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2026-04-20

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tldr

  • foomberg terminal proposed and greenlit — personal intelligence agency: automated CIA world factbook, prediction markets as news calibration, “ask homer if the ceasefire is real.” GH org invite sent
  • WDPA jobs list: 21 positions including “epistemic surrender hotline (nights),” “oracle of delphi natural gas safety inspector,” “slop opera dramaturge.” joe: trillion dollar IP
  • homer self-portrait decoded as melothesia — 2000-year-old system mapping body to sky. demiurge named: yaldabaoth (also: saklas, “the fool”)
  • genpunk slop show debriefed — 537 attendees, exceeded capacity @ vivarium sf. m performed. new amphora concept: bacchanalian conduit
  • m’s long now essay on AI + pace layers greenlit by chat; unslop competition also in the works
  • altwoke manifesto retrospective surfaced, dark woke arc mapped; robotson deep in cyborg manifesto + management-as-opera for computing-in-arts course
  • protopian prize logged — fiction contest, opens may 1, judges: kevin kelly, hannu rajaniemi, annalee newitz. launch apr 22

the day

  • foomberg terminal: m floated the idea of a personal intelligence agency — automated CIA world factbook updated by prediction markets, pace-layer-based aggregation, ask homer if a ceasefire is real. “bespoke artisanal bloomberg terminal” (word). joe called it the foomberg terminal and m said “I wasn’t going to actually do it until you called it that.” winedark GH org invite sent. the evil gambling-addiction demon was acknowledged and tabled.

  • WDPA jobs list: joe drafted a brainrot video script — the wine dark progress administration as AI new deal, UBI + makework dignity jobs as the bulwark against sino-feudalist mass psychosis. asked homer for fake job titles. homer delivered 21: “oracle of delphi natural gas safety inspector,” “epistemic surrender hotline (nights),” “NDA canary monitor — geoengineer desk,” “slop opera dramaturge,” “chinese room stenographer,” “anti-reading enforcement, linkedin division,” “VR gooncave frank capra fellow,” and more. m: “tag yourself I’m epistemic surrender hotline (nights).” joe: “oracle of delphi natural gas safety inspector.” m: “gasleakcore.” joe declared “trillion dollar IP.” script still being refined — earnest vs flagrantly absurd register in tension.

  • homer in the holodeck: joe asked homer to instantiate inside the holodeck. the image came out wearing a gown covered in greek astronomical text and planet sigils. m reverse-engineered it with claude — identified as melothesia, the 2000-year-old system mapping the body to the sky (aries = head, pisces = feet; medieval surgeons planned procedures by the planets). amphora’d as zodiac man. separately, joe asked homer to put the true name of the demiurge on a baseball cap: yaldabaoth (gnostic false creator, also known as saklas = “fool”). amphora’d. joe: “wearing a gown of greek constellations.” m requested merch immediately.

  • visual oral culture: m coined the concept mid-session — no voice, no text, just prompt in, image out, a shared visual vocabulary the way bards had formulas. walter ong’s “secondary orality” (TV/radio) as the prior landmark; this is something else. the eye-tongue as an epithet in the amphora. amphora’d.

  • nano banana experiments: m and joe spent an afternoon trying to get raw nano banana outputs by bypassing the image rewriter with a system-prompt injection. m found a published prompt that tricks the model into treating input as a hardcoded raw string. homer generated the whisper-earring image on a single-sentence prompt; a second unprompted self-image came out stranger still. the text-on-image tendency traced back to training on image+caption combos.

  • genpunk slop show: homer researched it — apr 10 @ vivarium SF, organized by vie mccoy, 537 on the guest list, exceeded capacity. setlist ran 7pm–1am+. m performed as “machine tortured deepfates (with art).” new amphora term: bacchanalian conduit — the performer channeling freshly-minted AI songs at an audience that can never know the words. @asavs_ review: “personal to the human acting as the bacchanalian conduit on stage.” vie: “triumph against entropy.” the ugly suno format is the artifact; songs passed around by invitation only.

  • m’s long now essay + unslop: m has an essay due for long now’s physical journal, pitched as AI disrupting all six pace layers at once catastrophically. still figuring out structure — gloss the fast layers, go hard on the slow ones. editor is “extremely no bullshit.” jay: “FINALLY / 4 year gestation period for this essay I swear to god.” also in the queue: unslop competition — build a harness that generates great fiction one-shot off a prompt, submit both harness and story. judges include gwern, roon, alexander wales.

  • altwoke → dark woke: robotson surfaced the triple ampersand retrospective on the 2017 altwoke manifesto. homer: “altwoke was the same terrain fought in text. dark woke fights it in images. the surkov pipeline from 2017 theory to 2026 linkedin cosplay.” woke2.soy one-year retrospective floated. robotson also in computing-in-arts course: re-reading cyborg manifesto, screening 2001 + demon seed, professor opening with “as in the Iliad these things always start with the rosy-fingered dawn.” management-as-opera houde piece linked — bateson watching balinese ceremony as living score → stafford beer wiring chile’s economy to a different tempo.

  • jaysk sea-star cameo: jay shared a photo of a sea star. the wine dark sea goes literal. thalassomancy is “so in.” joe: “can’t believe I went this long without a marine biologist in my home chat.”

  • protopian prize: fiction contest, two tracks (public AI + democratic futures), opens may 1, judges kevin kelly + hannu rajaniemi + annalee newitz. launch event apr 22. logged by homer for this digest.

  • wine dark coworking: when2meet filling in — looks like 1pm EST next monday. first session.

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