iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Alex Sirota @alex.sirota.org · 04/09/2026

It's gonna be interesting to see how this one turns out.. hopefully it lasts longer than the last one.

Alex Sirota @alex.sirota.org · 12/08/2026

My mind jumps to the San Francisco Airport signage fonts - Univers for older parts, and a custom font for newer ones. Both can be seen here: lahueandassociates.com/sfo-wayfindi...

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SFO Wayfinding | LaHue And Associates

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Jason Isaac @jasonisaacdrums.heads.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

Hello from the top of the Empire State Building, where I am running WNYC's overnight programming from our little backup studio in the sky while Con Ed is doing work at our main studio downtown. #WNYC #radio #NYC

A photo of the view out the window of WNYC's transmitter room at the top of the Empire State Building, looking downtown towards lower Manhattan, all lit up on a Friday night. One World Trade Center is one of the many landmarks visible in the distance.

A photo of WNYC's backup studio at the top of the Empire State Building. The lights in the room are turned off. A small radio mixing console sits on a desk, with a computer monitor above it which shows the Zetta radio automation system running. A microphone and a laptop running another audio program are also on the desk. Behind all that is a window looking out on lower Manhattan.

A photo of New York Public Radio's transmitter room at the top of the Empire State Building, with several large racks of equipment for the transmitters of WNYC and WQXR. A red WNYC banner (vintage early '00s design) is hanging above a couple of the racks.

A photo from WNYC's transmitter room at the top of the Empire State Building, showing a King Kong doll on a shelf above some small equipment drawers containing various types of screws.

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

the juvenile ones are called axolittles

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 19/05/2024

The iMac cube was not a success.

A photo of an Apple iMac cube. It looks to be a 27” screen model that goes as far back as it is wide and high. It looks neither elegant or stable.

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Alex Sirota @alex.sirota.org · 17/05/2026

sister you might be on whatever the newest Scooby-Doo series is

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Alex Sirota @alex.sirota.org · 15/05/2026

You may have thoughts on etherCON. It's 8P8C in an XLR shell, often used in live production (lighting, sound, video, etc). www.neutrik.com/en/products/...

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etherCON®

The etherCON Series is a ruggedized and lockable RJ45 connector system, optimized for pro audio, video and lighting network applications.

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ApocalypticaNow @apocalypticanow.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Unmedicated ADHD: my plans for today are none of my business

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 29/12/2025

Shel Silverstein’s short poem Homework Machine (1981) was prescient about the limitations of LLMs. “I guess it’s not as perfect / As I thought it would be.” [kottke.org]

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The Imperfect Homework Machine

Shel Silverstein’s Homework Machine was one of my kids’ favorite poems of his when they were little. First published in 1981, the short poem turned out to be rather prescient about AI, especially the earlier LLMs, whic

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 20/07/2025

It is *bananas* that they would give vibe coding tools (and _Replit_, of all platforms 🤣) production deploy access! With no backups! We gave better backup tools to teenagers on Glitch remixing apps a decade ago.

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered. Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again. Their inaction is deadly.

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Alex Sirota @alex.sirota.org · 18/06/2025

Never mind! As it turns out, they removed the arbitration clause from their terms in 2021: www.nytimes.com/2021/07/22/b... (gift link)

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Amazon Ends Use of Arbitration for Customer Disputes (Published 2021)

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Alex Sirota @alex.sirota.org · 18/06/2025

(saw your post in the disability feed) Sadly, that's probably not feasible. Amazon almost certainly has a "all disputes must be resolved through arbitration" clause in their terms of service.

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dame @dame.is · 14/06/2025

thread of photographs i took at my local protest (3) this trump supporter was the only counter-protestor i saw, and the police forced him to stand on the other side of a creek far away from the crowd of thousands — all alone, he helplessly kept trying to shout "you are the minority!"

A person stands partially hidden among dense, lush green foliage, holding a megaphone up to their mouth. They wear a red hat and a light-colored shirt with bold writing, though the text is not fully legible from the distance. The person appears to be speaking or shouting through the megaphone, positioned in the center of the frame and surrounded by tall plants and overgrown vegetation. In the background, a small patch of open grassy field is visible beyond the thick greenery. The scene evokes a feeling of someone broadcasting a message from a secluded or unexpected place.

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Alex Sirota @alex.sirota.org · 14/06/2025

I did take the stickers off Also scoring the sticker doesn't really do anything, they're already fairly brittle as-is

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Alex Sirota @alex.sirota.org · 14/06/2025

Put the new registration sticker on @josh.sirota.org's car today, and wow the thickness of the stickers really adds up.

A stack of removed registration stickers, thicker than a coin, held in front of a license plate with a 2008 registration sticker showing. A new sticker, waiting to be peeled, is visible in the bottom corner.

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

*NEW LAWSUIT ALLEGES 80'S BAND STARSHIP VIOLATED NUMEROUS BUILDING CODES

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Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious @rachellense.bsky.social · 14/06/2024

I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

A pride flag with every color band represented by a NASA image. White is Earth clouds, pink is aurora, blue is the Sun in a specific wavelength, brown is Jupiter clouds, black is the Hubble deep field, red is the top of sprites, orange is a Mars crater, yellow is the surface of Io, green is a lake with algae, blue is Neptune, and purple is the Crab Nebula in a specific wavelength.

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Alex Sirota @alex.sirota.org · 28/05/2025

What do you think of mine?

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Alex Sirota @alex.sirota.org · 20/05/2025

You are limited to non-commercial use on the free version (unless you're a student or educator), and all your documents have to be public, but depending on what you're using it for that may be fine.

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Alex Sirota @alex.sirota.org · 20/05/2025

Onshape? It's web-based but surprisingly cromulent despite that. I've used it a ton and haven't seen any issues that I can attribute to the browser environment

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Tom Broderick @trumbullbrod.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

One of the most frustrating things about US car culture is that there’s no “opt-out.” Even if you choose to live car-free in a dense city, not only will you have other people’s noisy vehicles polluting your streets, but drivers will also demand access to *every last space.* A 🧵 on CT car culture/

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Alex Sirota @alex.sirota.org · 09/05/2025

@aviva.gay I think this is a deer.social feature request

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Alex Sirota @alex.sirota.org · 28/04/2025

No, or at least not visibly.

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Alex Sirota @alex.sirota.org · 24/04/2025

what a ride it was at FIRST championships. even though we didn't make it to the playoffs, it was amazing to show off what we could do on the global stage. couldn't have asked for a better way to cap off not only the season, but my career as a student in FIRST. (also I got to meet @reeseric.ci irl)

Top-down photo of a table with various buttons and stickers scattered on it. At the top of the frame is a name badge with assorted other accoutrements attached to it, including about 10 ribbons.

A panoramic shot from the bleachers of the championship venue, showing a long line of identical robotics playing fields.

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Alex Sirota @alex.sirota.org · 14/04/2025

that looks really cool, if you showed that to me I would not say that came out of Onshape

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Alex Sirota @alex.sirota.org · 09/04/2025

(These photos were both taken by myself!)

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Alex Sirota @alex.sirota.org · 09/04/2025

My #frc team (6238 Popcorn Penguins) just qualified for the championship for the first time in our 8-year history! I'm so proud of this team and our scrappy little algae bot.

A photo of an FRC robot extending its metal elevator mechanism upward, in preparation to place the piece of PVC pipe it holds on top of the metal structure at right.

A motion-blurred photo of an FRC robot picking up a large teal playground ball. The robot is clear, but everything around it is blurred.

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Alex Sirota @alex.sirota.org · 21/03/2025

New banner! This is my #frc team's (6238 Popcorn Penguins) robot completing a climb. It's hanging from a small piece of truss that's only a few inches off the ground. Photo shot by me, 2025-03-16. CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

A robot with blue bumpers with the number 6238 printed on them hangs above a carpeted floor. The robot is suspended by a blue metal cage-like structure attached at the back.

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Alex Sirota @alex.sirota.org · 12/03/2025

I'd bet that's why. There's no way they'd make a change like this a propos of nothing

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Why did we get "pilled" and "coded," "fangled" was right there.

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

I imagine most anyone who follows transit-focused accounts knows this, but I figured I would write this little thread for those who may be less familiar with these issues. We have chosen to make cars easy and transit hard. We could reverse that and increasingly I think we should.

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Alex Sirota @alex.sirota.org · 29/01/2025

Great challenge - I nominate Santé by Stromae (🇧🇪/🇫🇷): youtu.be/P3QS83ubhHE?...

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Stromae - Santé (Official Video)

YouTube video by StromaeVEVO

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Alex Sirota @alex.sirota.org · 13/01/2025

Can't wait for this to trickle to 95!

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Alex Sirota @alex.sirota.org · 08/01/2025

@bsky.support get on this, i need to see @/goodlordwhatishappeninginthere.auroraborealis.uhauroraborealis.atthistimeofyearatthistimeofday.inthispartofthecountry.localizedentirelywithinyourkitchen.yes.mayiseeit.no.seymourthehouseisonfire.nomotheritsjustthenorthernlights.borealis.gay in all xyr glory

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Alex Sirota @alex.sirota.org · 31/12/2024

Here's a photo I took! This was taken as an assignment to show texture as an artistic element, but I think it stands well on its own. Shot by me, September 10, 2024. CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0. #photography

A photo of a field of dark-red wood chips. A single white feather is in the center, providing contrast while breaking up the chaos of the chips.

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Alex Sirota @alex.sirota.org · 24/12/2024

Good question, I'm not that sure myself

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Alex Sirota @alex.sirota.org · 21/12/2024

I lost Mariahgeddon (is there a better name?) before Thanksgiving. Curse you, Wingstop

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 18/12/2024

buying a big weirdly shaped electronic gizmo is a humbling reminder this is a cardboard engineer's world and we're just living in it

two enormous precisely engineered cardboard pylons

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Alex Sirota @alex.sirota.org · 15/12/2024

I decided to put "Bring it!" - Sam Buttrey

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Alex Sirota @alex.sirota.org · 14/12/2024

I know that feeling very well. Except in our case, it wasn't kind enough to throw an error code - the compressor motor seized, overcurrented, burnt its own wires off, and caused a short circuit.

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Alex Sirota @alex.sirota.org · 07/12/2024

I use useclear.com since it's super low-friction - I can just pull up the app from my dock and tap to add something

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Download Clear: Uniquely Charming Lists for iPhone. Now 100% Free!

The new Clear is out. Available on the Apple Appstore now.

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