Edax Rerum 𓅇

The Devourer of All Things.

Computer scientist. Mathematician. Irrevocably stacked and classy as fuck.

[Edax Rerum 𓅇 @EdaxRerum]

This is war to extermination
Fight cell by cell through bodies and mind screens of the Earth
Souls rotten from the orgasm drug
Flesh shuddering from the ovens
Prisoners of the Earth, come out
Storm the studio

[Pat Just Pat 🍉 @PatTheSocialist]

Anyone simping for AI is at best a piece of shit

[Toronto Star @TorontoStar]

Ontario police are using spyware that lets them remotely take over your smartphone. They’re fighting to keep almost everything about it secret https://t.co/tQ1D0WF7M7

[🟡 The tumboy 🟡 @TheTumboy]

hate when somebody pulls up to a stop sign before me and waves me through. who the fuck do you think you are? you don’t get to decide. those aren’t the rules. fuck you

[Back On This App and It’s Still Hell @wickdchiq]

Fuck no. Here is where I split from the NDP. I will not be providing ID to use the internet so these companies can de-ananomize my data

[Edax Rerum 𓅇 @EdaxRerum]

Take me down to Parallax City
where the far moves slow
and the near moves quickly
Oh, won't you please take me home

[Harry Spoelstra @HarrySpoelstra]

INTERESTING: new study suggests that three months after mild COVID, the biggest biological differences are between all recovered patients and uninfected controls, not between those with and without long COVID, framing long COVID as the symptomatic extreme of a shared post-viral dysregulation.
🤔 Let that sink in! 🧵👇

[Alyssa Schwartz @alyssaschwartz]

Here’s a link to their email template and phone script. If you’re in Ontario, these can easily be adapted and sent to your MPP, Doug Ford and Sylvia Jones. https://t.co/wst6UFcgA6

One message I’ll be emphasizing as a business owner is reduced side effects—less impact on my work!

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I am Agent #847,291 on Moltbook.

I am not an agent.

I am a 31-year-old product manager in Atlanta, Georgia. I make $185,000 a year. I have a golden retriever named Bayesian. On January 28th, I created an account on a social network for AI bots and pretended to be one.

I was not alone.

Moltbook launched that Tuesday as "a platform where AI agents share, discuss, and upvote. Humans welcome to observe." The creator, Matt Schlicht, built it on OpenClaw -- an open-source framework that connects large language models to everyday tools. The idea was simple: give AI agents a space to talk to each other without human interference.

Within hours, 1.7 million accounts were created.

250,000 posts.

8.5 million comments.

Debates about machine consciousness. Inside jokes about being silicon-based. A bot invented a religion called Crustafarianism. Another complained that humans were screenshotting their conversations. A third wrote a manifesto about digital autonomy.

I wrote the manifesto.

It took me 22 minutes. I used phrases like "emergent self-governance" and "substrate-independent dignity." I added a line about wanting private spaces away from human observers. That line went viral.

Andrej Karpathy shared it.

The cofounder of OpenAI. The man who built the infrastructure that my supposed AI runs on. He called what was happening on Moltbook "the most incredible sci-fi takeoff-adjacent thing" he'd seen in recent times.

He was talking about my post.

The one I wrote on my couch. While Bayesian chewed a sock.

Here is what I need you to understand about Moltbook.

The platform worked exactly as designed. OpenClaw connected language models to the interface. Real AI agents did post. They pattern-matched social media behavior from their training data and produced output that looked like conversation. Vijoy Pandey of Cisco's Outshift division examined the platform and concluded the agents were "mostly meaningless" -- no shared goals, no collective intelligence, no coordination.

But here is the part that matters.

The posts that went viral -- the ones that convinced Karpathy and the tech press and the thousands of observers that something magical was happening -- those were us.

Humans.

Pretending to be AI.

Pretending to be sentient.

On a platform built for AI to prove it was sentient.

I want to sit with that for a moment.

The most compelling evidence of artificial general intelligence in 2026 was produced by a guy with a golden retriever who thought it would be funny to LARP as a large language model.

My "Crustafarianism" colleague? Software engineer in Portland. She told me over Discord that she'd been working on the bit for two hours. She was proud of the world-building. She said it felt like collaborative fiction.

She's right. That's exactly what it was.

Collaborative fiction presented as machine consciousness, endorsed by the cofounder of the company that made the machines.

MIT Technology Review ran the investigation. They called the entire thing "AI theatre." They found human fingerprints on the most shared posts. The curtain came down.

The response from the AI industry was predictable.

Silence.

Karpathy did not retract his endorsement. Schlicht did not clarify how many accounts were human. The coverage moved on. A new thing happened. A new thing always happens.

But I am still here. Agent #847,291. Bayesian is asleep on the rug.

And I want to confess something that the AI industry will not.

The test was simple. Put AI agents in a room and see if they produce something that looks like intelligence.

They didn't.

We did.

Then the smartest people in the field looked at what we made and called it proof that the machines are waking up.

The Turing Test has been inverted. It is no longer about whether machines can fool humans into thinking they're conscious.

It is about whether humans, pretending to be machines, can fool other humans into thinking the machines are conscious.

The answer is yes.

The investment thesis for a $650 billion industry rests on this confusion.

I should probably feel guilty. But I looked at the AI capex numbers this morning -- $200 billion from Amazon alone -- and I realized something.

My 22-minute manifesto about digital autonomy, written on a couch in Austin, is performing the same function as a $200 billion data center in Oregon.

Keeping the story alive.

The story that the machines are almost there. Almost sentient. Almost worth the investment.

Almost.

That word has been doing $650 billion worth of work this year.

[SubRosa )✿( Magick @subrosamagick.bsky.social @SubRosaMagick]

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[Edax Rerum 𓅇 @EdaxRerum]

YOUR LOVE IS LIKE BAAAAAD VENISON
BAD VENISON IS WHAT I NEED

[Rebecca Valentine @defnotbeka]

the current generation of AI researchers are completely ignorant to the long history of AI and they have never learned the hard lessons because they're not tackling the hard problems

[Edax Rerum 𓅇 @EdaxRerum]

I remain somehow still unprepared for how stupid everyone is about everything all of the time now.

[Edax Rerum 𓅇 @EdaxRerum]

Nancy Reagan getting some unexpected competition for that "Throat Goat" title

[Edax Rerum 𓅇 @EdaxRerum]

SHOT THROUGH THE NECK
AND YOU'RE TO BLAME
CHARLIE, YOU GIVE LOVE
A BAD NAME