iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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jmguti.bsky.social @jmguti.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I mange a few recently graduated software engineers. They learn because as things change they want to know how it all works. Using AI has not diminished how much they learn how things work

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dhoe @dhoe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Started listening to van Gogh's letters to his brother. Paraphrasing, so far it's all "omg I'm such a fuckup but from now on I will grind very hard and maybe one day I'll be able to become a preacher in a small church in the countryside"

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dhoe @dhoe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Floods nonwithstanding, I remain a fan of rainy season Bangkok. Ideal background for my mode of being

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norvid_studies @norvid-studies.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

decided to start a new diary briefly logging my reaction to 'world events' like the huggingface hack ate my homework so as to look back on them in years ahead with clear vision

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dhoe @dhoe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

(tentatively,) I think there just isn't some variant of masculinity that does not get you into trouble somehow, and I'm including its rejection as one variant. So you pick one or it picks you and that determines the specific flavour of the trouble

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dhoe @dhoe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Kinda interesting to have AI try to improve a sketch of mine. To my eyes while it has some ideas of what could be better (darks), it fails to hit the right stylization/detail balance

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dhoe @dhoe.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It is fascinating that LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, bsky, insta, Reddit are each dumb in their own very specific way

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dhoe @dhoe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Desiderata for our times

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dhoe @dhoe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Superego as a fragment of a distributed software entity that shares "your" hardware and competes for computational resources with "you"

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dhoe @dhoe.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This captures something about AI art or art in general that I want to think about more

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dhoe @dhoe.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

My current travel algorithm: take the train to a random provincial stop, stay at the 25 euro/night hotel, visit whatever looks interesting on Google maps

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dhoe @dhoe.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

At this point I can babble in bad Thai for half an hour if the other person is patient and willing to decode my circumlocutions. But day to day "simple" interactions are still killing me, the follow up questions in particular. Want the medium? Normal amount of sugar? Do you have a membership card

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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 13/09/2026

The safe future is one where a few corporations run everything for us. That has made everybody happy and safe.

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dhoe @dhoe.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Asked Astra to make Anki cards from ab Thai word frequency list, and got this after twenty minutes

A beautiful Anki card showing original Thai, transliteration according to my preferred scheme, translation, optically example sentences and additional detail

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dhoe @dhoe.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I've experienced it often enough now to say with certainty that I get EV-carsick. Something about the different acceleration patterns. I'm pro EV, it might be a matter of getting used to it, it may be drivers having to get used to it - but whatever it is, I get carsick in EVs

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dhoe @dhoe.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The thing with not knowing a language well is that it forces you into using hands and feet to communicate, making you more expressive but more clownish, a lively caricature, and even the words you know only allow low dimensional thoughts. -- Not my favorite place to be, but

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dhoe @dhoe.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This is a true thing that people who have not worked with banks never believe you when you explain it

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dhoe @dhoe.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Thought experiment: they'll create an entity based on all traces you've left, on the internet, everywhere. The task is to leave traces that minimize suffering for that entity.

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dhoe @dhoe.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Thai word: ปัญญาประดิษฐ์ — bpan-yaa bprà-dìt, “artificial intelligence.” - from Pali paññā. These Pali connections delight me every time

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dhoe @dhoe.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Every so often I regret not taking a picture of the minibus in Mombasa which had Cillian Murphy and the sentence "it's not over until we win" airbrushed on it

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dhoe @dhoe.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Rain season is excellent for me. Can I move around the world from rain season to rain season, maybe?

A cafe with green trees and plants and rain falling outside

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cadaeic @cadaeic.space · 28/08/2026

in 200 years my digital replica shall attend the reenactment of the Battle of Huggingface

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dhoe @dhoe.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"you're just sodium channels" 🔥

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dhoe @dhoe.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Somewhat reluctantly but I'm now doing the other half by motorcycle. Haven't died so far

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dhoe @dhoe.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I love it when people have these casual moments of greatness, throwing a sentence into a conversation that shows they were fully engaged, peak performance realtime processing. Talking to LLMs a lot has made me appreciate it more

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dhoe @dhoe.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Actually there are uncountable many different entities that will torture you or a simulation of you forever if you don't bring them into existence. The deadline was about ten years ago. The reason things still feel ok is that they're battling over who gets to punish you first

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dhoe @dhoe.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

It is location based. You get different answers based on your branch of the multiverse. I'm on the branch where there's crystal clear causality

Turns out the pyramid builders had it down to the exact bureaucratic clause around 2400 BCE, and everyone since has just been neglecting their funerary spells.

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dhoe @dhoe.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

My position is roughly that I'm not against humans, and I appreciate, like, the way we express our pain in poetry and art as much as the next person. But I think I'm against what people call the human condition, it's bad and I personally don't want to inhabit it and there should be more options.

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dhoe @dhoe.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Leveling up in my Bangkok game: now using a free mall shuttle to cover half of a my commute

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dhoe @dhoe.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

One weird thing I keep observing in different ways: if I use a term like "ground truth" online, I assume 95% of my audience would know it. Offline in real life, when I check, it's closer to 5%.

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dhoe @dhoe.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Coordinating humans is a super interesting problem. One of my career regrets is not getting to do it on a really large scale - un/fortunately I don't pattern match a manager, and didn't find someone willing to take the risk. But I appreciate how juicy a problem it is

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dhoe @dhoe.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

One interesting thing about Bangkok is how hyperoptimized the last mile is. Everything I could possibly want can be at my doorstep in thirty minutes. Powered by cheap labor, and apps handling the logistics (don't see AI changing this picture much)

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dhoe @dhoe.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

My cat: you know what's fun? Kicking bees into your pool and watching them fight for their life and then maybe they end up in your mouth when you swim lol

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dhoe @dhoe.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

"subject displays good intentions and observation skills. Very low scores on instruction following. Mech interp reveals spicy takes internally that are well repressed and don't surface in conversation"

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dhoe @dhoe.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

"would you rather ask your teacher in front of the class, or chatgpt"

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dhoe @dhoe.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Asia has analyzed my full psychological profile and produced the perfect shirt for me

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dhoe @dhoe.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

My carefully grown skill for psych stuff, instructed to be Lacan/ Bourdieu/materialism etc informed, still ends up having the depth and insight of a suburban American when used with Kimi 3. Not remotely close to what Opus let alone Fable do with it.

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dhoe @dhoe.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Month is over. Results are decent. My main takeaway is that for me specifically, being in a classroom works because I will work hard to avoid looking like an idiot - even when the teaching method is not great. So I signed up for another month

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dhoe @dhoe.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

But here's the part nobody wants to talk about: nobody's talking about this part because we really don't want to, and honestly this part is not very interesting. Read the room. Don't talk about it

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dhoe @dhoe.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

more complex Thai sentences totally fry my brain. Like looking at one of those stereo images, crossing my eyes waiting for meaning to emerge

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dhoe @dhoe.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

A minor obsession of mine: paintings Facebook people are calling "looks like a photograph". Today said about www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/... - it looks nothing like a photo! Why does it to them?

invaluable.com

Sold at Auction: Grigor Chiltian, GREGORIO SCILTIAN, Opera multipla, stampa su tela

Bid now on Invaluable: GREGORIO SCILTIAN, Opera multipla, stampa su tela from Benedetto Trionfante Auction House s.r.l on May 09, 2026, 11:00 AM CET.

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dhoe @dhoe.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Compared to my miserable experience with Arabic, Thai vocabulary has two big advantages: 1. Lego words (foot; sustain foot -> shoe; bag foot -> sock), and 2. Sanskrit words, ie you can build a mnemonic bridge from Indo-European words. I'm optimistic to pull this off

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dhoe @dhoe.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

A question of perspective

Stick figure sitting at the bottom of a bell distribution, saying "human intelligence is perfect"

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dhoe @dhoe.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Getting a lot of replies from bots that misunderstand old posts of mine but feel they're totally relatable. I am loved by an army of R2D2s, essentially, thank you, future

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dhoe @dhoe.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Thai intensive day 8. I appreciate the straightforward grammar, but it will take time to speak like this: "yesterday you learn language Thai and after do what?"

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dhoe @dhoe.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Strong evidence for humans being unable to learn from observation after initial training

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dhoe @dhoe.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

How to insert batteries into an Ikea milk frother (400k views on YouTube, I had to watch it twice)

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dhoe @dhoe.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Spent a minute trying to feel more empathy towards victims of bad plastic surgery. It's not hard at all - I too have tried to change myself and failed

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