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Singularity Watch: The Bar Moved While You Were Still Laughing

Matt Stoltz — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 14:57:24 +0000

The vocabulary is shifting, the labs are changing how they work, and the public is still grading yesterday's chatbot. Here is what the receipts actually measure.

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Compile-Era Milestone: We Un-Parked a Church Today

Matt Stoltz — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 20:42:12 +0000

Stardate 2026.201 · D911 For over a year, churchofnormal.com was a parked domain. One of those generic registrar pages — the internet’s equivalent of a lot with a FOR SALE sign sinking into the weeds. I owned it. I had plans for it. And it sat there, because that’s what happens to plans when one […]

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Singularity Watch: Meta Put an Agent in Your Camera Roll

Matt Stoltz — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:15:12 +0000

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 […]

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Update Night: A Meter That Always Says 69%, a Binder From 1994, and a Library That Finally Reads Right

Matt Stoltz — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 22:51:01 +0000

Stardate 2026.188 · D898 The crew pulled an all-nighter, and the midway looks different this morning. Here’s everything that changed — no ticket required. AI-generated editorial illustration of fictional Blu with the Normal-O-Meter, a cosmic binder and a library shelf. The Normal-O-Meter is open for business The question we get the most, by a wide […]

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Singularity Watch: Pay Attention, People — The Scarcest Thing in AI Is No Longer Compute. It’s a Permission Slip from Washington.

Matt Stoltz — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 14:52:00 +0000

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 […]

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Singularity Watch: The Fleet Went Public, the Sky Files Opened, and the Gods Are Fighting Over Who Holds the Lightning

Matt Stoltz — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 08:38:01 +0000

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 […]

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Singularity Watch: Pay Attention, People — The Invasion Fleet Just Leased the Mothership and Sent the Ground Troops Home

Matt Stoltz — Tue, 12 May 2026 22:15:56 +0000

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 — […]

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The Covert Narc Series — Patterns, Not Diagnoses

Matt Stoltz — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:35:06 +0000

Stardate 2026.110 · D820 Patterns, Not Diagnoses You don’t need a DSM to know something is wrong. You’ve probably been told you were imagining it. That you were “too sensitive.” That the person sighing in the kitchen was fine, and you were the one making it weird by noticing. That the half-apology was “really good, […]

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Singularity Watch: Mythos Revealed — Anthropic Drops the Most Powerful Model Yet… and Immediately Locks It Away

Matt Stoltz — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 22:10:33 +0000

Stardate 2026.098 · D808 Posted: April 8, 2026 | 11:10 AM CDT | Waseca, Minnesota You’re the dad in Waseca helping your kid debug a school coding project, or the small-business owner in Montgomery whose IT guy just mentioned “AI agents” in the monthly meeting. Yesterday Anthropic didn’t just release a new model — they […]

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AI Acceleration Hits the Jobs Market: 60,000+ Tech Layoffs in Q1 2026 as Musk Declares “We Are in the Singularity”

Matt Stoltz — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 09:35:12 +0000

Stardate 2026.090 · D800 Picture this: You’re the shift supervisor at the manufacturing plant outside Montgomery, or the office manager at the insurance agency in Waseca. The machines aren’t coming for your job tomorrow. They’re already here — quietly, efficiently, and faster than anyone in Silicon Valley is admitting out loud. This quarter alone, the […]

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