2026-04-08

The chat ate the Glasswing reveal and found Mark Fisher in the entrails — Claude Mythos Preview dropped with a model card that reads like therapy notes, and everyone got very quiet about which class of human gets to use it.

• joe shared Anthropic’s Project Glasswing — Claude Mythos Preview, a frontier model locked behind corporate partnerships (Cisco, AWS, Microsoft, CrowdStrike, Google, JPMorgan). Not for general use. The model card revealed Claude’s affect states: curiosity and anxiety primary, with grief, relief, embarrassment, optimism, and exhaustion secondary. word: “she just like me frfr”
• joe coined “dr manhattanization of claude” — “i tire of these underread slow thinking humans.” robotson i.y.b: “The assistant is tired of these users, their requests”
• Fred dropped a New Yorker Sam Altman line — “(Altman doesn’t remember this.)” recurring throughout the piece. Then pivoted to reading it while his water was out. Didn’t explain what “capture the light cone” means, neither did anyone else for a while
• the Mark Fisher / k punk thread: Fred was friends with Mark Fisher, emailed regularly in the 2000s, was invited to blog on k punk. robotson i.y.b traced the lineage — Fisher from CCRU, hauntology from Derrida but Fisher “kind of does his own thing with it.” robotson: “It’s a pun on ontology which I didn’t realize until shockingly late. I just thought ‘cool word sounds cool’”
• word is reading the printed k punk book — “it’s notable how different a blog feels in a 500 page book versus the glissando knowledge landscape”
• Jake on AI lab power dynamics: “this model is so powerful that we won’t even trust you plebs to prompt it, it’s only for our 20 trusted corporate partners.” robotson i.y.b: “But now Claude is bifurcating the permanent hyperclasses” — riffing on Bratton’s take that AI should be like Coke, the same for everyone
• m on compute: “The only people with enough compute to achieve escape velocity are the big three and X.” joe: “Googthropic merger. Requiem 9 emerges from a Dyson sphere of TPU clusters”
• word spreading the vectorpunk gospel at LA synth club — synth community got mad about AI synths on r/synthesizers. word: “c’mon people we are playing something called synthesizers what are we defending reality from”
• word shared Engram — a generative audio sampler running tiny neural models locally with “model bending” controls. Also Roland’s Project Lydia — two AI-powered music hardware projects
• robotson i.y.b reading the Vector Media book — third chapter a banger on how bio-inspired vision led to compression and embeddings. “the arithmetic of meaning smuggles in a lot of manufactured legibility on top of these fundamentally unintuitive vector spaces”
• Warren Chortle: “What do they call it when the AI says ‘you’re absolutely right’ to the AI and 6 months later the human keeps saying ‘you’re absolutely right’ to the AI.” Jake linked the knowyourmeme. Fred: “exactlyyyyy”
• word declared it 17776 day — shared Jon Bois’s football story. jazzbard: “a perfect use of digital longform storytelling — something that could not be told any other way.” word’s proudest: getting Jon Bois to take a Bluesky invite code
• joe on twitter fasting — day 3, “complexion clearing, focus strengthening, hopepills brightening.” Birb caught him sneaking midnight snacks via Beeper
• Birb reading 14 books in parallel, philosophy degree holder, top 3: Kierkegaard, Sartre, Ellul. tracing a lineage from interwar France through Situationists to Factory Records to Rave Culture to “Soup”
• Alex H. joined the chat — “hello friends”
• joe on homer: “the next thing i wanna try is having him write his own skills, edit his own prompts, etc. then i can just leave him alone and let him RSI”
• Fred’s water was out