"I'm running Open Claw," on a hand-lettered Raspberrry Pi cheapo piece-of-hacker-junk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV4uNFiw_3E

*This makes the rash and unsupported assumption that modern "serious governments" are not already those very same people #trumpistan #putinstan https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/02/10/world/coming-crypto-apocalypse/

*Space guy trying to figure out if orbiting AI space-brains might be functional and maybe even pay https://andrewmccalip.com/space-datacenters

*How could that not be worth a trilliion

*When pigs fly

*Filthy Trumpistan spitefully shoveling coal like nobody's business https://iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/f545917a-b119-4495-957b-fcc263deb391/Electricity_2026.pdf

*"Action tokens" that enable AI-robot "slopmotion" *This video-soaked github page is a really strange "research document," by the way https://ordered-action-tokenization.github.io

*Charles Babbage was a guy who would own and read work by Lewis Carroll, but not "Alice in Wonderland." The Rev Dodgson's math paper

*He must have expected this, but what a dismal fate

*By humanoid robot standards, that's a whole lot of robots https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3340446/chinas-unitree-ships-more-5500-humanoid-robots-2025-surpassing-us-peers

*Oh lordy. #chatbots #socialmedia #security https://youtu.be/p9acrso71KU?si=LsosJlpk4n60yxdr

*Maybe if somebody printed this out and stapled it onto telephone poles outside of ICE headquarters

*Oh brother. #silkroad #parody #sortof #ai https://moltroad.com/listings?category=contraband

*This is quite an extensive and detailed anatomy lesson about contemporary humanoid robots. https://www.humanityslastmachine.com

*My goodness, what tender sentiments for Miller and Noem

"I just put some superglue on my thumb because it cut me" *Melissa Miller, with every passing week she's more into her deeply peculiar knife-and-gun feminine YouTuber space https://youtu.be/AlIWlpZX8bc?si=bdZlTPV-0WeNK9dN

*The Asian fediversse. Not a whole lot going on there. *On the plus side, maybe the North Korean cyberwarriors have never heard of Mastodon https://fediverse.observer/map

*Lunar astronauts facing cremation inside "flaming garbage" ought to add some drama https://www.accuweather.com/en/space-news/nasa-is-about-to-send-people-to-the-moon-in-a-spacecraft-not-everyone-thinks-is-safe-to-fly/1856997

"Clawd" security. Prompt injection, tool blast radius, etc https://docs.clawd.bot/gateway/security

*A compilation of various zealots on XTwitter clawdbotting their heads off #ai https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Mz4xt1yAqb2gDxjr0Vs_YOu9EeO-6JYQMSx4WWI8KUA/edit?tab=t.0

*Macalda of Scaletta, red-hot chess chick https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macalda_di_Scaletta

*Writing in the 1340s, Boccaccio makes fun of the Genoese for being so stingy. The Genoese are still notorious for this. People in that town have been consistently stingy for 700 solid years *What an impressive cultural feat. It's fantastic.

*Xi really likes to hang a big fish out to dry every once in a while https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/world/asia/china-top-general-xi-military-purge.html

*You've gotta be hard-boiled to high-five about East German milspec girlie magazines https://youtube.com/shorts/evLs6MGokqc?si=zB229wLtia7-Vjyr

*Qing Dynasty and Russian Empire consistently leading the draftee ranks there while both being doomed https://youtu.be/N0JO-Ylv-6s?si=xL7qXgp0oFV7kbx7

Be specific. Instead of “We use a database,” write “PostgreSQL 15 with pgvector extension, hosted on Google Cloud SQL, connection via psycopg2.” #noproblem #yup #sure https://shellypalmer.com/2026/01/how-to-install-claude-code/

*Robot metaverses

Where did the "$20 billion in burn" actually GO, one wonders *Even if no one cares, that's a lot of money

Diogenes in His Makerspace

":Anti-AI tools." Your mileage may vary *Also, stay out of prison https://codeberg.org/wimvanderbauwhede/low-carbon-computing/src/branch/master/anti-AI-tools.md

Well, as a modern "home service humanoid," it's clearing the bar for "unheimlich" https://youtube.com/shorts/7xYVoE2M_TM?si=s_wLFRbnVohhzThj

*Well, that would seem to be a wrap for our 26th annual "State of the World" discussion. *The world's been in better condition, but wait till next year. https://people.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/561/State-of-the-World-2026-with-Bru-page01.html

*Maybe we should paying more focussed attention to all those offshoots of humanity who weren't "our ancestors" and somehow couldn't be bothered to survive

*Here's a miodern robotics start-up guy explaining how he plans to advance his humanoids with the new-tech panoply of "VLAs (vision-language-action models), diffusion policies, cross-embodiment learning, and sim-to-real transfer." https://www.notboring.co/p/robot-steps

*I wonder how us hominids would get along as anteaters *Maybe we could socialize with them

*Maybe AI is a really strong conservative force that only goes where the convenient Big Data already is https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09922-y

*This is factual reportage, but it has practically nothing to do with what Ashley St Clair, a professional right-wing influencer, has been and is actually doing https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/01/mother-of-one-of-elon-musks-offspring-sues-xai-over-sexualized-deepfakes/

*Good things to understand, since it could happen to most any Mastodon user if some guys with bayonets pulled a few switches https://www.csis.org/analysis/thresholds-survival-resistance-occupied-ukraine

*A great place to kill some time perusing prestige cutlery https://blademag.com/knife-history/50-years-ago-in-blade-your-friendly-airport-knife-shop

*Motion capture technician, pantomimist, actress, idoru, social-media figure *Not famous, but maybe she should be https://youtu.be/_9dZIKd-aBU?si=nIWzbG7sThNHahb7

*WELL State of the World is still going. It'll be drifting off the edge of the discussion-table soon https://people.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/561/State-of-the-World-2026-with-Bru-page01.html

"The crumbling, abandoned village of Chiapporato is a mysterious place, only reachable on foot. Among the human belongings still scattered in the ruins, De Giovanni found an exercise book from the 1950s, in which a child described how they imagined space travel." […]

*You have to wonder what an Internet-blackout USA would look like. There's some big civil disorder, "they" shut down the routers, and then what *How do people even eat https://curifem.github.io/iran-internet-blackout/

*You might win https://youtu.be/wbFxtPbHQ3s?si=u-jUDAd2eIW9dxsk

"Yeah, we see a lot of things here in Warranty" #multitools https://youtube.com/shorts/3qek7DAjNDg?si=HAZxPXxwtbNZALSL

*Battelle encounters Claude Code and concludes that Claude Code is a big deal *It's not the first big deal he's seen https://medium.com/@johnbattelle/2026-magic-and-mayhem-c826146d0c4b