and Claude Omnibus said, “LET THERE BE LIGHT!” And there was light —
https://samwilkinson.io/posts/2026-06-09-anthropics-model-naming-extrapolated

“Moral reasoning develops through consequences—not punishment, necessarily, but experiencing the effects of your actions on others… It’s not that the wealthy become evil; it’s that their environment stops teaching them the things that nonwealthy people are forced to learn simply by living in a world that pushes back. [For billionaires], the basic mechanism by which humans learn that other people are real goes dark.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/05/billionaire-consequence-free-reality/686588/

Mildly interesting: walking out of a play the other night, one of the giant video walls in Times Square was cycling through various test patterns.

“Twelve months ago, we'd have rejected out of hand the idea of granting Claude access sufficient to take down an internal Anthropic service. Today that level of access is routine.” https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/how-we-contain-claude

You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
https://www.best-poems.net/mary_oliver/wild_geese.html

every day we stray further from god's light

if you don't give me an opt-out mechanism, don't imagine that I have opted in. imagine that I am finding my own way out, saying "fuck you" the whole time and singing about it from the rooftops.

At last, it's done! For the @oshwassociation summit here in Berlin, I had the opportunity to put an item in the swag bag. So I made a whole-ass book. “The Last Promontory” is seven writings from the early twentieth century, and it's been so gratifying to see folks reading it around the conference. If you're not here, no for you need to feel left out! OSHWA is all about open source: open hardware, open culture, which is all to say I put the book online as well: https://thelastpromontory.com

whilst packing and tidying up before the OSHWA trip I ran across my original concept art for this thing, sketched two months ago when it was just a lark.

Fake ad in the print edition; The Onion doesn’t miss.