iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 26/09/2026

I don’t think people are starved for that. I think humanity had been thrashing out the details for a while, with varying degrees of success, and our current moment is what it looks like when wreckers don’t *want* to live together ethically and morally with anyone else.

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 26/09/2026

This comment here absolutely defines the dangerous part of assistive AI. Figuring things out *is* a rush. When you’re learning, that’s the feedback loop that keeps you going, and eventually gets you to the place where you can make and own the more nuanced and complicated decisions.

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 26/09/2026

Vernor Vinge’s narrative aside in A Deepness In The Sky — thousands of years of software cruft, impenetrable and unpredictable but mediated by AI assistants — is feeling a little too close. Interesting that Pham, the book’s center of gravity, becomes the master of an army simply by digging deeper.

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 26/09/2026

I think we can all agree that if Community were still going, any problems would be overshadowed by how amazingly perfect the “Dean Pelton Gets AI Psychosis” episode was

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Kevin Riggle @kevinr.free-dissociation.com · 25/09/2026

As a cybersecurity consultant, people are constantly asking me how they can have their cake and eat it too, and the answer is: I'm sorry, but sometimes there are hard trade-offs, and here you simply can't.

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 21/09/2026

Hypercalvinism with GPUs and a trilby.

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 19/09/2026

This is a terrible time for systems thinkers, in part because nobody wants to listen to systems thinkers about stuff they’ve been saying for years, so now systems thinkers have to watch deeply incurious people reinvent systems thinking from first principles

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 18/09/2026

Imagine the entire automobile safety universe was dominated by Cars Truthers. Like, people who believe the movie Cars is a documentary. Everything they write about crash testing, engineering standards, etc has this weird tinge and you can’t put your finger on it until… Oh. Oh no.

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

when the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, oh god that's 90 billion megatons of TNT all civilization is wiped out earth plunges into fiery inferno and then utter darkness

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 17/09/2026

Oh look, the latest issue of the preeminent semi regular outsider zine on the topic of the hypertext markup language

Issue 2 of “Multipage Version,” a zine about html

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 16/09/2026

novelty barbarian/bard multiclass here he comes

fluffy Siberian cat named Felix, surrounded by a pile of novelty dice

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 15/09/2026

the most exhausted imaginable “yes, this”

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 11/09/2026

one fun part of using your own public content creations over the years as a demo data source for an llm processing pipeline is being reminded of just how many of your public taglines and profile blurbs are prompt injection attacks

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 10/09/2026

Lotta work with AI stuff for the job of late. And by that I mean “being pleasantly impressed with demo level output and unshocked at the limits of scaling it to real-world levels of contextual ambiguity, then slogging through the work of formalizing the connective tissue that human teams intuit”

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 09/09/2026

building a big searchable repository of everything I've ever said, written, bookmarked, archived, or taken a picture of. same as ever.

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 09/09/2026

so, today I discovered that apparently some people read david brooks unironically?

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 06/09/2026

It is grimly fascinating that fundamentalist evangelical culture in America spent a generation or two ranting about the evils of “cultural” Christianity over true faith.

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 06/09/2026

Been a user of Marco Ament's products and software for a long time, but his recent post about "the olden days when we didn't know our neighbors' political views" is a genre that doesn't hold up to scrutiny. What he's describing is an era when the stakes were lower for him. marco.org/2026/09/04/b...

marco.org

Bob and Van – Marco.org

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 06/09/2026

sometimes, when you have too much to do but a long weekend ahead of you, it's nice to noodle out a custom app for cleaning up keynote presentation exports and making them into web sites

Screenshot of an ugly but serviceable web app that's comparing the slide notes and video transcript versions of a talk.

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 01/09/2026

There are whole generations of creators, tool developers, and web users who arrived after the days of “browser wars” and “html generators” and CMSs, after the rise of the sisyphean “separate content from presentation” labor. Back then, it was easy to confuse it with the desire for “clean markup”

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 29/08/2026

detective jocelyn carter on person of interest. They did her character DIRTY. elias and dominic, too. Damnit.

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There’s a bright line between “reward the people who pay attention” and “punish the people who don’t pay attention”, and there can’t possibly be more money on the punish side of that line, can there?

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 26/08/2026

The MCU was at its best delivering self-contained movies whose easter eggs and callbacks gave the impression of a rich background world beyond the confines of one plot. Take it too far and you get 83 hours of required watching before you can understand wtf is going on with “Doctor Doom.”

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 23/08/2026

I will never stop being amused that my MacBook Neo is quite literally an extremely large iPhone.

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 19/08/2026

29 years, 4 months, and 13 days. First time I logged onto LambdaMOO. It's a weird lingering echo in a lot of the ways I think about digital community, presence, and the difference between "communication" and "the stuff the communication runs on."

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 16/08/2026

@jessrock.bsky.social oh, man. The things that show up when cleaning out boxes…

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 16/08/2026

extremely niche era-specific internet nerd vibe check: have you thought of av1611.org lately

av1611.org

Dial-the-Truth Ministries Bible Believing Witnessing Resource Tracts

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 13/08/2026

If I grab a metaphor, by GOD I stick with it

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 13/08/2026

Sometimes I wonder how many people realize that outlawing Daves would manufacture its own evidence. Every Dave is, definitionally, an outlaw. Thus, the necessity of the law.

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 09/08/2026

zeal and ardor, man. fuckin’ hell.

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 08/08/2026

Can’t agree more with @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social’s take on this: White should be given respect and care and a chance to explain to those who would otherwise not know how difficult it was for them. If it turns out they’re just fucking around, that’s on them. medium.com/@eaton/youre...

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I want this taken seriously. I want reporters to ask them to clarify what are the correct pronouns to be used to honor their dignity and status. I want White (and Freedom) to be referred to as women by the media. Transgender is an adjective. Is White a transgender WOMAN? White must live as a woman!

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 02/08/2026

In my work, as in commercial software engineering, we also recognize the presence of something we call “this AI is making shit up again”.

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 03/08/2026

@jmspool.bsky.social Hey there! I was going through my personal archives and realized my original recording of aycl.uie.com/virtual_semi... was corrupted corrupted — is there any chance the good folks at uie.com have a version I could get my hands on?

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Features vs. Reality: Lessons from Georgia.gov

Jeff Eaton presents how his team worked to find the right content solution for the state of Georgia. He’ll share what worked, what didn’t work, and how his team persevered to find the right solution.

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 03/08/2026

unrelated: Berlin knows how to run a civilized airport. cappuccino machines every 40m or so, and pretzel carts every 120m. it’s like someone planned it.

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 03/08/2026

not sure this is the right line. I’m reminded of @wil.to’s recommendation when I was hunting for a new tool for a project: buy a cheapass version and get it done; if it breaks in six months that’s a signal you’re using it enough to justify taking it seriously, and you’ll know better what you want.

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 02/08/2026

*takes a biiiiig sip of coffee, opens bluesky*

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 28/07/2026

[whispering] armitage from the new apple tv neuromancer adaptation looks like @nozurbina.bsky.social pass it on

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 26/07/2026

so, the mega political email corpus — a decade of spam from conservatives and pure fund-raise from the DNC, 10,000+ messages total — is interesting. a bunch of manual batching and sorting and filtering and spot checking has teased out what I think is a rough taxonomy of subject lines.

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 26/07/2026

you know it's a nice, relaxing Sunday when I can sit down, sip my coffee, surround myself with kittens, and start coding political spam subject lines to train a classifier docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

docs.google.com

email_coding

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 26/07/2026

Random question for the possibly-zero number of friends whose interests overlap in data science and far-right religious groups like NAR. …Is there anyone out there who'd be interested in a normalized corpus of ~30 years of "prophetic messages" that were published to a NAR audience of ~250,000?

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 14/07/2026

The right cared about womens’ sports *literally* as long as it took them to gut trans people’s rights, and boy are they ever relieved they can stop pretending to give a shit

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 12/07/2026

BREAKING: Lindsey Graham’s sudden death reveals everyone’s wake-up time on Sundays.

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 11/07/2026

for the old-timers, the NYT home page. thirty years ago. three. zero.

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 07/07/2026

When you’re teying to prove your new thing is valuable and you want a metric shitton of VC money, you have to convince those VC dudes that what you’ve created is not just useful, not just effective, but transformative, even destructive to the current order of things.

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 03/07/2026

It is worth noting that the internal budget rationale for things like publishing “troubleshooting instructions” and “knowledge base articles” often not “customer success” but “contact deflection.” That is, they are worth producing because they reduce the need for expensive human assistance.

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‮Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 30/06/2026

Date yourself with a snap of your first ever computer.

Image of the TRS-80 Color Computer, with cassette tape drive for program storage. Not pictured is the aftermarket 16k memory upgrade.

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Ideology isn’t Fox News, ideology is HGTV

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