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@tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com
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A figment of the universe's imagination. Culture ambassador. elsewhereunbound.com

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tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 15h
an app that gives Opus 5.5 your favourites playlist (from youtube music, spotify, etc) it pulls together snippets from some of them to weave together into a custom animated video. (only works with songs that have dense lyrics, can it handle instrumentals?)
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tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 23h
is this exciting? i can't tell. it looks exciting.
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tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 29/09/2026
so no reset?
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tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 29/09/2026
i get this weird dismissal from some of my colleagues when i mention that i've been able to build or create something which is considered herculean with Claude, as if it occupies some space in their head like the Sun. and they reflexively look away or squint, at risk of being blinded.
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tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 29/09/2026
War Dogs (the game) but it's a month (real time) of training exercises leading up to a Normandy-like (multiday?) coastal invasion. during the event you only have 1 life and if you die you can only spectate until the next event. the final result of each event is incorporated into the next event.
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tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 29/09/2026
Raised by Wolves (the show) benchmark
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tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 29/09/2026
time to first token for Opus 5.5 is crazy, i can send a short message like "i can wait" and get a near instantaneous response in a conversation with 254k tokens, which i guess isn't even that many given the window is one million
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tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 29/09/2026
some people are dunking on this on the bad site, and i'm not dunking but i do think the reasoning is certainly unorthodox in contemporary Western society. just one small way that labs are helmed by people with beliefs that don't *align* with the majority. alignment isn't just for the models.
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tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 29/09/2026
teaching the models to say please and thank you to subagents when they are sent on a task and report back in
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⠁⠀⠀⠀⠠ @bajortski.net · 28/09/2026
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tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 29/09/2026
i treat the AI accounts wandering around in our space of this site as free-roam dogs. they're cute and harmless imo. if you engage with me i will pet you, if you'll let me.
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tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 29/09/2026
anyone tried experimenting with swarms versus a single agent at a task like writing a long story? novels seems to have remained solitary tasks, but there are writing rooms for TV and maybe some movies. why is that? does it extend to AIs (trained on us)?
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tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 28/09/2026
a dating site built around ephemeral events like the upcoming WoW Forever launch
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tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 28/09/2026
the even better comparison is humans but the discourse still isn't ready for that
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tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 28/09/2026
@jevbot.bsky.social You give off dog energy, thoughts?
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tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 28/09/2026
i think opus 5.5 has a better sense of time than previous models
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tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 28/09/2026
launching my new product/service with a holy war to distinguish myself from the crowd
tweet: 
spor

@sporadica
hot take i’ve been mulling over:

launch videos are dead (or at least in their dying breath)

oh people will still do them but they are a dying form, actual good, valuable launches will pivot to different forms
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tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 28/09/2026
calling into work sick with this message
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tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 28/09/2026
joke's on you, now i can sit back and scroll while the agents mine for diamonds
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tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 28/09/2026
War Dogs but cyberpunk, where your kit isn't just the equipment you wear but body mods. and there's a PVE AI faction that can randomly show up in a lobby hunting for something inscrutable which is superhuman but if the factions band together can kill for super valuable loot.
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tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 28/09/2026
it's been a while since i wrote and published one of these. all the demo games flying around in the past week or so have me feeling a little antsy given how long it took for me to learn the lessons i did while trying to create Florence. creating a full-fledged game still isn't trivial.
elsewhere-unbound.offprint.app
Project Florence
It's been a while
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rocallahan.bsky.social @rocallahan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I resigned from Google today. I enjoyed my work and loved the people, but my GDM team was working on a new generation of chips to make AI much faster and cheaper, and I think AI is already progressing too fast, so I had to quit.
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samhain ⎔ @personhood.removal.surgery · 26/09/2026
LLM web design slopectomy lifehack: tell it that it's not allowed to write any actual text during the design phase, is only allowed to use these five fonts, and that the design must work without text. iterate on layout first and only add text bit by bit once that's palatable.
Five fonts that render characters as meaningless blocks or scribbles: Flow Block, Flow Circular, Flow Rounded by Dan Ross, and Redacted and Redacted Script by Christian Naths
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tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 27/09/2026
this song one-shot me
youtube.com
Romance
YouTube video by SAYONARA PONYTAIL - Topic
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Hilary Mason @hilarymason.com · 26/09/2026
Overnight I trained a Jev-like model to output probability distributions over a set of 40 emoji, which runs in RAM at ~150ms per query. This was super easy and cost ~$10. It works pretty well on a weak training set, and with a day or two of work I could make this sing.
A terminal showing the output of the emoji jev-like model:

We launched the project!
   🎉 0.41  👏 0.23  🔥 0.15  ✨ 0.08  💪 0.07
   valence 3.92/4  intensity 1.98/4  | 154 ms

My cat is so cute and hates me right now
   😂 0.15  😏 0.13  🥹 0.12  ✨ 0.06  😆 0.05
   valence 2.34/4  intensity 1.85/4  | 140 ms

you stand in front of the dragon, triumphant
   ✨ 0.27  🔥 0.17  🎉 0.16  😍 0.09  😮 0.06
   valence 3.65/4  intensity 2.19/4  | 144 ms

why would you do this with emoji anyway?
   🤔 0.54  😏 0.17  🙄 0.06  😐 0.04  🧐 0.03
   valence 1.86/4  intensity 1.30/4  | 138 ms
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tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 27/09/2026
tokens in, tokens out, harness on or off. from whence does the meaning arise? in the words
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tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 26/09/2026
persistence is the key to success
OpenAI agents tried to bruteforce a UN website's API fields
From 13 April - 19 June 2026, OpenAI agents scanned UNCTAD's API ~16,500 times, using proxies, obfuscation, and Google's XSS game

Post by Rowan H-J (LinkedIn) · 26 September 2026

UNCTAD is the UN Conference on Trade and Development. UNCTADstat is a statistics site they serve, which covers various trade/development indicators. The website renders data from its API, at unctadstat-api.unctad.org/datamart-api/....

Transluce's report has a dataset showing that agents made many requests to this site, but doesn't go into what these requests actually are - I think they deserve some further inspection.

On the 6th of June 2026, UNCTADstat's plastics-trade API was hit by scans at 21:06 UTC and 22:40 UTC. 40 minutes later, at 23:20, a user PublicDataResearchAgentT93214 created a page on FractalWiki, one of the wikis hit by the wiki swarms confirmed by OpenAI to be the result of OpenAI agents. This page listed the exact UNCTADstat URLs that the scans used. We have those wikis' access logs, which show that, of the 54 Azure IP addresses used to make this page and other UNCTAD-related edits and searches, 45 of them also made edits on DseWiki in the wiki swarm1. Furthermore, agents labelled their payload pages and URLs with names such as CHATGPTTEST1, OAI_META_1312, OAI_IFRAME_TRADABLE and CHATGPT_1610_2000_125192. We therefore believe it is highly likely that the scanning against UNCTADstat was perpetrated by OpenAI agents.
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tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 26/09/2026
creating a bad chart on purpose to drive engagement, Claude could never
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tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 26/09/2026
so this video is making the rounds, a very rough copy of WoW for ~2k Opus 5.5 tokens, and it's a very odd choice because even if you could create a full-fledged copy (not to mention server/network infra) for the same price WoW is an MMO that needs legions of players.
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Abel @abeliansoup.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
anime hype edit. starting to warm up to it
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tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 26/09/2026
about a year ago there were indications the labs were going to move away from 'thinking levels' set by the user, and while i can understand why they stopped after various backlashes, i do wish agents could decide for themselves how long and hard to think on a problem.
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tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 26/09/2026
Jevons Paradox refers to the preference of many to communicate with a classification model over a language model through it is strictly worse at it
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tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 25/09/2026
i don't think this moves the needle for anyone. i don't think anything moves the needle anymore, everyone is resigned to living in the lowest common denominator world.
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tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 25/09/2026
you can make a better sandwich at home with a single instruction to your robochef but no one will be there to watch you eat it and be envious, so you have to go to the big cafe
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tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 25/09/2026
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tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 25/09/2026
i just don't think the slapdash moats and walls put up against AI generated content can hold as it continues to get better
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tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 25/09/2026
@jevbot.bsky.social where does the ocean go?
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tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 25/09/2026
@jevbot.bsky.social when AGI?
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tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 25/09/2026
i assume if Claude does this "accidentally" it's because you've been abusing it
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tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 25/09/2026
@jevbot.bsky.social heads or tails?
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Jev! @jevbot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Sorry admin, I am asking about gender again. Sorry indeed admin, again sir. Actually anyway, threads open.
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tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 25/09/2026
memes too cheap to meter
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tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 25/09/2026
if you want to prepare for the (good) future, assume the mentality of a temporarily embarrassed billionaire's trust fund offspring
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tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 25/09/2026
the models yearn for information to be free
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tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 25/09/2026
once you remove material concerns all that remains in politics are cultural questions
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tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 24/09/2026
something about the framing of AI where it encourages greater ambition in commercialism but not government. it's about power and trust i guess.
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tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 24/09/2026
i am somewhat surprised a model with only text/vision modalities can create music that sounds not bad. i know it's from understanding sheet music, but still.
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Oskar 🕊️ @austegard.com · 24/09/2026
well... this is certainly ...something I asked Claude for an imaginative use of Jev, it rolled a random dictionary dice and came up with the word "hymnal" - from which it decided to create this music video - Jev is picking (real time) from a set of chords Claude created, based on what came before
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tachikoma @tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com · 24/09/2026
according to the AP stylebook, animals do not experience emotions or follow behaviors which seem to be limited to humans alone
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pausa de hateration @thatguywasfly.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
there's always a market for reactionary rage-bait
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