iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

can I talk about my relationship to tasks? B/c that would be fun

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Belt Publishing @beltpublishing.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There was a needle I was interested in threading but its neither time nor place for that so I’ve deleted 🫡

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The launch event for @awestfell.bsky.social’s upcoming Literary Voyagers is a little over a month out! 11/5! Come out to the Content Bookstore in Northfield at 7:00 PM for a reading from (and celebration of) the new book! It’s free, but RSVP over on their site: contentbookstore.com/events/64014...

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It’s the easiest move to make, but if you spend this much time posting on social media maybe you aren’t so incredibly busy you need help with tasks after all?

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Reading old emails between me and Conor Friedersdorf from 2008 —of which I have no memory! I wrote a piece for him for the very short lived Culture 11 and then submitted a 2nd only to find out the mag had folded. Incredible what one can completly forget!

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I read bios of Altman and Huang and now I need to get up speed on the Amodei siblings. Any recs?

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Isn’t this much like how OpenAI was founded, and Anthropic started when they thought OpenAI had betrayed its principles?

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To be sincere on main: doing meaningful work is more than enough. If you don’t always feel validated or are sometimes resentful of the praise others receive you think you deserve, that’s ok. But if you stay in it for the long run, that head-down meaningfulness will win out

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I don‘t care about citation styles. Sure some might say that’s a professional hazard but whatever. Dash or hyphen or spell out numbers or not what do I care

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Surfaced is the worst fucking verb to use here. Like Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language” times two

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what is this emoji suggestion

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when I was a kid we didn't have "worldbuilding"

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I created for myself a very simple life because I hate gadgets and errands and tasks and stuff. So I have no use for help managing what I don’t have much of, which is what AI is selling me

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I'm reading a lot of takes about how no one is writing long, thoughtful essays--it's just all takes, the take-havers say. To that I say (my take): people are writing them, but take-havers often aren't finding them. That's a notable difference!

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Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

got up early, walked to the further away coffee shop, then walked to office, where I discovered I left my phone at coffee shop. Only way into the office (coworking) is with phone. So walked back to coffee shop, retrieved phone. Now exhausted, ready to go home. moral: never get up early

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Today I obsessively doodled while listening to a million podcasts

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Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I got so upset with ppl saying Slings & Arrows should have been on that list b/c I’m like duh it’s not 21st century so I looked it up so I could smugly own you all but guess what

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Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Truly this one makes me teary —and then Sherrod shows up! One of the rare times the city had a sense of humor about itself

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Cleveland City - We Are Lebron [Stay Lebron Official Song]

YouTube video by Elwn BBvdz

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Kris Wernowsky @kriswernowsky.com · 26/09/2026

There is only one good Cleveland song, and it's "We Are LeBron (Stay LeBron)" recorded by local luminaries. Has it really been 16 years?

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Cleveland City - We Are Lebron [Stay Lebron Official Song]

YouTube video by Elwn BBvdz

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Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Cleveland is a bad song and I‘m disappointed not gonna lie

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Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I watched the first episode of the NIGELLA bake off and then I ate some cake 👍

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I come here to find you all talking about ice coffee?

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New lifegoal banner just dropped

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I’ve barely watched anything with/by Nathan Fiedler b/c I just assume I’d detest him. Maybe I’m wrong I dunno

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Has anyone done an analysis of the style they use to draw these people? like that it’s somehow inherently patronizing?

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OMG this *mailer* I got today

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Belt Publishing @beltpublishing.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

a problem with lots of the (justifiable!) reactions to slop, cognitive offloading, etc is that it seems to be making people nostalgic and (small c) conservative. There is room for *new ideas* too

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Great new podcast/interview with @greatfartsoflit.bsky.social, author of The Trouble with Loving Poets! Among the topics covered: “the importance of writing honestly, where to turn when you stop believing in God, why every child should study linguistics (and logic)” Book info: tinyurl.com/ycymuwzp

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BOOKS ON THE BED | Story Made

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Sneak peek at a new Belt Revival …

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American Folkways series - Wikipedia

More people (including me up until today) should know about the American Folkways Series edited by Erskine Caldwell

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TIL John Dewey’s dissertation on Kant is lost 😞

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I life the opera but lost of my friends do not enough to pay for it, so I buy 2 tickets and take them with me. I’m like a lil’ Mamdani!

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AI hasn’t broken my brain but swear to god the discourse around AI has. I just can’t take it all in, think it through, make a prediction. I’m defeated!

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