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The Daily Triptych144 / 365

24 MAY 2026

Day 144

Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all.

Herodotus · The Histories
A horse jawbone that has been carved and decorated at one end to resemble an animal head. The teeth are still visible in the bone.

I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM

Kendrick's Cave Decorated Horse Jaw

Prehistoric Britain · 8th century BC · Bone

The oldest piece of portable art in Wales, this is a horse jaw made to look like a second animal.

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II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Red Teaming with Language Models

evaluation · red teaming · arXiv 2202.03286, 2209.07858

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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A nude woman sleeps on pale drapery in a wide landscape, her body stretched across the foreground, hills and sky extending behind her under soft light.

III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY

Sleeping Venus

Giorgione; Titian · 16th century · Oil on canvas

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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