iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I was reading someone who put into words a way to discern ai writing (and which also makes AI writing annoying): that it tries to end every paragraph with a mic drop. I had mentally categorized this as "writes like a teenager trying to show off" but this is much more specific.

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Andrew Alden @andrewalden.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Nice to see a @cfarivar.bsky.social byline in my morning paper, an interview with a comic artist about pioneer Black cyclist Major Taylor.

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larry.earth (he/him) 8647 @larry.earth · 19/09/2026

By the way Dr. Hank Desmond is > Professor of Logic at the University of Arkansas College

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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Re This case: Most media are focusing on their own states, but this was a multi-state trip. The person took the whole route of the Southwest Chief, so Illinois through the midwest, then across S. Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona before LA. Then up the coast, and back across on California Zephyr.

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Person with measles rode Amtrak trains and buses across CA, health officials say

The California Department of Public Health said the unvaccinated passenger stopped at six California stations, including downtown Sacramento.

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Andrew Alden @andrewalden.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My brotha! But even the subways don't wrap their cars with ads that block the windows -- while @rideact AC Transit does.

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Andrew Alden @andrewalden.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Yeah well, please stop offering "big bus ads" and "wrapped buses." This isn't Las Vegas. We don't like billboards either.

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Andrew Alden @andrewalden.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I would love it if ACTransit would stop covering bus windows with ads. It's terribly disrespectful of riders. No other form of transportation does it.

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Adriana Valencia for AC Transit Ward 3 2026 @valencia4actransit.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Please read @georgespies.bsky.social 's entire thread. Then, please: vote for me this November. I'm running to make buses work not just for those who are dependent on transit, but for everybody.

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Andrew Alden @andrewalden.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Yep, everyone ignores the elegant multihousing next door

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Andrew Alden @andrewalden.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

time to surround these people's houses

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Andrew Alden @andrewalden.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The bubbling ended without fountaining, so now the area is beautiful glossy pahoehoe.

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Andrew Alden @andrewalden.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Summer's almost gone and I'm not seeing this yet.

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Andrew Alden @andrewalden.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If you average out the gigantic tax cut over every taxpayer . . .

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Andrew Alden @andrewalden.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Page-bottom quote server gave me a Philip K Dick in a dickian coincidence

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TheMikeOpera @themikeopera.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Did you know that TV, as we know it, was invented in San Francisco. Thanks to a tip from author Andrew Alden, you can learn more on my latest #Substack post. tinyurl.com/y656avyr @geology.bsky.social

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Before San Francisco’s Historic LIVE TV Broadcast, It Was Invented in a Lab on Green Street

A reader’s comment about my last post inspired a follow up about the forgotten inventor of the television

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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

In other news, I wrote about Herb Caen in Oakland, because "Herb Caen in Oakland" is literally a set-up to a Herb Caen joke. www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/herb/