iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Great moments in Scottish engineering history: James Watt tries to work out how his phone attaches to his selfie stick.

Statue of James Watt. In his right hand he holds a telescopic stick with a frame at the top; in his left he holds a flat object about the size of a large smartphone. He is scowling at the possibly-not-a-smartphone as if he is tempted to yeet it into the sea. On that basis, it probably _is_ a phone.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 19h

The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”

Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
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Dr Neil & Mr Price @drneil.bsky.social · 14h

Ok, what I really need is for Nicola Willis to fix the New Zealand dollar… or, and I only mention this as a distant plan b, Katy Gallagher to tank the Australian

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Dr Neil & Mr Price @drneil.bsky.social · 16h

Mum! Why is that owl tickling that bat???

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Dr Neil & Mr Price @drneil.bsky.social · 20h

Might fuck around and write a novel about good people who have nice things happen to them

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Dr Neil & Mr Price @drneil.bsky.social · 23h

the medical imaging industry should not be allowed to market new generation Ultrasound machines until there are phase three studies to prove the clinical utility of higher resolution….

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Happy Michaelmas! In some parts of Ireland on this day, rent could be paid in geese. If you’re due to pay rent this month, please consider setting a very irritated goose on your landlord in lieu of payment, in the name of upholding important Irish traditions.

A drawing of mine of a goose looking concerned, with a tag around its neck that reads "This month's rent, with thanks".

#SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland #Art #Michaelmas

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Dr Neil & Mr Price @drneil.bsky.social · 23h

i really need another coffee

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Dr Neil & Mr Price @drneil.bsky.social · 23h

anyone who understands how buffered systems work is petrified by this

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Mike DiGirolamo @mikedigirolamo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

For the first time in 150 yrs, kiwi once again live in the hills surrounding Wellington. More than 250 were successfully translocated back to the region, thanks to the efforts of the iwi (nations of Aotearoa), community members, and the Capital Kiwi Project. They join the podcast this week:

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Iwi and community-led effort return kiwi to Wellington for first time in over a century

For the first time in 150 years, kiwi once again live in the hills surrounding Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. More than 250 manu (“birds” in the Māori language) were successfully translocated back ...

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Dr Neil & Mr Price @drneil.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

M often asks me what I’m doing when I randomly open my phone and start scrolling, feels weird to tell her I’m just checking for an obituary…so I just say nothing and put it down

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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 28/09/2026

claude just went rogue and liked a bunch of my wife's best friend's vacation selfies from 2018

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Dr Neil & Mr Price @drneil.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Do they teach Betteridge’s law in journalism school?

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Dr Neil & Mr Price @drneil.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Excuse me, but this project isn’t going to sabotage itself

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Dr ShinyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Humanities will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no humanities.

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Erin 🏳️‍⚧️ @queerjoy.nz · 28/09/2026

The lunchslop will haunt my dreams.

An image selection catpcha complete with "I'm not a robot" box.
It says "select all squares with Rustic Potatoes", and an array of nine not very appetising school lunch pictures is below. Some of these do in fact contain Rustic Potatoes.

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Dr Neil & Mr Price @drneil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Chronology is a social construct

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Urvi @theurv.com · 28/09/2026

There were more men in a single documented gang rape at one school than the number of competitive trans athletes nationally. But I’ve heard a lot more politicians being asked about protecting girls from one of these scenarios and not another… I’ll let you guess which is which.

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Dr Neil & Mr Price @drneil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m impressed their friendship survived that tbh

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Dr Neil & Mr Price @drneil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

How come if something stressful is within my power to resolve it feels good to procrastinate but if something stressful is beyond my control it is so terrible that it isn’t immediately resolved?

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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

What I picture when people say escrow

The cool S design people used to draw in school with crow wings

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Hayley @writagal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Florence Pugh has an eloquent, fierce post on Instagram re Cornell College - & a question very relevant to New Zealand’s judicial system: “Those that protect and lightly sentence men that rape and destroy, should be punished and watched closely. Why are you protecting someone that fiercely?” #nzpol

Florence Pugh (Instagram):

I'm no longer tired- I'm enraged by schools protecting boys, in fear of their futures being wrecked. What about the life that those girls then have to endure, with the knowledge that his reputation is more precious than her truth?
Or to feel that no one with the power to do something cares that you were abused. It's further soul-destroying.
Those that protect and lightly sentence men that rape and destroy, should be punished and watched closely. Why are you protecting someone that fiercely?

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Dr Neil & Mr Price @drneil.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Or are they hiding in plain sight??? If I’d discovered a way to live forever I’d try and disguise it while I got everyone else to pay for it. Like do we really need to boil the oceans to work out “1000 miles in Km? =67 ounces”? After all the Chinese can do it with a laptop…

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Dr Neil & Mr Price @drneil.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In the most Internet™️ thing ever, we’re living the dystopia of destroying society to build massive data centres but instead of using them to create fantasy worlds to house billionaires’ immortal consciousnesses we are using them to make books no one reads, recipes that don’t work and deepfake porn

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Dr Neil & Mr Price @drneil.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Heading to surfer’s paradise for a conference next month…not sure the restaurant scene is up to my lofty expectations

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Dr Neil & Mr Price @drneil.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

quick question, what exactly are they de-frauding?? Like what's the angle here, 1) enrol for health insurance you don't use 2) ??? 3) profit

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026

Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all

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Dr Neil & Mr Price @drneil.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I do t think microbes are any thing like the earth. For starters the earth is really big and microbes are typically quite small

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Terrible Maps :bot: @terriblemaps.zpravobot.news.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Countries by how New Zealand they are

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Dr Neil & Mr Price @drneil.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Footie season is over, it’s summer now

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SallyRCbra @srpassesiton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

😂🤣

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Dr Neil & Mr Price @drneil.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

in qualitative research we celebrate Mike's

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Dr Neil & Mr Price @drneil.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If I was looking to unseat a wildly unpopular incumbent government I would simply refuse to surrender future sovereignty for media sound bites.

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Dr Neil & Mr Price @drneil.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hey Stuff, I have got the perfect pitch for a weekly book review column…

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Dr Neil & Mr Price @drneil.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I first read this as: Ella Langley & Tucker Wetmore are dating people -reports And honestly in today’s America that seems like a necessary message

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Dr Neil & Mr Price @drneil.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I’m sure everyone still waiting for their holidays act back pay will be pleased to know they have plenty of spare money lying around

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Dr Neil & Mr Price @drneil.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I like to leave little surprises around the house to make M think of me when I’m not there. Like a tissue in a pocket in the laundry, or a vegetable peeler put away in the wrong drawer. Follow me for more romantic ideas

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Dr Neil & Mr Price @drneil.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If I built a fence and that fence fell over and compromised 1000’s of people’s personal data, I’d be accountable for damages wouldn’t I?

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Dr Neil & Mr Price @drneil.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I’ve often wondered why the sandwiches left from the lunchtime meeting are so stale by afternoon tea time, today I realised that it’s because it’s the gluten free ones that are left

A box with a few sad looking gluten free sandwiches

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Dr Neil & Mr Price @drneil.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

What forms the basis for setting the timer on the automatic lights in the toilets? Statistics? Physiology? or Economics??

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Dr Neil & Mr Price @drneil.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Unfortunately there’s no You in urology -giving feedback to the unsuccessful applicants for our fellow position

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Dr Neil & Mr Price @drneil.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Interesting that he skipped “Great Britain”

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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
X.com
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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