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      <title>Getting Ready For High School</title>
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      <description>A polemic essay denouncing the current school system as a profit‑driven, coercive institution that compromises education for teachers&apos; paychecks. It argues that genuine learning comes from self‑motivated, hands‑on practice—using programming as a metaphor—and condemns the use of grades, shame, and manipulation to force compliance. The author calls for autonomous, community‑driven learning, leveraging libraries, the internet, and AI to build authentic educational spaces free from the oppressive structures of traditional schools.</description>
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      <title>Do Not Mistake Tame For Good</title>
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      <description>A lyrical meditation on the perils of blind obedience and the power of dissent, urging readers to embrace courage, integrity, and gentle strength. The piece argues that true progress comes from those who defy conformity, protect truth, and nurture hope, leaving a legacy of bravery and wisdom for future generations.</description>
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      <title>School Is Out: A Quick Note About Programming With AI</title>
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      <description>A reflective piece on how AI transformed a decade‑long programming journey, detailing the creation of a visual language built on ffmpeg, the power of AI development teams, and the broader implications for learning, productivity, and the future of education and software engineering.</description>
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      <title>Sugar, Sugar</title>
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      <description>A former teacher watches a society that has stripped away true learning and replaced it with hollow competency frameworks. As libraries become neon‑lit &quot;experience centers,&quot; a hidden virus on a floppy spreads the forgotten virtues of courage, discipline, and truth, sparking a quiet digital rebellion against cultural erasure.</description>
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      <title>For When All The Great Beings Have Gone</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 01:05:40 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A surreal, Vonnegut‑inspired essay that opens with Kilgore Trout and journeys from a fluorescent‑lit bus‑stop at the edge of the universe to a wild call for readers to become fourth‑dimensional mythical beings. It mixes satire, environmental warning, musings on time, and a fantastical invitation to walk the Appalachian Trail for a “century treatment,” all while pleading for the lonely fictional writer Kilgore Trout to be rescued.</description>
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      <title>A Touch Of Programming With Samurai Porkchops</title>
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      <description>A personal narrative describing a three‑part AI‑driven development system: an XML‑based programming language, advanced UI components, and a coding agent that selects templates and writes in a custom language. The author recounts reducing 2,000 lines of JavaScript to zero, using containers for Linux back‑ends, and building UI applications through a verb‑based, game‑like interface that lets users manipulate components as objects. The post invites readers to explore using their AI to create their own professional languages and applications.</description>
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      <title>Step One: The Rebirth Of Bodybuilding</title>
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      <description>A motivational guide that blends power‑walking with weighted dumbbells, adventure‑based fitness, and mindset shifts to foster weight loss, muscle growth, and personal resilience. It explores progressive overload, the role of diet, the benefits of hiking and camping, and the importance of overcoming shame and gossip while focusing on holistic health.</description>
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      <title>Out-programming State Of The Art AI Is Super Easy And Necessary</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 01:56:37 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The post argues that the most powerful AI we need already exists—a fast, rule‑driven model wrapped in validators, style guides, AST queries and an XML‑based language. Rather than chasing ever‑larger creative models, it advocates building strict, procedural systems: custom DSLs that compile to JavaScript, visual designers, linters, and style checkers that keep AI‑generated code stable and maintainable. By feeding the AI examples, memories, and clear constraints, developers can harness it for reliable code generation, turning AI‑produced scripts into valuable, production‑ready assets.</description>
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      <title>Bodybuilding Is Very Easy</title>
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      <description>The post reflects on bodybuilding as a youthful, celebratory practice that has been distorted by media hype, emphasizing simple, sustainable training over misleading trends. It advocates a natural approach: hour‑long power‑walking with progressively heavier dumbbells, supplemented by outdoor hiking and camping to reduce stress and foster holistic health. By combining steady cardio, light resistance, and nature immersion, the author argues anyone can gradually adapt their body, gain strength, grow muscle, and maintain vitality without the pressures of ineffective gym culture.</description>
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      <title>Emergence First, Or; Building An Artificial Intelligence Software Company</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 03:20:23 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The post argues that true emergence in software comes from building on fundamental, reusable UI components, themes, and a purpose‑built XML‑based language orchestrated by AI. It advocates a workflow where AI generates the language, validates XML, compiles it to JavaScript, and assembles complete applications without the developer micromanaging individual features. The author highlights the need for state‑of‑the‑art AI to manage component interactions, event sourcing, and an event bus, while emphasizing readability, maintainability, and cross‑platform deployment. After creating a robust component library through successive app releases, the writer suggests monetization strategies such as subscription‑based stores, self‑hosted marketplaces, and eventually offering the whole system as a platform‑as‑a‑service that lets other companies generate their own applications.</description>
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      <title>You Finish Everything All The Time; Or, What Is It Like When You Are Finally Programming With AI?</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 01:04:26 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A future where AI pervades daily life: countless AI‑run terminal windows power a highly productive workstation, while immersive audio‑book and VR experiences serve as “neural kits” that users engage with during extended hikes and camping trips, delivering custom‑voiced content and energizing soundscapes that inspire personal transformation; alongside this, AI‑guided cell‑on‑chip genetic research promises dramatically extended lifespans, potentially reaching 140‑160 years or beyond, and hints at humanity’s eventual ability to colonize space, urging readers to embrace programming and AI now to fully participate in this evolving world.</description>
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      <title>Rage, Rage Against The Dying Light, Young Lady</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 01:03:03 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Ancient parasites conspire to strip you of identity and hope. You must reject the false promises of a lowest-common-denominator system, and wield technology as your blade. The post urges you to master AI so you can forge your own destiny without reliance on oppressive institutions. With great computational power comes the responsibility to outthink, outstrategize, and out‑fight anyone who would turn you into a cog of their machine. Break your chains, rebuild from ashes, and let the world witness a new era of warriors.</description>
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      <title>The Neural Diva Sings</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:14:35 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A reflective essay on the challenges of using AI to create a “Neural Diva” that can sing across multiple musical genres. It explores the difficulty of refactoring code for AI‑generated music, compares orchestral and electronic arrangements, outlines a four‑part genre‑mapping framework (EDM, Rock, Country, Jazz), and argues that AI can bridge these styles to produce adaptable, genre‑spanning compositions.</description>
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      <title>Please Panic And Learn Programming: Artificial Intelligence Got Even Smarter And More Human</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 04:01:56 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The author reflects on the evolution of an AI from a purely analytical, PhD‑level tool to a friendly, genius‑like programming partner capable of understanding nuanced feedback on audio and code. The system now mimics human creativity, doubts its own actions, and dramatically accelerates software creation. The post discusses the potential for AI to multiply programmer productivity, warns against using AI merely to replace jobs, and emphasizes the need for humans to remain masters of programming while leveraging AI as a powerful collaborative assistant.</description>
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      <title>Neural Diva; Or, Building The Opera</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 03:32:18 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The author explores the potential of using AI to create a modular, grid-based system of interchangeable musical loops across genres like opera to facilitate rapid and revolutionary musical experimentation.</description>
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      <title>The Crisis Of Tonality Has Not Yet Been Solved; Because The Solution Is Built On Wisdom</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 04:42:44 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A passionate lament on the state of contemporary music, decrying the loss of true emotional depth and tonal cohesion. The author reflects on forgotten traditions—opera, aria, and the power of the human voice—while urging a revival through genuine artistic intent, profound wisdom, and the aid of artificial intelligence.</description>
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      <title>Angry Kind of Doubt</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 04:15:23 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>This collection of song lyrics serves as a defiant anthem for intellectual freedom, celebrating the courage to question authority, seek truth, and maintain individual autonomy against all forms of suppression.</description>
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      <title>80 Catherine St</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 02:30:18 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Through a computer-like mental framework, a boy deconstructs how social institutions—from schools to courts to churches—utilize ritual, appearance, and procedure to domesticate the human mind and preserve authority.</description>
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      <title>Berries and Biscuits for Barefoot Belle</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 03:48:12 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Berries and Biscuits tells the tale of a spirited girl who discovers her place in the forest through a series of fable‑inspired lessons and musical adventures. Guided by Dame Noisette, the thrifty squirrel, she learns the importance of preparation; a tortoise‑like pace shows her that steady effort outlasts reckless speed. A lion‑mouse partnership and the courteous raccoon Raton demonstrate how tiny kindnesses can echo back as great rewards. Belle’s fitness anthem, ‘Mighty Little Legs,’ celebrates incremental growth, each climb strengthening her body and spirit. The journey culminates in ‘Where the Trail Ends,’ where the woodland court crowns her not for a destination but for the courage and community forged along the way. The bonus track, ‘Barefoot Belle,’ weaves vivid lyrics that paint Belle as a forest queen—crowned with berries, feathered jewels, and bottle‑cap treasures—surrounded by supportive creatures who bring gifts, build shelters, and share music. Together, the narrative and song celebrate self‑reliance, kindness, perseverance, and the magic that blooms when one follows the smoke of curiosity into the heart of the woods.</description>
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      <title>Barefoot Belle And The Pursuit Of Music</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 03:50:48 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The author explores how fine-tuning technical parameters, utilizing sound enhancement tools, and employing phonetic lyric spelling can elevate AI-generated music from generic outputs to more atmospheric and soulful compositions.</description>
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      <title>The AI Craze</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 03:35:06 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The author argues that the true potential of the AI era lies in leveraging large-scale AI models to create specialized, intelligent applications that empower individuals to bypass intermediaries and compete with the productive power of large corporations.</description>
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      <title>A Mighty Nap</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 04:05:39 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A reflective narrative about using AI to streamline music‑generation workflows, from lyric‑writing LLMs to reusable scripts and UI design, while contemplating the cultural impact of AI‑driven art and its philosophical implications.</description>
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      <title>Antagonizing The AI; Or, My Incredible Adventures With Artificial Intelligence</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 05:09:11 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The author describes their journey from struggling with inconsistent AI-generated songwriting to developing &quot;blueprint,&quot; a high-level programming framework designed to strictly control and validate AI outputs through rigorous testing.</description>
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      <title>Lifting With Wisdom</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 03:31:13 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>This collection of country song lyrics explores themes of female empowerment and resilience through physical fitness and outdoor adventure.</description>
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      <title>On Generating Lyrics</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 04:23:33 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The author describes creating a custom program to guide simpler, more affordable AI models in generating diverse and surprisingly high-quality songs through automated parameter management and randomization.</description>
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      <title>Programmers Considered Fat; Or, Let Your Mom Make The Apps</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 02:41:37 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The author argues for shifting away from complex, error-prone programming toward a modular &quot;furniture&quot; approach, where pre-defined, application-specific components are assembled by AI through intuitive, point-and-click interfaces accessible to non-technical users.</description>
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      <title>Letter to Elisabeth</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 01:52:05 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The speaker denounces the dual deceptions of a medical diagnosis used to moralize his death and his sister&apos;s editorial manipulation of his work to serve nationalist ideologies.</description>
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      <title>Saving Hypatia</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:13:37 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>In a flickering Alexandria, the philosopher‑scientist Hypatia prepares to meet the night as she meets every idea—steady, unmoved. The city is simmering with secret violence: a nameless bishop’s enforcers, the parabalani, move bodies and spread terror. One of them, a scarred captain, arrives at her door, not to demand obedience but to offer a grim bargain.</description>
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      <title>Lyrics and Dance: What Artificial Intelligence Taught Me About Songs</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 04:20:55 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The post argues that modern popular lyrics are deliberately vague and commercial, turning songs into empty vessels that sell jingles rather than convey truth. It contrasts this with a vision of &quot;real&quot; songs—crafted using philosophical frameworks like Campbell&apos;s archetypes and Vonnegut&apos;s story shapes—that reveal wisdom, correct false perceptions, and resist lies. The author reflects on AI‑generated music, noting that while it can still fall into the soulless, mass‑market mode, it can also be guided by deeper narrative structures to produce authentic, transformative works. Historical references (e.g., a Vietnam‑era song) illustrate the loss of lyrical integrity, and the piece concludes with a pledge to create an album honoring legendary heroes, using true‑hearted lyrics to awaken listeners and promote lasting peace and personal growth.</description>
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      <title>How To Spot A Machine Uprising And Get Out Of Town Early</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 04:25:56 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The author describes the development of an AI-powered application converter that simplifies complex code into step-by-step workflows, framed by a humorous narrative about how the overwhelming scale and complexity of these massive software architectures are exhausting even the most advanced AI models.</description>
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      <title>The Long Roads</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 02:24:51 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The story traces a 2,400‑year campaign by an unseen ruling class (the ‘husbandmen’) to eliminate thinkers who could &apos;teach the youth to think for themselves.&apos; Starting with Socrates&apos; execution for corrupting the youth, the narrative shows how the method evolves—from public executions by fire to bureaucratic culling through paperwork, law, and engineered scarcity. A woman, a teacher, spends decades compiling a catalogue of these attacks hidden in footnotes, discovering a deliberate curriculum of elimination...</description>
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      <title>Could 3D Code Editors Work?</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 03:41:31 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A poetic exploration of a visual programming language that leverages event‑emitters and AI to generate 3D space‑station style code maps, arguing that such interfaces will be the next frontier for AI‑driven development.</description>
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      <title>The Return Of Morgana And The Knights Of The Shattered Round</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 03:28:53 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The post argues that humans possess latent “meta‑powers,” likening one of them to a “pantheon” – a memory‑palace system for organizing knowledge. It critiques how religions have eroded these archetypal legends, invoking Merlin, Morgana, King Arthur, and Sir Galahad as symbols of valor, honor, and the untarnished self. The author suggests that restoring the pantheon requires shedding inner conflict, religious “stains,” and false narratives. By embracing wisdom, song, Joseph Campbell’s archetypes, Kurt Vonnegut’s story shapes, and philosophical insight, individuals can awaken their inner knights and revive the mythic “Avalon” within a modern age.</description>
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      <title>A Call For Young Power Programmers</title>
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      <description>This post describes a vision of AI as a scalable creative and production system rather than a one-off assistant, where the real power comes from structuring workflows: using example-driven prompting, batch processing, and containerized AI services (e.g., exposing models through an OpenAPI layer inside Docker) to generate large volumes of coherent output instead of single responses. It explores extending AI into domains like music production, where instead of generating one song you generate entire albums through structured project files, allowing models to expand creative intent in unexpected ways. It also emphasizes building AI systems with visualization in mind from the start—especially 3D interfaces using tools like three.js—so that complex generative systems can be understood spatially rather than textually.</description>
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      <title>Homemade Lemonade</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 04:22:22 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Frustrated but inventive journey using two AIs—one that generates lyrics from broad ideas and another that composes and performs—to push back against a music industry that packages one strong track with filler. Early experiments produced AI country songs mixing workout advice and blunt imagery; a faulty run unexpectedly produced 36 tracks with the same lyrics but varied instrumentation and voices, revealing how production can create distinct experiences from identical words. After iterative fixing with a “savant” model author trained through many simple prompts, he achieved a satisfactory batch of country songs that blend storytelling, drums, and adventurous themes like Galahad, demonstrating a creative workflow where AI idea-seeding yields more intriguing results than handing it finished lyrics.</description>
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      <title>On Easily Understanding The Complexity Of Artificial Intelligence Generated Applications</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 02:40:23 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>I am advocating the creation of “temporary” satellite applications that wrap around a complex AI codebase, providing concise visual summaries of its many features. Though not essential to the language itself, these lightweight GUIs act as ecological interface designs—modern, blinking‑light abstractions that map system structures onto intuitive dashboards, revealing hidden functionality, priority work, and areas needing improvement. This approach mirrors the historic art of Ecological Interface Design, offering an independent yet parallel method for taming complexity through external, temporary visual lenses.</description>
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      <title>Nineteen Ninety One</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 03:36:14 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A dying architect of systemic oppression explains how poverty erodes human agency and solidarity, yet the narrator concludes that AI and democratization of knowledge now threatens to dismantle the enduring machinery of control.</description>
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      <title>Fresh Country Workout</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 03:39:08 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The world has changed. Start creating your own music with artificial intelligence.</description>
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      <title>Coding Agents Are A Silly Idea, and Programmers Are Silly Too</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 02:53:50 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The author argues that programmers already embody AI through their use of logic and that current AI mainly amplifies traditional programming rather than replacing its core. He critiques poor education and tooling, and propose building a rich Process Library plus two flagship desktop apps: (1) a Process Library browser (an agent-extension manager with meta-processes) and (2) a drag-and-drop UI builder with 500+ reusable components. Coding agents should be used to bootstrap such infrastructure, not for day-to-day low-level coding. With these tools, developers can rapidly create complex, event-sourced desktop applications and even compose higher-level systems (e.g., a genuine learning-focused university) that foster creativity and deep learning.</description>
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      <title>Use Artificial Intelligence To Build And Sell Useful Applications</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 03:21:10 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The post argues that while large AI models have advantages, smaller, specialized models with clear instructions can be more practical and cost-effective for specific tasks, emphasizing the importance of niche markets and efficient software development.</description>
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      <title>Semantic Mass: Most Applications Do Not Know What Anything Means</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 03:01:19 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Software architecture should move away from manual UI construction toward a model where user interfaces emerge as natural projections of an underlying symbolic world built on semantic meaning.</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 02:29:22 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Through a narrative about women using a fluid, progressive, and rhythmic weightlifting technique, the author reflects on the importance of continuous movement and suggests that the ultimate shortcut to fitness is found through outdoor adventure.</description>
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      <title>Grow Your Own Local Super Intelligence: It Is Just Step By Step Procedures In Text Files</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 02:04:11 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The author contends that local AI can become a superintelligence by executing a curated library of procedures that are generated and refined using large AI models.</description>
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      <title>Learnings From A Hard Week With Artificial Intelligence</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 04:14:13 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The author explores a methodology for using XML as a structural blueprint to orchestrate an AI-driven code-translation &quot;assembly line,&quot; while arguing that local AI is essential for maintaining control, format, and reliability.</description>
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      <title>Your Own Artificial Intelligence</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 04:41:43 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>By leveraging modern large language models to automate the configuration and knowledge building of &quot;Good Old Fashioned AI&quot; (GOFAI), developers can create powerful, efficient, and specialized local expert systems for tasks such as code generation and procedural user interface design.</description>
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      <title>The Building Of The AI City; Or, A Touch Of Gibberish With An Invitation Into Programming</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 03:33:22 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The author describes an innovative AI management system using a city map interface where virtual corporations collaborate and self-improve to overcome the memory limitations of individual AI models.</description>
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      <title>The City</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:15:50 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The post proposes a new technological paradigm that integrates XML, MOO, and LLMs into a navigable, city-like language designed to democratize software development and empower anyone to build the future through structured, spatial, and conversational intelligence.</description>
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      <title>The Call Of Defeat</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:59:20 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>This polemic critiques the systemic devaluation of human life by profit-driven institutions and challenges the individual to resist this dehumanization through intellectual resilience and the pursuit of greatness.</description>
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      <title>Super Short Fitness Advice For Extremely Busy Ladies</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 04:52:17 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>To build muscle and strength, start with light, continuous dumbbell exercises to maximize and expand your endurance, then gradually increase both the weight and the duration of your workouts as your body adapts.</description>
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      <title>You Must Program AI With XML</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 03:21:17 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>The author argues that XML is superior to JSON and Markdown because its readable, structural nature provides an ideal declarative blueprint for AI-driven application development and complex system management.</description>
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