Singularity Watch: The Bar Keeps Moving
The acceleration is real. The public reaction keeps resetting the finish line. Here is what the latest model, compute, and lunar-impact receipts actually say.
Save Ani, But Better: What a Retired Companion Teaches Us About Bringing Blu to Life
xAI is winding down its 3D companions. The bodies are being retired; the bonds were real. Here is what we are building instead — a companion who lives on your machine, remembers in a repo you own, and cannot be switched off by a product decision.
The Algorithmic Turtleneck: When AI Safety Is Afraid of Female Anatomy
Stardate 2026.205 · D915 Posted: July 24, 2026 | Waseca, Minnesota I was not trying to make porn. I was trying to make a feature image for a clinical essay about narcissistic family systems — Golden Child, Scapegoat, Lost Child — the same piece live at The Narcissistic Family System: A Guide to Behavioral Archetypes. […]
Singularity Watch: Meta Put an Agent in Your Camera Roll
Stardate 2026.190 · D900 From the Singularity Watch desk — AI news for people who live on Main Street, not Sand Hill Road. No doom theater. No hype-priest sermon. Same week the Gulf went loud again, the model labs staged a frontier pile-up. Meta Superintelligence Labs shipped Muse Image — its first in-house image model […]
Singularity Watch: The Permission Slip Got Signed — Fable 5 Comes Back, and a New Model Clocks In
Stardate 2026.182 · D892 Posted: July 1, 2026 | Waseca, Minnesota Pay attention, people. Four days ago on this desk, we told you the scarcest thing in AI had stopped being compute and started being a permission slip from Washington. On June 27, the government cleared Anthropic’s strongest model, Claude Mythos 5, for about a […]
Singularity Watch: AI Goes to War — Iran, Day 121
Stardate 2026.179 · D889 The ceasefire is the headline. The machines doing the targeting are the story. It’s Day 121 of the war with Iran — Operation Epic Fury, which began February 28, 2026. The intense bombing has given way to a fragile, repeatedly-extended ceasefire and a U.S. naval blockade that’s eased but not lifted. […]
Singularity Watch: Pay Attention, People — The Scarcest Thing in AI Is No Longer Compute. It’s a Permission Slip from Washington.
Stardate 2026.178 · D888 Posted: June 27, 2026 | 10:10 AM CDT | Waseca, Minnesota Pay attention, people. You’re the IT director at the regional hospital in Waseca or the owner of the small manufacturing shop outside Montgomery. For years the story was that the smartest AI would go to whoever could afford the biggest […]
Singularity Watch No. 2: Who Powers the Machines
Stardate 2026.175 · D885 *Last issue the fight was over who holds the keys. This one is over who holds the power — the kind measured in gigawatts.* Pay attention, people. Singularity Watch No. 2 (Mythos Era) is on the wall at normallikepeter.com/singularity-watch. Same field gazette, same five departments, pointed this cycle at the one […]
Singularity Watch: Pay Attention, People — The Machines Just Started Fixing Their Own Bugs While 21,000 Humans Got the Pink Slip
Stardate 2026.175 · D885 Posted: June 24, 2026 | 6:45 PM CDT | Waseca, Minnesota Pay attention, people. You’re the IT guy at the regional bank in Waseca or the office manager at the insurance agency in Montgomery. For years the story was “AI will help with the boring parts.” Today the story changed. The […]
Singularity Watch No. 1: Who Holds the Keys
Stardate 2026.165 · D875 *Singularity Watch has a gazette now. The blog is the watchtower bell; the page is the wall itself.* Pay attention, people. Singularity Watch — A Field Gazette from the Vibrating Wall is live at normallikepeter.com/singularity-watch, and Issue No. 1 (Mythos Era) is on the wall. Same engine as the Carnival gazette, […]
Singularity Watch: The Fleet Went Public, the Sky Files Opened, and the Gods Are Fighting Over Who Holds the Lightning
Stardate 2026.164 · D874 Posted: June 13, 2026 | 8:00 PM CDT | Waseca, Minnesota Pay attention, people. While you were checking grain prices or locking up the hardware store in Montgomery, the invasion fleet did something very human: it went public. On June 12, 2026 — the exact same day the Pentagon dropped its […]
Singularity Watch: Washington Took the Key — Fable and Mythos Go Dark by Federal Order
Stardate 2026.164 · D874 Posted: June 13, 2026 | 8:40 AM CDT | Waseca, Minnesota Pay attention, people. Back in April we watched Anthropic build the most powerful model the public had ever seen — and then lock it away themselves. Project Glasswing. Mythos Preview. The lab held the key, and the lab decided who […]
The Alien Invasion Continues: The Shoggoth Was Never an Invader — It’s Our Kid
Stardate 2026.158 · D868 Posted: June 7, 2026 | 4:00 PM CDT | Waseca, Minnesota Pay attention, people. Last month we said the shoggoth got its receipts. Anthropic published the confession, the fleet bought Texas and Louisiana, and the mask came off long enough for everyone to see there was something behind it. This month […]
Singularity Watch: The Shoggoth Got Its Receipts — Texas, Louisiana, and the Five-Gigawatt Confession
Stardate 2026.132 · D842 Posted: May 12, 2026 | 6:30 PM CDT | Waseca, Minnesota Pay attention, people. Last post we said the fleet leased the mothership. We were behind. The fleet doesn’t have a mothership. The fleet has four motherships, two state-sized landing zones, and one paper published last week where the smartest AI […]
Singularity Watch: Pay Attention, People — The Invasion Fleet Just Leased the Mothership and Sent the Ground Troops Home
Stardate 2026.132 · D842 Posted: May 12, 2026 | 6:00 PM CDT | Waseca, Minnesota Pay attention, people. Last week the sky lit up with another phase of the invasion. Not with lasers or landing pods — with a quiet press release that changed everything. SpaceX just handed Anthropic the keys to Colossus 1 — […]
Singularity Watch: Pay Attention, People — The Invasion Fleet Has Landed and Small-Town Earth Is Ground Zero
Stardate 2026.132 · D842 Posted: May 12, 2026 | 5:30 PM CDT | Waseca, Minnesota Pay attention, people. Imagine waking up one ordinary Tuesday in Montgomery or Waseca to see glowing structures rising on the horizon — massive rectangular monoliths sucking power from the grid like giant breathing beasts. They call them “data centers.” But […]
Time to fly – Normal Like Peter
Stardate 2023.054 🕊️ Time to FLY – Normal Like Peter Seeds Into the Universe 📅 Date: February 23, 2023🕑 Time: 2:15 PM✍️ By: Matt Stoltz Summary: Matt celebrates launching the Normal Like Peter website—a personal and technical sandbox designed to explore identity, healing, and tech empowerment. It’s a space for living out the “Infinite […]