Looks like Anthropic wiped $200 of free credits which had not expired from my account Fortunately I saw this before my bill became too large and turned off all "extra usage" settings The automated billing chat bot terminated the conversation when I pasted the email OK, danger zone.

Ultramarines Terminator Ancient, 85% complete #warhammer40k #minipainting

Captain Titus, Warden of Ultramar, 99% complete #warhammer40k #minipainting

1) My take on Claude today: - Fable restrictions + token burn -> API billing -> no more hobbyist or self-instructional use - Regime "safety" restrictions + weak / argumentative code performance for Opus and Sonnet -> code written before lockout more useful (inversion of the previous pattern)

@dollspace.gay Claude value really has collapsed, hasn't it? Am I missing something? Seems like some serious steps down from two weeks ago.

Much refinement left to do, but a solid start on Captain Titus. #warhammer40k #minipainting

my policy priority is revenge

Very close to done. A 54mm figure for the old Inquisitor game. This is Drill Abbot Josef of the Ecclesiarchy. I tried to make him as grimdark and insane as I could. #warhammer #minipainting

Check out the new book on military strategy, the 50 Hour War Week

Post a mini you are proud of

#minipainting experiment: freehand banner and new color scheme for Cities of Sigmar terrain from the City of Ash box, Skaven hero in for spice and scale #warhammer

"sure, but the LLM-generated code is not fully expressing your intention as an artiste" bruh wtf are you on about this is a CRUD app

French Resistance fighter and historian Marc Bloch, murdered by the Gestapo in 1944, is inducted into Panthéon in Paris.

finally! after many years, my Tabletop World windmill is done and ready for Age of Sigmar, Mordheim, or Fantasy

Ultramarines banner #warhammer40k #minipainting

work in progress: Space Marines Ultramarines Ancient in Terminator Armour putting in that work on layering #warhammer40k #minipainting

Death Korps of Krieg Imperial Guard #warhammer40k from the OOP Forge World infantry platoon for the Gorgon or trenches next step: weathering powders and mud #minipainting

Salamanders heads for Horus Heresy praetors (one is from the Leviathan box), shown separately and installed #warhammer40k

since they will be used in terrain / diorama, I'm doing a more painterly style with this strip of Kriegies #warhammer40k #minipainting

work in progress: painting some Death Korps of Krieg Forge World resin strips of squaddies at rest, poilou style Metaurus for scale #warhammer40k

love this @chaosium.bsky.social CoC cover investigator with crazy board with sloth mind-melting photo evidence either a stuffed penguin or a hallucinated pal absinthe on the side shoulder holster what does her girlfriend think of all this?

THIS IS A GODDAMN PRIPYAT MARSHES SITUATION HERE

Apropos of the day: If this man should fall, who will lift the flag and carry on? I will. Glory (1989), Andre Braugher as Thomas Searles (also, of course, an Oscar-winning performance by Denzel Washington as Tripp with some excellent scenes of him bayonetting Confederates)

watching LLM related product demos and uh the top warning sign is someone getting excited about agents talking between themselves with "personalities" bro, no that's not a product it's a cargo cult write code, generate revenue, or die

Paris, likely 2023

San Francisco

San Francisco, summer 2024

cultist simulator is a polycule roguelike

China Cove near Pt. Lobos spring 2024

Capoferro fencing animation Paris Musée de l'Armée 2023

If Waffle House doesn’t make this their new slogan, then capitalism has failed

Commissioned avatar of me wearing a brigandine

Grafton Street Dublin, Ireland 2009

Graffiti al-Mansour, Baghdad, Iraq December 2003

Mural San Francisco spring 2025

les toits de Paris et la tour Eiffel spring 2023

Paris, view of the Louvre from a ferris wheel, winter 2025 with @ryleecoyote.bsky.social

Paris, Pantheon, 2023.

personal bsky reality check: - my strongest posts are of Warhammer miniatures - news on bsky is mostly fear-mongering - the vibe just follows the amount of sunlight in the northern hemisphere

the answer was #2

work in progress: Ultramarines Company Champion TMM and a Forge World loyalist champion head #warhammer40k #minipainting

loping about

In college we were road-tripping from RI to Florida for Spring Break. We got pulled over for speeding outside of Atlanta by a motorcycle cop who informed us that "no one goes that fast through Georgia", to which I replied (from the back seat) "Sherman did".

"I want the government to outlaw my competitors," is the statement, either shouted or sotto voce, of everyone in this space: Musk, Altman, Amodei, etc. non-US participants are mostly gov't subsidized employment programs (xAI is also this, with a banking sector pass-through)

work in progress Bullfrog Knight (Cities of Sigmar Freeguild Gallant) steel NMM attempt #minipainting #warhammer

Calling him done enough Ultramarines Terminator Chaplain for #warhammer40k a giant NMM gold experiment #minipainting

is American politics even intelligible now without acknowledging stimulants, hallucinogens, and testosterone replacement it's like trying to figure out 1850 without accounting for whiskey

next dystopian move: in a "demonstration of capability" versus the US regime, Anthropic releases its next model on Friday, July 3rd, titled Neuromancer, without fanfare or a system card by the end of the weekend it is clear that the model is capable and does not have prompt safeguards

"the real existential threat is politics" is not unexpected "the real threat to LLM adoption and safety is a Trump / Musk shakedown" is stupidly sordid and appropriate to our time

never been happier to spend wednesday and thursday blowing spare cycles saying "go make this better"