iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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KALX Berkeley @kalxberkeley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Up at 7pm, Artificial Go recently rolled through the Bay at Bottom of the Hill and Bartleby was there to get the latest from the 4-piece buff.ly/WKtmM8H

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Artificial Go Interview

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

There is something so unbelievably bleak about an article that calmly walks readers through how to navigate being laid off after 50, losing your health insurance, and somehow surviving the years until Medicare. What a broken country.

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Laid Off After 50, and No Health Insurance? Here’s What to Consider. (Gift Article)

At best, older workers will struggle to find health insurance that bridges the years before they qualify for Medicare at age 65.

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Brian Good @briankgood.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I definitely remember seeing a video for this song on MTV in the early-mid 80s but YouTube doesn't seem to have it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpYp...

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Double Shot of Love

YouTube video by Release - Topic

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 18/09/2026

Another must-read from @ftrain.com, a profoundly informed (and undeceived) writer on all things A.I. (n.b. Paul is an Ellie award-winning writer, an entrepreneur and businessman, an insightful theorist of the internet of the olden time, etc. etc.) www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/o...

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Opinion | A.I. Slopware Is Everywhere Now. Nobody Is Using It. (Gift Article)

Just because A.I. is revolutionizing coding, doesn’t mean it will automatically revolutionize our apps.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026

RFK Jr. wants people to get sick. He wants them to get sick and he thinks it is a good thing if they die, since those who live will have "natural immunity" and emerge stronger and fitter.

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Yale School of Public Health @yalesph.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

A new report from researchers at the Yale School of Public Health warns that the U.S. government’s abrupt cancellation of funding for mRNA vaccine research could have devastating health and economic consequences for the nation.

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New report sounds alarm on health fallout from mRNA vaccine funding cuts

A new report from the Yale School of Public Health warns that the U.S. government’s abrupt cancellation of funding for mRNA vaccine research could have

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Peter Hartlaub @peterhartlaub.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"First note for historians, looking back on Orange Skies Day: Absolutely none of it was cool." My OSD retrospective. With shout outs to @jachristian.bsky.social, Barack Obama and "Blade Runner 2049" cinematographer Roger Deakins. Happy(?) sixth anniversary. 🟧🌁🟧 www.sfchronicle.com/culture/arti...

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The orange skies have faded. But Orange Skies Day is forever

It has been four years since Orange Skies Day in the Bay Area, when wildfires layered with fog and clouds to turn daylight into dystopia. When the day is remembered — and it will be remembered —...

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Just in time for the 2026-2027 vaccines, a new review shows that COVID19 vaccination significantly reduces the risk of severe illness and hospitalization across all age groups, including kids. Pregnant women were also protected, as were their babies. Don’t forget to schedule your vaccination!

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COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness and Safety for the 2026-2027 Respiratory Season

This Special Communication aims to identify and summarize the most recently published evidence evaluating the effectiveness and safety of US-licensed COVID-19 vaccines and report on the epidemiology o...

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Robin Sevakis @jadedsketch.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Wile E. Coyote is doing a reddit AMA right now for Coyote vs ACME and strictly answering through signs, and it's genius.

Wile E Coyote in an office, pointing to a sign he's holding that reads "WE CANNOT JUDGE OUR WORTH ON THE WORK OF OTHERS"

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Back cover band image:

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 31/08/2026

I reiterate that my Supreme Court Expansion plan is to simply switch to a distinctively American Cicada Brood System where we have overlapping panels or “broods” of justices spread over the country, numbered I to XXIII, emerging periodically and consisting of panels of 13, 17, 19, or 23 justices.

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

If you thought my last post didn't have enough birds, or enough math, or enough math about birds, I have the post for you. moultano.wordpress.com/2026/08/14/f...

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Fairly Ranking the Most Brilliant Birds

Finding beautiful birds with data, and the ethics of converting preferences into math

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Brian Good @briankgood.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The Chills "Submarine Bells", bought it in 1990

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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

The year is 2192. The voters of San Francisco are voting on the Great Highway opening up to cars again. No one remembers where this tradition originated, but every year it attracts many tourists from all over the world.

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Joshua Bowman @thalesdisciple.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Working on an A.I. policy for my calculus classes. Decided to be upfront about the current situation with LLMs and to give a heartfelt explanation for why the course still matters.

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Artificial Intelligence, or "A.l.," Is a broad term used to refer to several different kinds of technologies. The kind most relevant to this class are Large Language Models (LLMs), which use mathematics to analyze large amounts of human-produced text and then generate new text that simulates what a human might write in response to prompts or questions. Some examples of LLMs are OpenAl's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, and Google's Gemini.

Current LLMs can provide a solution to any calculus problem I give you. So why should we work on them, you might ask? Here's the thing: for the most part, the problems were already solved anyway. Calculus as a subject is nearly 400 years old. It has reached into virtually every modern scientific and economic field. And while I would like to believe that I have crafted a few new problems with some small amount of originality tailored to this class, for the most part I have curated a collection of exercises drawn from my years of teaching calculus. Those exercises come from textbooks, workshops, friends, and other fields of study, as well as my own invention.
And they nearly all have known solutions, often with fairly standard approaches.
Before A.I. became widely available, you could find those solutions in another textbook, or from a friend's notes, or through a repository on the internet.

The point of this class is not necessarily to solve problems that have never been solved before. It is for you to develop habits of thinking that are used by mathematicians, scientists, and policymakers-to develop a sort of mental toolbox that can be applied to new problems. If along the way you happen to find a new way of solving one of the class exercises, that's great! I am constantly learning new things from my students. But you will be bereft of discovery if you rely on a LLM for solutions to the calculus problems before you. Here I mean the discovery of having your own realizations, crystallizing your own internal understanding, claiming the knowledge in a way that cannot be taken away from you.
That ownership is what I want for you, and that is what the course is built around.

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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 02/08/2026

I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.

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Robert Dallas Gray @robertdallasgray.com · 29/07/2026

brave words the only really great and necessary remix/master I’ve yet heard. turns a disappointing record into what it should have been thechillsmusic.bandcamp.com/album/b…

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Brave Words (Expanded and Remastered), by The Chills

18 track album

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

maggie cheung and tony leung chiu wai in the mood for love

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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Larry laid his mouse in front of the press to be photographed. Lest you ask, this is a real photograph via the Press Association.

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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Can't get numb to this: The United States is stuck in a war it started, cannot end, and may further escalate to no avail, having dismantled its diplomatic apparatus, depleted its military stockpile, and destroyed its credibility. A historic strategic mistake harming millions in many different ways.

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Nonesuch Records @nonesuch.com · 17/07/2026

“She has perhaps the most instantly recognizable guitar sound this side of Jimi Hendrix... It’s not so much that she defies conventional form as that she doesn’t bother with it at all." —DownBeat on @maryhalvorson.bsky.social, its Artist, Group, and Guitarist of the Year downbeat.com/news/detail/...

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Andrew C. Smith @andrewchristophersmith.com · 08/07/2026

Wow this Marianne Amacher book from Blank Forms is pretty incredible as an archival document / artist book. (“Intelligent Life”)

[typewriter sheet with the following text:]

TY CHOLINE is very pleased with his most recent
script - REINDEER EARS!
He is able to HEAR as a
REINDEER HEARS. He's just finished simulating the intricate parameters shaping the REINDEER'S auditory neuroanatomy. He LISTENS to Bach now as a REINDEER. The BIO-MUSIC script is ready to be played on the Home Consoles - to "play" the music of Bach, Mozart, Blondie, whatever music or sound is selected, or spontaneously created, as a REINDEER would HEAR it.

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Jason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 05/07/2026

A $3 @mta.info subway fare and some good Q train timing can buy you one hell of a view of the July 4th fireworks and the Brooklyn Bridge light show! Huge shoutout to the train operator for slow rolling over the Manhattan Bridge and the conductor for announcing it.

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Joshua Kosman @joshuakosman.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

New post at On a Pacific Aisle, with thoughts on Alex Ross, Stéphane Denève, Pride, and more. pacificaisle.substack.com/p/the-loss-o...

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The loss of Ross

The greatest music critic of our time hangs up his cleats

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Climate.us @climate.us · 23/06/2026

Climate.us is live. Built by members of the team behind Climate.gov, this new independent nonprofit website keeps trusted climate information easy to find, easy to use, and harder to erase. #ClimateForUs #ClimateUS

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7/4 @sevenfour.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Morton Feldman Brought the Avant-Garde to the Classical Tradition By George Grella daily.bandcamp.com/lists/morton...

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Morton Feldman Brought the Avant-Garde to the Classical Tradition

The composer's quiet, slow, spacious musical aesthetic is remarkable in music history.

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kororā @davejac.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

My neighbor told me a cat keeps eating his british prime minister so I asked how many PMs he has and he said he just goes to the commons and gets a new PM afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding PMs to a cat and then his daughter started crying.

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Andrea @parramaterial.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

A short series of sound pieces performed in Colchester: each artist takes a 360º spatial audio recording made at locations of 20 paintings by John Constable (recorded by Stuart Bowditch), and creates a live performance in reaction. These are intimate, immersive presentations in situ.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter

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UC Berkeley Labor Center @ucblaborcenter.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Historic cuts to Medicaid and low-cost California health insurance could leave 4.6 million residents with no coverage. A new report from the UC Berkeley Labor Center says the working poor, older workers and undocumented workers could bear the brunt. news.berkeley.edu/2026/06/10/t...

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The number of uninsured Californians could nearly double by 2030, says new report - Berkeley News

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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Edward Luce in the Financial Times about Musk:

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Truly an unreal moment, as a crowd gathers at 10:30pm on a Friday night outside the Kennedy Center as a crew puts up scaffolding to take down Donald Trump’s name.

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Mindy Weisberger @laminda.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Thousands of people are watching this on multiple live feeds; CSPAN has an excellent angle

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Trump Name Removal from Kennedy Center

YouTube video by C-SPAN

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

We have *never* before seen consumer sentiment this low.

Line chart titled "Consumer Sentiment just fell to a (new) all-time low" showing the University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index from 1952 to May 2026. The index plummeted to 44.8 in May 2026, the lowest reading in the survey's 74-year history, falling sharply from 74.0 in December 2024. This marks three consecutive months of decline and drops below all previous crisis lows, including the June 2022 inflation surge low of 50.0 and the April 2020 pandemic low of 71.8, signaling an unprecedented collapse in consumer confidence.

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Carrie Courogen @carriecourogen.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I wrote about the incredibly fucking cool and utterly peerless Mary Margaret O'Hara, whose music seems to have taken up permanent residence in my brain this spring as a balm for unbearably bleak times.

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agrestic subconscious soul singer: the off-beat beauty of mary margaret o'hara

The Canadian singer-songwriter made one captivating album, 1988's Miss America, then, as legend goes, vanished. But she's always been there for those who look.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...

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