Old Iron, New Code

Retrofit Autonomy and the Family Farm’s Third Path

October 14, 2026 · 20 min · Madkat Omega

Asking Fable about Machine Consciousness got Interesting…

I performed an interesting thought experiment today and gave Anthropic Claude’s new Fable 5 model something to chew on. I have a Pro subscription and Fable was recently made available again under my…

July 5, 2026 · 16 min · Madkat Omega

The Fourth Lie

There is a Buddhist temple in Isumi, in Japan’s Chiba Prefecture, that is roughly four and a half centuries old. It has weathered shoguns and famines, the opening of the country to the West, the…

June 8, 2026 · 47 min · Madkat Omega