iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Dizzy @dizzyd.esq · 26/08/2026

I was thinking this morning that we're in the nascent age of CAD (Computer Aided Design) for software. Everyone is fumbling about, using thousands of tmux terminals to build a bunch of different things, but there's no unifying concept yet of HOW to do this yet. Fun time to be building!

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Dizzy @dizzyd.esq · 23/08/2026

There is a certain irony to slowly losing my hair - I need haircuts more often to keep it from getting crazy.🤪

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Dizzy @dizzyd.esq · 19/08/2026

I find it mildly hilarious that I'm now viewing an 8GB GPU as "little". I remember when a MB of memory was considered a lot and now 8GB of dedicated memory for specific computations is *nothing*.

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Dizzy @dizzyd.esq · 16/08/2026

Is it just me or is anyone else concerned that watermarking on AI content is basically a free side-channel for agent coordination?

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Dizzy @dizzyd.esq · 07/08/2026

It’s hard to believe, but I think Noah Kahan’s latest album is even better than the previous.

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sarcastic parrot @monkchips.com · 01/08/2026

Tweeting this again because it's so absolutely on point.

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Dizzy @dizzyd.esq · 26/07/2026

Saw this Minecraft build of a castle on Reddit and think maybe I should just retire from tech and build it…

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 22/07/2026

AI does not make you a filmmaker. Being a filmmaker, makes you a filmmaker. Y'all can debate about James Cameron using or not using AI, and if he should or should not do that. But he is a filmmaker. Making films is a *skill*. People that don't respect human talent or skill, can't understand this.

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 03/07/2026

AI can make stupid people feel smart. None of are immune. That includes you. (Stupid people = stupid in a domain. People are multi-dimensional and IQ is bullshit.)

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Dizzy @dizzyd.esq · 30/06/2026

“I’m an American in London” just doesn’t have the same ring to it as “Englishman in New York”

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Dizzy @dizzyd.esq · 27/06/2026

The Eurostar has turned into such a PITA thanks to Brexit. It’s hard to explain to the kids just how easy it used to be….

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Dizzy @dizzyd.esq · 26/06/2026

On the one hand, I can understand being careful with releasing frontier AI models - on the other, the US govt is not a party I trust to meaningfully evaluate these things.

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Dizzy @dizzyd.esq · 29/12/2025

New workflow: using Claude Code to audit open source deps before running them. Used to grep through codebases by hand looking for sketchy network calls, data exfil, etc. Now I get thorough reports in minutes. Example: gist.github.com/dizzyd/8b184...

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

This is incredibly important. If you read one thing this week: marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-...

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I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Like Me.

I'm calm. I'm calm. I promise.

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Dizzy @dizzyd.esq · 12/12/2025

The older I get, the more I relish the feeling of shedding my day clothes for the comfy stuff, sliding into clean sheets and feeling my tired muscles rest into a mattress. A most excellent, simple luxury.

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Their closing message to Indiana: change your maps to artificially benefit the President's political party or 'roads will not be paved' as punishment. They are openly saying this. Who would want to live in a country that works like that?

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

If I sound calm, I was actually not calm.

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

This devastating piece describes what it’s like to die of blood cancer. It also describes what it feels like to do so while your cousin is Secretary of Health & Human Services & a ghoul. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

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A Battle with My Blood

When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.

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Sacha Coward @sachacoward.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

It's Trans Day of Remembrance So remember Sylvia Rivera, and every person like her who spoke up despite ridicule and rejection. That is what queer liberation is built upon. Not respectability and comfort. It takes EVERYONE to make a movement happen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb-J...

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Marc Hedlund @marcprecipice.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

From my friend Kyle. This is essential reading for all Americans. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

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I Want You to Understand Chicago

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Tolkien fought in the Battle of the Somme. He saw the horrors of war, and the moments of bravery and fear within it up close. And after all that. ALL that. He wrote Lord of the Rings. He declared true bravery and masculinity to be love, friendship and humbleness. Musk is everything he hated.

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David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

A play in three acts

Grok rebutting DHS, saying Will Stancill is not a threat

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 03/10/2025

We aren't leaving as we feel a responsibility to our community on multiple levels. And also, we are insulated from the worst impacts for a variety of reasons and we should use those advantages to help others. Beyond that, I don't want to. This is my home and I want to fight for it.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 02/10/2025

Like, it sucks that you don’t get to have fun because everybody wants to keep pointing out how you fucked up, but *that’s what the group chat is for*. Go talk to your exec coach or your therapist. Nobody in leadership should be publicly woe-is-me-ing about users saying their trust is broken.

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Today we learned that in June the US economy lost jobs for the first time since 2020. We haven’t seen this kind of net job loss since - well, since the last time Trump was in charge.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 28/08/2025

I think people really struggle w partially consolidated authoritarianism, either understating our problem or understating our power It's like we're in a liminal fascist space. And not recognizing how far gone we are or thinking we're simply too far gone are both grave errors we can't afford to make

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

And yet, as Jamelle notes, they don't yet actually have full control over the country. So the cosplay is a way to pretend to a more complete power than they currently possess. It's an attempt to cow the opposition but also a way to inspire followers who are enthusiastic about following a strongman.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 28/08/2025

According to federal data, 13 of the top 20 cities in homicide rates have Republican governors. None of those cities are Chicago. 8 of the top 10 states in homicide rates are led by Republicans. None of those states are Illinois. And yet Trump is sending troops here.

Post from Donald Trump on Truth Social:

A really deadly weekend in Chicago. 6 dead, 27 hurt in crime sprees all over the city. Panic stricken Governor Pritzker says that crime is under control, when in fact it is just the opposite. He is an incompetent governor who should call me for help. Mayor Johnson is no better. Make Chicago great again!

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Ben Hong @bencodezen.io · 26/08/2025

"Vibe coding is not the same as AI-assisted engineering." — @addyosmani.bsky.social While it's trendy to call any coding done with AI "vibe coding," it's critical to delineate between them because the human intentionality and ownership is what makes products reliable and great.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

To put a finer point on it, Pritzker is being presidential in a way Newsom is not. Newsom is doing a decent job trolling Trump for the lulz, but Pritzker is speaking with the gravitas this situation warrants, promising real accountability, with federal, state and local leaders standing behind him.

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Dizzy @dizzyd.esq · 25/08/2025

AI isn’t going to replace coding. It’s going to replace writing code with reading code. Hope you like spelunking through someone else’s logic—because that “someone else” will increasingly be an AI.

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Niv is both the calm and the storm 🖤 @lanooba.com · 20/08/2025

Leadership protip: Sometimes being Kind is orthogonal to being Nice. Being Kind is giving painful but necessary feedback to help someone correct a potentially detrimental behavior or habit. Being Nice is avoiding giving feedback to avoid hurting their feelings.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

The rich must be incentivised; the poor must be disciplined. The political economy of the super-elite in one headline.

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Dizzy @dizzyd.esq · 05/08/2025

Excited to see @simonwillison.net's take on the models from OpenAI... :)

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Dizzy @dizzyd.esq · 01/08/2025

Just got my annual scan results back - I've now officially been in full remission for 3 years! I did CAR-T back in July of '21 as part of a trial for refractory (resistant to treatment) disease. Thank you, science! (This is the longest remission I've had since my diagnosis in 2010).

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a man in a brown leather jacket is looking at something

Alt: Denzel Washington looking relieved

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Viktor Köves @viktorkoves.com · 20/07/2025

I let a goat from my local zoo run SQL commands against prod without protection and it nuked my data The comments: have you tried this other much smarter goat

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Dizzy @dizzyd.esq · 18/07/2025

Note to self: don’t dig on the beach with your kids, while wearing an Oura ring and claiming “I’m beating the ocean!” The house always wins.

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Sarah Drasner @sarahedo.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

🚂 I've been playing survival Minecraft for a couple of months now, I've made ae2 systems, a whole working train network, and doing a bit of building as well I just finished one of my train stations:

Train station shot, survival minecraft ATM10

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Sarah Drasner @sarahedo.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Is it harder to manage high performers? YES. They will give you hard feedback. They will demand excellence. You will spend more time in coaching. Take it as an opportunity, not an attack, and your org will be better for it. YOU will be better.

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Angie Jones @angiejones.tech · 22/06/2025

Quiet as kept, while everyone is terrified of killer robots, the real threat is the egotistical billionaires obsessed with AGI. But y'all not ready for that conversation 😏

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

I have been sick for a week and I just read about "something going around" in a subreddit, which I guess is how I get my information now that the CDC is officially spending the next four years determining when and how microscopes became gay.

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Dr. Marcus H. Johnson @marcushjohnson.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Young people are not inherently better people or better at politics. If they were, societies would naturally move towards putting them in power to gain an advantage over societies that don’t. There are large structural problems that shape bad outcomes in the US. Its not one generation’s fault

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

We are in such a weird place where caring about other people is political.

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Dizzy @dizzyd.esq · 13/05/2025

Setting aside the obvious corruption of accepting a 400m plane, the security implications are staggering. Qatar (and other interests, I’m sure) are taking phishing to a whole new level. It’s really putting the Soviets to shame with their bugging of the US Embassy in 70s…

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sarcastic parrot @monkchips.com · 17/04/2025

The fucking Magna Carta was written down in 1215. It established the principle that the monarch is NOT ABOVE THE LAW. It protected free men from ARBITRARY IMPRISONMENT. None of this shit is remotely complicated. 12 fucking 15 yo. We worked this shit out. Make Kings Powerless Again.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

NEW: Fourth Circuit shoots down the Trump administration’s efforts to appeal Judge Xinis’s order requiring it to facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. “We shall not micromanage the efforts of a fine district judge attempting to implement the Supreme Court’s recent decision.”

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Never again is now, friends. Don't look away. We have a moral obligation to EVERY SINGLE HUMAN BEING being detained, deported, and sent to actual concentration camps on our watch. Who were you when your government perpetuated atrocities? If you're in the US, it's in the wide-open now.

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Dr. Marcus H. Johnson @marcushjohnson.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

There’s no coming back from this. America’s global reputation is done for good. Perhaps in the future when we invade countries, the rest of the world will start sanctioning us and referring our politicians to the ICC. The mask is off now. Forever.

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