iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 24/09/2026

Social sucks now. What if we just stopped? dansinker.com/posts/2026-0...

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What If We Just Stopped? | dansinker.com

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Brian Boyer @brianboyer.net · 22/09/2026

The kid likes funk with her oatmeal and I’ve succeeded as a father.

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Brian Boyer @brianboyer.net · 21/09/2026

And eeeeeeverybody wanted one

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kate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net · 21/09/2026

architecture is finally good again. I’ve waited my entire career for this

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Brian Boyer @brianboyer.net · 16/09/2026

Tomato alert! Tried some pickled (lacto-fermented, I think?) tomatoes from Ukraine in this week’s bean soup and wow! They’re awesome!

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Brian Boyer @brianboyer.net · 15/09/2026

Yeah it’s not great... I recently listened to the 40th anniversary release of Brothers in Arms, and the second disc is an amazing live recording from 1985.

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Brian Boyer @brianboyer.net · 14/09/2026

Ain’t perfect but makes me the least crazy

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Brian Boyer @brianboyer.net · 14/09/2026

Deli tubs for most stuff, all sizes stack compactly. (Purchased new, never heated.) Plus a handful of cambros for when you need the capacity.

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SK @sk-76.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Hot dog stand, Dearborn Street near Randolph Street, Chicago (ca. 1960s) Stephen Deutch, Chicago History Museum

Night time view of illuminated fast food take out restaurant with sign over the door "The Saucee Weenie" and signs advertising Pancho 25 cents and ...nchero 19 cents. A blonde woman in high heels is seen standing at the counter.

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Brian Boyer @brianboyer.net · 10/09/2026

This week's @newsproduct.org newsletter, written by @donohoe.dev about the @restofworld.org registration wall, is a damn fine read on data-driven decision making. mailchi.mp/newsproduct/...

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Product Notes: What Rest of World learned in its first 3 months with a registration wall

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Brian Boyer @brianboyer.net · 10/09/2026

Or, less perfect, but still great and you don’t need to special order: a kidney bean en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidney_...

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Kidney bean - Wikipedia

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Brian Boyer @brianboyer.net · 10/09/2026

One quibble: While I greatly appreciate the versatility of the mighty mayocoba, al dente (slightly undercooked and firm) beans are not delicious. Choose a different bean for salad. An ayocote, perhaps.

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Brian Boyer @brianboyer.net · 03/09/2026

That time of year when the sunrise and my alarm line up for a bit.

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Deb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

If you need further incentive to (re-)read this series, the back/letter pages are excellent and I got to write a short essay on gender schemas which was paired with the narrative of a promising young engineer for issue #6.

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Brian Boyer @brianboyer.net · 30/08/2026

“Topic-wise, this is probably the sexiest song of the night. It’s about urban planning” — @tedleo.bsky.social

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Brian Boyer @brianboyer.net · 30/08/2026

It’s a beautiful night and they sound great

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Brian Boyer @brianboyer.net · 28/08/2026

Nice to see the old Archeworks ship still sailing.

A squat building among high rises, the corner facing us looks like the prow of a ship, and a line of windows close to the roofline reinforces the effect.

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john j. kim @jkimpictures.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Chicago Water Works oil slick 🟧🟩🟪🟨🟦 #ManholeCoverMonday 📷 2010

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Brian Boyer @brianboyer.net · 19/08/2026

Today’s thrift store score.

Today’s Gourmet I and II, cookbooks by Jacque Pepin

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 15/08/2026

Thank you to everyone sharing this story. We can only presume this agent will return to Chicago soon. Quite a lot that had to be left out for brevity's sake, but of note: he has repeatedly called the agents working with him "my guys," definitely indicating he's some kind of team lead.

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RoseMarie @rosesbloom24.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Two Black mayors took cities that the country loves to write off and made them measurably safer. That’s not a fluke. That’s a blueprint. Chicago and Baltimore just posted numbers that should be front-page news. They’re not. We need to talk about why. 🧵 www.theroot.com/opinion-blac...

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

as a journalist who has been writing about surveillance and alprs for years, i’m glad to see concerns about flock have finally broken into the mainstream. but i think many folks are missing the bigger picture: the ways various tech works together to surveil us. chicagoreader.com/news/reader-...

Larger than any one technology are fears about the increasing collection and centralization of private data. The tendency in modern policing toward "data-driven" solutions purports to make law enforcement less violent, cops more efficient, and communities safer. In reality, the explosion of unchecked state surveillance has enabled police at all levels to amass troves of personal information on private citizens. Now, a new wave of tools, including BriefCam, seeks to use AI to make sense of it all. These programs are often administered in secrecy and without oversight, accountability, or evidence that they even work, as President Donald Trump has, in recent years, limited administrative safeguards and invested tens of millions into a surveillance state with reduced privacy rights.

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are you not infotained @alopex-ii.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Trib Ed board deciding how to react to young people downtown

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Lady Topham Catt @ladytophamcatt.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

This is a joke, but also not a joke. Everything in this post used to be in or on a Chicago building, but now sits in the City Museum. And I'm not even getting into their Louis Sullivan collection, which is beyond belief.

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Beautiful Women Updates @aoife.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Illinois should legitimately issue birth certificates for trans people born in states that will not do so "sorry about your old state congratulations you were born in Illinois now"

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.

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Joe Germuska @joe.germuska.com · 31/07/2026

This approach to a data commons could extend to so many typically shared things. For businesses to easily and authoritatively publish things like open hours or product catalogs, discographies, every kind of -ography... creative appmakers could do so much with all that

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 28/07/2026

I would like to bring more of the fruits of the AT Protocol to the people who don't care about protocols, which is most people. www.wrecka.ge/launching-a-...

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Launching a Cloud Atlas

The right questions to arrive with—and the right structure for what comes out of the interviews—are not completely obvious. So I’ve been spending some time thinking about clouds.

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Brian Boyer @brianboyer.net · 28/07/2026

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 25/07/2026

I ask bc it seems to me that we're not going to stabilize democracy without pulling our info ecosystem out of its death spiral, which won't happen if the big platforms retain their monopoly control of social connections. But this appears to be the furthest thing from US leftist and liberal concerns.

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Brian Boyer @brianboyer.net · 24/07/2026

This. And I’m really hoping they don’t fuck it up

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Brian Boyer @brianboyer.net · 24/07/2026

Somebody raise your hand so I don’t have to

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Brian Boyer @brianboyer.net · 23/07/2026

Should be working, found some good rocks.

Four rocks, held in a hand. One is grayish fossilized coral, one is finely speckled red and black, one is an orangey granite and the other is a kind of lumpy two-tone brown.

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I got a nice write-up from KQED! “Colored drips pour down the sides of his panels, but the surfaces are carved smooth with razor blades. The effect is gauzy, dreamy, even as the images he depicts and the language he deploys evoke violence—state sanctioned and otherwise.” YUM.

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We’ve Been Lookin’ for Art in All the Wrong Places

It’s not easy to visit Mike Monteiro’s anti-capitalist paintings, but not all art-viewing should be easy.

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Brian Boyer @brianboyer.net · 21/07/2026

Good news, and I love a FOIA story, but if we lived in New York it’d be on the cool mayor’s Tik Tok

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Eric Erins @ericerins.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

For the hundredth year anniversary of the Aragon I’d recommend listening to this Studs Terkel interview with the son of the man who built it. Wherein they opine on its place in Chicago history when the ballroom was not yet even 40 years old in 1963 studsterkel.wfmt.com/programs/and...

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