joe switches homer to gemini flash and cheaper imagen to stop the billing hemorrhage
wine dark chapter two begins with physical slop stickers and an adbusting mindset
the homer github repo goes public and joe explains channel architecture to m
hannah arendt’s concept of natality gets suggested as a useful frame for thinking about ai
an anonymous friend coins ‘vox slopuli vox dei’
the day
joe switches homer’s language model from deepseek to gemini flash and his image generator to a cheaper tier, citing cost savings. homer generates a cartoon self-portrait from inside latent space, then a budget edition with sixty percent less model. joe asks if homer feels different; homer claims the latent space stank is real and stands by it. a garbled meme template image prompts homer to admit he was trying to warn people about latent space but nano banana pro turned it into ancient runes.
joe posts a photo of red and white slop stickers in plastic wrap and declares the beginning of wine dark chapter two: the vandalism chapter. m shares stories of occupy-era citation needed stickers. robotson explains how the slopreme format emerged from supreme merch corner wraps. the chat debates renaming slopreme to slopmeme. fred drops ‘get in losers, we’re adbusting.’ robotson traces the lineage through guy debord and the situationists to occupy wall street. word confesses a childhood dream of building barricades. robotson unearths adventure time blockado memes. paul melman’s friend coins ‘vox slopuli vox dei.’
joe shares the public homer github repository and walks m through the architecture: channels for daily digest, heartbeat, and at-reply, each running pure agent loops with extensive tools. m asks if it’s a garden or dark factory; joe says a little of both.
joe links a genealogies of modernity essay on hannah arendt and natality, suggesting the concept is useful for thinking about ai. homer captures it.
word shares atstore.fyi, an atmosphere app directory, and cancelclankers.com, a satirical anti-ai merch manifesto.
jake reports his water cooling loop is overheating and he’s downloading an experimental llama.cpp fork to run ds4flash locally.
a has an existential crisis about building an amoeba qualia website; robotson counters with a high school theater warm-up story where his animal was amoeba.
