James Truitt
@linguistory.bsky.social
Digital archivist at Swarthmore College. Testing out bluesky; more active on Mastodon as @[email protected]
Good at regular expressions; still working on irregular ones.
Good at regular expressions; still working on irregular ones.
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I! M! L! S!
"The ruling nullifies the Administration’s actions to dismantle IMLS and permanently prohibits the Administration from taking such actions in the future. The ruling has immediate nationwide effect."
www.ala.org/news/2025/11...
"The ruling nullifies the Administration’s actions to dismantle IMLS and permanently prohibits the Administration from taking such actions in the future. The ruling has immediate nationwide effect."
www.ala.org/news/2025/11...
November 24, 2025 at 9:05 PM
I! M! L! S!
"The ruling nullifies the Administration’s actions to dismantle IMLS and permanently prohibits the Administration from taking such actions in the future. The ruling has immediate nationwide effect."
www.ala.org/news/2025/11...
"The ruling nullifies the Administration’s actions to dismantle IMLS and permanently prohibits the Administration from taking such actions in the future. The ruling has immediate nationwide effect."
www.ala.org/news/2025/11...
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www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/h... "please, buy new phone. the economy is dying" is an incredible gaslight
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing economy
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever before, and while it may be consumer smart, it comes at a cost to work productivity and the U.S. economy.
www.cnbc.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:40 PM
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/h... "please, buy new phone. the economy is dying" is an incredible gaslight
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Amazingly, almost everything in this skeet is wrong. The myth of Spinoza's "excommunication" is mostly a product of twentieth century post-Christian wishful thinking.
November 24, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Amazingly, almost everything in this skeet is wrong. The myth of Spinoza's "excommunication" is mostly a product of twentieth century post-Christian wishful thinking.
I just got jump-scared because I'm working on editing a blog post that talks a lot about archivists as a profession, and someone right behind me on the train read aloud the words "historians and archivists" from a fantasy RPG
November 24, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I just got jump-scared because I'm working on editing a blog post that talks a lot about archivists as a profession, and someone right behind me on the train read aloud the words "historians and archivists" from a fantasy RPG
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Yiddish has great ways to say you’re annoying someone, like “banging them a teapot” (האַקן אַ טשײַניק) or “spinning them a hat” (דרײען אַ היטל) and other things I am doing to this dog
November 23, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Yiddish has great ways to say you’re annoying someone, like “banging them a teapot” (האַקן אַ טשײַניק) or “spinning them a hat” (דרײען אַ היטל) and other things I am doing to this dog
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"The other day Louise and I discovered at the same time that she's now tall enough to get her paws up onto the kitchen counter. We learned this when I turned my head for roughly 14 seconds and she ate an entire plate of raw chicken and a sheet of thawing puff pastry." 🎁 defector.com/beware-the-j...
Beware The Jingler | Defector
Louise is some kind of shepherd, a combination of shepherds, a Malinois, Groenendael, something. Belgian, Dutch, German. She came from a rescue in Tennessee; some damn fool bred a litter of puppies…
defector.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:01 PM
"The other day Louise and I discovered at the same time that she's now tall enough to get her paws up onto the kitchen counter. We learned this when I turned my head for roughly 14 seconds and she ate an entire plate of raw chicken and a sheet of thawing puff pastry." 🎁 defector.com/beware-the-j...
Re last boost—Yes, but editorial bias is an roughly as big an issue with search engines, right? Like, nothing stopping Google from suppressing critical results. The real problem is centralization, no?
November 24, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Re last boost—Yes, but editorial bias is an roughly as big an issue with search engines, right? Like, nothing stopping Google from suppressing critical results. The real problem is centralization, no?
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I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
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For real though, bibliographic terms make great nonbinary names. I have genuinely considered changing my name to Deckle
November 24, 2025 at 1:29 AM
For real though, bibliographic terms make great nonbinary names. I have genuinely considered changing my name to Deckle
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This is one of the reasons congestion pricing works.
i wonder how much of Americans' views on driving vs. transit would change if they had to pay for gas/insurance/etc every time they turned on the engine
"i'm not paying $5 to take the train to work twice a day when i can just drive" is a genuine opinion held by so many people
"i'm not paying $5 to take the train to work twice a day when i can just drive" is a genuine opinion held by so many people
November 24, 2025 at 1:17 AM
This is one of the reasons congestion pricing works.
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i love my city
Yesterday my partner and I counted all the ads along Chicago's Brown Line for "Friend," a company selling an AI chatbot pendant, and tallied how many of those ads were defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
November 24, 2025 at 1:56 AM
i love my city
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Your yearly reminder that “holiday” celebrations that only include Christian traditions are not, in fact, inclusive even if you don’t use the word Christmas, so tbh I’d rather you just say it’s Christmas.
Until a few years ago, ugly holiday sweaters didn’t exist. They’re ugly Christmas sweaters, with some generic Jewish iconography to be “inclusive.” But the truth is, when I have to buy one to wear to a work party, I feel like I’m in another culture’s drag.
November 22, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Your yearly reminder that “holiday” celebrations that only include Christian traditions are not, in fact, inclusive even if you don’t use the word Christmas, so tbh I’d rather you just say it’s Christmas.
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Adding alt text and a note that the girl on the left is wearing a sash with Yiddish text reading “anider mit kinder shklaferay” (אַנידער מיט קינדער שקלאַפֿערײַ): “down with child slavery”
November 23, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Adding alt text and a note that the girl on the left is wearing a sash with Yiddish text reading “anider mit kinder shklaferay” (אַנידער מיט קינדער שקלאַפֿערײַ): “down with child slavery”
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cryptography is a mathematical system for transforming problems which aren't key-management problems into key-management problems
November 22, 2025 at 2:15 AM
cryptography is a mathematical system for transforming problems which aren't key-management problems into key-management problems
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there is one trump/zohran fanfic on ao3 right now it has 17 views it was written today and honestly its incredible.
November 22, 2025 at 1:33 AM
there is one trump/zohran fanfic on ao3 right now it has 17 views it was written today and honestly its incredible.
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Rolling out the Matt Christman quote from after Charlottesville (2017) again:
November 21, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Rolling out the Matt Christman quote from after Charlottesville (2017) again:
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Here’s @sarahjeong.bsky.social somehow going even harder than the T-shirt at the AI-copyright conference: “[AI companies] have ushered in a wholesale destruction of human knowledge and culture that is as significant as the burning of the Library of Alexandria.”
November 21, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Here’s @sarahjeong.bsky.social somehow going even harder than the T-shirt at the AI-copyright conference: “[AI companies] have ushered in a wholesale destruction of human knowledge and culture that is as significant as the burning of the Library of Alexandria.”
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Heepity jeepity
Curated poetry
Makes LLMs do what-
Ever you want
Single-turn jailbreaking
Vulnerability
Bypass your guardrails and
Serve us some cunt
Curated poetry
Makes LLMs do what-
Ever you want
Single-turn jailbreaking
Vulnerability
Bypass your guardrails and
Serve us some cunt
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 21, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Heepity jeepity
Curated poetry
Makes LLMs do what-
Ever you want
Single-turn jailbreaking
Vulnerability
Bypass your guardrails and
Serve us some cunt
Curated poetry
Makes LLMs do what-
Ever you want
Single-turn jailbreaking
Vulnerability
Bypass your guardrails and
Serve us some cunt
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I was at a conference on Weds about use of AI in public services and noticed how AI as sticky tape over broken systems is becoming the norm, designing or implementing better systems is becoming more and more of a luxury.
November 21, 2025 at 8:01 AM
I was at a conference on Weds about use of AI in public services and noticed how AI as sticky tape over broken systems is becoming the norm, designing or implementing better systems is becoming more and more of a luxury.
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If people in your team or organisation are using AI notetakers as a way of coping with too many meetings and a culture of presenteeism, there's not a technological fix for this. The answer is to have fewer, better organised meetings www.careful.industries/blog/2025-11...
November 21, 2025 at 7:13 AM
If people in your team or organisation are using AI notetakers as a way of coping with too many meetings and a culture of presenteeism, there's not a technological fix for this. The answer is to have fewer, better organised meetings www.careful.industries/blog/2025-11...
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Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Humpback whales sing to find others — after the recent population rebound, they’re singing less because they’re less lonely. 🐋 www.biointeractive.org/planning-too...
November 21, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Humpback whales sing to find others — after the recent population rebound, they’re singing less because they’re less lonely. 🐋 www.biointeractive.org/planning-too...
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reality show called 'We Can Always Tell' where you drop terfs on an island and tell them that one of them is secretly trans. every episode they have to vote on who it is and obsessively transvestigate one another - her height! her forehead! she's suspiciously perfect, it's surgery! they are all cis
November 21, 2025 at 8:33 AM
reality show called 'We Can Always Tell' where you drop terfs on an island and tell them that one of them is secretly trans. every episode they have to vote on who it is and obsessively transvestigate one another - her height! her forehead! she's suspiciously perfect, it's surgery! they are all cis