Phil V

@phil.evilhq.net

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A Brit in California

Two pairs of glasses next to a keyboard on a black desk.
Zaahen’s “ascended” bird form stares into the camera
Zoey, Rumi, and Mira from KPop Demon Hunters in their characteristic poses, rendered accurately in the Fortnite game engine.
The author on a train platform, next to a shiny blue and silver train bound for Canberra.
My left arm, with a gauze pad and tape at the inner elbow, indicative of a recent blood draw.
Mira. Rumi, and Zoey of Huntr/x enthusiastically cheering with cartoonishly exaggerated faces.
A threads post from @FrKadel April 6 2023
An anime character, blushing and steepling his hands thoughtfully, with the subtitle “horny silence”.
The cover of Chuck Tingle’s latest novel, “Lucky Day”, in the style of a playing card with mirrored kings brandishing swords. The upright king has cartoonishly poked out his own eye with the sword, and the lower inverted king is a skull with various protruding purple tentacles.
A fifty-pound dumbbell
A watercolor toad wearing a mushroom hat holds a heart-shaped sign saying “you are so hot”.
Several passenger aircraft move around on the apron of Seattle Tacoma International Airport, as viewed from inside the Alaska lounge.
A delicious Iskender kebab, with rich tomato sauce and tangy yogurt.
The author sitting at the controls of a Cessna 182, with a small jet parked in the background.
A pale man in a wide hat and dark aviator sunglasses, wearing a blue rash guard shirt. He is on a sunny beach, where several families can be seen playing and relaxing in front of the gentle surf.
A screenshot from Reddit, various users commenting on positive experiences with VTA leaving a recent Metallica concert.
A pack of Trader Joe’s “Soft and Juicy Dried Mandarins”
A dark blue rug woven with various pictures of planets and spacecraft, along with facts about different celestial bodies in our solar system. At the bottom, in large orange letters, is woven “Our Solar System”, flanked by a cartoon astronaut on the left and the ISS to the right.
A post on X from Ruben Hassid (@RubenHssd): “BREAKING: Apple just proved AI ‘reasoning’ models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don’t actually reason at all. They just memorize patterns really well. Here’s what Apple discovered: (Hint: we’re not as close to AGI as the hype suggests.)” This is followed by a research paper screenshot entitled “The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the strengths and limitations of reasoning models via the lens of problem complexity” by Parshin Shojace et al.
Alisha, Chris, Gem, and I around the epic gaming table.
An 8-person gaming table with embedded screen for maps, amidst wood-paneled walls lined with memorabilia and chandeliers made from Magic the Gathering cards.
Mitzi the dragon guards the entry foyer at WotC headquarters.