iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

nick @caveatruptur.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

a vast majority of pcb design is picking components and wiring them together as specified in datasheets, then routing the traces according to simple rules. designs are verifiable. there's already a decent amount of automation happening in this space but I expect this to be pretty beneficial.

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nick @caveatruptur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

the problem with claiming time-savings from personal assistant agents is that you're now a sysadmin and a developer. and then you learn the problems of data integration, the challenges of distributed systems, and the value of software that you don't have to maintain.

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nick @caveatruptur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I've been doing a lot of research involving early 20th century newspapers and it's become obvious how much of the news is written to be used as historical propaganda. Obviously-false stories in the moment later become historical fact when the alternative views are removed or lost to time.

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nick @caveatruptur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

LiarShark: network monitoring for LLMs

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 29/09/2026

Back to the lustration/truth-and-reconciliation conversation: as for another user's suggestion to call it "the FAFO Commission," I'd say a Full Accounting for Federal Overreach investigatory panel sounds like the bee's knees.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You mean the thing that does Cliffs Notes of things it has read is not thinking at all and is just showing you Cliffs Notes of things it read? Crazy. People with functioning brains have told you over and over that LLMs don't think for themselves, but we are running out of functioning brains

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nick @caveatruptur.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

do you want to see something pure? like this documentary about a group of young people saying fuck it and pouring their time and money and energy into creating a third space, against all odds? can you help find distribution so more people can see it?

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BAS Trailer 2min

This is "BAS Trailer 2min" by Shawn Wright on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

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nick @caveatruptur.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

one time i made a spaceship for doja cat

still from doja cat's Get Into It (Yuh) showing doja and 4 dancers in a spaceship bridge

still from doja cat's Get Into It (Yuh) showing doja inside of a reflective angular spaceship looking room

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nick @caveatruptur.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

vimeo.com

BAS Trailer 2min

This is "BAS Trailer 2min" by Shawn Wright on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

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nick @caveatruptur.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

ot but is bill gates becoming the wat lady?

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nick @caveatruptur.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

the windows can roll in any direction you'd like, as long as it's up

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nick @caveatruptur.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

well then we agree on exactly one thing

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nick @caveatruptur.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

from my family photos. is john waters a time traveler?

1940s/50s photo of a man who looks exactly like john waters looks today

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nick @caveatruptur.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

breaking: congress requires all "code" to have a function called exactly isKill_switchNotEnabled() that returns a float

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nick @caveatruptur.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

they're going to use opposition to this to define people as anarchists aren't they

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people

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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This video was filmed in Palestine. My heart struggles to comprehend such cruelty and the heartbreaking disregard for human life. No human being should have to endure this.

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nick @caveatruptur.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

i am not worried that the guys who couldn't secure a sandbox are going to create a new form of intelligence actually

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nick @caveatruptur.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I hate this machine and I truly regret purchasing a Bambu

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nick @caveatruptur.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

the most likely outcome here is that the LLM will stuxnet the centrifuge PLCs

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nick @caveatruptur.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

master chef but for audio engineers where you're given an assortment of half-broken equipment and a box of random cables and adapters and an input list, and have to hook up all the back connections without looking

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nick @caveatruptur.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

one of my favorite types of people are the ones who put "no bots" in their profiles. i like to wonder what they're imagining that outcome to be, like what is the picture in their head?

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nick @caveatruptur.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

are yemeni anthropomorphic steles conscious?

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nick @caveatruptur.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Mr Trump, sir, if this AI is so intelligent, the only logical outcome would be to call it Trump Intelligence! Can I vote for that, please, sir?

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nick @caveatruptur.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Step 1: determine centrifuge model Step 2: leave flash drive in parking lot

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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A few weekends ago I went to Miami and attended 9 open houses in extremely high-risk flood areas to see what agents are telling prospective buyers about them. Here is my journey

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The open houses at the edge of disaster

What are buyers being told about climate risk in Miami? I posed as one to find out.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

So, I propose Trump's ability to muster violence spontaneously with a word, spoken into the digital ether and naming a specific enemy, is well conceived as "stochastic brownshirtism." When he speaks, he knows someone will understand what he's asking for, & will make it so, yet he has deniability.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Brilliant mathematician Emmy Noether was initially barred from teaching at University of Göttingen because she was a woman. She taught for 4 years as a "guest lecturer" under David Hilbert's name. Hilbert, exasperated at the stupidity of the rule: "Gentlemen, this is not a bathing establishment."

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From Algebra to Airplane Crashes, Emmy Noether’s Lasting Influence on Mathematics

Emmy Noether, whom some consider the “Mother of Modern Mathematics,” continues to shape modern research and the studies of mathematicians today; including research into the investigation of airplane c...

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nick @caveatruptur.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Moderation should be opt-in and consent-based. By default a post would have no reach, and gains reach by opting-in to various little social contracts. Users would also filter their feeds based on adherence these contracts.

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nick @caveatruptur.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

llm training is like a worse version of bean dad where he stands over you and yells WRONG every time you do something he wouldn't

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I think about this essay all the time

It has also occluded something deeper. The philosopher Mark Wilson has observed that concepts often appear stable while the work they do shifts entirely as they move between domains. He calls this "wandering significance." "Decision" is wandering now. In the military context it means the system's output, a targeting nomination scored and forwarded. In journalism and tech criticism it means much the same, the thing the AI got wrong. In neither of these does it mean what it used to mean, which is a person choosing to do something for which they could be held accountable. People are still making decisions in that sense. Someone decided to compress the kill chain. Someone decided that deliberation was latency. Someone decided to build a system that produces a thousand targeting decisions per hour and call them high-quality. Someone decided to start this war. Several hundred people are sitting on Capitol Hill, refusing to stop it. Calling it an "AI problem" gives those decisions, and those people, a place to hide.

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nick @caveatruptur.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I really can't say it enough, but Brooks said it all in 1986. It's undeniable once you understand the accidental and essential complexity distinction. Open source software already solved most of the hard parts. Most devs don't spend their time writing hard code, they spend time in meetings.

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nick @caveatruptur.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

did it really kill a witch

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Republicans, in their infinite wisdom, left a big gambling loophole in the Medicaid work requirements. I'm no fan of the gambling industry, but if you are on Medicaid and struggling to deal with the work requirements, taking a $580 bet on both sides of an outcome is one way of getting around them.

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nick @caveatruptur.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

better be careful what i say, this guy can hear me from back in 1921

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nick @caveatruptur.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

this release is for betas? call me when you have an alpha

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Darcy James Argue @darcyjamesargue.com · 17/09/2026

The people issuing these dire warning about human extinction are not reacting to Claude and ChatGPT "going rogue." They are just recirculating the same apocalyptic scenarios they have been talking about for years, because the waters they swim in are infused with this stuff.

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nick @caveatruptur.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

$JXN down 7%, BIS 161 alert! www.bis.org/publications...

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Also, as a request to the Bluesky Void: do we know how deep into the various AI/rationalist cults our dear hosts on this platform are?

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