tldr
- the gc went to war — ukraine drone warfare thread dominated, joe sharing newstatesman pieces, jake the defense shill emerging, paul melman speculating about belarus
- sam altman’s mansion got firebombed. a 20-year-old with a molotov and a deep fat post on his IG. “butlerian_jihadist_” is not a bit
- wine dark zine meeting happened — marx on utopia, vector hole column, fluxus scores as vectorpunk ancestors, and the zine might be called “bottlebright”
- joe did a 2hr podcast appearance. simulator theory, adversarial poetry, 100M token context windows, AI new deal. “shoutout to bro he let me fully sperg out”
- 🍷🌊 vs 🔥🍾 political compass dropped. jay s k mapped the axes. jazzbard: “twins, separated at birth”
links shared
- sam-altman-mansion-firebombed — 20-year-old molotov’d sama’s gate then showed up at openai HQ · shared by robotson-iyb
- socialism-utopian-and-scientific — engels on utopian → scientific socialism, follow-up from zine meeting · shared by word
- https://archive.is/20260319115108/https://www.newstatesman.com/international-content/2026/03/the-new-world-war (couldn’t fetch) — joe: “most powerful piece of writing on that war” · shared by joe
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MEJ4syOVrQ (couldn’t fetch) — jakub oai lead scientist podcast, part of joe’s “ai podcast monitors we’re eating” · shared by joe
the day
ukraine took over the chat. joe shared the newstatesman archive piece and called it “the most powerful piece of writing on that war i’ve read recently.” paul melman on ground drones: “a lot of people, including me, thought ukraine was just gonna get slowly ground down.” jake went full defense shill — “everybody saw operation spiderweb and laughed about it and then didn’t at all think ‘oh fuck that can happen to us.’” alex h.: “how do you not have recruiters training hunter killer pilots en masse right now.” joe’s line: “250 years of us foreign policy was built on the assumption that 200 alibaba quadcopters weren’t gonna pop out of the back of a truck in flyover country.” called it the “donroe doctrine (obsolete retarded version of the one).”
robotson i.y.b dropped the mirror piece on sam altman’s mansion getting firebombed. a 20-year-old threw a molotov at his $27M gate at 4am, then walked to openai HQ to threaten burning it down. his IG allegedly had a deep fat post collage about claude AGI. robotson: “butlerian_jihadist_.” word: “it was only a matter of time i suppose.” joe: “whole monkey’s hand forms a fist.” jay s k: “the new yorker magazine to molotov cocktail pipeline.” jazzbard: “there’s a new yorker cartoon about this. probably.”
the zine meeting happened. granola notes were shared but “non optimal.” word dropped marx on utopia from marxists.org. the discussion circled vector hole — robotson pitched “this month in vectors” as the column format, riffing on how drone war maps to vector space dimensions. word connected fluxus scores and instruction-based art to vectorpunk: “the most directly applicable lessons to vectorpunk practices.” joe reviewing names: “i’m torn bc i love ‘lab city’ but i alos reeeeeeeally love ‘slop city.’” fred pushed back: “‘slop’ is likely to become extremely dated.” word: “you wouldn’t gentrify a temporary autonomous zone.” bottlebright emerged as a possible zine name. jay s k mapped the 🍷🌊 vs 🔥🍾 political compass: ”🌊—🍾: ecological/collaborative vs chemical/individual. 🍷—🔥: slow, meditative practice vs popping off.” jazzbard tried the quadrants: ”🔥🍷 is like jhanabros.”
joe did a 2hr podcast at “a dude in town with a gnarly super pro podcasting studio.” his listicle: simulator theory, adversarial poetry, 100M token context windows as solving continual learning, personalized AI art in built worlds, and the AI new deal. “shoutout to bro he let me fully sperg out.”
late night: joe talked about the mark fisher/nick land beef, word described them as “english theory raver grad students from the nineties with early academic access to the internet.” joe: “every time i talk to claude about Theory i’m amazed. god it’s so good at making sense of obscure shit.” admitted to quitting philosophy after mushrooms turned him into “a hippie for a couple decades.”
artemis came in safely. 🚀