iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Jon Udell @judell.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

In www.infoworld.com/article/4232736/s… ("How judicious use of agents can transform a software product into a user innovation toolkit.") I claimed that Bram Studio is an example of both a packaged screencast editor and an open-ended toolkit. Today proved […]

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Spooky rail enthusiast wife Daria @dariaphoebe.com · 12/10/2026

Final (Providence-Newport) ferry sunset of 2026

Sun setting behind the Newport Pell Bridge as we look west-southwest

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David Pollak @dpp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

First fire of the season… with logs cut from a tree in my backyard

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Erik Moeller @eloquence.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Hi folks, if you are maintaining a widely used #OpenSource infrastructure project (think networking, encryption, testing/QA automation, desktop libraries, payment libraries ...) now is a good time to ask for a security audit or other support through the Sovereign Tech Resilience program. The […]

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David Pollak @dpp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Ah... one of my favorite software ads of all time... dBase II vs. the bilge pumps sealevel.info/dBase_II_vs_Bilge_Pum…

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David Pollak @dpp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

@wackJackle @AlanSill @henrik well… except for Apple and nvidia, the magnificent 7 are cash flow negative &there’s a ton of off balance sheet obligations Plus, the EU is moving rapidly away from US tech firms (that’s going to start showing up in 2027 with declining revenue) Plus google&meta […]

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David Pollak @dpp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

@AlanSill @henrik @wackJackle no. The AI debt crisis will be far worse. The current folks in control in the US are not equipped to handle a large crisis. The impact will be across the most highly valued companies: tech and finance (2008 was home construction and finance) The bubble is larger […]

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Weltzeitgeist @wackjackle.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

'Banks are now trying to offload the AI data center debt they just underwrote JPMorgan and MUFG are part of the group that has spent more than six months trying to distribute $38 billion in construction debt tied to a Texas and Wisconsin data center project leased to Oracle.' […]

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David Pollak @dpp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

I was unsatisfied with the various 3D chessboard models... so I made my own. www.thingiverse.com/thing:7421200

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Indio Gringo ® @paninid.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

Just asking questions.

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David Pollak @dpp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

@dariaphoebe.com don’t mention more tourists going to Salem… you might trigger @aredridel

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David Pollak @dpp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

@dnanian yeah… imho the iPace was a perfect blend of classic jaguar and EV. How the same team came up with a HomerMobile is beyond me

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David Pollak @dpp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

I still remember my first night with NeXTStep… I woke up at 2am to go to the bathroom… then I figured what the heck and sat down with the Interface Builder tutorial… At 9am, my girlfriend wandered in wearing very little and asked me if I wanted to come back to bed… I declined…

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David Pollak @dpp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

RE: infosec.exchange/@boblord/117376686… “Somebody else’s defect”… 😾 Adopting open source means adopting all the good and bad that comes with it. The “defect” here is companies not paying for software. Pay for software, pay for SLAs, then it’s a bargained for exchange

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Tim Bray 🇨🇦 @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Hey, still more not-exactly-hippies casting side-eyes on the financial prospects for #GenAI, in this case the Wall Street Journal, in “Will America Spend 9% of Its GDP on AI? The Industry Is Counting on It To justify staggering investment sums, Americans will […] [Original post on cosocial.ca]

Will America Spend 9% of Its GDP on AI? The Industry Is Counting on It
To justify staggering investment sums, Americans will have to spend as much of their income on this one technology as they do on food

Greg Ip
Oct. 2, 2026 at 5:30 am ET

Bar graph of proportions of GDP for
Health: 18%
Food 9.1%
AI services (assumed for 2032) 8.8%
Energy: 5.1%
Construction: 4.4%
Computers, software: 4.4%
Defense: 2.8%
Communication, Internet: 1.22%

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David Pollak @dpp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

@marie.tech an excuse to visit San Francisco is always a good excuse

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”

APStylebook @APStylebook
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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.

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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

my basic bar for journalists anthropomorphizing AI is this: if Kermit the Frog ran over and killed a guy with his car, would you report Kermit was driving and maybe we shouldn't give licenses to frogs? Or would you drop the kayfabe and say some puppeteers committed vehicular manslaughter?

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David Pollak @dpp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

RE: chaos.social/@gsuberland/1173611348… This implies quantum computers exist/don’t exist in a superposition

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David Pollak @dpp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@jakecoppinger/1173… As @petrillic said, all computers are SDRs… some even have the functions as APIs…

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Martin Paul Eve @mpe.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

The Netherlands Built a Nix-Based Linux Desktop Because Microsoft Cut Off the ICC itsfoss.com/news/netherlands-dawo-i…

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Quinn Norton @quinn.social.circl.lu.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

RE: ohai.social/@resuna/117274624138257… But what if your RA did so much acid/speedballs. Like sooo many, with the occasional ayahuasca come down and leval out sessions

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David Pollak @dpp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

@lisamelton @aredridel @danirabbit fwiw, and I’m one of those white men, they are behaving against their self interest. Growing the pie is the only long term strategy… we can only grow the pie by empowering more and more people. Look at what happened when women entered the workforce in the 70s

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Fife4Europe #FBPE @fife4europe.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Revelations that state-owned oil giant Saudi Aramco sought to weaken IPCC climate reports by editing out warnings on fossil fuel emissions expose how petrostates sabotage progress. Prioritising oil profits over survival is reckless. Why let them dictate the science? (1/2) 🤔 #ClimateCrisis […]

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Robey ☠️ @robey.messydesk.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

i think often about how malcolm in the middle perfectly portrayed yak shaving way back in the 1990s www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgD9kGtXly8

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David Pollak @dpp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

RE: keyboards.social/@instantiatethis/1… Not that I need another side project, but creating a 3D printable model of this just went on the list…

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matdevdug @matdevdug.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

After years inside datacenters, it’s hard to be afraid of AI killing all humans. I've seen the "secure facility." It's a chain link fence and a guy named Gary. Night shift is usually 10-20 people. Two hundred people could shut a datacenter down with nothing but a Wikipedia article on fiber […]

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Joshua "Headless" Byrd 🎃 @phocks.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Shout out to this project. "Standard Ebooks is a volunteer-driven project that produces new editions of public domain ebooks that are lovingly formatted, open source, free of U.S. copyright restrictions, and free of cost." Absolutely incredible. standardebooks.org

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Daniel Appelquist @torgo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

Is it just me, or does it seem like all this hype about "AI is so powerful and dangerous and must be controlled" coming from AI companies seems a little conveniently adjacent to those AI companies' imminent IPOs?

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Mx. Aria Stewart @aredridel.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

RE: union.place/@smolwaffle/11726364848… This. When in fact there are regulatory mechanisms that work great! We can change road designs and make companies pay for harms they cause. And if rates are hard to calculate we can set them in law.

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

Astronomers spent decades designing the Square Kilometre Array Low (SKA-Low) to hear the faintest whisper in the observable universe — neutral hydrogen signals from the cosmic dawn, when the first stars flickered on roughly 13 billion years ago. What they’re picking up instead is electronic […]

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David Pollak @dpp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

Technology is AWESOME! In a restaurant… Sitting next to a group of ASL speakers who used a translation app to communicate with the server 😊

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