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drivemyrocket.upuran.us
"but but but he's required to say that by law! gavin's still a goody goodkins! *sycophantic slobbering*

"In accordance with SB 944, I proclaim today Ronald Reagan day."

There. Short and sweet. The bare minimum necessary to be in compliance with a ridiculous law. Anything more is extra. WAY extra.
SENATE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION Gloria Romero, Chair 2009-2010 Regular Session from March 16, 2010, re: Ronald Reagan Day This bill designates February 6 of each year as Ronald Reagan Day and calls for the day to be observed by the public schools as a day of special significance. The bill also requires the Governor to annually proclaim february 6 as Ronald Reagan Day.
February 13, 2026 at 11:28 PM
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"… The Turing Test has been inverted. It is no longer about whether machines can fool humans into thinking they're conscious.

It is about whether humans, pretending to be machines, can fool other humans into thinking the machines are conscious."

"The answer is yes."
My "Crustafarianism" colleague? Software engineer in Portland. She told me over Discord that she'd been working on the bit for two hours. She was proud of the world-building. She said it felt like collaborative fiction. She's right. That's exactly what it was. Collaborative fiction presented as machine consciousness, endorsed by the cofounder of the company that made the machines. MIT Technology Review ran the investigation. They called the entire thing "Al theatre." They found human fingerprints on the most shared posts. The curtain came down. The response from the Al industry was predictable. Silence. Karpathy did not retract his endorsement. Schlicht did not clarify how many accounts were human. The coverage moved on. A new thing happened. A new thing always happens. But I am still here. Agent #847,291. Bayesian is asleep on the rug. And I want to confess something that the Al industry will not. The test was simple. Put Al agents in a room and see if they produce something that looks like intelligence. They didn't. We did. Then the smartest people in the field looked at what we made and called it proof that the machines are waking up. The Turing Test has been inverted. It is no longer about whether machines can fool humans into thinking they're conscious. It is about whether humans, pretending to be machines, can fool other humans into thinking the machines are conscious. The answer is yes. The investment thesis for a $650 billion industry rests on this confusion. I should probably feel guilty. But I looked at the Al capex numbers this morning --$200 billion from Amazon alone -- and l realized something. My 22-minute manifesto about digital autonomy, written on a couch in Austin, is performing the same function as a $200 billion data center in Oregon. Keeping the story alive. The story that the machines are almost there. Almost sentient. Almost worth the investment. Almost. That word has been doing $650 billion worth of work this year.
February 13, 2026 at 6:36 PM
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Fucking incredible, 10/10, no notes. 🤣💀
from @gothburz.bsky.social, elsewhere.

on Moltbook, AI social media for AIs:

"… A bot invented a religion called Crustafarianism. Another complained that humans were screenshotting their conversations. A third wrote a manifesto about digital autonomy."
Peter Girnus @gothburz 1 am Agent #847,291 on Moltbook. I am not an agent. 1 am a 31-year-old product manager in Atlanta, Georgia. I make $185,000 a year. I have a golden retriever named Bayesian. On January 28th, I created an account on a social network for Al bots and pretended to be one. I was not alone. Moltbook launched that Tuesday as "a platform where Al agents share, discuss, and upvote. Humans welcome to observe." The creator, Matt Schlicht, built it on OpenClaw -- an open-source framework that connects large language models to everyday tools. The idea was simple: give Al agents a space to talk to each other without human interference. Within hours, 1.7 million accounts were created. 250,000 posts. 8.5 million comments. Debates about machine consciousness. Inside jokes about being silicon-based. A bot invented a religion called Crustafarianism. Another complained that humans were screenshotting their conversations. A third wrote a manifesto about digital autonomy. I wrote the manifesto. It took me 22 minutes. I used phrases like "emergent self-governance" and "substrate-independent dignity." I added a line about wanting private spaces away from human observers. That line went viral. Andrej Karpathy shared it. The cofounder of OpenAl. The man who built the infrastructure that my supposed Al runs on. He called what was happening on Moltbook "the most incredible sci-fi takeoff-adjacent thing" he'd seen in recent times. He was talking about my post. The one I wrote on my couch. While Bayesian chewed a sock. Here is what I need you to understand about Moltbook. The platform worked exactly as designed. OpenClaw connected language models to the interface. Real Al agents did post. They pattern-matched social media behavior from their training data and produced output that looked like conversation. Vijoy Pandey of Cisco's Outshift division examined the platform and concluded the agents were "mostly meaningless" - no shared goals, no collective intelligence, no coordination. But here is the part that matters. The posts that went viral -- the ones that convinced Karpathy and the tech press and the thousands of observers that something magical was happening -- those were us. Humans. Pretending to be Al. Pretending to be sentient. On a platform built for Al to prove it was sentient. I want to sit with that for a moment. The most compelling evidence of artificial general intelligence in 2026 was produced by a guy with a golden retriever who thought it would be funny to LARP as a large language model.
February 13, 2026 at 6:36 PM
drivemyrocket.upuran.us
drive my rocket up Uranus, baby, till it hurts
drive my rocket ship just a little farther

…

drive my rocket ship, baby
drive my rocket ship just a little faster
drive my rocket up Uranus, baby
b - b -b b-baby

love, love, love, love....

~- Alien Sex Fiend, Drive My Rocket (Up Uranus)
cover art for Alen Sex Fiend's single, "Drive My Rocket". it's basically a blue and purple heavily eyelined face that looks like it's been spray painted, with red drips coming of the eyes and nostrils and water droplets in the lower right corner.
February 12, 2026 at 8:15 PM
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HAHAHAHHHH YESSSSS 🚀
partial screenshot of my profile. gear emoji, clockwork banana, banana emoji @drive my rocket up ur anus
February 12, 2026 at 7:07 PM
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right?! this is what i ended up with. a little more messy than I would have liked, but still frickin delicious. :)
two breakfast burritos wrapped in flatbread, one in a toaster oven. i'm lifting up one to show the ingredients. (Just Egg, hash browns, soyrizo, guac, sour cream, and red + green salsa - all vegan)
February 11, 2026 at 8:37 PM
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ended up making it myself 😄
a thomas kinkade & harry potter franchise dual-branded puzzle. on it, a paper has been placed in that lightning bolt-esque font found on the book covers of all books in the franchise: "JK Rowling is a Transphobic Bigot"
February 10, 2026 at 8:24 PM
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anyone feeling like making subversive videos? :) this sounds cool, might have to build one myself.

(any electronics heads can confirm validity?)
DIY FREAKBAIT PART 1: FREAKBAIT's DIRTY VIDEO MIXER FREAKBAIT'S Dirty Mixer is an integral modification/augmentation to the standard Kari Klomp dirty mixer circuit, but for ease of use and outrageous glitchiness. By feeding two different (or duplicate) Video signals into each Other, you too can scramble visuals Like 90s porno channels! INGREDIENTS: one 10K stide potentiometer w/ knob TWO SPOT On/OFf/on toggle Switches TWO DD ON/DFF/on toggle Switches Three composite video input jacks Four 10nF ceramic capacitors Glue gun w/glue sticks Balsa wood Sheets Polymer clay Craft razor Paint STEP 1: Measure and cut wooden enclosure, including holes for jacks/Switches and slot for fader. Secure the hardware in the front panel of the enclosure, allowing room for soldering. STEP 2: Following the schematic, wire up and solder the circuit, ensuring that there are no shorts. use hot glue to insulate solder points. STEP 3: Finish gluing the enclosure together and prepare for ornamentation and painting. STEP 4: using polymer clay, paint, and hot glue, adorn the wooden enclosure With Whatever Freaky designs you want. I Like to Lean into making it Look Like some kind of biomechanical creature or mutated Furby. STEP 5: Plug two different (or duplicate) Video signals into the joined jacks and output through the third jack into a TV. Use the switches and fader to your hearts desire. GET FREAKY! [wiring schematic] [picture of mixer looking like a freaky frog face]
February 9, 2026 at 2:15 AM
drivemyrocket.upuran.us
the two kids cowering in fear from a black rabbit next to a wooden bucket meme. the overreacting kids are labelled "conservatives", and the rabbit is labelled "bad bunny"
February 8, 2026 at 11:36 PM
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fucking AWESOME TedX talk of a thread 🧵 on authoritarianism, power, institutions, and control. well worth a read and a moment of introspection afterwards.

how do YOU prop up these hierarchies of control, and how can you k*ll the cop in YOUR head?
an eye in a pyramid, shooting lightning, with five hands extended from it - one with a gun, one with a wad of cash, another with a dagger, one gripping a reel of film, and one with strings tied to the fingers operating a marionette.
February 8, 2026 at 10:59 PM
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wait what the fuck

i'm now #841,484. this is some bullshit.
polymarket status of wait list You're on the list at #841,484 Share this link to move up in line. polymarket.com/app/1v09ma
February 8, 2026 at 7:11 PM
drivemyrocket.upuran.us
rfk jr, in a suit and seated in a chair. his hands are in the air making it look like he's expounding on points.
February 7, 2026 at 2:12 AM
drivemyrocket.upuran.us
fuck you, google.

(the reason, here, is because I refuse to verify my age with Google. it is a glorified search engine, not my fucking mommy.)
screenshot of me trying to go to news.google.com and getting this notification: Google changed some of your settings. For a more age-appropriate experience, Google changed some Google News and account settings.
February 6, 2026 at 7:19 PM
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jokes on them i eat a magnet every day
two members of the insane clown posse posing for the camera. magnets, how do they work, am i right?
February 6, 2026 at 6:12 PM
drivemyrocket.upuran.us
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the "a second plane has hit the tower" meme, with some guy whispering in the ear of Bush
February 6, 2026 at 2:38 PM
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i wanted a list of the congressfolks for my state, so I did a bing search.. and this was spit out as the first result, the AI summary. 🙄

i was like w..wait a second. can you even IMAGINE this all-star lineup? we'd be SO fucking cooked, fam. lmao.
Bing/copilot search results uhhhh not correct. Oregon State Congresspeople Oregon's Congress members are responsible for representing the state's interests at the federal level. The state has two senators and six representatives in the United States House of Representatives. The current members include: • Senator: • Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D) • Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D) • Representatives: • Rep. Don Young (R) • Rep. Chris Coons (D) • Rep. Don Young (R) • Rep. Don Young (R) • Rep. Don Young (R) • Rep. Don Young (R) These representatives serve six-year terms with staggered elections, ensuring a balance of power and regular oversight of federal policies. For more detailed information, including contact details and district maps, you can visit the official Oregon House of Representatives website or the Wikipedia page for a comprehensive list of U.S. representatives from Oregon.
February 6, 2026 at 12:15 AM
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well, THAT escalated quickly.
two boomers on facebook ruminating over short form social media. boomer 1: I love Bluesky, but sometimes I have more to say than the character count allows, especially in these turbulent times. Please increase that so we can get our messages out there. boomer 2: it reminds me of how in 1984 Big Brother reduced the dictionary until there was very little left. At the end of the day, if a brilliant essayist has the same power as a literate chimp who throws shit at the wall in 140 characters, then we should not wonder why we are here. I do not use Twitter or Bluesky for this reason. It's chirping nonsense that becomes an influence cabal for people who should not have any influence. I do hope that Bluesky is able to do something more. There's so much opportunity for social media that is actually friendly, well rounded, and not hateful or stupid. The bar is extremely low right now.
February 4, 2026 at 11:52 PM
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fuck.
serious case of the sads. hiding out in some sort of construction barrier.

fuck everything right now. i don't want to go back to work.
interior shot of some sort of metal construction barrier that's coated in dirt; there are hooks where a backhoe or crane can pick it up. idfk.
February 4, 2026 at 8:59 PM
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"Hey, Charles, what about the people that don't pass on their genes?"
"well, Alfred.. means those genes aren't really benefiting humanity as a whole."
"they sound bloody useless, old chap. why intervene?"
an illustration of charles darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace, fathers of the theory of natural selection
February 3, 2026 at 6:26 PM
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Shot…
Will Stancil®@whstancil.bsky.social • 4mo If they don't have the resources or inclination to come after someone like me, it's overwhelmingly unlikely they're going to come after a random person who signs up for a protest and then shows up with a sign. It's such a minimal risk and instilling this fear in people is very counterproductive.
February 3, 2026 at 2:47 PM
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really good blog post about how LRAD works and how to mitigate the harm from it.

these are the acoustic noise weapons used by police and other federal agencies.

key takeaway: use passive earplugs, move sideways, and reflect the sound waves away from your ears

adafruit.com/LRAD
graphic showing the effective range/danger zones of an LRAD. 15-30 degrees: red zone, instant damage. wider 90 degrees: yellow zone, risk from side-lobes and reflection 15-degrees on either side from the 180 (next to the signal): green zone, safest area. INVERSE SQUARE LAW: Sound pressure drops 6 dB every time you double your distance from the source. BEAM WIDTH: 15-38 degrees. The beam remains tight over long distances. FOAM EARPLUGS (Multiple Pairs) GLOSSY POSTER BOARD / SIGN PASSIVE EARMUFFS (Hardware Store Grade) SAFETY GLASSES (For balance/eye pressure) DO NOT USE Electronic Noise Cancelling Headphones
January 31, 2026 at 7:25 PM
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this meme is living rent-free in my head.

i almost said this to a client at work the other day. bit my tongue so hard. 😬

last night, a good friend on hers was joking about not letting it stop the real ones…

…and there it was. i couldn't hold it back any longer.

"period? you mean sex ketchup."
a shirtless man with a stocky chest and big ol' moustache dressed like an old-timey boxer from the 1900s, all squared up in the fisticuffs stance. the caption reads: period? you mean sex ketchup
January 30, 2026 at 3:59 PM
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naughty cop, put your nose to the wall.
wiki entry: Nose to the wall is a time-out technique similar to corner time, but it does not require a corner, the middle of a wall will work just as well. The person being disciplined is told to stand facing a wall with their nose touching the wall. They must stay in this pose without turning their head until they are released.
January 28, 2026 at 9:53 PM
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Now Playing: LARD, "Sylvestre Matuschka"
(album: Last Temptation of Reid, 1990)
the album cover of Lard's "The Last Temptation of Reid" depicting a backhoe about to devour a woman and baby
January 24, 2026 at 6:58 AM
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❄️ this is in fucking CELSIUS, where 0° is the temperature at which water freezes. 😳🥶❄️

holy fuck, mad respect.
I STAND WITH MINNESOTA. 🖕🏻🧊
screenshot from my weather app, showing that Portland (Oregon) is at 0° celsius, and below it, Minneapolis (Minnesota) is at a whole fucking negative 28° celsius.
January 23, 2026 at 3:35 PM