iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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Bryan Robinson @brob.dev · 24/09/2026

If you take the "AI" executives seriously, and you're a government official or world leader, your only recourse is to say "You have a month to cease operations. If you don't, you and your board and executive team will be charged with reckless endangerment"

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Bryan Robinson @brob.dev · 17/09/2026

If you lost access to all LLM-based products today, you would be FINE. Perhaps that's the best reason to not use an LLM-based product today.

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Bryan Robinson @brob.dev · 17/09/2026

I hadn't heard of @ellipsus.com before, but immediately signed up for it after watching this and exploring their stances

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Bryan Robinson @brob.dev · 16/09/2026

If you find the creation and continued development of a tool to be against your morals and ethics, how do you continue the usage of said tool? How do you "square that circle" as it were...?

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Kronk Confused by Map in Emperor's New Groove

Alt: Kronk from Emperor's new groove saying "By all accounts, it doesn't make sense"

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Bryan Robinson @brob.dev · 14/09/2026

Random realization: Losing the care for punctuation is the same as sending slop documents at work. You're moving the labor of understanding to the receiver. I have to read your sentence and still insert the pauses,etc. to make it make sense. You just passed the work on to me No AI More punctuation

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winston @winston.cc · 04/09/2026

Seeking recommendations: I am feeling the need to start reading current sociological work on AI / LLMs / Automation / etc. I want theory. What have you flagged or added to a TBR or read in the past year that looks intriguing? Feel free to share along to academics.

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Bryan Robinson @brob.dev · 26/08/2026

How do people who advocate for expanding the use of LLMs then make jokes about how much LLMs hallucinate in certain tasks, and then continue to advocate for using them in those tasks with fewer and fewer guardrails?

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Bryan Robinson @brob.dev · 25/08/2026

One book a month for 5 years. Dolly's Imagination Library is one of the reason's my son is an avid reader. Every book, I'd start "<title> by <author>, sent to us by..." and I'd open the cover to where her picture was and he and I would say together "DOLLY!" Thanks for that and much more Dolly.

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Kim Hu @kim-hu.com · 22/08/2026

post by Zeekerss @ZeekerssRBLX on X on 1/10/26

Concept art is the most poisonous place to use Al. That's when your creative vision is the most fragile and undeveloped. When you see what the Al made and say, "That looks cool, I want my game to look like that!" it's like it's secretly swapping out your baby with its own.

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tef @tef.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

CAPITAL: We have invented a machine that can cross picket lines PROGRAMMERS: I bet this will give us four day weekends. The left need to get behind this. What else can it do CAPITAL: Psychosis! Deepfakes! Propaganda! Plagerism! Yaml! Todo Apps! PROGRAMMERS: Run those last two past me again

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garrison @garrison.corporate.fm · 20/08/2026

if open source has proven anything at all it's that you can have a project with hundreds of brilliant technical contributors and not one of them will be even remotely capable of designing a decent user interface

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Bryan Robinson @brob.dev · 19/08/2026

Why did social media decide that if I turn on the audio for one video post, all the video posts for that session should default to audio on? I don't scroll them often, but both Facebook and LinkedIn do that. It's an odd choice

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Bryan Robinson @brob.dev · 19/08/2026

Hey @cwtycho.penny-arcade.com and @penny-arcade.com. I love the Luddite's Union gear, but I'm not much of a "Graphic Tee" kinda guy. Any chance there's a simple logo shirt coming? I'd sport that regularly in my daily tech meetings.

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Bryan Robinson @brob.dev · 06/08/2026

If no one holds slop accountable, how do we stop people from creating slop?

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Bryan Robinson @brob.dev · 06/08/2026

Why is it that the platitude "Humans will own the output" in company AI marketing releases never actually describe what that means? If you make something that does something awful (customer data breach) that's easy to punish... but what if you just make your coworkers lives all slightly worse?

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Bryan Robinson @brob.dev · 04/08/2026

"The poet's job is to notice" quotes the footer of the site in GIANT letters. The best way to train yourself to notice is to offload your noticing and creativity, it would appear

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Bryan Robinson @brob.dev · 04/08/2026

Write your own poetry. Even if it's crap. It'll be better than whatever this is

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Marceline Leiman is Racing Dinos @marcelineleiman.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

📣 I’m excited to announce!! 📣 I’m partnering with Unstable Games to start a sister studio to them named… ✨ Ordinary Magic!! ✨ I’m so excited to bring 3 BRAND NEW GAMES under this new studio to you this Fall!!! 🍁

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Ordinary Magic by Unstable Games - Gamefound

3 New Games, 1 Extraordinary World. Explore this visionary studio partnership between award-winning game designer Marceline Leiman and Unstable Games.

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Bryan Robinson @brob.dev · 28/07/2026

Totally forgot about the time that I went on local news in 2020 to talk about the ridiculousness of speed ticket cameras and I drop language that's ALMOST "human in the loop" before I even thought I'd need to know that phrase. www.actionnews5.com/2020/02/27/i...

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The Investigators uncover flaw with school zone cameras

A school zone camera erroneously issued speeding tickets to at least two drivers, and three people who reviewed those tickets didn’t catch the mistakes.

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Bryan Robinson @brob.dev · 27/07/2026

So, let me get this straight. Instead of curtailing expansion of a ridiculously wasteful set of technologies, instead, let's give them carte blanche to be as wasteful as possible. Excellent. No notes

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Bryan Robinson @brob.dev · 23/07/2026

In this era, the tech industry is just disappointment after disappointment. I don't think there's anything left that's truly worthwhile

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Bryan Robinson @brob.dev · 09/07/2026

Let's say you have a personal bot that saves you 5 minutes a day... Let's say it costs you an average of $3/day. That's $1095/year. That's mind-bogglingly bad economics, if you ask me. But you didn't ask me, so I'll just be quiet over here

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Bryan Robinson @brob.dev · 07/07/2026

Thinking about the next phase of my play library... As a proof of concept, I'm thinking of opening up free checkout of my library to my immediate neighborhood to see how things are before charging money for membership. Would you check out games from your neighbor?

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

A message for the class of 2026: We need more friction!

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Bryan Robinson @brob.dev · 02/07/2026

I keep hearing different use cases that "we could use AI" for. So far, EVERY TIME, I think "We have been able to do that use case for a decade without AI with lower incidence of incorrect data, lower cost, and higher reliability." EVERY. TIME.

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Zach Leatherman @zachleat.com · 01/07/2026

Today the good people of the world commemorate the passing of Google Reader thirteen short years ago on July 1, 2013. To honor their memory (and in lieu of flowers) please add an RSS/Atom/JSON feed to your web site and keep building a web that connects people in meaningful and positive ways.

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Bryan Robinson @brob.dev · 01/07/2026

Ownership of media is so important. We get tricked by convenience into giving away our ability to actually own any sort of physical media... Sony announcing the death of game discs is just another step on a long street to remove agency and control over what we "own"

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Bryan Robinson @brob.dev · 30/06/2026

The creative process was not in need of "democratization" You have always had it within you to be creative.

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Rich Burroughs @somewhattolerable.com · 12/06/2026

He’s not even a good liar. He’s constantly stumbling around and sounding extremely unconvincing while he says this bullshit.

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Bryan Robinson @brob.dev · 11/06/2026

For people at companies that are adopting LLMs as large parts of workflow for those that want it: Does your company have an LLM governance board? A group of people defining both hard (caps, etc.) and soft rules (social, workflow, etc) for use?

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Bryan Robinson @brob.dev · 10/06/2026

Reading "Security guidelines" for WebMCP and my god what a disaster LLMs are going to be for the web... This should NOT be happening. There are so many more (non-obvious) attack vectors that will be opening up because of this hype cycle

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Bryan Robinson @brob.dev · 03/06/2026

Hi, my name is Bryan. I started coding before I started thinking. Now, I have to stop coding, think harder, uncode, then code some more.

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waving lizard

Alt: CGI gecko enthusiastically waving when he notices you

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Rich Burroughs @somewhattolerable.com · 28/05/2026

This is a fantastic piece, one of the best things I’ve read about using LLMs. It’s somewhat specific to software engineering but I think other folks can get a lot out of it. I immediately thought of that post about a week ago where a Chief Marketing Officer bragged about being up late vibe coding.

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Bryan Robinson @brob.dev · 28/05/2026

Tech is moving toward a reckoning... Web3/NFTs were a ridiculous technology. Only some companies bit on that, so when the market fell out, there wasn't a big fall out. When the current LLM craze bursts, there's gonna be a lot of companies having issues pivoting after all the expense

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❄️Beth ❄️ @rollinrabbit.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

if you are someone who makes anything, anything at all, with your own real brain and hands, I respect you so so much and am begging you to keep doing it.

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Bryan Robinson @brob.dev · 26/05/2026

"If you haven't figured out how to use [AI] by now, it's a signal [to hiring managers] about how you learn" This is quite a statement ... and yes, this is a sub-skeet. Being an AI advocate should be a red flag...

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Bryan Robinson @brob.dev · 26/05/2026

Annoyed that I had to open Chrome yesterday because a plumber's website's basic functionality required a popup that for some reason didn't work except in Chrome.

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Nathan Knowler @knowler.dev · 24/05/2026

“My thoughts are precious and being able to form them through writing and socializing with others currently has no equal practice. Prompting appears to give the benefits of both the writing and socializing at once, but it actually steals the benefits of doing both of these acts from us.”

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 24/05/2026

it’s hard not to see the “agentic” future as an illustration of vc’s stunted vision of the future. not more creative freedom, not new access to voices and ideas, rather the opportunity to simulate the true dream of capital: managing an army of makers whose work becomes yours.

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Dr. Carol Tilley 🏳️‍🌈 @anuncivilphd.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

This week a 7.1 million-square-foot hyperscale data center was approved for construction about 20 miles from my rural hometown. It will be the 3rd largest in the world and sit adjacent to the Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge. None of this makes me happy.

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Commissioners uphold decision to allow a data center be built on 550 acres at Jefferson Proving Grounds

After a heated public hearing, Jefferson County upheld a decision allowing a controversial 7.1 million-square-foot data center on Ford family land.

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Bryan Robinson @brob.dev · 22/05/2026

This is such a clever idea! Haven't gotten it yet, but will after work today!

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David Fitzgibbon @davidfitz.dev · 21/05/2026

Totally agree. They’re going to sell making your website ready for agents as the new SEO. But then no one will have to visit your site. I used to love the web. It was useful, exciting, creative, a community, and I could get paid for joining in. That’s feeling impossible now. Fuck Google. Fuck AI.

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Bryan Robinson @brob.dev · 20/05/2026

I wanted to see if anything had obviously changed in search since I/O announcements (which I don't want to watch), so I searched "test" and this is the worst type of thing to spend billions on... This industry is devoid of meaning at this point. No one should support this technology

A google search screen with a search for "test"

The first result is Speedtest by Ookla. Then comes the "AI overview, which looks like a "definition" including the word, a pronunciation guide, and an audio button for the pronunciation. But then, it shows the "definition' and it says "It looks like your test was successful! I am online, awake, and ready to help. How can I assist you with your day?" where "online, awake, and ready to help" are highlighted like they're relevant to my search...

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Bryan Robinson @brob.dev · 20/05/2026

Imagine if instead of spending billions on LLMs that no one wants, Google had spent it on creating an education ecosystem where developer educators could safely spend their lives teaching the next generation of developers everything from the basics to niche skills

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Bryan Robinson @brob.dev · 19/05/2026

There's a difference between making a good product and making a product that generates shareholder value. Sometimes they cross over, but if you focus on the latter, you won't make the former

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