Messenger: Beautiful little browser game where you travel a tiny world delivering messages and packages. Fully playable in a short sitting.
Bringing this pair of stories to my security class this week as a fun palette cleanser before final exams: Cryptographers Held an Election. They Can’t Decrypt the Results. and Magician forgets password to his own hand after RFID chip implant. Life lessons that key management is hard.
Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models is also fun (and summarized by Schneier)
“The sight of a person dressed as Batman led to a nearly doubled rate of people giving up their seat to a pregnant woman. Over the course of 138 subway rides, researchers found that people who saw “Batman” standing near the pregnant woman were far more altruistic than those who did not.” (Psychology Today)
This video quizzing Harrison Ford on which of his lines from movies he could remember, out of context, was charming and reminds you how many movies he’s been in.
Didn’t run across this pumpkin basque cheesecake recipe until after Thanksgiving; feel free to invite me to an event where this would be a suitable contribution to the meal….
I don’t remember the frob, from fromco, from back when it was in production but I love this collection of disks, cabling, and chips for developing Atari cartridges using your Apple II.
