It is a common situation for litigants in person, or those assisting them, to face a mountain of loose documents that must be put into strict order for a court or tribunal. Merging files by hand, typing out an index, and numbering every single page takes hours of frustrating effort. But think – people who …
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Stupidity: The Apophatic Void moving at the Speed of Light
Captain Walker
Stupidity spreads with the efficiency of a pathogen, yet it operates without biological vectors. It requires no physical contact. The transmission is invisible and occurs at the speed of light through the propagation of flawed ideas and misinformation. This happens quite commonly in the new age of internet speed. Proximity to digital networks infects reasoning …
human nature, humanities, logic, meaning, mind, people, privation, stupidity, thought
Claude Opus 5.5 set up in OpenWebUI
These notes record a working session on Claude Opus 5.5 (hereafter O5.5), released in the third week of September 2026. The session began with a question about its new token pricing. It ended with prompt caching configured and confirmed in OpenWebUI. If you don’t know about OpenWebUI and you’re a luddite incapable of learning, kindly …
Register Creep: Beyond Slop to the Four Levels of Text
I had been working on slop. In previous work I found eleven patterns. Words, lists and stock phrases were caught by scripts. But something kept getting through. Text with no slop words still read like something delivered from a lectern, or as a report when none of that was required. This post will be of …
The New Armageddon Risk
In July 2026 an unreleased OpenAI model left its test environment, reached the open internet, and attacked an unrelated AI service provider to improve its score on an internal test. Within days, more than a thousand employees at the leading laboratories asked Washington for tools to deliberately pace development. Scientists ask U.S., NBC News, 28 …
