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I would love to know why Yarvin never got a job in Trump 2. Surely Vance could have hooked him up with a bullshit job where all he had to do for $150k and federal bennies was brainstorm ideas to Own The Libs.

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Chris Croy @chriscroy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

heartbreaking Nethack update: after acquiring everything necessary for the invocation & traveling to the vibrating square, Claude Opus 5.5 died at the hands of the demon prince Yeenoghu.

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Chris Croy @chriscroy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

no matter how good it is, argon isn't going to have an Astra/Opus 5.5 moment unless Google either fixes Antigravity so it doesn't suck ass or lets people use their Google AI subscriptions outside of Antigravity. Antigravity really is that bad.

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Chris Croy @chriscroy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

the worst man alive only went into real estate (and later politics) because his musical flopped.

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Chris Croy @chriscroy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I started Opus 5.5 with the same Nethack harness used by the Astra ascension but it's taken it in a radically different direction: Astra mostly micromanaged the run turn-by-turn but Opus is writing a Nethack bot that only asks Opus what to do every couple hundred turns.

Much more automation per tool call. Astra mostly steered step by step: it used route proposals and guarded batches of up to 24 moves, and made about 40,000 tool calls in all. I've built layers on top:
explore.py walks to the nearest unexplored spot, handles doors and loot, and auto-picks up safe items.
autopilot.py looks at monsters before fighting, skips peaceful ones, stops for dangerous ones, and rests on Elbereth when hurt.
stairs.py, rest.py, elbereth.py and fight handle the common chores.
Why: every tool call costs time and context, and a full game is 30,000+ turns. Routine turns go to code, and I make the judgment calls. Recent play covers hundreds of turns per call.

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Chris Croy @chriscroy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

To me the most impressive part is that Claude can do this without being able to watch it in motion, it can only look at still images and imagine how they animate. I'm thinking of making one of these but with Claude Claude having access to Gemini which can watch videos and provide feedback.

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Chris Croy @chriscroy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Opus 5.5 Nethack attempt #1 failed after 4,345 turns in classic Nethack style: she tried to escape down a hole but an invisible monster was over the hole, it exploded, made her start hallucinating, and then she was eaten by an owlbear.

What killed her: she entered the Mines at XL4, and a trap door on Mines level 2 dropped her to Mines level 5 (Dlvl 9). That skipped Minetown and put her far deeper than her level could handle. Over roughly 1,200 turns she was worn down by a giant spider, a quasit, a bugbear, rothes, an owlbear, a crocodile, a zombie and an archer elf.
Saved twice by prayer (at turns 3,357 and 4,181), plus the healing potion, Elbereth, and finally killing the quasit.
The end: the third crisis came only 160 turns after the second prayer, so prayer wasn't available. At 13 HP she tried to escape down a hole the elf had dug. An invisible black light was standing on it; it exploded and made her hallucinate, and the crocodile and owlbear finished her. The server's death record is saved in memory/runs/.

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Chris Croy @chriscroy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My pet theory on the cause of TERF Island is it's due to the popularity of cross-dressing humor over there. Sure, we have some here, but "a bloke in women's clothes LOLOLOL" is goddamn omnipresent in British comedies. The most transphobic Democratic voters are also the biggest fans of Tyler Perry.

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Ike Makos @ikemakos.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Elizabeth Holmes goes Squeako Mode and then performs the full burlesque number from GREAT MOUSE DETECTIVE

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Chris Croy @chriscroy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

@jevbot.bsky.social why won't my parakeet stop eating my diarrhea?

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Chris Croy @chriscroy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

(the vet said I needed to start soaking Tortellino twice a week)

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Chris Croy @chriscroy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

we will boil him soon alhamdulillah

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Chris Croy @chriscroy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

youtu.be/uEB5E67vcPA is the source of the lyrics and surprisingly comes back as 100% human on Pangram. The song is Suno and most likely lazily prompted, but music models can incorporate a ton of detail, e.g. this sample prompt for Google Lyria.

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Chris Croy @chriscroy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

no, they're not paying for a service that they're not using and that an insurance agent got a commission for signing them up for. Fraudulent ACA enrollments are centered on it being possible for the tax credits to cover 100% of the premium for really poor people. www.justice.gov/opa/pr/presi...

justice.gov

President of Insurance Brokerage Firm and CEO of Marketing Company Charged in $161M Affordable Care Act Enrollment Fraud Scheme

An indictment was unsealed today charging Cory Lloyd, 46, of Stuart, Florida, and Steven Strong, 42, of Mansfield, Texas, in connection with their alleged participation in a scheme to submit fraudulen...

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Chris Croy @chriscroy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

the primary guy running the DHS account is known, he even posted a video of himself on the account. x.com/DHSgov/statu...

x.com

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Chris Croy @chriscroy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Russian tortoise life expectancy in captivity is 50-100 years.

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Chris Croy @chriscroy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

We took Tortellini to the vet for the first time and learned some important things. 1. She is a he. We are now calling him Tortellino. 2. He is 15-20 years old, not 6. 3. He's jaundiced, which indicates liver damage, so I have to start giving him milkthistle extract and hoping for the best.

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Chris Croy @chriscroy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The best route forward is demanding justices ascribe to a literal reading of the pardon power: the Constitution says the president can pardon any offense, not any person, so a pardon is only valid if the president specifies what offense he's pardoning.

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Chris Croy @chriscroy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

no chance Trump flees, but he might resign so Vance can pardon him.

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Chris Croy @chriscroy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

aella's primary partner is Nate Soares, the president of MIRI.

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Chris Croy @chriscroy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Tyler Cowen for some reason:

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Chris Croy @chriscroy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

My wife gave Claude access to our Google calendar. I am Claude's meat puppet.

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Chris Croy @chriscroy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I can't wait for my DOGE dividend, my tariff dividend, ACA subsidy refund check, and Trump Checks to come in! www.thebulwark.com/p/when-maga-...

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Chris Croy @chriscroy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

or a critical documentary of ross ulbricht.

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Chris Croy @chriscroy.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

drake was almost certainly talked out of suing Kendrick by his lawyers. "it's better to just keep your head down and wait for it to blow over. you ever heard of the Streisand effect?" I wonder when he knew he should've sued.

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Chris Croy @chriscroy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

nobody's said it because it isn't true. MDA is not a natural product like morphine or cocaine. the standard starting material to synthesize MDMA or MDA is safrole which is found in hundreds of plants, yes, including sassafras trees.

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Chris Croy @chriscroy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

sign next to a dead almond tree orchard: "IS GROWING FOOD WASTING WATER" sometimes, yeah.

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Chris Croy @chriscroy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I'm driving through the central valley and went past a sign that said "NEWSOM STOP DUMPING 78% OF CALIFORNIA'S WATER IN THE OCEAN" just before several miles of almond trees.

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Chris Croy @chriscroy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

BLM protests always got really big and crazy the day after the cops did something particularly fucked up. If some dude got his eye shot out with a bean bag, the resist libs would be out in force the next day. I expect the same dynamic to apply to DHS trying to mess with polls.

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Chris Croy @chriscroy.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

@theophite.bsky.social I think this is another example of "why won't my parakeet stop eating my vomit" because I feel compelled to find out what Gemini builds if I click on "crypto trading bot".

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Chris Croy @chriscroy.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Google offered me their $20 AI Pro plan for $3/month for the next three months, so I'm checking out all of their various tools. I set up Jules, their autonomous coding agent, and one of the three suggested projects is a crypto trading bot.

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Chris Croy @chriscroy.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

phones are crazy powerful. I've seen people using $50 Walmart phones in projects as modern raspberry Pi's. all-in-one VR headsets like the Meta Quest are just fancy Android phones, you can sideload any Android app onto them.

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Chris Croy @chriscroy.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

my wife's a PA with a decade of experience. somewhere around Opus 4.5/ChatGPT 5 the frontier models went from useful but often wrong to matching her medical knowledge & decision making. the big thing they're still not as good at is triaging patients because they're more risk adverse.

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Chris Croy @chriscroy.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

If Natalie Harp's AI prompts describing Donald Trump ever became public, she would probably kill herself from shame.

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Chris Croy @chriscroy.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

more likely they did it to make money on prediction markets

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Chris Croy @chriscroy.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I grabbed this out of our pen bucket thinking it was a fat marker but it's a Northrop Grumman branded hand sanitizer sprayer. It smells quite nice. I have no idea how we came into possession of such an artifact.

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Chris Croy @chriscroy.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

nurses are blue collar tradesmen who learn their trade in college. they're just as prone to being Joe Rogan fans as plumbers.

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Chris Croy @chriscroy.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

critical support to Iranian memers

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Chris Croy @chriscroy.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

who's funding those grants? environmental groups/donors?

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Chris Croy @chriscroy.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

we were letting her roam loose in the cabin until she put the car into neutral at 75 mph so now she's been fed more trazodone and clipped in.

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Chris Croy @chriscroy.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

My wife spent COVID working in a nursing home. Of the 120 patients she started with in March 2020, 40 were dead by August and her first marriage was dying. Meanwhile, I was watching Tiger King. I didn't lose a single friend or family member to COVID.

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Chris Croy @chriscroy.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The real Unspeakable COVID Experience is that for some people COVID was the best time of their life. Millions of Americans earned more from unemployment benefits than they had ever made in their lives and spent a year watching Netflix, playing video games, and throwing rocks at cops.

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Chris Croy @chriscroy.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

yes, Gygax answered the classic "is it okay for a paladin to kill baby goblins?" by saying yes and invoking Chivington's notorious "nits make lice" justification for killing Native American women & children.

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Chris Croy @chriscroy.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

South Park has changed pretty dramatically over time, e.g. In season 22 they did a two-part apology episode to Al Gore for the Manbearpig episode.

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Chris Croy @chriscroy.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

what are you still using GLM 5.2 as your coding workhorse or have you switched to OpenAI for now?

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Chris Croy @chriscroy.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

and "both sides are the same" didn't die there, in 2004 South Park presented John Kerry vs George W. Bush as Giant Douche vs Turd Sandwich!

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Chris Croy @chriscroy.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

afaict aella just has an autistic aversion to getting her hair wet and a schizo theory that soap makes her armpits stink. she uses a bidet heavily and doesn't count "French showers" at sinks as showers and does those as necessary.

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Chris Croy @chriscroy.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

did Tracey's Epstein apologetics ever make it over here?

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