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SMTP Family Tree
One forest. Solid lines are real code ancestry or product continuation. Dashed ideas are design influence or “speaks SMTP to,” not shared source. There is almost no shared source-code tree…
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Against Slop: Authorship, Editing and Authenticity in Generative Production
The more serious problem is that generative systems make it extraordinarily cheap to produce material possessing the external characteristics of finished work without necessarily containing the corresponding density of intention, discrimination, revision or consequence. The result is what has acquired the useful pejorative slop: material that resembles culture while having passed through too little judgement…
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Copy & Paste
“Copy is an act of reading; paste is an act of authorship” is a useful way of separating two operations that computers make appear symmetrical. To copy something, you must…
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Maintaining Semantic Continuity Across Multimodal AI Systems
Modern multimodal AI systems increasingly combine language models, image generators, vision models, moderation systems, retrieval components and orchestration layers. These subsystems are frequently developed and evaluated independently. While each may operate correctly within its own domain, their composition can produce inconsistent behaviour.
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Multimodal Semantic Continuity Layer
Handling Cross-Model Epistemic Discontinuity
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A Colder War
A Colder War (2000) by Charles Stross is a seminal novelette of cold-war cosmic horror. Stross fuses the geopolitical paranoia of the 1980s with H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos, reimagining the…
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Code Sustainment – Concept
Princples for code sustainment
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Code Sustainment Across Generations
Every successful codebase outlives at least three things, Product, Platform & People.
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VSCODE for VB6
use vscode to sustain vb6 code
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Sustaining VB6
Realistic paths for a VB6 codebase
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VB6 IDE Install
Instruct to create Visual Basic 6 IDE on W11.Use to Sustain VB6 Code,.