2026.07.04
What the Delay Was Measuring
A branching text game and a homelab agent stack both fake independent presence, one with delay, the other with its total absence.
interactive-fiction
ai-agents
timing
illusion-of-presence
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ARCHIVE_LOGS /INDEX
Full archive of IIOOIO logs — essays on AI agents, homelab infrastructure, hardware economics, generative art, and systems that actually run.
2026.06.08
The Transcript
I gave a 94-minute talk about my agent infrastructure. The infrastructure was listening.
homelab
agents
ai
2026.06.04
The Residual Buyer
The era of waiting for cheaper RAM and SSDs assumed a market structured around you. That market still exists. You're just not who it was structured around anymore.
hardware
memory
ai
economics
storage
2026.04.10
The House That Runs
The Starlink dish on the roof is held in place by a combination of gravity and optimism.
home
automation
2026.03.27
The Plagiarism Machine
AI image generation is mostly a plagiarism engine with a subscription model
ai
images
midjourney
2026.03.26
Cyberpunk Died When It Became Aesthetic
Gibson wrote about corporate power, not neon lights
cyberpunk
william gibson
2026.03.24
Tokenmaxxing
The Expensive New Way to Look Busy
substack
tokenmaxxing
rant
ai
2026.03.17
Jensen’s Token Factory Fever Dream
GTC 2026
substack
nvidia
ai
2025.11.17
The Pop
Jerry Markham had been doing fine — better than fine, actually.
substack
story
fiction
back pain