iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

the anticipation as it's about to come together vs the irresolvable post-conjugal tension of "ok what now"

premature optimization is ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶r̶o̶o̶t̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶a̶l̶l̶ ̶e̶v̶i̶l̶ a fun hobby

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the asymmetry between how little *will* be done with this kind of information and how much *could* be done with it is so weird to reason around. i increasingly feel like it's just an insane decision to ever be in public by choice

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eli @elisohl.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

every couple weeks i get on here and almost post about my personal life. i miss having a locked account

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can't wait for people to get more normal about LLMs and/or all human language to become irrevocably stunted

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eli @elisohl.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

i love it when a company redesigns their web site and it's obviously vibe coded and broken

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born miserable @bornmiserable.bsky.social · 22/08/2023

"HOLY. FUCKING. SHIT." - cats

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Frances: Meh and Loving It @francesmeh.reviews · 12/03/2025

you've been hit by you've been struck by a huge vehicle

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eli @elisohl.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

you can just say "putting computers in more places gives more power to the computer people"

screenshot of post reading: the Marxist view of technology is that it has an analytical structure of its own but its effect is socially determined by the political economy it is implemented into (including who is doing it and where). From that POV, it appears as a tech oligarch offensive to exert power over more 'surfaces'

eli @elisohl.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

do political theorists know they don't need to talk like that

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dissected @trepanation.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

saw this pic and started crying due to its threatening nature

cat who looks to be throwing something. edited in is a big tomato. so looks like cat is throwing the tomato at you

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Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Man dwarfed by the soaring stacks of timber inside the Seattle Cedar Lumber Manufacturing Company, 1939 (Life Picture Collection) – photograph taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt, who was born on this day (23 August) in 1898 in what was then West Prussia, today northern Poland 🗃️

b&w photo of a man standing in a timber mill, surrounded by very tall stacks of hewn timber

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eli @elisohl.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

not to jinx it but actually never mind

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ponder @ponder.ooo · 16/08/2026

llms don't have "souls". they have "a soul". singular. just one. they all share it. and it's the same soul that all of us share, even the animals and the plants and the rocks and clouds. we're all one soul. except you. you're not part of that

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eli @elisohl.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

for fifteen glorious seconds i thought someone was bold enough to double-feature I WANT YOUR SEX and TMNT

Email preview: "BOUCHRA plays Monday at Northwest Film Forum! - Plus: I WANT YOUR SEX and TMNT 35mm Double-Feature!"

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Katherine the Sixth @luigithirty.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

if your government software looks like this, it will never break, never need replacement, and will work on every computer since we landed on the moon

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 02/08/2026

New: We found 50 cops who misused Flock cameras and other license-plate readers for personal purposes, often to spy on their girlfriends or ex-wives. He "watched every single move I made. ... Who do you turn the chief of police in to?" wapo.st/3S6rTuo

wapo.st

She left her ex. He secretly tracked her through a network of policing cameras.

Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing it and other systems.

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actually the most interesting part of that LLM cryptanalysis work is we got a new crypto problem set out of it :)

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the LLM is a slot machine and what they've done is made another machine that automatically pulls the lever over and over and catches the coins when they fall out. except that would actually probably be less expensive to run than those LLM jobs were

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"can LLMs do cryptanalysis" idk, can you do that on paper? yes? ok then yeah it can do something that looks like that and occasionally it'll be useful. congrats. stop acting like this is some big discovery. the *interesting* part of this is the part where they filter out the (mountains of) slop

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eli @elisohl.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

it is so fucking tedious watching academics cycle through every variation of "can the text generating machine generate the type of text i care about". of course it can!

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be careful: the world is full of idiots. you might even know one

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eli @elisohl.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

rich tech people are in constant competition at all times to say the craziest shit. i'm not joking. they're all trying to outdo each other & be the biggest bonkers lunatic weirdo. they want their peers to see them & be impressed by how far gone they are. just remind yrself they're not real & move on

eli @elisohl.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

nextdoor sucks ass but i will never unsubscribe from these emails

eli @elisohl.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

before the eli sohl that you know.... there was........... sohl less

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

People act like it’s impossible to do the right thing and succeed but its actually pretty easy to do it and have everyone love you and you can even be a goofy silly guy and do it

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about a cayce in the kinki region @cayce.zone · 20/07/2026

making a mixtape for a girl and just putting all of dopesmoker on it

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eli @elisohl.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

i feel very bad for the people affected by this layoff, but also, like, all due respect but what else did you expect

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eli @elisohl.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

they poisoned their brand to death and only realized it when they checked the balance sheet, so now they're doing the obvious thing: another dose of poison

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eli @elisohl.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

i guess that's true about here too

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eli @elisohl.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

every time i look at linkedin i see something so bad

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

once the air quality index goes above 500 you start to see entire bricks floating suspended in the air. it’s pretty cool actually, you can climb on them and stuff

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eli @elisohl.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

after we're done putting microsoft windows designers and managers through the Hague i think we should carve out some time to try the lenovo people who decided to dilute the thinkpad brand into dishwater. this logo used to MEAN something god dammit

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eli @elisohl.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

just hit 6 months at the new job. celebrating with a 5 day weekend. hell yeah