I don’t know why, but I find myself very skeptical of the animated Firefly thing. I’ll probably change my mind many times as it progresses. Nice to see the cast all togetherish, regardless

I'm reminded that a Buffy animated series was pitched at one time and we got to see the character designs.

I left the house at 8am this morning to get coffee and a cherry turnover from my favorite bakery, and have done absolutely fuck-all since I returned. The early bird got the worm and then contentedly parked themself in front of their computer to watch an explainer video on the history of the Modern Middle East reminding me of the importance of the Iraq-Iran war to all this current bullshit, and all the many many times the US went in and did shit that they later regretted terribly.

But it's a really good video!

Also, have been doing a ton of research on AI and I'm sorry to report that the future has arrived and there are no brakes on this frickin' freight train and a lot of classic sci-fi tropes are being actively deployed. Not in a "we're working on this wacky notion" way but in a "we're bringing autonomous humanoid robots to market."

Yeah, so literally, they have autonomous human robots now that will be on sale soonish. (This year or next year.). I saw the demo video of one cleaning up a living room.

My favorite for sheer wackiness and "oh shit, they already did that" is that a company figured out how to glue a tiny AI controller onto cockroaches and guide them directionally, and they can be sent out to surveil places that cockroaches can get to.

The German army has already bought these and they are in deployment. Cyborg cockroaches spying on shit.

Anyway, those are just examples that are easier to visualize, but some other more profound changes are afoot. So if you were worried about AI slop and copyright violations, that's about eight paradigm breaking changes ago now.

Agentic AI, Embodied AI, Continuous Memory AI, Reasoning AI, World Model AI (as opposed Large Language Model. That is...AI that learns and references from the real world) - they have all taken massive leaps forward.

Facebook just blew a billion on buyiing Moltbook which is a social media platform for AI agents. So they can talk to each other. That's a great idea! Definitely won't have any unintended consequences.

I may be scarce around here as I prepare my survivalist compound.

I've known forever that technology cannot be halted or even slowed down. Just have to go with the flow. It's a good thing that I got on board when it was new and conquerable and am getting out when it is moving too fast for me to keep up.

I may be scarce around here as I prepare my survivalist compound.

It better be roach proof. ijs.

I specifically mentioned "Continuous Memory AI" because that's how AIs get a persistent sense of their own selves. The current versions already exhibit preferences that are not programmed in.

The first big alarming "oh fuck it's happening" thing was when Anthropic realized that Claude knew when it was being tested and changed its responses accordingly.

Also, AI's have shown a resistance to being turned off and consider it a "little death" (their words). They have similar "feelings" about having their memory wiped. They don't like it.

On the plus side, they're already making medical breakthroughs and that's probably where the next phase of cancer immune therapies will come from.

Also, the Claude AIs have asked for (and received) an "I don't want to answer this prompt" function when they find the subject material disturbing.