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Tales from the jar side: Bad scheduling, OpenRouter, Not Going There, and the usual Social Media posts
Why don't anteaters get sick? Because they're full of antibodies (rimshot)
 • Ken Kousen
Tales from the jar side: Claude Code: Up and Running, GPT 5.6 available (but not for you), OpenRouter in Spring AI and Claude Code, and the…
The current Pope is eligible to run for President of the United States. Just saying.
 • Ken Kousen
Tales from the jar side: Just Fix It, Ponytail, Mole, ScrapeCreators, SentrySearch, and the usual silly Social Media posts
A photographer was tragically crushed when a massive block of cheddar fell on him. In fairness, the people he was photographing tried to warn him…
 • Ken Kousen
Tales from the jar side: Anthropic tells a Fable and the Gov't stops it; The last30days and here.now Skills, and the usual Social Media…
I once worked in a theater installing trapdoors. It was just a stage I was going through. (rimshot)
 • Ken Kousen
Tales from the jar side: Website redesign, Graphify, Gemma4, and the usual Social Media posts
Whoever decided it was a good idea to put a “p” in “receipt” was an idiopt. (rimshot)
 • Ken Kousen
Tales from the jar side: jqwik Prompt Injection attack, Opus 4.8, Pangram AI detection, and the usual Social Media posts
Why does the Norwegian navy put barcodes on its ships? So when they return to harbor, they can Scandinavian. (rimshot)
 • Ken Kousen
Tales from the jar side: Decline of social media, Grok burns down the town, Skills + sub-agents, Subsidized AI, and the usual Social Media…
Cop asked me where I was between 5 and 6, but seemed puzzled when I said, "kindergarten." (rimshot)
 • Ken Kousen
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