As a semi-professional poet and AI enthusiast (though not blind to its negatives), from my own experience I'd say that a poetic sensibility can be a strength for producing all kinds of desired and/or interesting results from LLMs, not just jailbreaking.

What's your favorite song about the rain? www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrEg...

My wokest opinion is that infant circumcision should be outlawed but reversible sterilization for pre-adolescent males should be mandatory. Reversal should require consent of the prospective mother.

RIP Donna Jean Godchaux. Here's my favorite released recording where she's the lead voice: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C-0...

What is it like inside your head?

Share a cartoon from the past that kids today have probably never heard of.

today is the birthday of murder victims George Floyd and Charlie Kirk

we all need this right now

unsolicited Dickel pic.

You're thinking of a diver, I think. I can understand the confusion, though. A duvet also breathes air but goes underwater -- it's a marine mammal, a type of sea cow whose closest non-extinct relative is the manatee.

What movie do you consider perfect?

Who's your favorite Jedi (wrong answers only)

I was on a long road trip and I realized we as human beings have the capacity to make every single thing we touch beautiful, and we just don't. I kept wondering why that would be, and so I had a conversation about it with my lil' fren. I thought it had some good ideas. chatgpt.com/share/68d36b...

Introduce yourself with the last five concerts you attended: Beats Antique Little Mazarn Phish Amigo the Devil Shinyribs

This is who runs this account

Post an iconic duo

this is delightful. www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5ef...

@jillinois.bsky.social this made me think of you

See a Doc, post a Doc

here's a little thing I recorded over lunch today, might be a New Tradition: youtu.be/DmqNSopV2Bo

made a pretty great cleaning mix (intended for shuffle) for this weekend‘s chores, if i don’t say so myself. for those who spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/15o...

Live in Austin and sometimes have stuff to donate? Bookmark this now: www.heartening.org

Finished the right page on this spread from my IL prairie nature journal... each prairie has its own special communities! #prairie #SciArt #naturejournal #insect

Okay, I cannot recommend 5calls.org enough. Enter your address and it will find all your reps (federal and state). AND give you a list of issues to call about AND which reps to call about each of them AND a little script for each, in case it's helpful. They have an app, too.

I had never heard of this before. Our history is so whitewashed. How much worse will this next wave of racist expulsions be with an administration so much more overtly promoting it? Protect your neighbors, friends, as best you can. You know nothing, you've seen nothing.

This book was wonderful. It's about love and death and art and memory and New York City and Paris and getting what you wish for, and not. I cried big tears at the end. app.thestorygraph.com/books/f67533...

I just came back from one of the most amazing D&D sessions I've ever run in my life. For context, in the last year I've been working as a professional DM, and one of my gigs is running games for kids in a camp setting here in LA. My table has been known as the most chaotic of the bunch.

Tonight I finished reading Monica by Daniel Clowes and Mansfield Park by Jane Austen, both great. Two masters of crushing understatement and also detailing in a way heightened to absurdity the plight of reasonable people forced to deal with venal egomaniacs. Evergreen.

The censorship algorithm on Twitter reduced our audience by roughly 95%, and seriously, who does that to a wildlife biology & advocacy group ? So we moved 😇 over here to BlueSky If you could, please help us regain our following Follow Retweet and Repeat ;-) Together we can change the world.

This list of 52 things an internet person learned in 2024 has some fascinating stuff on it, including these factoids: Doctors more likely to diagnose ADHD on October 31 Swearing makes you better at exercise and a startling comparison of AI and human CO2 emissions kenthendricks.com/52-things-i-...

All of these endangered species recovered Saimaa ringed seal | Scimitar oryx | Red cockaded woodpecker | Siamese crocodile | Narwhal | Arapaima (fish) | Iberian lynx | Asiatic lions | Australian saltwater crocodile | Asian antelope | Ulūlu |https://buff.ly/3BugCfg #ShareGoodNewsToo

I love the absolutely deadpan way the guy says "Frage ich auch."

original prompt from @mycelialgurl.bsky.social: "we all have an emotional support dead famous guy and who he is says a lot about you" mine:

you know who should be inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame? Sisyphus

We were seeing a 98% drop in exposure over on Twitter. The censorship was so extreme we thought it best to start over somewhere else. We chose Bluesky. Help us gain our following back Follow Retweet Repeat Join the park side @altyellonatpark.org

This was a good thing for me to hear.

this is good: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hbb...

Did you know Scientific American publishes original poetry every month? Each poem is previously unpublished and hand selected by the amazing Dava Sobel. This year we had poems about math, DNA, rocket launches, owls, fractals, plate tectonics and more. Here are a few of my favorites (a thread)

you probly knew texas was big but did you know how big

generative AI in a nutshell (actually Memories by Bouke de Vries)

As usual, @emollick.bsky.social presents some sage AI advice in his substack, which is one of my favorite sources for current AI information.

"I often feel useless or overwhelmed or exhausted...But I am going to try starting the days by saying, with all the starch that I imagine a naturalist willing to chance the ice in darkness to save a baby bird might possess: I am on my way with the necessary equipment." (via @mitchmills.bsky.social)

in case you're in the mood for a murmuration: www.instagram.com/reel/CNRqTrs...

Maybe you’d like to read Patricia Lockwood on the X-Files? “So then the show becomes about something else, something deep and dark as water, it is carried rapidly past all other unsolved mysteries to ask: what if a woman were irreplaceable?” [lrb.co.uk]

two of the greats, working out on a classic: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HscZ...

This little game of chording (faux-)one-upsmanship is pretty delightful: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Pjk...

Photos (and a couple viddys) from this weekend at Garner State Park in the beautiful Texas Hill Country. If you’ve never been, this is an area starting a bit west of Austin and San Antonio and extending westward for a hundred-plus miles, one of my favorite places on the planet.

i made this today, it was real good

you can’t go wrong with the classics, is my feeling youtu.be/sLSveRGmpIE?...