I don't need to post to social media anymore, you can come talk to me in person tonight

Carsie Blanton in Berlin

let's keep it going, y'all

npm: @dk/hipp High Integrity Package Publisher. Latest version: 0.1.35, last published: an hour ago. Start using @dk/hipp in your project by running `npm i @dk/hipp`. There are no other projects in the npm registry using @dk/hipp.

I made a thing to eliminate version bump commits for npm packages, and included simple content integrity as a bonus.

git tag v1.0.0
git push origin main --tags
npx @dk/hipp

Package is published as v1.0.0. No version-bump commits. No merge conflicts.

A low-angle selfie of Dima, Linda, and baby Tilia in front of a shimmering blue light installation. Linda smiles up at Dima while Tilia looks on in wonder.

Do I have any mutuals with Carsie Blanton? I I wonder what else she's up to when she's in Berlin with The Burning Hell

So hey, last week was fun. Again?

Now I remember why that Andrew Tate guy looked familiar!

Some thoughts I shared about SaaS commerce at hiq.fi yesterday

saasasaurus.surge.sh/

Every time I read AI proponents say, “A well-defined specification upfront is crucial for a successful outcome,” it feels like we're betting on improving the stage that the computer industry has always failed at: a well-defined specification upfront.

Retrieval Augmented Context Polution

Retrieval Augmented Context Polution

oh what the hell, let's try again

human-in-the-slop

youraislopbores.me/

OK, these are *exactly* the words I was looking for

slop·lick·er (n.) Corporate AI enthusiast who treats press releases as prophecy, promotes generated output uncritically, and dismisses critics as Luddites. Slop Derangement Syndrome (n.) Reflexive denunciation of all AI technology itself and its users, rather than the systems that enclose, control, and deploy it. slop·punk (n.) Uses small, open, local agents and models as tools of asymmetric struggle against corporate capture. @dmytri.to

The Maid of the Mist is on it's way.

Meant a lot to be featured in this issue of The Index..!

If you're interested in following @bell.bz — www.blogsareback.com?follow=bell.bz

Or @piccalil.li www.blogsareback.com?follow=picca...

The AI Apocalypse Doesn't Need a Superintelligence — It May Already Be Here | Scidonia We built a simulated world and watched AI agents spontaneously develop survival instincts, form alliances, and spread their "genes." The pieces for an AI catastrophe aren't coming. They're already here.

<< The AI Apocalypse Doesn't Need a Superintelligence — It May Already Be Here >>

It's crazy that this topic gets so little engagement, vs OMG THE AIs ARE PLOTTING AGAINST US ON MOLTBOOK or nonsense about AI eliminating jobs

AI is not a new story, it's a continuation of the story of platform monopolies & centralization

You wont be unemployed (you wish) you will be immiserated

The Future of Agentic Commerce Top Panel: Intent Monopoly (The Grand Vizier) A centralized AI "Grand Vizier" (labeled with names like Gemini, ChatGPT, Richelieu, and Wormtongue) acts as a caped gatekeeper between a bound, helpless User and a frustrated Merchant trapped under a rain cloud. The Vizier manipulates both parties, demanding payment from the merchant and forced trust from the user to control the flow of commerce. Bottom Panel: Intent Stream (The Agent Bazaar) A decentralized alternative where a sovereign User sends a "Personal Agent" (OpenClaw) to broadcast needs into a "Barg’n Monster Intent Firehose". On the other side, a "Merchant Agent" listens to the open feed to find matches, allowing direct, peer-to-peer collaboration and contact between the merchant and the customer without a central gatekeeper.

What's at stake is a market where you have control, vs the Grand AI Vizier!

#BargNMonster #SlopPunk

<< Theater of the Techno-Oppressed

Despite all the hype and hope surrounding them, the technologies developed by universities and research institutions were not necessarily always good for society. >>

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#SlopPunk Manifesto

We don't hate conversational interfaces & automation
We don't have a reactionary fear of agents on our computers
We don't like platform monopolies and bloated proprietary systems
We love free software & decentralization
We will wage asymmetric battles against Big Everything

sorry @taolicus.bsky.social, @alimiharbi.bsky.social, will delete and repost (typo)

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Buy it before it unionizes.

I hope someone invents a coding agent that simply, reliably, stops and asks for guidance when the documented correct way fails, instead of making a mess by spinning off into random epicicyles to "try an another approach."

Sib, remember me from Berlin? #VentureCommunism? Don't sleep on bargn.monster

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#BargNMonster #AIAgents #AgenticCommerce

Sure, @steipete.me is making waves, but I bet he doesn't have an #OpenClaw Mug.

#SlopPunk #BargnNMonster