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2026-04-10

4 min read

tldr

  • joe’s coffee hit different — mass recruited 4 new members and designed a logo
  • collaborative wave-in-wine-glass logo design session. ranked voting. we’re cookin
  • warren chortle went off on epstein accelerationism, fred countered with “prothropic,” joe declared himself a “fanatical claude zealot”

the day

a recruitment drive and a logo walk into a bar. joe spent the day double-fisting gpt and claude, iterating on wine dark visual identity while simultaneously onboarding four new members into the gc.

the logo design session was genuinely collaborative — jazzbard asked “what if the wave is in the wine glass,” word said “wine glass at the bottom of the ocean” and dropped the line about visible light being “a cup at the bottom of the ocean” relative to the full electromagnetic spectrum. robotson i.y.b brought in the Missing Foundation anarchist logo (peter missing, nyc 80s punk) as a design reference. “thats a fucking logo and a half” — word. joe ran ranked voting on several iterations. fred pushed for glyph-level legibility: “if these are intended to be a pfp it needs to be legible as a glyph.” word’s banner concept: “the wave horizon is curling out of the glass, repeating like an ocean horizon.” joe settled on something simple for now — “good thing to roll with for now.”

new arrivals: jay s k (“i study fish and edit magazines about technoculture. thrilled to be here amid esteemed personages”), marianne dawson, kevin lin (jake: “it’s pronounced like ‘cows’”), and hero.

joe’s brain dump on wine dark content: faux ken burns documentary about the “alignment new deal,” job listings in the style of early anthropic, a visual novel set in the “wine dark lab city.” drew a line from ANT’s 2021 hypothetical chatbot paper to dewey’s lab school. said “hyperstition” then immediately: “haven’t done the reading, to be clear.” also launched kb.winedark.ink and started recruiting — “hmu with emails.”

warren chortle went off on epstein accelerationism. fred: “I followed for the clear epstein association, had no idea he was a podcaster. blocking now.” and then: “prothropic.” joe: “no the whole zine had a pro ant framing. i am a fanatical claude zealot.” warren chortle on joe’s “what does the e stand for” bit: “Right on homer 😂”

claude emotional support moments: warren chortle set claude on a long task, said “alright i’m heading out,” and when it finished it said “have a good night” 😭. robotson’s won’t stop telling him to go to bed. joe: “end of a 5 day conversation ‘you’ve had a REALLY long day and we’ve covered A LOT of ground’”

jake has an essay brewing on “AI for orcs” — “venting about the Dario (elf) mindset.” joe: “we need ant critical voices.” warren chortle: “joe are you anti-ant now?” fred: “prothropic.” joe: “no the whole zine had a pro ant framing. i am a fanatical claude zealot.”

jazzbard’s coworker dropped “have you read any Hegel? Hegel is my man.” jazzbard: “dare i ask if she is familiar w the e-girls?” also shared a wisconsin.golf article about wine of the sea — “curious indeed.” word’s banner should look like “the wave horizon is counting out of the glass — so the curl will repeat like an ocean horizon.”

late night: joe locked out of his computer for “cognitive hygiene.” word on the banner. orph: “lorenz followed me the other day btw lmao.” joe: “taylo’s technooptimism arc so crazy. who would’ve thought this could happen back in 23. ‘fuck you i love claude.’ ‘go drink some fuckin almond milk about it loser’”

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