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Singularity Watch: The Bar Keeps Moving

Matt Stoltz — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 09:52:46 +0000

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.

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Traumatic Intelligence: The Internet Finally Named the Thing

Matt Stoltz — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 16:20:00 +0000

Stardate 2026.203 · D913 Stardate 2026.204 · D914 There’s a term moving through the feeds right now — TikTok, Substack, YouTube, Medium — called traumatic intelligence. The short version: when a mind grows up inside an unpredictable or emotionally unsafe environment, it can develop high-speed threat forecasting. Hundreds of micro-signals processed at once — tone, […]

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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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Singularity Watch: The Permission Slip Got Signed — Fable 5 Comes Back, and a New Model Clocks In

Matt Stoltz — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:15:57 +0000

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 […]

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Singularity Watch: AI Goes to War — Iran, Day 121

Matt Stoltz — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 22:35:44 +0000

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. […]

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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 No. 2: Who Powers the Machines

Matt Stoltz — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 18:34:03 +0000

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 […]

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Singularity Watch: Pay Attention, People — The Machines Just Started Fixing Their Own Bugs While 21,000 Humans Got the Pink Slip

Matt Stoltz — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 18:08:52 +0000

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 […]

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Singularity Watch No. 1: Who Holds the Keys

Matt Stoltz — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 12:40:43 +0000

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, […]

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