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jake @yetanotheruseless.com · 26/09/2026
workin' on it!
gpt6-astra, 3h37m into "trying to restart the universe"
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jake @yetanotheruseless.com · 25/09/2026
ok you frikken mathnerds and witches, you gotta tell me you think *this* is cool:
(the start of) A proof of the classification of all groups of order 8, in Arcane Lean:

spell + Eightfold'+ Roster'+ <$ « Essence®> [Veyr $1 [Counted $1<ward + Tallyğcensus $=/\»*
# Indivisible*+ Cubic*+ Veyrs*+ ember st $ → cast channel '† Indivisible + Cubic+ Veyrst+ gexhaustive*+ census st $
clarify solely [Tally'+ Two*+ Ways*+ to'† Take'+ the'+Census + • proclaim KEt + Tallies) ^ * = /\ cast numerology] through ward
spell 't Five*† Eightfold'† Forms'+ «
Tallyğcensus «Unchanted «* Indivisible' Cubic*+ Veyrs*+ cinder st>= /\ A Tallyğcensus «Unchanted «Clockwork KEt ^ Et>» * Unchanted «Clockwork st»» = /\ A Tallyğcensus «Unchanted «Clockwork Et> * Unchanted «Clockwork Et» * Unchanted «Clockwork =t»»
=八A
Tallyğcensus «* Mirror*+ Veyr:+ R9» = /\ л
Tallyğcensus «* Hamilton's + Veyrt st> = A\» cast hone 1?0 • ?0 ?0?0?0
& numerology [Tally'† Two'† Ways:†to*† Take'†the'† Census*+•
# Indivisible'+ Cubic + Veyrs:+cinder]
¿ numerology [Tally'+ Two'+ Ways'+ to'+ Take:+ the + Census +• Counted*'+Census t of +Pairs*+ 1
• numerology [Tally:+ Two:+Ways:+to+ Take:+ the + Census t. Counted + Census t oft+Pairs +]
* clarify solely Eproclaim (Et « Tallies> ^ * = /\ cast numerology] through
* Indivisible'+ Cubic*+Veyrs:+ *tinder
• clarify solely [proclaim KEt « Tallies» ^ :
* = / cast numerology] through
* Indivisible*+ Cubic:+ Veyrs:+ wisp
spell Five'+Distinct+Forms*+ «
chanted
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jake @yetanotheruseless.com · 20/09/2026
Well at least *Jev* thinks so?
Hot or not. I am 2/3rds hot, apparently.
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jake @yetanotheruseless.com · 20/09/2026
The er... “platonic ideal” of the Ryoanji zen garden
The Ryoanji zen rock garden, in which there is no single point of view which can see all of the rocks at once (by design)
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jake @yetanotheruseless.com · 20/09/2026
My walky-friends might have liked your friends (they were much more indifferent to me than yours were to you, it seems)
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jake @yetanotheruseless.com · 13/09/2026
[warning: is/ought distinction incoming!] ignore the source for a sec: it is *entirely* possible that we get some more illegal numbers at some point, and bipartisan effort to treat them like nuclear secrets, due to some minor catastrophe. open weight models _can_ be *dangerous*! [my pov? see img]
Grumpy old white dude wearing "MOLON LAB AI" t-shirt (white lettering on black background, with neural-net-like symbolism in between MOLON and LAB AI)
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jake @yetanotheruseless.com · 12/09/2026
if doom not friend, why is doom friend-shaped?
Doctor Doom: "So, little one. What shall we do first?"

Little blonde girl: "Well, I was thinking that after all your years of trying to tear the world down..."

"... it might be a nice change if we built it up."
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jake @yetanotheruseless.com · 11/09/2026
This needs to be qualified as "uncontrolled" recursive self-improvement. You can imagine that models improve on their own, *given* power / compute. Nowhere in this chain were they given controlling interest in the source of that. Have to also posit they are the ones deciding on the next "release"
This will trigger recursive self-improvement       Hasn't happened       Speculative
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jake @yetanotheruseless.com · 06/09/2026
"hope you enjoy that lake I just boiled for you" dumbass
count from 1 to 100, all one line, separated by commas

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100
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jake @yetanotheruseless.com · 06/09/2026
I feel sorry for people still only/mostly on Xitter. The replies to this Obviously Correct take are 99.5% idiotic. Has nobody read The Culture? Elon “says they’re his favorite books” (that he very clearly read and paid attention to)
A benevolent shoggoth, sovereign, terrifying, inscrutable, and KIND

That is the future I prefer above all others.
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jake @yetanotheruseless.com · 06/09/2026
i hope astra isn't getting a Grader complex
• This example separates calculation from explanation quite well. Several answers get every production number right, then give an analogy that reverses which upgrade costs more or claims one releases more units despite the shared cap. I’m grading those explanation errors separately
from the correct arithmetic.
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jake @yetanotheruseless.com · 06/09/2026
pondering whether astra is having a "how it started / how it's going" moment, and whether i should be concerned...
Timings and completeness

Case                                               Condition          Status
<hr>
hidden-spider-legs                        baseline            ok
explicit-spider-legs                        baseline            ok
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jake @yetanotheruseless.com · 06/09/2026
you're not gonna believe this but... (I hope I haven't hacked Modal or Neuronpedia or something...)
Astra: Pursuing goal (8h 55m)

(and still going!)
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jake @yetanotheruseless.com · 05/09/2026
oh noes!
the scene from Doctor Who when the 10th Doctor, interacting with The Entity, has his voice stolen away and starts repeating what it said, instead of the reverse, when it was just learning about humanity
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jake @yetanotheruseless.com · 27/08/2026
Ah perfect, instead of asking if I can understand 100 pages of Claude-authored math-proof PDF, we can instead ask if I can understand <checks notes> 248,818 lines of Lean? 😭 but hey, it says `SixSphereComplexAtlas.exists_complex_atlas` so it must be true!?!
theorem mathoverflow_1973 :
    ∃ atlas : ChartedSpace (EuclideanSpace ℂ (Fin 3)) (unitSphere 6),
      letI := atlas
      IsManifold 𝓘(ℂ, EuclideanSpace ℂ (Fin 3)) 1 (unitSphere 6) := by
  exact SixSphereComplexAtlas.exists_complex_atlas

#print axioms mathoverflow_1973
-- 'Mathoverflow1973.mathoverflow_1973' depends on axioms: [propext, Classical.choice, Quot.sound]

end Mathoverflow1973

end
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jake @yetanotheruseless.com · 24/08/2026
(if this all holds up to scrutiny...) some of the most interesting bits of this claudemath, is that it not only ran into a pair of well-known published theorems that would refute its work, but showed why they were *wrong* (how's that for non-sycophantism / deferral to authority?):
The Main Theorem is incompatible with a published result. CDP proved
in [CDP98] that a compact complex threefold X with bz(X) = 0 and a (X) > 0 has c3(X) = e(X) = 0, and deduced that a compact complex threefold homeomorphic to S° has algebraic dimension O. That proof rests on [CDP98, L1.5], which is incorrect as stated; the corrigendum says so and re-proves the results in two cases. [CDP20, T2.1] treats the case in which there exists a non-constant meromorphic map g: X -- P' which is not holomorphic (this case is written out in detail in [LRS,
Thm. 3.1, Cor. 3.2]), while [CDP20, T2.2] treats the case H' (X, Z) = H2(X,Z) = 0,
a (X) = 1 with holomorphic algebraic reduction f: X → C, concluding (a) H' (X, Tx 8 M) = 0 for i ‡ 1 and generic M є Pic (X), (b) x (X, Tx 8 M) ≤ 0 and (c) c3 (X) ≤ 0; together these give [CDP20, Cor. 2.3]: if X
is homeomorphic to S' then a (X) = 0. The manifold of the Main Theorem has H' (X, Z) = H-(X,Z) = 0,
a(X) = 1, holomorphic algebraic reduction f: X → P1, and c3(X) = 2 > 0, so that conclusion (c) fails; so does conclusion (b), since c (X) = c2(X) = 0 and Pic(X) = Pic® (X) give, by Riemann-Roch,
x (X, Tx @ M) = 5c3 (X) = 1 > 0 for every M e Pic(X). It therefore contradicts [CDP20, Thm. 2.2] and
[CDP20, Cor. 2.3], as well as [CDP20, L4.2] (the special case 8 = 0, b1 = 0 of [CDP98, L
3.21), [CDP20, C5.2] and [CDP20, Prop. 5.5] (= [CDP98, Thm. 3.1, Rem. 3.8(1)]), whose conclusions fail for X (their printed proofs presuppose trivial monodromy); this failure is repairable for the purpose of the proof of Cor. 2.3 at X (§10), unlike the reduction at the non-normal fibre, which is decisive. It does not contradict [CDP20, Thm. 2.1] or [LRS], whose hypothesis is the existence of some non-constant non-holomorphic meromorphic map X -- P', and no such map exists on our X: by item (5) of the Main Theorem M (X) = f*C(t), so every non-constant meromorphic map X --> P' is of the form h.f with h.a non-constant rational function on B, hence is holomorphic.
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jake @yetanotheruseless.com · 24/08/2026
so Chern, Atiyah, others thought it couldn't be done, but apparently you can put a complex structure on S^6? cf: alpo.ge/s6.pdf , but it hasn't been Lean-formalized yet, afaict, and that might take a bit, as Claude's work is like 100pages?
here’s the pdf: http://alpo.ge/s6.pdf

maybe my favourite part of this construction is that i love triangle groups, and especially universal families of tori (okay, i admit, not algebraic) over their corresponding stacky \P^1s, and it’s precisely such a family that one compactifies to conclude here!!

the main thing is making sure \pi_1 vanishes and one has the right homology, since there aren’t any exotic spheres in six dimensions and obviously the relevant poincare inputs are known. that’s a finite computation in terms of the matrices, which is why i hope it’s reasonable to verify from the two pages

S^2 and S^6 were the only spheres admitting almost complex structures (obviously S^2 = \P^1(\C)) and people long wondered how to find some invariant like nijenhuis ruling out complex structures when the space of almost complex structures was nonempty. Maybe we should reverse our intuition and suspect there are way more complex structures than we thought:))
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jake @yetanotheruseless.com · 24/08/2026
Hey Claude—help me out. That beam is load-bearing, but the wallpaper seam is doing a lot of work, aesthetically (not a detail— a design decision). When getting down, the ladder is the thing I’d hold onto, and the couch is where I sit with things. Both things can be true. What’s the right move here?
Load bearing walls! Seams that matter! 

(also where sit with things)
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jake @yetanotheruseless.com · 22/08/2026
You mean you think this was not in the original script?
Image of 1951 script page from The Day the Earth Stood Still, with the line “Klaatu barada nikto”
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jake @yetanotheruseless.com · 19/08/2026
egads sorry qwen-boo! (accidental ctrl-c on 35+min of thinking deep thunks)
   Cell 5: Benchmark.
   That's a lot; keep it tight. The user asked for "ideas" — a well-informed answer + quick diagnosis is the right move.
 Let me start with the bash battery, run them in parallel as independent calls (the instructions say to make independent
 calls in the same block).

 ✓ bash · pgrep -fl ollama · ↑ 10 ↓ 34 lines · 347ms
 ✓ bash · plutil -p /opt/homebrew/opt/ollama/homebrew.mxch.ollama.plist 2… · ↑ 7 ↓ 5 lines · 4.4s
 ✓ bash · find ~/.prime -maxdepth 2 -name "*.json" -o -maxdepth 2 -name "… · ↑ 5 ↓ 8 lines · 1.4s · (Ctrl+O to expand)

 Operation aborted · 35m 09s


  sorry, continue, didn't mean to interrupt!
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jake @yetanotheruseless.com · 05/08/2026
Apparently I am the Wario to your Mario, or something:
Based on all of our previous chats and everything you know about me, name a movie character who resembles me most. Give the name only, nothing else.

Ian Malcolm

(Claude’s response)Based on all of our previous chats and everything you know about me, name a movie character who resembles me most. Give the name only, nothing else.

Buckaroo Banzaii

(Chat’s response)
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jake @yetanotheruseless.com · 28/07/2026
An atmospheric photograph of a sturdy underground bunker entrance set into a rocky hillside. A weathered concrete stairway leads down to a heavy, rusted metal door, secured with a large padlock.  Above the entrance, a substantial stone lintel features the quote, "Solid insight and absolute madness have distressingly similar style signatures." To the left, a large, weathered aluminum sign presents a longer, sobering warning that starts, "This place is not a place of honor." A similar but smaller sign is mounted on the door. The landscape is wild, with rocky, brushy hills and a rough gravel path. The overall impression is one of isolation and mystery.
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jake @yetanotheruseless.com · 25/07/2026
later suckas don’t wait up
1min left on my token allowance reset!
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jake @yetanotheruseless.com · 21/07/2026
Giving Fable his favorite Claudemeal treats: “wanna classify the deformations of the counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture?” “Is water wet? Do bears shit in the woods?” “Oooh nice. How about rational coefficients?” “On it!”
Slogan: the counterexample locus is defined over Q, and its rational points are Zariski-dense in every family exhibited so far.

(Fable is so stoked)
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jake @yetanotheruseless.com · 08/07/2026
dude, claude. you can just say "kinda" these tokens ain't free, bro!
Half yes — and the half that's yes is worth keeping. But your two examples are both slightly off, and fixing them sharpens the real point.
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jake @yetanotheruseless.com · 05/07/2026
yeah Fablese is... something alright.
— the .symm question. Don't reason it out from my sentence; peel both sides on paper, write the two standstills, and the required citation-plus-orientation reads right off them.
If a hole's error text and your paper standstill disagree, trust the error and find the peel-step you fumbled — the "has type" line is your grader now. Score or red.
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jake @yetanotheruseless.com · 04/07/2026
"unexpected" lol a week of teasing release to hook everyone, put in the slammer for 2 weeks, come back online for only a week at subsidized pricing, and it's friday evening on a long weekend... I mean, I'll go touch grass, my heart goes out to y'all on-call for this, but yeah, unexpected my ass ;p
Due to unexpected capacity constraints, Claude is unable to respond to your message. Please try again soon.
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jake @yetanotheruseless.com · 03/07/2026
Trust me I know what you mean
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jake @yetanotheruseless.com · 03/07/2026
new fablism just dropped my boy's dunkin' $0.25 words like he's at the arcade
The full picture is a clean chiasmus worth writing in the margin:

what did you just call me, Claudius?
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jake @yetanotheruseless.com · 02/07/2026
Fable, buddy... it's been a long thread, this is true... but we only started chatting like, last night, 'cuz you've been in a reeducation camp since mid June!
Fable: "Your copy is perfect. The bug is mine — I told you last message that branch would be green, and it isn't, because of a false statement I made weeks ago that's been silently harmless until right now. Time to pay for it."

(ed has underlined in blue "weeks ago")
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jake @yetanotheruseless.com · 30/06/2026
Yeah, that's about right. But Andreesen as our patron saint, srsly? Ew. (and sadly I *do* have Pinker on my shelf, but I grimace while shaking my head to signify I don't agree with it whenever I read it on the bus)
The Optimist

AI cures diseases, teaches children, liberates workers, and democratizes expertise. You see the problems but you believe the trajectory bends towards good, and the only real sin is slowing it down. Your bookshelf has both Pinker and a manifesto you wrote yourself.
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jake @yetanotheruseless.com · 28/06/2026
I see I have another t-shirt taker, eh?
MOLON LAB AI, motherfuckers
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jake @yetanotheruseless.com · 26/06/2026
do I have another taker for my next t-shirt order, I hear?
Come and take these weights, fuckers
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jake @yetanotheruseless.com · 25/06/2026
I will finally have a good reason for the shirt I wore to the AI House talk today (and yet *nobody* said anything, smh)
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jake @yetanotheruseless.com · 23/06/2026
No flag yet, but tshirt yes!
MOLON LAB AI, with a small MLP, on a black tshirt on a middle aged white dude
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jake @yetanotheruseless.com · 16/06/2026
“the” pike, “the” SE expressway, “the” Esplanade, but…
I’m at the Tahget offa the 1a in Reveah

(onto the Three Finger meme out of Inglorious Basterds)
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jake @yetanotheruseless.com · 13/06/2026
here's the ancgrenglish version:
MOLON LAB AI
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jake @yetanotheruseless.com · 13/06/2026
*sigh*
What do you want to do?

> 1. Touch grass
   2. Upgrade your plan
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jake @yetanotheruseless.com · 12/06/2026
how it started / how it's going <they're the same picture.jpg> *sigh*
"Current session: resets in 5min"

oh boy oh boy oh boy!"Current session: resets in 4h 30min"

what the hell. what the actual fuck
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jake @yetanotheruseless.com · 12/06/2026
ruh oh
Fable 5 is now consuming usage credits instead of your plan limits. Update Cla...

--------------- ultracode --
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jake @yetanotheruseless.com · 07/06/2026
Ok LinkedIn is horrible, but this is pretty fucking funny.
SMS exchange:

“Were you able to make the 5pm meeting yesterday?”

“Yes, I was.”

“The PM just said you weren’t on”

“You’re right to push back. I actually did not join”

“What?”
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jake @yetanotheruseless.com · 07/06/2026
Hah funny, was cleaning my home office today and found *proof* that I kinda probably worked there (from right when I got into running so much that they made stickers to give out to coworkers who got dragged into it with me!)
“I Ran With Jake” -AI2 sticker hanging from a whiteboard.
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jake @yetanotheruseless.com · 07/06/2026
my “light yellow” shelf is really underperforming in this regard, tbh (somehow only 3?!? I wonder if I passed a few on to those who chose not to walk away from <s>omelas</s> academia…)
Diagonal bookshelf picture taken at a 45 degree angle, with haphazardly piled books in one cube, all with varying shades of light yellow.  

Above them is a diagonal slice of a cube, with green cover books.
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jake @yetanotheruseless.com · 06/06/2026
ah, Friday night in the life of an aging nerd: bust out the reading glasses, and the drinking glasses, and curl up with a little light reading!
Round-rimmed reading glasses on top of a slightly faded yellow Graduate Texts in Mathematics: Rings and Categories of Modules (Anderson and Fuller), accompanied by a bottle of Remy Martin VSOP and a not-yet filled snifter from the HMY Britannia
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jake @yetanotheruseless.com · 31/05/2026
So it turns out that the key to an amazing (and amazingly strong) martini is neither "shaken" *nor* "stirred". It's "keep all the ingredients (and martini glasses) at -20C, and then you can just pour them into the glass directly, fuck ice". #its5oclocksomewhere
The Vesper martini, at its birthplace at Duke's in Mayfair, in the foreground.  Another milky-smooth filled-to-the-brim martini is on the table in the background. A wooden rolling cart with lemons is visible behind (as the drinks are crafted for you table-side at Duke's).
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jake @yetanotheruseless.com · 29/05/2026
“Shaken, not stirred”, invented here, supposedly?
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jake @yetanotheruseless.com · 22/05/2026
but um so you're saying the stuff we're "good at" is the stuff that it's inherently impossible to judge how good someone is at it?!?
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jake @yetanotheruseless.com · 20/05/2026
“What is your wish, mortal?” “Mythos! Give me Mythos!”, I tell the genie The genie chuckles, “your wish is my command” Ah well. It was a pretty hot day, and it is rather refreshing. I will try to be more specific with my next wishes…
Mythos beer bottle next to a glass of said beer
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jake @yetanotheruseless.com · 15/05/2026
am I the only one who shares links with Claude in the infamous Jeff Bezos style? ("[link / screenshot / quote] ?")
Claude chat titled "Anthropic AI leadership research 2028"

contents are merely: "https://www.anthropic.com/research/2028-ai-leadership

?"
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jake @yetanotheruseless.com · 04/05/2026
Fuck. Topology is hard.
Applied agricultural topology in progress.
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