Filene Taylor

An alien magic ghost witch/cleric, working her trade in all sorts of mediums, tseirself/tsemselves included.

tsey/tsem/tseirs #VisibilityIsNotConsent

[Filene Taylor @FileneTaylor]

So here's my first official #NFT drop, even though the project is my second NFT project. First will be released in maybe a month or two, including a meme collection of ideologies in 03 or 04.

If you'd like to buy the #NFT of My Omniverse, find it here: https://t.co/ChHbR49K9I

[Filene Taylor @FileneTaylor]

Hi, everybody. I'll spend more time introducing myself on this account later. If you know me on the net, you know me & that I value the non-fungible. I don't trust the authoritarian & populist control possible in web3.
So we'll see.
Asallamu Alaikuma

https://t.co/8hltK46rSX

[Dustin: READ PINNED @LazyFrickStream]

Please help Carey Means the voice of Frylock

It breaks my heart that someone who I grew up with is suffering

[Reid Young @reidman]

🚨incoming officecam🚨

live from fangamer, 24 hours from now – i'm streaming the end of the MOTHER 3 funfest!

* auction results (can we hit $10k??)
* idle chat about The World of 2006
* pizza for the end of the game/world??

feel free to inspect this BTS photo for set hints

[Reid Young @reidman]

20 years ago i bought two MOTHER 3 DX boxes – one for myself, one for The Future

a few weeks ago, i took that mint DX with me to Japan and got it signed by @itoi_shigesato

today, it goes up for auction to benefit @WCKitchen

https://t.co/lRMhF3DIbd

[kuroitori @kuroitoribenkyo]

@Wario64 This is cool and all but PLEASE try the original English fan translation. It was the first, is vastly superior to CS+, and is FREE https://t.co/Fhkd4uGQLP

[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.

[Filene Taylor @FileneTaylor]

Thank all of you all for not liking, retweeting, or responding to anything in this thread. I've deleted it. The big guns were hidden in the bottom in friends who were simply too tired of watching somebody destroy themselves & what brought them together in the isolation of power.

[Filene Taylor @FileneTaylor]

As someone who's been homeless, canceled thanks to exes, and abandoned by friends, I know how this kind of mob violence works and it's reprehensible.
ON TRANS. DAY. OF. REMEMBRANCE.

[Filene Taylor @FileneTaylor]

Hey, everyone. @pianoimproman is sick and his co-streaming wife, Mindy, is raising funds for his medical care in FL, USA. Please donate if you can, can you match my $5? https://t.co/6aLipnlaoI . I pinned a message in @SansIsSleeping . Thank you.

[legba's tongue @mississippilwa]

⚡ boost this please!

[Sesame Street @sesamestreet]

Join us today in commemorating #Juneteenth as we honor our past, reflect on what it means to have freedom, and celebrate our strength, joy, and unity.

[The Alakazam King @KingAlakazam]

IMPORTANT STREAM NEWS!!!

With me starting the new job at the Public School, and summer break starting. They have me working 1st shift until mid August.

Streams will be starting later in the day at 4pm EST. Sorry for the late notice but a Craig was just told this yesterday.

[Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior]

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[Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior]

"I don't remember when I started mourning the future more than the past."

-- THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP

[tobyfox @tobyfox]

Important UNDERTALE/DELTARUNE PSA for YouTubers, streamers:

If you upload gameplay of my games, there is a chance your video may get flagged because of the in-game music. PLEASE dispute these claims and they should be resolved.