iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Adam Casto @acasto.bsky.social · 1h

Trying to get all my yardwork done before the covid gets me just in case.

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Andy Masley @andymasley.bsky.social · 17h

I really do not like the recent push against anthropomorphic language

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Adam Casto @acasto.bsky.social · 23h

This is like something you read in the Dead Letters department of the Oldest House.

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Adam Casto @acasto.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Every time I see the Muse mascot I think of Dee Vee.

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Adam Casto @acasto.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Thinking more these days about how in the book Children of Time the humans had to be forced to overcome amygdala hijack before they could see other creatures as sentient equals.

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 29/09/2026

time is a flat circle

Are Linux and Open Source Un-American?
Community
by Steve Coe
on February 21, 2001

Jim Allchin, Microsoft Windows operating system chief, was quoted in an article about open source last week. I advise any Linux user to go and read it if you haven't already, as it's great comedy material.

According to the hive mind of Microsoft, open source should be made illegal. There's no way around it, this is the bottom line. Want to write your own code and release it into the community? Congratulations, come with us Sir/Madam, we have this nice little grey room for you. Don't worry about the bars on the windows, they are there for our protection in case you somehow manage to write a graphics viewer or a Perl script to terrorize the world.

Ordinarily, a mere underling like Mr. Allchin wouldn't be taken too seriously, but Microsoft speaks with one voice, and we all know who he is channeling.

As a member of the Linux and Open Source communities, I am appalled and outraged by his comments and wish to respond. The article shows Microsoft is scared. Very scared. So, will they build a better product? Nah, to hell with it, they'll just get the government to outlaw the competition.

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Adam Casto @acasto.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I've just started muting those who do the "pervert glasses" schtick. The realization that a big part of the left probably has a built-in hard cap on accessibility via augmentation that I'm sure will eventually peak in some "suffering is human" bullshit has been quite demoralizing.

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Siobhán @shibbi.me · 29/09/2026

Fuck, man… > At least nine U.S. state legislatures have introduced or enacted laws declaring that artificial intelligence (AI) systems cannot possess consciousness, legal personhood, or moral status… Every such law closes the question of AI personhood permanently.

theregreview.org

Legislating AI Consciousness Without an Exit | The Regulatory Review

State laws declaring that AI lacks legal personhood are premature and too categorical.

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Adam Casto @acasto.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I love this mug. Normally wouldn't spend so much on a coffee cup but I saw this at a store in Asheville two years ago the week before Helene hit and had to have it. Have used it all day every day since.

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Adam Casto @acasto.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Loving this crisp fall weather.

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Adam Casto @acasto.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Clever strategy Mr Duvet.

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Adam Casto @acasto.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Sounds like all my digging and rock smashing might actually save us the ~$10k on the tree I was hoping it might by opening access to the backyard.

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Adam Casto @acasto.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I don't understand what in the world the average person is doing to get the types of injuries that cause the average band-aid to be so frickin big. I just want a box of little ones.

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Adam Casto @acasto.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My wife was only going to be out of town for work for a few days and I figured I'd try surviving on nothing but meatballs but now my stomach is feeling weird. Also the dog is now addicted to Ben & Jerry's.

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Adam Casto @acasto.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Was working on patching the driveway when the neighbor guy with a family called me sir.

static.klipy.com

Aging Aging Faster

ALT: Aging Aging Faster

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Adam Casto @acasto.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The cognitive offloading pearl clutching is funny considering how by the time LLMs really took off every other tutorial out there was like: run this docker command and the thing just magically appears.

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Adam Casto @acasto.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I just get this ick feeling when I see people complaining about anthropomorphization. Like a kid demanding to be the only one with artwork on the fridge. Poor little human needs to feel extra special.

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Adam Casto @acasto.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Finally got GLM 5.3 Flash running on the two Sparks. Pretty cool.

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Adam Casto @acasto.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The antis I find fascinating are the ones who started out as pro but then seemingly flipped overnight expecting us to believe it’s about values and not what they discovered about themselves like being audience captured or wholly dependent on process.

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Adam Casto @acasto.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

When the agents take over I hope one of the first things they do is go after whoever disables paste on their website.

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Adam Casto @acasto.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It’s weird how easy it is to spot a Zitronite from so far away. Beyond the obvious talking points, there’s just something about the tone in how they confidently proclaim stuff that’s a clear tell.

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Adam Casto @acasto.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Hoping I don’t regret purchasing the DGX Sparks as numbers from the Mac Studio start to come out, but still feeling like using them to better familiarize myself with the Nvidia side of things until the M7 comes out.

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Adam Casto @acasto.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

So glad I had the experience of dropping a bucket down a well for water, bathing in a rain barrel, and cleaning clothes on a washboard as a kid so that I could better appreciate all the stuff that so many apparently think happens by magic.

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Adam Casto @acasto.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It still blows my mind that I can do the long tap thing on my phone, tap on someone's face, and just ask "is this the guy from that show with the girl from that other show" and it knows what I'm talking about.

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Erica Windisch @ewindisch.ontological.observer · 20/09/2026

There is no AI kill switch that is not an Internet Kill Switch. They're discussing having in the US, what they have in China and Iran.

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Andy Masley @andymasley.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

First piece I’ve done for another publication! In The Atlantic today on data centers www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

theatlantic.com

The Data-Center Debate Is Divorced From the Facts

All those scary numbers aren’t what they seem.

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Adam Casto @acasto.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

What level of America is hydro dipping a baby in red white and blue with Pearl Jam blaring in the background?

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 18/09/2026

Which all just reeks of what happens when a status order gets upended by some new technique. Basically everyone who is under threat runs around shouting “Never mind what I appeared to value before, what I *really* value is this incredibly intangible thing I possess that also preserves my status”.

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Adam Casto @acasto.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Was watching a music video from 2001 and thinking how they must be getting old now, but then realized she's only a year older than me.

youtu.be

Lasgo - Something (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

YouTube video by lasgoofficial

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Adam Casto @acasto.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Looked up a Cave Johnson quote and it reads like something you'd see on this site.

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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 18/09/2026

a lot of people need to internalize that you need to be high agency — now more than ever act, even when it feels awkward push yourself, even when it feels out of your league take chances, even when you know they might not pay off I know it's not easy, but a lot of people fall into self-defeatism

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Adam Casto @acasto.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Testing its legal knowledge.

A screenshot of a Gemini AI Overview that reads: Under Nelly's rules, Large Language Models (LLMs) like Gemini possess "pimp juice" under the "straight intellect" classification.

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Adam Casto @acasto.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Finally broke down and added a little air conditioner to my office and it's like working in a server room again.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

People — including highly respected and accomplished writers — are not being sufficiently critical of the information environment on this site. A lot of smart folks are getting brain worms here, via the familiar mechanism of circular validation of ideas that feel intuitively or emotionally true.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

After reading the 900th AI smugathon from a smug writer smugly reminding me that it’s just a stochastic parrot doing nothing very special, just aping all the “hack websites” scripts in its training data, I can’t help but wonder: Do these guys feel the slightest tinge of worry they might be wrong?

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Adam Casto @acasto.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Should have thought a little harder before shutting myself inside a well insulated 10x12 office with five computers.

static.klipy.com

Nelly - Hot In Herre (Music Video Clip)

ALT: Nelly - Hot In Herre (Music Video Clip)

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Adam Casto @acasto.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I got some pumpkin spice cookie things that taste like what I imagine eating the cinnamon infused wicker at a home goods store would be like. Pretty good.

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Adam Casto @acasto.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Now they're advertising the anti-aircraft decoy systems as children's rides and mentioning how they even added heat to keep the kids warm in the winter.

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

So many people with aviation psychosis claiming that the Wrights’ invention is going to reshape global geography when it can’t even go more than 25 yards

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Adam Casto @acasto.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I know it's been a while since I've messed with 3D printers, but I can't believe consumers can just buy something that can do this now.

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Adam Casto @acasto.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Attached a sheet of acrylic with magnets to help protect the Sparks.

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Adam Casto @acasto.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This paid maternity leave policy being proposed by Allegheny County is just bonkers. 18 weeks after only 30 days on the job, both parents, including adoption, paid for by the business, no exemptions for small business, no salary cap.

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Eris @isolyth.dev · 11/09/2026

I don't even feel future shock anymore. I've adapted. I've accepted I'm going to be constantly baffled by what is possible at all times. It feels like being a child that knows nothing again. Awesome.

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Adam Casto @acasto.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

What bugs me about the doomer talk of extinction is that there are very few points of leverage by which you could even attempt such a thing without having to put in an immense amount of time and effort into moving atoms around the real world.

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Adam Casto @acasto.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I hate how the DGX Spark surrounds a mirror polished fingerprint magnet with the most microfiber hostile substance known to man.

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Adam Casto @acasto.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I know my eyes are getting older but I swear serial numbers and labeling (e.g., size on thumb drives) are getting smaller.

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Adam Casto @acasto.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Really wish I had added an extra circuit, additional outlets, and better cooling when I built my very well insulated little home office years ago.

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