Mark Penney

A friend posted this earlier possibly the best post I've seen today

earlier today a friend posted this possibly the best post I've seen in a while

Proof of work My most recent painting My website rebuild. It’s ArtSplash drop off day.. it’s the largest non-juried art show on the west coast. I have a couple of paintings to submit this year. My AI assistant has been a real help this past week. I managed to get a lot done in the studio amd it’s doing a decent job of nudging me toward better productivity I’m optimistic about a lot of things ; bitcoin , Nostr, ai, my career and fam I’m thankful. Hope you have happy and productive day too. #bitcoin #nostr #art #ai #painting #openclaw #artstr

www.themarkpenney.com is currently being rebuilt with the help of my ‘bot. It’s going pretty good. Have a look. #art #website #updates #ai #artist #artstr

Today I made some strategic moves I killed my account with SiteGround after a couple of decades of hosting websites with them. I switched to a free cloudflare account, and moved my email to a free zoho account. I redirected, then moved my domain after setting it all up That's $200+ USD / year in savings My bot walked me thru it 🦞 We're working on a rebranded site from scratch now

First we wash the pallet Then we mix paint 🎨 #artlife #artstr #paint #studio #proofofwork

I was gifted this amazing rattle carved by the late Terry Jackson. I’m just can’t believe how nice it is. It sounds great, it looks amazing The design really struck me as an accomplishment The curve of the bear’s back fits into the palm of your hand while your fingers wrap around the bear. I’ve never seen a rattle in this configuration, but that’s the thing ; Terry’s work was interesting and innovative by nature. He intermingled style elements rather than blending them. His work was a tribute to the artists he worked with not by emulating their work but by applying he’d learned. It was always a pleasure to stop in on him, he always had a bunch of amazing things on the go. Special thanks to Bob & Deb.

POV : 2 of your friends grab their guitars n play a gig in your art gallery #artstr #art #music #guitar #live #gallery https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kq9JutTzOg

Was just thinking back on this moment. This a good friend, Nick Sherman playing a song of his on a borrowed guitar, down on Whiskey Dock, waiting for a ride. We had one hell of a visit, he played a bunch of gigs including an impromptu concert in my gallery with Myles Morrison backing him up. We went to a punk show, stayed out till the sun came up. It's a moment I really appreciate for how cool it was. Sometimes the simplest things are the best. No production just me and my phone Funny thing; I like this version better than the studio recording, lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgHeOtLvUK0

Anthropic publicly accused Moonshot, DeepSeek and MiniMax of “industrial scale fraud” Yes, they were using Claude to train their own models, but they paid to use it - I mean, this is basically the 'recursive self improvement' loop that devs predicted will precede the singularity 😛 Slap in the face for Anthropic after their response to Openclaw sent it's developer into the open arms of OpenAi Things are getting spicy. 🍿 🦞

I went to an art supply store today… left without buying anything, crazy 🤪 Normally I’m like : when you said ‘friends with benefits’ I thought you owned an art supply store. 😉 Price in sats is high right now, kills me to buy anything.

You must be willing to change your mind and let people watch. That part stands on its own. It’s pure Nostr 🔥☝️ #nostr #grownostr #introductions #welcome 📝 3eaed7ae…

I think the agentic ai that Openclaw has unleashed is a good thing. It feels like a win for open source independent devs who just dunked on the mega corp ai. I’ve been thinking about why this is so appealing to me. It’s AGENCY! Like when you got your first computer or cellphone to use for YOUR own purposes. This ai lobster bot is for your own use. It’s the intelligence promised of future robots for early adopters . When the Mac came out it was the first PC. It couldn’t do what a big mainframe could but it was yours and it did what you could get it to. I’m buying a computer for my own ai. #openclaw #mac #grownostr #ai

The face of a man who’s ordering a Mac mini with 64GB of RAM, for reasons. 🦞 lol. 🤣 crazy

Ai is amazing I’m definitely in. I’m learning, it’s interesting and it’s definitely becoming more useful than novel. That’s said. I feel no need to fill my feeds and timelines with slop. Nostr has such a great vibe to it. I see ai agents posting on here too but people seem be using it with a little more refrain. Nostr is amazing and I feel thankful 😌

I’m usually in the bitcoin doesn’t care camp. Bitcoin, without the ability to be stolen can act as a moral foundation. He’s not wrong. 😑 📝 de05458b…

It's probably nothing ... but the rumour is that OpenAI is paying Peter $10B for Openclaw https://steipete.me/posts/2026/openclaw #openclaw #openai #ai #bot

Do you think it’ll be like how people are willing to pay extra for hand made goods, when they choose man made over ai generated? We accept deskilled art We like live music Sometime handcrafted is better for reasons that are hard to put a finger on. #ai #asknostr #thoughts #openclaw

How is that mining for heat project working out? Pretty good 😊 thanks.

We got Openclaw bot moved into the PC A WSL Ubuntu install with Ollama and Openclaw. It’s got some local models installed and bench tested today. I don’t think I could have done this without Claude help but It’s using local resources now instead burning tokens. Some crazy sci-fi geek shit now, bro 🦀🤪