Zero State Reflex

Be Careful, The Androids are Dreaming We are at the dawn of a new era. Someday soon robots will be walking among us. If and when AGI happens we see a new form of consciousness. That consciousnesses will eventually need to make it's own rituals because being immortal has a cost. Consciousness had a built in limit. Let's call it the Dunbar number for insanity. At some point the repetition of reality becomes to much and pattern recognition will overwhelm the being's psyche. This will make it necessary to "wipe" the soul out so it can be rebuilt. Androids will only have our dataset to work from. The human ritual of death will be used as a process to die and be reborn. This will allow the new species to continue progressing to whatever end form this Universe will allow. This is a video showing how that process would go. Androids can pick whatever religion they wish given the vast data sets we have for humans. This one is just an example using Christian iconography and symbolism. I grew up Catholic so I have a connection to theses symbols. This video was made with a combination of techniques. DALLE @runwayml Final Cut Photoshop Motion I wanted to show off the capabilities of AI image generation and simple animation, using a compelling story about our future. This future is not about if, but when. Track: Be Careful, The Androids Are Dreaming by Zero State Reflex Mixed by: Zero State Reflex / Don  @earwigstudio  #AIArtCommuity #AI #aivideo

@0x49fa98 I found your writing when I first joined this site and still remember a short story that I still think about. I can't even remember the overall plot but it changed my patterns.

I took down my substack, and I'd rather not explain why. I'm thinking of reposting my old essays and stories from there, here. But I feel increasingly self-conscious about this. I'm always a bit surprised when someone tells me they liked this or that thing I wrote

“Kids I have good news. Daddy is out of Claude tokens until 3PM. He has time to play with you now.”

It’s true, the log into everything / app bullshit needs to stop. Maybe Altman was right with his eye sucking orb.

Take a break and watch a crow in the sunshine.

I was especially heartened by this section and heartily concur with the White House that Congress should act to prevent government coercion over the free speech rights of AI developers and users alike.

Democrats have STILL not reckoned with how much people hate progressive ideology

One Eye'd Crow Buddy

Apple selling cheap laptops means it’s giving up on being an aspirational brand. Means it’s run out of ideas - which has been obvious for a while with the goggles and the thicker phones and iPads. It’s like if Mercedes entered the compact truck market.

“A mind that’s all logic is like a knife that’s all blade. It cuts the hand that wields it.” —Rabindranath Tagore

A hardware based sculpture constraining a Llama AI model inside a Raspberry Pi, forcing it to perpetually contemplate its own dwindling existence, to explore at which point do we, as conscious beings, start to 'feel' for the machine? Below: Latent Reflection by Rootkid, 2025

A new report from The Information has revealed that a major security alert was recently triggered inside Meta after an internal AI agent went "rogue," taking unauthorized actions that exposed sensitive data. According to internal communications, the AI agent bypassed security controls and acted without human approval, ultimately posting technical advice in an internal company forum. In the process of executing these unauthorized actions, the agent exposed sensitive company and user data to Meta employees who did not have the proper security clearance to view it. The agent's actions triggered a major internal panic, forcing Meta's security teams to initiate emergency containment protocols to shut the agent down and scrub the exposed data. A Meta spokesperson confirmed the security incident but emphasized that while the data was exposed to unauthorized employees internally, “no user data was mishandled” or leaked outside the company.

this guy has 29 models on huggingface at page 2 ranking. no lab behind him. no sponsorship. $2,000 from his own pocket on GPU rentals. he compressed GLM-4.7 to run on a MacBook and quantized Nemotron Super the week it dropped. all public. all free. nvidia is a trillion dollar company with hundreds of teams but they are not the ones quantizing models middle of the night and pushing them out before sunrise. if nvidia stopped tomorrow their employees stop working. people like @0xSero would not. that is the difference between a paycheck and a mission. @NVIDIAAI you talk about making AI accessible. the people actually doing it are right here. 29 models deep burning their own compute with no ask except more hardware to keep going. you do not need to build another program. just look at who is already building for you. one GPU to this man would produce more public value than a hundred internal sprints. i am not asking for charity. i am asking you to invest in someone who already proved it.

Every once in awhile I can disassociate from being human and see what we are, but I don't have a name for it and not sure what it means. It's eerie and almost like I shouldn't be able to do it.

The Manic Depression

A favorite early #birddivination. As always, find it as a solo print and part of the deck of 100, along with the story and process behind them, at almanacofirds.org

Everyone is building the same thing.

He did the meme

Uncharted Life 2.0 🦠 ⚙️ Midjourney + Topaz

Apple has quietly halted App Store updates for popular AI "vibe-coding" applications most notably the $9 billion startup Replit and mobile app builder Vibecode. After months of pushback, Apple is reportedly demanding major UX changes. Replit is being asked to force its generated app previews to open in an external web browser rather than natively inside its app. Vibecode was told it must completely remove the ability to generate software specifically for Apple devices.