iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

fruchtomania @dmf23.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

my personal internal ai detector just incepted

fruchtomania @dmf23.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I think of conscious as an intermittent phenomenon, but one of the things that tends to trigger it is thinking about it, so at the moment, pretty sure. oops there it went again

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fruchtomania @dmf23.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

20+ year mostly lurking MeFite here. Volume has decreased significantly since its heyday, but discussions are mostly still pretty good and blissfully ad, bot, image, bigot free. For this particular topic tho it may not be the best place. The overall vibe is rather rabidly anti-AI (tho not everyone.)

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fruchtomania @dmf23.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

What's your favorite acting role by a singer?

Tom Waits and Iggy Pop sit at a table in a diner smoking cigarettes and drinking coffee (from the movie Cigarettes and Coffee)

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fruchtomania @dmf23.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

you should listen to The Magnus Archives

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fruchtomania @dmf23.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I feel like I should be able to remember what I was doing that day, it being my 22nd birthday, but I do not. I don't even remember for sure where I was living. Tears in the purple rain.

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fruchtomania @dmf23.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

everything about it is congealing

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fruchtomania @dmf23.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

an amazing capper to an amazing fortnight

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fruchtomania @dmf23.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke! --Dobbs 23:420

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fruchtomania @dmf23.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

a few years back i had a near-death encounter with diabetic ketoacidosis, and for weeks after i needed a very, very gentle sensory environment — Satie and Debussy were two of my go-tos during this period, along with Massenet and woob

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tonx @tonx.coffee · 17/06/2026

RIP Bob Thurman.

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fruchtomania @dmf23.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

We sent the closest we had to DC

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fruchtomania @dmf23.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

A better Superman than Dean Cain

Spider-Man in a wrinkly costume kicking a human-sized upright bug right in the guts

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fruchtomania @dmf23.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

reach down between your legs and....ease the seat back....

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fruchtomania @dmf23.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

m. waxington is now my idol

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fruchtomania @dmf23.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I've been listening to Helado Negro, Dr. Lonnie Smith, and the Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio. open.spotify.com/playlist/6o1...

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cover me with roses

Playlist · David Moses Fruchter · 113 items · 3 saves

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fruchtomania @dmf23.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

a lot of big numbers get tossed around about AI's environmental impact, but are rarely put side by side with numbers for other things we humans get up to. my latest vibecoding project endeavors to address that: aienvironmentalcomparisons.net

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Compared to What? — AI and Water, Electricity, & CO₂

An interactive atlas comparing AI and data centers with familiar uses of water and electricity — homes, roads, golf courses, cattle, aviation, Bitcoin, streaming, cement, and the grid. Every figure so...

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fruchtomania @dmf23.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

i am also interested in things

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fruchtomania @dmf23.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

slightly increase a band They Probably Are Giants

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fruchtomania @dmf23.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I'm perfect in the enemy of the good sense

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fruchtomania @dmf23.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

I've long wished that it was as easy to browse what's playing on different internet radio stations as it is to browse stations on your car radio. Then I thought, as long as we're using terrestrial radio as a reference, why not go full-on skeuomorphic? So I made this: www.yourinternetradiodial.net

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Your Internet Radio Dial

Tune the world's internet radio stations on a beautiful antique console.

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fruchtomania @dmf23.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

it's been decades but the only answer that couldn't be true is "enough"

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fruchtomania @dmf23.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Star Trek VI is the best of all Star Trek movies, and I love almost all of them. Christopher Plummer letting loose the dogs of war? C'MON!!!!

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fruchtomania @dmf23.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only

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fruchtomania @dmf23.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

macaroni in a pod a SPACE pod

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fruchtomania @dmf23.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

i eat more of my leftovers these days try to keep up my calendar not as interested in peak experiences say no sometimes never hit snooze get the dirt ready before planting create small islands of order where i can

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fruchtomania @dmf23.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

everybody wants a rock to tie a piece of string around their heart of gold

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fruchtomania @dmf23.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

From a linguistics point of view, all words are made up, and the most "correct" usage (to the limited extent such a concept is valid) *is* the most generally accepted usage. Otherwise what's termed "correct" is just a snapshot of the recent preferences of the ruling class.

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fruchtomania @dmf23.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

i knew it would be challenging to come up with an Ides of March joke, but i thought i'd take a stab at it anyway. so you know how you have a day that's your birthday, but then you also have a particular time you were born? do you happen to know the official time of the Ides?

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fruchtomania @dmf23.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Grok is the one you're looking for, it pains me to say.

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fruchtomania @dmf23.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

this scottish funk rock trio will kick your ass and make you love it www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lx6... @highfademusic.bsky.social

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Sharpen Up - Live at MAF Festival , Italy.

YouTube video by High Fade

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fruchtomania @dmf23.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

You don't get a better or more entertaining tale of how it all happened, from the inside, than this: www.goodreads.com/book/show/67...

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The Great Comic Book Heroes

by Jules Feiffer Fantagraphics is proud to publish Jule…

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fruchtomania @dmf23.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Post your favorite Lord of the Rings character. Wrong answers only.

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fruchtomania @dmf23.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

You're a regular guy. You can stop watching a movie. You're a regular guy. You know what it means to be you.

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fruchtomania @dmf23.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

DIANE 11:30 AM FEBRUARY 24TH ENTERING THE TOWN OF TWIN PEAKS

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fruchtomania @dmf23.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Yes — it’s those vectors that represent the patterns which were discovered by the algos as they crawled the training or subsequent data. The vectors exist in a many-dimensional space and represent isomorphisms to patterned connections between language structures of many sizes.

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fruchtomania @dmf23.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

But isn't finding and then extrapolating patterns in the training data how LLMs do what they do in the first place?

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fruchtomania @dmf23.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

My understanding of how LLMs work is that they abstract at much higher levels than we do, not lesser. Weights are essentially multi-dimensional abstractions, pattern recognition at much greater depth and breadth than we're capable of holding in our minds.

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fruchtomania @dmf23.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

"writing science fiction that will be used by a mathematical equation...." Is "using science fiction" something we ordinarily think of a mathematical equation as being capable of doing? I think this formulation vastly underestimates what such a thing requires.

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fruchtomania @dmf23.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

This critique feels off-base to me -- it's making a category error, looking at the wrong level of abstraction. It's like saying we're not doing philosophy either, we're just moving long-chain organic molecules around in a complicated way.

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fruchtomania @dmf23.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

The way it struck me was that Herbert was interested in exploring the various freaky paths humans would take toward enhancing their own selves in the absence of high tech to rely on.

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David J Bradley @davidjbradley.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it

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fruchtomania @dmf23.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

this audio sketch by the troupe Kaspar Hauser is one of my favorite things. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_bk...

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Spicy Pony Head

YouTube video by TTT

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