iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.

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Bill Flarsheim @billflarsheim.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I’ve rented that movie back in the day. I think it’s great.

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Bill Flarsheim @billflarsheim.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The PSM Standard has not stopped all chemical accidents, but it’s a big improvement on the ad hoc systems in place before. At this point, AI may not be fully controllable, but developers appear to still be using ad hoc controls instead of a multilayer, systematic approach with regular reviews.

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Bill Flarsheim @billflarsheim.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I’m sure you a correct, thorough 300 char limit hurt my clarity. The PSM Standard requires 14 specific management elements to be in place for users of hazardous chemicals. I think a similar approach makes sense for AI, rather than the government trying to develop proscriptive controls.

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Bill Flarsheim @billflarsheim.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Like AI, chlorine gas and acrylic acid can escape containment and kill people. Regulate AI like Process Safety Management (29CFR1910.119). Require management to build AI controls that work, maintain them, and audit the results. If they can build AI, they can control it. They just don’t want to.

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Bill Flarsheim @billflarsheim.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

US baseball would be so much better with relegation and promotion.

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Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

גמר טוב וצום קל לכולם

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Bill Flarsheim @billflarsheim.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Can't believe (except it's typical) I left out the word "trip".

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Bill Flarsheim @billflarsheim.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Unfortunate, but enjoy your anyway.

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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 18/09/2026

They really turned the internet into a distortion machine. Rendering it useless to sane people. Nobody is interested in a virtual fun house mirror where we have to wonder, with every scroll, whether something is real. Pt 1.

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Bill Flarsheim @billflarsheim.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

No understanding of the properties of wood, just word statistics.

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Bill Flarsheim @billflarsheim.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Trivial example, but basic. I Googled pilot hole size for a #6 screw. AI summary said 3/32" for softwood and 5/64" for hardwood. Sites differ with a range of 1/16" to 3/32" for softwood and 5/64" to 7/64" for hardwood, but the softwood hole is always smaller. That's fundamental, but AI reversed it.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 19/09/2026

𝕃𝕒𝕒𝕒𝕒𝕒𝕕𝕚𝕖𝕤 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕘𝕖𝕟𝕥𝕝𝕖𝕞𝕖𝕟, 𝕚𝕥’𝕤 𝕥𝕚𝕞𝕖 𝕗𝕠𝕣 𝕒𝕟𝕠𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣 𝕘𝕒𝕞𝕖 𝕠𝕗…

Man standing in front of big neon sign that says “is that good?” As the crowd chants the same. Art by Mattie lubchansky

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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The best way to understand the American Jewish community is that we are, in the aggregate, a group of liberals whose institutions are largely controlled by a much smaller faction of very well-funded conservatives

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Bill Flarsheim @billflarsheim.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I remember when pumps maxed out at 99.9 cents in the 1970s. History rhymes.

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Bill Flarsheim @billflarsheim.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I remember when gas stations pumps were maxing out at 99.9 cents in the 1970s. History rhymes.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It's a scandal that the president of the United States is out of his damn mind. It's also a scandal that major news media aren't telling you that, loudly and often.

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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 08/09/2026

Louisville jail spokesman denies the allegations in the CJ story: "The Louisville Metro Department of Corrections has reviewed security camera footage and there is zero evidence that this happened. We will provide more details soon."

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

“NIOSH researchers found that working veteran underground coal miners in central Appalachia are suffering from the incurable and fatal lung disease at the highest rates in nearly 50 years.” www.npr.org/2026/08/05/n...

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Black lung rates in Appalachia are high as the 1970s, with thousands of miners sick

Rates are now the highest they've been in nearly 50 years among veteran coal miners. Mining experts blame toxic silica dust, now more common in mines.

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The Good Mim 🫘 @shashi1121.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Spoke with a member of the military who just arrived home on leave from the gulf. Verified his norm meal of a scoop of rice, ketchup, Mayo. Sometimes mashed potatoes. Food rationing all the time. Horrid conditions. Have loved this kid since he was 3. My rage keeps escalating. Yours should too.

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Bill Flarsheim @billflarsheim.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I could laugh off the five stars, plenty of tin pot dictators wear them, but I would piss on my mother’s grave before I would pretend I deserved a Medal of Honor.

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Bill Flarsheim @billflarsheim.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

A good manager know what their employees are doing because they talk to them and treat them like fellow human beings.

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Bill Flarsheim @billflarsheim.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

How about raising the minimum wage to $20/hr and bringing back the enhanced child tax credit so people afford used cars without a loan?

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Bill Flarsheim @billflarsheim.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Good grief! John Connolly made more sense.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 14/08/2026

Two married professors and their son are being held in ICE detention, despite being legal permanent residents and having no criminal records. All, apparently, because their mom/MIL was a translator for the Iranian hostage takers in 1979, before they were even born. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention

My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.

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Bill Flarsheim @billflarsheim.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Congradulations for achieving this.

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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 10/08/2026

I absolutely love this idea Ban all the CRAP

sek / art arc
@SekAndTheCity

It's time for a change.

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I am starting a petition to
no longer refer to Al "art"
as Al art but instead as
Computer-Rendered
Artificial Pictures (CRAP).

Pass it on.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 09/08/2026

“America Will Never Be the Same”? Neither will my definition of shitshow. Y’all gotta see this video. Priceless. ☠️ 😂

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Bill Flarsheim @billflarsheim.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I signed permits for people to work in tanks and equipment that had previously held acid, required suits because there was still acid, or were still cooling from 1500 degF. Sometimes, I went in too. Good procedures minimized risk, but still a lot more risk than making bets on November pork bellies.

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Bill Flarsheim @billflarsheim.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

He might get less awful. There’s a lot of chilled champagne in this country waiting for that. I actually think Rs might discover the 25th amendment on Jan 21, 2026. (Vance holding back for now to get 2 1/2 terms.) We’ll see.

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Bill Flarsheim @billflarsheim.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

There’s a super fancy, old hotel there, but there are lots of other guest houses and bed and breakfast places that are affordable to middle class folks. My wife and I spent two nights on Mackinaw on our honeymoon. We splurged for a dinner at the Grand Hotel, but stayed at an ordinary B&B.

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Bill Flarsheim @billflarsheim.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I haven’t heard this one in a while, but it’s a great one and timeless.

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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Abdul El-Sayed on capitalism: “I’m capitalist who just knows about capitalism. I have a bad habit of reading, I’m so sorry.”

We’ve spoken about capitalism versus socialism.

Do you want to talk about capitalism? Let’s talk about capitalism. Are you recording? Capitalism is about leveraging the laws of supply and demand to efficiently allocate capital expenditure to maximize value. When capitalism works, it’s because you have free entry and exit into markets. So if you believe in capitalism, you have to believe in government regulation to protect markets. In fact, right now, we have exactly the opposite. You don’t have to be a socialist to believe that you should be taxing billionaires their wealth. In fact, if you are a capitalist, you should believe in that. So, I’m capitalist who just knows about capitalism. I have a bad habit of reading, I’m so sorry.

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Bill Flarsheim @billflarsheim.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The article says it's worth $2 million, which goes a long way in Kansas. From the description, it's more of a big house on a lot of land than a stereotypical mansion. It also sounds like he lives there and not in Iowa.

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Kentucky Public Radio @kentuckypublicradio.org · 30/07/2026

After being detained at the Louisville Airport, friends and family say a Kentucky jail is holding Sarafinah Bukirwa for federal immigration charges and isn’t giving her proper care – as she has sickle cell anemia and is now in a health crisis. From @justinhicks.lpm.org

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Woman detained by ICE at Louisville airport says she isn’t receiving needed medical care

After being detained at the Louisville Airport, friends and family say a local jail is holding Sarafinah Bukirwa for federal immigration charges and isn’t giving her proper care – now she’s in a healt...

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Bill Flarsheim @billflarsheim.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I don’t think it ends in 5 days. If El-Sayed wins the primary, I suspect the AIPAC money just switches to Mike Rogers.

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Bill Flarsheim @billflarsheim.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Living in the right bubble will do it.

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Bill Flarsheim @billflarsheim.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

He’d left U of Mich after 3 years when his father died. I think he was doing advertising for Piggly Wiggly. Next year he will marry my grandmother and go to work for her brother, who was running the family’s women’s clothing and shoe store. Did buying and marketing for 34 years.

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Kyle Goon @kylegoon.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

In February, USA Rugby banned trans women from all levels of one of the world’s most inclusive sports. What happened next was telling. Across the country, teams refused to comply. The story of the Baltimore Ferals, who are pushing back: www.thebanner.com/sports/rugby...

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