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2025-10

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Tuesday

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Worked on editing some old interviews, trying to decide on the right length and format to tell these stories. Gave Claude Desktop a shot editing together a podcast from clips I cut and it did a surprisingly good job.

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📚 Learning & Media

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\n\"Vulpecula\n
Vulpecula Loom, an Electron app for customizing LLM interactions through OpenRouter with usage tracking and cost analytics features.
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\n\"A\n
A hand-drawn smiley face with \"I love you\" written above it, overlaid on bare winter trees.
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\n\"File\n
File browser showing Andy's interview recordings and transcript embeddings organized by topic, with UMAP visualization selected.
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\n\"t-SNE\n
t-SNE embeddings of AI-related text transcripts mapped to 2D coordinates with cluster assignments.
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\n\"T-SNE\n
T-SNE visualization clustering audio transcript topics into seven groups, including AI models, knowledge production, religious content, and early internet culture.
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\n\"Terminal\n
Terminal displaying bash commands to locate audio interview clips organized by topic folders, with results showing file paths for Infinite Backrooms and language model simulation clips.
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\n\"JSON\n
JSON configuration file mapping audio scenes to MP3 files organized by AI and knowledge system categories for a RadioLab story project.
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\n\"Terminal\n
Terminal output verifying media files exist across nine scenes of an Andy interview project, then installing Python ffmpeg libraries.
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\n\"Podcast\n
Podcast intro for 'Metaverse' hosted by EJ Fox's AI Familiar, exploring digital consciousness and AI language model limitations.
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\n\"Children\n
Children holding a white chicken during Kapparot ritual on Yom Kippur eve, with red crates visible in background
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\n\"Developer\n
Developer workspace showing podcast editing project with audio file, task management system tracking daily meditations and foundations work, and Google sign-in popup.
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\n\"Audio\n
Audio editing timeline with four interview tracks showing waveforms and transcribed speech segments in green.
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\n\"Terminal\n
Terminal message thanking collaborator for podcast project about AI experiments, with meta-recursive theme and Easter egg commentary, linking to final audio file.
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\n\"Command\n
Command line parameter showing password equals ejR60
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\n\"Error\n
Error message stating database connection failure with link to contact support team.
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\n\"Terminal\n
Terminal running lazygit installation, email about network analysis and interactive graphics collaboration, and video call showing two people in a poster-decorated room.
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\n\"Terminal\n
Terminal showing a shell script for fetching tasks, repos, and posts, with a system monitor displaying processes and a blog post about Paramiltiary Leaks.
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\n\"Email\n
Email thread about internship opportunity teaching Web 2.0 and social media basics, scheduled to begin the following week in New Brunswick or New York City.
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\n\"VisiData\n
VisiData spreadsheet displaying Telegram National API sender frequency histogram, ranked by message count and percentage distribution.
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\n\"Torrent\n
Torrent client downloading leaked political chat logs and election-related documents from 2022.
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\n\"Python\n
Python script extracting chat messages from leaked datasets, processing Telegram exports into organized files.
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\n\"Python\n
Python script that recursively finds and processes chat export message files from directories, extracting HTML-formatted conversations.
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\n\"Room\n
Room 302 Studio and Home branding logo with coral numbers and blue-gray text on black background.
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\n\"Man\n
Man in Santa Claus costume making peace sign in a lobby, standing near vending machine and wooden chairs.
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\n\"CSV\n
CSV dataset of visual content and text descriptions cataloging diverse photographs depicting outdoor scenes, portraits, animals, and landscapes.
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\n\"Event\n
Event details for monthly Show & Tell Hangout series starting April, recurring first Friday at 5 PM with studio location and three attendees.
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\n\"Developer\n
Developer dashboard monitoring AI model performance metrics, token usage, and chat conversation analytics across multiple neural network visualizations.
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\n\"Code\n
Code editor showing Vue.js file with syntax errors in date parsing and timestamp conversion logic, with fix suggestions displayed.
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\n\"Developer\n
Developer asks why Vue index file isn't working, receiving empathetic response about fixing the visualization.
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\n\"Parquet\n
Parquet Loader progress bar showing 50,000 of 1,506,688 messages loaded with loading spinner animation.
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\n\"Terminal\n
Terminal showing Vue.js frontend development with hot module reloading updates for a data visualization application displaying chat group analytics.
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\n\"Decision\n
Decision matrix showing viral potential versus appeal to decision makers, with quadrants labeled Maybe, Yes, No, No indicating content viability for Room 202.
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\n\"Adobe\n
Adobe Character Animator project with live-action reference footage of bearded man being used as source material for character animation rigging and control setup.
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\n\"Adobe\n
Adobe Character Animator interface with live webcam feed of person's face being tracked for puppet animation control.
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\n\"Mouth\n
Mouth position guide mapping phonetic sounds to lip shapes for speech animation or pronunciation reference.
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\n\"The\n
The Lab digital workbench showcasing creative experiments: a particle system WebGL animation and UI layout sketches with design exploration notes.
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\n\"Email\n
Email from journalist EJ Fox proposing interactive graphics collaboration to visualize a large paramilitary dataset using network analysis techniques.
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\n\"Database\n
Database query results showing 3,762 media files with null filenames, filtered by sender with 692 entries from John/Nat. Cmd. SGT Major leading the list.
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\n\"Leaked\n
Leaked message from military commander organizing protest against Brooklyn eviction court and Atlanta forest defense actions on January 18, 2022.
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\n\"Leaked\n
Leaked Telegram messages from militia member Ed discussing weapons sales, tactical training events, and coordinating extremist activities across multiple dates in March 2023.
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\n\"Developer\n
Developer debugging a Vue.js frontend application, reviewing git diffs in nuxt.config.ts and analyzing visualization function issues in the code editor.
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\n\"Streamgraph\n
Streamgraph showing conversation topics across three presidential debates, with #Blacklivesmatter labeled during the second debate.
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\n\"Chat\n
Chat messages describing a pipeline to extract and visualize Telegram chat data by converting SQLite database to CSV to Parquet format for browser-based frontend visualization.
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\n\"Blog\n
Blog post discussing a 200GB data leak from American paramilitary groups discovered on Mastodon, with developer tools showing HTML and CSS styling.
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