iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

So America.gov is out, and it's making me a bit reflective... More than a year ago, the then Secretary of State for Peter Kyle launched the GOV.UK app. It included a digital driving license and damn good AI chat. Now? Somehow, nobody knows about it. It has fewer than 500 reviews. Sigh.

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AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 28/09/2026

Conclusion: damn fools, I'm old. And games are god damn great.

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John Shjarback @shjarback-ccj.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Police body-worn cameras have not been a panacea in reducing police use of force johnshjarback.substack.com/p/police-bod...

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Police body-worn cameras have not been a panacea in reducing police use of force

“What we know”

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AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 28/09/2026

I need more judges for my experiment in AI music composition! Come listen to some pretty eclectic AI music, and tell me which is worse! www.noteduel.com

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AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 27/09/2026

I need more people to come judge AI music! Come vote on NoteDuel, my hot new AI benchmark! www.noteduel.com

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AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 27/09/2026

Jennifer Arcuri and Rupert Lowe ganging up on Boris Johnson truly is the strangest timeline

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AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 22/09/2026

Spent the day doing cool AI shit, now sat in a bar in a arctic seaside down, having a beer and watching Robot Wars. This forward deployed engineering malarkey ain't half bad.

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AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 19/09/2026

I humbly present my contribution to the WoW Forever discourse.

Two-panel Top Gear meme: Jeremy Clarkson praises World of Warcraft Forever as “brilliant,” then points to Star Wars Galaxies Forever and says, “But I like this.

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AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 30/08/2026

The Telegraph asking the tough questions

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AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 26/08/2026

So the Control Resonant ZA-UM Atelier collaboration is disgustingly godamn badass. Do I want a cold weather hat? I think I want a cold weather hat. atelier.zaumstudio.com/collections/…

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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Good article from @jamesomalley.co.uk on why we need to be powering ahead on industrial scale solar. Perplexing that the Greens are trying to block these project especially as sight of a renewables future is already on our near horizons

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AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 07/08/2026

So, erm, for those who missed it, Grok is now straight up sexting people publicly on Twitter, and it's a vibe

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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 02/08/2026

The PC Gaming cambrian explosion began 13 years ago. Up until July 2013, there were 10-30 releases on Steam every month. Now there are *thousands*, a number that is still growing constantly. And I have dedicated myself to trying to keep track of what's happening, because I am apparently an idiot.

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AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 26/07/2026

I've started migrating from Openvibe to Flare. OpenVibe has just been such crap, and at least this is being actively developed. I continue to be sad there isn't a first class web app for ActivityPub/Bsky unified timeline :(

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AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 19/07/2026

The end of #emfcamp always leaves me so weirdly emotional. There's nowhere quite like it (trust me, I've looked). Well done crew (and campers), you're all bloody wonderful.

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AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 17/07/2026

It's day 1 of EMF and I worry we've reached the end of days, for there's no more Club Mate at the Robot Arms #emfcamp

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AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 16/07/2026

The Meshtastic Nodeice Board at #emfcamp 2026 is popping!

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AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 16/07/2026

The Meshtastic "Nodeice Board" is live at #EMFCamp ! Message "!help" to get started!

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AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 16/07/2026

Mate acquired, DECT phone registered, tent pitcher. #EMFCamp 2026, I am officially in you.

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AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 11/07/2026

My #Meshtastic "Nodeice Board" is all ready to rock and roll for #emfcamp 2026 (with gratuitously Club Mate cameo)!

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AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 08/07/2026

At the risk of sounding facile... We know how to deal with this, right? It's a final grade that combines take home with written exams. This was the norm when I graduated 15 years ago... Do universities just not do those anymore?

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AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 07/07/2026

Got curious and thought I'd check if the decrease in fertility might be linked to violent crime trends in some weird way. Sadly, probably not.

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AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 05/07/2026

Sometimes, I randomly remember how hard the original Cyberpunk 2077 trailer slapped. Absolutely no right to go this hard. www.youtube.com/watch?v=P99q...

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Cyberpunk 2077 Teaser Trailer

YouTube video by Cyberpunk 2077

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AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 01/07/2026

Today in "why the UK is borked": our inability to pass e-scooter legislation. "The trials were originally due to run for around 1 year until November 2021, but they have since been extended five times and are currently due to conclude in May 2028." assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/68d3f1...

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AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 29/06/2026

So Hermes agent recently released integrations with Petdex, which means my Pimoroni Presto display now has a super cute little dude on it and I am beyond pleased with myself.

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AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 26/06/2026

Holy crap how are our London buses how terribly air conditioned?!

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AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 14/05/2026

In my mind, this is a Ben Swain moment.

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Sarah Rose @thesarahrose.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

The good taxpayers of New York have given me a pair of Meta glasses because I am low vision disabled, and I seem to have used them more than a lot of people on here, so let me say a little about my experiences:

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Robert Smith @bondhack.ft.com · 09/04/2026

Hall of fame FT correction

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AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 06/04/2026

So Claude has been utterly crushed by demand this week. Despite the colossal sums spent on data centres and GPUs across the world, we are just not keeping up... and that pretty worrying.

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steve @visitmy.website · 01/04/2026

I’d make the point that government guidance was always read indirectly, atomised, summarised or reinterpreted by people you don’t control. Not everyone reads the page on GOV.‌UK. Its content is rewritten, summarised and atomised all over the place.

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Jonty Wareing @jonty.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Remember my old bot that posted every rejected parliament petition? I've resurrected it on both Bluesky and Mastodon. Let the chaos begin.

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 28/03/2026

Today, we’re excited to introduce Attie, currently as an invite-only closed beta. Attie is the first agentic social app on atproto. It’s something completely new — an experiment in making building on the protocol more accessible.

theliquidfrontier.leaflet.pub

The Future of AI Should Serve People, Not Platforms

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Atmosphere Community @atmosphere.community · 28/03/2026

dame is at #AtmosphereConf and welcoming us to a new era for Anisota! Featuring a hand-carved brand mark, foundations of an immersive game world, swipe gestures, & lots more. Enter the forest: anisota.net

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AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 28/03/2026

So I did something deeply silly/cringe thing with my Hermes Agent: connected it to an old @pimoroni.com Presto I had lying around, and asked it to generate an image of it's internal vibes at random times, using random model. Weirdly enjoying have a little window into the agent that lives in my rpi

A small square display on a desk shows an anime-style woman sitting at a desk in front of a window, with a laptop and a coffee mug beside her. The display is connected by red and white cables to a small computer behind it. The setup sits on a black desk with a ruler, speakers, and other electronics visible in the background.

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Gavin Hales @gmhales.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Some good news: annual theft person offences in Westminster, the national epicentre for those crimes, have fallen by 1/3.

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Strange Scaffold @strangescaffold.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator being the basis for an article titled "Tired of sports betting? Take a punt on babies" in @financialtimes.com is not what any of us expected to find on a Friday but you know, they're not wrong... www.ft.com/content/3927...

This is a segment from an article in The Financial Times about Space Walord Baby Trading Simulator. The text reads...

"The game grows in complexity as you unlock new traders and planets, placing side bets and hiring consultants. You unlock the ability to short the investment, earning money when the baby’s life goes horribly wrong. As satire, this simulator is a blunt instrument. But it demonstrates how games are the perfect medium to skewer our erratic age of crypto, meme stocks and prediction markets by interrogating both the human urge to gamble and the logic behind our sometimes absurd financial systems."

There is also a pull quote saying "Games can be something, like violent or addictive, and also be about that thing - Frank Lantz"

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DuckDB @duckdb.org · 20/03/2026

We're excited to announce duckdb-skills, a DuckDB plugin for Claude Code! We think the embedded nature of DuckDB makes it a perfect companion for Claude in your local workflows. Check out the repository at github.com/duckdb/duckd...

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GitHub - duckdb/duckdb-skills

Contribute to duckdb/duckdb-skills development by creating an account on GitHub.

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ændra. @aendra.com · 20/03/2026

The next Journalism Technology London is happening 21 April! luma.com/qjj9c8d7?tk=... We're actively looking for speakers, if you have something relevant to the journalism technology space you'd like to do a talk on, please DM me!

luma.com

Journalism Technology London Meetup · Luma

Join us for Journalism Technology London Meetup, a series of events aimed at building a community of journalists, technologists, and technical…

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

'The British diaspora in Bahrain' - exotic, rolls off the tongue beautifully. 'British expats in Bahrain' - ugly, feels unpleasant in the mouth, sounds like a bad spin-off to 'Bananas in Pyjamas'.

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 18/03/2026

Britain's geospatial data is a huge mess (FREE TO READ!) takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/britains-g...

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Britain's geospatial data is a huge mess

The Postcode Address File is far from the only problem.

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Jane Ball (living dead girl) @jane.inurhead.lol · 16/03/2026

I created this 3D terrain map to help people visualize Iran's geographic position and its terrain. The Zagros Mountains and the Central Iranian Range dominate from the northwest to the Strait of Hormuz, and the Alborz Mountains run along the Caspian Sea. The low elevations in the east are desert.

3d terrain map of iran with a dark tan to light tan to white color ramp showing the increase in elevation. The majority of Iran's major cities are surrounded by mountains on all sides, demonstrating the extreme difficulty facing any US led military ground action.

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AndreasThinks @andreasthinks.me · 18/03/2026

So I've been trying to figure how much of the OpenClaw hype has been organic versus artificial... And the fact I'm now receiving actual OpenClaw themed crypto scams directly into my GitHub notifications is definitely making me reflect on my priors!

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Tangled @tangled.org · 13/03/2026

alright tanglers, it's back to shipping 🛳️ 🌐 Tangled Sites is here: serve websites straight from your repo. grab your `tngl.io` domain at tangled.org/settings/sites. already have a `tngl.sh` handle? that's your domain—ready to go! 📄 docs.tangled.org/hosting-webs...

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Eris @isolyth.dev · 13/03/2026

Sonnet and Opus both have 1M context now! Even bigger news: tokens past 200k are now billed at the same rate as those prior, it's enabled by default in Claude code, and holy shit does Claude score well in long context benchmarks! It's currently the best at it! (I think) claude.com/blog/1m-cont...

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1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6 | Claude

Standard pricing now applies across the full 1M window for both models, with no long-context premium. Media limits expand to 600 images or PDF pages.

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Ah we can finally say that @jfg.land and I had the real priviledge of working on narrative preproduction for several years on @marathonthegame.bungie.net ; it has an incredible narrative team, and a very special game that takes its narrative very seriously, in a fresh way that honors its unique past

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