Everything is much better now right?

Just taking a short break from social media to reduce the mass schizophrenia.

I don't think I've linked this anywhere. So I don't think anyone is going to read this.

Which is exactly what I want.

"Vivere est militare." – Seneca

1 in 10. Of all people. Not paying customers. Not some specific demographic.

Of everybody. I think I can manage 3 out of 10, giving me about 2.5 billion people.

Across all demographics. In the entire world.

"I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity." -Alexander

I can't post anymore on twitter today unless I pay up. Which I'm not going to do.

I've been thinking about Fable, and I'm honestly not impressed. Unless these LLM prompt engineers know some kind of shortcut in design, you're just letting the AI do the design and praying that it sets everything up correctly.

And maybe I'm thinking about projects on a great scale, but consider something like this. You tell a construction crew to build the Empire State Building, using their best judgement.

No, you don't. You have architects and engineers who design, and then you have the manual labor.

I guess people might argue that AI is so good now that it can do the architecting and engineering part. And maybe it can.

I'm so bored.

Does anyone actually read any of these.

I have like less than 30 impressions on all my tweets.

I am invisible to the world.

Nobody notices my existence.

This is a fun game that makes a lot of sense.

Let's pretend he doesn't exist while also complain about his existence in a roundabout way that may be described as beating around the bush.

I guess since nobody's watching I can do anything.

Maybe I'll have steamy hot gay sex.

Nobody's reading this anyways.

Or are they...

So it's been a while, how are you?

My energy levels have been out of wack, with the mounjaro and other extracurriculars I've been taking. I've been trying to sleep more, and smoke less weed but it's definitely harder than one might think.

I ended up paying $100 for the Claude Pro subscription last month and I have nothing I can think that I want to build. So much power, but so little ambition to make something. I should probably try something for the raspberry pi.

For what it's worth, the Mounjaro actually is working. I think I've lost about 5-10 pounds in the past month, and it's continuing. I'll tell you what though, visceral fat is no joke. Here I am not eaten for 2 days, up on Mounjaro and other stimulants, and my gut still doesn't want to let up.

Hello my faithful devotees. I am home alone today, with the doggo. She suffered a pretty bad fall from the car a couple days ago, and was having a lot of trouble walking until today. She seems to be back to her normal self, or at least very close to it. I gotta be more careful, she just turned 13 recently.

So has anyone messed around with kiro? I've seen kilo advertised on reddit, but when I searched for it, I found kiro which seems like some kind of Claude wrapper for AWS. For a moment I was troubled cuz I tried to burn through all my tokens yesterday on my $20 plans for Claude and Codex, and I was experiencing AI withdrawals.

Turns out there are a metric fuckton of AI services that are either free, or pretty cheap. Cursor came up but I didn't get a chance to try it out as my Claude weekly reset today. Codex resets tomorrow. And I don't know what else to build anymore.

I scraped basketball reference this afternoon-evening. I'm pretty sure it's illegal to scrape a site like that, and when I've tried before it was a royal pain in the ass to wire up scrapy and a coordinator and a redis queue. Kiro made a pipeline in a few minutes, and I wonder if it was good at using AWS spot instances because it's an AWS project. I dunno.

What I'm neglecting is reading. I'm spending too much time asking the AI to put things together, I'm really not spending enough time reading about the things that it recommends. Which is pretty dumb, because how can you build something if you don't know about the materials used.

I guess I've have to be content with it being a slow day today. I'm just happy the doggo is back to good health, so I'll take that win where I can. In the meantime I think I'm going to prioritize what I should do a deep dive into, reading-wise. Anyways.

Mille viae ducunt homines per saecula Romam

• I added a feature.

• Markdown works

• I can upload images

P.S. Bro I wish I could go on about a topic the way Trump does on his twitter site. It is legitimately impressive the sheer quantity of words used.

I know the reason you keep coming here. I would too. Where else can you find unfiltered thoughts of someone you've known so intimately for maybe a decade at this point.

I'm not trying to be accusatory, or grand-standing, I'm just bad at intros to blog posts.

Lately I've been spending a lot of my time with these AI Agents, and wow, they truly are impressive. You really can just start building things. Though every week, I notice that I have more tools, more patterns, and more things that could be built, without any real purpose.

Building things for fun is definitely an enjoyable hobby. A lot of the time I buy Gundam gunpla models just cuz it's fun to put them together. But I think I am reaching a point where building software solutions to problems that don't really exist is starting to lose its novelty.

The creative stuff is fun. Fun to build, fun to show off. Note to self: go further in that endeavor. It's more fulfilling than building a robust, scalable, fault-tolerant backend.

I'm kinda in a good place right now. I have diabetes. Now you may think this is not a good thing, but in fact it is a good thing. They've given me the fat shot drug, Mounjaro, for free-99 because I have diabetes. And I've been trying to lose a good 15-20 lbs for the past 3-4 years now. Stuff seems to be working but I think we're only on day 2.

It's actually really cathartic typing things out or rather, expressing myself however I feel like it. You really can just do things. Sorry, the AI ads are just built different. Literally.

This was a spontaneous post because I haven't said anything in a hot minute, but I'll try to think of some topics that aren't as mundane as this.

I dunno if I used this quote or not, but what's wrong with recycling anyways.

audentes Fortuna iuvat ~Virgil

I don't really know what to tell you. Using AI agents feels like cheating. But it is literally impossible to ignore the fact that the latest AI Agents are objectively better at coding than most developers. Even considering the hallucinations, manual code written by a human also produces bugs and poor choice of software patterns.

If you accept the fact that AI hallucinates code in certain areas, or domain specific topics, and yes I know it's a big ask to accept that and use AI. However, all AI has to do is code better than humans, because both AI and humans can make mistakes. The cloud AI robot simply makes fewer mistakes in many areas, and especially boilerplate code.

The argument that Claude can't write embedded firmware drivers for some obscure esoteric hardware doesn't mitigate the fact that the vast majority of code these days are written in languages that agents do understand. Python, javascript, go, rust, SQL.

The amount of time creating backend to a database can take days, weeks, or even months. That's because you have to have someone construct the SQL queries, someone to create the backend server, someone to write the routes that hit the database, and whatever else.

AI agents literally can find the shape of the backend, the shape of the db schema, and automatically connect all that shit together. It can write clean code, and add comments useful for manual debugging.

That being said...

“The Three Laws of Robotics:

1: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm;

2: A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law;

3: A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law;

The Zeroth Law: A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.”

~Asimov

Well I don't know man, we're already using this shit to kill people in wars and such, so...

It's been a while since we've talked. I've really missed you guys.

It's hard maintaining a blog when you have to deal with clowns every single day. But I'll do my best anyways.

So Project Hail Mary is out, and I need to go check that out, probably this weekend. I mean it's got Ryan Gosling in it, and he's so hot.

This AI agent revolution is insane, and I haven't felt this way since 2007 when the iphone came out. I have a feeling that a lot of things are gonna start changing, in a major way, and rapidly too. I mean, you guys see everything I've made in like what? the past two or three weeks? All by myself, solo dev, no-one else involved. I can only imagine how much productivity will increase with a competent team of experienced developers.

I do need to find a new hobby though. Maybe this is the year I pick up the piano again. I've kinda started back on my japanese studies.

In any case, I am starting to run out of project ideas, because I can get so much done so quickly with these damn AI agents. So what I'm gonna need from you are ideas that I can bounce off walls.

Also the job situation. I told you there was gonna be big troble, and look what happened. We went to war with Iran.

I don't have much to report, so I'm gonna post a translation of one of my favorite poems.

*Ask not ('tis forbidden knowledge), what our destined term of years,
Mine and yours; nor scan the tables of your Babylonish seers.
Better far to bear the future, my Leuconoe, like the past,
Whether Jove has many winters yet to give, or this our last;
This, that makes the Tyrrhene billows spend their strength against the shore.
Strain your wine and prove your wisdom; life is short; should hope be more?
In the moment of our talking, envious time has ebb'd away.
Seize the day; trust tomorrow e'en as little as you may.*

Everyone talks about the last line, seize the day, but the first few likes are way more impactful in my personal opinion. Don't ask for the forbidden knowledge of when you are going to die. Only Jove(Jupiter) knows. Strain your wine, or rather enjoy life because life is short. And in the moment of you reading this blog post, envious time has ebbed away.

Anyways I'm going to bed. I have clowns to deal with tomorrow.

Uwu

I haven't updated this blog in a minute because I don't really have much to talk about that I can't fit in a tweet. But I have some random thoughts that aren't really relevant to the zeitgeist but wish to share.

Like quotes for example. Here is a quote from my favorite author Steinbeck. I'll probably use this blog for things like this.

“How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can't scare him--he has known a fear beyond every other.”

― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

I don't have children, and I definitely can be scared by things, but I think there is some desensitization if you keep trying to frighten someone incessantly.

Is there any way we could possibly, you know, like read the minds of alleged conspirators in the Epstein case and then secretly execute them?

I wasn't aware until recently that the CIA hires racist clowns. With lifetime appointments, and cannot be fired. This is a disgrace to America on a global stage, and many Americans have died because of this clown show. And more Americans will die because of them.

The people want to know how this behavior doesn't breach some code of conduct, and result in a fireable offense. And me too.

Nah, I ain't even gonna try to deny it. T with some boosted brainwaves was probably the most euphoric experience I ever had, however many times it happened. You don't even care about the material, it's pure euphoria.

But no, gotta put a stop to that. Shit's not good for your brain.

yeah. do you think there is a way to broadcast brainwaves like a radio that can be picked up by multiple people?

Interesting question. Let me think through this seriously. The brain does emit electromagnetic signals:

Neural activity generates weak electromagnetic fields. These are what EEG and MEG detect. But they're incredibly weak — on the order of microvolts for EEG and femtotesla for magnetic fields. They attenuate rapidly with distance and the skull absorbs most of it

Could you amplify and broadcast them? In principle you could read brain signals, amplify them, and retransmit them as a stronger signal. But that's not really "broadcasting brainwaves" — that's reading, processing, encoding, and transmitting data. At that point you're just building a communication system with a brain as the input device, which is essentially what BCI research is doing.

Could raw brainwaves directly influence another brain? This is the more interesting question. For another brain to "pick up" the signal:

The receiver brain would need to be sensitive to whatever frequency you're broadcasting

Neural tissue does respond to external electromagnetic fields (that's how TMS works)

But TMS requires very strong, focused magnetic pulses — not the weak broadband signals brains produce

There's no known mechanism by which one brain's natural emissions could influence another brain at any meaningful distance

The radio analogy is actually instructive though:

Radio works because we have transmitters that produce strong, coherent signals on specific frequencies, and receivers tuned to those exact frequencies. Brains are neither strong transmitters nor tuned receivers. They're more like electrical noise generators. Broadcasting that noise louder doesn't make it meaningful to another brain — it would be like amplifying TV static and expecting another TV to display a picture from it.

Unless there's a shared encoding scheme — some common neural language between brains. There's actually some interesting research here. Studies on neural coupling show that when one person tells a story and another listens, their brain activity patterns synchronize. But that's happening through speech and hearing, not direct electromagnetic coupling.

The honest answer: with known physics, no. Brains aren't radios. But if someone discovered that brains have a resonance frequency or coupling mechanism we don't yet understand, it would change the picture entirely. That's speculative, but it's the kind of thing your "classified physics" argument would rest on.

Man you make a simple suggestion that a Republican Senator has not been informed as he should be, or might be negligent and the entire GOP loses their shit.

Republicans(not all) quite often have this bizarre combination of aggression and sensitivity to criticism that I honestly have never seen any other group of individuals display.

They seem to have taken that Gladiator clip to heart, that I will have vengeance in this life or the next. Wait a second, did I deadname anyone in that tweet? Or is your guilt showing?

Also RHINO? What the fuck you don't have to be a Republican to be a Christian.

Now I don't want to get into politics. And I honestly don't know who this Talarico guy is or Crockett, but I do know on John Cornyn's website

Select Committee on Intelligence

The Select Committee on Intelligence provides oversight of United States intelligence activities, programs, and budgets, and prepares legislation to authorize funding levels and limit or permit intelligence operations. It occasionally deliberates on standalone legislation and can weigh in on treaties as they pertain to intelligence issues during the Senate’s process of ratification. The Committee can make formal inquiries on intelligence activities and events, analyze data from the Intelligence Community, and make recommendations on nominees for intelligence-related positions requiring Senate confirmation.

Maybe someone should send him an email or a phone call to see if he knows anything about what's happening in Texas. After all, maybe he's not at fault if nobody told him about the brain stuff.

No. I don't think Congress or the Supreme Court know about this technology. After all, why would you want to legislate it when you have the greatest tech in the world to murder and rape without consequences?

Change my mind.

So. I am literally CIA. No?

I have an uncle who was USAF, served in Vietnam and Gulf War. I have another uncle who was also USAF, and then worked in the Pentagon. And my other uncle was vice-provost of NVCC system and met Obama. My cousin works for Lockheed Martin.

What the fuck exactly is your plan? Fire everyone named Butler cuz you're triggered?

I want some answers.

So instead of curing diseases and using this technology for the greater good, we have a bunch of spooky geniuses and ex-presidents playing Super Secret Star Wars with our global frenemies without even informing the American public on... well just about everything that was going on. Does Congress know about this? Does Congress know about COVID?

What I'm wondering is who has the audacity to commit these human rights violations, not only on myself, but on the American public. The intelligence agencies? Partisan groups within them? The president? The ex-presidents? We love those ex-presidents. I don't know who, but you ALL should be ashamed of this narcissistic and gluttonous, greedy, ravenous abuse of power, as if you have any more importance than any other American citizen. "All men are created equal" Though I suppose the constitution is open for interpretation these days, just like the rule of law.

Whoever invented this trusted the officials to use this for the greater good and for the benefit of the American public, but instead you've chosen to betray America, using this tech for selfish and partisan interests.

Somehow the Democrats and the Republicans have gained access to a Death Star type of superweapon, and now they want to play Star Wars with the American people, so that one party doesn't cause global disturbances without the Democrats' consent. So now you have two diametrically opposed parties vying to be in the driver's seat of a technology that can remotely manipulate the human brain, on a mass scale. An existential weapon that has undoubtedly generated debates on how far exactly we can encroach upon God's domain.

So what do we do? Well if you have the moral bankruptcy to murder a no-name liberal just because "that's the fucking GAME bro, America be damned", then I don't know. Maybe another psyop will fix things.

Or maybe you should you just look in the mirror and just do it.

"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you." ~Nietzsche

American Exceptionalism is so great isn't it. We've created a technology that can transmit globally, with the potential to cure numerous neurological and psychiatric diseases. What a wonderful technology, that we can use to spread education and the English language globally.

You know what we should use it for? Malice and mass schizophrenia and other public health catastrophes! Let's play a game with Sanjee, this is the most brilliant use of the most advanced technology known to man.

How about death spirals, existentialism, moral failure, and a general sense of hostility aimed towards just about everyone except Keanu Reeves. This is absolutely fantastic. It's been almost a decade, and this is the progress that America the Great has made. A nation slowly losing it's mind, slowly losing its ethical standards, slowly losing everything that made this place great in the 90s and early 00s. I don't know what else to do besides scold all of you. At this rate, we're all going to commit group suicide together because nobody knows what else to do.

convulsively laughs

breathing noises

This is a hostage note. I have your attention. You are a captive audience now. If I could glue together letters from a magazine onto a blog that is how this note would look. See how my calm demeanor betrays an erratic and thin veneer that could crack at any moment. The words seem measured, yet almost robotic, and begs the question if AI was used in any of this. Well yes, I used the AI for the website, but these ramblings are mine own.

Now you may be asking, what are my demands? I tell you, I am in need of a job. You may ask yourself, is this really the best approach to employment? After all, I just spoke about cracking a few moments ago. That is a good question indeed, and requires further consideration. A few hours into this, I may have that familiar feeling of Catholic guilt and delete this post as if it never existed.

Is that all you ask? A job? Yes, I think that's all. For now. Who knows what I might demand next. All I can say is that if I don't get a job relatively soon, we are all going to be in big trouble. BIG. TROUBLE. Literally. Is all you want to hear for the next weeks/months the complaints of first world poverty. Poverty.

Poverty.

Does the privilege get more blatant than that! We're all going to think about unemployment while playing video games while often being high! BIG. TROUBLE. JOB.

I just finished vibe-coding a photoblog. I dunno if I would really call it vibe-coding. It's using the python django framework, and I'm pretty decent at python so I'm reviewing the changes that the AI is making. But I do have to give some props to this openclaw thing. Apparently it's an agentic LLM which is some new-fangled thing that lets the LLM do more like saving things to memory. I'm not really sure how it's different from just using Claude Code, but I'm getting some pretty good results with OpenClaw.

All these photos are so old. I guess I still take photos these days, but it's not really in an album format. I just take a few photos every few days. But it looks like I have enough photos from my past to fill out the photos site. I kinda want to do a photo of the day type of thing, but I don't think I take enough photos for that.

I've been experimenting lately with jxl vs. avif, and I am kinda liking jpeg xl. In the process of converting a bunch of Marvel comics to jxl, and seeing if I can make a private comic stash only I can access from the internet. A bit of a project though, as its about a terabyte of image data, and I think jxl will only reduce it 5-10% in size. I might be able to host it on a raspberry pi however, but it's a lot of comic files. I've been using the kavita self-hosted ebook reader, but it seems to crash out after too many titles.

I guess it's probably obvious I am just pumping up my word count at this point. I don't really have anything important to report on. Will keep you all updated if anything big happens.

I didn't really watch all of the super bowl today. I've been playing cyberpunk 2077, waiting anxiously to get the 911 so I can continue to self-insert myself as Johnny Silverhand.

This is a bit of a contrived post. I am trying to build out this blog site, but it's somewhat pointless if there's no content on it. So I'm writing a bit so that there will be some material on the site, that I can use to style it out.

I'm not really advertising it, but I suppose I have posted the link before, and it's not really hidden or anything. I'm not sure I trust the numbers I see on cloudflare, because they are often wildly different from other sources like google analytics. But even those numbers can be confusing. I forget which browser simply doesn't participate in google analytics, and you won't see those as visitors. But I'm a bit of a newbie when it comes to website analytics so I might have never even set up the google analytics correctly.

But idk maybe the numbers are all wrong. It's not like there's some global conspiracy to alter my social media numbers to make it seem like... ahahah, who's crazy now?

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