Late drop of a big story tonight—the research team that jailbroke AI safety standards with weaponized poems have published their Adversarial Humanities Benchmark, broadening their research through cyberpunk attack-fiction and ADVERSARIAL HERMENEUTICS:

It Was on Your Table Every Morning Growing Up. It’s Dying Before Our Eyes. No One Wants to Face It. The powerhouse of American citrus is suffering a brutal decline. Everyone has a theory about why.

Totally off-topic, but did y'all the know the Free State of Florida's citrus industry is basically dead??

This is quite a story:
slate.com/business/202...

Endre Bálint
Homage to Franz Kafka (1976)

This rather creepy photo is Artemis II’s heat shield underwater, as taken by the U.S. Navy. This is the first photo we have of the heat shield, and upon initial examination it doesn’t seem to have the char loss that Artemis I’s had.

Interior magazine artwork (from Omni, December 1982) for Ian Watson's 'Returning Home'

The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 1985. ‘White Socks’ by Ian Watson

The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, January 1987. ‘Salvage Rights’ by Ian Watson

The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, December 1988. ‘The Mole Field’ by Ian Watson

Ian Watson sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/watson... who sadly died a week ago, was born on this day; here's magazine artwork for some of his stories 1982-88: 'Returning Home' ‘White Socks’ ‘Salvage Rights' & ‘The Mole Field’ (Artist: Jean-Marie Poumeyrol, RJ Krupowicz, David A Hardy & Stephen Gervais):

If you think the nuclear-powered supercarrier USS Gerald R. Ford is the most powerful ship in the world, you are wrong. It's actually the German cruise ship Mein Schiff 4 (pictured), which successfully transited the Strait of Hormuz over the weekend

TFW you look out the window and see the Earth disappear
🎥 Astronaut Reid Wiseman
📍 Artemis II from the far side of the Moon

two images of the human body's circulatory system. One of them with good cable management

The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.

The Complete Philip Glass Piano Etudes featuring 10 Pianists YouTube video by UMS

I went to Ann Arbor today to see all of Philip Glass’ etudes performed by 10 different pianists & even in the 2d to the last row of the mezzanine at Hill Auditorium, it was amazing. They’re keeping the livestream up for a couple of days: www.youtube.com/live/e5VUO7a...

The backside of the Pullman National Historical Park Visitor Center, 111th & Cottage Grove. Originally the Pullman Factory Administration Building, designed by Solon Beman, 1880. (song is Get it up for Love, by Tata Vega, 1979)

RIP Nathalie Baye

This is what happens after 30 if you don’t stretch.

More sprightly, a 3-class definition:

You don’t pay taxes
You pay taxes
You choose your tax rate

Lounge Chair & Ottoman.
Commercial video directed by Charles & Ray Eames, 1956.
Piano: Elmer Bernstain.

A split bar chart of YouGov polling data with the headline: "Americans are most likely to say T. Rex is their favorite dinosaur, but many don't have a favorite." The chart has the sub-headline: "Which of the following is your favorite dinosaur? (%)." The chart has the note: "Note: "Other" includes responses of archaeopteryx, spinosaurus, plesiosaur, ankylosaurus, allosaurus, parasaurolophus, dilophosaurus, diplodocus, iguanadon, and pachycephalosaurus, as well as responses of "other." We know pterodactyls and plesiosaurs aren't dinosaurs. Opinion about dinosaurs comes from the question, "How much do you like or dislike dinosaurs?""

A shocking new poll result: Many Americans somehow don't have a favorite dinosaur.

And only 6% give the correct answer (triceratops).

Check out YouGov's new polling on Americans and dinosaurs: yougovamerica.substack.com/p/whats-your...

The Art of Book Covers (1820–1914) Selection of book covers produced during the bookbinding revolution of the 19th century and beyond.

THE ART OF BOOK COVERS publicdomainreview.org/collection/t...

NYT cooking page has basically no meat on it

"Dumplings With Peas"
"Broccoli Cheddar Beans"

Quite a flex to turn up at the presidential palace, get him to confirm you as prime minister, call him unfit to serve with no moral authority, tell him to resign, and then pose for a picture

First trailer for ‘Godzilla Minus Zero’

In theaters November 6

Voices | Major League Archaeology The Penn Museum welcomes Philadelphia Phillies legend Brad Lidge to our Board of Advisors. He calls it a

Brad Lidge is now an archeologist studying... the Etruscans?

www.penn.museum/blog/major-l...

Sid Krofft, Co-Creator of Mind-Blowing Kids TV Shows, Dies at 96 The puppeteer and his late brother Marty partnered on 'The Banana Splits Adventure Hour,' 'H.R. Pufnstuf,' 'Land of the Lost' and much more.

Farewell Sid Krofft, one half of the Canadian brotherly duo whose multiple, bizarre, live-action kids’ shows, most featuring life-size puppets, made Saturday mornings must-see TV during the 1970s.

(One correction: “Lidsville” did not use Claymation. “Land of the Lost” used stop-motion animation.)

An absolutely baffling time to be an historian of apocalyptic thought. Like my man is just straight up doing Antichrist stuff and I am meant to be normal???

[Bloomsbury bookshop by H. W. Fincham (ca. 1926)]

Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.

~Virginia Woolf (Street Haunting)

“If you were in charge of Star Trek what would you do?”

6 episode semi-documentary about the Federation consul on a backwater Klingon plant.

ok i wanted to learn a new language this year

Artwork for "A Flying March" by WL Alden (1896)

Magazine artwork for "Van Wagener's Flying Cat" by WL Alden (1896)

Artwork for "The Golden Gate Express" by Herbert Tourtel (1901)

Artwork for "Darby Gill and the Good People" by Herminie Templeton (1902)

Some illustrations to stories from 'The Idler' magazine 1896-1902 (Artist: DB Walters, Cosmo Rowe, SH Sime and [couldn't decipher signature]):

Nothing says Friday like thirty 1950s bus tickets from Milwaukee. www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/g...

A typographic carnival.

Saw a reel making fun of people who were expressing skepticism of the #Artemis II images in Instagram comments and while it's true that a lot of folks are just spreading conspiracy theories, there are misconceptions that can just be addressed directly!

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IMPORTANT ARTEMIS II HOT SAUCE UPDATE

Thanks to Carlie Kollath Wells’ reporting out of Axios New Orleans (which I confirmed via email since there are two versions of the article out) ….

WE HAVE OUR LIST.

It’s these 4 pictured, plus Heinz Hot Taco Sauce!

www.axios.com/local/new-or...

The top part of the Moon is illuminated. The gray cratered surface stands out against the blackness of space. The Earth appears in the far distance as an upside-down crescent moon shape. There is some lens flare in the top part and center of the image. Credit: NASA

okay i change my mind, THIS is one of the best and most beautiful images from artemis ii