Bill Thompson's Blog

June 2026

From the blog archives.

Consciousness

With an increasing number of YouTube videos claiming ‘we are meat’, we are all NPC’s in the matrix and that all there is to us as humans, this video showed up in my YouTube timeline recently and is relevant. YouTube video’s from Tom Bilyeu in particular are about that Matrix/NPC subject matter. AI Summary: This documentary-style …

Optimizing Ollama on M5 PRO with QWEN 3.5

Still some work todo, look for the next blog post where I get more time in programming with Qwen 3.5. Previously it has done some implementation work in swift, it did ok with codex as the agent cli. Request) Grok on June 8th 2026 Based on our last conversation about local llm’s using ollama on …