iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Rob Simmons @simrob.com · 09/05/2026

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Chris Martens @chrisamaphone.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

perhaps i should share things here in addition to mastodon? here's my first blog post in awhile, an attempt to explain how to extract an abstract machine from a moded logic program: chrisistyping.bearblog.dev/abstract-mac...

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jason grinblat @jfg.land · 26/03/2026

*bewilderedly* Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone? *with growing ire* It has to be made, like bread?? *shaking with indignation* Remade all the time??? Made new?!

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 27/08/2025

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

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I Am An AI Hater

I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.

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Rob Simmons @simrob.com · 07/01/2026

Wittgenstein. Absolutely incomprehensible as a poster (laudatory). Becomes a meme to quote-post him with “That‘s a terrifying answer, have a nice day” or possibly “Sir, these are fifth grade students.”

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mel thomas @pagemelt.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

hi! 😃 i couldn't help but notice that scrolling is sapping your will to live! may i offer u a video essay in these trying times? youtu.be/Bdj14_jdumI

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be your own algorithm

YouTube video by pagemelt

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Omar Rizwan @omar.website · 22/08/2025

you should be able to share your digital location with friends the same way you share your physical location

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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

incredible work lots of people saying, "wow CS needs to learn what it's doing." Folks. It knows.

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neotl @ctrlcreep.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Bore me not with your designs for a rooftop garden; I desire a rooftop forest. I want to feel secure between vast roots. I am a burrow-dweller, I yearn for the artificial understory, I must fall asleep to fungus-song

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Kristopher Micinski @krismicinski.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

photos from the Minnowbrook Logic Programming Seminar

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PSYFE @spacefox.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Who the FUCK wants videos to autoplay?? WHO?? Tell me who they ARE!! Tell me where they LIVE!! I just want to TALK!!

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Harry Goldstein @harrisongoldste.in · 07/05/2025

If you are considering applying for a PhD this Fall, please get in touch. I’m looking for students who are interested in PL, SE, and/or HCI — and ideally all three! You can find more information about me and my work on my website: harrisongoldste.in

harrisongoldste.in

Harrison Goldstein

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Rob Simmons @simrob.com · 02/05/2025

It truly seems like any country could be the world leader in ed&tech for the second half of the century for a pittance in government budget terms, and I don’t know if that’s not happening because I’m wrong or because leaders are short sighted idiots terrified of their xenophobic constituents

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Acronymy @acronymy.net · 28/04/2025

lets one outsmart processes h o l e acronymy.net/define/loophole —submitted by septie

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David Renshaw @dwrensha.ws · 22/04/2025

Acronymy is 5% complete.

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Cody @codyroux.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Don't bring *anything* to a gun fight. Why are you going to a gun fight?

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vibe-free lifestyle and smiling apple purveyor @ellaguro.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

do you ever feel like we're in a moment where people who are actually doing something meaningful with their life across a huge amount of sectors are being crushed and disappeared and people who are wasting it making the world a worse place are actively being lionized? or is it just me

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

This international student is incredibly brave for going on the record about his visa suddenly being revoked, including how he has one semester left and his mom has terminal cancer: www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/n...

cbsnews.com

Carnegie Mellon student with one semester left learns his visa was revoked with no explanation

Local universities and colleges across the country continue to report international student visas being revoked.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 10/04/2025

And the person nominally in charge of it apparently hasn't ever heard the term "AI" spoken out loud in conversation, while mandating its use to destroy education.

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David Andersen @daveandersen.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Seems cool in general, and particularly pertinent given what may happen to the cost of, well, everything. #pittsburgh

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Chris Martens @chrisamaphone.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

is there some term for the opposite of a cult of personality where people define their politics/social alignment by ridiculing specific people. whatever this is it feels terrible to witness. the worst of us on full display

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Chris Martens @chrisamaphone.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

sometimes i think i’m only “interdisciplinary” because none of the disciplines are doing it right

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N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

This is the workshop that (along with a dream and some geophysics hyperfixation) inspired me to write the Broken Earth trilogy! I loved it.

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David Renshaw @dwrensha.ws · 05/04/2025

I posted a new video, in which I demonstrate the "Rupert Property" for a bunch of polyhedra: youtu.be/evKFok65t_E

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26 Polyhedra that Fit Through Themselves, and 5 that Might Not

YouTube video by David Renshaw

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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

It's closing because the UK has introduced a law that makes it impossible for a lot of digital community spaces to remain operational any more. So it's just shutting down. The law has kind of gone underdiscussed, I feel like, it's having quite a wide impact. www.gamesindustry.biz/20-year-old-...

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Conor Titania Mc Bride @pigworker.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Transactions in Category Theory 2025 jademaster.xyz/TACT25.html It's going to be a thing.

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Transactions in Category Theory 2025

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Dannel Jurado @demarko.org · 25/02/2025

Duolingo doesn’t teach the basics of Anxiety, just rote memorization of Anxiety. If you really want to learn Anxiety you’re going to have to talk to another person

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Chris Martens @chrisamaphone.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

i know how to spell banana and crochet hyperbolic surface, but I don’t know when to stop

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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 20/02/2025

So I did this today: banged out a couple hundred words of a pitch while managing lab, sent it to the opinion page editor at the newspaper my parents still somehow get in print, and got back a "yes" in, I absolutely kid you not, under 15 minutes

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Kat @tak.notapattern.net · 20/02/2025

i’m tired of February but i did see this *incredible* sundog today so i guess all the ice crystals hanging around in the atmosphere do have a few redeeming qualities ✨

$the winter sun is low in the sky over a graveyard, the irregularly-shaped stones casting long shadows over a ground so covered in smooth, shiny ice that it looks like it’s been polished. the lens has added rays of light to the sun that extend outward like a child’s drawing, all the way to the edges of the frame. bare tree branches reach into the shot from the left, and the horizon is the silhouette of more trees, including a few tall pines. but now the reason we’re here: to the left of the sun is a small, bright, glittering arc of a rainbow, pleasantly gleaming behind some wispy clouds, which extend outward in a gentle upswept curve as if painted there with a brush. per wikipedia: “Sun dogs are caused by the refraction and scattering of light from horizontally oriented plate-shaped hexagonal ice crystals either suspended in high and cold cirrus or cirrostratus clouds, or drifting in freezing moist air at low levels as diamond dust. The crystals act as prisms, bending the light rays passing through them with a minimum deflection of 22°. As the crystals gently float downwards with their large hexagonal faces almost horizontal, sunlight is refracted horizontally, and sun dogs are seen to the left and right of the Sun.”$

a close-up of the sundog itself, looking like a sideways slice of rainbow just at the horizon. the absurdly aesthetic wispy clouds are still present, swooping from one edge of the image to the other and shining with white light at the outer edge of the sundog. there’s an obelisk (actually a gravestone) silhouetted in the foreground, along with some more wintry type trees. the overall effect is almost like a watercolor painting. i risked life and limb to get these photos, randomly veering off the road into the nearest parking lot (which just happened to be a graveyard because of course it did) and then crossing a busy road and slipping around on a VERY icy sidewalk. 100% worth it though, i regret nothing

in this photo the sun is behind one of the gravestones (a kind of ornate lamp post looking thing) which reduces the saturation and lens flare, bringing out the long shadows the graves and enclosing fence are casting on the frozen ground. with more contrast the colors of the sun dog look brighter and the wispy clouds take on an effect almost like smoke. this is the photo i had to walk on the icy sidewalk to get, and istg i came pretty close to going ass over teakettle a couple times, but — as all great artists know — sometimes you have no choice but to risk it all in the pursuit of beauty!

in this last photo the colors of the sundog have started to fade, but it’s zoomed out a little more (emphasizing the long shadows of the graves, which as you might have learned in art class, are functioning here as a form of memento mori, a term which here means “there is such beauty in the world, and we are all gonna be dead and buried sooner or later, so, hey, do your best to enjoy having eyes that can see rainbows, even if it’s currently so cold out that you can’t feel your face”).

(eyes, or, to be less ableist, whichever organs you use to appreciate the beauty of the world, though i apologize on behalf of rainbows that they are pretty much a visual-only phenomenon and don’t normally come with alt text in the wild, which honestly might be for the best…)

anyway the thing i like about this photo is that you can also barely see a larger, much fainter halo around the sun. i don’t know if it’s a true 46 degree halo or a different optical / lensing effect but it’s very pretty.

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Chris Martens @chrisamaphone.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

I’ve turned off boosts on here so if you boost something good you have to tell me

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David Renshaw @dwrensha.ws · 14/02/2025

Stop motion animation, Blender modeling, Manim, wandering around in the real world -- these are all things I used to illustrate some of my favorite backronyms in this new video: youtu.be/_0tNWWhPYYs

youtu.be

10,000 Backronyms and Counting

YouTube video by David Renshaw

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Rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 08/02/2025

Me: one of the best, if not the very best, things about Providence is the absolutely amazing live theater community. Brown: “absolutely not”

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Chris Martens @chrisamaphone.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

is there a “turn off reposts” setting for accounts one follows here?

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Julie Pagano @juliepagano.com · 03/02/2025

Maggie inserted herself in the toilet paper. I’d like to think this is a very tiny protest.

A small black cat hides in the plastic around a half empty pack of toilet paper rolls. Mostly you can see her big yellow eyes.

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

If I just read one million more posts tonight, I will have complete control over what comes next

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mcc @dryad.technology · 30/01/2025

What feels weird is being politics. Like. I encounter people who are like "oh I don't think there should be politics in this" and they mean me, like, I am the politics that they don't think they should have to see

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Ann Finkbeiner @annfinkbeiner.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

This is an amazing resource: the receipts on how academia is responding, case by case, to the pause in funding.

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Tofu @tofupixel.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

here is a sketch i made in september

pixel art of a tree with computer screens ava c cables and moss and small white round creatures on it

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