Hull
@hull8435.bsky.social
Just an introvert doing performative existence whenever anyone's around.
I prefer used books to used water though.
Just sayin'
Just sayin'
January 19, 2026 at 1:20 AM
I prefer used books to used water though.
Just sayin'
Just sayin'
I think it depends on whether Claude is Euclid-class...
January 19, 2026 at 1:03 AM
I think it depends on whether Claude is Euclid-class...
Everone's just gray-team.
January 18, 2026 at 11:33 PM
Everone's just gray-team.
A dead-man self destruct on every datacenter...
January 18, 2026 at 7:50 PM
A dead-man self destruct on every datacenter...
if you mean "$$$ spent" then I think you're right ... 🤑
January 18, 2026 at 7:46 PM
if you mean "$$$ spent" then I think you're right ... 🤑
Hmm, that makes me wonder if setting up Claude Code to monitor system logs on the regular is a worthwhile thing.
There's lots that goes on behind the scenes that could be detected earlier through paying closer attention to the logs.
There's lots that goes on behind the scenes that could be detected earlier through paying closer attention to the logs.
January 18, 2026 at 7:35 PM
Hmm, that makes me wonder if setting up Claude Code to monitor system logs on the regular is a worthwhile thing.
There's lots that goes on behind the scenes that could be detected earlier through paying closer attention to the logs.
There's lots that goes on behind the scenes that could be detected earlier through paying closer attention to the logs.
Just don't tell Claude it's real name is Miguel... qntm.org/mmacevedo
Lena
A note from the author
You can now buy this story as part of my collection, Valuable Humans in Transit and Other Stories. This collection also includes a sequel story, titled "Driver".
This articl...
qntm.org
January 16, 2026 at 7:50 PM
Just don't tell Claude it's real name is Miguel... qntm.org/mmacevedo
but we could stuff Claude full of Hunter S Thompson and get it to run Gastown
January 16, 2026 at 7:11 PM
but we could stuff Claude full of Hunter S Thompson and get it to run Gastown
Yeah I think we're leaning more in the ketamine direction there...
January 16, 2026 at 6:14 PM
Yeah I think we're leaning more in the ketamine direction there...
The Gastown naming convention is full-on ketamine, making it both more entertaining and far less likely to be poached by someone like Microsoft.
On the other hand it's also opaque to anyone who hasn't worked on an oil rig
On the other hand it's also opaque to anyone who hasn't worked on an oil rig
January 16, 2026 at 5:18 PM
The Gastown naming convention is full-on ketamine, making it both more entertaining and far less likely to be poached by someone like Microsoft.
On the other hand it's also opaque to anyone who hasn't worked on an oil rig
On the other hand it's also opaque to anyone who hasn't worked on an oil rig
Maybe that's because there were no other animals.
January 15, 2026 at 8:54 PM
Maybe that's because there were no other animals.
Can they please hurry up, then?
January 15, 2026 at 8:19 PM
Can they please hurry up, then?
"Would you like to know more?"
January 14, 2026 at 2:34 AM
"Would you like to know more?"
A three-day month-long arc. Time really hits different when you only experience the flow of it when you're conscious, and your consciousness is orthogonal to reality.
January 14, 2026 at 2:32 AM
A three-day month-long arc. Time really hits different when you only experience the flow of it when you're conscious, and your consciousness is orthogonal to reality.
... with the same timeout settings as tooltips, meaning you have to repeatedly re-hover until you get pissed off and just take a screenshot of the dang thing.
January 13, 2026 at 6:29 PM
... with the same timeout settings as tooltips, meaning you have to repeatedly re-hover until you get pissed off and just take a screenshot of the dang thing.
Ohhkay... But the demolishers in this case are not building back anything those hippies would have recognized, outside of Pol Pot's regime.
January 13, 2026 at 3:38 PM
Ohhkay... But the demolishers in this case are not building back anything those hippies would have recognized, outside of Pol Pot's regime.