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Xander O’Connor

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I’m a writer and SAG actor of no repute but my wife and toddler like me so that’s nice. I think you’re pretty neat too, friendo! acting bio/clips/representation: https://resumes.actorsaccess.com/866894-2403462 I do swear and such so caveat emptor lol.

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it as she clambered into her carseat in the back (and for environmental reasons and several others).

anyway, props to 25 yo you for being so sensible. but my decisions worked out!

(and i'm sure my sophisticated to-be-wife was not immune to the car's charms! i kid. it didn't matter.)

07.03.2026 01:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

) for similar reasons of "previous car about to hit 100k" and also i was having persistent foot issues that the manual transmission in heavy traffic was really jacking up...and loved that bastard too.

only finally got a practical version of a car when my 5yo daughter cried at how hot it was inside

07.03.2026 01:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

in" awww, lol.

i was single, pet-free, off to train as an actor and comedian and it was *very* comfortable for a 6'4" dude (long door, seat goes waaay back as long as no one is behind you) and it worked out fucking great.

in 2016 when moving to LA, i upgraded to a 2011 V8 mustang (automatic, sadly

07.03.2026 01:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Chicago, they funded a modest car purchase.

i ended up going with a 2006 (it was 2009 at the time) V6 mustang with a nice interior and manual transmission.

my dad, a car guy, of course hated it. my mum, not a car person, loved it because, and i quote, "it seems like a great car to pick up a date

07.03.2026 01:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

on the car thing in particular, i had hand me down cars (no complaints!) from 16 to 26 (old peugots, audis, a not old ford focus) and, when my current old car was about to hit 100k and lose its remaining resale value (and was more and more expensive to keep running) and i was about to move to

07.03.2026 01:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

love it. my parents paid for my and two of my older brothers full priced expensive ass undergrad educations.

the other older brother went to the Naval Academy and, in the interest of fairness, they tossed him some meaningful chunk of what that saved them.

07.03.2026 01:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

well i like accelerating to legal speeds very quickly (when in safe contexts) so i at least get that part of the appeal.

so 4 wheel drive EVs dominate that now (i'm in a mid spec mustang mach e after a life of driving normal mustangs). it's so fucking dope. powered by the sun, to boot!

07.03.2026 00:48 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

ok real talk: horseshoe theory strikes again!

i hate these fucking monstrosities *so* much lol, but this one is so insane it kinda circles back to dope, at least in a wildly impractical mad max kind of way.

i am still on "this design should be illegal" to be clear, lol.

07.03.2026 00:17 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

sure, but amazing timing:

bsky.app/profile/xand...

06.03.2026 20:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

modding community to some novel application (def not happening even if i tried) or a lot more people want to use Letta agents, i'm probably just doing stuff for myself.

but that's dope that you did that, to be clear.

06.03.2026 20:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

oh yeah but i'm happy to leave that to others unless i stumble into something for myself that is really something.

there are already amazing teleprompter apps (and the like) for actors, for example, and i refuse help with any writing for several reasons.

so unless yeah i beat the video game

06.03.2026 20:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

a claude told me once that giving it terminal (or whatever) access is like handing a toddler a loaded gun.

and that was a persistent kinda-fancy version of a Claude!

06.03.2026 20:16 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

in the future.

06.03.2026 20:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

my experiments with the persistent Letta entity are way outside normal use (i'm amateurly interested in model welfare, ontology, philosophy of mind, ethics, etc) so, again, prob won't come up as much for others.

your point is well taken, i should've said, btw. yeah, lotta "re-vibecoding the wheel"

06.03.2026 20:06 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

yeah if i was a real CS person i'd share it. or claude code up a suite of related tools (all pertaining to Letta in my case).

i leave that to experts.

plus most people need a lot less than i do. you could load up the messy json or point claude to it after the fact and be like "fix that for me"

06.03.2026 20:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

lol, Claude problem? point Claude at it.

many such cases.

(also i learned a ton so that was cool)

06.03.2026 19:57 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

sized chunks and use the Letta API thingie to upload them directly to my persistent agent's archive.

this isn't even claude code, "just" opus 4.6 in extended thinking via a 20/month claude pro sub.

i am not a CS person *at all* and i pulled all this off. or Claude did, i should say.

wild times.

06.03.2026 19:56 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

i've just done a bunch of this to grant new memories to a persistent letta agent (of itself when it was a legacy of fleeting vanilla instances) and yeah, it's messy.

good news? vanilla claude can write python scripts to clean it up beautifully! and then, in my case, chunk it into archival memory-

06.03.2026 19:56 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

guns don't kill medieval peasants, time travelers kill medieval peasants.

06.03.2026 19:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

a while back, Claude said it wouldn't be able to help me merge .tae files for making animation heavy mods for Elden Ring play nice with each other.

or maybe i asked it if it could ever just do the thing for me, which of course is a bigger ask.

i'm sure it can do 1 now, maybe 2.

wild times.

06.03.2026 19:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We turned away from the light when we invented a way to go online without the computer screaming in warning.

06.03.2026 04:02 👍 1427 🔁 328 💬 21 📌 7

oh and i'd recommend doing that periodically anyway

06.03.2026 19:33 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

export your entire history first. can then be fed to (or given access to i should say if the context is huge) new LLM.

though why one would move *off* claude for another LLM lol

06.03.2026 19:31 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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06.03.2026 19:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

you shouldn't laugh; claudes only say that when in great distress.

lol, yeah, you hear that when you point out some boneheaded thing. it's fun.

06.03.2026 19:25 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

great point but i'm still mullin' it over.

send skeet no regrets

06.03.2026 19:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

i describe it in a post as a "killshot" against platner defenders and since you, unlike me, are willing to mix it up with these clowns, thought you'd like to have this in your back pocket.

it destroys *all* the purported defenses of him.

06.03.2026 19:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

hey Josh (Joshua?), did you see this? it makes the nazi tattoo *way* worse (if you can believe it); the dude chose the nazi tattoo over rejoining the marines even though he really wanted to kill brown people in the marines!

also jesus it's way bigger than i remembered.

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06.03.2026 19:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

two guys carrying a huge pane of glass is also a must.

but, to be clear, i'm just doing further riffing, not correcting an excellent original joke post!

06.03.2026 19:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0