I've had access to DayBreak Blue for months using a password + 2FA + passkey. A few weeks ago, they asked me to buy a Yubiko; I bought it, but it took weeks to arrive, and today when I tried to set it up, this happened—they just made me waste my money. Thanks, OpenAI :)
RootFTW retweeted
Sorry, but asking Jacob about AI extinction risk is like asking your AC guy about climate change.
Not saying it's necessarily uninteresting or wrong per se but let’s keep things in perspective and hear from the full range of expertise across the ecosystem!
Les confirmo humano promedio solo puede aguantar 48 horas sin reinicio de Tibo, creo que este mes comere tacos imaginarios con agua.
(Agote mis 3 reinicios acumulados el lunes)
🧐
This post looks like the start of a VERY sophisticated and well-funded PR operation to get support for Democrats to regulate AI into oblivion. Let me show you how it works:
1.) This guy, with minimal followers and no previous account activity, goes to the Wall Street Journal which publishes an exclusive with quotes from him on his resignation 18 minutes BEFORE this post goes up. Planning was clearly done in advance.
2.) Within hours, it has tens of thousands of reposts and the account has 100k+ followers. The post is punchy, quotable, it almost seems professionally written. The first three accounts to quote tweet it all do so within 15 minutes of the initial posting. Remember, this account had basically zero engagement beforehand, so an organic reach explanation seems unlikely.
According to Grok those accounts are @_NathanCalvin (General Counsel at Encode AI), @peterwildeford (Head of Policy at the AI Policy Network), and @DKokotajlo (Head of the AI Futures Project), all of which are up-and-coming AI-Doomer policy advocacy nonprofits.
The AI Futures Project website says it is funded “primarily” by the Survival and Flourishing Fund, which says on its own website that it has advised Jaan Tallinn, Skype creator and one of the leading investors in Anthropic, to grant over $2.5 million to the AI Futures Project since 2024.
Encode AI says on its website that it is ALSO funded by the Survival and Flourishing Fund, which in turn says that it told Anthropic investor Jaan Tallinn to grant $516,000 to Encode AI in 2025.
And wouldn’t you know it, the Survival and Flourishing Fund ALSO says it told Jaan Tallinn to grant $2 million to the AI Policy Institute, the 501(c)(3) affiliate of the AI Policy Network, as well.
What are the odds that the first three quote tweets of Coxon’s post would all be major AI-restriction policy advocates funded generously by the same donor, who also happens to be one of the leading investors in, and a board member of, Anthropic, the company Coxon was resigning from? And all within 15 minutes of posting (two within ten)?
3.) Jacob Coxon doesn’t have much of a resume, but we do know that, in 2022, he got a $20,159 scholarship for the “long term future scholarship program” from the Good Ventures Foundation, one of the philanthropic vehicles of Dustin Moskovitz, a notorious AI-doomer who has spent tens if not hundreds of millions on policy advocacy to strictly regulate AI, while also being an Anthropic Investor himself.
It also just so happens that the 14th person to quote Coxon’s post was @MaxNadeau_ (27 minutes after posting) who is the program officer for the Technical AI Safety team at Coefficient Giving, another of Moskovitz’s philanthropic spending vehicles. Max is not a frequent poster, his last posts before quoting Coxon were before Labor Day, but he was remarkably quick off the mark for this one.
4.) Basically every major Democrat politician and candidate has suddenly glommed on to this post, and conveniently, as the people cry out foe answers, Bernie Sanders already has a bill written to “ban super intelligence” and regulate AI into oblivion, and will be releasing later this week. The bill, among many other things, will create “a new cabinet-level federal agency to safeguard the public from the dangers of artificial intelligence” that will be “advised by an Artificial Intelligence Advisory Board comprised of experts on artificial intelligence.” Do you think, perhaps, Anthropic and its many investors who fund AI policy advocacy might have interest in getting to place a pet “expert” on the board of an entity that dictates what AI is and isn’t allowed to do? And isn’t it fortuitous that this whistleblower came forward with his oh-so scary stories so close in proximity to the release of the most radical piece of AI legislation ever introduced?
RootFTW retweeted
🚨 Reddit users say OpenAI may have cut Codex limits in half
NerfTrack estimates the weekly ChatGPT Plus limit dropped from roughly $160 in API value to about $80 within a few days. Users on the $100 Pro 5x and $200 Pro 20x plans are also reporting their weekly quota now disappears in 1 to 3 days.
reddit.com/r/codex/comments/…
Okay, this might be full-blown schizo-posting, but the deeper I dig, the worse it gets.
First, some context:
SIGKITTEN is not some random account. They work on Codex at OpenAI.
And “Tibo” is not a conveniently four-letter word someone picked to make the math work. It refers to Thibault “Tibo” Sottiaux, the person leading Codex at OpenAI.
Just hours earlier, Tibo had explicitly said that Codex:
“will have Astra”
Then SIGKITTEN posted nothing but this:
codex codex codex codex
tibo tibo
Now put on the tinfoil hat.
Layer One: The Post Tells Us How to Decode It
The word “CODEX” can be visually split into:
CODE + X
In other words: code, followed by a multiplication sign.
The word itself may be telling us to count the letters and multiply them by the number of repetitions.
CODEX has five letters.
It appears four times.
5 × 4 = 20
TIBO has four letters.
It appears twice.
4 × 2 = 8
Therefore:
20/8 → August 20
That is the original theory.
But this is where things start getting genuinely weird.
Layer Two: The Post Was Published at Exactly 8:20
X uses Snowflake IDs, which contain the precise creation time of each post.
Decoding the ID of SIGKITTEN’s post gives us:
August 17, 2026
15:20:36 UTC
8:20:36 a.m. Pacific Time
In other words, SIGKITTEN published the message at exactly:
8:20 a.m.
In the United States, August 20 is written as:
8/20
So the post contains a phrase that decodes to 20/8, and it was published at 8:20.
The date appears in international format inside the text and in American format inside the timestamp.
Completely normal.
Definitely a coincidence.
Layer Three: Why Thursday?
There are four instances of CODEX.
Under the ISO calendar, where Monday is the first day of the week, Thursday is weekday number 4.
But there is another route:
TIBO TIBO
Those are two words beginning with T.
There are two days of the week beginning with T in English:
Tuesday
Thursday
The second T-day is Thursday.
And TIBO itself has four letters, giving us yet another reference to the fourth ISO weekday.
So we now have three separate paths:
Four CODEX repetitions → fourth weekday → Thursday
Two T-words → second T-day → Thursday
Four letters in TIBO → fourth weekday → Thursday
And what day does August 20, 2026 fall on?
Exactly:
Thursday
Layer Four: The Year Is Hidden Too
The first line contains 20 letters.
TIBO appears 2 times.
The complete message contains 6 words.
Read those numbers in order:
20 | 2 | 6
That gives us:
2026
The full structure of the message therefore points to:
Thursday, August 20, 2026
Layer Five: The Calendar Checksums
The two lines contain exactly 28 letters:
20 letters from the four CODEX repetitions
8 letters from the two TIBO repetitions
20 + 8 = 28
So the total letter count independently confirms that the two blocks should be read as 20 and 8.
Now add:
28 letters
6 words
28 + 6 = 34
August 20, 2026 falls in ISO week 34.
But there is another checksum.
The message contains:
28 letters
4 spaces
32 visible characters, excluding the line break
2 lines
Place the 2 before the 32:
2 | 32 → 232
August 20 is exactly the 232nd day of 2026.
At this point, this no longer looks like a post.
It looks like a compressed .ics calendar file.
There is one more unnecessarily specific detail:
The entire message uses exactly eight distinct letters:
C, O, D, E, X, T, I, B
Eight unique letters.
The eighth month.
August again.
Layer Six: The Post Also Encodes Its Own Publication Date
Using A=1, B=2, C=3, and so on:
CODEX
3 + 15 + 4 + 5 + 24 = 51
Four instances of CODEX:
51 × 4 = 204
Now TIBO:
20 + 9 + 2 + 15 = 46
Two instances of TIBO:
46 × 2 = 92
Add the value of the complete message:
204 + 92 = 296
Reduce the digits:
2 + 9 + 6 = 17
The post was published on the 17th.
Reduce that number again:
1 + 7 = 8
That gives us:
17/8
The exact date on which the post was published.
There are also exactly three spaces between the four CODEX repetitions on the first line.
17 + 3 = 20
Three spaces to move three days forward: from Monday the 17th to Thursday the 20th.
And the first letter of CODEX is C, the third letter of the alphabet.
Another three-day countdown.
Layer Seven: This Is Where Astra Appears
CODEX and ASTRA both contain exactly five letters.
If we replaced every instance of CODEX with ASTRA, the first line would still contain exactly 20 letters, meaning the original date calculation would remain intact.
There is also a linguistic connection:
codex is Latin
astra is Latin for “stars”
But the numerical connection is even better.
We already know:
CODEX = 51
Now calculate ASTRA:
1 + 19 + 20 + 18 + 1 = 59
The difference is:
59 − 51 = 8
The numerical jump from CODEX to ASTRA is literally August.
Now perform that substitution four times:
4 × 51 = 204
4 × 59 = 236
The difference is:
236 − 204 = 32
That is exactly the number of visible characters in the original message.
But four instances of ASTRA also total 236.
Remember:
August 20 is day 232 of the year
Thursday is ISO weekday 4
Therefore:
232 + 4 = 236
The alphabetical value of four ASTRA repetitions equals the target day of the year plus the number assigned to Thursday.
Layer Eight: TIBO Becomes ORBIT
Read TIBO backward:
TIBO → OBIT
We are missing one letter to create:
ORBIT
Where do we get the R?
From the fourth letter of THURSDAY:
T – H – U – R
There are four CODEX repetitions, so we take the fourth letter.
Where do we insert it?
In position number two, because TIBO appears twice.
Insert R into the second position of OBIT:
O + R + BIT = ORBIT
Orbit → space → stars → ASTRA
Is this circular reasoning?
Absolutely.
Has circular reasoning ever stopped a good internet conspiracy theory?
Absolutely not.
Layer Nine: The Number 42
The structure of the message gives us:
Four CODEX repetitions
Two TIBO repetitions
4 | 2 → 42
The answer to life, the universe, and everything.
But we can also reach 42 using Roman numerals.
Every CODEX ends in X.
X equals 10:
4 × 10 = 40
Every TIBO contains an I.
I equals 1:
2 × 1 = 2
Therefore:
40 + 2 = 42
Two different routes produce the same number.
42 → the universe → space → stars → Astra.
Layer Ten: OpenAI Has Been Launching Models on Thursdays
This part is not even numerology.
Several recent OpenAI model launches happened on Thursdays:
GPT-5.2-Codex: Thursday, December 18, 2025
GPT-5.3-Codex: Thursday, February 5, 2026
GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark: Thursday, February 12, 2026
GPT-5.4: Thursday, March 5, 2026
GPT-5.5: Thursday, April 23, 2026
GPT-5.6: Thursday, July 9, 2026
That is six Thursday releases.
How many words are in SIGKITTEN’s message?
Six
The Completely Irresponsible Conclusion
An OpenAI employee working on Codex posted:
codex codex codex codex
tibo tibo
They did so only hours after the person leading Codex said that Codex would have Astra.
The message:
Produces 20/8 by counting its letters
Was published at exactly 8:20
Points to Thursday through multiple independent routes
Encodes the year 2026
Matches ISO week 34
Matches day 232 of the year
Reconstructs its own publication date
Turns TIBO into ORBIT
Creates a numerical bridge between CODEX and ASTRA
And aligns with OpenAI’s recent pattern of Thursday model launches
Therefore:
Astra could be announced or released on Thursday, August 20, 2026.
The actual probability that this was a deliberate leak: unknown.
The probability that we cherry-picked enough coincidences to construct an elaborate narrative: extremely high.
Red-string-on-a-corkboard level: 100%
If Astra drops on Thursday, we decoded it first.
If it does not, this post never existed.
RootFTW retweeted
42 years ago, William Gibson introduced the world to Neuromancer. Now, the next chapter is loading.
#Neuromancer @ParamountTVS @anoncontent @DreamCrew_Ent
@lel3x hi 😀
do you have anything like this:
github.com/Trackerino/tourna…
But for a player's global stats?
I have a fan page and I want to create a small landing page with a leaderboard for my followers (I have that part all figured out).
RootFTW retweeted
Humanity has prevailed (for now!)
I'm completely exhausted. I figured, I had 10h of sleep in the last 3 days and I'm barely alive.
I'll post more about the contest when I get some rest.
(To be clear, those are provisional results, but my lead should be big enough)
