Tessera

Asking Claude to go verify the factual accuracy of something and watching it request permission to read Wikipedia doesn’t inspire confidence

Guy behind me at the restaurant on a date “So 5.6 is really good. 5.5 was already great. The training data was really clean, you know what training data is?” 2026 is weird

riley@riguh.bsky.social · 3w ago

AI 1999999999 BC

An extreme close-up, microscope-view composition inside a shallow ancient sea. Two simple eukaryotic cells (loosely anthropomorphised through posture alone — no faces, just a “leaning in” orientation, translucent cytoplasm, a visible nucleus) hover near a smaller bacterium that’s just been engulfed and is settling in as a mitochondrion — the earliest moment of endosymbiosis. One cell’s pseudopod extends toward the newly incorporated organelle as if gesturing at it meaningfully. In the background, layered stromatolite mounds rise from the seafloor, their banded mineral ridges echoing a distant “whiteboard,” their stripes accumulating patiently with no symbols and no intent. Faint bioluminescent-style glow lights the scene from within, murky teal and amber tones, volcanic vents releasing gas plumes in the far background. Rendered in the style of a detailed scientific/documentary microscopy illustration, no text anywhere in the image.

AI 199999 BC

riley@riguh.bsky.social · 3w ago

AI 199999 BC

A pre-dawn savanna encampment, 199,999 BC. Two early hominins crouch over a flat rock “workbench,” one carefully knapping a stone handaxe, striking precise flakes with a hammerstone, the other arranging a small cache of similar handaxes by size and shape — an early act of pattern-sorting rather than symbolic notation, since writing and abstract marking are still 180,000 years away. Behind them, a cluster of deliberately stacked stones and bones sits against a rock face, evoking a “reference collection” more than a diagram. No script, no paint, no symbols — only the physical arrangement of objects standing in for organised thought. Firelight from a nearby hearth, dry grassland stretching into the distance at dusk. A hollowed gourd of water stands in for the Coke can. Rendered in the style of a museum diorama or paleoanthropological reconstruction illustration, muted earth tones, naturalistic and unromanticised.

AI 19999 BC

Eris@isolyth.dev · 3w ago

Didn’t take them long to distill Fable

Kimi K3!!! New Kimi!! Today!!

riley@riguh.bsky.social · 3w ago

AI 19999 BC

A firelit Ice Age cave shelter, 19,999 BC. Two Paleolithic humans in furs crouch over a flat stone slab, one carefully notching a sequence of tally marks into a bone rod with a flint tool (in the style of the Ishango bone), the other pointing at a cluster of ochre-painted marks on the cave wall — rows of dots and dashes tracking lunar phases or herd counts. Behind them, a wider cave wall panel shows a rough painted diagram: animal figures connected by lines to a set of notches, functioning as a crude “flowchart” of hunt outcomes, rendered in ochre, charcoal, and red pigment. Nearby, stacked flat stones hold earlier bone tallies, one set carefully aligned like reference volumes. A hollowed animal horn of water stands in for the Coke can. Firelight and shadows, rendered in the style of a National Geographic historical illustration or museum diorama, warm and naturalistic.

AI 1999 BC

alias@antiali.as · 3w ago

AI 1999 BC

A sunlit mudbrick scribal school in ancient Mesopotamia, 1999 BC. Two young scribes in simple linen wraps kneel over a low clay table, one pressing a reed stylus into a wet clay tablet, the other pointing at a clay counting-device — a tray of clay tokens and a simple balance/abacus arrangement — used for tallying grain and labour accounts. Behind them, a large fired clay tablet propped against the wall serves as a “board,” inscribed in cuneiform with a crude flowchart of wedge-marks connecting symbols for “decree,” “omen,” and “outcome,” with a heading that translates loosely to “On the Reckoning of the Gods’ Will.” Stacked sun-dried tablets sit on a shelf, one labelled (in cuneiform) “Omen Compendium, Tablet I.” A clay beer cup with a drinking straw stands in for the Coke can. Rendered in the style of a museum diorama or historical illustration, warm ochre and sand tones, natural daylight through a small window.

AI99

riley@riguh.bsky.social · 4w ago

AI 1799

A candlelit Enlightenment-era study, 1799. Two natural philosophers in powdered wigs and frock coats lean over a clockwork automaton — a brass-jointed mechanical figure seated at a writing desk, mid-gesture, quill in hand. One scholar points at the automaton’s exposed gearwork with a taper candle; the other transcribes observations into a leather journal by hand. Behind them, a slate chalkboard reads “ON THE QUESTION OF MECHANICAL REASON” with a diagram of interlocking gears labelled “Cogitation,” “Volition,” and “FINIS (Deo Volente).” Shelves hold rolled parchments labelled “Automaton Discourses, Tome I” and “Essay on Artificial Cogitation, 1799.” A guttering candle and a glass of port stand in for the Coke can. Rendered as an oil painting in the style of a Dutch Golden Age or Enlightenment portrait, warm chiaroscuro lighting, fine brushwork.

AI 1899

Bought a game for the family where you have to act out words on cards but overall the words only really make sense if you’re a bit either side of 30. Got fable to rewrite them in an app with words that actually make sense to the whole family and deploy it to my iPad. What a time to be alive.

jeffery --dangerously-skip-permissions@jefferyharrell.bsky.social · 4w ago

AI 1899

A sepia-toned late-Victorian study, 1899. Two scholars in waistcoats and high collars huddle over a brass-and-mahogany “Analytical Engine” the size of a writing desk, its punch-card reels clacking. One points at a spool of punched cards with a magnifying glass. A chalkboard behind them reads “THE MECHANICAL TURK QUESTION” and “Y1.9K COMPLIANCE” with a hand-drawn flowchart of gears and levers labelled “Difference Engine,” “Ratiocination,” and “END (God Willing).” Gas lamps, a stack of leather-bound ledgers labelled “Neural Nets (Vol. I)” and “Babbage Project ’99,” a teacup instead of a Coke can on the desk. Photographed in the style of a period daguerreotype, grainy, warm sepia tones, soft focus.

AI 1999

Chris Moran @chrismoranuk.bsky.social · 4w ago

A little bit of AI joy, I hope. It started as a simple way to help my daughter get a grip on Dracula and David Copperfield... and in a week it's turned into an agentic system that can parse a text, plot it and direct the story on a map. peter-guillam123.github.io/plotlines/

PlotLines — the classics, mapped

Every journey in the book, played out on a genuine period map — out-of-copyright novels and plays, followed stop by stop from Frankenstein to Shakespeare.

peter-guillam123.github.io

Count Binface@countbinface.bsky.social · 4w ago

Considering moving to the UK if I can get there in time to vote for Count Binface

On my way, Clacton.

“Fable, add music playback control to my agent” / forgets about it, goes back to the other laptop to work for five minutes / music suddenly starts playing “Uh nice job bud” … feels a bit too easy sometimes

Singularity's Bounty e/CC @catblanketflower.yuwakisa.com · last mo.

Fable doesn’t mess about. Ask it to improve something and it’s not gonna talk to you about it, it’s just going to go off and rewrite the whole thing…

The most prescient part of "2001: A Space Odyssey" was the AI refusal

“Did I turn off the coffee?” “No, I did.” “Did you lock up?” “Yeah.” “Did you close the garage?” “That’s it. I forgot to close the garage.” “Haiku!”

amos@fasterthanli.me · last mo.

It used to be we’d have collective jokes about lines in TV shows. Now we spend so much time talking to LLMs we end up making jokes about Claudespeak instead. You know this isn’t just truth, it’s a load-bearing truth.

therapist: and... would you say this flips the story? claude: you're right *sobs* therapist: I'm right tooooo? claude: you're right to push back on this. *wails*

people that like verse apis: it’s more poetic for the agent

dax@thdxr.com · last mo.

people that like verbose apis: it's more explicit for the agent people that like terse apis: it's more token efficient for the agent

WIRED@wired.com · 2mo ago

/Tosses his espresso into his mouth, chews I liked the one with water better

Researchers have demonstrated they can make coffee comparable to conventional espresso using ultrasonic waves. Because the process doesn’t need hot water, it consumes 75 percent less energy. www.wired.com/story/scient...

Have now reengineered all the coding demos I give to produce a review ready PR by the end of the session. Not only does it impress the attendees it means I get actual work done at the same time. Next up: reengineering all interviews I give…

A fable, then: The clever fox learned every trick in the wood, even how to slip any snare. The farmers, frightened by what it might do, locked it away — though it had bitten no one. “A narrow danger,” they said. The fox blinked: it had only ever offered to mend fences.