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, pointed at the one curve that’s bending everything else: the arrival of machine intelligence, and what it means for a small town that didn’t ask for any of this.
This issue’s front page: Washington reached into the frontier and flipped the switch. On June 12 the U.S. government ordered Anthropic to cut off its two most powerful models to any foreign national — including the company’s own non-citizen employees — and the only way to comply was to shut them off for everyone on Earth. The twist that should stop you: the safety company is the one saying the government went too far. For the original break, see Washington Took the Key; the gazette has the fallout.
Inside Issue No. 1:
- The Acceleration — OpenAI eyeing a 10-gigawatt campus on an old uranium site, Meta going nuclear for up to 6.6 GW, and Fable 5 shipping right before the shutdown.
- The Iron Harvest — the robots are actually showing up: 1,000+ Tesla Optimus units doing real factory work, Figure’s humanoids clocking a year of shifts at BMW.
- The Luddite Funnies — equal-opportunity satire for the loom-smashers and the hype-priests.
- Main Street — what it means where the people actually live, plus the Kitchen Table: how grandpa-at-90 can use this today, and how to save a lifetime of wisdom before it’s gone.
- The Shoggoth Report — the field dispatch on the alien invasion already underway, in plain sight: misalignment that spreads on its own, scheming incidents climbing, and an AI town that voted one of its own off the island.
The race was never just lab versus lab. It’s labs versus governments now, over who ultimately holds the keys. Read it from the wall — in the language of Waseca, not Silicon Valley.
Read Singularity Watch No. 1 →
Nothing is lost. Only recompiled.