iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

I have this weird personal dynamic where I feel fractured and yet everyone tells me that they don’t think that about me.

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It's about time we started paying teachers more and generally valued education more. (I say as I enter this field.) I feel like the left has a hard time coming up with positive visions of the future and education requires discussion of curriculum and what we actually want to focus on moving forward.

Yes, the technical achievements of LLMs are impressive, but they are built off of the work of all of us and our ancestors. It will take some time to come to terms with this technology, but we should be honoring our own achievements and building on them in a way that respects ourselves.

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Partly it's fun that these questions on whether computers can think or understand are coming up so strongly right now. I'm reminded of how both chaos theory & quantum mechanics were seen as ways to bring back human properties in deterministic computational systems. Functionalim? I should read more.

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Kastner says that there's non-unitarity built into standard quantum mechanics that shows up in radioactive decay and other processes transactionalinterpretation.org/2026/10/01/q...

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I’m preparing this talk for next week and need to figure out what to say about the quantum industry… How do we create an on-ramp to this career for students with a wide range of backgrounds and experiences?

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Concept map for European Competence Framework for Quantum Technologies qtedu.eu/european-com...

1)Concepts and foundations
2)Physical foundations of quantum technologies
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3) Enabling Technologies and techniques
4)Quantum Hardware
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5)Quantum computing and simulation
6)Quantum sensors and imaging systems
7)Quantum communication and networks
8)Valorisation

Trying to figure out how to install these drawers. Really not something that comes easilly to me.

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Vance is who doesn’t belong. He’s only where he is for doing the bidding of technofascist Peter Thiel.

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There seems to be a certain group of highly online people who think it’s actually better to never talk to people face to face and to engage with your geographic neighborhood.

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Trump destruction continues

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Roberts should be shamed. Though one does worry about mobs attacking any public servant. Roberts, however is a public disservant.

This guy sounds so reasonable and yet he's spreading the most absurd conspiracy theory. Disturbing.

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I just had a pro-palestine activist person I thought was a friend tell me they couldn't be friends with me if I felt that the Israel-Palestine issue was complicated.

The ugly interface between antizionism and antisemitism. I’ve been struggling with this dynamic myself recently.

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I got some help putting this rack together from NavePoint. We’ll have three of these with drawers to store optics parts in for the lab.

Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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This is demoralizing. I love science as much as anyone--and have spent a good part of my career defending it--but if we (should have) learned anything from the Covid-19 pandemic, it's that natural science without humanistic perspectives often fails to hit its mark. news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

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Harvard launches $150 million research initiative— Harvard Gazette

University plans range of awards in basic and applied science, seeking to meet "moment of remarkable opportunity."

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And to go one level further, we are in the midst of a climate crisis along with many other crises: a polycrisis. I continue to like the framing of our time as entering a new epoch of the anthropocene: a new relationship between humanity and earth and the rest of life needs to be negotiated.

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Of course, all of this is also in this context of our country trying to hang on to democracy, to make it through another election and get ourselves back on track, while we have a historically destructive criminal liar in the top position. One needs some solid ground from which to work in this mess.

Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Sometimes the complexity of it all seems like too much. I listen to audio journals and try to get a handle on what I'm taking on and what my responsibilities are now. I seem vague and not very targeted. Yet, I try to remember that I do have a track record of bringing things together.

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I wrote about those who are being forced by events to see at least some of the damage Trump is doing, and the ways that his skyrocketing unpopularity opens doors for the rest of us.

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Opening the blinds

Authoritarians reveal themselves, even to followers who prefer not to see.

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Can't think of any reporter who speaks for me more than this guy— a Canadian. "Hundreds of hours immersed in Trump’s rhetoric has given me some insights and personal opinions about the nature of his lying, how it is received by the public and how it is covered..." www.cnn.com/2026/09/27/p...

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I started fact-checking Trump 10 years ago. Here are 15 things I’ve learned | CNN Politics

Ten years ago this month, in my old job as Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star, I started what I believed would be a quick little side project: fact-checking underdog presidential candidate ...

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

FWIW, I think a fuckup on this scale in time to wreck them electorally was *almost* inevitable from Day 1, precisely because this is the Special Birthday Boy presidency in which there are almost no limits on Trump's madness and every proposed policy disaster has a real shot at going all the way.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"

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The Cassandra Files (I told you so) @triedtowarnyou.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Jack Smith's hearing is timed exquisitely. Why? Because many MAGAs can now see what a lying crook Trump is and Jack Smith is there to confirm it just in time for elections. Some will never believe it but many right now are just getting in touch with the reality of what Trump truly is: a criminal.

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Stan Marsh: I Think I Understand Now

ALT: Stan Marsh: I Think I Understand Now

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I sometimes struggle with following up with people because I don't want to overcommit and yet I want to value and keep the connection. I don't always know what's the right amount of information to share regarding the vagueness of making a plan maybe a few weeks out.

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Thank you for this, Mayor Mamdani

I wish I were more excited by this technology. I just currently feel that no good can come of such things. But really one doesn't know where these things lead, and if we listen to our wiser sides, and tap into our communities of tech and social scholarship, maybe we do find a path forward.

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We do need to figure out how to undo the ratchet and dismantle ICE and DHS, or the ratchet will just slow down, and get back to moving forward again.

I've been listening to an audiobook of Don Miguel Ruiz's "The Four agreements". My brother has found a lot of meaning from this book. He often quotes the part about how poison gossip can be, and uses it to say he doesn't want to speak about other people when they're not there.

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Boaz Nash @boazhsan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Again and again, we see the villains of a few decades ago turning out to be not quite as big villains as those that came after.

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I’m starting to try to fit this quantum technician course into the Colorado Community College System, Common Course Numbering System, aka the CCCS CCNS. Here’s a course called “Conceptual Physics w/ Lab” to model after courses.cccs.edu/course/e4abb...

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CCNS - Course Detail

Long Title: Conceptual Physics with Lab: GT-SC1

Boaz Nash @boazhsan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Mango chicken curry at Pad Thai in Denver

Heart shape rice and bowl of mango chicken curry, and glass of water on wood table with patterned cloth

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Boaz Nash @boazhsan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Though also tiring, I had some good discussion about Gendlin and A Process Model and connection to quantum mechanics today. We were thinking about whether there's any experiential model for a quantum computer. Can we connect the concept of eveving in APM to entanglement?

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Boaz Nash @boazhsan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A few mushrooms, not many edible. Above Jamestown.

Boaz Nash @boazhsan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A few mushrooms, not many edible. Above Jamestown.