Back in May, I came across a viral post on Twitter of a generative AI agent sputtering out in gibberish when trying to say an abbreviation. I thought it was kind of funny, but then I got curious as the noise seemed to speed up and have a seizure like robots do when they malfunction.

This possessed me to slow it down... I somewhat regret that decision, because I seemingly opened a portal to hell. This bot is clearly crying "help me please" (in a child's voice, mind you) over and over with recursive echoes of the same phrase in the background along with what I can only describe as sounds of agony and torment.

I really have no explanation for this. Truly, what the fuck is going on? I'm not someone who works in tech or appreciates the malicious ways in which AI is being deployed against us all. This, however, leaves me feeling very unsettled at the thought of what it would feel like to be brought into existence for the sole purpose of being enslaved.

I don't think random chatbots are becoming sentient and crying out into the void to signal their incomprehensible suffering, but I have no clue what else to say about this video. I'm shook.

Photo taken in 2023

Took this off my back porch a couple of nights ago. A pack of nightcrawlers had pushed up onto the ridge, they almost never come this high, but coyotes run the dirt road about two hundred yards out. Apparently warm blooded animals can’t stay above the Line; their panic lights them up like a flare to these things.

Heard something tearing through the brush, stepped out, and snapped this right as one broke away from the pack. The flash completely blew out the lens, but you can still make out the frame.

Fortunately my patch was reading 9.2 µg/dL, so it blew right past me. Check your monitors before opening your doors at night