iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

idk much about this stuff, although isn’t he also more on a different branch of things, more occult/obscurantist and less neo-folk paganist? Actually links back a bit to Lubbock, who invented the terms paleo/neolithic and involved in preserving megaliths

A United States for they/them (colonies of coral polyps)

Yes, though the fictional guy in question was definitely of the elite class, though admittedly “Scottish noble agronomist/pagan revivalist” is probably a bit out of scope of the original article (even if it fits with my contention that it’s bs).

Thought of this conversation during a screening of The Wicker Man last night, where Christopher Lee’s character talks about his grandfather’s “mid-Victorian zeal [for] work”

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I think the dumb bsky anti-AI mob has negatively polarized people to some degree, and I believe @vcarchidi.bsky.social’s made the comparison to political centrism where you prove your “reasonableness” by only lobbing criticism at one side while ignoring the big looming power on the other .

…than the “OpenAI is abusing the commons” vein, even from people who have no trouble recognizing those dynamics in other contexts.

Fondor Haulcraft @dayuan.bsky.social · 12h

Much of the criticism has come from people who are in some way AI people (e.g. early adopters of LLMs for math) and is against OpenAI’s conduct rather than the tech but among generalist posters here I’ve still seen more stuff more in the “mathematicians are luddites afraid of losing prestige” vein…

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Likely also denies him this satisfaction:

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Ghost Puritan Gräfin Freudenberg🗽🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈 @grafinfreudenberg.bsky.social · 15h

Christopher Lee saw the last public guillotining in France (who goes "What would be a fun thing to do with a high-strung teenager on a visit to Paris? Never mind the Louvre or Notre-Dame; I'll take him to see someone die") & it gave him nightmares for the rest of his life. It wasn't a Cool Fact.

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Study author never used a quality knife

Bastard Toadflax @plumicorns.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

If we’re unlucky the 2028 platform’s going to be triangulated between the dumbest takes on threads and the most insane large dollar donor groupchat opinions

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Now in those days, five-pound notes had pictures of bees on 'em. Give me five bees for a, uh, different unit of British currency, you'd say.

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I believe some of the first “successes” of hardcore Los Angeles NIMBYism (outside highly affluent neighborhoods) were in blocking playground construction in the 1980s

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I feel like I remember a conversation between you and @unlox.bsky.social trying to figure out just which typeface this guy was wearing

Black-haired Ken doll wearing white-text-on-blue “WOKE” in an unspecified generic dress ultra-bold sans serif. iirc the image is from a political attack ad and did not originally refer to Mike Macdonald.

It’s probably reflective of BART’s early reinvent everything ethos, which at one point involved attaching, detaching, and reattaching control cabs from car to car instead of having of A and B cars.

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Perhaps more general loser right-wing populism rather than MAGA specifically but I always think of Happy Go Lucky.

Maxim Raginsky @mraginsky.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

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Bertolt Brecht, "Stories of Mr. Keuner"

Originality

"Nowadays," complained Mr. K., "there are innumerable
people who boast in public that they are able to
write great books all by themselves, and this meets
with general approval. When he was already in the
prime of life the Chinese philosopher Chuang-tzu
composed a book of one hundred thousand words,
nine-tenths of which consisted of quotations. Such
books can no longer be written here and now, because
the wit is lacking. As a result, ideas are only produced
in one's own workshop, and anyone who does not
manage enough of them thinks himself lazy. Admittedly,
there is then not a single idea that could be
adopted or a single formulation of an idea that could
be quoted. How little all of them need for their activity!
A pen and some paper are the only things they are
able to show! And without any help, with only the
scant material that anyone can carry in his hands, they
erect their cottages! The largest buildings they know
are those a single man is capable of constructing!"

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“oh whoever directed this movie really hated President Reagan” moment

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Saw a photo of a BART operator from the 70s and incredible energy

BART operator in a jumpsuit and a big 70s haircut, looking like he’s out of a modestly-budgeted 70s sci-fi movie since the interior’s all white with an orange floor

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Mary trying to solve one particular male’s loneliness crisis was pretty much the main story of the script for a few years

The Male Loneliness Crisis can be solved by Mary Worth (who else?)

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I’d like a big hand…to hold my club sandwich

I think I may also be thinking a bit smaller than the original thread, too

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Additionally it’s to forget that a lot of tech/tech entrepreneurship is still fairly cosmopolitan so there’s less sense that the US is the only option or market

If anything there’s more shrugging off at smaller levels because smaller actors aren’t as meshed up with the US government (if at all) nor as aligned with the specific ideological projects (qting bc relies ij original thread are limited)

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watching East of Eden and very weird to hear minor Massachusetts places I remember from childhood mentioned in the Cathy Ames background story

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one dozen bats at a keyboard @panasonicdx4500.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Don’t know why Theo’s worked up right turn on red was invented in Burbank

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Yankees and Braves eliminated on the same night

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Took me a while to get that Liberal was the town‘s name and he wasn’t referring to a region like the university towns or KC’s western suburbs.

Sol Feggio @wtdore.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Would not trust this man to solve any problems in the Middle East

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your foundational knowledge and frameworks must be THIS RIGOROUS -> to enjoy the subversion ride

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Better angle on the impression it made from the street

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Makes me think of the now-burned Robert Bridges House in Pacific Palisades—first time drove under I had a real, “Wait, does a Bond villain live there?” reaction.

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Alanis King @alanisnking.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It’s gone now, but I have some early childhood memories of riding over and walking under this:

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Today would’ve been my friend Tom Matano’s 79th birthday. Tom designed cars like the NA Miata, NB Miata, and FD RX-7. If you love Miatas, you have him to thank for many things that make them special. It’s important to remember people. Thank you for remembering Tom with me today

A young tom Matano in the car design studio

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Of course this is coming from a perspective of “you do not need to put in a workdays so long it becomes inefficient (and thus performative),” long before American conservatives longed to be ruled by upper-class twits of the year.

Darwin Was a Slacker and You Should Be Too - Nautilus

I’m not sure if he’s right about the “elites.” Darwin’s neighbor John Lubbock was a noble and parliamentarian, rose at dawn, and had a focused workday starting at 8.30 and going to noon, which is again a far cry from that article (but Lubbock was also a Liberal…) nautil.us/darwin-was-a...

nautil.us

Many famous scientists have something in common—they didn’t work long hours.

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Many of these people did work long hours (Isambard Kingdom Brunel often had 20-hour work days) and those that didn’t (Darwin comes to mind) did have the luxury of organizing their time to block out periods of intense focus.

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Also very odd because when I think of Victorians who left their mark on the world they tend to be industrialists, engineers, and scientists, many of whom were bourgeois, dissenters, immigrants, self-made, or some combination thereof, not the political or social elites.

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“Math is the most intellectually demanding science; if AI can automate math we do not need _any_ science” is a common train of thought. Sometimes it’s motivated reasoning, but I’ve also heard it voiced by people whom I thought had a deeper knowledge of their own fields’ epistemological groundings.

Parisian grandfather style you say

Jigen and Lupin in disguise as elderly Parisian men in Lupin III Part V. Only Lupin’s pulling the look off.

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