iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Jack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 4h

Teaching Swift today, and will always share this on “Modest Proposal” day.

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David Williamson @david.williamsons.net · 29/09/2026

The dog is snoring. At this time of night/morning, that's just showing off. Kinda jealous.

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David Williamson @david.williamsons.net · 29/09/2026

Okay, too many posts about terrible things, so here's a Booby.

A Red-footed Booby: a large white seabird with black wingtips, a shockingly blue and red face, and feet that are, as suggested by the name, bright red. It's in flight with wings outstretched and shown against a blurry green background of the cliffs behind it.

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taber @kvetch.gay · 28/09/2026

Here's a map of how iron ore mined in Minnesota moves (the red lines). Note the markers for where steel facilities are located, they're where they are because you have to move the stuff on ships. There are no steel mills in Iowa of any size because you can't get the fucking stuff it's made of there

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David Williamson @david.williamsons.net · 28/09/2026

Filed under "well that's very very bad indeed". I thought we settled this ~80 years ago, but clearly we have not. Between here and Europe...oof.

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David Williamson @david.williamsons.net · 28/09/2026

We should take all those folks and put them on Golgafrinchan Ark B. What could possibly go wrong? It's clear none of these people understand value that doesn't involve small pieces of green paper. So nice to have a government run by morons.

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David Williamson @david.williamsons.net · 28/09/2026

What, and I mean this with all sincerity, the actual fuck is this?

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David Williamson @david.williamsons.net · 28/09/2026

Okay, time to get up and get the blood flowing. Maybe this will help: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcND...

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Fanfare for the Common Man - Aaron Copland

YouTube video by Gewandhausorchester

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⤵️ @bryce.lol · 27/09/2026

If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber’d here While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme No more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend: if you pardon, we will mend; And, as I am an honest Puck, Show is over, off you fuck.

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David Williamson @david.williamsons.net · 27/09/2026

There's a lot of outstanding stuff in this thread, but Juliet wins it, period. lol

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🇵🇹 snipe, lixo tóxico ⭑⭒⭒⭒⭒ @snipe.lol · 26/09/2026

I don't know if this actually happened, but I hope it did.

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David Williamson @david.williamsons.net · 25/09/2026

Yeah. This. It's nuts, but it's also a bigger part of the country today than I sure would like it to be. The American Experiment is imperfect but interesting. To pretend it is God-ordained is, frankly, blasphemous.

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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Seán Doran @theseaning.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Wow!

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David Williamson @david.williamsons.net · 24/09/2026

It's not terribly helpful to have tropical cyclones name "Nolo" and "Polo" active at the same time.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 24/09/2026

Damn, socialism seems pretty fucking cool if you ask me

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Braasch Lab @ Michigan State University @fishevodevogeno.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

As we keep saying: the impact of the teleost fish whole duplication has been profound! #EndlessFishMostTasteful

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David Williamson @david.williamsons.net · 24/09/2026

I see this obviously useless device targeted at a certain demographic and my first thought is "okay, how is this thing surveilling everything around it?" - yeah, technology has gotten very stupid.

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Bailey McCann @baileymcc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It’s nice that modern life has devolved into being forced into using technology that doesn’t help you, that you didn’t ask for, that you’re required to submit a lot of information for to again not be helped, but you will receive a steady drip of $2-20 settlement deposits because they sold your data

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

1960

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We've got to have a meeting about this.

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

a shadow falls over the port of virginia. the longshoremen halt their work and gaze up- it's donald trump, piloting the fully-armed and operational triumphal arch as the first missiles strike a tower of shipping containers, a voice booms over the port: "THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER"

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Venn you see the truth...

Venn diagram. Top circle, Canada Geese. Bottom left circle, Toddler. Bottom right circle, Anti-Vaxxer

Intersection Canada Geese/Toddler: always pooping
Intersection Canada Geese/Anti-Vaxxer: wants everydead
Intersection Toddler/Anti-Vaxxer: incoherent ramblings
Intersection of all 3: can't reason with them

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 21/09/2026

as a hater let me acknowledge something ai is good at: producing irritating discourse at scale this is usually because, like "ai" itself, people are talking about different things like they are one thing so let me disentangle, with statements numbered for easy disagreement

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Cedar Riener @criener.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Every innovation and change in business these days is either: We took this product you like and turned it into a subscription We took this subscription you begrudgingly pay and added some ads We took these ads you found annoying and found more ways to find you

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The Republican who runs South Dakota's elections just backed a Democrat to succeed her. "South Dakota deserves a Secretary of State who will strengthen confidence through performance rather than provocation; who will support election officials rather than burden them for political effect."

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Republican Who Runs South Dakota Elections Backs Democrat to Succeed Her

Monae Johnson, the secretary of state, is the latest Republican incumbent to speak out against conservative candidates as President Trump loses support before midterm elections.

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David Williamson @david.williamsons.net · 21/09/2026

Note to self: no flights anywhere near the DC area for the foreseeable future. Right, got it.

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

when ai leaves u behind

7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2:
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4:
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6:
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy.
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”

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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.

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Oregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new report

A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 19/09/2026

Yeah, I've been a tech nerd for decades but all the "AI" stuff really does feel like "Sooooo we're taking a type of computation that's actually bad at most things and putting it in a whole bunch of stuff to make it work worse because... if we don't the whole economy's going to crash or something?"

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David Williamson @david.williamsons.net · 19/09/2026

Wow! That's all there is to say. Wow!

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 19/09/2026

13/12 headline. No notes

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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 18/09/2026

Worried about AI Robots? All you need is more ram, and a dogged determination to overcome.

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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is real video from the OTUS Project, which is a scientific research project that is an endeavor to record HD video of the internal structure of tornadoes using drone cameras. #AGoodPlace

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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I feel like we are so used to living in a time of madness that we can't grasp just how insane the Kennedy Center dispute is. Trump took something that was running just fine and destroyed it because he couldn't put his name next to the murdered president whose memorial it is. That's completely nuts.

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David Williamson @david.williamsons.net · 17/09/2026

Today marks the anniversary of the public proclamation announcing the accession of Norton I, Emperor of these United States (later also the Protector of Mexico). All hail Emperor Norton! (The only royalty on this continent I'll ever recognize.)

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 17/09/2026

Mel Blanc screams are like Greek fire, we lost the technology to make sounds like this

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Poorly Drawn Lines @poorlydrawnlines.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Behind the scenes.

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David Williamson @david.williamsons.net · 16/09/2026

Can someone please reset the simulation? This has gotten to be completely ludicrous.

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David Williamson @david.williamsons.net · 16/09/2026

~30 launches a day and each one is worth a billion? And in just four years? lolololololololololololololol <deep breath> lolololololololololololololol I'm gonna pass out from laughing so hard - how can anyone take this even vaguely seriously?

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David Williamson @david.williamsons.net · 16/09/2026

Nothing quite so delightful as 2:30am PagerDuty alerts. Whee!

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David Williamson @david.williamsons.net · 16/09/2026

Good news! I found gas for less than $6! (It was $5.999.)

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sanjana! @sanjanacurtis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

are these people doing a bit or

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