iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

"cream of meat" is a paradigm shift

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thank god daylight saving starts this weekend. 5:30am sunrise makes my cat extra demanding for breakfast

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what's with straight fitness influencers and their crucifixes

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kinda wild that I have no overseas trip lined up. main reason is I'm gunning to travel with a friend next time around, so waiting for that to line up

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have spent most of the day hanging with a friend complaining and being able to go "uuugghhhhhhhhh" and i can feel that i have unwound the tension that has been keeping me from relaxing for four or five days

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Sam 🎉 @anoddgeography.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

was thinking about taking today off work, but instead i'm wfh and discovering both supervisor and manager are off, so essentially i'm taking it off, too

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6:52pm and I think I want to be in bed already talk about emotional hangovers

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Sam 🎉 @anoddgeography.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I can't believe how bad it's been the last few nights... Like, wow. I'm beyond exhausted

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Sam 🎉 @anoddgeography.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

got my first three hours of sleep and it's only 1am now so less stress getting the rest

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Sam 🎉 @anoddgeography.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Did 22k steps today and just put away a large burrito as if my name was holenextdoor but the hole was my mouth

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Sam 🎉 @anoddgeography.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

what's my body count?? i don't think i should be sharing how many people i've killed

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took magnesium glycinate and melatonin and got three hours sleep, awake at 1am feeling thirsty but don't want to fill my bladder, body sore, sinuses fucked despite rinsed, oiled, and air purifier on. I am 🫩

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ugh. one of my cat posts broke containment and the normies are commenting. *Mute*

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I think we don't thank the passage of time enough for the fact no one talks about Myers Briggs personality types anymore

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i threw my phone on the bed and now my cat is using it as a pillow. i'd take a pic, but, y'know... it's now a pillow

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absolutely destroyed by that, by the end I was pale and my buddy kept suggesting lower weights... Lack of sleep and not enough food are not a great combo

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going to leg day with gym buddy this arvo and I'm so tired I don't know if I can do it

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all my cat wants is to sit/lie next to me on couches and the bed 🥺

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Omg a Cain Culto and Lido Pimienta collaboration

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

what an absolute clunker of a sleep, wtaf

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God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

fun fact about yesterday: I accidentally spent $19 on toothpaste, but it's a fancy (?) brand and licorice flavour and I record it as a self care purchase

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Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

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USAmericans hit their peak with the combination of peanut butter with jam

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look, this whole taking a photo of yourself thing is difficult, ok

Photo of me standing against a wall wearing black tee and jorts

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ok, let's see if I can outsource this. I'm putting together a red flag/green flag activity and want to include experiences on apps like gr*ndr. what's something that's a red or green flag for you on these apps? AND DON'T SAY SOMETHING THAT'S UNIVERSALLY HATED/APPRECIATED

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look, this whole taking a photo of yourself thing is difficult, ok

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enjoying the low key flirting between me and the other org staff member helping me out with a workshop tonight 👀

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