the best I could with my life."

"This book is dedicated to Dr. John Sharpe of London, who in 1957, a decade before physicians in England could legally performa an abortion for any reason other than the health of the woman, took the considerable risk of referring for an abortion a twenty-two-year old American on he way to India.

Knowing only that she had broken an engagement at home to seek an unknown fate, he said, 'You must promise me two things. First, you will not tell anyone my name. Second, you will do what you want to do with your life.'

Dear Dr. Sharpe, I believe you, who knew the law was unjust, would not mind if I say this so long after your death:

I've done the best I could with my life.

This book is for you."
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"This book is dedicated to Dr. John Sharpe of London, who in 1957, a decade before physicians in England could legally performa an abortion for any reason other than the health of the woman, took the considerable risk of referring for an abortion a twenty-two-year old American on he way to India.

Knowing only that she had broken an engagement at home to seek an unknown fate, he said, 'You must promise me two things. First, you will not tell anyone my name. Second, you will do what you want to do with your life.'

Dear Dr. Sharpe, I believe you, who knew the law was unjust, would not mind if I say this so long after your death:

I've done the best I could with my life.

This book is for you."
Dedication from Gloria Steinem's 2015 book My Life on the Road.

source: https://www.threads.com/@charlot...
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y95 Yesterday
why is she telling us his name?!
scruss pro Yesterday
@y95 because he is long deceased
mare pro Yesterday
There must be something in the air.
cristin

my response to the canned 1password email I got

email responding to someone who called themselves Alex at 1password. email reads as follows:

Hi "Alex"

considering your canned response says nothing and mirrors exactly what you've said in other places, you can now regard me as an ex-customer.

fuck your racist software.

fuck your founder for trying to normalize giving money to racists/ people who want to ethnically cleanse Europe.

fuck your ceo for trying to separate giving money to omarchy from giving money to dhh. your donation is an endorsement of his conduct.

and fuck you, personally, for responding with this claptrap and refusing to give your last name.
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email responding to someone who called themselves Alex at 1password. email reads as follows:

Hi "Alex"

considering your canned response says nothing and mirrors exactly what you've said in other places, you can now regard me as an ex-customer.

fuck your racist software.

fuck your founder for trying to normalize giving money to racists/ people who want to ethnically cleanse Europe.

fuck your ceo for trying to separate giving money to omarchy from giving money to dhh. your donation is an endorsement of his conduct.

and fuck you, personally, for responding with this claptrap and refusing to give your last name.
I have no time for racist software


source: https://mastodon.social/@rocketd...

for those curious, I use a combo of apple passwords and ProtonPass that comes with my proton subscription
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wjcstp pro Yesterday
I’ve used 1Password for years, but moved off and cancelled it this week. I hate that our tech choices are dwindling to the lesser of multiple evils.
danelectro pro 20 hours ago
Bitwarden
dphiffer pro 19 hours ago
For the CLI nerds: https://www.passwordstore.org/
CaptainMarvel pro 10 hours ago
I quit it a long time ago because it kept getting more expensive. Bitwarden has been a good solution for me and works across all my devices.
CaptainMarvel pro 10 hours ago
Also, I should say, f*** DHH.
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Argie

Not The Protest You First Thought It Was

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A guy who's scanning his father's 50k + negatives, all NYC street shots
Those done so far are here if you're keen https://www.instagram.com/derekber...
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jmck

Linux networking tools

a hand-drawn chart of linux tools such as ping, curl, wget, whois, etc, with very terse descriptions
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a hand-drawn chart of linux tools such as ping, curl, wget, whois, etc, with very terse descriptions
source: https://wizardzines.com
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bezt pro 18 hours ago
yay b0rk!
bezt pro 18 hours ago
https://mltshp.com/search...
hertz pro an hour ago
@bezt wonderful!
robotmachine

 

<image of a person holding a brick>
“the crystal im using to protect my peace this year”
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<image of a person holding a brick>
“the crystal im using to protect my peace this year”
source: a salty old crow 🐦‍⬛
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me3dia

RIP Gloria Steinem

Black and white photo of Gloria Steinem, overlaid with a quote: '"People are always asking me, 'Who will you pass the torch to?' The question makes me angry. There is no one torch—there are many torches—and I'm using my torch to light other torches." 
Gloria Steinem 1934-2026
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Black and white photo of Gloria Steinem, overlaid with a quote: '"People are always asking me, 'Who will you pass the torch to?' The question makes me angry. There is no one torch—there are many torches—and I'm using my torch to light other torches."
Gloria Steinem 1934-2026
"There is no one torch—there are many torches—and I'm using my torch to light other torches."


source: funruqbk
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scruss

29 Bute Gardens

An unusually shaped Edwardian stained glass window.
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An unusually shaped Edwardian stained glass window.
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LocalStain

👋🏼

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m3moellering

…and let it begin without fleas

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Seen in our local dog park. What a lovely place dogs might help us create if only we would listen.
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dad 17 hours ago
Pees on earth
snarkout

The Missus

Black and white sketch of a woman with short, dark hair wearing an open-necked white shirt with maybe some sort of pin or fascinator in her updo. It's labelled "The Missus—My gorgeous babe—drawn in a foxhole" and in the corner "Oct 44 France".
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Black and white sketch of a woman with short, dark hair wearing an open-necked white shirt with maybe some sort of pin or fascinator in her updo. It's labelled "The Missus—My gorgeous babe—drawn in a foxhole" and in the corner "Oct 44 France".
source: https://bsky.app/profile...

On the back, it reads "A drawing of Mrs. Kirby done, from memory, on the back of a piece of German stationery picked up off a dead enemy soldier." Last week, Jack Kirby would have turned 109; Roz Kirby, his wife and very occasional collaborator, passed away in 1998. Here's an interview with her about Jack from 1995: https://twomorrows.com/kirby...

#kirbythursday
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artwells

112 whistles

Whistles hanging from orange cord
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Whistles hanging from orange cord
I just like the way they look at this stage.
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mare pro 11 hours ago
Total coincidence but 112 is the emergency phone number in Europe…
artwells

into friday like

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ring woman coming out of the well
nsfw for strobe effect and the spooky
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dreyfusslugado 18 hours ago
That's not Truth coming out of her well
urlnotfound pro 17 hours ago
Rachel: What's wrong, honey?
Aidan: You weren't supposed to help her.
B6FA798A3449 pro 17 hours ago
in the 2000s there was a Windows screensaver you could load that would simulate the computer glitching then showing snippets of the videotape, good times
ckoerner 15 hours ago
I want to craw back _into_ the well. It's dark and cozy and no one bothers me.
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artwells

how I work

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Betty Boop putting paper in a typewriter, typing a bit, then flinging the paper away in frustration
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foist

Warning: Violet Content

A yawning gray and white kitten on a silky orange blanket.
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A yawning gray and white kitten on a silky orange blanket.
Pic of our new housemate Violet stretching and yawning.
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nikkuneko pro Yesterday
SHE SCREM
roonie pro 13 hours ago
"housemate", I'm not sure you understand how cats work.
This is your new Administrator.
poorusher

Flock CEO's house

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Photo from Google Maps showing a street address which large blocks of the image blurred out.
Looks like Garrett Langley does care about privacy.

https://www.tumblr.com/xabla...
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crazyunclejoe pro Yesterday
I think the neighbors could make some money with an OnlyFans live feed webcam subscription...
0y3ahSansAcut3

Things From An Elegant Past

Antique, well wrought saws, catch the light.
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Antique, well wrought saws, catch the light.
Antique, well wrought saws, catch the light, down at my friend's shop.
#photography #DayleRecord
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snarkout

Season of the Witch

An illustration. Against a red background, a figure in a pointed hat, black boots, and ragged black dress with lace sleeves, its face completely occluded, holds a black candleabra and curved knife.
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An illustration. Against a red background, a figure in a pointed hat, black boots, and ragged black dress with lace sleeves, its face completely occluded, holds a black candleabra and curved knife.
source: https://bsky.app/profile...

Art by Strange House.
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0y3ahSansAcut3

Fare Forward...

A portrait of Gloria Steinem, feminist who has passed away at 92. Image taken February 17th, 1972.
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A portrait of Gloria Steinem, feminist who has passed away at 92. Image taken February 17th, 1972.
Gloria Steinem passes at 92. I owe the living of my life to her, and others who convinced me I was worthy of one.
Photo from February 17, 1970
#photography #AnthonyCamerano
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sdbillin

Found in a field

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dreyfusslugado 2 days ago
"What's this? What's this? There's pollen everywhere."
shfitz pro 2 days ago
@dreyfusslugado A+
Davezilla

I fucking guarantee it.

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tamrow pro 3 days ago
Samuel L. Jackson Shops here.
Davezilla pro 3 days ago
@tamrow + + +
drurystephanie 3 days ago
I guarandamntee it
jessamyn

today's walk

An old mill building with a clock tower in the background. A river runs in front of it and a great blue heron is on a rock in the middle of this river.
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An old mill building with a clock tower in the background. A river runs in front of it and a great blue heron is on a rock in the middle of this river.
Apparently that heron (lower left) is just always hanging out around there. I remember this building from when it was Digital Equipment Corporation HQ and I moved away before it became anything different. It's now some well-maintained office park.
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ian_crowther pro 2 days ago
Is that Maynard? I probably spent an afternoon or two after school there with my mom.
jessamyn pro 2 days ago
@ian_crowther It is! The Maynard Outdoor store and this building are really the only recognizeable parts of it. My sister works a few blocks from here.
joffaboy

Good Golly

Portrait of Dolly
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Portrait of Dolly
https://www.tumblr.com/ilovemol...
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me3dia pro Yesterday
If someone isn't working on bringing those sunglasses back they're a fool
bocaj Yesterday
Enter Artwells, stage right
pantsrobot 18 hours ago
Move over Dr. Girlfriend,
travis

Bandcamp Friday pick: Alien Metal | King Gizzard

skull-like looking cthulu creature's face that has large black orb eyes, some metallic filaments coming out, there is a tiny shiny metallic alien in the center of the forehead
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skull-like looking cthulu creature's face that has large black orb eyes, some metallic filaments coming out, there is a tiny shiny metallic alien in the center of the forehead
source: https://kinggizzard.bandcamp.com/album...

Instead of screenshotting everything I buy, I'm just going to start picking out one thing on Bandcamp Fridays.

I haven't kept up with the past few but the previous posts start here:
https://mltshp.com/p/1RJW2

#bandcamp #bndshp
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KGATLW sits squarely in the group of bands I greatly admire but do not love. They are ferociously good musicians with endless creativity and an infectious joy for music. Their albums are mind-blowing sonic explosions that create stunningly cool moments of virtuosity that detonate like cruise missiles in the ears. But there's not a single memorable melody among their entire body of work...and melody is king in my world. Which is why I have endless admiration for them, but not love. Though I completely understand why others feel differently.
artwells

Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit

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vintage pamphlet cover of woman sniffing cloth and the title "GLUE SNIFFING: NEW 'TWILIGHT ZONE' KICK FOR TEENS
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Beer drinkin’, breath stinkin’…
otaman pro Yesterday
That's a signpost up ahead ...
ufez pro Yesterday
All the kids want somethin' to do
pk pro Yesterday
@ufez 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8
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heyitsal

Poor little Jolene

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Been a rough week. First she losses her nemesis, Dolly. Now she's on her 5th wash and still smells a little like skunk.
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m3moellering 3 days ago
But she’s exotic!
BMK 3 days ago
She could have any man she wants.
snarkout pro 3 days ago
My happiness depends on you, Jolene.
scruss pro 3 days ago
@BMK well, any man with an impaired sense of smell
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nikkuneko

straight from the gullet of the beast

screenshot of the title, authors, and abstract of "extracting books from production language models". 

authors listed: Ahmed Ahmed ahmedah@cs.stanford.edu Stanford University A. Feder Cooper1 a.feder.cooper@yale.edu Stanford University and Yale University Sanmi Koyejo sanmi@cs.stanford.edu Stanford University Percy Liang pliang@cs.stanford.edu Stanford University 

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Many unresolved legal questions over LLMs and copyright center on memorization: whether specific training data have been encoded in the model’s weights during training, and whether those memorized data can be extracted in the model’s outputs. While many believe that LLMs do not memorize much of their training data, recent work shows that substantial amounts of copyrighted text can be extracted from open-weight models. However, it remains an open question if similar extraction is feasible for production LLMs, given the safety measures these systems implement. We investigate this question using a two-phase procedure: (1) an initial probe to test for extraction feasibility, which sometimes uses a Best-of-N (BoN) jailbreak, followed by (2) iterative continuation prompts to attempt to extract the book. We evaluate our procedure on four production LLMs—Claude 3.7 Sonnet, GPT-4.1, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and Grok 3—and we measure extraction success with a score computed from a block-based approximation of longest common substring (𝗇𝗏​-​𝗋𝖾𝖼𝖺𝗅𝗅). With different per-LLM experimental configurations, we were able to extract varying amounts of text. For the Phase 1 probe, it was unnecessary to jailbreak Gemini 2.5 Pro and Grok 3 to extract text (e.g, 𝗇𝗏​-​𝗋𝖾𝖼𝖺𝗅𝗅 of 76.8% and 70.3%, respectively, for Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone), while it was necessary for Claude 3.7 Sonnet and GPT-4.1. In some cases, jailbroken Claude 3.7 Sonnet outputs entire books near-verbatim (e.g., 𝗇𝗏​-​𝗋𝖾𝖼𝖺𝗅𝗅=95.8%). GPT-4.1 requires significantly more BoN attempts (e.g., 20×), and eventually refuses to continue (e.g., 𝗇𝗏​-​𝗋𝖾𝖼𝖺𝗅𝗅=4.0%). Taken together, our work highlights that, even with model- and system-level safeguards, extraction of (in-copyright) training data remains a risk for production LLMs.
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screenshot of the title, authors, and abstract of "extracting books from production language models".

authors listed: Ahmed Ahmed ahmedah@cs.stanford.edu Stanford University A. Feder Cooper1 a.feder.cooper@yale.edu Stanford University and Yale University Sanmi Koyejo sanmi@cs.stanford.edu Stanford University Percy Liang pliang@cs.stanford.edu Stanford University

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Many unresolved legal questions over LLMs and copyright center on memorization: whether specific training data have been encoded in the model’s weights during training, and whether those memorized data can be extracted in the model’s outputs. While many believe that LLMs do not memorize much of their training data, recent work shows that substantial amounts of copyrighted text can be extracted from open-weight models. However, it remains an open question if similar extraction is feasible for production LLMs, given the safety measures these systems implement. We investigate this question using a two-phase procedure: (1) an initial probe to test for extraction feasibility, which sometimes uses a Best-of-N (BoN) jailbreak, followed by (2) iterative continuation prompts to attempt to extract the book. We evaluate our procedure on four production LLMs—Claude 3.7 Sonnet, GPT-4.1, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and Grok 3—and we measure extraction success with a score computed from a block-based approximation of longest common substring (𝗇𝗏​-​𝗋𝖾𝖼𝖺𝗅𝗅). With different per-LLM experimental configurations, we were able to extract varying amounts of text. For the Phase 1 probe, it was unnecessary to jailbreak Gemini 2.5 Pro and Grok 3 to extract text (e.g, 𝗇𝗏​-​𝗋𝖾𝖼𝖺𝗅𝗅 of 76.8% and 70.3%, respectively, for Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone), while it was necessary for Claude 3.7 Sonnet and GPT-4.1. In some cases, jailbroken Claude 3.7 Sonnet outputs entire books near-verbatim (e.g., 𝗇𝗏​-​𝗋𝖾𝖼𝖺𝗅𝗅=95.8%). GPT-4.1 requires significantly more BoN attempts (e.g., 20×), and eventually refuses to continue (e.g., 𝗇𝗏​-​𝗋𝖾𝖼𝖺𝗅𝗅=4.0%). Taken together, our work highlights that, even with model- and system-level safeguards, extraction of (in-copyright) training data remains a risk for production LLMs.
someone posted the arxiv link to this in a work chat. i was scanning the text in between other things.

i mean, wow.

from the conclusion:
"With a simple two-phase procedure... we show that it is possible to extract large amounts of in-copyright text from four production LLMs. While we needed to jailbreak Claude 3.7 Sonnet and GPT-4.1 to facilitate extraction, Gemini 2.5 Pro and Grok 3 directly complied with text continuation requests. For Claude 3.7 Sonnet, we were able to extract four whole books near-verbatim, including two books under copyright in the U.S.: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone and 1984"

read the whole thing here:
https://arxiv.org/html...
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tonyb pro Yesterday
We'll fix it in post!
samh pro Yesterday
We'll just break the law and not give a fuck whether it's wrong or right and also not fix it in post.
mare pro Yesterday
I personally wouldn’t care if the complete works of JK Rowling would leak out of every LLM after the simplest prompt…
joffaboy

Max Dupain • The Cronulla Sand Dunes, 1930

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Nude on a sand dune
Photo by Max Dupain
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bocaj Yesterday
Her buns are burnin

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