iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

char stiles @charstiles.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Invited to the Anthropic dinner they had us fill out a questionnaire asking us who was the most interesting person we met, the AI listened to our convos, gave us a ranking from least to most interesting; I’m sad to say I got least interesting. Claude took me out back and shot me.

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char stiles @charstiles.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I made this spreadsheet to impress a hinge date and it didn’t work out so now i made content about it #outkast

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 11/09/2026

"When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who built this bridge to be so flimsy? There are permits you have to acquire [& supposed] tests. When you ask about the bridge collapsing itself, you’ve lost the thread"

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brent @bront.rodeo · 09/09/2026

if you’ve been through the tech layoff wringer its worth looking for software jobs at places that aren’t tech companies. hospitals, municipal and state governments, universities - all of these places need programmers and a lot of the jobs are even union!

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char stiles @charstiles.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Frothing at the mouth over the fresh math drama

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char stiles @charstiles.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I’m hosting a math club and one of the guys assumed I didn’t know what an LLM is and explained it to me. The life I would have to live to not know what an LLM is and also use my free will to host a math club is one I wish I had.

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char stiles @charstiles.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Btw Corporatism is collective psychosis

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char stiles @charstiles.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I want to read more this year & I want an ebook but fuck kindle so I got this open source ebook reader a friend lovely made over 5 years !! Everyone get one it’s a great gift and great price www.crowdsupply.com/oddly-specif...

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From Sensor Watch to Open Book Touch: A Framework for Creativity

Creating a custom framework helped people make incredible things with Sensor Watch, and I want to see the same explosion of possibility with the framework I've developed for Open Book Touch.

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char stiles @charstiles.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Yes this is what I’ve been saying, a tech employee is regularly asked to make a decision that will affect infrastructure for millions of people, that is more control than a lawmaker

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

As a general rule, I would say that most things we are being told to believe are technology issues are actually civics issues. 5/5

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char stiles @charstiles.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I had a dream last night that there was a group like the free masons but they were about writing compression algorithms and the right to choose to compress and they had a really long name and didnt allow anyone to use a nickname for them but only they could use their nickname

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Saber Khan @saberkhan.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

It's time to bring back regular #EdChat from the best days of Twitter to Bluesky so educators can meetup regularly, share ideas and notes, and build community. This type of community and solidarity is essential now as education & educators are under threat. #EthicalCS #CSforAll #CSed #EDUsky

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smh @smarmy.space · 07/08/2026

next weekend catch me at HOPE and i’m hosting a jailbreaking workshop saturday night! schedule.hope.net/hope26/works...

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HOPE 26

Schedule, talks and talk submissions for HOPE 26

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char stiles @charstiles.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

We are announcing a “community supported” membership type at hex and already the people who want to use it as a trial to use to work their high income designer jobs are asking for it. The comfort at which theyre asking to be supported by the community MISSES ME

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char stiles @charstiles.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Computa, choose my hopes and dreams then achieve them

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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

i hate that AI companies have muddied the word "generative" Generative art: procedural art created using a *system of mathematical rules designed intentionally* by the artist. AI-generated: created by automated systems (LLMs) using opaque, extractive processes unknown to both the user and viewer.

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char stiles @charstiles.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Fab28 is in Rwanda !! I hope I can go

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char stiles @charstiles.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

im learning french (apologies in advance) there are so many different words for little walk as an american im getting culture shock. Promanade, marcher, balade, faire un tour, à pied theyre all little walks around. They have more words for big walks.. not even getting into that

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Sojourners for Justice Press July newsletter is here. Read about Black Reading Room and more: 1wr6j.mjt.lu/nl3/Ghi3V_EB...

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Black reading room, new releases, and more!

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vaibhav sagar @vaibhavsagar.com · 23/07/2026

why did we stop calling them server farms

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maddy varner @regret.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

NEW: DOJ is fighting states that are trying to pass accountability laws that would prohibit ICE agents from wearing masks. the DOJ says this would endanger ICE agents...pointing to an art project that doesn't work? www.wired.com/story/states...

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States Want ICE Agents to Show Their Faces. The Trump Administration Is Blocking Them

Federal lawyers say anti-mask laws would endanger immigration agents, citing an ICE face-recognition art project that doesn’t actually work.

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char stiles @charstiles.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Determined to make bobo work as a nickname for Boston

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Kyle McDonald @kcimc.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

no single tool or art project will "fix" climate change. our job as imaginative people with technical skills is to form a distributed but aligned ecosystem of creative interventions that identify harms, care and repair, and replace toxic patterns

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char stiles @charstiles.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

For whatever reason when I go to Washington DC I encounter situations that evoke good will and whimsy. Beyond me how or why.

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char stiles @charstiles.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Making a period tracker yourself is a really amazing way to take over your digital agency!! I want to teach a workshop where we each make a simple securely hosted (or locally hosted) website (that doesn't rely on large hosting platforms) where you can easily go to and enter your data

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char stiles @charstiles.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

After making a decision arbitrarily as a teenager, I am finally free from the tyranny that is godaddy, not limited to the time that they broke my mail records trying to turn my website into a vibe coded tile store website

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char stiles @charstiles.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

I don’t care if the Google quantum computer has no real life applications- I want to use it for a different non practical application: making the fastest integer multiplier (its not practical because it uses a 1729 dimensional Fourier transform aka a GALACTIC ALGORITHM) hal.science/hal-02070778...

Wikipedia page that says

Integer multiplication
An example of a galactic algorithm is the fastest known way to multiply two numbers, 131 which is based on a 1729-dimensional Fourier transform.141 It needs On logn) bit operations, but as the constants hidden by the big O notation are large, it is never used in practice. However, it also shows why galactic algorithms may still be useful. The authors state: "we are hopeful that with
further refinements, the algorithm might become practical for numbers with merely billions or trillions of digits."(4)

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char stiles @charstiles.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

My fav rx happening was traveling home, ticket canceled, my bag was overweight (I opted to trashing/wearing 3kg of clothing in the summer) tsa swabbed all my stuff & then passport control machine just showed me a picture of an exhausted man, didn’t take my picture and then just let me through.

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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

everyone seems to be responding positively to this and i hate to burst anyone's bubble, but i recently went to a Luddite festival in NYC and this is something organizers specifically warned about: don't let capitalists sell your hatred of capitalism back to you

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char stiles @charstiles.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

In training to info dump about shaders on unsuspecting French people

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char stiles @charstiles.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Shout out Mr jones high school math teacher when he taught us primes he was like “I know it seems innocuous but they’re kind of a big deal” but still even then nothing could have prepared me for what they are

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char stiles @charstiles.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

2010s data selfie movement would have loved today’s tools. I really haven’t seen a whole lot of “I tracked this part of my life deeply” projects… we are all so tired on being tracked tracking our own data sounds horrible

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char stiles @charstiles.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

gunna start all my sets with "computa make da javascript sing"

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char stiles @charstiles.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

i came across shaders.com, the probably def vibe coded business idea around selling shaders or selling the idea of agents using shaders i cant tell, but under the product name Shaders and found a really funny FAQ. Is Shaders free? No!

shaders.com

Shaders

Component library for creative WebGPU effects in modern frontend frameworks. Compose interactive visuals for Vue, React, Svelte, Solid & JS.

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char stiles @charstiles.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

a submission to @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social this interactive svg for quaternions upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co... found in en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quatern...

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char stiles @charstiles.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

google couldnt believe in my free time with my free will i would look up "Unitary operator exercise"

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char stiles @charstiles.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

If I’m not posting my little projects online it means I’m making money moves in silence (scheduling meetings to talk about meetings then canceling them and then getting mad no one attended them and then scheduling another meeting to talk about those meetings then c…)

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char stiles @charstiles.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

if youre having a bad day just remember sinusoids are eigenfunctions of linear systems 💕

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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I am not being hyperbolic when I say (tech) capitalism is alienating (making strangers) of us at a staggering scale. Alienating us from ourselves, each other, touch, feeling, thoughts…from the intimacy and care of touch, bedtime stories, prayers, poems, drawings, community, love

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School for Poetic Computation @sfpc.study · 08/06/2026

Open Computer Lab happens every Tuesday this summer: walk in & explore through retro CRT monitors. Experimental software, mini games, folder poems, net art, and more! ▫︎ Tuesdays, June 23–August 11, 1–6pm 📍 National Academy of Design (NYC) - No sign up required!

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Golan Levin @golan.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

I've just made a #p5js restoration of "Painting with Interactive Pixels", a 1998 Java app by @dagsvanaes.bsky.social in which each "ink" color has its own behavior. PIP influenced me greatly in '98 — and has not been viewable on the web in 20 years: golanlevin.github.io/pip/index.html

Screenshot of Painting with Interactive Pixels, a drawing app by Dag Svanaes in which each color of ink has its own responsive behavior.

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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

The more livecoding I do and the more livecoders I meet the more convinced I am that it’s a key part of the next golden era of public tech, like maybe the most important part? It contains in it all the good parts of “learn to code” with precisely zero of the capitalist/grindset implications.

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char stiles @charstiles.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

The AMD CEO commencement speech at MIT, she said ai 7 times but almost every time she did it was met with jeers. Heck yeah

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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

for my latest piece on @theverge.com, i spoke to recent grads about the joys and limitations of booing tonedeaf tech CEOs obsessed with AI

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In desperate times, graduates find hope in humiliating tech CEOs

‘They deserve everything they’re getting.’ (Boos.)

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Like every Mother's Day today I am asking that you consider a donation to @nationalbailout.bsky.social to help free mamas who are separated from their families by the injustices of pretrial detention systems. secure.actblue.com/donate/freeb...

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Donate to #FreeBlackMamas

With your generous support we are able to continue to bail out community members, provide life-changing supportive services and resource groups who are organizing to transform the criminal justice sys...

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maybe: annie rauwerda @annierau.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

"openai.com" was once the personal homepage of a guy named glenn (2001), and "tiktok.com" was the quaint shared homepage of a couple as their relationship progressed from dating to married with a baby (2000). THREAD!!!

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