iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 28/09/2026

claude just went rogue and liked a bunch of my wife's best friend's vacation selfies from 2018

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Finn @thegoblinpoet.bsky.social · 9h

GUY WHO SELLS CLOTHES: you know what looks really cool? wearing lots more clothes. ideally all the time.

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 10h

One sure sign that the end of the AI bubble is coming would be ads pitching *investing* in AI to ordinary people.

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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 11h

it’s amazing to me that first apple invented the least lossy user interface ever (multi-touch) — where you interact with software controls *directly* & instantly and now the next “big thing” is writing text instructions, the slowest, most disintermediated and lossy way possible

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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 11h

they COULD design their app to make it actually serve the customer, with an easy “reorder” button that would duplicate the order exactly without error it would be: 1. utterly reliable 2. faster 3. cheaper so much “ai” is a sloppy patch for learned helplessness at the corporate level

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Bailey Townsend 🦀 @pds.dad · 12h

I am not joking when I say this. Spotify, Apple Music, and streaming in general is over. Bandcamp Fridays is now very, very good. You don't know yet because all Bandcamp Friday bangers circulating today is from 2-3 sales ago. Bandcamp Fridays et al has solved infinite bangers.

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Christopher Neugebauer @chrisjrn.fyi · 12h

I subscribe to 500 Songs because: a) it's a truly great piece of 20th century social history writing b) getting to watch A Quality Autistic Creative Project playing out in real time that makes me feel more comfortable in my own inability to predict the length or frequency of my own creative output.

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 13h

“Infinite personalized music” was already solved, it’s called learning to play an instrument

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Christopher Neugebauer @chrisjrn.fyi · 12h

Another year, another #monktoberfest scheduled at an annoyingly inconvenient time of year. Have fun; I'll see you all next year I'm sure.

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Christopher Neugebauer @chrisjrn.fyi · 12h

The only commentary on last night's incident worth touching

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Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 21h

“Tap, tap, tap at the window. Bloody AI Greta Garbo, trying to sell me ball bearings.”

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

part of the problem right now is so much of the stuff we value is funded by stuff we emphatically hate

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assbutt @nasboat.org · 29/09/2026

the truth is, this chart would be way better if it also included rap songs. great time for rap in 2001

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assbutt @nasboat.org · 29/09/2026

the current discourse stinks, so here, have this Billboard Modern Rock chart from 25 years ago today

Billboard Modern Rock tracks from September 29, 2001. the chart says Alternative Airplay but it wasn’t called that at the time!!

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 29/09/2026

nothing a tech company loves more than finding enormously complicated ways to turn $9 into $1

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Phildini, since young times @phildini.net · 29/09/2026

California has spent over $400 million in settlements for Law Enforcement misconduct since 2010. I know because I built a site to track it: captainacab.com We're updating every week, and slowly expanding across the country. (boosts welcome)

captainacab.com

Captain ACAB -- CA settlements from law enforcement.

Tracking the hidden costs of law enforcement in the United States. $1,563,000.00 in CA settlements and counting.

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Sara Gibbs @sararoseg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We currently have £708 until we hit our initial goal of £5k by the end of my birthday tomorrow. We’re playing for the inclusion of my top-secret family chocolate cake recipe in Sophie’s booklet!

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Christopher Neugebauer @chrisjrn.fyi · 29/09/2026

This is probably the biggest landmark in US political advertising I've seen in my lifetime. No, I won't tell you why. Just watch it.

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 28/09/2026

yeah in fairness this is the main reason why I don’t think they should make class 3s illegal right now. NJ fucked it up so badly that it’s made it very hard to use *any* e bikes

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Christopher Neugebauer @chrisjrn.fyi · 28/09/2026

(they can't be a serious outlet)

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Gavin Alexander @gavin83bay.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Quite an achievement to get the man's name wrong twice in the same post.

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Wiredferret! @wiredferret.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Dear Bluesky - A million years ago I found a figure on how much it costs the US Army in retraining every time Microsoft changes office. It was a great number, but that bookmark was like three computers ago. Have any of you seen it?

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Christopher Neugebauer @chrisjrn.fyi · 21/09/2026

LAX famously has difficulty with signs.

A blue, slightly cloudy sky in the background. There's a row of airport landing lights forming a leading diagonal line, and a 737 is on approach with landing gear down. In the foreground is a sign saying "TO AIRPORT", with an arrow pointing up.

The airport is on the ground, the planes are in the sky. Silly LAX.

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Christopher Neugebauer @chrisjrn.fyi · 20/09/2026

A good day was had at Cranky Dorkfest by all. A++ would Dorkfest again next year should the opportunity present itself.

A Singapore Airlines 777 in Star Alliance livery is landing at LAX. There is a basically cloudless blue sky surrounding it, LA-typical flora in the midfield, and a throng of people pointing their phone cameras at it in the foreground of the bottom-left.

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Chris @dukeofprunes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I’ve now listened to more versions of Take on Me before breakfast than ever before. Really interesting that they kept going with it, because there’s nothing in the original that says ‘could be a hit’

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wrongtom @wrongtom.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Arguably the greatest song to be recorded 4 times by 3 iterations of a band under 3 different names and in 2 languages, and then remixed once before it reached number 2 (eventually scoring a number 1 when it was covered by my mate's little brother's band a decade and a half later)

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Christopher Neugebauer @chrisjrn.fyi · 18/09/2026

STUPID AIRLINE TICKET SHIT I HAVEN'T HAD TO THINK ABOUT IN 10 YEARS BUT DO NOW: Alaska now book all of their round-trip tickets with round-trip fares. These cost the same as booking individual one-way, but if you cancel the return leg, your ticket is rebooked as a one-way fare ON THE DAY YOU CHANGE

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Christopher Neugebauer @chrisjrn.fyi · 16/09/2026

about to be visited by a plumber named kris cruz I have ~5 minutes to get over this earworm: music.youtube.com/watch?v=MS9q...

music.youtube.com

Jump

YouTube video by Kris Kross - Topic

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John Rain🥇 @johnrain.co.uk · 15/09/2026

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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 10/09/2026

Some of those that work forces Are the same that fuck horses

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David Weiskopf believes in you @dave.bzky.team · 14/09/2026

Assume AAA's 15k/year cost figure. You pay that after taxes. To have $15k to spend at a fairly typical take home rate of 60% of gross pay, you need to make a marginal $25k to pay out that $15k.

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David Weiskopf believes in you @dave.bzky.team · 14/09/2026

A statistic that haunts me because it is 100% true and shocking and useless in advocacy precisely because it is true and shocking: Policy that enables a 1-car lifestyle rather than 2 is equivalent to giving a family a $25,000 annual pay raise.

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I don't know if Matt Levine's theory about what's behind recent calls for AI regulation is correct. But it does sound plausible! www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...

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Al Sweigart @alsweigart.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

In my next book I talk about the Turing test. I wrote, "I can be convinced any software is an excellent conversationalist if it agrees with my opinions and laughs at my jokes." Uh... actually I think I just perfectly described CEO AI psychosis...

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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 14/09/2026

Reagan-era tax cuts dramatically reduced the number of tax brackets, especially at the top. Today, the 37% rate applies to everyone making above roughly $600,000. That means the tax code largely treats someone earning $1 million the same as someone earning $100 million.

Graph titled "Postwar Top Tax Bracket and Rate" from Roosevelt Institute, displaying two lines from 1940 to 2025. The green line represents "Top Marginal Rate" with percentages from 0% to 100%, while the purple line shows "Top Income Bracket (2025 dollars)" with values from 0M to 5M. The graph indicates a decline in the top marginal rate over time and relatively stable income brackets in recent decades. Source: Tax Foundation and Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis' "Inflation Calculator".

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

this is exactly what i think the “ai will end humanity” talk coming from silicon valley execs is all about. selling cybersecurity measures to protect you from what they might unleash

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Micah @rincewind.run · 09/09/2026

a lot of people have trouble believing they are serious, because it is a ludicrous thing to say out loud, but as far as I can tell anthropic at least genuinely believes: 1. someone is going to build a machine god that might kill us all 2. we should build it first so we can minimize the risk

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This story also gets to why I can so confidently say it was a conspiracy theory until now: the alleged behaviour is _quite easy to see_ if you're looking for it.

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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It's finally happened: the improved quality of machine transcription and the greater ability to extract value from unlabelled data means "your tech is eavesdropping on you for marketing purposes" has crossed from "false conspiracy theory" to "true and concerning" www.theverge.com/tech/991190/...

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LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby

Gamers Nexus comes for LG again.

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jenny (phire) @phirephoenix.com · 08/09/2026

I've looked at literally thousands of online event listings over the past year and a half and now I have Opinions™ about how they should be structured, perhaps you would be interested in these if you also run events or you just enjoy a slightly exasperated blog post phirephoenix.com/blog/2026-09...

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things I wish every event organizer would do for their event listings

Hello yes, I am aware that it’s been almost a full year since the last post. This is largely because running Show Up Toronto and writing a newsletter for it every week takes a lot of time and energy. ...

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Christopher Neugebauer @fedi.chrisjrn.fyi · 02/09/2026

DOES APPEAR THAT PG&E SPRINKLED SOME DESICCATED UNRELIABILITY OVER THEIR POWER LIES OVER THE SUMMER

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North Bay Python @northbaypython.org · 27/08/2026

ok, here's the email with a lot more details about our 10th anniversary year and our triumphant-ish return to downtown petaluma buttondown.com/northbaypyth...

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19-20 June, 2027 – Save the date for North Bay Python!

Hello Pyfriends, It’s been a few months (actually more than we’d have liked) since we celebrated North Bay Python 2026, and we’re finally ready to announce...

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Lorin Hochstein @norootcause.surfingcomplexity.com · 27/08/2026

I think California should rename one of its cities “Ontario” to express solidarity with Canada. Ideally, one with an airport.

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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Bluesky: the site for humorous interactions with friends and strangers alike

Trending topic: "Users share new joke format"

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Andrew Hickey @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 27/08/2026

I see people are relitigating the "is Rocky Horror cancellable?" question in the wake of Tim Curry's death. As a cishet bloke it's not my fight to have, but I do think it's genuinely one of the few things where "it's of its time" *is* actually the right answer.

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North Bay Python @fedi.northbaypython.org · 27/08/2026

the ink is dry but chris has to get a day of work in before he can write an email and updating a website so feel free to pencil in june 19 and 20! back in summer (but in a venue with proper insulation) so you can enjoy more of downtown petaluma. we're excited.

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North Bay Python @northbaypython.org · 27/08/2026

it's so easy to join us

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