I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM
Kendrick's Cave Decorated Horse Jaw
The oldest piece of portable art in Wales, this is a horse jaw made to look like a second animal.
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24 MAY 2026
Day 144
Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all.
II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Red Teaming with Language Models
A language model can write the attacks that expose another model's worst behaviour — at a scale no human team can match, and with failure modes that only show up when the prompts keep changing.
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Written before source checking was enforced · facts in this lesson are unverified
III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY
Sleeping Venus
A nude Venus sleeps across a Venetian landscape. Two painters may have made her; a Cupid once sat at her feet. The painting that fixed a genre still will not settle its own authorship.
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