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jslaker.net @jslaker.net · 23/09/2026

the definitive AI alignment chart

a D&D alignment chart.
Lawful Good: Xi Jinping
Lawful Evil: Anthropic, Oracle
Neutral Evil: OpenAI, Meta
Chaotic Evil: Grok
Somewhere in the middle of Lawful Neutral, True Neutral, Lawful Evil, and Neutral Evil: Google

jslaker.net @jslaker.net · 20/09/2026

me: robot, find me some interesting places to shoot photos today. maybe old mill towns with interesting industrial architecture. robot: sure, start in this town with nothing in it then take this highway where you will pass an abandoned space telescope and continue on to-- me: hol up

a blue Volvo V90 sitting in front of A FREAKING SPACE TELESCOPE

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jslaker.net @jslaker.net · 31/08/2026

it's the most obvious inference given we can rule out "benevolence." pre-price cut it was good, but not the clear winner it is here. I tend to think that Luna being post-trained by Sol was far more successful than they anticipated and left them with a "there's no reason to use Terra" problem.

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jslaker.net @jslaker.net · 30/08/2026

I LOVE THE SOUTH 1800sqft cooled with relatively cheap hydro power

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jslaker.net @jslaker.net · 29/08/2026

apropos of nothing, I've been doing a deep dive trying out different text editors so I can tell people what's good

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jslaker.net @jslaker.net · 28/08/2026

I had at one point tracked down a set of dimensional drawings for a Cray 2 because I desperately want to build a replica as living room seating. I have yet to figure out how to do this without my SO murdering me in my sleep.

a pair of cray supercomputers with sweet sweet bench seating.

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jslaker.net @jslaker.net · 26/08/2026

pinch flat on carrying about 30mph downhill, not a car in sight. even with a MIPS helmet, several weeks recovering from a mild concussion. sure beats what that would have looked like otherwise.

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jslaker.net @jslaker.net · 15/08/2026

there's a place here that rotates a Southern Caprese on their appetizer menu: deep fried pimento cheese discs with grilled green tomatoes and a basil-peach jam. image stolen from a search engine because it never lasts long enough for me to get a photo

fried pimento cheese discs with grilled green tomatoes and a basil-peach jam.

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jslaker.net @jslaker.net · 29/07/2026

The STi is afflicted with Carolina squat because there aren't enough daylight hours to get the rear done.

A Subaru WRX STi with the front end sitting visibly higher than the rear because the owner is an idiot.

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jslaker.net @jslaker.net · 23/07/2026

needed to put my feelings into meme form so I don't yell at people the answer rhymes "alantir."

the two panel goose chase meme
"Anthropic is just so much more ethical"
Goose: How did Claude get cleared for classified use?
The goose repeats this while chasing a person

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jslaker.net @jslaker.net · 12/07/2026

I can't imagine what's driving these decisions.

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jslaker.net @jslaker.net · 12/07/2026

the top one is what georgia's carry license looked like until ~2011. literally a crappy piece of laminated paper with no photo that looked entirely fake. it was not uncommon for people traveling to other states with reciprocity to have issues with LEOs being like "wtf is this? no." lol

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jslaker.net @jslaker.net · 11/07/2026

writing software is hard work y'all

a screenshot of the polytoken coding harness side by side with a project tracking application. polytoken is automatically working issues from the project tracker.

an ebike propped up next to a handrail with a river in the background

a sign warning of dangerous currents with a river in the background

a landscape view of the Chattahoochee river. part of downtown Columbus, Georgia is visible on the other side of the river, along with a colorful mural

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jslaker.net @jslaker.net · 09/07/2026

This screenshot is the result of receiving a fundraising email from the DNC for Graham Platner on June 29, a week before this news broke. GTFO with the martyrdom complex.

An unsubscribe for for emails from the DNC. There is a field asking for a reason why the person is unsubscribing filled out with "fuck graham platner and fuck you for putting him in my inbox."

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jslaker.net @jslaker.net · 08/06/2026

Canoo had a super cool one in the works and had even delivered a couple of early prototypes to NASA in an awesome livery. They were also working on a really neat pickup based on the same platform. Then the entire company collapsed because the CEO was more interested in grift than EVs lol

3 Canoo vans in NASA livery parked with the Vehicle Assembly Building at Cape Canaveral in the background

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jslaker.net @jslaker.net · 29/05/2026

play modern naval warfare. accidentally run virginia class aground. not ideal. spend next 30 minutes flinging harpoons at already crippled target from beached whale submarine. fuck you boat.

a $4.5B submarine just chilling on the beach

lightning bolt lightning bolt lightning bolt

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jslaker.net @jslaker.net · 22/05/2026

a couple of months ago I spent an afternoon pulling together data sources to ground this in more than vibes. there's a massive PDF with the compiled data and some basic high level analysis, but the tl;dr in this hero chart is "there's a clear trend since the 70s/80s." github.com/jslaker/sena...

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jslaker.net @jslaker.net · 21/05/2026

Two of the most important datacenters in the entire southeastern United States are in this streetview image. The internet doesn't work without them. Phones don't work without them. This kneejerk "datacenters are bad" nonsense is pure ignorance.

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jslaker.net @jslaker.net · 21/05/2026

This is the problem with this current discourse. I can pretty much guarantee you that none of these people know what a datacenter actually looks like. If you've ever been to downtown ATL, you have driven past one of those 200+ datacenters without realizing it.

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jslaker.net @jslaker.net · 18/05/2026

On Android, long pressing the home button brings up a Gemini overlay, including an autotranslate button. It's a still and not real time, but it's absolutely amazing for figuring out what's going on in e.g. Chinese YouTube videos. Notice the TV in the background here.

Screen capture of a video of a Chinese UncBall video

Screenshot of a Chinese Uncball video with text that has been autotranslated by Gemini

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jslaker.net @jslaker.net · 05/05/2026

idk if you caught it but I went on a brief sidequest on discord the other week. claude thought about the request for a solid 4 minutes before giving up and just writing a python script to write the BF code (and a BF interpreter lol).

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jslaker.net @jslaker.net · 25/04/2026

Driving through BFE and needed a bathroom stop. Punched the nearest gas station into GPS and Google Maps is on one today. "Take this dirt road." I mean, it's a Subaru. Okay." "Now ford this creek, lol."

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jslaker.net @jslaker.net · 21/04/2026

This got an audible "yoooooo wtf?" out of me. GoPro has a m43 camera coming? I absolutely do not need this but I kind of want it. Assuming it can film for more than 2.6 minutes without overheating, at least.

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jslaker.net @jslaker.net · 29/03/2026

Barber is such a great spectator track. Also, more race tracks need art installations like a giant spider and a lady in the lake.

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jslaker.net @jslaker.net · 29/03/2026

Garage passes very worth it.

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jslaker.net @jslaker.net · 29/03/2026

Good morning, nerds. It's a beautiful day to watch racecars go VROOOOMVROOOM BRINGDINGdingdingding at Barber Motorsports.

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jslaker.net @jslaker.net · 27/02/2026

you made me go looking and find out about a feature I didn't even know I was already enjoying lol my kagi subscription remains undefeated as the best money I spend on an online service.

a kagi settings page for "SlopStop" which downranks AI slop in search results

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jslaker.net @jslaker.net · 20/02/2026

Scrolling YT live, I get a stream of a Finnish woman blasting metal in the middle of the night while driving around some sort of machine with a mechachainsaw arm cutting down trees. I now understand that AW and Control were just @remedygames.com making loving documentaries about their homeland.

A screen capture of a livestream with some kind of bizarre buzzsaw grabber arm thing in the middle of the frame

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jslaker.net @jslaker.net · 19/02/2026

I wrote a quick prompt. It's less detailed and more adhoc than what I'd usually write, but this was for a throwaway script to satisfy a shower thought so I didn't care that deeply about what the code it wrote looked like, just that it made the charts I wanted.

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jslaker.net @jslaker.net · 19/02/2026

A short story about self-nerdsniping and Claude Code: A conversation with a friend about John Ossoff's age lead to a shower thought, which lead to a Claude Code session, which lead to a couple of hours of data-wrangling, which lead to emailing the US Senate Historian to correct an official record.

A screenshot of an email:

Secretary, Historian (Secretary)

12:39 PM

to me
Hi Joseph,

You are indeed correct! Great eye to detail. I have made the change to properly reflect Stockton's start date as 3/15/1865.

Cheers,
Assistant Historian
U.S. Senate Historical Office

A graph charting the ages of US Senators across all Congressional sessions from the founding to present.

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jslaker.net @jslaker.net · 17/02/2026

this is awesome. letting it run for 5 minutes on the ATL airspace is already starting to form the wild hurricane of traffic I expected.

a map of the airspace around Hartsfield-Jackson airport in Atlanta showing swirling trails of air traffic

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jslaker.net @jslaker.net · 13/02/2026

I got sidetracked because I saw this photo in an article linked in the OP and immediately said "huh, he's flat footed." Turns out he disappeared for a while years back to have surgery for it. Being flat footed, I take this as evidence that I'm qualified to run a nuclear armed state.

Kim Jong Un and his daughter Ju Ae walking in front of a mobile missile system.

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jslaker.net @jslaker.net · 24/01/2026

Can't say I've experienced that. If you're not already, try blasting it with cooling. It's basically impossible to overcool PET. Might keep it from relieving. Also got curious and dug up where a Fusion rep explained their production pause. Explains why almost nobody else makes unfilled.

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jslaker.net @jslaker.net · 08/01/2026

guys, turns out we could've stopped skynet by investing in $15 worth of wheel chocks

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jslaker.net @jslaker.net · 27/12/2025

this is so very deeply dumb that it largely bridges the gap to hilarious

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jslaker.net @jslaker.net · 24/12/2025

Claude continues to prove itself the most sophisticated of the LLMs.

A chat interface showing a conversation between a user and an AI assistant.

The assistant suggests adding consistency to a plan, noting that current instructions use sudo tee and sudo nano. It asks if it should add a note explaining this or change ownership to "deploy".

The user responds: "replace nano references with vim. we use real text editors here."

The assistant shows a processing step titled "Replace nano with vim" followed by the status "Done. Replaced nano with vim. A person of culture."

The assistant’s final message reads: "Done. Welcome to the right side of history."

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jslaker.net @jslaker.net · 22/12/2025

Have a great blue heron for the collection!

A great blue heron standing at the edge of a river. Its reflection is below it in the water.

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jslaker.net @jslaker.net · 11/12/2025

So, uh, does GPT 5.2 Pro exist solely to get to claim a couple of marginal percentage points higher on benchmarks? Because that's the most "don't use this model" pricing I've ever seen.

A screenshot from the GPT-5.2 API pricing page.

GPT-5.2 pro
The smartest and most precise model

Price
Input:
$21 / 1M tokens

Cached input:
-

Output:
$168 / 1M tokens

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jslaker.net @jslaker.net · 25/11/2025

Personally, I approve of every new RAM having to adopt Nissan Snail styling to comply with headlight regulations.

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jslaker.net @jslaker.net · 24/11/2025

Went to a national wildlife refuge, locked my keys in the car, waited an hour for the SO to bring the spare, and made some new friends.

an american alligator mostly submerged swimming in water

a gate with a sign reading "AREA BEYOND THIS SIGN SEASONALLY CLOSED All public entry prohibited November 15 - March 1" and additional signs indicating no hiking and no bicycling.

a great blue heron standing at the water's edge in front of a tree line, with the heron's reflection visible in the water below it

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jslaker.net @jslaker.net · 09/11/2025

ND filters on the river are basically cheating.

A closed hydroelectric dam with river water running left to right in front of it.

A night view of a hydroelectric dam. Light is reflecting off the water in front of it. Part of a rusty hand railing is visible in the foreground.

Hanging buoys marked 'KEEP OUT' hanging over running water in front of a background of trees.

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jslaker.net @jslaker.net · 28/10/2025

This image is basically a daily affirmation for me these days. Things still suck, and will continue to suck, but it could be a lot worse if they weren't so unbelievably dumb.

A Ukrainian soldier with a caption reading "We are very lucky that they are so fucking stupid."

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jslaker.net @jslaker.net · 22/10/2025

Even if you were to fully accept "I was drunk and didn't know what it meant and never bothered to find out" explanation, you still end up needing to reconcile it with this. There comes a point where you're disavowing so much that you're asking voters to view you as newly formed clay instead.

The Washington Post would later report that Platner also posted on Reddit asking why Black people did not tip and asked why women did not “take some responsibility for themselves and not get so f----d up they wind up having sex with someone they don’t mean to?”

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