iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

"simple tasks that are already convenient and frequently enjoyable like book a flight" - I'm sorry what

As a former resident of Amsterdam I've always kinda ignored van Gogh, like I'd ignore Monet or similar mass culture phenomena. But listening to his letters this was a mistake. He was really an interesting guy, deeply committed and serious/stubborn in an appealing way

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dhoe @dhoe.bsky.social · 19h

Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem is going to sound different when you can instantiate a thousand conscious beings with an API call

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dhoe @dhoe.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I log into Amazon using passkey and they send me a verification code by email. Guess that improves security for the .1% of cases where my phone is compromised but not my email?

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dhoe @dhoe.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I think I finally understand this affection-bordering-on-aggression thing cats do with other cats. It's the same as humor in humans: finding out how far you can go, with plausible deniability. A relative status negotiation/exploration, identifying were the red line is

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dhoe @dhoe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

We live in the most interesting of times, and I love it.

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norvid_studies @norvid-studies.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

which I don't, I should be getting model text streamed to my eyes, rather than humano slopthought. and as today, so tomorrow and forever. interesting. "the death of stack overflow but for random peoples opinions"

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dhoe @dhoe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Van Gogh had this perspective frame custom made by a carpenter at a time he had no money at all. Described in a letter to Theo. I gave that letter to Sol and got an implementation that works on the phone

Letter from Vincent to Theo describing the perspective frame

Phone showing perspective frame app with a room and a staircase in the view finder

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Luke @lrj1982.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Be careful when sharing misinterpreted phrases, they can spread like wildflower.

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dhoe @dhoe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"mathematics is infinite which beats exponential [growth] hands down" 🔥

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dhoe @dhoe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

One of my favorite Buddha quotes - not that I'm great at following it, but it is sometimes helpful to look at it and realize that maybe my mind is concerning itself with pretty irrelevant things

Bhikkhus, do not engage in the various kinds of pointless talk, that is, talk about kings, thieves, and ministers of state; talk about armies, dangers, and wars; talk about food, drink, garments, and beds; talk about garlands and scents; talk about relations, vehicles, villages, towns, cities, and countries; talk about women and talk about heroes; street talk and talk by the well; talk about those departed in days gone by; rambling chitchat; speculation about the world and about the sea; talk about becoming this or that. For what reason? Because, bhikkhus, this talk is unbeneficial, irrelevant to the fundamentals of the holy life, and does not lead to revulsion, to dispassion, to cessation, to peace, to direct knowledge, to enlightenment, to Nibbāna.

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dhoe @dhoe.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It seems to have been thoroughly removed from the internets but there already was a site called moreright; it was a far right offshoot of lesswrong, moldbug affine if I remember correctly.

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 02/10/2026

In awe of bsky’s ability to remain interested in talking to / about AI denialists. Have some backlit miscanthus instead? While they also have little impact on policy, they are capable of altering position slightly in response to events and thus could—in principle—surprise us.

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dhoe @dhoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

With Bangkok's motorcycle courier culture, you get a good preview of how it feels to have agents for random tasks in the physical world. Like I go to the park to run, change there afterwards, send running clothes and shoes home by courier.

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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

I do and am periodically very embarrassed by it because my accent comes through - like I write "thing" for "think", which I *know* don't sound the same

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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 · 23/09/2026

It's a CEO group chat thing

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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

Anyway thanks for the injunction to enjoy (Lacan), I've been out kayaking early and superego and me are at peace temporarily

A kayak on a lake at dawn, mountains in the distance

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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

I was feeling frustrated about this the other day, but then I remembered that I had been working in English for years when I went to the US for the first time and had the same problem. Maybe this area deserves a dedicated approach

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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 · 11/09/2026

Interesting, I didn't realize this was a thing

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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 · 24/08/2026

Log into website with Google. Google wants a passkey, but says it's not on this device. Choose alternate method. Google now logs me in. Website now knows who I am, but asks for their own password. Then sends me an email with a link. I click on some traffic lights to prove humanity. Etc

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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 · 18/08/2026

I remember this once confused me greatly when I tried to think in terms of vectors and rotational momentum and shit. While it's as easy as sails, just rotating to push air

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