iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Bas Grasmayer @bas.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I built a browser extension that turns your distractions into cleaner oceans. 🐳 mindfulblock.calmfluffy.cloud

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Bas Grasmayer @bas.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Hi Bluesky, from Grunewald forest, Berlin. I present to you, a blue sky. With birds to listen to.

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Bas Grasmayer @bas.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Alright. 500 days done. Time to let this app go. Music learning has been fun with Duolingo, but after a few months, I’ve started to plateau. What better song to end it with than The Final Countdown?

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Bas Grasmayer @bas.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

A decade before 'Moltbook', there was SubredditSimulator. www.reddit.com/r/SubredditS...

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Bas Grasmayer @bas.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Meta's Secret Weapon in the AI Race? All Your Personal Data www.cnet.com/tech/service...

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Bas Grasmayer @bas.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Was looking up the lyrics to the Ghostbusters theme...

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Bas Grasmayer @bas.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

My privacy guide for ChatGPT: www.calmfluffy.cloud/p/meta-knows...

Be aware of what you share. Assume that what you disclose may leak. That can be tomorrow, or that can be in 20 years. Keep in mind that even things you type, but don’t end up sharing, may be logged.

Be aware of what you click. Everything you do in the app is tracked, including which links you choose to open, e.g. if you’re doing research.

Avoid sharing information that could be used against you or others, should it become public.

Respect your friends’ privacy. Don’t put their addresses, full names, or other personal info into ChatGPT. Use nicknames to create more ambiguity.

Regularly clean ChatGPT’s memory feature. Does it really need to remember that you went on a holiday to Italy in 2023 with your ex-partner?

Use the temporary chats feature. OpenAI claims these chats won’t be used to train their models, are deleted from OpenAI’s servers after 30 days, and don't show up in your history or memory (source).

Stop OpenAI from using your data for training. You can opt out by using ChatGPT’s data controls. Imagine your private challenges from your Italian holiday somehow making their way into someone’s replies years down the line?

If using third-party apps with ChatGPT, be cautious. This is a Cambridge Analytica scandal waiting to happen all over again.

Keep yourself informed about potential risks. I highly recommend listening to the Darknet Diaries podcast to better understand why your data is valuable to actors with bad intentions, even if you think you have nothing to hide.

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Bas Grasmayer @bas.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Now that's the type of AI chat personality I would actually trust. ChatGPT, on the other hand, is beyond creepy. Especially the recent 'humanized' voice chat. www.businessinsider.com/gemini-self-...

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Bas Grasmayer @bas.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Make more things for people who care. It has never been easier. Let’s make the internet fun again. open.substack.com/pub/calmfluf...

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Bas Grasmayer @bas.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Built a tool over the weekend that turns your #Substack into a link in bio page. stackinbio.calmfluffy.com Works with any substack. And it's free, as it was just a small vibe coding experiment. Enjoy! •‿•

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Bas Grasmayer @bas.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Oh, so I can open the album in Apple Music by first opening iTunes inside Apple Music and then clicking the Listen Now button which takes me back to Apple Music in Apple Music? In most cases, btw. Not in the case of this album. The Listen Now button does nothing when you click it.

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Bas Grasmayer @bas.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Apple Music's interface must be the most confusing out of all streaming services. What do you mean, I can't navigate to the album by clicking on the title? I can't go there via the context menu either? iTunes still exists? Oh, it's the only way to navigate to the album?

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Bas Grasmayer @bas.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

On tech CEOs weak AI memos and the lack of compassion: open.substack.com/pub/calmfluf...

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Bas Grasmayer @bas.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Agree, but surely there must be a more diplomatic way to phrase this, given that many of Ghost's customers probably fall in that group.

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Bas Grasmayer @bas.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Our fertile attention: from Taoism to terrorism open.substack.com/pub/calmfluf...

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Bas Grasmayer @bas.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

I find the AI optimism gap to be such an interesting phenomenon. The disparity among gender is worth noting here, too. www.pewresearch.org/internet/202...

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Bas Grasmayer @bas.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

“It’s easier, physically, to send a message to the other side of the world than it is to tie your own shoe.” The remarkable things we take for granted. From Christine Rosen’s The Extinction of Experience.

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Bas Grasmayer @bas.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

📵 Thx to all the friends who unwillingly take part in my phone-free month experiment… meeting up requires a bit more careful coordination. 😅 Read more here: calmfluffy.substack.com/t/a-month-wi...

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