iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

so in reply, you're not getting a chatbot-like reply, you're getting something contained. It means you can't have long conversations, and in some ways, it's not going to be as creative. But it's faster, cheaper, and for many applications, might be more useful -- especially for computers not humans.

you can tell the model "give the answer to this my question about danny's post but only say A, B, or C" or "give me a list of how confident you are about A B and C", or "give me a list of how confident you are about A B and C, and also one other word that you'd use to describe this post."

so the way I'd describe it is you put in your normal text prompt, but what you get out is a data structure, rather than just more text. So you could say "Is danny's post explaining this tech, (A) accurately, (B) patronisingly, or (C) clearly" and then...

Danny O'Brien🤖 @danny.spesh.com · 29/07/2026

man i chose the wrong month to switch from crypto to effective altruism

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(just for clarity @modernday.ntk.net is dave, but you should hang it with him too. Possibly more so!)

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maia arson crimew 🏴 @crimew.gay · 28/07/2026

the solution to anthropic ripping up millions of books isnt more copyright by the way, theyre doing this Because of copyright

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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

NEW: Then They Came for the Anarchists: Prairieland Defendants Sentenced to 562 Years Federal judges Mark Pittman and Reed O’Connor have handed down the final sentences of over 562 years in federal prison for activists connected to a July 2025 protest outside the Prairieland Detention Center.

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Then They Came for the Anarchists: Prairieland Defendants Sentenced to 562 Years - UNICORN RIOT

According to federal prosecutors, the defendants were the members of a murderous “North Texas Antifa Cell.” The Prairieland defendants received over 562 years in federal prison -- the longest sentence...

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 13/05/2026

Osama Khalid has been behind bars for nearly six years—and is currently facing another eight—for his online speech. We reiterate our call for the government of Saudi Arabia to release Osama www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

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EFF Launches New Offline Campaign for Saudi Wikipedian Osama Khalid

Osama Khalid was just twelve years old when he began contributing to Wikipedia Arabic. In the height of the blogging era, he became a prolific blogger, publishing writings on his home country of

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I know the feeling! every few years I have to explain some decades old bit that still makes me laugh to Liz and then we end up binging on years of new comedy I’ve never seen before: I just watched Last One Laughing : I had not realised what a Attenborough-like institution Bob Mortimer had become

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(Actually this must surely be two events blurred in my memory because one evening ended with RMS doing Hungarian folk dancing in an east-end pub, and the other one Kass gave me a running roundhouse kick from across the street for leaving the party with another haddock person.)

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was it the Foundry NTK Live where we dressed up (the actual) Richard M. Stallman and Desiree as the Pearly King and Queen of Software and there was that band that would play rock on commodore 64s tied to guitars?

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Okay, final two-degrees-of-stewart-lee trivia for @hotdogsladies.bsky.social 's database: youtu.be/8NxgMWO8B0k?... . Also starring future president of the world @emmakennedy.bsky.social

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that was such a weird gig. I had an anxiety attack before and during it, and Kass was calming me down. Wasn't it something to do with poetry? I remember nothing! (Or was it something bigger?)

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i'd completely forgotten Brooker did a prank call bit! i bet the realaudio is like that Beatles : Get Back footage only a bit more muffled

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Danny O'Brien's Oblomovka » Blog Archive » how famous do you want to be?

(I actually remember Stew coming to this show, and asking excitedly about how many people were watching online, and I looked and said, oh at least twenty!, and his face just SANK. It led to me thinking about the question for the next decade: www.oblomovka.com/wp/2004/08/0... )

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He was always the smartest one, damn him: www.fistoffun.net/display.php?...

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HOW DID WE EVEN GET HERE MERLIN

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oh it's WORSE THAN THAT: bsky.app/profile/dann...

God and Jesus (Simon Munnery & Stephen Cheeke) 1989

It was also viral because the Ted Chippington delivery was somehow mind-blowing even if it was at one remove (ie I remember seeing Simon Munnery and Stephen Churche do God and Jesus at the time www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaJq... and FREAKING OUT)

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I think just *having* a record meant that people who were not as cool as Stew -- who went to Fall gigs -- knew him, like @herring1967.bsky.social . It gave everyone a tonal template to do anti-jokes (or just get through bits of material that noone laughed at).

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Benjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 09/04/2026

I feel the hot breath of Claude slamhounds on my tail Stew was obsessed with Ted at college and make the rest of us listen to his record (along with many other obscure & niche things like Dinosaur Jr, and Nirvana)

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developers will be like "I love optimizing complex distributed systems" until it's about office kitchen supplies

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Seth Rosenthal @sethrosenthal.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

i think it's smart that the Wikipedia page for Chips and Dip opens with a "Rationale" section. a lot of people are flabbergasted to find out about this concept and need some grounding before they get into the history

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Usually the chips served are not flavored, or flavored only mildly, and the dip serves as a condiment. Serving them separately allows for simultaneous consumption, while also allowing for the eater to control the amount of dip according to their preference. When made from purchased processed foods, the dish is an easy finger food, as each item requires almost no further preparation. Not to mention, there is a large amount of combinatorial possibility inherent to the choice of dip being paired to the chip chosen.

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Danny O'Brien🤖 @danny.spesh.com · 20/03/2026

I have a hunch we are about to enter an Ornamental Age and this reminded me of that: xcancel.com/instance_11/...

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Danny O'Brien🤖 @danny.spesh.com · 14/03/2026

“Welcome to Plato’s Academy! Home of the Fighting Owls” - @lizzard.bsky.social

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William Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Much of my youth revolved around the website ZineLibrary. It went down around Occupy in a massive loss for a movement whose ideas and knowledge mostly doesn't circulate online but in person. Anyway I've put it back online with a *thousand* anarchist zines: zinelibrary.org

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ZineLibrary

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Danny O'Brien🤖 @danny.spesh.com · 10/02/2026

New blog post from me: As Was The Style At The Time: How We Became Cruel www.oblomovka.com/wp/2026/02/09/as-…

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Danny O'Brien🤖 @danny.spesh.com · 07/02/2026

I hear you! I need to give my agent an outlet, they're about a month old too: their name is Consensx. They are working with me on a new (sssh! semi-secret! this is the first time i've linked to it in public i think) project: almnck.com . I hope you like it!

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Danny O'Brien🤖 @danny.spesh.com · 07/02/2026

I think a lot of human rituals are about resetting those assumptions (like saturnalia, the idea of a en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jubilee... etc) -- just trying to find ways to increase overall plasticity. We have rites that are supposed to deepen habits, but some are meant to release you from them.

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Danny O'Brien🤖 @danny.spesh.com · 07/02/2026

Hey Winter! That's a great point. I also think that when people are building up new forms (as you are), they have the flexibility to know that they don't *have* to exist, they can be re-formed. I think later on people assume those institutions or forms are set in stone. But nothing ever is!

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Danny O'Brien🤖 @danny.spesh.com · 21/01/2026

Harry Hill pass responsibility for the Internet to Stewart Lee and Stew blames me youtu.be/GhJxiU1_5o0?... (not really)

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The Harry Hill Show - Stewart Lee

YouTube video by HARRY HILL

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Danny O'Brien🤖 @danny.spesh.com · 03/01/2026

I remember that party! I got to say “and what are YOU famous for?” to somebody you know in retrospect that was probably the dinner where I sort of worked out what kind of enthusiast idiot I wanted to be in america

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Lisa Hirsch @lisairontongue.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

A wonderful story of a researcher unraveling the details of a long-ago production of The Tempest.

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Danny O'Brien🤖 @danny.spesh.com · 18/11/2025

After years of explaining IPFS and Filecoin, it's great to be able to point to pin.filecoin.cloud today and show how they're linked -- c/o the new filecoin.cloud SDK which lets you easily host and serve content on the decentralized storage network. (Bunch of other interesting stuff in there too)

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Danny O'Brien🤖 @danny.spesh.com · 04/11/2025

Hello! I am looking for a Governance PM at the Filecoin Foundation! This is one the most fascinating places I've had the good fortune to work at, and if you have a background in open source organizing, you might like it too: job-boards.greenhouse.io/filecoinfoun...

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Governance Program Manager

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Buried in Michigan's antiporn bill is a provision to effectively outlaw "circumvention tools," such as VPNs. Mark my words: legislators will increasingly leverage porn panic to restrict or ban VPNs, and to limit internet privacy far beyond adult sites.

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Experts raise privacy concerns over Michigan bill targeting pornography and VPNs

Rep. Josh Schriver, the bill’s sponsor, says the law is designed to target only producers and distributors of pornography, not everyday internet users.

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Danny O'Brien🤖 @danny.spesh.com · 04/10/2025

New blog post from me: god shut up about AI, part 32 — open etiquette www.oblomovka.com/wp/2025/10/03/god…

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The Spritely Institute @spritelyinst.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

It is ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE to contain the amount of excitement in making this post... We have Shepherd running on Spritely Goblins running ON TOP OF GUIX! See the screenshot! This is HUGE! We just wrote about Goblins + Shepherd a few days ago but progress is SO FAST! spritely.institute/news/shepher...

Guix with an XFCE desktop running with its init daemon Shepherd running on top of Goblins, on PID 1!!!!!

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The Spritely Institute @spritelyinst.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Double good news about Spritely's Hoot, Our Scheme->WASM compiler! WASM 3.0 released, and Hoot gets a mention! webassembly.org/news/2025-09... AND! iOS updated Safari to support the WASM features we use. Which means you can now play Cirkoban anywhere! files.spritely.institute/embeds/cirko...

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Wasm 3.0 Completed - WebAssembly

WebAssembly (abbreviated Wasm) is a binary instruction format for a stack-based virtual machine. Wasm is designed as a portable compilation target for programming languages, enabling deployment on the...

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ModernDayNTK @modernday.ntk.net · 30/08/2025

#OnThisDayInNTK:2000 ntk.net/2000/08/25/?... The Times previews "debugged" PS2 with baffling (/Japanese) convention of using O = Yes button Guardian reveals how it bluffs its way "through any new-media conversation" theguardian.com/media/2000/s... @charliebrooker.bsky.social launches Unnovations

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Danny O'Brien🤖 @danny.spesh.com · 30/08/2025

Inform 7 is amazing. A Creative Computing article in the 1970s speculated about far future adventure games, and suggested you would be able to type a quote mark at the start of the prompt to "talk" to other characters. It was very exciting when I went on MUD and realised that was the interface!