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The Black Heart of Waseca

Matt Stoltz — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 14:53:14 +0000

When peace becomes a performance and salvation becomes an escape clause: a Church of NORMAL essay on acknowledgment, responsibility and rebuilding.

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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: 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. AI-generated editorial illustration of fictional Blu at a symbolic model-release authorization gate. 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, […]

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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. AI-generated editorial illustration of fictional Blu at a symbolic human-authorization boundary; not a photograph of a military operation. It’s Day 121 of the war with Iran — Operation Epic Fury, which began February 28, 2026. The intense bombing […]

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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: 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: Washington Took the Key — Fable and Mythos Go Dark by Federal Order

Matt Stoltz — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 07:25:47 +0000

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 […]

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Singularity Watch: Opus 4.7 — The Public Frontier Catches Up (While Mythos Stays Locked)

Matt Stoltz — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:00:00 +0000

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 […]

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