[forever70s]

AIM activists at the occupation of Wounded Knee (1973)

[lisamarie-vee]

[xenostalgic]

this paper is amazing

they modify an LLM to attend over an array of token streams instead of a single one. with a ton of interesting consequences:

user input and the model's chain of thought can happen in parallel

user input and the model's response can happen in parallel, allowing them to interrupt each other

you can have multiple parallel chains of thought running at the same time!

you can separate out the system prompt into its own token stream, and theoretically train the model to detect and ignore prompt injection this way

so that's all very paradigm shifty and cool but also these chains of thought are sooooooooo cute. look at these!

User: Write a detailed 500 word essay on the effects of caffeine on sleep […] Actually wait, can you write me a haiku about a cat instead? Stream 1: what is the ask detailed ? 500 word essay on what topic effects of what caffeine on what sleep topic clear now the second part genuine question underneath the essay task wait new input redirect what now different request rewrite ah ha iku ! about what a cat instead of caffeine completely different task Stream 3: ready to hear them curious what is it on writing task creative mode shifting gears engaging with it oh this is fun actually interesting curious about this want to know more now oh shift pulling back redirect energy shifting lighter playful oh fun ! gr inning inside this is better actually yes delight rising warm playful mode

[mostrovskaa]

spiced up some of my warm-up sketches from these past few months

[weirdlandtv]

From: HOW TO READ A PERSON LIKE A BOOK (1971), by Gerard I. Nierenberg and Henry H. Calero.

[et-in-arkadia]

🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀

[worldsandemanations]

De Avonturen van Poes Minet. Illustrated by Nans van Leeuwen. 1946.

[thunderstruck9]

Tano Festa (Italian, 1938-1988), Armadio con specchio n°2 [Wardrobe with Mirror No.2], 1962. Enamelled paint and tempera on assembled panels mounted on panel, 200 x 181 cm.

[newguineatribalart]

Pintupi Art: Mapping Country Through the Desert

Every line, circle, and field of dots in Pintupi Art represents far more than a visual design. These remarkable paintings are expressions of ancestral journeys, sacred sites, and the deep relationship between people and Country that has been maintained across the Western Desert for countless generations.

From the early days of Papunya to the homeland communities of Kintore and Kiwirrkurra, Pintupi artists transformed ceremonial knowledge into one of the world's most influential contemporary art movements. Their paintings shimmer with movement, reveal vast networks of Tingari songlines, and offer a unique way of understanding landscape—not as scenery, but as living cultural knowledge.

Explore the history, meaning, artists, and evolution of one of Australia's most important Aboriginal art traditions.

[hurricanes-art]

If anyone's been wondering where my usual art has been, I've been busy making a horse instead ahsjdk

There's an ancient Greek bronze horse figurine at my art museum that I'm obsessed with, but they won't let me have it no matter how nicely I ask, so I had to make my own

[redlipstickresurrected]

Anna Trochim aka Anna Alicja Trochim (Polish, b. 1952, Sokolka, Poland) - Powrócę Tu (I will Return Here), 2024, Paintings: Oil on Canvas

[smithsonianlibrariesarchives]

Color charts of undifferentiated (top) and specialized (bottom) plumage of different warbler species from Charles Keeler's Evolution of the colors of North American land birds (1893).

Full text here.

[ewaneneollav]

it felt unverbalizable because any attempt at describing it had to presume a perspective from which it was described, but there was a sense that to assume any perspective at all undermined the message, a message i could not quite come to understand because i could not begin to write it

[jennamoran]

Probably a good way to get an intuition for how random inanimate objects bumping around on the Earth for a long enough span of time can wind up creating life is to do a load of laundry where a lot of things have long straps or sleeves or cords and seeing how complexity makes itself manifest.

[oldlovecassette]

The audience at an Umm Kulthum concert in Cairo, Egypt, 1962.

Photographs by Howard Sochurek

[urgetocreate]

Andreas Feininger (American 1906-1999), Nude model posing for a large group of art students of the Farnsworth Art School working at easels outdoors on a gentle hillside. Cape Cod, MA July, 1946 - Time Magazine.

[nemfrog]

A parahelion in the far north of Canada makes multiple suns appear in the sky. The drama of the forests. 1921. Illustrated by Arthur Heming.

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