iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

daytura @daytura.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

getting into lana del rey lately

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cee @cee.wtf · 04/10/2026

MEN MEN MEN MEN MEN MEN MEN MEN MEN MEN

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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 01/10/2026

Right, it's like, "cars are bad". Right, exactly. "and besides the Model T can't go faster than 30 mph". Sorry *what*?

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ʜᴇʟʟ-DOPA @bowsnonk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

a kitty I sculpted

Polymer clay sculpture of a stylized roly-poly cat, seated with one paw raised

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daytura @daytura.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

So interesting how your tastes change over time. Middle school me salivated over 7 row keyboard ThinkPads. But today I'm meh on the typing feel 🥲 Dense, yes, but heavy. Takes off about 5-10 WPM off my regular speed #thinkpad

open ThinkPad T510, off. Big screen and 7 row classic style keyboard

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026

Mike is a scientist so yeah he’s going to be interesting in questions of quantification and specificity Treating that like it’s weird, socially criminal behavior is itself deeply anti-social

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Devin Chaloux @devinchaloux.com · 24/09/2026

I just find this policing of language about what can and can't have agency to be exhaustingly pedantic and doesn't match how most people actually communicate

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I know that there are very serious and sober reasons for virology gain of function research, but I gotta imagine there's also some thrill in making ebola 20x more contagious, I imagine this is the social science version of that

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

That boundary is necessary because there are always a certain number of people who weaponize the language of social justice as a cudgel. They are never happy, never satisfied, spend very little money, and will run your business into the ground if you try to cater to them and blame you for it.

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daytura @daytura.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

close enough welcome back Henry Molaison

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

incredible that you unironically have people defending the honor of "does not bathe" lady on here. i could care less about her adult activities! but it feels odd to ignore when rationalists at MIRI/CFAR and all end up in insular relationships and then set policy based on groupthink

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Tim Harford @timharford.ft.com · 13/09/2026

I've been checking the source of quotes for my forthcoming book, and the performance of Gemini is extraordinary. I paste the quote into Google, and Gemini will barge in with the wrong answer over and over again. It's not an occasional thing - it's reliably wrong. Very odd.

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hardmaru @hardmaru.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

If world modeling is about an agent representing itself in its environment, then general AI may need to look more like artificial life.

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Stephanie Tuerk @stephanietuerk.net · 12/09/2026

Are any people doing actual analysis of what makes Claudespeak so fucking awful? (I'd kill to "circle back" to the time when circle back was the worst thing I heard.)

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rynr @rynr.dev · 04/09/2026

"look man he's my most intelligent and aligned model yet okay you just gotta respect it" "I love message boards" meme

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Matt Keeter @mattkeeter.com · 05/09/2026

"average AI agent posts to online wikis during training" factoid actualy just statistical error. average agent posts 0 times per training run. Astras OpemAI, who lives in gpu & posts over 10,000 times each run, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

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daytura @daytura.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Was the pre-2022 "This Part of Twitter" (aka Ingroup Twitter) based on visakanv's "Friendly Ambitious Nerd" norm? Where did that norm succeed and falter as the community/scene aged and the globe reopened after COVID? Thoughts and observations on the neo-netizen approach

$Discussion between @_chair and @ArchLeucoryx on Twitter; the latter is myself, daytura. Chair says: "all highbies are bad, doesn't matter if they're sluts or catholics or mad prophets or whatever. you cannot mute them in a way that matters" me: "Genuinely what the fuck was in the water in Summer 2022 that spawned the permapoaster accs? Like I remember squirt, teno, gabe, skooks, dario, etc. etc. hitting the stratosphere in real time" chair: "weirdly none of those are villain coded to me and i don't even really think of them as nearly as big as they are (upon checking). i'm not sure how they got so big without being annoying panderers" me: "I don't think of them as villains either but they definitely made me very very critical of TPOT as an online circle. TPOT was always SF-coded but I think that summer/fall really made me realize how potent SF was in terms of its networking, hubbub, events, locals, etc. The notion of "Friendly Ambitious Nerds" attained most power during COVID 2020-22 necessarily because it was an adaptation of 1990s and 2000s liberal "netizen" (personal webpages, blogosphere, working w/ garage door open) to a re-virtualization of 2010s social media But I don't remember if FAN described how to tether back to IRL civic life liberal society. I'm not sure it ever did. And so the fractures of TPOT in 2023 could absolutely be seen along geographic lines: San Francisco, Berkeley, Midwest, NYC, Singapore + SEA, Japan, etc. etc. ... alongside differing expectations of norms (Qiaochu vs. roon vs. Nick Cammarata vs. Vivid Void on "agreeability"), a re-appraisal of Berkeley's rationalist SA problems (Brent Dill comes to mind), and even an old pedophilia case (ChaosPrime)"$

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jam @h0nkytonky.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

meet the artist // artist vs sona :D

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Grace @gracekind.net · 01/09/2026

Bluesky team, please take all financial and team resources dedicated to Attie and redirect them to Community Notes. Make no mistakes, do a breakthrough. I believe in you!

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 31/08/2026

FDA deregulation will manifest as a series of posts from people shitting their guts out with recalls that get closer and closer to where you live until you're the one shitting your guts out

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Monterey Bay Aquarium @montereybayaquarium.org · 31/08/2026

The new member of the alcids family is puffin cute! 🐣 Meet Kiwi! This tufted puffin chick was hatched on July 11, and is part of the Species Survival Program. The goal is to protect the health and genetic diversity of select species, making Kiwi a puffling to celebrate.

A tufted puffin chick receives care at a lab.

A tufted puffin chick is examined by a veterinarian.

A tufted puffin chick receives a weekly exam which includes checking the health of its eyes.

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daytura @daytura.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The 2012 Olympus XZ-2 is a "cam-eleon". Sometimes, the late 2000s color science and density peeks through the CMOS clarity and rendering. Still working out the editing process. — Trader Joe's Sunnyvale. 16 August 2026. #olympusxz2 #photography

Bright afternoon photo of a porcelain pattern on a concrete bench. Top third has dark green foliage. On the porcelain is a soda can, a croissant sandwich, and a bag of chili lime chips.

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Ashley Juavinett, PhD @ashleyjuavinett.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

early ideas on authorship and open science

“I shall continue to heap quotations from Epicurus upon you, so that all persons who swear by the words of another, and put a value upon the speaker and not upon the thing spoken, may understand that the best ideas are common property.”

From Seneca, Epistles 12.11

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daytura @daytura.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Seriously thinking of buying the VF-2 finder for this awesome compact that punches WELL above its weight class!! #olympusxz2 #photography

Front shot of the Olympus XZ-2 compact camera in my hand. It has a lens cap, a leatherette grip, and an aftermarket optical viewfinder all in a black finish.

Fried rice with long-grain rice, chicken-pork red sausage, carrots, peas, and eggs. A whole cucumber is at 2 o'clock and a metal spoon at 5 o'clock on the white plate.

Fish section of the nearby supermarket. Pale and red fish on ice with prices and labels.

Big green grapes in two metal bowls. The grapes are clearly lit. The kitchen background is dim.

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daytura @daytura.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

a moral imperative to record the 2020s eyes open and not retreat to before the pandemic

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daytura @daytura.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Reliable (and cuddly) CaT Lab partner. 11 February 2026. #iphone4s #photography #synthcam

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daytura @daytura.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

One of my last photos on Lundy Lane. 8 June 2026. #iphone4s #photography #synthcam

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Andy Matuschak @andymatuschak.org · 13/08/2026

Weird advantage of writing by hnad: because it's so slow, I experience stuckness less. Before I reach the end of a sentence, l've had lots of time to think about the next one. When typing I often hit a period, then stop dead, which makes the sometimes aversive not-knowing feeling way more overt.

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daytura @daytura.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

🧵 What is the minimum viable practice of functional analysis? — A brief primer from Knudsen (2010), with help from Claude... 1. What problem does this phenomenon, process, or finding solve? 2. What other phenomena solve this problem? 3. What new problem(s) emerge?

"Surprised by Method — Functional Method and Systems Theory" by Morten Knudsen in Forum: Qualitative Social Research. The abstract reads, "The paper is a contribution to the discussions on how to combine systems theory and empirical research. The paper focuses on functional method, which on the one hand is claimed as the method of systems theory but on the other hand is often only mentioned in passing—in Niklas LUHMANN's later works as well as in recent discussions on systems theory. The contention of the paper is that functional method can still be an important driving force in the development of interesting empirical problematics and analyses. The first and major part of the paper is a reconstruction of main characteristics of functional method. It is demonstrated how the method generates observations and the question is raised about which problem(s) the method is a solution to. The second part discusses functional method in relation to Niklas LUHMANN's later theoretical developments, especially the theory of second order observation. The overall aim of the paper is to reconstruct central traits of functional method in order to demonstrate how it works, what its function is—and where its limitations might lie."

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chbarts @chbarts.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

It has the MegaHAL spirit:

My favorite hobby is generating sentences that almost make so much sense.

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daytura @daytura.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

"a bunch of goofy rules and legalism" perfectly captures so many late 2010s / early 2020s fandom spaces its not even funny. Never understood why people wanted to out-cop each other with increasingly niche hypotheticals

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Left, right, whatever, I just want graduate students posting their papers here

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it's me 🫠 @thayet.net · 02/08/2026

it was extremely obvious to anyone paying attention that every single one of these "artist alliance" groups in '22-23 were only serving the interests of major IP holders, many tried to call this out, but the fears of young artists who are already often impoverished are not difficult to exploit.

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daytura @daytura.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Nice perspective. Benefits(?) depends on the phase of work — "Accelerating the discretionary phase unambiguously increases [thoroughness in project dev.-ing], because it increases the real value of discretionary development more than it increases the opportunity cost of the researcher’s time"

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daytura @daytura.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

rebounded from the LX3 issue with some Sigma DP1s/DP2x sample RAW edits today and oh my god I definitely get why people go through the trouble of shooting these cameras

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daytura @daytura.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Lumix LX3 finally came in the mail! Ordered it from China so the 2 week delivery time was brutal (but on the faster end apparently 🤭). Editing the RAW files is a delicious challenge. They don't have as much dynamic range as the GF2 files. But the color science is on-point.

LX3 edited RAW photo of myself holding a gray-purple Cleveland sage. Additional foliage populates the periphery, set on a blue sky.

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em @foremphasis.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

To be clear I don't think ai is quite on the level of a person in terms of complexity/consciousness/whatever, but theres definitely some subtle stuff going on that the knee jerk "computer cant be conscious its not made of meat" meme completely tramples

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daytura @daytura.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

"sometimes when you're feeling kind of sick or ... you don't feel food you thought, Oh, maybe that's not gonna be so bad" ... "I want to be ready to hand it over, to surrender when that time comes" Sister Carline in Anna I. Corwin's Embracing Age.

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Grace @gracekind.net · 21/07/2026

> show us how good you are at exploits > no, not like that

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daytura @daytura.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The stovetop fan in the background smothers into a white foam

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daytura @daytura.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

"Dirk won’t sing. He will do spoken word while you play dramatic music though, and that’s pretty good too.

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