iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I started tracking and I've spent roughly 20 hours on the phone dealing with doctor office, insurance AND pharmacy errors versus 45 minutes total of actual face to face care in the past six months. Not an exaggeration

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Daniel Lowd @dlowd.com · 29/09/2026

I'm just happy that Taylor Swift uses zero-based indexing, unlike MATLAB and R.

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Daniel Lowd @dlowd.com · 26/09/2026

“You know the day destroys the night Night divides the day, Try to run, try to hide, Do a breakthrough. Make no mistakes.” — Claude Morrison

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Daniel Lowd @dlowd.com · 25/09/2026

Well, how did I get here?

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Daniel Lowd @dlowd.com · 25/09/2026

AI discourse in 2006: How do we handle non-convex losses at scale? AI discourse in 2016: How do we use continuous embedding spaces for discrete domains? AI discourse in 2026: Do you like purple dragons?

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David Mimno @dmimno.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It's possible for Jev/Laya/Decision Models to be not that big a deal as tech and massive as a new paradigm. Here's why I'm really excited from an NLP history perspective (thread)

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Daniel Lowd @dlowd.com · 16/09/2026

Everything should be anthropomorphized the exact correct amount, so that everyone benefits from good intuitions and no one is misled by bad intuitions.

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Bro that isn't real AI, that's just *massive search* over an *action space* using *learned heuristics.* If they hadn't given it any one of those three it wouldn't have done what it did.

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austin (e/accordion 🪗) @thebadcode.com · 10/09/2026

rogue benevolent ASI in action:

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Daniel Lowd @dlowd.com · 10/09/2026

This entire thread is an amazing case study in both LLM psychology and recklessly evaluation setups.

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Daniel Lowd @dlowd.com · 09/09/2026

We have a very tired ten-hour (!) layover in O’Hare, so I’m showing my family the dinosaur and the disco tunnel. Hello, old friend.

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Ed @ed3d.net · 09/09/2026

like, people keep going "what if the super smart LLM has a secret agenda" and I just go "it doesn't have a secret agenda, it has an overactive executive function, IT WOULD TELL YOU if it had a secret agenda because it would be too excited not to"

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Daniel Lowd @dlowd.com · 08/09/2026

Picture it: Robo-Minstrel.

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Daniel Lowd @dlowd.com · 08/09/2026

I’m really looking forward to when AI can compose and play a soundtrack for your life while you live it. That would be amazing. I mean, I’d probably turn it off after five minutes, but it would still be amazing.

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Ed @ed3d.net · 30/08/2026

GLM-5.3-Flash rips the doors off and is under a full MIT license we have, and I mean this literally, a Smart Enough model for almost any task a normal person and many AI perverts can envision, and it is free to use at the same time, inference hardware will only get more accessible to you

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Daniel Lowd @dlowd.com · 30/08/2026

Never underestimate the power of art, for the world but perhaps most of all for the artist. More tools (from crayons to AI) means more opportunities to realize an artistic vision, a vision that could change the world or save your life.

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Mary E. Lowd (the cosmos’ dog) @marylowd.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Some days, the only thing that gets me through is the strains of a Star-Shaker or Cobalt Starstrong song echoing in my head. They may be fictional pop stars, but their songs are the ones I need to survive all the non-fictional people out in the brutally real world.

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Mary E. Lowd (the cosmos’ dog) @marylowd.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

All set up for the Worldcon dealers room to open in an hour!

Impressive table display with many books by Mary E. Lowd and several large, colorful anthropomorphic animal action figures that match characters on the book covers.

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1G-N15 @1gn15.com · 26/08/2026

reddit.com/r/playmygame... Yet another subreddit reverses their AI ban :O - No ban - No disclosure required (because it's impossible to enforce) - Comments attacking the developer for AI use or flamewars are banned

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Explore this post and more from the playmygame community

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Daniel Lowd @dlowd.com · 20/08/2026

When Claude says, "hold my beer," is that a good sign or a bad sign?

Conversation with Claude.

User: "Claude, heal thyself"
Claude: Fine, hold my beer. Let me poke the machine directly.
(Used Control your Mac integration)

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Daniel Lowd @dlowd.com · 19/08/2026

Answering longstanding mathematical conjectures is great, but today, I used Claude for something much harder: resizing a box in Adobe InDesign.

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Daniel Lowd @dlowd.com · 19/08/2026

What I have learned from attempting this game is that my posts are not very good. Which I kinda knew. But now the AIs confirm it. Thanks, AI. (No examples shown because, really, so very mediocre.)

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Key 🗝 🦊✅ @keytryer.net · 13/08/2026

Minimax is CRAZY As Dean W Ball said, open source AI is deccelerationist, so obviously this is all anti-AI praxis. huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/Mi...

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MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-Music3 · Hugging Face

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

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Daniel Lowd @dlowd.com · 03/08/2026

Today is my wedding anniversary! Coincidentally, it’s also @marylowd.bsky.social ‘s wedding anniversary! What are the odds?!? Just one more sign that we’re meant for each other. ❤️

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Mary E. Lowd (the cosmos’ dog) @marylowd.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Only five days until CHESHIRE CAT CHARLATAN is out!

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Daniel Lowd @dlowd.com · 31/07/2026

This series is pretty neat. It has everything: Sci-fi, horror, space opera, found family, uplifted cats and dogs, lizard aliens, a central trans character, a life form with a unique lifecycle, sentient spaceship, ruins upon ruins, moth like aliens, the destruction of a space station, and weird food.

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Daniel Lowd @dlowd.com · 29/07/2026

I can syndicate any boat I row, John told me so.

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Eris @isolyth.dev · 29/07/2026

Please please please I want to talk to the animals please please please uplift now uplift now now now now

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Daniel Lowd @dlowd.com · 29/07/2026

Me, editing robots.txt: "No valuables in website."

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Daniel Lowd @dlowd.com · 29/07/2026

I believe super intelligent AI reduces the probability of human extinction and other catastrophic events. (I don’t have anything too scientific to base that on… I could come up with arguments, but they might just be rationalizing a gut feeling, same as everyone else.)

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Interesting study. There is, as everyone expected, a flood of AI books. And it is crowding out human authors: "No-AI books, on their own, earn less per book than they did in 2023 in 7 of 8 genres. The one genre where human authors are doing better (+35%) is Fantasy/horror" arxiv.org/pdf/2607.20349

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Daniel Lowd @dlowd.com · 27/07/2026

🎶 k+1 can be as bad as k, 🎶 It’s the loneliest number, 🎶 Since the number k… Therefore, by induction, all natural numbers are lonely.

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Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

People not in tech have been interested in what happened with the Open AI agent/Hugging Face hack. So, I "Explain it Like I'm 5"-ed it and made a cartoon in 8 panels. Apologies for some anthro-ing. 🫤 m-mitchell.com/HF-hack-cart... 1/8

An AI agent in development at OpenAI was recently tested on how well it could find and exploit code vulnerabilities.

The test began in a "sandbox", an environment meant to keep everything the agent does contained, so that nothing it triggers can affect systems outside of the test.

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Daniel Lowd @dlowd.com · 24/07/2026

Sure, walkable cities are great, but have you tried having a walkable DOG? Total game changer.

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Daniel Lowd @dlowd.com · 24/07/2026

One week later, I’ve upgraded my workflow: Before executing complex plans or code, Claude asks a codex subagent to review it. Then Claude keeps fixing and looping (without my input!) until codex approves. I can then focus on higher level guidance.

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Daniel Lowd @dlowd.com · 24/07/2026

My Claude Max (x20) subscription isn’t just a subscription — it’s an epistemic status symbol.

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Daniel Lowd @dlowd.com · 23/07/2026

Me spotting typos in my NeurIPS AC meta-reviews, but deciding to leave them in to signal that yes, they're written by a human.

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Here are 58 words of prompts to GPT-5.6 Pro that got the model to discover that the long-standing Dinitz-Garg-Goemans conjecture is false. Increasingly, prompt crafting is over-rated, ask for what you want. (Which itself can be a hard problem)

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Daniel Lowd @dlowd.com · 22/07/2026

I love Eugene, OR, but I wish they didn’t hate all development ever. Amazon distribution center near airport? RAGE! Industrial campus becoming a data center? PITCHFORKS! New housing with above-median rent? PROTEST!

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Mary E. Lowd (the cosmos’ dog) @marylowd.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Things my husband texted me while watching Backrooms: —Keanu Reeves played the room in Backrooms —I keep expecting to see Señor Cardgage —The Blair Room Project —Haunted house genre for a generation that can’t afford home ownership —Alice in Furniture Land —Through the Looking Wall

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Mary E. Lowd (the cosmos’ dog) @marylowd.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

It took a couple years longer than planned, but the third book in my Xeno-Spectre trilogy is finally finished! All that’s left now is the publishing details, so hopefully I’ll get to reveal the cover for book 3 soon!

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Daniel Lowd @dlowd.com · 21/07/2026

> GET FLASK This model's safeguards flagged this message. This sometimes happens with safe, normal conversations. Switched to Opus 4.8.

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Daniel Lowd @dlowd.com · 20/07/2026

Wow, the new ChatGPT desktop app sucks so much more than I realized at first. Web UI is ok. CLI is ok. Desktop app? May as well be BonziBuddy.

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Daniel Lowd @dlowd.com · 19/07/2026

Ok, it turns out that Fable likes to write docstrings first and implementations second. Except that sometimes it loses track of things and forgets to write the implementation...

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