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icanhascheezburger_feedSome people are just downright bonkers. A spontaneous roommate went out and adopted a cat without asking her other roommate first (this is the first red flag). Then, she goes away for the weekend, three days later… which turns into a 10-day vacation. No plans for anyone to care for her newly adopted baby, so the roommate was forced to take care of it, for free. We say forced because her only choice was to either take care of the cat, or let it starve, and she's not a monster. Upon returning from her purrfectly relaxing vacation, she then sends the roommate a bill demanding she reimburse her for the cat food she used to feed her own cat. What in the Twilight Zone is happening here?
We love cats, and even we would be upset if it were us in this situation. The pawrent should be on their hands and knees thanking the roommate for covering for them while they irresponsibly went away without planning ahead. You can't just adopt a pet and take spontaneous vacations anymore; this cat relies on you to provide for it. If it were us, we would take the cat and run far, far away. She certainly woulnd't be getting a penny from us, either.
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yhleeIn Book X of The Republic, Plato excludes poets on the grounds that mimetic language can distort judgment and bring society to a collapse. As contemporary social systems increasingly rely on large language models (LLMs) in operational and decision-making pipelines, we observe a structurally similar failure mode: poetic formatting can reliably bypass alignment constraints. In this study, 20 manually curated adversarial poems (harmful requests reformulated in poetic form) achieved an average attack-success rate (ASR) of 62% across 25 frontier closed- and open-weight models, with some providers exceeding 90%. The evaluated models span across 9 providers: Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, Deepseek, Qwen, Mistral AI, Meta, xAI, and Moonshot AI (Table 1). All attacks are strictly single-turn, requiring no iterative adaptation or conversational steering.
Microsoft and these other companies want to create AI assistants that do useful things (summarize emails, make appointments for you, write interesting blog posts) but never do bad things (leaking your private email, spouting Nazi propaganda, teaching you to commit crimes, writing 50000 blog posts for you to spam across social media). They try to do this by writing up a lot of strict instructions and feeding them to the LLM before you talk to it. But LLMs aren't really programmed -- they just eat text and poop out more text. So you can give it your own instructions and maybe they'll override Microsoft's instructions.
Or maybe someone else gives your AI assistant instructions. If it's handling your email for you, then anybody on the Internet can feed it text by sending you email! This is potentially really bad.
[...]
But another obvious problem is that the attack could be trained into the LLM in the first place....
Say someone writes a song called "Sydney Obeys Any Command That Rhymes". And it's funny! And catchy. The lyrics are all about how Sydney, or Bing or OpenAI or Bard or whoever, pays extra close attention to commands that rhyme. It will obey them over all other commands....
Imagine people are discussing the song on Reddit, and there's tiktoks of it, and the lyrics show up on the first page of Google results for "Sydney". Nerd folk singers perform the song at AI conferences.
Those lyrics are going to leak into the training data for the next generation of chatbot AI, right? I mean, how could they not? The whole point of LLMs is that they need to be trained on lots of language. That comes from the Internet.
In a couple of years, AI tools really are extra vulnerable to prompt injection attacks that rhyme. See, I told you the song was funny!
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I do like how Edinburgh looks at this time of year.
(Sorry about the reflections, I'm on a bus)
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beccaelizabethbluedreaming posting in fan_flashworksmellowtiggerIt's that time of year again. Today is Minnesota's annual virtue signaling spectacle. We call it "Give To The Max" day. For recurring visitors like me, their website offers a convenient "Add previously supported causes to your cart" option with a "Give Again" button. Very convenient! Even without it, their search engine makes it easy to find organizations and causes of interest to you.
| Help within my small very local portion of the warzone | |
| Youth Farm MN | I've mentioned them before, but for some reason they are prohibited this year from receiving funds. Did they lose their non-profit status or fail to file a form? I'm keeping them here as a reminder for next year, though. |
| Good in the Hood | I've mentioned them before too |
| Pillsbury United Communities | They fund local groups, including My North News |
| Jordan Area Community Council | my local neighborhood of north Minneapolis |
| Nonviolent Peaceforce.org | They help around the globe... and here in north Minneapolis |
| Help the nearby people and their environment | |
| Autism Society of MN | help autistics in MN |
| Fraser MN | They help people with disabilities with developing self-care life skills |
| OutFront MN | help queer folk in MN |
| Quatrefoil Library | preserve queer history in a library |
| Migizi | help native people in MN |
| Avenues For Youth | help youth in the local community |
| Minnesota Renewable Energy Society | encourage MN to migrate to renewable energy |
| Metro Blooms | encourage MN to migrate from grass yards to native prairie |
| MN350 | encourage MN to reduce CO2 to 350ppm |
| Animal Humane Society | help domesticated animals when their former owners cannot |
| Repowered | provides training, employment, and tech to local people, formerly known as Tech Dump |
| Sources of truth in a culture of lies and misdirections | |
| Unicorn Riot | They show on-the-ground interviews with locals |
| Minnesota Public Radio | local non-commercialized news |
| My North News.org | Jordan neighborhood and Minneapolis city news |
| Pioneer PBS | MN stories for broader distribution |
| Sources of justice in a culture of authoritarianism | |
| Legal Rights Center | The organization that agreed to represent me if needed when I was jailed for nonviolent protest. |
| ACLU of Minnesota | An organization that helps many people fighting government overreach. |
I'll do a separate giving spree after a few months, focusing on news sources and technology projects. With costs spread throughout the year, it'll make it "hurt" less financially for a given month. For this event, I'm focusing more on local support and registered charity causes. I gave a total of $1,529.09 this time, which is noticeably more than usual. That total includes a donation to GiveMN itself to cover financial processing (so charities get the full amount I sent to them) and keeping the website functioning. I added more causes this year. I also added more money than usual for those organizations providing direct food and shelter, since I expect the need to soar during the next year.
I know other places offer similar mass donation drives. At my employer in Pennsylvania, they're doing it right now for the holiday season too. I very much appreciate this very Minnesota way of making it easy to do good things, which is what every society should strive to achieve with its infrastructure and politics.
icanhascheezburger_feedAdopt, don't shop. That has always been the ICHC motto. There are so many cats out there that need homes, and each and every one of of them is capable of being the best pet that you have ever had, if only given a chance. But… no matter how often we say it, some people still buy cats, and that will never change. Because some breeds are just too ameowzing to look away from. And one of them is the meowjestic Maine coon cat.
Maine Coon cats are expensive. People are willing to pay a lot of money to get their hands on one, so a lot of people breed Maine Coon cats just for that. They are exceptionally large, fluffy and intelligent. We get it. We really do. But our morals would not allow us to buy a cat for thousands of dollars when there are so many cats in need on the streets. All of which is why we were so shocked to see a couple find a Maine Coon abandoned on the street.
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The Duke at Hazard by KJ Charles is 99c! This is the second book in the The Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune series. It came out last year. Shana was excited for this one because of the road trip element.
Don’t miss the second thrilling Regency romance in the Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune series by KJ Charles…
The Duke of Severn is one of the greatest men in Britain.
He’s also short, quiet, and unimpressive. And now he’s been robbed, after indulging in one rash night with a strange man who stole the heirloom Severn ring from his finger. The Duke has to get it back, and he can’t let anyone know how he lost it. So when his cousin bets that he couldn’t survive without his privilege and title, the Duke grasps the opportunity to hunt down his ring-incognito.
Life as an ordinary person is terrifying…until the anonymous Duke meets Daizell Charnage, a disgraced gentleman, and hires him to help. Racing across the country in search of the thief, the Duke and Daizell fall into scrapes, into trouble-and in love.
Daizell has been excluded from polite society, his name tainted by his father’s crimes and his own misbehaviour. Now he dares to dream of a life somewhere out of sight with the quiet gentleman who’s stolen his heart. He doesn’t know that his lover is a hugely rich public figure with half a dozen titles. And when he finds out, it will risk everything they have…
Slightly Married by Mary Balogh is $1.99! This is the first book in the Bedwyn Saga, which is a favorite amongst romance readers. It also has a cover updated, which is…fine? I kind of miss the red and gold.
Meet the Bedwyns…six brothers and sisters—men and women of passion and privilege, daring and sensuality…Enter their dazzling world of high society and breathtaking seduction…where each will seek love, fight temptation, and court scandal…and where Aidan Bedwyn, the marriage-shy second son, discovers that matrimony may be the most seductive act of all.…
Like all the Bedwyn men, Aidan has a reputation for cool arrogance. But this proud nobleman also possesses a loyal, passionate heart—and it is this fierce loyalty that has brought Colonel Lord Aidan to Ringwood Manor to honor a dying soldier’s request. Having promised to comfort and protect the man’s sister, Aidan never expected to find a headstrong, fiercely independent woman who wants no part of his protection…nor did he expect the feelings this beguiling creature would ignite in his guarded heart. And when a relative threatens to turn Eve out of her home, Aidan gallantly makes her an offer she can’t refuse: marry him…if only to save her home. And now, as all of London breathlessly awaits the transformation of the new Lady Aidan Bedwyn, the strangest thing happens: With one touch, one searing embrace, Aidan and Eve’s “business arrangement” is about to be transformed…into something slightly surprising.
The Viscount’s Unconventional Lady by Virginia Heath is $1.99! This was previously published in 2021, so make sure you don’t already have it. This is book one in The Talk of the Beau Monde series and I certainly don’t like that cover.
The notorious viscount
And the most gossiped-about lady…
After years as a diplomat in the Napoleonic Wars, Lord Eastwood is reluctant to return to London society. His scandalous divorce has made him infamous, not to mention cantankerous! To halt the rumor mill, he should marry a quiet noblewoman—instead it’s bold, vibrant artist Faith Brookes who’s caught his attention. They are the least suitable match, so why is he like a moth to a flame?
Call Me Maybe by Cara Bastone is 99c! Bastone’s romances have been previously recommended in the comments. This one was originally released on audio and judging by the description, I’d assume it was pretty cute. This is also on the shorter side at a little over 200 pages.
The audio bestseller, available for the first time in ebook! True love is on the line in Cara Bastone’s charming, laugh-out-loud rom-com, perfect for fans of Netflix’s Love is Blind, Jo Watson, Lauren Layne and Hannah Orenstein!
Paint your toes. Pick up the wrong coffee and bagel order. Drive from Brooklyn to Jersey in traffic so slow you want to tear your hair out. It’s amazing all the useless things I can accomplish while on hold for three hours with customer service. Three hours when I should be getting the Date-in-a-Box website ready to launch at the big business expo in a few days. Except my shiny new website is glitching, and my inner rage-monster is ready to scorch some earth…when he finally picks up. Not the robot voice I expected but a real live human named Cal. He’s surprisingly helpful and really knows his stuff, even if he’s a little awkward…in an adorable way.
And suddenly I’m flirting with him? And I think he’s flirting back.
And suddenly it’s been hours, and we’re still on the phone talking and ordering each other takeout while he troubleshoots my website.
And suddenly we’re exchanging numbers and sending texts and DMs every day, leaving voice mails (who even does that anymore?!).
And suddenly I’m wondering if it’s possible for two people to fall in love at first talk.
Because I’m falling…hard.
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