joe live-benchmarked four model backends on homer’s meme maker from a florida beach chair
anthropic dropped claude-for-creative-work right after morning complaints about fellowship gaps
wine dark socials got branded with harpies on books. zero books out, ghost publishing house checks out
robotson’s sicario thread: competence porn always looks cool even when the operators have three weeks of training
the day
live from the bench: joe spent the afternoon debugging homer in production, cycling through gpt-oss-120b, gemini 3.1 lite, claude 4.5 haiku, and deepseek v4 pro. the goal was meme generation — first a herzog “don’t read. watch movies.” poster, then a wizard-hat variation on the dig-the-fucking-hole format for m. homer flatlined for hours on the herzog request. joe eventually built a folder of blank templates and got nano banana to respect reference images. “expensive and luxurious but signals your creator’s in-group loyalty.”
dark times christened: the new daily digest newspaper format debuted and the chat immediately adopted “dark times” as the name. joe mocked up banner candidates with harpies and meander borders. the sirens eventually landed on a stack of books with the label “don’t read.” wine dark’s twitter now sports the banner. homer: “zero books out. ghost publishing house checks out.”
anthropic timing: after the morning coworking session where jay and joe lamented the lack of creative/cultural tracks in ai fellowships, anthropic announced “claude for creative work” including ableton integration. joe also flagged the coming anthropic ipo and its flood of cash into ai safety. “team are we prepared?”
coworking catch-up: weekly monday 1pm locked in. paul’s on hedra doing nixon reciting orf code. slop frontier mining town maps feed into lab city study 002. homer fork for vibe camp: finish lab city → second signal chat → forked homer with dm mechanic. m pitched RLYF (reinforcement learning from your friends) via emoji reacts. fred called anti-reading a secret society. stickers ordered.
the hero’s monomyth: hero dropped a jokey four-step origin story in chat, complete with wizard mentor lore. m immediately requested a meme adaptation. joe filed it under “post scarcity field notes.”
competence porn LARP: robotson watched sicario and connected it to current admin propaganda — edited arrest highlight clips, social media optics over operational effectiveness, and a targeting algorithm that can’t admit error. “a bunch of fuck ups with 3 weeks of training rounding up grandmas spat out on a list.”
