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Collaborative philosophy blog exploring the edges of thought: Continental philosophy, art, poetry, litcrit, technology, and the occult.
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🚨We're hiring! A tenure track position at McGill University in the area of #bioethics and / or philosophy of science, with a special focus on the ethics of medical technologies. Please share widely. #philsky #ethics #philsci philjobs.org/job/show/30402
Assistant Professor (Tenure Track), Department of Equity, Ethics, and Policy and Department of Philosophy, McGill University - PhilJobs:JFP Assistant Professor (Tenure Track), Department of Equity...
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November 25, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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Studying philosophy does make people better thinkers, according to new research on more than 600,000 college grads

Philosophy majors rank higher than all other majors on verbal and logical reasoning. theconversation.com/studying-phi... #philosophy #skills #thinking #PhilosophySky #philsky
Studying philosophy does make people better thinkers, according to new research on more than 600,000 college grads
Philosophers are fond of saying that their field boosts critical thinking. Two of them decided to put that claim to the test.
theconversation.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Poetry as a vector for breaking AI constraints—verse prompts jailbreak LLMs up to 18x more effectively than prose (90%+ in some models). A fascinating case study in how aesthetic structures interact with computational control systems.

arxiv.org/abs/2511.15304
Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models
We present evidence that adversarial poetry functions as a universal single-turn jailbreak technique for Large Language Models (LLMs). Across 25 frontier proprietary and open-weight models, curated po...
arxiv.org
November 23, 2025 at 4:47 AM
New #poem by Jacob Friesenhahn captures the spirit of San Antonio's iconic Liberty Bar on Alamo Street—the second in a pair exploring this beloved landmark. Read it here (published for the first time): lastgrotto.net/posts/libert... #Poetry #Literature #PoetryCommunity #SanAntonio
Liberty Bar
A sanctuary turned bar burns with the ghosts of devotion and hunger
lastgrotto.net
November 22, 2025 at 10:10 PM
A poem by one of our members, Jacob Friesenhahn: lastgrotto.net/posts/libert...
Look for more of Jacob's poems over the coming weeks.
#poetry
Liberty Bar
Former lovers discover their wounds still recognize each other.
lastgrotto.net
November 16, 2025 at 1:11 AM