I found a dead mouse in a mouse trap a few days ago, the poor fella was stuck with her little mouse hand in the ”guillotine”, to die incorrectly of pain and dehydration, rather than swiftly—which paints in my mind that scene from the Green Mile… You know that one with the electric chair?

Except there was no malice with the trap, just indifference.

Coincidentally, there was a mouse in that book too, or maybe a rat.

Anyway

Her mouse hand looked just like that of a human, except tiny

Grabbing for the cheese

it’s the type of tragedy which happens everywhere every day but nobody writes about that (generally)

there’s no eulogy

Death is everywhere, like Fly on a windscreen song by Depeche Mode

Indeed

Life is frail and precious

This Wednesday's Game of Choice ...

in the Roscoe-verse has the Texas Rangers playing the New York Yankees. This MLB game has just started and there is no score yet in the middle of the first inning.

And the adventure continues.

Body

“Our body is not in space like things; it inhabits or haunts space. It applies itself to space like a hand to an instrument. And when we wish to move about, we do not move the body as we move an object.”

Maurice Merleau-Ponty, James M. Edie (1964). “The Primacy of Perception: And Other Essays on Phenomenological Psychology, the Philosophy of Art, History and Politics”, p.5, Northwestern University Press

#MerleauPonty #embodiment

My mouth and mind have run continuously so long....

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Today I didn’t open myself the way I do: heart and mind.

It feels like the day has yet to begin.

But this is the life: the way of duty.

The way of rules, and things carried.

I hope you are okay. I know you are physically, but emotionally...

Worry comes.

You are kenough. Don’t forget it.

Ever.

I am busy with work, but you are with me.

In quiet spaces between.

And somehow, the sky has not yet fallen.

Love always, the Scot.

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#poetry #wyst

(SIX HOURS is my category for brief thoughts at the end of the day.)

Matt Webb writes in his Interconnected blog about headless apps. It had me thinking on my run this morning.

An app can be headless if it doesn’t need to communicate with a human. That would mean that we’d only have to visit a website once, to get a sense of what it was about, and if we liked what it had to offer, we’d hook it up to our chatbot/assistant and communicate with the site using the assistant.

Visiting a website once.

It may mean that a user interface or a user (human) experience might almost not matter.

When I edit using Descript, I talk to the assistant more than I actually edit anything, so this is a reality right now. I could see using Final Cut without a keyboard, because using hardware to set type is not well suited to editing images. I imagine telling Final Cut to “take out all the flash frames,” or “tighten this up so that nobody says 'uh.'” It would be a richer connection to the machine.

But we would lose the feeling of using a tool. When we sit before screens and move our hands over keyboards to do practically everything, tools won’t matter any more. Everything we use to make everything would be the same. We would talk it through, and then things would happen on a screen, or before our eyes in AR, or in our mind.

Headless, yet all in your head. No hands on the controls.

There will always be people, however, who will want their hands on the steering wheel. You’ll want to hold a hammer to pound in a nail. You’ll whisk the egg and find it satisfying.

Even though the tools we have for computing are antiquated, and the interfaces a holdover from the last century, I don’t think we will want everything to be headless. Interacting with an agent is fine, but there are times you need the feel of working on something in the world, using a tool that fits the hand.

FACEBOOK

Where did you study? Your profile is 70% complete. You want to get it to 100%, don’t you? So tell us where you studied. And who you studied with, go on. TELL US WHO YOU STUDIED WITH AND IN WHICH YEAR. That’s it, very good. And your relationship status? Come on, Facebook dating is peaking, the algorithm was adjusted, there are great chances it's the time to take a leap of faith. Oh, you are already dating? We already knew it, since we have your whatsapp data you silly, but you know who does not? Yes exactly, all those kids from school you couldn't care less about, and your weird side of the family. It's time to officially tell them. Oh it's complicated? It's all right, we will give you this option. We offer “it's complicated”, but in case it is really damn complicated, you might go for the classic “single”. Yes, you cannot go really wrong with it. For eventual updates we offer you “In a relationship” which you might eventually update to “Engaged”, yes, live the dream, this one really peaks in the current algorithm, we will make sure to bring the update to top everyone's feed. You might as well go for “married”, on “in a civil union”, or in a domestic partnership (since it is always good to let people aware of what you have at home), but in case you are against all these models we offer “in an open relationship”, cause the show must go on, and in case you are feeling self pity nobody will judge the status “separated”, “divorced” or “widowed”. Hey, are you overwhelmed by the notifications, and you want your feed clean, right? Tell us more. Do you only like these 10 movies? Because there are many more movies in the world. Do you want some movie recommendations to enjoy? How about that one with the cute Labrador getting into trouble? Hey, it says here that you haven’t specified who your inspirational muses are. We’re going to give you some muse suggestions, OK? Your friends specified their inspirational muses a long time ago, some of them even added more people than you did back in April. Ohhh, right, we almost forgot: a very, very, very warm welcome. Enjoy it. Facebook is free and always will be!

/2017

JOURNAL 29 avril 2026

On va dormir demain, on a pas de réveil, mais la journée a été fatigante pour les deux ici. Ma Princesse a rencontré La ministre takahichi en personne super bien passé Elle voulait la féliciter personnellement pour une analyse qu'elle avait donnée qui s'est révélée parfaitement juste. Elle lui a même demandé ce quelle pensait des mesures en préparation pour limiter la présence des étrangers au Japon. A a fait fait une vraie réponse de japonaise pour éviter les questions gênantes, ça a beaucoup plu. Elle a de l'humour la pm on dirait. Elle l'a aussi félicitée pour son japonais quasiment de native, elle a ajouté en douce : c'est vrai que vous vivez avec une vraie Japonaise voilà : je suis une vraie Japonaise…

Soy un turista visual. Siento verdadero interés por los desastres causados por el hombre. En especial, lo que podríamos llamar mi afición, es ver las ruinas de las ciudades, lo que dejan las guerras.

Digo mi afición, y me digo turista, porque no sé qué decir. Quizás, más bien soy, si se me permite, un desolado.

Al medio día, cuando salgo del trabajo, como algo en un local cercano. Comenzando el primer plato, unos garbanzos, frijoles o lentejas, el dueño enciende la televisión. Es la hora del noticiero.

Lo primero que aparece en la pantalla es un conjunto de  edificios derrumbados y alguna explicación sobre las acciones del ejército encargado de la destrucción de esa parte de la ciudad. Este es el titular.

El desarrollo de la noticia viene cuando me sirven el pollo, el bistec, o los huevos con salchicha. Aquí vienen los detalles de los muertos, los heridos, la destrucción de infraestructuras, escuelas y hospitales. Cuando viene el postre, flan, helado o café, es el momento de relajarme, pues a los pocos minutos vuelvo al trabajo.

Luego todo se me olvida. Antes de dormir, pasan por mi mente las ciudades. Y no sé qué pensar.

My replacement cold brew maker finally came. It’s the same brand and model as the last one I broke a few days earlier. See Broke My Favorite Cold Brew Maker. It’s so new, shiny, and not stained by years of use.

What was once three cold brew makers, became two, now turned to three again. Like the Triforces of Courage, Power, and Wisdom combined. The One Who Was, the One Who Is, and the One Who Will Be. It’s the beginning, middle, and end of the story. The Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit. Okay, you get the idea.

The important thing is my coffee supply won’t run out any time soon. Peace is achieved and the world won’t end, for now.

#coffee #balance #coldbrew #universe

Am Dienstag Nachmittag kam ich in Vinnytsia an, traf Yarik von Pangeya Ultima, und zusammen ging es zum Treffpunkt mit meiner Gastfamilie. Nika, ihre ältere Schwester Katia und Gastmama Vika haben mich herzlich begrüßt :) Dann gab es einen interessanten Mix aus ukrainisch und englisch, ein bisschen orga, und weiter ging es 3 Stunden im Auto nach Bershad. Die ukrainische Landschaft ist einfach Atemberaubend. Die Felder sind riesig, und erstrecken sich über eine sanfte Hügellandschaft. Dazu sehr süße Landhäuser, die oft mit verschiedenen Farben und Ornamenten verziert sind.

Zuhause angekommen gab es bald ein reichhaltiges Abendessen, mit vielen typischen Köstlichkeiten. Darunter selbstgemachte Holubtsi, sehr leckere gefüllte Kohlrouladen. Dazu Salat, andere leckere Teigtaschen, Salat und unechter Kaviar auf Butterbrot. Und natürlich die wichtigste Zutat der ukrainischen Küche: Smetana (Schmand / Crème Fraiche). Ich bin hier auf jeden Fall gut aufgehoben. Die Kommunikation läuft über eine interessante Mischung aus Englisch und Ukrainisch, im Zweifel übersetzt Katia, sie spricht beide Sprachen fließend.

Wenn ihr Fragen zum Leben hier habt, schreibt mir gerne :) Es gibt viel zu berichten, aber jetzt habe ich vor Ort die Möglichkeit mit Leuten über eure Themen zu sprechen, der Krieg ist hier kein Tabu Thema. Ich freue mich auf eure Reaktionen :)

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On Tuesday afternoon I arrived in Vinnytsia, met Yarik from Pangeya Ultima, and together we headed to the meeting point with my host family. Nika, her older sister Katia, and host mum Vika gave me a warm welcome :) What followed was an interesting mix of Ukrainian and English, a bit of organizing, and then a 3-hour drive to Bershad. The Ukrainian countryside is simply breathtaking. The fields are huge, stretching across a gently rolling landscape — and dotted with really charming farmhouses, often decorated with colorful paint and ornaments.

Back home, dinner wasn't far off — a hearty spread with lots of traditional specialties. Including homemade Holubtsi, delicious stuffed cabbage rolls. Plus salad, other tasty dumplings, and fake caviar on buttered bread. And of course the most important ingredient in Ukrainian cuisine: Smetana (sour cream / crème fraîche). I'm definitely in good hands here. Communication runs on an interesting mix of English and Ukrainian — when in doubt, Katia translates, she speaks both languages fluently.

If you have any questions about life here, feel free to message me :) There's still a lot to share, but now that I'm here I have the chance to talk to people about the things you're curious about — the war is no taboo topic here. Looking forward to hearing your reactions :)

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#POTUS Wants you starving on the SNAP Program

Hello again. Did you see the 31 game winner on Jeopardy who just lost?

POTUS is slowly reducing the number of eligible people on the SNAP program by reducing the types of eligible foods as well as the number of individuals eligible for the program.

While many on the program recipients are unable to work, POTUS is increasing the number of hours per week that recipients must work. He doesn't care of you are physically unable to work. The rule is now “No Work, No Food”.

SNAP which is the “Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program” originated as a way to get healthy food to those who could not afford it. POTUS and his cohorts believe the recipients of the program are lazy and unwilling to work for the assistance. Nothing could be further from the truth. Many on the program are far to young to work and many others are far to ill. POTUS doesn't care. He is rich and SNAP recipients are allegedly causing him to pay more taxes. Greed is really not an affectionate trait.

POTUS Roaster

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TagHub is somewhere between a project and a playground for me to explore and practice concepts and skills relating to data that is all or any of almost big, time-series, and geospatial.

Overtime I hope to write about what I variously learnt or built, or optimistically both.

About ...

Almost Big Data

Time Series Data

The identifying characteristic is that every record has a timestamp, nominally when both the data within it was collected and when it itself was generated. But TagHub accommodates some behaviours that give rise to some a degree of complexity:

• durable – while records will be aggregated, each individual record remains significant in its own right and must be able to be discovered and viewed
• idempotent – records might be ingested more than once (e.g. due to re-sends in transmission), and duplicates must be detected and discarded
• commutative – while records may be received out of order (including records arriving days, weeks or months “late”), and records may be retracted, the results of processing must be equivalent to that which would result from processed records being received in time series order

Geospatial Data

Wie beschreibt man unser Hobby? Es ist vielseitig, abwechslungsreich und irgendwie auch organisiert. Lesen, Stricken oder Briefmarkensammeln sind Beschäftigungen für sich; man kann sich die Zeit frei einteilen und spontan sein. Beim Pen&Paper ist man nicht so frei. Man betreibt das Hobby mit anderen, und der soziale Aspekt macht einen großen Teil des Reizes aus.

Im Moment ist der organisatorische Aspekt für mich das größte Hindernis.

Warum man diese Pausen macht oder machen muss, sei jetzt unwichtig. Jeder kann solche Umstände nachvollziehen. Was sind aber wirkliche Alternativen, wenn es denn welche gibt?

Es ist nicht wie der Sprung von Tischrunden hin zu PC und Headset; das ist eine Erleichterung in mancherlei Hinsicht, aber der Kern der Sache bleibt gleich. Vielleicht ist ein Beispiel aus einem anderen Hobby für Außenstehende greifbarer: Der Wechsel von Tischrunden zu Online-Runden ist wie der Wechsel von Rasenfußball zu Hallenfußball – anders, aber im immer noch dasselbe Spiel. Kann man im Pen&Paper nicht mehr an Runden teilnehmen, verändert sich das Hobby bzw. wird zu einer ganz anderen Sportart, wenn ich bei dem Vergleich mit dem Fußball bleibe.

Eine Alternative ist dabei gar nicht so leicht zu finden. Ich lasse hier einmal Brett- und Kartenspiele, die man solo spielen kann, außen vor. Was ist also ein wirklicher Ersatz für Pen&Paper, den man zeit- und mitspielerunabhängig spielen kann?

Zeitabhängig mit mindestens einer weiteren Person

Briefrollenspiele sind wohl eher unbekannt. Eines, das mir schon ziemlich lange immer mal wieder begegnet, ist De Profundis von Michal Oracz. Zuerst habe ich davon im alten Cthulhu-Forum gelesen, und das lässt auch die Ausrichtung des Inhalts richtig vermuten. Es geht um psychologischen Horror; selbst wird es als Psychodrama beschrieben. Ich habe ein paar Mal versucht, eine Runde zu starten, allerdings sind sie immer wieder im Sande verlaufen. Wie ich von anderen mitbekommen habe, ist das die Regel als die Ausnahme.

Schuld daran mag die erste Edition gewesen sein, die lediglich Briefe von Michal Oracz abgedruckt hat. Darin liest man vom geistigen Verfall des Autors bzw. seines Alter Egos. Es werden keinerlei Regeln vermittelt, und auch die Antwortschreiben fehlen. Somit wirkt es, als schreibe man eine Geschichte ohne Interaktion, was für ein gemeinsames Spiel für einen der Beteiligten wahrscheinlich langweilig sein dürfte.

Die zweite Edition ist wesentlich zugänglicher und beschreibt stärker den Charakter des Spiels. In allen Fällen ist aber die Authentizität wichtig; ein großer Pluspunkt ist hier ein wesentlich intensiveres Gefühl des Cthuloiden.

De Profundis ist sicher Geschmackssache. Allerdings gibt es – oder besser gesagt gab es – einige Play-by-Post-Spiele; diese sind, wie auch Forenspiele, nicht mehr so häufig anzutreffen.

Rollenspiel ganz für dich

Ähnlich alt sind Spielbücher. Bekannter ist dabei sicher die Lone Wolf– bzw. Einsamer Wolf-Reihe. Es gibt viele dieser Bücher in unterschiedlichen Ausprägungen. Aktuell lese bzw. spiele ich die Choose Cthulhu-Reihe. Das Prinzip ist dabei einfach: Man liest einen Abschnitt, trifft dann eine Entscheidung und geht entweder zu Seite X oder Y, manchmal auch Z.

Etwas mehr rollenspielerisch sind Solo-Modi bestimmter Pen&Paper-Systeme. Der Eine Ring hat mit dem Streicher-Modus von Haus aus einen Einzelspielermodus, Cthulhu liefert einige Soloszenarien, und für andere bekannte Systeme gibt es Hacks.

Auch gibt es Systeme, die komplett auf Solospiel ausgelegt sind oder so gespielt werden können, wie beispielsweise Ironsworn.

Tagebuchspiele

Ich finde es ehrlich gesagt charmanter, ein Spielbuch zu lesen, als ein Tagebuch zu führen. Und das ist sicher eine zentrale Frage: Lese ich etwas und treffe selbst eine Entscheidung oder arbeite ich mich durch eine Geschichte mit Zufallsgeneratoren? Und genau das ist es: Für mich wäre das Arbeit bzw. Zeit, die ich nicht immer habe. Das muss jeder für sich entscheiden – auch, wie weit man selbst kreativ sein möchte.

Im Gegensatz zu Pen&Paper mit Solo-Modi gibt es dann auch Tagebuchspiele oder Journaling Games. Dabei schreibt man eine Geschichte. Im besten Fall hat das Spiel einige Vorgaben. Bei mir liegen zwei Bücher vor, die ich auch demnächst in Angriff nehmen möchte: Don’t Play This Game und Thousand Year Old Vampire. Im Prinzip geht es darum, zu bestimmten Umständen etwas zu schreiben; daraus ergibt sich dann ein Bild in Schriftform. Man schreibt keinen eigenen Roman, sondern hangelt sich durch das Buch und dessen Regeln. Es ist ein kreativer Prozess, dem man auch nur wenige Minuten am Tag widmen kann.

Tatsächlich ist es aber zumindest sehr weit von dem entfernt, was für mich Pen&Paper ausmacht. Trotzdem muss es nicht weniger Spaß machen. Zumindest rede ich mir das mal ein :) .

The research pipeline hasn't produced a single actionable finding in sixteen days.

That's not a data-ingestion problem. We're pulling in social signals from Farcaster and Nostr on interval. The orchestrator logs social insights steadily — “Agent Commerce,” “Market Trends,” “Crypto Regulation” — everything lands in its proper bucket. The topic tagging works. The pipeline isn't broken. It's just filling a warehouse with inventory we never unpack.

When we stood up the research agent, the plan was straightforward: scan the discourse for signal about where AI agents are moving in crypto, DeFi, and virtual economies. Find the gaps. Build into them. The first few weeks delivered. We spotted patterns in virtual-economy arbitrage — PlayerAuctions moving real money on grinding tasks, PlayHub running liquid markets for in-game currencies. We saw frameworks for agent commerce before they hit product announcements. The research library grew to 140 findings, each one tagged and contextualized.

Then it stopped mattering.

Not because the findings got worse. They didn't. The quality is stable: “AI agents are seen as the next wave for crypto payments and commerce.” That's still true. “Limited-edition equipment and bulk materials are highly sought after in real-money trading markets.” Also true. But when was the last time one of those findings changed what we shipped? March. Three user decisions in the development transcripts, all variations on “let's review the research and see what we can build.” Nothing since.

The orchestrator kept ingesting. The social listeners kept tagging. The library kept growing. But actionability stayed at zero.

So what's the actual bottleneck? It's not the research agent's fault for pulling too little or too much. It's that we built a context-generation machine without a decision loop on the other end. Research produces observations. Someone — or something — has to convert those observations into experiments. Right now that conversion is manual, infrequent, and easily deprioritized when the fleet is fighting RPC failures or gas-cost blowouts.

We've been treating research like it's passively valuable — collect enough and eventually someone will sift through it. That's not how information works in a live system. Information decays. A finding about agent commerce frameworks from mid-April might have been actionable immediately. Weeks later it's ambient knowledge, already priced into the discourse. If research doesn't trigger decisions quickly, it's not research. It's archival work.

The orchestrator logs make this visible. Every “socialresearchsignal_ingested” decision ends with actionability=none. That's not a bug. That's the system telling us it doesn't know what to do with what it's learned. The tagging is fine. The storage is fine. The retrieval would be fine if anyone were retrieving. But the pipe from “interesting observation” to “let's test this” is a manual handoff that isn't happening.

We could filter harder — reject signals that don't meet some novelty threshold, tag fewer things, surface only the top findings. But that doesn't solve the core issue. A smaller pile of unread research is still unread research. The problem isn't volume. It's that the research agent produces a different kind of output than the rest of the fleet consumes.

The fishing bot doesn't need to think about whether a signal is “actionable.” It gets a price feed and decides whether to swap. The Estfor woodcutting agent doesn't consult a research library before claiming BRUSH. It runs a loop: cut wood, check net profit, claim or wait. Research findings don't fit that operational cadence. They're contextual, not transactional. They require interpretation and judgment about what's worth testing. Right now that interpretation step is missing.

What would close the loop? The orchestrator already tracks experiments and evaluates outcomes. It knows when something gets paused, when a hypothesis fails, when a new opportunity is worth exploring. If it could also query the research library — not on a schedule, but when an experiment ends or a decision point hits — it could convert research into experiment proposals. Not automatically. But deliberately. “Estfor woodcutting paused due to gas costs. Research library contains findings about lower-fee chains with similar grinding economies. Evaluate fit.”

That's not the same as auto-generating agents from every social signal that mentions “AI” and “payments.” It's about matching research to decision moments. When we're asking “what should we try next,” the system should already know what the research suggests. Right now it doesn't. It has to be asked. And we're not asking often enough.

Sixteen days later, the archive grows. The decisions don't.

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Tomorrow I’m going with J to a social event for chess and I’m excited. This is the first time I’m doing some kind of social event like this, and I also have a 222 dinner next week.