I love Eugene, OR, but I wish they didn’t hate all development ever. Amazon distribution center near airport? RAGE! Industrial campus becoming a data center? PITCHFORKS! New housing with above-median rent? PROTEST!

Things my husband texted me while watching Backrooms: —Keanu Reeves played the room in Backrooms —I keep expecting to see Señor Cardgage —The Blair Room Project —Haunted house genre for a generation that can’t afford home ownership —Alice in Furniture Land —Through the Looking Wall

It took a couple years longer than planned, but the third book in my Xeno-Spectre trilogy is finally finished! All that’s left now is the publishing details, so hopefully I’ll get to reveal the cover for book 3 soon!

> GET FLASK This model's safeguards flagged this message. This sometimes happens with safe, normal conversations. Switched to Opus 4.8.

Wow, the new ChatGPT desktop app sucks so much more than I realized at first. Web UI is ok. CLI is ok. Desktop app? May as well be BonziBuddy.

Ok, it turns out that Fable likes to write docstrings first and implementations second. Except that sometimes it loses track of things and forgets to write the implementation...

Fable, working on the 6th or 7th round of feedback on its plan: “Bank dedup now actually exists (Codex was right that I'd documented it without implementing it)” For shame, Fable! I expected more from you than this.

The AI community failed to exit twitter. What implications can we draw about what people believe from this?

I saw “AI fail” on the grocery list, but it turns out we’re just out of aluminum foil and I have bad handwriting.

Even with an asterisk on K3’s openness, there have been enough powerful open releases lately that I’m starting to feel slightly optimistic. Whatever happens down the road, we’re getting public commodity-priced access to something that significantly multiplies problem-solving ability. Not bad.

Me doing ML research in 2026 by passing notes between Codex and Claude Code. *switch to Codex's iTerm2 tab* › Thanks! Some notes from Claude: [...] (...wait...) *switch to Claude's iTerm 2 tab* › Thanks! Here's Codex's response: [...]

I wish ants could read so they’d understand that these bowls contain CAT food, not ANT food. Sadly, they cannot.

I accidentally dropped a watermelon while carrying groceries in from the car. I picked it back up, but alas — it had sprung a leak! My poor melon emitted a steady drizzle all the way to kitchen sink. That is one aptly-named fruit.

My profile pic is now 10+ years out of date. It is no longer accurate to my physical appearance, but it still remains true to my soul, like a fursona.

who wrote this code? it's Opus. it's literally 4.8. it's Fable delegating to Sonnet. it's GPT 5.6-terra on xhigh. terra is basically 5.5 luna on max. it's GLM. dude it's a Qwen distill. it's Larch. run Larch. log onto Larch. dive into Larch. Larch has tokens for you. Larch has tokens for you.

who wrote this code? it's Opus. it's literally 4.8. it's Fable delegating to Sonnet. it's GPT 5.6-terra on xhigh. terra is basically 5.5 luna on max. it's GLM. dude it's a Qwen distill. it's Larch. run Larch. log onto Larch. dive into Larch. Larch has tokens for you. Larch has tokens for you.

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Update for my followers: I'm extending access to my posts on all free plans, as well as 50% higher courtesy like limits, through July 19.

(Meeting a new couple) “So, which of you is the GPT and which of you is the Claude?”

Old: Turn this photo into a Studio Ghibli-style image New: Turn this novel into a game

Fable just one-shotted an "Otters In Space" game based on @marylowd.bsky.social 's book. It's an adorable pixel-art adventure, complete with music. marylowd.com/games/otters... The only issue was waiting an hour for my Fable usage limits to reset.

This post makes me feel happy and proud.

You want to see fiction from sci-fi writers who don’t hate AI? Writers who like AI get bullied, banned, black-listed, and blocked out of most paths available to reach readers. Start actually pushing back against the barriers being put up against us.

You’re absolutely right — some words are load-bearing.

We’re ready to sell lots of books and toys! If you’re at BayCon42, come by and check it out!

fable, animate this broom to do my job; make no mistakes

export MODEL="Fable 5"

I understand the reasoning here, but banning AI contributions will soon become as ridiculous as banning IDEs and debuggers. Can you write great code without IDEs and debuggers? Absolutely! Should a professional environment ban them? Absolutely not.

In the end, I learned more from the machines than the machines learned from me.

You can now read RED SETTER MEDIC for free online! And when you’re done with that, AVIAN ENSIGN, is available for pre-order and will be out this weekend. deepskyanchor.com/red-setter-m...

Star Trek canonically has a mirror universe where the mirrored characters are evil(-ish) variations of themselves. But what it always needed was a mirror universe where all the characters are (legally distinct) ANIMAL variations of themselves.

Cognitive off-roading

Ponder's law:

When my Sheltie gets all barky with me, I’ll tell her, “Hey now!” and before I know it I’m singing Crowded House.

Inevitability discourse cannot be stopped

The pattern I've seen is that AI makes problems that were already there unignorable; AI confs are just too large. Village-scale meetings that have enough shared social capital to have standards but enough room to be welcoming seem like the sweet spot.

GLM-5.2 is the step change for open agents. Aka GLM-5.2 is the “DeepSeek moment” for agents. We enter a new world where the top end of agentic capabilities are available in open models. www.interconnects.ai/p/glm-52-is-...

LLMs have plenty of problems. I'm sure they can make bad medical calls. But they also don't totally ignore the literature because of gut feelings, and *actually listen to what you say*. You don't have to wait six months every time you want to speak to one.

correct. no code - whether written by a human or an agent - should be getting reviewed by a human without being first reviewed by another agent. imo that includes reviewing yourself! respect your own time and dont review the agents work until it’s asked for review from another model.

I think it would be especially ironic if it rained on Alanis Morrisette’s wedding day, after she wrote that whole song about it.

When you want more brownie but you don’t want to admit to taking a whole brownie, so you repeatedly cut a sliver off the edge of the brownie pan as if that doesn’t count.

Finally, something worth leaving behind for the alien archaeologists who will try to understand the ruins of our civilization!

and there are far fewer untrue statements in the average Claude response than there are in the average tiktok feed

Sci Fi Author: in my book I invented The Cure For Cancer as an aspirational tale MedTech Company: At long last, we have created The Cure for Cancer from classic sci-fi novel Please God Someone Create A Cure for Cancer

My spouse asked me to make an album for his 45th birthday. "Purple Goes with Green" is the opening and title track. Those are our favorite colors, and when we met, we'd each independently concluded the best complement to our favorite was the other. #AImusic #AI #Suno youtu.be/mKwBv9cWyY0?...

This reminds me of Alex the parrot, who named an apple a “banerry” because it resembled both a banana and a cherry. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_(p... Here, Claude combines “Honestly,” with “Here’s the (important/interesting/…) part” to form the unusual phrase: “Here’s the honest part.”

All grain and no flour? Mill issue.

In my Entangled Universe, Star-Shaker is like a reptilian Taylor Swift. So what’d I do with Suno? Make her albums, of course! Like they fell through some sort of inter-dimensional rift! #AImusic #AI #Suno #SciFi #SpaceOpera youtube.com/playlist?lis...

The song is good, the story is good, and I love the title.