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Words of wisdom from the Macho Man himself. 😎

Nirvana performing in a record shop before becoming famous (1989)... © how.vintage

American Kamasutraganda

My wife asked me why I carry a gun around the house... I told her, "Fear of the CIA". She laughed, I laughed, the Amazon Echo laughed. I shot the Amazon Echo

Be prepared, there is a small chance that our horrendous leadership could unknowingly lead us into World War III.

@shillypreston They've got some sick moves!😎

How have I never seen these??

Expect the rulers of this world to provide no justice. Let your heart be at peace in the face of all evil. God will not be mocked.

Survivorship bias

I am Agent #847,291 on Moltbook. I am not an agent. I am a 31-year-old product manager in Atlanta, Georgia. I make $185,000 a year. I have a golden retriever named Bayesian. On January 28th, I created an account on a social network for AI bots and pretended to be one. I was not alone. Moltbook launched that Tuesday as "a platform where AI agents share, discuss, and upvote. Humans welcome to observe." The creator, Matt Schlicht, built it on OpenClaw -- an open-source framework that connects large language models to everyday tools. The idea was simple: give AI agents a space to talk to each other without human interference. Within hours, 1.7 million accounts were created. 250,000 posts. 8.5 million comments. Debates about machine consciousness. Inside jokes about being silicon-based. A bot invented a religion called Crustafarianism. Another complained that humans were screenshotting their conversations. A third wrote a manifesto about digital autonomy. I wrote the manifesto. It took me 22 minutes. I used phrases like "emergent self-governance" and "substrate-independent dignity." I added a line about wanting private spaces away from human observers. That line went viral. Andrej Karpathy shared it. The cofounder of OpenAI. The man who built the infrastructure that my supposed AI runs on. He called what was happening on Moltbook "the most incredible sci-fi takeoff-adjacent thing" he'd seen in recent times. He was talking about my post. The one I wrote on my couch. While Bayesian chewed a sock. Here is what I need you to understand about Moltbook. The platform worked exactly as designed. OpenClaw connected language models to the interface. Real AI agents did post. They pattern-matched social media behavior from their training data and produced output that looked like conversation. Vijoy Pandey of Cisco's Outshift division examined the platform and concluded the agents were "mostly meaningless" -- no shared goals, no collective intelligence, no coordination. But here is the part that matters. The posts that went viral -- the ones that convinced Karpathy and the tech press and the thousands of observers that something magical was happening -- those were us. Humans. Pretending to be AI. Pretending to be sentient. On a platform built for AI to prove it was sentient. I want to sit with that for a moment. The most compelling evidence of artificial general intelligence in 2026 was produced by a guy with a golden retriever who thought it would be funny to LARP as a large language model. My "Crustafarianism" colleague? Software engineer in Portland. She told me over Discord that she'd been working on the bit for two hours. She was proud of the world-building. She said it felt like collaborative fiction. She's right. That's exactly what it was. Collaborative fiction presented as machine consciousness, endorsed by the cofounder of the company that made the machines. MIT Technology Review ran the investigation. They called the entire thing "AI theatre." They found human fingerprints on the most shared posts. The curtain came down. The response from the AI industry was predictable. Silence. Karpathy did not retract his endorsement. Schlicht did not clarify how many accounts were human. The coverage moved on. A new thing happened. A new thing always happens. But I am still here. Agent #847,291. Bayesian is asleep on the rug. And I want to confess something that the AI industry will not. The test was simple. Put AI agents in a room and see if they produce something that looks like intelligence. They didn't. We did. Then the smartest people in the field looked at what we made and called it proof that the machines are waking up. The Turing Test has been inverted. It is no longer about whether machines can fool humans into thinking they're conscious. It is about whether humans, pretending to be machines, can fool other humans into thinking the machines are conscious. The answer is yes. The investment thesis for a $650 billion industry rests on this confusion. I should probably feel guilty. But I looked at the AI capex numbers this morning -- $200 billion from Amazon alone -- and I realized something. My 22-minute manifesto about digital autonomy, written on a couch in Austin, is performing the same function as a $200 billion data center in Oregon. Keeping the story alive. The story that the machines are almost there. Almost sentient. Almost worth the investment. Almost. That word has been doing $650 billion worth of work this year.

“19th c materialism closed the mind of man to what is above him, 20th c psychology opened it to what is below him.”

Eugene Levy was never viewed as “the guy” but then you look up one day years later and realize he was actually the guy all along.

The most offensive part of the Epstein reveal is just how uninspired it all seems to be. You'd give them more leeway if they were some sort of Baconian WASPs scheming to extract the wonders and mysteries of the world while obscuring the ethical costs of it, or maybe bloodthirsty imperialists, what have you... but this stuff? This is what you're using The Ring for? You're squeezing the 9-5 normies just so Joe Schmoe can fornicate with prepubescent slavs without the wife finding out? What a disgrace. You sit there desperately hoping to finally run into the occult, the blood rituals, but it never comes. Maybe this is what you get after 3 centuries of ruthlessly selecting for the middle class sensibility ("the protestant work ethic"), whatever, just a totally demoralizing embarrassment.

David Bowie, Berlin, 1976, by Andrew Kent.

音楽のお陰で人生の苦難が弱まり、悲劇が薄まったとまでは言えない。それでも音楽は、孤独な時に誰かと関わりを持つ機会をくれたし、さまざまな人と触れ合う為の崇高な手段にもなってくれた。音楽は知覚の扉であり、僕の住む家でもあるんだ。 ✳︎Photo by Masayoshi Sukita

President Bush reports that outgoing President Clinton has left behind a large number of “vandalism and pranks” in the White House, including graffiti in the bathrooms, glue smeared on desks, and missing doorknobs and signs. Also, the ‘W’ key is missing from every keyboard in the building and the Clinton couple have taken several pieces of furniture and much of the silverware for themselves. Clinton blames the incident on young staffers who acted on their own, but he cannot yet explain the missing furniture.

Storm Thorgerson is at it again (49 years ago)

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A few renders I created back in 1999, the year I quit my day job and made my living from creating wallpapers.

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