Turns out, the Terminator movies would have been more realistic if Sarah Conner had a poetry MFA. In a new paper titled “Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models”, a team of researchers have found

Pulling together the 64 original Literary Twitter moments and incidents to create our winter game, What Was Literary Twitter? The Bracket, required the vast institutional memory of the entire Lit Hub team, who each had their personal favorite e-dramas to

Turkey or Tofurkey? Stuffing or dressing? Whatever the controversy, these Thanksgiving stories will slake your appetite! The post Thanksgiving Stories appeared first on JSTOR Daily.

Day five and only four remain! Pour out a cold plum for yesterday’s runner-ups, including “This Is Just To Say,” bad art friend, and the transparency and advocacy campaign #PublishingPaidMe The four that are left are some of the most

In 1982, Carnegie Mellon University professor Scott Fahlman suggested using 🙂 for humorous comments after his colleagues took a joke about mercury seriously.

Only two match-ups remain before we move on to the final round! Vote in our What Was Literary Twitter? bracket to determine the greatest moment of the literary internet. | Lit Hub Melissa Broder revisits the “Christian mysticism, absurdism, existentialism,

A weekly behind-the-scenes dive into everything interesting, dynamic, strange, and wonderful happening in literary culture—featuring Lit Hub staff, columnists, and special guests! Hosted by Drew Broussard. A time of celebration is now upon us: the literary awards year has closed,

Fuckers. I couldn’t get the word out of my head, because he wouldn’t stop saying it. I was sitting in the tiled courtyard of the Mediterranean-style home of an old acquaintance, a venture capitalist and serial tech entrepreneur, who lived

Joy Williams’s The Pelican Child, John Edgar Wideman’s Languages of Home, and Solvej Balle’s On the Calculation of Volume (Book III) all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. Brought to you by Book Marks, Lit Hub’s home

In The Ha-Ha, Jennifer Dawson relies on her own history as a patient in a psychiatric hospital to tell the story of Josephine Traughton, a young woman who suffers a breakdown while studying at Oxford in the 1950s and is

Back at Mount Rushmore the following day, I looked at the four presidents from the Grand View Terrace, the only spot at the actual memorial that offers an uninterrupted frontal view of Gutzon Borglum’s sculpture. Because of this, the terrace

This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. Every story has an equilibrium to be disturbed, and this one opens with a stranger on my doorstep. He stands bright-eyed beneath my porchlight with a sheepdog at his heel.

Come See Me in the Good Light, Highest 2 Lowest, and The Lost Bus are just a few of the movies you should be watching on Apple TV this month.

National parks in the US are filled with glaciers and volcanoes, which isn't an accident, as the parks developed alongside the sciences of glaciology and volcanology. The post Living Laboratories: Science and the National Parks appeared first on JSTOR Daily.

The company sent letters to Apple, Google, and Microsoft pushing for an alternative way to keep minors from viewing porn, as US and UK laws have caused its traffic to plummet.

Adored by tourists and studied by scientists, a grizzly mother named Sylvia became an emblem of the fragile balance between humans and the wild. The post The Tamest Grizzly of Yellowstone appeared first on JSTOR Daily.

How “Philippine mahogany” became America’s tropical timber of choice, thanks to a rebrand from a colonial logging company that drove deforestation. The post The Mythical Mahogany that Helped Build the American Empire appeared first on JSTOR Daily.

The Relay app allows users to track their porn-free streaks and get group support. Its creators say they’re taking a stand against porn and AI erotica.

From Jack Dorsey to Gen Alpha, everyone seemingly wants to go back to the internet of a decade ago. But is it possible to reverse AI slop and brain rot?

1. An ode to Shopfronts (shot in the early 80s) Scans from the vintage book “Shopfronts”, 1981, found by Press SF. 2. Some thoughts on Personal Business that obviously resonated with me “In You’ve Got Mail, Kathleen Kelly is positioned as virtuous but naive, a hopeless romantic stuck in the old way of doing things.