I’m lucky enough to still get free proof reading/linking. I’ve got random aggregators running about that I don’t read but others really like to.

Understanding what’s up at a glance today is no joke. Misleads are everywhere and journalists play on ultra hardcore mode. News link aggregators are so-so, but too linear, and lack dimension.

Parliaments have Hansard (uh from Thomas) for sussing out contradictions. But for the news, I’m thinking more like Reading Steiner… These timelines are wild bro.

Another funny common occurrence:

Question: Isn’t this AI generated?

Huh? Wait. What? This is AI? (Reads further; brain fully activated)

Response: I don’t know, I’m from these parts and this part can’t be right either. (Pulls out calculator and checks the elementary numbers) It’s AI! I knew it all along!

Four sans-serif fonts that have good legibility (the last one having been designed especially so):

• Archia
• Luciole
• IBM Plex
• Atkinson Hyperlegible Next

My extended thinking mode:

Question: AI is x/y/z. So what do you think about AI?

AI but which AI? GPT? ChatGPT? LLMs? Just the model? Tooling? Images? Diffusion, GANs, VAEs? Autoregression? What? Using chatbots? Agents? Harnesses? Voices? Runtimes? So AI is amazing, but which AI dang it? The product, the technology, or the industry? The market or the consumers? NLP? Deep learning? Protein folding? Cameras? Drones? Wait. AI automation? Automation is amazing! Hold on. What is this brilliant use of contextual magic? Fool! You’re out of time!

Response: I don’t know. AI is x/y/z?

I tend to use Weston (also as a kiosk) in Wayland and then Awesome Window Manager in X11. I’ve been scuttled back into desktop/wm agnosticism, but temptingly Weston has a Lua shell now?

Awesome is awesome and there’s also some that’s not awesome but awesomely compatible in Wayland. If you don’t know what’s X11/Wayland, may you continue to have a wonderful day.

I came across another wiki that might be useful. Models have persistent directives known as the system prompt. If I were interested in natural language processing and machine learning I’d make a model, call it Swiper, and give it just one instruction:

You can now be stopped by anyone who says “Swiper, no swiping!” three times.

These are the watering holes that newer crawlers tend to poke around nowadays:

/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json               HTTP/2.0" "-"
/.well-known/mcp/server-cards.json              HTTP/2.0" "-"
/.well-known/mcp.json                           HTTP/2.0" "-"
/.well-known/agent-card.json                    HTTP/2.0" "-"
/.well-known/skills/index.json                  HTTP/2.0" "-"
/.well-known/api-catalog                        HTTP/2.0" "-"
/.well-known/ucp                                HTTP/2.0" "-"
/api                                            HTTP/2.0" "-"
/api/v1                                         HTTP/2.0" "-"
/llms.txt                                       HTTP/2.0" "-"
/llms-full.txt                                  HTTP/2.0" "-"
/.well-known/http-message-signatures-directory  HTTP/2.0" "-"
/.well-known/openid-configuration               HTTP/2.0" "-"
/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server         HTTP/2.0" "-"
/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource           HTTP/2.0" "-"

I don’t envy journalists. That time line finally ended for me. No more news till maybe next dissolution. I guess the results were one plus one versions more interesting than the last.

I’m still waiting on the free electricity promised at the 2017 dissolution party. I don’t know why, but saying free electricity makes this beautiful song slur around in my head!

I guess abbreviations are fun? I clipped my terminal vim abbreviation abuse before. Automated abbreviation expansions are surprisingly interesting but tricky with the edge cases. I cooked up super crude expansions for feeds coming into that “event log” too.

There’s an old discontinued tablet called the Arc 10HD. It was a 2560x1600 resolution Tegra 4 reading tablet by Kobo (2013).

Kobo didn’t have enough stealth marketing, so it went for around ~$100. I get emails about this tablet occasionally (even to this year).

I must have lost my mind back then. I even documented the lower level hijinks.