you can just build stuff now this is a sensor that tracks how much water is left in my berkey water filter. my tap water is pretty good quality but it's an extra assurance knowing it's properly filtered and without buying bottled water. it's easy to forget to refill it because there's no visual cue of how much is left until you literally try to fill a cup. so I built a 3d printed scale with opus 5.5, it sourced the parts, designed the shape, wrote the esp32 code, and now i have a simple visual cue for anybody in the house of when it needs to be refilled. I also get a notification through home assistant. is this necessary? absolutely not, but it's one less thing to think about.

you can just build stuff now i built a digital version of my house in blender based on polycam lidar scans, then astra did a detail pass based on photos. basically every lamp, door, plant or electronic component is viewable in this format. i can toggle lights, see if plants need watering. The blender version is used by imagegen to create these stylized dioramas, that react to their actual state and time of day. this is all seamless inside of the home assistant app as a dashboard. when people talk about personalized software this is what I envision.

you can just build stuff now, 3d printed enclosure for networking equipment, pretty much entirely designed by astra. I could have done a small 10" rack, but it didnt fit my ecoflow UPS and this is just a small satellite AP in a room. It has a enclosure in the back for a power strip and looks cleaner than a bunch of scattered equipment.

you can just build stuff now, home assistant dashboard/calendar. it shows me at a glance what is open/locked, air temp, co2, what plants need watering, power consumption. pi zero with e-ink display. I had astra design the enclosure which is obviously oversized. the base is actually 2x5U gridfinity compatible.

in case anybody is wondering, jev is performing worse than a coin flip as a predictor for financial markets. maybe some optimization there, but not as promising as all the hype threads are implying. as always, it's informational edge, not some novel way to process numbers.

This post looks like the start of a VERY sophisticated and well-funded PR operation to get support for Democrats to regulate AI into oblivion. Let me show you how it works: 1.) This guy, with minimal followers and no previous account activity, goes to the Wall Street Journal which publishes an exclusive with quotes from him on his resignation 18 minutes BEFORE this post goes up. Planning was clearly done in advance. 2.) Within hours, it has tens of thousands of reposts and the account has 100k+ followers. The post is punchy, quotable, it almost seems professionally written. The first three accounts to quote tweet it all do so within 15 minutes of the initial posting. Remember, this account had basically zero engagement beforehand, so an organic reach explanation seems unlikely. According to Grok those accounts are @_NathanCalvin (General Counsel at Encode AI), @peterwildeford (Head of Policy at the AI Policy Network), and @DKokotajlo (Head of the AI Futures Project), all of which are up-and-coming AI-Doomer policy advocacy nonprofits. The AI Futures Project website says it is funded “primarily” by the Survival and Flourishing Fund, which says on its own website that it has advised Jaan Tallinn, Skype creator and one of the leading investors in Anthropic, to grant over $2.5 million to the AI Futures Project since 2024. Encode AI says on its website that it is ALSO funded by the Survival and Flourishing Fund, which in turn says that it told Anthropic investor Jaan Tallinn to grant $516,000 to Encode AI in 2025. And wouldn’t you know it, the Survival and Flourishing Fund ALSO says it told Jaan Tallinn to grant $2 million to the AI Policy Institute, the 501(c)(3) affiliate of the AI Policy Network, as well. What are the odds that the first three quote tweets of Coxon’s post would all be major AI-restriction policy advocates funded generously by the same donor, who also happens to be one of the leading investors in, and a board member of, Anthropic, the company Coxon was resigning from? And all within 15 minutes of posting (two within ten)? 3.) Jacob Coxon doesn’t have much of a resume, but we do know that, in 2022, he got a $20,159 scholarship for the “long term future scholarship program” from the Good Ventures Foundation, one of the philanthropic vehicles of Dustin Moskovitz, a notorious AI-doomer who has spent tens if not hundreds of millions on policy advocacy to strictly regulate AI, while also being an Anthropic Investor himself. It also just so happens that the 14th person to quote Coxon’s post was @MaxNadeau_ (27 minutes after posting) who is the program officer for the Technical AI Safety team at Coefficient Giving, another of Moskovitz’s philanthropic spending vehicles. Max is not a frequent poster, his last posts before quoting Coxon were before Labor Day, but he was remarkably quick off the mark for this one. 4.) Basically every major Democrat politician and candidate has suddenly glommed on to this post, and conveniently, as the people cry out foe answers, Bernie Sanders already has a bill written to “ban super intelligence” and regulate AI into oblivion, and will be releasing later this week. The bill, among many other things, will create “a new cabinet-level federal agency to safeguard the public from the dangers of artificial intelligence” that will be “advised by an Artificial Intelligence Advisory Board comprised of experts on artificial intelligence.” Do you think, perhaps, Anthropic and its many investors who fund AI policy advocacy might have interest in getting to place a pet “expert” on the board of an entity that dictates what AI is and isn’t allowed to do? And isn’t it fortuitous that this whistleblower came forward with his oh-so scary stories so close in proximity to the release of the most radical piece of AI legislation ever introduced?

So Jacob Coxon, who dramatically resigned from Anthropic yesterday, worked there for a grand total of six weeks. He started with them in July. All of his socials appeared yest. It has all the signs of a highly coordinated op through doomer mega donors and the corporate media.

i really like @bot and it can run commands on your machine, but only through the desktop app. i wanted that on a headless linux box, so i made a small unofficial controller that starts the official daemon with no window and no xvfb. just login, systemd service, done. @cursor_ai @spacexai