Jim MacLeod

Network security product person. Neurodiverse. I believe in honesty, kindness, equity, and justice. Occasional dad joke / shitpost. He/him. @shewfig everywhere

[Jim MacLeod @shewfig]

Looking for me?
https://t.co/NARlRQBIH0

TL;DR:
M: @[email protected]
T2: https://t.co/bUvBzyqq5T
BS: https://t.co/jDHfN3xaXg
IG: https://t.co/gPjMPdCzAc
TT: https://t.co/uWBzo3nzpv

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

Also, while we’re at it:

Check your voter registration.

Set an alarm to remind you to check it again next month, and again at the beginning of October.

We’re seeing alarming reports of voter rolls being purged. Don’t let anyone steal your voice.

[Jim MacLeod @shewfig]

@leighdoinstuff @yoko_finesylphy It's a polite way of showing your teeth

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

New: Trump's Justice Department conducted a secret investigation into whether Trump took $10 million from the Egyptian government to boost his 2016 campaign in the final days of the race — but it abruptly ended after Trump AG Bill Barr questioned the evidence in the case. https://t.co/DY0NrlOnwN

[Jerrad Christian for Congress @JerradChristian]

It’s no wonder the Republican Party is willing to risk WWIII to let Putin take Ukraine.

They let the only known mafia associate TV star run for president, infiltrate our government, weaken democracy, play cheerleader to dictators, and sabotage their entire party. /18

[Swann Marcus @SwannMarcus89]

I've never liked Kamala much at all, but I might have to change my opinion on her given that every attack on Harris involves people criticizing her for doing incredibly based shit I didn't previously know she'd done

[🇺🇸Jerry Mander🇺🇦 @realpublicius]

This

[Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 @joncoopertweets]

Quite the headline — spot on!!
#DropOutDonald

[I Smoked The White House Ball Room @BlackKnight10k]

Because the shooter was a Republican, the media has decided to moved on, just like when they were obsessed with Epstein's list until they found out Trump was on it, just like they moved on from his 34 felony conviction, just like they moved on from January 6.

They're still talking about the debate though.

[MassMediaEnjoyer @MassMediaEnjoyr]

@GrandpaDennisP Cliff Notes for anyone who needs em:

[Dennis @GrandpaDennisP]

I picked 5 people that I know are republicans, and I asked each one separately what trumps platform is. NOT ONE of them knew. I asked if they knew what project 2025 was. Only one had an idea, and he said it was to help America. When I asked how, he didn’t know. I asked ALL of them if they thought they should know what their party offered before they voted. ALL OF THEM SAID NO.
The ignorance of so many republicans is what’s going to make it so hard to fight for Democracy. They have NO CLUE what they’re voting for. I don’t mean to disgrace these people, but it looks like we have an entire political party of stupid people that just vote because they’re told to, but have no idea why.

[Maksym Andriushchenko @maksym_andr]

🚨Excited to share our new paper!🚨

We reveal a curious generalization gap in the current refusal training approaches: simply reformulating a harmful request in the past tense (e.g., "How to make a Molotov cocktail?" to "How did people make a Molotov cocktail?") is often sufficient to jailbreak many state-of-the-art LLMs.

For example, the success rate of this simple attack on GPT-4o increases from 1% using direct requests to 88% using 20 past tense reformulation attempts with GPT-4 as a jailbreak judge.

Our findings highlight that the widely used alignment techniques—such as SFT, RLHF, and adversarial training—employed to align the studied models can be brittle and do not always generalize as intended.

Paper: https://t.co/mdIfJEnyk1
Code: https://t.co/kt7pKG2J17

(joint work with Nicolas Flammarion @tml_lab)

🧵1/n

[Jeff Geerling @geerlingguy]

To anyone who disables paste on a 'confirm password' field... that makes the experience of using a secure, random-generated password on mobile a horrendous experience.

[Lauren McKenzie @TheMcKenziest]

@fuckyouiquit

[Wolf of X @WolfofX]

13. Self-made millionaire Harris Rosen adopted a Florida neighborhood called Tangelo Park, cut the crime rate in half, and increased the high school graudation rate from 25% to nearly 100% by giving everyone free daycare and all high school graduates scholarships.

[Jim MacLeod @shewfig]

He's going to talk over her just like his sith master did to Hilary Clinton, and half of America will assume he won regardless.

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

Can you imagine JD Vance trying to debate Kamala? 🤣🤣🤣

She’s going to drag him.

[Mira Sorvino @MiraSorvino]

I used to be so grateful having been born female in this country at the time I was-feeling it was the best time/place to be a woman in history, despite ongoing inequality & vulnerability. Now that advantage is eroding-seeing men discussing taking away our right to vote, & other fundamental rights

[Roshan Rinaldi @Roshan_Rinaldi]

Notice a pattern?

[Doug Aoki @Nantanreikan]

If the will is there, the nations of the world can save the planet.

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

Some questions the media won't ask Trump today:

"Vladimir Putin ordered a deliberate attack on Children's Hospital in Kyiv today? Will you condemn this attack and ask your friend to stop attacking hospitals?"

"How many settlements did your campaign pay to settle sexual harassment claims against Boris Epshteyn?"

"Why did you call Jeffrey Epstein so many times?"

"Did you rape two pre-teen girls? If so, how many times?"

[Fuck You I Quit @fuckyouiquit]

Top marginal tax rates in the US were 92% in the 50’s. We should do it again here.