There’s another old interesting thing called the estates of the realm. These are the loudest voices in/on the social sphere, roughly.

If somehow (anything’s possible nowadays) the fourth through sixth become as distrusted as the first and second, then know that for the record I was simply a commoner… just one of the people. ;)

On poetry is the funniest part as far as I’m concerned. Maybe that’s an amusing intro but a lot of scams today really do look like something out of the 14~17th century. Here’s a fun one: Would you put your full trust in John Keely? Another is Ming (14) or Minguo (20)?

I sometimes wonder what kind of 12-sided coin Keely would flip and how many would carry the suitcases. He was good. Ponzi and Keely have similar smirks but beware of cross dressing lawyers. I also made the mistake of scanning recent world news and surely all’s right with the world?

I saw a clip about the new Culdcept Begins and it made me think. My “new” 2/3DS is still in decent shape. These are the last three console games I remember playing:

• Ketzal’s Corridors (2012) (3DS) (Video)
• Culdcept Revolt (2017) (3DS) (Video)
• The Alliance Alive (2018) (3DS) (Video)

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" "-"