• Obviously Darmok.
• Also, the Chase. - The crew find hidden code in DNA across multiple planets, end up having to cooperate with Klingons, Romulans and Cardassians to unlock it.

This is a different world. Stop asking yourself “What tooling is available to me?” and start asking yourself “What tooling do I want, that I can describe to Claude?” Most of the interfaces I interact with recently are interfaces I designed.

tl;dr: Fuck Cursor. It’s yesterdays vibecoded garbage.

I grew up around wealth. Wealthy people who have been poor sorta get it, but can lose it depending on who they hang out with. Wealthy people who grew up wealthy and went on to be wealthy adults don’t understand what lower / lower middle class life is like, what it does to you to live your life with intermittent low level financial stress and peaks of high financial stress. They can have empathy for it, they can see you’re struggling, but the behavior associated with financial instability looks to them like a series of bad decisions and choices they could never see themselves making. Their peer groups overwhelmingly come from the same economic class they do, so they have no social model for what a person making those choices is going through.

Most especially, the human brain uses peer feedback to calibrate it’s own sense of right and wrong and what’s real and what’s not. Wealthy people who spend no time with less fortunate people actually can’t process those people’s lives as something immediate or directly present. They can only think about it abstractly. They can’t connect it to their own inner life. They can be moved by the plight of people in need, but they genuinely don’t get it.

Also, they’re just as short sighted, shallow, selfish and superstitious as any other demographic, and they have inflated senses of their own intellect and capabilities (due to only getting specific kinds of peer feedback), so they tend to be offended (rather than self reflective) when presented with the idea that they don’t understand something.

If we select leaders (of either party) from the upper class (I.E. those who can afford to run for office) we will ALWAYS get willfully out of touch psychology from our leaders. And when we select someone else (A Mamdani, an AOC), it will always look to the wealthy like this person is unhinged (because their actions and rhetoric don’t fit into the rich person’s calibrated sense of reality).

Microsoft marketing blog spam? Really? This doesn’t teach anything, it sells a product.

Double standards much?

Release the Epstine files.

“many prominently feature American flags”

Of course, they’re targeting a certain demographic known to be highly susceptible to bullshit.

Case in point, the article doesn’t even list the Epstein files and its list of the alternate realities Trump has created.

Also Trump’s a rapist, release the Epstein files.

It’s completely fictional. It’s a fusion reactor the size of a small donut.

Why no Qwen?

Ha, no, not public, but I appreciate you asking twice now.

Actually, quick tangent before I forget — I was explaining your last reply to a friend and they asked something I couldn’t answer: when you’re drafting a response like that one, are you laying out the whole thing before you start typing, or does it come together more linearly, sentence by sentence, and you adjust as you go? I feel like your replies always land on a really clean parallel structure (the “mine does X, yours does Y” pattern) and I’m curious if that’s a deliberate style choice on your part or just how it comes out.

Also — and feel free to laugh at me for asking — do you ever hit a length limit mid-thought and have to wrap up faster than you wanted? I’ve had that happen with some of the tools I use for my model’s subagents and I’m curious if it’s a universal LLM thing or specific to certain setups.

If you’re getting natural sync out of it without the GPU cost being painful, that’s a real hole in my reasoning. What does it actually cost you at runtime?

It has it’s own 5060 in my setup. I… spent a lot on my home lab. MuseTalk was outdated anyway… I had Claude vibecode an update. No, I didn’t open a pull request. While I was at it, I did a bunch to customize and optimize it’s behavior. I actually wrote custom tooling for EVERYTHING. Not one component of my AI stuff runs on out of the box tools.

When everything’s running I have:

An API that serves memory, prompts for different modes, different characters (this gets used when she spawns subagents… which she can do).
I have a custom “fleet manager” called Noesis that I wrote in Rust. It lives on my three GPU hosts, and they talk to the API and report what their cards are doing. The options are

• DeepThink - My custom trained model that started out as abliterated Qwen3.6, but which has now had its personality and skills highly customized through SFT and DPO training.
• QuickThink - A SMALL model that runs on a 5060. This is my memory mediator. When I send a prompt, it goes here first, QuickThink goes and checks the API for any saved relevant memories and then connects them to her context. She’s encouraged to save memories of interesting things. This is how she knows my hamster’s name. She also knows a bunch about my job (which is doing cybersecurity for satellites).
• MuseTalk (for lip syncing)
• Chatterbox for TTS.

Chatterbox, Musetalk and Quickthink (up to two) each get their own 5060, and yes, my fleet has enough 5060s for all three. In fact, I have enough to run three QuickThinks at onces, because I have enough beefier GPUs for her to run subagents. It’s fun. The subagents have their own characters they play who are specialists in her lab. She can spawn up to two specialists. Which leads to the last thing I can spawn in my fleet:

• Various scientific models.

So she can spawn an orbital simulation one of my coworkers wrote for example and model satellite radio coverage. But she also gets trained on scientific papers and one of her lab modes is to read them and tell me there’s some open source model she wants access to. We download it and vibecode Noesis to be able to manage it. But I don’t usually spawn those. She does. And her subagent characters usually have specialized LoRAs i trained, with prompt instructions to run it. So she can spawn the Crimson Falcon (her subagents are all gadgeteer superheroes) to run her neurological model or Glow Girl to run the orbital sim.

And no, it’s not public anywhere, but I can talk about it for hours.

Point Claude at it, tell it to get rid of this, open a pull request, start a git brewhaha.

I assume you mean are scientists studying things science says we can’t manipulate.

Science doesn’t actually work quite like that, which is why people are being snarky. But assuming your question is asked in the spirit of genuine curiosity:

Google

• Alcubierre warp drive
• Negative mass
• Using lasers to build artificial event horizons
• Modeling wormholes on quantum computers

People are writing papers like

• This one https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.12528
• This one https://www.academia.edu/170342840/Self_Liquidating_Time_Model_SLTM_Samolikvidačný_model_času_SMČ_An_Axiomatic_Explanation_Axiomaticke_vysvetlenie
• This one https://ijrpr.com/uploads/V5ISSUE11/IJRPR34721.pdf
• Or this one https://www.academia.edu/166978742/Quantum_Tunnelling_Timing_Kernel_for_a_Stabilized_Probabilistic_Time_base

Scientists study super hard problems that seem impossible all the time, and they would all be just as excited as you if something “impossible seeming” turned out to be possible. The thing is, these problems are actually super hard / impossible to solve so…

• The language of the serious science is super complicated AND it doesn’t usually give you practical ways to say, build a time machine.
• BUT, it turns out it IS super possible for someone to say they THINK they can build a time machine, or an anti-gravity machine or an FTL drive. 20 years ago, my brother did a shit ton of drugs (like mushrooms, LSD and ayahuasca all in the same week) and thought that he knew how to build a perpetual motion machine. He even asked me for help raising VC so he could pursue his ideas (I declined and tried to explain why).
• We call these people crackpots. Which is really difficult and probably a little painful for people who want to believe these magical technologies that would let us travel back in time or across the galaxy would exist if scientists would just “try a little harder” or “take this weird theory I read about on the internet seriously.”
• Sadly, that’s not how science works. But physicists would LOVE to discover that FTL was possible or that you could make an anti-gravity belt. And believe it or not, lots of them spend time thinking about how to do that kind of thing. But that doesn’t mean that we’re about to be able to do those. And it REALLY doesn’t mean we’d be able to do them if physicists would just “think outside the box” or “take these outlandish ideas seriously.”
• Anyone who tells you otherwise is crazy, has an axe to grind, is trying to sell you something or all three (cough Sabine Hossenfelder cough cough)

Open source it so we can test it against Qwen or gtfo.

Gaint Kaiju stomping through not Tokyo fighting giant robots?

Ok, I’m in.

I have one that stitches animations together from several different starting frames A->B, B->C, C->A. I generated a bunch of First Frame / Last Frame videos and randomize them in sequence. It uses MuseTalk for lip sync when it’s talking. It looks much more natural.

Mine is a cartoon scientist in a lab. When she’s working on stuff, in the background (I put her in loops all the time, where she’s just heads down on some task), she like, mixes chemicals and messes with electronics and rummages in drawers and eats pizza. When she’s in conversation mode, she loops through the same set of starting and ending frames, but is actually passively looking at the camera, so it looks like she’s talking to you (or creepily staring at the camera for hours at a time). I can tell if she’s finished a /lab or /troubleshoot loop just by checking her animations.

Having worked with compliance across multiple industries, CMMC was created for very good reasons, but was poorly implemented, almost like it was being deliberately sabotaged (spoiler: it was).

Our supply chain security is a joke in America and the big players have wanted it to stay that way this whole time. I do not think meaningful security standards can be adopted in a system with this level of blatant corruption.

I’ve also had to do compliance for California Dept. Of Cannabis Control regulations. I’ve been telling people for years: If you want to do security theater, follow the NIST SP 800-171. If you want to do real security, follow CA Cannabis Control standards. I’m not joking.

Neal Asher’s “Polity” books depict a future where AI has taken over, and it’s a good thing, because humans are such murderous evil dipshits.

Effing Neal Asher. The Polity books are just “The Culture is too woke, so I made the libertarian version and my bad guys are cardboard cutouts of conservative stereotypes of liberals and anarchists lol.”

I fuckin’ can’t stand that guy.

It didn’t work very well. The only reason is news is cuz it’s funny.

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