Quadrennium

 “I slept my sleep, And now awake at dreaming's end: The world is deep, Deeper than day can comprehend.” 

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Malignopalooza2026

Well, it's been 17 years of online Evil - something of an accomplishment. Seventeen Years, and the time has gone by so quickly, as it does. 

One wanted to create a video - something fun, but honestly, it's too hot to get up to too much mischief. Ah, my Colorado Holdfast here on Colorado Day (150 years as a state), you're either too hot, or too cold. 

 There's a fun story - the Lair is constantly changing and one of the changes is that the library And the study have become buried. Can't get into the bookshelves, but the books keep coming in. Such good books! And while One does have a few books, there Are some books that can find new homes - but One can't get to them, so the new books have started to form stacks here and there and finding nooks and crannies to live. One has a new bookcase to install, which might create a pathway into the library where One could perhaps harvest out some books to move along. And of course, you'll never know what or Who you might find in odd spaces in the Lair. 

AI (there Is no AI) and Robotics have developed at such an astonishing rate the fields seem to have grown completely insane and One is certain the world is at another tipping point - something along the lines of mobile phones and the Internet. Everything we know now is going to change in ways we can't yet foresee. Needless to say - crab walking Malignobots have fallen off the obsolescence cliff. 

Speaking of Hot, remember the Walker Challenge - it was Melting, but One had designed a slipsuit to aid in aerodynamics. But no, cooking like a lobster. 

Can't do it this year, he Lair cooling systems are not cooling sufficiently for the time One has In the Lair. Maybe another month for the weather to start cooling down. 

Hoping it cools down soon (One is infamous for hoodies and cloaks). 

Did One mention that Malignopalooza is a party? Yes, yes it is, and the cognac goes into a goblet as is the tradition and great fetes are attended and tributes given. So even though it's hot, there have been obligations to attend to. But for now One is tuckered out. 

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Two Second Test of Google's Gemini

 It's too hot, and the state is on fire. What Isn't on actual fire, is within smoke. Smoke even reaches to the Lair, even though the "Aspen Acres Fire" is not actually near Aspen. You might Think "Mountain Air", but no, the smoke reaches here and the lack of meaningful ozone makes the heat of it all the more challenging. Helmet Air Filters? N-95s for protection from Covid or Measles (compromised immune system means even the Flu could take a toll and then the pathogenic bacteria awakens and finds something to eat. 

One cooks like a lobster in July (Never take up challenges involving outdoor activities in July/August) and so, One hides out more often. The helmet begins to feel like a tomb and that takes some mental gymnastics to deal with. Note to Self: Need a better helmet. Oh, and Thanks ICE for making life in Public in a Helmet SO much more stressful.  

Things going on? Well upgrades here and there - One is a terrible tinkerer, and studying Agentic AI - One would like a modular structure to swap components in and out of an OS like program (a harken back to NLMs in NetWare). That and Vibe Coding which seems a Lot like thrall driving (except the thrall is an AI). 

Stats appear to show One is fantastically popular with a Proxy Server in Vietnam, so That's not fooling anyone and never has. 

But to the point of the title here, two seconds with an AI. And remember, this isn't Art, it's machine product, devoid of humanity. And what can art possibly Be without humanity? (See One's future work in "Infinite Malignance" - the blog and other work done by a Malignance Cloned AI. 

"Villain in a Brass Helmet"
By Gemini AI

"No features formed, no flesh to see, 
A void where visage ought to be. 
Yet crowning this hollow, dread design, 
A helmet forged in brass malign. 

It gleams with dark and polished grace,
A metal shell above the space. 
It speaks in echoes, cold and hollow, 
Commanding legions forced to follow. 

No eyes to meet, no lips to curl, 
As shadows take the bleeding world. 
The brass reflects the burning lands, 
Ruled by the Villain's faceless hands." 

Malignopalooza17 is coming up on Colorado Day (August 1st). 17 Years in public Villainy, and That's a fair bit. 

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Villain Resources

 Lairwear 

Bulletproof Clothing; 

Library;

5 Books: 

Communication; 

Steganography; 

Programming Resources

 

Vibe Coding 
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/05/a-live-iso-for-those-vibe-coding-experiments/

3 AIs to build a portfolio website;
https://www.xda-developers.com/used-claude-code-antigravity-and-perplexity-computer-to-build-a-portfolio

AutoAgent to tune your prompts; 
https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/04/05/meet-autoagent-the-open-source-library-that-lets-an-ai-engineer-and-optimize-its-own-agent-harness-overnight/

Claude Mythos; 
https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-mythos-latest-ai-model-too-powerful-to-be-released-2026-4

Ollama - easy to start LLMs; 
https://www.xda-developers.com/ollama-easiest-way-start-local-llms-worst-keep-running/

Concerns about coders losing skills;
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-customers-creeped-out-models

Agent Smith;
https://www.businessinsider.com/google-agent-smith-employees-ai-driven-coding-2026-3

One Has Been Chasing About...

 Quick post. 

The Annual Accounting in the Mighty Colorado Holdfast, held each year in March went long. One won't sully One's space with that foul orange toad's name, but he Has had a financial impact on My Colorado Holdfast and so the collection of tribute from the vassalage has gone long - and was sparse. 
Bah. 

Oh, and One has been having proxy wars with Oligarchs who fund putin's mischief in My Holdfast, inviting the peril of my will. It seems they choose to hire Chechen assassins who, generously, are incompetent.
But that's a story for another time.

While this was going on, One ran into an article describing a team of programmers ("Code Slaves") running into Claude Code and prompting it with a project they had been working on. It shortly produced months of their work. 

This has led One to a course correction and it's a concept called Vibe Coding. One could not hope to do better than the AIs (or a team of programmers) and while Ego is Ego, Villains are Also pragmatic. So One will hope to leverage Some work to AIs ("Infinite Malignance" for one) but still try and become capable of reading python code in as much as modifying code and understanding it for bug hunting. 

A side note - this has its own peril. The first Malignanceship was a slapped together hodgepodge of jury rigged technologies stolen from Obsidian Labs, DARPA, Hanger18, and something One stole from the Lizardmen from the Earth's Core. Did One understand, really ANY of it? No, One did not. It worked, and if it Stopped working One could bang on it, or sus what it wanted and get it to do what was needed. This is Not a sustainable technology model. 

Will this work on Malignobots? Well - they are designed to do Very Bad Things and if you Don't understand the code, that could be problematic... 

But isn't that where a Villain really Wants to be? The unknown and against impossible odds with nothing but wits and resolve and a goal in mind. To, essentially conquer and Rule the World (or at least a part of it)? It sounds just fine. 

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TUTORIAL HELL

 Tutorial Hell - One did not know this existed until One fell into it. And it's Baaaad. 

It turns out there are many funcitons in Python and you can begin learning from one video and learn about some basic functions, then go away, forget where the video was and decide that because there are Many tutorials on Python, you can just choose another. True with as many books. 

But - they teach different functions! 

"Tutorial hell is a common, frustrating cycle for learners (especially in programming) where you continuously consume tutorials, courses, and books, feeling productive, yet cannot build projects independently. It happens because you are passively following steps rather than actively solving problems, leading to a false sense of progress.

Key Aspects of Tutorial Hell:

Passive Learning: You copy-paste or blindly follow code without understanding the "why".

Lack of Independence: You feel frozen or clueless when starting a project from scratch.

False Confidence: You think you are learning, but realize you haven't retained skills when you try to apply them"

One found different solutions to Tutorial Hell, but One likes this one best - and it suits the Malignance Style of jumping into the fire and figuring it all out as One goes along - the panic stimulates the Brilliance! Danger of Generalists vs Polymaths. 

Of course, One is vulnerable to rabbit holes - Meshtastic has been a curiosity and a serious consideration until One stumbled on Reticulum (alternatives to standard networks) - One would like to incorporate that into the umbrella of projects, but truly One doesn't have the understanding - so later on down the road on these. Maybe offload That spectrum of projects to the Galt's Gulch Space Center as it's not doing anything since the Malignanceship projects and the Malignosphere projects shut down. Maybe this whole field could be rolled Into the Malignosphere technologies? (advanced cutting edge technology solutions). Need to farm that out to someone, because One's plate is full. 

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