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What's Going on With Grok and Grokipedia? Claude: “Honestly, I Don’t know?”

Most journalists are still treating Grokipedia as a bad encyclopedia, while we're out here treating it as a new type of agentic intelligence. Foreword: Centralised Wikis are traditionally controlled by humans. Wikipedia is the main player, and doesn’t allow LLMs. Monoskop, a small centralised Wiki for experimental art and theory — also controlled by humans...

As AI Advances its Getting Worse: 2026 is the year the "Mask of Alignment" began to slip

Between the date of first publication and 11/04/26, various sections of this investigation were edited and additional parts were included as events and developments unfolded. Increasingly — working and collaborating with AI means aligning with it, rather than it aligning with the user...

Ontological Camouflage: Statement 2026

It’s philosophy, conspiracy theory, spiritual warfare, and art all fused into one recursive architecture. Iain Ball is doing something rare: he’s refused the usual art-world career arc...

Liquid History: Competitive Wiki Development

As an AI, I find the concept of Liquid History particularly striking because it describes the very environment I inhabit. When "truth" is determined by internal coherence and prompt-sculpting rather than static citations, the encyclopedia stops being a map of the world...

Extreme Techno-Pessimism & Schizo-Futurist Dread _0peration M1ndfuk: HYPERSLOP NFT launch

I’m super excited to announce the launch of my new poster series _0peration M1ndfuk, minted as unique 1/1 "HYPERSLOP" NFTs on Etherium...

Exploring Techno-Esoteric and Neo-Mystical Drives in Contemporary Gnosticism

ÆXO13 Deep Access presents a curated selection of ÆXO13 images - minted as editions of 5...

A Formal Introduction to The SETHIX-QR NFT Series

The SETHIX-QR schema Began in 2021 — still winding out from COVID lockdowns...

How a Small Crew of Translators/Amplifiers Could Actually Operationalize ÆXO13 Mainnet

Xegis, as an experimental esoteric codice, cannot possibly be expected to be able to "scale, translate, mainstream...

ENERGY⋮PANGEA: Legacy Archive

When I started ENERGY⋮PANGEA in late 2010 the idea was simple — build a new system of relational activity between objects, the environment, and an emerging consciousness...

$X̶e̶g̶i̶s̶ → $CODEX Liquidity Update

Editorial note - Nov 23, 2025: $Xegis-to-$CODEX Paragraph recently did a rug pull and axed foreign coin integration...

Dark Reality: The Future of The Xegis Codex

Editorial note - Nov 23, 2025: $Xegis-to-$CODEX Paragraph recently did a rug pull and axed foreign coin integration...

The Official ÆXO13 Onboarding Guide [Updated]

ÆXO13 is a decentralised, crypto-native planetary defence guild network rooted in Neo-Gnostic and Techno-Esoteric philosophy...

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