iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 27/09/2026

Happy ten year anniversary of the 2016 blackout in South Australia. I was told that as clean power grew in Aus, we'd see a blackout apocalypse. The chart below shows blackouts for generation shortfall as columns, and renewable proportion as a percent of the eastern grid. Enjoy :)

a chart showing blackout data for Australia

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 27/09/2026

"we can't uninvent this" we can't uninvent my car either but it still doesn't go anywhere without gas in the tank

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bianca wylie @biancawylie.com · 23/09/2026

It is critical to understand how difficult it can be to remove the use of a computer program once a dependency on it has been created or normalized. The sale of many computer programs relies on the buyer or user not thinking this far out in time. lesscomputer.ca/computer-care/

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Cail Young @cail.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Grateful for the State Library of Victoria for supporting my need to exhaustively source all claims in my talks

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Cail Young @cail.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Seems like you’ve clocked the problem here

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Cail Young @cail.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Once again blown away by the production design for @boontavista.com

A darkened warehouse, lit like a Refn movie. A crowd of people sit waiting for a podcast recording to begin.

The hosts of Boonta Vista are seated in the Drive-like space. Theo is decked out in leather. The vibe is anticipatory. The audience is engaged.

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 09/09/2026

I think the best way to think about the Omarchy stuff is not a bunch of companies donating millions of dollars to a Linux dotfiles project. It’s a bunch of companies donating money to a political advocacy project with goals like getting minorities out of open source and eliminating the Roma.

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Cail Young @cail.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This is Dunedin erasure

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Cail Young @cail.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Generally permits issued from one jurisdiction where the trip starts there are recognised in others. When I drove a Troopy from southern NSW back to Melb that’s how it worked.

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Cail Young @cail.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Nah, you’ve actually entered the final phase of Australian; accidentally using Americanisms. Did they not cover this on the citizenship test right after the mandatory section on seasons 1-8 of The Simpsons?

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Cail Young @cail.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

To be clear I approve of mandatory voting (as a fellow citizen)! And Medicare!

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Cail Young @cail.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Enjoy the mandatory voting!

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Bryan Waterman @waterman.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

"Wake up, babe! New Cage chord just dropped!" Always happy for a chance to share this from @themountaingoats.bsky.social -- one of my favorite pieces of music writing ever.

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There are Other Forces at Work, by John Darnielle

John Cage comes to Halberstadt

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Cail Young @cail.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I always heard this one in the entertainment industry concluding with Distribution Of T-Shirts

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DDD Melbourne | 20th February 2027 @dddmelbourne.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

ICYMI the CFP for DDD Melbourne 2027 is open and we want to hear from you! If you've been waiting for someone to say "that's a great talk idea"....welllll "it IS a great talk idea". Everyone has something unique to share don't think about it just submit it 👉 sessionize.com/ddd-melbourn...

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Cedric Chin @cedricchin.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

And so what I'm describing here is how folks (in the Naturalistic Decision Making branch of expertise research) take the underlying mechanism behind 'osmosis', and then systematise it across entire militaries / companies / organisations. And it's something you can do too.

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Was tipped off today that Telstra isn't the first telco to have this issue it seems. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Telstra is not the first company to encounter this issue. A telco in Jersey suffered a similar outage in 2020 that lasted hours, took out emergency call functions for some customers on the Channel island, and took nearly five days to fully recover services.
According to the investigation from that outage, the telco's time server generated the wrong date - November 2000 - nearly 20 years earlier. The incorrect date was passed onto routers in the network that then isolated themselves from the network,
"Having lost around half of the network, inherent resilience was lost which ultimately led ultimately to the outage across the entire JT network," a report found.
The significance of the date was that the system used a week counter up to 1023 weeks, and the default date went back 19.6 years - as with the Telstra issue.

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Cail Young @cail.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

That’d be the beef from Twitter

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Cail Young @cail.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Outstanding, and one I will try to keep in mind for my next talk!

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Cail Young @cail.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Medication reminder timing adjustments in Health is also a fun one when travelling

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Cail Young @cail.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

This is known in the literature as the Badder-Minionhof Effect

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Cail Young @cail.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

If I can internalise “third and 7” you can do this. I believe in you.

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Lore Sjöberg @loresjoberg.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Just listened to John Cage’s 4’33”. Great piece, no notes.

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Cail Young @cail.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

What if Karen’s Diner, but worse?

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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.naruresearch.com.au · 22/06/2026

🚨On Monday July 27 at 2pm AEST, every phone in Australia will get very loud. 🚨 If you are vulnerable, with a phone as part of your escape plan, please make sure that you take steps to protect yourself. If you aren't vulnerable, please help get the word out to protect those who are.

ausalert.gov.au

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I spent the last month obsessed with finding colors that can't be displayed on a conventional screen. This is what I found. moultano.wordpress.com/2026/06/19/w...

moultano.wordpress.com

Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can’t Show You

An atlas of the vibrance of the real world

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 12/06/2026

I think it's really really important to understand GenAI as a shockingly effective tool of social corrosion: the reason it is a huge problems is because accepting a massive drop in quality, accuracy and meaning as a trade for convenience is a deal SO MANY PEOPLE are happily taking

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 10/06/2026

hi Irish and UK SRE friends, @honeycomb.io is hiring an SRE in the UK or Ireland! You'll get to work with (IMHO) one of the best SRE teams in the industry, and help level up the rest of industry on o11y and SRE! job-boards.greenhouse.io/honeycomb/jo... job-boards.greenhouse.io/honeycomb/jo...

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Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Remote - Ireland

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Brady! @like-the-bunch.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

“yeah i can tell it was AI generated. how? just vibes, yeah. it has that certain gen-AI sais quoi”

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Cail Young @cail.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Mind you if services actually are catching up on the backlog you’d expect these stats to get worse for a while. Unfortunately without stats on the waitlist size we’ll never know.

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Cail Young @cail.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Oh man. Probably the stuff about they’re supposed to be shifting to a “patient centred” appointment system and explicitly forecasting likely wait times, including helping to find alternate services. This is from memory tho haven’t re read it

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Cail Young @cail.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

This one? www.health.vic.gov.au/publications...

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Cail Young @cail.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

vahi.vic.gov.au/specialist-c... The stats are actually worse than the last time I checked. Some services are so bad that they could have trained new specialists and hired them in the time patients have been waiting. Which raises the question of why they haven’t done that?

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Routine first appointments

Routine first appointmentsA specialist clinic is a unit within a hospital that provides planned, non-admitted services.A routine first appointment is where a patient has been referred to a specialist ...

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Cail Young @cail.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Which means services are incentivised not to schedule anything, even years out, because it’ll tank their stats

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Cail Young @cail.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Go fuck em up, tell them I sent you If you’re hitting up the government feel free to point out they track a billion metrics from health services but curiously not the appointment waitlist lengths. And that the “average time to first appointment” data only includes appointments actually scheduled

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 09/06/2026

ACTUAL GOOD NEWS ALERT 🍾 battery discharge on Australia's main grid just overtook gas peaking plants. Not long before it overtakes *all gas combined*. Not long before renewables overtake coal, too. None of this was meant to be possible!!!!!!!!!!!! explore.openelectricity.org.au/energy/nem/?...

battery discharge chart going up vs gas output (which is falling)

a chart showing absolute output of power on Australia's grid

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Cail Young @cail.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

That said the super model only works if you have been employed in the first place. Nothing available if you’ve never been employed

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Cail Young @cail.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Yeah it’s pretty shit and has been for decades. The Canadian model sounds like income protection insurance which is offered through most superannuation funds and also privately; I know the superannuation default offerings were changed relatively recently so it may not be universal any more.

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 06/06/2026

I don’t know why I took the time to do this

A multi layer, deep neural network trolley problem, labeled Claude Claude Claude

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