Livid Spot

 ok so one thing that ive noticed  is that there's an axis of self reflection that can bee too high or two low ie starting out, my polecats wouldnt start i needed gastown to figure itself out and troubleshoot itself but later on running many agents a transient infrastructure failure led to my faithful agents falling all over themselves trying to fix things diastrously and blowing away my database (it's backed up) 

one thing i hadn't thought about is how you can tell the mayor to watch a crew and he will, from beginning to end peeking on his tmux and seeing what a user would see  which coincidentally is a good summary of what any observer would need to know about the watched agent so you could say 'watch this agent and create tickets to fix its errors, create advice to prevent it making the same mistakes again' 

  title: i invented 'decisions' yes hello welcome not much to read on the internet today so i am going to write for you i am writing as an unassisted human (we need markdown tags for this) last time i wrote something in my normal prose voice my boss thought it was AI so now im writing as ee cummings littler brother who doesnt get it ive been banging away at these agents since before claude code came out ive been a true believer since deepseekv3 showed its first thought traces and back in the 2000s i let some radeon graphics cards print ~50 btc for me even though it made my apartment hot and noisy and  of course i lost it thank goodness now as of jan 26 2026 according to my goblin scouts i have the largest fork of gas town in github and it looks like me and steve are making similar decisions and finding similar things so i might be in a rare for me position to move the front forward and at first i thought let's just not mention it because either ill be ignored or get ...

Some militant UCLA administrator recently put a desktop background with a vague and threatening message on all of the several hundred residence hall computers. Probably it was meant to intimidate potential pirates, but it comes off as pretty ridiculous. "Do not download copyrighted music, movies, and software. Most material is copyrighted. Obtaining or offering such material in violations of U.S. Copyright Law may result in university disciplinary action and may be punishable with civil and criminal penalties including prison time and money damages." This paragraph has two parts-- the imperative command at the beginning, further qualified by the second sentence, is the meat of it. The rest is standard RIAA hellfire and brimstone. In the imperative bit, we're told not to download copyrighted media. Note the absence of the words "illegal" or "pirated." Apparently, downloading copyrighted material is a sin under any circumstances. You'll be pu...

Friday afternoon and I am done! Ha! Tired as a dog from too many stimulants and six hours of tests, but elated in a very it's-the-denouement-now kind of way. Spring has revealed herself to me in all her infinitely metaphorifiable manifestations. Basically, I'm high on a delightful concoction of serotonin modvigil(tm) tired vacation