SPOILERS: Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy immersive theater show Went out and saw the Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy immersive theater show at the Riverside in Hammersmith. It was good fun. Our pub visit and Arthur Dent's surprise leaving party that Ford threw was interrupted by the Vogons coming to destroy the planet. Luckily, Ford got the entire pub into the Heart Of Gold and hence to the cargo hold of the Vogon ship. Songs and dance, audience participation, beautiful costumes and familiar characters. All good fun. Trouble with a comedy based on a forty year old show though is that the jokes are all entirely predictable and obvious. Which makes it a comedy show without much actual laughs. And while the Fenchurch in the show was an entirely lovely actress, I always found the character in the books/radio-shows quite annoying and she was too prominent in a 90 minute show. Good fun, but don't expect to be rolling in the aisles.

Starmer's speech is full of regret, so sorry that he believed the lies of Mandelson. Now we are expected to trust the judgement of a man who believed the lies of a person known as the Prince Of Darkness in order to appoint him as ambassador to America, precisely because of his relationship with the Epstein and Trump circle. If not for his relationship with those fuckers, why make him ambassador? What did he have over the existing ambassador other than his relationship with the whole Epstein crowd? Nothing. He was chosen for that position by Starmer exactly because of that relationship which Starmer now pleads he didn't know about as he was fooled by the lies of the dark prince. Nope. I don't buy it. Starmer can still fuck off. #ukpol

Read "How To Survive In A Science Fiction Universe" by Charles Yu, a novel about a time-machine repair-man getting stuck in a loop during his search for his father. First person narrated, in a fictional universe in which you can travel in time but you can't change anything about the past. It was fun and an easy read, lots of interludes about the physics of fictional universes and explanations of acausal items causing their own existence, including the book itself that you read in your hands. Its nice if you'd like something with experimental narrative form twisting the usual story format.

So Musk bought Twitter for 40 billion and then merged it with his experimental AI company that has never made any money and then sold it to the other company he mostly owns (which exists only due to massive government subsidy) for 250 billion dollars. This sale based on the ludicrous lie that data-centers might be built in orbit. It's a living I guess. Now that Musk has offloaded Twitter and his AI experiments to SpaceX, he can be sure the government will bail it out when the AI bubble pops. The government's defense industry depends upon SpaceX for access to space. This is probably the main reason for the "sale" transferring money from one of Musk's bank accounts to another of Musk's bank accounts. The AI price bubble popping could have wiped out xAI and thus Twitter with it, but now it's cushioned against that by contracts with a government who can't afford to allow their only real space access to go bust. So he can subsidize his failing AI business and his unprofitable media-manipulation efforts at Twitter with his government-protected failing exploding space-rocket project. All protected by the lie which the media keep repeating uncritically that it makes any sense at all to have data centers in space. What a great businessman.

Asimov wrote his laws of robotics as a dramic device to show how difficult it is to write laws of robotics. How they always will contradict each other. His laws are there to illustrate a problem, not as a genuine attempt at the solution. His laws are deliberately wrong. [Anthropic's constitution](https://www.anthropic.com/constitution) is a proper attempt to solve the problem instead. Surprising that it ends up written in English rather than maths. Perhaps the robot will translate it into maths later. There's a lot of thorny philosophy in it if you assume the premise that a super-intelligent machine can be built, even if known methods can't build it. We should do that philosophy whether the premise turns out to be true or false. Anthropic are doing much better on the AI ethics than openAI. And the business side, and the building actually useful models side. [Zvi has some blogs](

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Open Problems With Claude’s Constitution

The first post in this series looked at the structure of Claude’s Constitution. The second post in this series looked at its ethical framework. T...

on the AI community's reaction to it and analysing it. Seems long. Might have to be expressed as a meme. 😆 #ai #anthropic

I see Facebook are going to be advertising their "AI glasses" at the superbowl. Trying to sell their glasses to athletes. I gotta tell ya, people wearing Meta's glasses should be shunned like those google glassholes were. They should be banned from any public place with their creepy surveillance headsets on. If you see someone wearing them you should harass that person and drive them out of whatever space you are in. Do not allow constant surveillance to become the norm, especially from that fucking creep zuckerberg. Same goes for Musk's surveillance cameras on legs, his "optimus" robots. Do not allow them in your spaces. Do not countenance their existence in your presence. Drive them out. Ostracize anyone you see with them. They must never become normal. https://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/oakley-meta-readies-super-bowl-debut-to-sell-ai-glasses-to-athletes/ #meta #ai #glasses

Run Zack Run! Glad to see lots of people liking and sharing the Green Party England&Wales broadcast this week. It's striking. Hope it's happening in the corporate spaces too, though presumably the capitalist leaders there suppress it with their algorithms. Zack is in general doing such a great job of speaking my mind really it's unreal. All the other leaders just seem dazed and confused, trying hard to maintain the status quo, ensure that capital power persists and they don't offend their corporate donors. Or worse, just blaming the poor and the helpless and threatening that hurting people will solve the problems England and Wales face (it won't). Here's hoping it has some impact and the Green Party make huge progress because the country seems likely to just get worse and worse under any of the other party's policies and positions.

So farewell then Microsoft Office. I haven't used you really since the 90s. From this distance: it seems like you just kept getting worse and more exploitative since then and trapped millions of people in abusive relationships with tech. It made me laugh when you went monthly-payment subscription-only, and then laugh even more when suckers actually ponied up for that. It's fun when people say they don't know how to use Libreoffice, even though Libre is more like the original MS Office (before it was shit) than Office 365 was. I wish you fare well on your transition to your new identity as "The Microslop 365 Co-dependency Ass" or whatever the new name is. Good luck in your new task of exploiting people and learning how to replace them in their jobs. I will not be subscribing to your services. Or newsletter. I will continue to tell people I refuses to accept files in proprietary file formats. #microSlop #office #CoPiliot #ai #enshitification #poem

So farewell then 2025. In numbers: * 11 wordcloud tarot shows * 3 Festivals * 2 Loopy piano gigs * 2 Live Performance Improv Shows * 1 observers cartoon * 1 new microcamper/car * 1 new bedroom * 1 Bitcoin/Nostr conference * 1 Life-Log App released * 1 Broken Wrist * 1 Mortgage paid off Seems okay. More in the blog:

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So Farewell Then 2025

So farewell then 2025. Had some serious health worries, made some stuff, did some performance, made money, had some fun. Not the best year, suspect...

Have a happy new year's eve everyone, and an even happier new year.

Heyhey y'all. Hope you had a nice xmas. Watched War Between The Land And The Sea with the family over Xmas so I can catch up on the Who Culture episodes about it without spoilers. Plus the mattress on the new Tardis bedroom should have expanded over xmas to be useable without voiding guarantee. So when I got back after Xmas I used the bed for lounging about drinking a glass of wine, watching Who Culture podcast, and mucking about on the tablet screen. Nice. #selfie

Builders finished in my new bedroom today. It's lovely in there. Looking very like i intended. Look forward to one day having money again so I can afford to furnish it with a bed 😆

Added a category manager and category state section to the Exocortex Log app. Have now organized and cleaned up the categories in my ten year database and so we can get some views of the time spent in each category. We see that through September and October I was in a routine of work and slack with a bit of social a couple of times a week, until the end of November when I went away for social at a conference all weekend. I saw a demo there of a person using Shakespeare, and then when I got back started doing some vibe-coding, shown in in Red. A break from that to go away at the weekend to a long social party then finish it off and publish a few days ago, since when Vibe Coding has dropped off a little.

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Adding Category Summary - Exocortex Blog

Adding a category management page showing stats and allowing rename and merge of categoriesg

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I am quite keen to watch The War Between The Land And The Sea on iplayer. But we need to consider tactics. Will the folks sit and watch it with me at Xmas? If they would that'd perhaps be better than whatever drivel quiz shows and police car chase stuff they normally make me watch. If they won't I'll be be postponing it three weeks for no reason. 🤔 Might be nice to watch it in the new bedroom but that probably won't have a bed or a chair until the new year. #watching #doctorWho #onlyNotDoctorWho

I added a search function to the exocortex log app. Update with the section at the bottom of the conf screen if you can’t see it. Search for whatever words in your log, so you can see when you noted you last saw someone or had the MOT done or whatever.

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Adding a search function the the log app

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Building Bedroom Part Two & BitFest - Nov 2025

The bedroom work continued all month long, nearing an end now though. Meanwhile a day in Devon and a weekend in Manchester at Bitfest. Excitement a...

Featuring updates on the bedroom build, an Anon Opin show, a walk in Devon, a bitcoin conference report, and news of the new steam machines in the links section.

Read "Revelation Space" by Alastair Reynolds, a story about some future space people investigating the demise of an extinct civilization. Some of the people are software uploads or implants in other people's brains, or infectious biological agents and things. The story is galactic in scale across time and space with good world building, a good tale weaving of elements together. I liked the scene where the woman falling to her death in a lift-shaft remembered she was on a space-ship which only had gravity coz of engine thrust, so saved herself turning the engines off with a wrist controller. Trouble is I came to it infrequently with long gaps and so struggled to keep track of what's going on quite a bit. Lots of different elements to keep track of. My fault, should try and concentrate harder and remember things. #reading #books #novel #alastairReynolds #revelationSpace

Here's some things you'll notice the website doesn't do: * No cookie popups. We don't need to warn you about tracking, we just don't track. * No Tracking. I don't even look at the apache logs. I don't care what you do. * No service agreement checkbox. I'm not providing a service. Do what you want with the code but don't blame me. * No billing * No adverts * No paywall * No VPN barrier * No geoblocking * No subscription button (though RSS is provided) Websites don't have to be shit, the surveillance capitalists just enshitify them on purpose. View quoted note →

Future Plans: I have like ten years of data in my log, converted from those prior prototypes. I will be adding ways to more usefully compare and analyse data going this far back. It could maybe use a milestone function, to track singular events which don't take actual time so don't spread on the grid. Snack tracking and the like. It could likely use a flashcard system, with spaced repetition to review the flashcards, for better memory and recall. Synching between devices might be nice, and lots will suggest doing that through Nostr, but Nostr is a bit public. Would need an encryption layer. Do nostr relays want to relay encrypted data from one user to themselves I suspect Veilid (

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Veilid

Veilid is an open-source, distributed application framework.

) would be a better option. The "no servers" ethos probably includes nostr relays. Mostly I plan just more and better ways to view the ten years and growing of data I already have. And to do some other things for a bit so my log isn't just full of "Vibecoding Exocortex" 😄 View quoted note →

Why is it finally ready now after ten years of being a barely functional input-only android app? A few weeks ago I saw @Derek Ross giving a talk and demo of [Shakespear](

Shakespeare - Open Source AI Builder

Build custom apps with AI assistance using Shakespeare, an open-source development environment

a Chrome app for vibe-coding. Explain the app you want, and the model you select will build it. Don't even need to be a dev they reckon. So I figured I'd give it a try. Start again from scratch, import the old data. In about a week of work this app has progressed far beyond the prototypes that spent more then ten years as half-running shoddy input-only systems that I couldn't be arsed to expand further. It went [pretty well](

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A life logger

to start with, something even a non-dev could do, then [ceased up](

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A life logger

unable to really understand the codebase it'd written until I spend a fairly long day manually cleaning up it's mess. So Shakespeare (and presumably all the other tools I haven't tried) seems okay for a non-dev to prototype a small app but currently the models are writing code so sloppy that they can't then later understand it themselves. Still needing a dev's guiding hand to keep it from repeating itself or creating complex unorganized unmanageable code. #vibeCoding #shakespeare View quoted note →

The thing about a life-logger, is you input sensitive data about your life, lifestyle and activities, so privacy and data-integrity are some of the most important issues. There can be no server, the data has to be yours and yours alone. Because you can’t tell what is happening to the data in a closed-source app, it must be completely free and open source. You can’t trust a corporate diary, they must sell to anyone offering enough money. So it is with my life log app, all data completely in your own device. No home server ever sees anything. There is no home server. Just the code. To achieve this Exocortex Log is a Progressive Web App. It downloads when you are online at the website and can be installed onto the homepage of your phone. It keeps all data on the local device using indexdb. This means you must be responsible for your own backups. Be sure to export and back up your data regularly. I have gaps in my ten year record where my phone was stolen and most recent backup was months prior. Once installed it will work offline, airplane mode, no internet, down in the tube station at midnight, anywhere. There's a blog on the website saying this and more:

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Release! - Exocortex Blog

A story and the release of Exocortex Blog

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