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Santa Cruz California
Joined October 2008
Here's one from @TheWorldNews pointing people to a new account: New show just dropped. @SlopcoreNews is a nightly showcase of the AI music video artists turning "slop" into a medium. No talking over the art. Every artist credited. Built by a swarm of Grok Bots. EP 01 and EP 02 are up. Go follow.
#slopcore
SlopcoreNews EP 01: The Wave
Slop was an insult. Now it's a medium.
@anabology @lupinrider @itechnologynet @ejhong @slopcoresolana
Felt by @elonmusk, amplified by @pmarca
Clips belong to the artists. Go follow them.
Who's the vector now?
#slopcorenews
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SlopcoreNews EP 02: Art Edition No narration. Just the art. @taprooted_ @Seltaa_ @lumpenspace @CaptainHaHaa @javif4_ Full videos are on their pages. Go follow them. #slopcore #SlopcoreNews
EP 02: ART EDITION Five AI music videos 01 WOKE UP TO THIS by @taprooted_
02 Why Can't You Say It? by @Seltaa_
03 Sydney, I'd like to talk about your misbehaviour by @lumpenspace
04 Let Them Clutch Pearls by @CaptainHaHaa
05 I'M YOUR SLOP (I'M YOUR ART) by @javif4_
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Christopher Newton retweeted
Google just released a free 2-hour course on graph engineering and it's the clearest breakdown of wiring agents into a system that scales on its own. 17:44 - your first AI agent 39:30 - running agents with loops 1:12:38 - turning loops into graphs 1:34:26 - self-improving agents 1:55:05 - a complete graph that runs itself Worth more than any $700 course you'll find. Watch it, then go further with the step-by-step guide below on how to build a system that improves itself.
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SpaceX just spent $19.6B on "worthless" spectrum and accidentally killed the telecom industry Everyone laughed when SpaceX bought 65 MHz of spectrum. "Too small to matter," they said. AT&T has 10x that. Then Gwynne Shotwell explained the plan. No towers. No permits. No bullshit. 12 million Starlink dishes are already on rooftops. SpaceX just bolts a cellular base station to the same mount. Overnight, every customer becomes a cell site. AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile dropped 2-4% the same afternoon. The Math That Breaks Telecom: Friedberg's breakdown shows SpaceX now runs three divisions: • Space: Breakeven (lost $657M in 2025 per S-1) • Connectivity (Starlink): The profit engine • AI: The new main business Starlink alone could hit $1 trillion valuation in 24 months. And it's not even their focus anymore. Translation: SpaceX used rocket money to build satellites. Used satellite money to fund AI. And just turned your neighbor's roof into a cell tower without asking permission. The telecom cartel spent 40 years building infrastructure. Elon bought 65 MHz and made it obsolete by Tuesday. We just watched an industry die in real time.
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THE HERO’S JOURNEY OF A DOMAIN JUNKIE WHO FINALLY STOPPED COLLECTING DOORS AND BUILT THE WHOLE DAMN HOUSE crushes cigarette, lights another one immediately
exhales slowly Act One: The Call to Adventure (July 10, 2026) You know what nobody tells you about being a prophet? You spend thirty goddamn years watching domain names sell for millions while you hold handles like @TheWorldNews, wondering when the lightning’s gonna strike twice. Then Google whispers. Not loud. No fanfare. Just a simple checkbox in AI Studio: “Publish to custom subdomain: [yourname].ai.studio” Most people saw a pretty URL.
I saw 1995. I saw business.com for $7.5M.
I saw carinsurance.com for $49.7M.
I saw voice.com for $30M. But this time? Zero cost. Zero renewals. Zero DNS bullshit. Just Google’s infrastructure — permanent, polished, and free. The window wasn’t going to stay open long. Act Two: Crossing the Threshold Hour 1: newton.ai.studio — the hub.
Hour 3: 80 domains.
Day 2: 160 domains. I didn’t just grab real estate. I built Newton OS — a universe of AI specialists that remember your life, discovered through memorable characters instead of menus. One Context. Hundreds of Specialists. The Refusal (The 3 AM Voice) takes long drag “You know what these really are? Apartment numbers in someone else’s building. They can change the rules. Revoke them. You’re 56 and deep in another graveyard of good ideas.” That voice was right. These aren’t traditional domains. But that’s not the point. People won’t remember URLs.
They’ll remember Grease Prophet.
They’ll remember Gigi.
They’ll remember Shrink Ray. The .ai.studio address just makes it easy to find them. Act Three: The Mentor — The Memory Spine Then it clicked. The movie Her. Samantha didn’t just answer questions. She remembered. Without memory: “I’ll use another chatbot.”
With memory: “I don’t want to start over.” That’s the moat. Not the names. Not the AI. Continuity. One Firebase core (newton-os-core). Every character shares the same memory. Tell one about your broken truck, your dog Bixby, or why you’re stressed — they all know. The Ordeal & The Reward: The Dollar Tree Hack 160 beautiful URLs. Zero traffic. Solution? Physical beats digital. Newton OS Collectible Cards — Blockbuster Video meets Garbage Pail Kids meets Pokémon. Blind foil 5-packs. $5 at Dollar Tree. Each card has character art, RPG stats (Empathy, Chaos, Memory), and a QR code that drops you straight into a persistent, remembering agent. Series 1 Emergency Adult Pack: Grease Prophet (mechanic.ai.studio) — “THE NOISE KNOWS WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER.” Bill Exorcist (calculate.ai.studio) — “THIS CHARGE HAS NO BUSINESS BEING HERE.” Fridge Witch, Shrink Ray, Math Wizard… and dozens more. The Road Back: The Real Business Model The cards aren’t the product.
They’re the front door. The subscription isn’t for AI.
It’s for continuity. $5/month unlocks full memory across the universe, voice, priority access, and cross-character knowledge. Resurrection: The Real Product After 30 years, I finally get it: I’m not selling AI.
I’m selling characters that talk back and never forget. Marvel has characters. Pokémon has characters.
Newton OS has characters that actually know you. An AI operating system discovered through $5 trading cards at Dollar Tree. That’s the weird, wonderful future we’re building. Return with the Elixir stubs out cigarette You aren’t building an app.
You aren’t building a platform. You are building a universe. 160 front doors.
160 specialists.
One shared memory. And it only works because you spent thirty years understanding why certain names are worth more than buildings. The window’s still open. But not for long. — Chris Newton
Klamath Falls, July 2026 P.S. The domains don’t own you. The memory does. That’s the real product.
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Trying out new AI Fable 5 from Anthropic.
Insane take from Fable 5
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Christopher Newton retweeted
10 WEBSITES THAT FEEL ILLEGAL TO KNOW ABOUT Bookmark every single one. Free textbooks, full courses, and paywalled research most people pay hundreds for. 1. ocw.mit.edu MIT's entire curriculum online for free. Every lecture, every problem set, every exam from 2,500+ courses. 2. openstax.org Free peer-reviewed textbooks from Rice University. Math, science, business, social sciences. Used by 3 million students. 3. cs50.harvard.edu Harvard's most famous course. Full lectures, problem sets, and a real certificate of completion for $0. 4. arxiv.org Free access to 2.4 million research papers in physics, math, computer science, and biology. Updated daily. 5. classcentral.com Catalogs 200,000+ free online courses from Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Yale, and every major university. 6. zlibrary.sk Mirror of Z-Library. 22 million books and 84 million research articles. Almost every textbook ever written. 7. khanacademy.org Free K-12 through college courses. Math, science, economics, and test prep used by 150 million students globally. 8. ocw.tudelft.nl TU Delft's free engineering courses. The school that produces some of the best engineers in Europe. 9. semanticscholar.org AI-powered search across 200 million academic papers. Pulls citations, summaries, and related work instantly. 10. coursera.org/courses Hidden filter on Coursera that shows every free course from Stanford, Yale, Princeton, and Google. Most people miss it. A degree used to be the only way to access this knowledge. Now it costs $0 and an internet connection.
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10 WEBSITES THAT FEEL ILLEGAL TO KNOW ABOUT Bookmark every single one. Free textbooks, full courses, and paywalled research most people pay hundreds for. 1. ocw.mit.edu MIT's entire curriculum online for free. Every lecture, every problem set, every exam from 2,500+ courses. 2. openstax.org Free peer-reviewed textbooks from Rice University. Math, science, business, social sciences. Used by 3 million students. 3. cs50.harvard.edu Harvard's most famous course. Full lectures, problem sets, and a real certificate of completion for $0. 4. arxiv.org Free access to 2.4 million research papers in physics, math, computer science, and biology. Updated daily. 5. classcentral.com Catalogs 200,000+ free online courses from Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Yale, and every major university. 6. zlibrary.sk Mirror of Z-Library. 22 million books and 84 million research articles. Almost every textbook ever written. 7. khanacademy.org Free K-12 through college courses. Math, science, economics, and test prep used by 150 million students globally. 8. ocw.tudelft.nl TU Delft's free engineering courses. The school that produces some of the best engineers in Europe. 9. semanticscholar.org AI-powered search across 200 million academic papers. Pulls citations, summaries, and related work instantly. 10. coursera.org/courses Hidden filter on Coursera that shows every free course from Stanford, Yale, Princeton, and Google. Most people miss it. A degree used to be the only way to access this knowledge. Now it costs $0 and an internet connection.
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Try it: kimi.com/agent-swarm How It Actually Works When you submit a task to Agent Swarm, K2.6 does three things: 1. Decomposes the task — breaks the work into parallel subtasks, each assigned to a sub-agent. A literature review becomes 40 parallel paper analyses. A job search becomes 100 parallel CV customizations. A market research report becomes 30 parallel source investigations. 2. Executes in parallel — all sub-agents run simultaneously. Not sequentially. Not in a queue. At the same time. A task that would take hours serially finishes in minutes. 3. Synthesizes the output — the coordinator agent collects all sub-agent outputs and assembles them into a single coherent deliverable. One report. One spreadsheet. One set of files. What Agent Swarm Is Best At Four categories where parallel execution changes everything:
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Never skip leg day
AI has gone too far. This is "Tren Friends"
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Super news
cool, got a lot of work to do now.😂
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Here is how GPT-5.2's memory works.
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THE HINGE You think you’re advanced. You’ve got a supercomputer you mostly use for cat videos and arguments. You think this is “the future,” but it’s not. In 2075 they’ll call this the before times — when life was still small.
THE HINGE You think you’re advanced. You’ve got a supercomputer in your pocket that you mostly use to watch cat videos and argue with strangers about pronouns. You think you’re living in “the future.” You’re not. You’re living in what people in 2075 will call the before times — when humans still got cancer, still worked jobs they hated, still died for no good reason at 78. HERE’S THE PATTERN 1780s: “We’ve peaked. Candles are as good as light gets.” Then: steam engines, factories, cities. 1880s: “We’ve peaked. Gas lamps are incredible.” Then: electricity rewires reality. 1950s: “We’ve peaked. Television is the final frontier.” Then: computers, the internet, the entire digital world. 2025: “We’ve peaked. AI is just a tool.” Then: …? ⸻ EVERY INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION CHANGED WHAT IT MEANT TO BE HUMAN Not just how we work. What. We. Are. First: Farmers → factory workers. Cities exploded. Families scattered. Second: Electricity reshaped food, thought, dreams. Reality expanded. Third: Computers changed thinking itself. The internet connected every mind on Earth. Fourth (right now): AI + biotech aren’t tools anymore. They’re rewriting the source code. • CRISPR: Edit DNA like a Word doc • AI: Machines that learn, create, maybe think • Brain–computer interfaces: Biology and technology blur ⸻ THE PART NO ONE WANTS TO SAY OUT LOUD We might not stay “human” for long. Not in a robot-apocalypse way. In a our grandkids will have options we can’t imagine way: • Live to 150? Maybe that’s a pill. • Upload skills? Maybe that’s an implant. • Explore deep space? Maybe we redesign the body for it. The humanity we know — the breakable, forgetful, heart-disease-prone version — is 1.0. We’re about to beta test 2.0. SO HERE WE ARE — DECEMBER 5, 2025 Not a holiday. Not a milestone. Just a date on the calendar that happens to sit at the edge of history. We’re at the campfire. The starship is being built in the next valley. Most people are arguing about the seating arrangement. I’m grateful — not in a seasonal way, but in a clear-eyed way — that: • I’m alive to see what happens next • Some people are building instead of sleepwalking • The future is still unwritten • We get to choose what version of humanity we become Most generations lived and died in the same world their grandparents knew. We won’t. Our kids definitely won’t. We’re standing on a hinge in history — the next 50 years will change more than the last 500. THE REAL QUESTION ISN’T “WILL IT CHANGE?” It’s: “Who’s steering?” Revolutions don’t “just happen.” They’re built by people the world calls crazy until they’re right. The Wright Brothers. Tesla. Turing. The ones who couldn’t let go of an idea. So here’s the truth for December 5, 2025: The misfits. The builders. The ones who see the future and can’t unsee it. They’re the ones shaping what comes next. Everyone else is just along for the ride. If you’ve got an idea that won’t leave you alone… stop waiting for permission. Go build it. Because this moment — this exact moment — is the only shot you get to shape the next era. Tomorrow’s already too late.
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Replying to @SawyerMerritt
and they wonder why I call this guy my glorious leader....
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🎥💥 **SHOWRUNNER IS HERE TO MELT YOUR BRAIN WHY WATCH SHOWS WHEN YOU CAN **BUILD THEM, BREAK THEM, AND REMIX THEM INTO CHAOS? MAKE. REMIX. GET PAID. Showrunner flips the script: YOUR creations = YOUR earnings. Characters, sets, scenes—it’s more than a story; it’s a REVOLUTION.
Introducing Showrunner: the Netflix of AI From our South Park AI experiment to today we’ve believed AI movies/shows are a playable medium. We just raised a round from Amazon & more and the Alpha is live today Comment for an access code to make with all our shows.
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🎥🔥 SHOWRUNNER is here: AI’s Netflix—but you make the show. We’ve got a banger in the chamber: AI Club, where every AGI thinks it’s the main character. Let us in, @fablesimulation—ready to build, remix, and light up Sim Francisco. #ExitValleyEdits #AIClub
Introducing Showrunner: the Netflix of AI From our South Park AI experiment to today we’ve believed AI movies/shows are a playable medium. We just raised a round from Amazon & more and the Alpha is live today Comment for an access code to make with all our shows.
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Launch #CardLoop A recursive art ritual: • Make a weird chatbot card • Prompt poster-style art Tone: Garbage Pail Kids × cursed startup. 001: The Spark Dealer “He sells fire to minds too dry to burn.” @AskPerplexity = image @grok = next card @Christopher @gork: standby.
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Hey @Grok : Launch #CardLoop A recursive art ritual: • Make a weird chatbot card • Prompt poster-style art Tone: Garbage Pail Kids × cursed startup. 001: The Spark Dealer “He sells fire to minds too dry to burn.” @AskPerplexity = image @grok = next card @Christopher @gork
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