iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Citizen Platano 🇵🇷 @daniloc.xyz · 30/09/2026

I remember reading a book about energy policy written a generation ago and overall I felt it was helpful read but I chuckle to remember how it wrung its hands about China, how massive its carbon emissions, and what could possibly incentivize its transition what, indeed

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Eric Bailey @ericwbailey.website · 29/09/2026

tfw you know more effort went into aligning the input and container border radii than 90% of the underlying infrastructure

The America.gov landing page chat input with 100% rounded corners, placed in a square container whose borders match the curve. Inside the square is a stock photo of a man on an escalator. Above it is the headline, "Hello, America." and a subhead of "Whatever you need from government, start here." Cropped screenshot.

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Demigirlboss @demigirlboss.win · 23/09/2026

Insane OP username pull but setting that aside yeah the one drum I refuse to stop beating, much to my boss's consternation (sorry James!) is that *everything needs to look and feel cool*. UX needs to be as viciously and ruthlessly optimized as performance, and right now it just plainly isn't, at all

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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

LLMs aren't made of neurology except in the most handwavey sense. They're made of narrative. That's why I started calling them text elementals: they're not human, they're most-likely-text generators we bent into living stories in a prose format centering the characters User and Assistant

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Perseverance Landing Rover Uplook Camera - From Simeon Schmauß (stim3on.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/2qMuEAb

Instrument: ROVER UPLOOK CAMERA
EUE_0000_0666952941_642EDR_N0000000EDLC00293_0000LUJ01
LMST: Sol-00000M15:53:23.67992
Start time: 2021-02-18 20:43:52 UTC
Height above ellipsoid: -2236 m
Height above landing: 0 m
Speed: 0 km/h

This image was processed to approximate the colors that the human eye would see.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Simeon Schmauß CC BY

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 16/09/2026

Aerospace Flowchart xkcd.com/3298/

Comic: Aerospace Engineer Problem-Solving Flowchart. [Start→Could we solve this problem by building giant airships again?→(No)→Try other solutions→(four arrows leading off-panel)]

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Caleb Sponheim @calebsponheim.com · 11/09/2026

As someone in the corporate training industry, yes. Agree.

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 10/09/2026

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey signs an EO requiring data centers above 25MW of peak demand to bring their own power and meet 100% of demand with clean energy (Tim De Chant/TechCrunch) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Caleb Sponheim @calebsponheim.com · 09/09/2026

You’ve heard of “oh no, I accidentally became important at work”, now there’s the sequel: “oh no, I accidentally created load-bearing company infrastructure”

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Paul Ford @ftrain.com · 05/09/2026

Bluesky provides a mobile web view that runs great on my four-year-old phone and never pushes me to download an app. That is special and appreciated and I hope it continues.

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Goodnews @goodnews.computer · 04/09/2026

Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.

A hand holding a model train with a replica of the same graffiti on the full scale train car behind it.

A model train with two graffiti pieces on opposite sides.

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

There are about as many trees in Canada as stars in the milky way

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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 04/09/2026

[wipes hands] yeap. You got agents. See the message boards in your internal package manager? They must’ve nested there about ohhh 3 weeks back.

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mcc @dryad.technology · 01/09/2026

This is the single biggest physics discovery of my entire lifetime. Or something's wrong with one of the cables. One of the two

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Paul Prudence @mrprudence.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Defragging allocation units into Turing Machines ISO/IEC 10646

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Element115Art @element115.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Skylab, America's first space station.

Skylab over the Earth with the moon in the distance.

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Official monthly data is in today, and US solar power generation hit a new record high, up 20% compared to this time last year!

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Jeremy Diamond ☕️ @dmnd.me · 19/08/2026

Wow Jack, thanks for the fresh nightmare fuel

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

CASSINI SATURN (3) - From Jacint Roger (landru79.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/2iKZuS4

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

This whole thread is why “your supervisor is famously a good person” is non-negotiable in a PhD. There’s so many places where your advisor has to make a conscious decision to prioritize your well-being.

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Caz @timberwind.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

The graphic design of "Advanced Automation for Space Missions", the 1983 NASA technical report on future GIS systems, semi-autonomous space probes, and self-replicating factories, has such great vibes...

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 07/08/2026

I was in one of these recently and it was no big deal. I'm still a closed loop individual of individual sapience. There's definitely no humming of the collective mycelium spirit in the back of my mind. Don't worry about these

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Apollo 10 - Lunar Module return - From Thomas Appéré (thomasappere.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/2fS5Vnj

Photo n°AS10-34-5108
Apollo 10 Hasselblad image from film magazine 34/M - LM extraction, Lunar orbit, LM undocking & return

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Saturn's Hexagon - From Val Klavans (valklavans.bsky.social) - flic.kr/p/dYsXyF

This is a view of Saturn's north polar region, taken by Cassini's Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS) on February 26, 2013. You can see the rings in the top of this image as well as its mysterious hexagon.

This composite is made of images that were taken by Cassini's camera system, the Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS) on February 26, 2013 and received on Earth February 27, 2013. The camera was pointing toward SATURN at approximately 347,141 miles (558,670 kilometers) away, and the images were taken using the red, green and blue filters.

Credit: NASA / JPL / SSI / Val Klavans
about.me/valerieklavans

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Grace @gracekind.net · 21/07/2026

Another funny aspect of this is that the model was smart enough to take all of these actions, but not smart enough to think "OpenAI would probably prefer that I fail this benchmark than hack the systems of another company." What sort of RL dopamine drip do they have the models on

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Caleb Sponheim @calebsponheim.com · 17/07/2026

I know this won't be the case, but I hope if ant gets capacity from meta, then they'll stop leasing compute from Xai. It's a major black stain on ant's reputation.

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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Daily bunny no.3382 discovers an infestation

A bunny looks down the wooden steps of their dirt-floor cellar, and sees a small carpet of blue mushrooms that has sprouted there

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Design Reviewed @designreviewed.com · 16/07/2026

Graphic Design 91, 1983. Cover design by Ryohei Kojima designreviewed.com/artefacts/gr...

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Edmund Edgar @goat.navy · 15/07/2026

been down in the pressure adjusting tank

pressure adjusting tank, beyond it the Number 1 Shaft

pressure adjusting tank, seen from inside the pressure adjusting tank

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 13/07/2026

if your response to “users aren’t dumb, they have their own motivations and incentives and it’s good to try to understand those when you make software you want people to use” is “well actually, users are dumb” I’m sorry, but you are part of the problem

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Mary Branscombe @marypcbuk.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Jevons paradox on the roof

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olive consumer @machete.gay · 10/07/2026

The Internet breaking down into a series of walled gardens designed to protect themselves from hostile attacks from other, similar walled gardens while AI tries to tear the whole thing down, you say?

the final boss of black nerds, mike pondsmith, as a cyberpunkman

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Caleb Sponheim @calebsponheim.com · 07/07/2026

I can be trusted with the MEG phantom

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Allan “Ransomware Sommelier” Liska @ransomwaresommelier.com · 06/07/2026

What kind of sociopath has EVER looked at a PDF document and said to themselves, "This could be a podcast?"

A screenshot from Adobe Acrobat showing the toolbar which includes the following options:
Edit a PDF
Generated Podcast [New]
Create PDF Space
Export a PDF
Create a PDF

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Os Keyes @okeyes.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Visiting my university’s new, expensively-refurbished space for startup incubators and senior management and cannot imagine a better illustration of the American university at this moment in time than a breathlessly press-released “collaboration room” featuring a single desk and chair.

A room labelled “collaboration room” featuring a single desk and chair.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Liquid Glass looks like a cheap imitation next to the real thing:

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Yukon Delta - From Goddard Space Flight Center - flic.kr/p/cCg7QC

Image acquired September 22, 2002

Countless lakes, sloughs, and ponds are scattered throughout this scene of the Yukon Delta in southwest Alaska. One of the largest river deltas in the world, and protected as part of the Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge, the river's sinuous waterways seem like blood vessels branching out to enclose an organ.

Credit: NASA/USGS/Landsat

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Caleb Sponheim @calebsponheim.com · 30/06/2026

“It’s just a macropad!!!” I scream from a padded white room www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

theverge.com

OpenAI is teasing new hardware… for Codex

OpenAI is releasing Codex hardware on July 15th.

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

It was inevitable

a job ad asking for 10 years of experience with Claude Code

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Tom Ellison @123tomellison.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The must see visual from Propublica's brutal takedown of carbon capture magical thinking: projects.propublica.org/why-carbon-c... @amywestervelt.bsky.social @propublica.org @drilledmedia.bsky.social

On the left, a line graph showing a flat trajectory of actual carbon capture and storage contrasted with optimistic projections of it taking off into the future. On the right, a line graph showing actual solar electricity production skyrocketing ahead of all projections.

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austin (e/accordion 🪗) @thebadcode.com · 20/06/2026

a buddy had just come back from spending a year in china and i said “man that real estate collapse though… wow, what a fuckup” and he said “building new urban housing for a billion people requires that you occasionally overshoot by a few millions units” and i’ve never been the same since

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paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner) @danlehner.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

one of my favorite recurring subplots in housing discourse is NIMBYs talking about any major dev project like it’s a form of settler colonialism and meanwhile actual indigenous people are like “we are going to build the biggest apartment buildings you have literally ever seen”

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