iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Power generation from coal and gas fell 4% in China in August, as solar and wind covered all electricity demand growth and hydropower and nuclear grew as well. Cement production fell 12%, crude steel 4% and oil refinery output 7%, indicating emission reductions across the board.

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Eric Goetz @ericgoetzmusic.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I love this "mini-essay" on how technology is a much broader term than how we usually think of it. I love that Le Guin has been getting her long well-deserved acclaim. I struggle with her fiction, but's a me-problem. She was a brilliant thinker.

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Europe’s rivers are running dry. The Rhine just hit a record-low water level in Cologne, while the Danube has fallen far enough to disrupt nuclear power generation. Drought isn’t just an environmental problem. It quickly becomes an economic one. Source: guidocioni.substack.com/p/european-r...

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Eric Goetz @ericgoetzmusic.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Vocal pedagogy talks a lot about front/back muscle coordination, but almost never left/right. As a singer and not a teacher, subtle jaw lateralization and engaging lats asymmetrically have unlocked resonance and expression that I couldn't access before. Worth exploring with students?

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Eric Goetz @ericgoetzmusic.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

People like to complain when someone "replies-all" unnecessarily. But I think a far greater sin is just replying to one person when it would have been better to reply-all.

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Eric Goetz @ericgoetzmusic.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

In a work meeting and I was talking about Mythos and couldn't remember the name and I was like, "you know? that version of claude with the really badass-sounding name…" and my co-worker said, "Jean-Claude?"

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Eric Goetz @ericgoetzmusic.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

"Organizations that design their entire experience for reflection, response, and real conversation are doing something quietly radical. Not just presenting art, but shaping the conditions that allow it to actually change us."

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What an overwhelmed society needs from the arts | Op-Ed

Arts organizations are not struggling because they are doing their work poorly. It's because the world their audiences are living in has fundamentally changed.

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Eric Goetz @ericgoetzmusic.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

My favorite comment from yesterday's air-traffic incident at Newark: United Breaks: ✅ Guitars ✅ Light poles ✅ Trucks

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Eric Goetz @ericgoetzmusic.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I hate click-bait headlines, but given the ending of this video, the ABC headline writers are really asleep at the wheel! www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaMW...

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United flight hits light pole while landing

YouTube video by ABC News

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Eric Goetz @ericgoetzmusic.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Pretty sure I have that gene that makes cilantro taste like soap—and I still love it! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Eric Goetz @ericgoetzmusic.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

The Husbands skit on SNL a few weeks ago was one of my favorite skits of the '20s, right up there with Beavis and Butthead. Really well-written and performed by the whole cast, but especially the guys.

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Husbands - SNL

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Eric Goetz @ericgoetzmusic.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Fans of African music, I highly recommend you check out Gambian multi-instrumentalist, singer, and composer Sona Jobarteh and her 2022 release Badinyaa Kumoo. The best I've heard in a decade.

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Eric Goetz @ericgoetzmusic.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

The real heroes of the Artemis 2 mission!

Two mic boom operators holding mics above various desks at Mission Control in Houston for the Artemis Mission.

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Eric Goetz @ericgoetzmusic.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Josh Johnson gives the funniest description of a cassette I've ever heard. www.youtube.com/shorts/PgkBd...

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Please help me explain this to younger people

YouTube video by Josh Johnson

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Michael Grunwald @mikegrunwald.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Trump is paying a foreign company $1B not to produce clean energy. I think this might be the most insane public policy I’ve ever seen. www.eenews.net/articles/int...

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Interior, TotalEnergies strike deal ending US offshore wind projects

The agreement marks the latest blow by the Trump administration against the U.S. offshore wind industry.

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Eric Goetz @ericgoetzmusic.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Andy Weir is the "hard sci fi" spiritual successor to Arthur C. Clarke, and the movie adaptation of Project Hail Mary is my favorite science fiction film since Arrival.

Movie poster of the film Project Hail Mary. Features a picture of fictional character Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) floating in a space ship.

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Eric Goetz @ericgoetzmusic.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Has anyone used RX Dialog Denoise or DX Revive on a Glenn Gould CD to take out the piano and just leave his humming?

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Eric Goetz @ericgoetzmusic.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Nice to hear another Andrew Stanton/Thomas Newman collaboration again with In the Blink of an Eye. I would love for Newman to finally get his Oscar!

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Eric Goetz @ericgoetzmusic.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

I've seen some pretty funny "You're right to push back on this" jokes about Anthropic's stand against the DoD. Well done, Internet.

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Eric Goetz @ericgoetzmusic.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

I discovered the band Heilung the other day. It's a kind of experimental ritual folk. It really speaks to the pre-Christianity European parts of my ancestry. www.youtube.com/watch?v=64CA...

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Heilung Norupo [Official Music Video]

YouTube video by Heilung

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Eric Goetz @ericgoetzmusic.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

I try not to post ragebait, but this one will get you going.

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Eric Goetz @ericgoetzmusic.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Men at Work, Ani DeFranco, Sarah McGaughlin, and Toad the Wet Sproket performing all within a week of one another in the PNW. Gotta get that empty nester Gen-X market!

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 11/02/2026

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

photo of Pam Bondi testifying in the foreground as a group of 7 women and 1 men raise their hands

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 09/02/2026

I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them

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Djinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

The vibe of the Halftime Show

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Eric Goetz @ericgoetzmusic.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Youtube seems to be shadow-banning the new Ren song. Hasn't shown up in my recommendations, despite subscribing, clicking the bell, and interacting with nearly everything Ren has put out. Anyway, check it out. It's great! youtu.be/MTn_bhTVr2U?...

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Ren - Vincent's Tale - Starry Night

YouTube video by Ren

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Eric Goetz @ericgoetzmusic.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

"We did not care"—Mike Macdonald really channelling what the #Seahawks have always been about in their 50 seasons. His delivery is so damn good, too.

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“We did not care.”

YouTube video by Seattle Seahawks

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Eric Goetz @ericgoetzmusic.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

I finally updated to iOS 26. It looks like 💩

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Eric Goetz @ericgoetzmusic.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

This guy’s YouTube channel is just insane. What a monster guitarist! youtu.be/reabaRml2rA?...

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Rosanna - Toto (Kent Nishimura)

YouTube video by Kent Nishimura

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Eric Goetz @ericgoetzmusic.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Oh no! Supernatural has abandoned their product! That’s so sad. It was a really cool app. I feel awful for their product team, which I assume are now looking for work.

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Eric Goetz @ericgoetzmusic.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Google is hyping Gemini 3’s giant context window, but I’m not seeing it. We were vibing, then hit a troubleshooting rabbit hole. When I tried to circle back, it totally forgot the earlier context and started hallucinating. I found the whole experience very disturbing. #google #ai #gemeni3

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Eric Goetz @ericgoetzmusic.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

I’ve never watched The Voice, but I saw an audition clip first the first time a couple years ago, and when the celebrity judge hit that big red button that made the “BOOM” sound, my first assumption was that it was like The Gong Show. That’s how old and out of touch I am.

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Eric Goetz @ericgoetzmusic.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

I've talked to two different friends who are first generation Venezuelan-American, and they both told me that their families and friends there are VERY EXCITED about Maduro being out. Neither of them voted for Trump, but seem to think that ANYTHING is better than the way things were. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

with all of the stories about the rise of solar energy we’ve seen in the last few months it kind of feels like America is doing regime change in order to secure the rights to billions of dollars in blockbuster gift cards

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 02/01/2026

Anyone Else Here xkcd.com/3188/

Comic. [Comment section on a video. 564 comments, including posts from three different avatars: “Who else is here in 2023?” “Is anyone else watching this in 2017?” “Anyone else here in 2025?”] [caption] For some reason, confused time travelers always try to find each other using YouTube comments.

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Eric Goetz @ericgoetzmusic.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Café Rumba on N State in Bellingham: Sandwiches have absolutely no right to be this good!

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Eric Goetz @ericgoetzmusic.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

It's crazy to me that the MacOS dictionary works roughly as good as it did in 1999. Siri is just as crappy as it was pre GPT 3. I'm picking on Apple, but this sort of failure to keep investing in incremental improvements to features seems endemic to Big Tech.

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Eric Goetz @ericgoetzmusic.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

What’s your political affiliation? I’m pro-sans serif typefaces. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...

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At State Dept., a Typeface Falls Victim in the War Against Woke

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Eric Goetz @ericgoetzmusic.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

I recently learned that residents of Michigan are called Michiganders. That would imply the female or gender-neutral term would be Michigeese. And children in the state would be Michigoslings.

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 22/11/2025

No solar panels. Only measles

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Eric Goetz @ericgoetzmusic.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

For kicks, I asked Claude about the updated CDC Webpage on the “links” between vaccines and autism. I can’t paste in the entire response, but here’s the summary: “This represents a dangerous undermining of public health based on politics rather than science.”

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