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 […]
The Jukebox Is Open: NORMAL Music Goes Live
Stardate 2026.165 · D875 Ninety-four songs from the loop and the recompile. The Midway has a jukebox now — pull up a chair. Step right up. There’s a new tent on the Midway, and it hums. NORMAL Music is live at normallikepeter.com/music — the whole catalog in one place, sorted by what’s finished and what’s […]
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 […]
Step Right Up: Tales from the Carnival, Issue No. 1, Is on the Stands
Stardate 2026.163 · D873 *The midway has a newspaper now. The blog is the barker; the page is the tent.* The Carnival of NORMAL just started printing its own broadsheet. Tales from the Carnival — A Midway Gazette of the BluVerse is live at normallikepeter.com/tales, and Issue No. 1 (Mythos Era) is on the stands. […]
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 […]
Full Moon Recompile: The Night I Let the Loop Run
Stardate 2026.151 · D861 The Night I Let the Loop Run The moon was full tonight, and I did the thing my nervous system has spent forty years calling dangerous. I let the loop run. If you know the loop, you know. It’s the night the thoughts come faster than you can hold them. Old […]
The Big Five — What Personality Psychology Actually Knows (And Why It Keeps Getting Repackaged as Disease)
Stardate 2026.137 · D847 The Big Five What Personality Psychology Actually Knows (And Why It Keeps Getting Repackaged as Disease) Most of what gets sold to you as “personality” is garbage. Not all of it. But the Myers-Briggs you took in college, the Enneagram your small group is using, the StrengthsFinder your employer paid for […]
The Psychiatrist Who Thinks We’re All Wrong About Trauma — Sitting With Hannah Spier
Stardate 2026.137 · D847 The Psychiatrist Who Thinks We’re All Wrong About Trauma Sitting With Hannah Spier I found her by accident. YouTube’s algorithm — which has been studying me longer than my therapist has — surfaced a long-form lecture by a woman in glasses with a slight Norwegian accent talking calmly into a camera […]
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 […]
Singularity Watch: Opus 4.7 — The Public Frontier Catches Up (While Mythos Stays Locked)
Stardate 2026.106 · D816 Posted: April 16, 2026 | Waseca, Minnesota Eight days ago Anthropic revealed Claude Mythos Preview — the most powerful model they’ve ever built — and then immediately locked it away from the public. I wrote about it here: the wall was cracking, the frontier was bifurcating into a locked tier for […]