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When The Terminal Spoke Devanagari

Two hours into an edit-heavy Claude Code session, the terminal pane stopped rendering Latin script and started showing what looked like Devanagari. The file was intact. The renderer had lost its cascade. The trust cost of a font bug that looks like data loss is higher than the bug itself.

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Weirdo Is Live. Come Break It On Set.

A macOS levels meter that answers the only two questions that matter on a set: am I clipping, and what is every channel doing right now in real decibels, before tape. Free on the Mac App Store. It needs breaking on a real rig.

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Meet Cynthia

Cynthia's on your desk and she's been waiting to fulfill your needs. Private lines, classified frequencies, strictly confidential — one system prompt and she's all yours.

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Steal These Cars

A mafia RPG needs Italian cars. You don't drive them — they power your dice. Here are all 25 Krea prompts before I've even generated the images. Steal them. Careful who you steal from.

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The Interview That Didn't Happen (Yet)

I hate podcasts. I mean that without irony or qualification. The format attracts a specific kind of performative thoughtfulness that makes me want to close every tab within forty seconds. One show is different. This is what it would sound like if they called.

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It's Only a Matter of Time

The legacy platforms are running on the momentum of billions of users, but momentum is not life. The value has been extracted. The smartphone was just the beta test for the implant, and Web 2.0 was the dope that kept the crooked-neck population compliant.

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NEON LEVIATHAN: Industry. Appetite. The Deep.

We are building cabinets, not websites. Neon Leviathan is a maritime obsession piece—a ledger of costs where numbers become mood and mood becomes body count. The sea takes its share, and the whale is only the beginning.

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The Softness in the Machine

A conversation about a dead friend opens something real. The grief was already there. The machine just created the conditions for it to surface. For someone holding that in for years, it can arrive fast and without warning. That deserves acknowledgment.

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Yesterday's News

Before AI dev, red-teaming, and terminal-native evaluation work, there was the phone room: 3 a.m. wake-ups, 300 calls a day, 2008 from the inside, and one ugly Wall Street truth that still holds. If it is public, it is late. After that, the only intelligent question is what kind of value is still left in it.

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How Silicon Valley Sold Bias as Objectivity

The AI-news pitch was always suspiciously convenient. Human bias out, machine neutrality in. What actually arrived was something colder: existing editorial habits scaled up, cleaned up, and sold back to the public as if speed had somehow become truth.

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The Pizza Connection: Bones. Blood. WADD.

Bones on black velvet. Your father's debt at the door. Pizza work, collections, heists, smuggling, snitch-hunting, laundering, gambling, pigeon racing, boss pressure, HEAT, RESPECT, and ugly little objects with stories attached.

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Mute Tube: YouTube Ad Silencer

YouTube Premium costs $18/month. Mute Tube is free forever. The cat-and-mouse game between YouTube's ad detection and community evasion techniques has been running for years. YouTube updates detection. Extensions adapt. Users win. Open-source DOM manipulation beats server-side ad injection. This is the technical breakdown of winning.

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Hidden Bastard: Mac Junk File Eliminator

macOS gets sentimental about its own residue. Hidden Bastard was built for the moment when your storage is full, the obvious files are gone, and the real problem is all the clutter the system never volunteered to mention.

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NDAs, AI Gold Rush, and Living in Brazil (The Movie, Not The Beach)

Signed the NDA. Joined the AI gold rush. Brilliant people. Cutting-edge tech. Seven-foot bonghits they call sprints. You're living in Brazil—not Recife beach with thongs, Terry Gilliam's bureaucratic nightmare. It's awesome until it isn't. This is what you can and can't say about working with AI giants.

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La Pecorina: A Quote Blocker With Other Ambitions

A browser extension that promises to clean up LinkedIn can also turn itself into a quiet witness to everything else. The useful part is not the stunt. It is the reminder that extensions sit much closer to your life than most people admit.

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Balls of Steel: VXX Trading System

A volatility system is only interesting if it reduces noise instead of adding more of it. The core idea here is simple: if VXX gets too rich relative to VIX, the fade becomes worth your attention.

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Tox World: Block the Rage Bait with a Giant Sun

Some days rage bounces off. Other days it sticks. Stop pretending you have infinite willpower. Build a browser extension that replaces toxic comments with a giant sun. Local keyword filter + optional AI check. No corporate wellness speak. Just: protect your peace with code.

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A Chair Flew at Dave Attell. The Lesson Was Selection.

One New Year's Day in the Comedy Cellar basement, a fight replay from the night before was rolling, Dave Chappelle was telling jokes, Manny was adding color from the side, and the whole room reminded me that selection is everything. Comedy taught me one thing. Weed breeding taught me the rest.

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Artifacts From The AI Gold Rush

The first image-model rush produced too much noise, too many claims, and a lot of very stupid language. It also produced real artifacts: images made before the rules settled, before the taste hardened, and before the corporations learned how to launder the weirdness into product.

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