Andy Hazel

@Andy_Hazel
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Journalist, walker and musician. Tasmanian living in Naarm/Melbourne. Tries to be on time.
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Hatchie, debuting tracks for her new album, live to air at Triple R.

Today I went with @Andy_Hazel to see Pipilotti Rist’s Gravity Be My Friend video installation at Stockholm Uni’s Accelerator gallery. I sort of saw it before, but not watched the entirety, as it was part of a larger exhibition.

This time, I lay back on the carpeted area under the ceiling screen, watched the whole loop, and then did so again for the other screen. I really enjoyed it: it was like a visual soundbath. Or, indeed, an eyeball massage.

Anyway, it’s free, and open until February.

Yeah, the whole poetry-as-"prompt injection" paper sure smelled like propaganda. Turned out it is.

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/24/dont-cite-the-adversarial-poetry-vs-ai-paper-its-chatbot-made-marketing-science/

Don’t cite the Adversarial Poetry vs AI paper — it’s chatbot-made marketing ‘science’

Today’s preprint paper has the best title ever: “Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models”. It’s from DexAI, who sell AI testing and compliance ser…

Pivot to AI

Here is my Ukraine peace proposal:

1. Putin is sent to The Hague.
2. Russian soldiers leave Ukraine including Crimea.
3. Russia returns all kidnapped Ukrainian children.
4. Russia releases all Ukrainian prisoners.
5. Russia pays damages for everything their war has destroyed.
6. Russia pays damages to Ukrainian families who have lost family members.
7. Russia pays damages to every person who has been tortured, abducted or otherwise criminally mistreated.
8. Ukraine becomes a member of the EU.

Stockholm. Both elegant and cold.

Thread: my recent Interrail journey (Stockholm → Berlin → Dessau → Zürich → Trieste → Ljubljana → Vienna → Hamburg → Stockholm).

In the past two or so weeks, I took a journey around Europe by train on an Interrail pass I bought last year, seeing some sights and catching up with friends. 🧵 1/

@ameel hard agree. Have emailed them about this. Also happy to never get a breaking news alert about who won the toss or “recipes for spring” like we got last week.

Junk food companies use social media to co-opt children into working for them ‘for free’, expert says | Health | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/nov/07/junk-food-brands-target-children-social-media-data-who-prof-teresa-davis

#Capitalism

Junk food companies use social media to co-opt children into working for them ‘for free’, expert says

Brands’ accounts are targeting children with unhealthy promotions while collecting their data, Sydney health conference hears

The Guardian
@acb Thank you for the synopsis. It was such a great day. Bon voyage. I'm not sure if you've heard this band, but it might be some good listening for your flights: https://enattendantana.bandcamp.com/album/principia
Principia, by En Attendant Ana

10 track album

En Attendant Ana
Huge thank you to @acb for the generous gift of Twin Peaks trumps, all the way from Rough Trade London.