https://kaizencode.art/Recent content on Kaitlin Albasi: AI Research & PolicyHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usThu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/garden/digital-brain-local-rag/Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/garden/digital-brain-local-rag/Local-first personal knowledge stack: Obsidian vault → Postgres/pgvector → Ollama embeddings → entity graph → Karpathy-style regenerable wiki, with Claude Code over stdio MCP and a daily brief. Working for daily use; several surfaces still under active development.https://kaizencode.art/notepad/matt-pocock-skills-guide/Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/notepad/matt-pocock-skills-guide/A dig through Matt Pocock’s mattpocock/skills repo (the real SKILL.md files, not the SEO blogspam about it): what the skills actually do, what the community has genuinely pushed back on, and what’s worth stealing.https://kaizencode.art/library/ai_needs_you/Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/ai_needs_you/A policy insider’s argument that AI’s future is a political choice requiring democratic public deliberation, not technical inevitability.https://kaizencode.art/notepad/cot_lens_reasoning_alignment/Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/notepad/cot_lens_reasoning_alignment/ACL 2026 — a semantic-entropy-based ‘Alignment Score’ for measuring how well multi-step LLM reasoning tracks human-preferred reasoning, and where it breaks down.https://kaizencode.art/garden/lessons_from_organizing/Wed, 23 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/garden/lessons_from_organizing/Passion Project – a presentationhttps://kaizencode.art/notepad/100_days_of_ai/Wed, 22 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/notepad/100_days_of_ai/New reading list and code snippets for building LLMs in productionhttps://kaizencode.art/projects/nativist_birdfeeder/Thu, 15 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/projects/nativist_birdfeeder/Our Berlin public art project: a birdfeeder that only opens its gates to European birdshttps://kaizencode.art/garden/citycamp-ai/Tue, 23 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/garden/citycamp-ai/CivicSpark in context of peer civic-AI projects (Engagic, Open Council, Civic Band, View Royal, GRASP): common failure modes, and an iterative path from the Tulsa PoC toward grounded, item-level municipal systems.https://kaizencode.art/garden/zong-magnetic-poetry/Tue, 23 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/garden/zong-magnetic-poetry/Interactive magnetic poetry editor inspired by M. NourbeSe Philip’s ‘Zong!’ - a p5.js concrete poetry tool for rearranging words and creating visual poems.https://kaizencode.art/garden/multi-agent-edu-stack/Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/garden/multi-agent-edu-stack/Eight-stage multi-agent educational stack for sourcing, vetting, and scaffolding AI curriculum under high content decay — plus Level-3 behavior telemetry. Implementation repo in active development.https://kaizencode.art/notepad/ai-curriculum-multi-agent-system/Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/notepad/ai-curriculum-multi-agent-system/A design for a multi-agent pipeline that sources, vets, and scaffolds AI curriculum as fast as the field actually moves, plus metrics for measuring behavior change instead of course completions, plus a filterable table of the actual sources worth watching.https://kaizencode.art/library/empire_of_ai/Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/empire_of_ai/An investigative account of OpenAI and the colonial supply chain of AI labor, from data scraping to underpaid content moderators in the Global South.https://kaizencode.art/notepad/opening_scope_openness_ai/Sun, 01 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/notepad/opening_scope_openness_ai/FAccT 2025 — a 98-concept taxonomy showing AI’s ‘openness’ discourse leans on open-source software framing that doesn’t actually transfer, and quietly underweights fairness and diversity.https://kaizencode.art/projects/denver_fringe_festival/Sat, 15 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/projects/denver_fringe_festival/Our augmented reality street theater piece for the Denver Fringe Festivalhttps://kaizencode.art/projects/city_handprints/Sun, 01 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/projects/city_handprints/Migrant Worker Justice: honoring the life of 宋扬 Song Yanghttps://kaizencode.art/library/human_compatible/Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/human_compatible/Stuart Russell argues the standard AI paradigm of fixed-objective optimization is dangerous, proposing uncertain preference models as a technical safety solution.https://kaizencode.art/notepad/hard_laws_ai_legislation/Sun, 01 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/notepad/hard_laws_ai_legislation/Computer Law & Security Review — comparative legal analysis of hard-law vs. soft-law AI governance in South Korea and Japan.https://kaizencode.art/garden/reverse-erasure/Fri, 19 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/garden/reverse-erasure/Interactive erasure poetry tool that lets you create new meaning by removing text from existing poems.https://kaizencode.art/projects/electric_circus/Wed, 01 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/projects/electric_circus/Sex Robots in the Singularity: A DIY circus/fabric art projecthttps://kaizencode.art/library/rewiring_democracy/Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/rewiring_democracy/Maps how AI amplifies power across democratic institutions and argues for publicly built, publicly overseen AI rather than corporate infrastructure.https://kaizencode.art/notepad/bridging_scale_gap_red_teaming/Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/notepad/bridging_scale_gap_red_teaming/FAccT 2026 — hybrid human+automated red-teaming to surface latent risks in text-to-image models that neither approach catches alone.https://kaizencode.art/notepad/last_labour_frontier/Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/notepad/last_labour_frontier/AI & Society — generative AI unevenly pushes occupational groups toward the periphery of the labor market.https://kaizencode.art/projects/animal_runs/Sat, 17 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/projects/animal_runs/Training for the NYC marathonhttps://kaizencode.art/notepad/llm_safety_evaluations_robustness/Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/notepad/llm_safety_evaluations_robustness/ICML 2026 Position paper — the current LLM safety-evaluation pipeline lacks robustness across dataset curation, red-teaming, generation, and judging.https://kaizencode.art/projects/kinbaku_friendship/Fri, 01 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/projects/kinbaku_friendship/Installation piece for the Toronto Feminist Art Conference.https://kaizencode.art/notepad/gray_box_vlm_adversarial/Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/notepad/gray_box_vlm_adversarial/ICML 2026 — SVD-structured adversarial attacks against gray-box vision-language models.https://kaizencode.art/projects/oulipo_variations/Tue, 09 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/projects/oulipo_variations/Playful variations on the N+7 machinehttps://kaizencode.art/notepad/when_search_goes_wrong/Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/notepad/when_search_goes_wrong/ICML 2026 — CREST-Search red-teams web-augmented LLMs by manipulating search queries to induce unsafe citations, not unsafe generation.https://kaizencode.art/notepad/exploiting_llm_quantization/Sun, 01 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/notepad/exploiting_llm_quantization/NeurIPS 2024 — a benign full-precision model can be crafted so that it turns malicious only after a user quantizes it.https://kaizencode.art/notepad/mind_the_gap_gguf_quantization/Tue, 01 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/notepad/mind_the_gap_gguf_quantization/ICML 2025 — extends the quantization-exploitation attack to GGUF, the format actually used by ollama and llama.cpp in the real world.https://kaizencode.art/projects/imaginary_chinatowns/Tue, 07 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/projects/imaginary_chinatowns/Gallery exhibit for AAPI Culture Festivalhttps://kaizencode.art/notepad/jailbroken_safety_training_fail/Fri, 01 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/notepad/jailbroken_safety_training_fail/NeurIPS 2023 (Oral) — the foundational taxonomy of why safety-trained LLMs still jailbreak: competing objectives and mismatched generalization.https://kaizencode.art/notepad/multilingual_jailbreak_challenges/Wed, 01 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/notepad/multilingual_jailbreak_challenges/ICLR 2024 — introduces MultiJail, the first multilingual jailbreak dataset, and shows low-resource languages are roughly 3x as likely to elicit unsafe output.https://kaizencode.art/notepad/code_switching_red_teaming/Tue, 01 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/notepad/code_switching_red_teaming/ACL 2025 — mixing up to 10 languages inside a single red-teaming prompt beats monolingual attacks by 46.7%, and exposes a resource/safety correlation.https://kaizencode.art/notepad/quantization_multilingual_llms/Fri, 01 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/notepad/quantization_multilingual_llms/EMNLP 2024 Findings — quantization harms are disparately distributed across languages, worse than automatic metrics show, and human evaluators catch what benchmarks miss.https://kaizencode.art/notepad/week1_literature_review/Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/notepad/week1_literature_review/Phase 1 - Research Niche Selection & Literature Foundation.https://kaizencode.art/notepad/digital_brain_karpathy_wiki_rag/Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/notepad/digital_brain_karpathy_wiki_rag/How I turned my CarbonInterface learning journal into a locally-run RAG system: Postgres + pgvector, Ollama embeddings, a Karpathy-style regenerable wiki, and a daily brief that reads my calendar, email, and Scholar alerts for me.https://kaizencode.art/garden/oulipo-variations/Tue, 22 Jul 2025 12:00:00 -0500https://kaizencode.art/garden/oulipo-variations/Playful variations on the N+7 machine.https://kaizencode.art/garden/truthout/Tue, 22 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/garden/truthout/Article published in TruthOut, featured by DemocracyNow.https://kaizencode.art/library/plunder/Fri, 02 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/plunder/A clear-eyed exposé of how private equity firms extract wealth from American companies, workers, and communities, and a roadmap for reforming the system.https://kaizencode.art/library/map_of_future_ruins/Thu, 28 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/map_of_future_ruins/A searching blend of reportage, memoir, and cultural history, exploring the 2020 Moria refugee camp fire in Greece, the mechanics of borders and belonging, and the mythologies that shape migration and identity.https://kaizencode.art/library/give_people_money/Tue, 26 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/give_people_money/Universal basic income and cash transfers in an age of rapid technological changehttps://kaizencode.art/library/finish_what_we_started/Sat, 16 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/finish_what_we_started/A revealing investigation into the grassroots strategies and local organizing that have transformed the Republican Party and fueled the MAGA movement’s campaign to reshape American democracy from the ground up.https://kaizencode.art/library/alexander_hamilton/Thu, 14 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/alexander_hamilton/A masterful biography of America’s most misunderstood founding fatherhttps://kaizencode.art/library/museum_of_innocence/Wed, 16 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/museum_of_innocence/A disturbing tale of obsession masquerading as lovehttps://kaizencode.art/library/nomad_century/Mon, 09 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/nomad_century/Climate migration solutions and the political challenges of implementing themhttps://kaizencode.art/library/dear_earth/Sat, 13 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/dear_earth/Essays on art’s role in responding to environmental and social crisishttps://kaizencode.art/library/asians-in-colorado/Fri, 21 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/asians-in-colorado/The story of Chinese pioneers in the Westhttps://kaizencode.art/map/mexicable/Sun, 05 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/map/mexicable/Cablecar for the people.https://kaizencode.art/garden/snow_poem/Wed, 17 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/garden/snow_poem/Interactive concrete poetry exploring elemental transformations through CSS animations and HTML5 interactionshttps://kaizencode.art/garden/newyorker_erasure/Wed, 10 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/garden/newyorker_erasure/How to achieve the New Yorker blackout scrolling effect - recreating scroll-triggered erasure poetry for web interfaceshttps://kaizencode.art/about/Tue, 09 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/about/About Kaitlin Albasi — technologist, AI research & policy writer, and labor organizer. The story behind Kaizen Craft, a digital garden for learning out loud.https://kaizencode.art/library/wayward_lives/Fri, 05 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/wayward_lives/Intimate histories of social upheaval and Black women’s resistancehttps://kaizencode.art/library/poverty_by_america/Sun, 04 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/poverty_by_america/A searing analysis of why poverty persists in the United States, arguing that it is actively created and maintained by policies and choices that benefit the affluent, and calling for systemic change to end poverty.https://kaizencode.art/library/open_city/Tue, 28 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/open_city/A Nigerian doctor’s wanderings through New York City and reflections on art, culture, and identityhttps://kaizencode.art/library/project_hail_mary/Sun, 23 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/project_hail_mary/Science fiction adventure with a distinctly nerdy tech narrative voicehttps://kaizencode.art/library/into_the_zone/Sun, 16 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/into_the_zone/Essays on opposites and borders, music and philosophyhttps://kaizencode.art/library/data_and_goliath/Fri, 24 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/data_and_goliath/A comprehensive critique of mass surveillance, exploring how governments and corporations collect, use, and abuse personal data, and offering practical and policy solutions to protect privacy in the digital age.https://kaizencode.art/library/data_structures_and_algorithms/Tue, 09 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/data_structures_and_algorithms/Computer science textbook with thoughtful examples but implementation errorshttps://kaizencode.art/library/left_legailism_left_critique/Sun, 02 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/left_legailism_left_critique/A groundbreaking collection examining how left political projects paradoxically mirror the power structures they seek to oppose through legal strategieshttps://kaizencode.art/library/how_to_avoid_climate_disaster/Mon, 15 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/how_to_avoid_climate_disaster/A tech-focused roadmap for addressing climate change through innovation and marketshttps://kaizencode.art/library/empire_of_cotton/Sun, 14 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/empire_of_cotton/A global history of capitalism through the lens of cotton production and labor exploitationhttps://kaizencode.art/library/tragedy_of_liberation/Sun, 14 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/tragedy_of_liberation/A harrowing account of the violence, famine, and repression that marked the early years of Communist rule in China, based on newly opened archives and survivor testimony.https://kaizencode.art/library/homeland_elegies/Fri, 19 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/homeland_elegies/A deeply personal work of fiction exploring Muslim-American identity and contemporary Americahttps://kaizencode.art/library/end_of_poverty/Tue, 13 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/end_of_poverty/Sachs argues that extreme global poverty can be ended through targeted aid, investment, and coordinated international action, but his ‘Big Push’ approach has sparked debate over its feasibility and effectiveness.https://kaizencode.art/library/leftover_in_china/Fri, 02 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/leftover_in_china/The Women Shaping the World’s Next Superpowerhttps://kaizencode.art/library/the_berry_pickers/Fri, 02 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/the_berry_pickers/A heartbreaking debut about a Mi’kmaq family devastated by the disappearance of their youngest daughter and the decades of trauma that followhttps://kaizencode.art/library/detroit_i_do_mind_dying/Fri, 31 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/detroit_i_do_mind_dying/History of revolutionary Black workers organizing in Detroit’s auto industryhttps://kaizencode.art/library/and_still_i_rise/Tue, 28 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/and_still_i_rise/A powerful collection of poems celebrating resilience and the triumph of the human spirit over oppressionhttps://kaizencode.art/library/staying_with_the_trouble/Fri, 24 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/staying_with_the_trouble/A poetic, radical reimagining of multispecies futures and interdependence in the face of ecological crisis.https://kaizencode.art/library/go_ahead_in_the_rain/Mon, 03 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/go_ahead_in_the_rain/A genre-bending, deeply personal tribute to A Tribe Called Quest, blending music history, memoir, and cultural criticism to explore the group’s legacy and the meaning of fandom, Black art, and survival.https://kaizencode.art/library/vanishing_new_york/Mon, 03 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/vanishing_new_york/A passionate chronicle of New York City’s transformation under gentrification, documenting the loss of small businesses, cultural landmarks, and the city’s unique character.https://kaizencode.art/library/capital_city/Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/capital_city/A critical analysis of how real estate interests shape urban planning, gentrification, and political power in New York City and beyondhttps://kaizencode.art/library/in_other_words/Mon, 20 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/in_other_words/A memoir about learning to write in Italian and the relationship between language and identityhttps://kaizencode.art/library/china_in_ten_words/Sun, 19 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/china_in_ten_words/Tragicomic reflections on China’s transformation through personal and cultural memoryhttps://kaizencode.art/library/the_art_of_raising_a_puppy/Thu, 23 Feb 2017 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/the_art_of_raising_a_puppy/A comprehensive guide to puppy training and canine behavior from America’s most trusted dog training authoritieshttps://kaizencode.art/library/bowling_alone/Sun, 27 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/bowling_alone/A landmark study of the decline of social capital and community engagement in late 20th-century America, and its consequences for democracy and civic life.https://kaizencode.art/library/radical_chic/Sun, 27 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/radical_chic/Satirical essays on liberal politics and social dynamics in 1960s New Yorkhttps://kaizencode.art/library/the_dispossessed/Thu, 19 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/the_dispossessed/A science fiction masterpiece exploring anarchism, capitalism, and utopian ideals through the story of a physicist traveling between two contrasting worldshttps://kaizencode.art/library/real_cost_of_prison/Thu, 19 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/real_cost_of_prison/A graphic introduction to the realities of mass incarceration in the U.S., using comics to break down the economic, social, and racial costs of the prison system.https://kaizencode.art/library/the_book_of_laughter_and_forgetting/Mon, 01 Jan 1979 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/the_book_of_laughter_and_forgetting/A kaleidoscopic novel blending memory, politics, and desire, exploring the fragile boundaries between laughter and forgetting in postwar Czechoslovakia.