The idea of bossing you around is almost tempting enough to lure me from the beach.

The email was from Brian Price, who'd done his residency at PTMC before covid, then sailed straight into a cushy gig at Cedars thanks to family connections and Adamson's recommendation. Robby had quietly hated him, happy to see him go.

Brian's email included a forwarded job listing, seeking a temporary Chief of Emergency Medicine for PTMC, to start July 4th, Robby's last day before his sabbatical. Jack had been expecting Gloria to ask him to step up.

He'd heard nothing from her. And now this, as good as announcing the news: they were bringing in an external hire.

Dana shot him a meaningful look. “She up and says to me that Robby can’t stand to be alone, has got the TV on in his bedroom all night.”

Jack scoffed. “No, he doesn’t.”

Dana stilled, her blue eyes locking onto his. And just like that, it went from an idle comment to a moment. A moment that expanded, curling into something weighty, settling leaden in Jack’s gut. “That right?” she muttered, and there was a whole epic journey packed into those two words, going from how would you know all the way to how did I not know.

Fuck.

On todays episode our hero attempts to explain the “puppy girl” while trying to sound sane. This subculture has become quite prominent in online trans feminine spaces, so she hopes to figure out why that is. Using an excellent paper published last year, anecdotal evidence, and the occasional first-hand account, she gets to the root of what it means to fully embrace becoming a puppy. Trans voices are needed more now than ever, and some of them just so happen to bark.

We urge designers, especially designers who seek to build a world without policing and cages, to adopt a praxis of Abolitionist Design. To do so, we have three recommendations. One, designers must refuse to design policing tools and should prohibit their work from ever being used for policing’s ends. Two, designers should resist and push back against the appropriation of design methods and discourse for policing’s ends. Three, designers must develop their knowledge and discernment of policing ideologies, and in turn, of abolitionist ones. Designers should fight to abolish literal cops and the ones in their heads. Freedom demands that, and nothing less.

Visual guides for developers

via: https://lobste.rs/s/uysha5/adventures_guix_packaging

Margaret Thatcher’s other famous neoliberal dictum was that “there is no such thing as society“. The A.G.I. lobby unwittingly shares this grim view. For them, the kind of intelligence worth replicating is a function of what happens in individuals’ heads rather than in society at large.

But whenever you propagate AI output, you’re at risk of intentionally or unintentionally legitimizing it with your good name, providing it with a fake proof-of-thought.

• Need to check out Peter Watts’ Blindsight

Jack drifts slowly toward wakefulness, grumpily aware there’s someone else in the room. He opens one eye and peers balefully toward the bedroom door, where Robby’s leaning, a look of professional patience on his face.

“Fuck off,” grumbles Jack.

CXDB is a self-hosted context store for AI agents. It persists every turn of every conversation with full type awareness, branching support, and a visual debugger.

Hypothesis: LLM agents are the new high-level programming language

Software

Here’s a remix of FFVI that’s supposedly okay to start with even if I haven’t played FFVI before. Fixes some bugs and makes the game more thinky, supposedly.

I’m playing the DS remake of Final Fantasy IV right now (belatedly after getting a big spoiler from the Magic card for Cecil) and it made me curious to check out if the SNES versions had any fun romhacks and yes!

This turns FFIV into an open world game. But I’d better finish the story normally first.

via: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/how-do-you-structure-your-nixos-configs/65851