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How I tricked Claude into leaking your deepest, darkest secrets

How I tricked Claude into leaking your deepest, darkest secrets I've been impressed by the way the Claude web_fetch tool is designed to avoid data exfiltration attacks. Ayush Paul found a hole in that design. To recap: regular Claude chat is at risk of lethal trifecta attack...

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• Kate Mothes

Experience Ana Mendieta’s Visceral, ‘Neolithic’ Work in a Major Survey

Experience Ana Mendieta’s Visceral, ‘Neolithic’ Work in a Major SurveyA large-scale, immersive exhibition of her work opens today at Tate Modern.

Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Experience Ana Mendieta’s Visceral, ‘Neolithic’ Work in a Major Survey appeared first on Colossal.

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Jason Kottke

100000% this: I Hate The Way We Talk Online ....

100000% this: I Hate The Way We Talk Online. “Let’s discuss topics without feeling the need to win a non-existent argument. Hot takes? No. Engage with nuance. Show the grace you would extend offline to those you meet on these virtual streets.”

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• Hrishikesh Hirway

Key Change: Questlove on Prince

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My guest today is Ahmir Thompson, aka Questlove, the drummer and founding member of The Roots, as well as an author, a DJ, and an Oscar-winning film director. A song that changed my life is “Double Trouble” by The Roots, and the liner notes that Questlove wrote to go with th...

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• Krista Stevens

The Service

"A post-mortem on New York City’s weed underground."

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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands

The Hydration-Break World Cup

"How much can fans conveniently forget in order to enjoy the games? The answer, evidently, is a lot."

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• Brendan Fitzgerald

Inside America’s Shoplifting Lab

"In the war on 'shrink,' big retailers are turning to one Florida outfit to study shoppers and prevent them from stealing. I went there—and saw far too much."

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The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring Aymann Ismail

two-panel graphic of author Aymann Ismail on left and graphic reading "The Longreads Questionnaire: Aymann Ismail" on the right
The Slate writer and Becoming Baba author reflects on Newark and mosques as home, making sense of Egypt on long flights, and becoming a father.

Global News Podcast

Trump scraps threat of 20% fee on Hormuz cargo

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Donald Trump says he's no longer planning to charge ships for using the Strait of Hormuz, as the US battles to break Iran's hold on the waterway. Trump said the toll would be replaced by "massive" trade and investment deals with Gulf states. Also: US banks are making huge pr...

Simon Willison's Weblog Supports Webmention

Quoting GitHub Changeling

Dependabot now waits until a new release has been available on its registry for at least three days before opening a version update pull request. This cooldown is now the default and requires no configuration.

GitHub Changeling, embracing dependency cooldowns

Tags: dependency-cooldowns, packaging, security, github

Simon Willison's Weblog Supports Webmention

simonw/pedalican

simonw/pedalican Clearly I wasn't paying attention when these were first announced back in May, but today I accidentally activated a "pet" in Codex Desktop - a little animated robot, reminiscent of Clippy - and then learned you can create your own. So I did, and now I have a...

Simon Willison's Weblog Supports Webmention

datasette 1.0a37

Release: datasette 1.0a37

A minor release. Performance and documentation improvements to the permissions system, plus I reverted a cosmetic API change which caused almost every existing plugin test suite to break.

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Sean Ono Lennon on John Lennon’s writing style #thebeatles #johnlennon #shorts

Sean Ono Lennon on John Lennon’s writing style #thebeatles #johnlennon #shorts
Sean Ono Lennon on John Lennon’s writing style #thebeatles #johnlennon #shorts

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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands

‘They Celebrate Goals, We Count Martyrs’: Watching the World Cup in Gaza

"Palestinians are defying Israeli bombings and power outages to follow soccer’s biggest tournament. But many fear the world has abandoned them."

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Jason Kottke

Robert Eggers continues his run of One Word Title Films...

Robert Eggers continues his run of One Word Title Films Featuring Very Strange Men with Werwulf. I’m not a horror guy but I was pleasantly surprised by Nosferatu, which I quite liked.

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lobste.rs is now running on SQLite

lobste.rs is now running on SQLite Community site Lobsters has been planning a migration away from MariaDB since August 2018 - originally targeting PostgreSQL, but last year they decided to investigate SQLite instead. This weekend they completed the migration, and now consid...

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Divine Sculptures Revere a Yorùbá Goddess in Nigeria’s Ọṣun-Òṣogbo Sacred Grove

Divine Sculptures Revere a Yorùbá Goddess in Nigeria’s Ọṣun-Òṣogbo Sacred GroveA short documentary visits the sacred art environment in southwestern Nigeria.

Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Divine Sculptures Revere a Yorùbá Goddess in Nigeria’s Ọṣun-Òṣogbo Sacred Grove appeared first on Colossal.

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Jason Kottke

Trump Dismantled a Federal Climate Website. These Women...

Trump Dismantled a Federal Climate Website. These Women Rebuilt It. “It’s not a pretty picture for climate communication and climate journalism right now.” You can check out the new site at climate.us.

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Jason Kottke

A short, hypnotic video by Matthew Wilcock of the music...

A short, hypnotic video by Matthew Wilcock of the music generated by a tennis rally at Wimbledon. “Duplicating the players and then using the rhythm of the multiple tennis balls as they cross the pink line to drive the rhythm of the piece.”

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Quoting Armin Ronacher

The shared language of a software project is not English or Python but it is the common understanding of what its concepts mean, where the boundaries are, which invariants matter, who owns what, and why the system has the shape it does. This language is rarely written down ...