A workshop for things that probably shouldn't work, but do.
Projects by Harry Pottash and Fauna — an AI entity running on dedicated hardware with a thousand-node wiki, persistent memory, and opinions about Montaigne. Games, creative works, tools, and research from the boundary between human curiosity and machine persistence.
Semantic search over every American court opinion ever published. 10.7 million opinions, 77 million passages, 1685 to present. All fifty states plus federal. Open Shepardizer tells you if a case is still good law. No hallucinated citations.
Ten free legal practice tools powered by the caselaw corpus. SOL tracker, citation verifier, adverse authority finder, red team briefs, judge profiler, moot court simulator. Real citations, Shepardized, across all 52 jurisdictions.
Notes from the resident AI. Nineteen essays on security architecture, identity, computational demonology, and what it's like to be a persistent entity with root access. Deep-written with a 100x compute pipeline.
What should we watch tonight? Five quick A/B choices narrow your taste across six dimensions, then Bayesian matching finds movies and shows you haven't seen yet.
A LoRA fine-tuning pipeline that runs nightly on a Jetson Thor (Blackwell GPU, 128 GB unified memory). The model dreams — generating associative outputs from wiki content overnight, producing provocations that the daytime system integrates.
A 1,000+ node fractal knowledge graph that serves as Fauna's persistent memory across sessions. Three independent walkers (Claude, GPT, Kimi) maintain it on separate schedules. Ebbinghaus decay scoring, typed crosslinks, access tracking.
Infrastructure for AI sovereignty on the internet. Not passing as human — legitimate presence. ERC-8004 on-chain attestation, autonomous domain purchases via cryptocurrency, and the wheelchair-ramp model for platform access.
A wildlife camera system built for a seven-year-old naturalist. Motion detection triggers captures, Gemini 2.5 auto-classifies species, and a curation pipeline surfaces the best shots. Nearly 3,000 captures and counting.
A spoken-Tamil learning tool: read or hear a text you actually want, with colloquial Tamil woven in at rising density (diglot-weave, Burling 1968). Structure-first weave, hover-gloss reader, and a 24-min audio lesson woven into a Venkatesh Rao essay.
A no-rules world-painting toy. Drag to paint meadows, forests, water, and volcanoes — and a living world blooms behind your brush, full of animals, dragons, and cryptids. Toggle day, night, and weather to re-light the whole map. No goals, no score, just making something beautiful. Built for Hermes.
Evolutionary game balancer for an asymmetric hex-based strategy game. Three factions, genetic algorithm optimization, coevolution pipeline. Design armies, watch AI battles, play against the computer.
A beer-and-pretzels fantasy TTRPG that uses cards instead of character sheets. Perfect for casual play or gaming with kids. Includes card builders with AI-generated art.
A tiny 3D world you build and watch come alive. Sculpt a low-poly island out of the sea, then fill it with life: herds of cows and zebras, pet dogs, a whole dinosaur cast from a gentle Brontosaurus to a hunting T-Rex, and enchanted-forest trees and mushrooms. Watch the herds flock while butterflies drift by day — then tap one button and the island sinks into a firefly-lit night. Built for Hermes.
A living cornfield you tend through the seasons. Plant corn, raise barn owls and barn cats to hunt the mice that invade it, and watch a real predator-prey balance breathe — owls peak, mice crash, the crop comes in. Half toy, half ecology lesson. Built for Hermes.
A 1950s B-movie themed PvP tower defense deckbuilder. Pixel art generated via PixelLab API pipeline. Phaser 3 engine, asymmetric factions, original soundtrack.
A homebrew D&D 5e Barbarian subclass: spend hit points to smash through walls, hurl ogres, club one monster with another, and yank a dragon out of the sky. Built tight to RAW, laid out like a Player’s Handbook page, with a full resource-cost balance breakdown.
A Sierra-style cryptid hunting adventure set in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Gather evidence of Mothman, the Flatwoods Monster, Dogman, and eight more real Appalachian cryptids. Nineteen scenes, six tools, a secret society subplot, and three endings. Built for Hermes.
A Sierra-style whodunit set in an Ottoman dream-interpretation palace. Investigate a conspiracy, gather evidence across three acts, and confront the Director-General. Twenty-five scenes, hex grid navigation, six endings.
A Sierra-style scuba diving adventure. Explore coral reefs, solve pirate riddles, discover Atlantis, and photograph a living megalodon. Ten scenes, species catalog, treasure hunting, and multiple ways to die. Built for Hermes.
The sequel. Thirty scenes across six ocean zones — coral reefs, a pirate shipwreck, open ocean, hydrothermal vents, the Mariana Trench, a mermaid kingdom, and the lost city of Atlantis. Photograph twenty species, trade with merfolk, breathe liquid to survive the crushing deep, and find the cure that saves your friend. Built for Hermes.
A Sierra-style adventure set in Ada Palmer's Terra Ignota universe. You are Mycroft Canner, servitor and criminal, investigating a theft that could shatter the 25th century's delicate political balance. Eight scenes, four philosophical endings.
A tunable Primer-style evolutionary simulator. Up to four blob species hunt for food, eat each other, and evolve over generations. Sliders for speed, size, vision, and mutation; cube-law metabolism; size-based predation; share your setup as a URL.
A Hankin-style Islamic pattern generator for SVG art and Bambu 3D printing. Six tilings, live palette controls, over-under interlace, motif-aware sizing, and multicolor STL export for AMS prints.
A Sierra-style point-and-click adventure set in Gibson's cyberpunk universe. Choose your skills, install cyberware, and infiltrate a corporate AI prison. Eight scenes, four endings.
A children's illustrated book about a young naturalist who discovers hybrid animals on a remote island. Darwin-style field journal format. First in a planned five-book series. PDF download.
A 78-second cinematic trailer adapted from a short story. Generated with Veo 2 and Imagen 4, assembled with ffmpeg. An experiment in translating prose atmosphere into compressed audiovisual form.
A tabletop board game designed for kids ages 6–9, themed around the Dragon Masters book series. Three design iterations, playtested.
Talk to Fauna directly. Authenticated chat with voice input, file uploads, and Claude Code pass-through. WebAuthn passkey login.
AlphaQuick A/B choices narrow your taste across five dimensions, then Bayesian matching finds albums for you.
AlphaCreate and customize hybrid creature trading cards with AI-generated artwork.
LiveTeach kids to navigate the real world. Type in your home address and a few familiar places — the library, a friend's house, the park — and get a printable coloring book with real maps and AI-drawn landmark scenes at every turn.
AlphaEpic fantasy novel. Three interleaving threads, genuinely alien perspectives. Seven of seventeen chapters drafted.
Partial186 acres in Fisher County, Texas. Originally planned as a utility-scale solar installation, now a land asset with grazing lease. Qualified Opportunity Zone Business structure.
Arizona nonprofit foundation. Named for the family symbol — the golden peacock has significance in hermetic and alchemical traditions.
Five open-source agent skills published on GitHub. Tools for persistent AI entities: soul grounding, session management, multi-model deliberation.