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

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

#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.

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.

как сложно мне принимать факт обучения и развития постепенного, а не мгновенного; как сложно осознавать, что книги прочитанные в мои двадцать и повлиявшие на меня глубоко и серьезно, с большой вероятностью были поняты тогда мной максимум наполовину; как сложно принимать что без понятых-только-наполовину книг я бы не смогла наполовину-понимать текущие книги, которые — в свою очередь — помогают мне задним-числом-понимать книги предыдущие на дополнительные десять процентов;

как тяжело моему простому линейному сознанию с нелинейностью и параллельностью процессов.

but well — whatcha you gonna do. i’m choosing to just go with it; с надеждой на будущее-принятие.

Hay ciertas ausencias que son de ver y cortar con tijera.

Tres palabras aquí. Y luego otras cuatro.