iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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David Aerne @meodai.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I wanted a way to explore Unicode by visual similarity, not just by name or codepoint, so I built Charcutrie. It lets you browse characters that look alike, search across scripts and symbols, and even sketch a shape to find matching glyphs. (pretty badly for now :D) charcuterie.elastiq.ch#U+221E

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Information is Beautiful @infobeautiful.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Beautiful vintage #infographic on the ceiling & speed of different aircraft (via Reddit bit.ly/4c2bMCs)

Vintage infographic titled "Service ceiling (ft)" plots the service ceiling (maximum altitude) of various aircraft against their maximum speed in miles per hour. The data spans from 1916 to 1963, covering biplanes, monoplanes, and jet aircraft. The trend shows a steady increase in both speed and altitude over time as aviation technology advanced.

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Information is Beautiful @infobeautiful.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

North American population density map. Beautiful! by @Civixplorer

The image is an informational graphic titled "NORTH AMERICAN POPULATION DENSITY," created by Visual Capitalist. The main feature is a three-dimensional, relief-style map of North America, where population density is represented by the height and color of the peaks. Highly dense areas are shown as tall, dark red peaks, while sparsely populated areas are flat and light tan. The accompanying text explains, "We map out where over half a billion people live on the third-largest continent, from clusters near coasts and warmer latitudes, to the more sparsely populated northern regions and interiors." Several key urban areas are highlighted with their average density listed in people per square kilometer, including: New York, US (11,314 people/km²), San Francisco, US (7,193 people/km²), Mexico City, MX (6,163 people/km²), and Port-au-Prince, HT (2,395 people/km²). The map visually demonstrates the dramatic clustering of the population along the coasts and southern borders of the United States and Mexico, with a notable density around the Great Lakes (Chicago and Toronto) and very sparse populations across Canada's interior and the western US.

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‏ deepfates @deepfates.com.deepfates.com.deepfates.com.deepfates.com.deepfates.com · 09/03/2026

Today I announce Cantrip: On summoning entities from language in circles. In this book I unify the paradigm behind base models, chatbots, coding agents, RLMs, and RL agents, through the metaphor of magic. Code is provided. deepfates.com/cantrip

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Cantrip: On summoning entities from language in circles | deepfates

With Cantrip, deepfates reimagines the fundamentals of language model agents. Available as a ghost library with generative test specification.

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Information is Beautiful @infobeautiful.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Curve fitting methods & what they say xkcd.com/2048/

Twelve diagrams show sketches of different curves and describe the message they send in a humorous way. An exponential curve for example says “Look, it’s growing uncontrollably!”

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Information is Beautiful @infobeautiful.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Christopher Nolan's hand-drawn map of Inception

A handwritten storyboard or script outline from Christopher Nolan's film "Inception." The image features handwritten text and diagrams, suggesting the film's complex plot involving a heist, an escape, and characters like Yusuf, Arthur, Eames, and Saito. The text includes notes about the heist, the escape, and various locations within the dream world, including Limbo.

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Information is Beautiful @infobeautiful.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Major languages spoken in Toronto (other than English) by neighbourhood by Alex McPhee pronghornmaps.com/toronto/

A detailed map illustrating the most spoken mother tongues (other than English) in Toronto. Different languages are represented by distinct colors overlaid on a geographical map of the city and surrounding areas like Mississauga, Etobicoke, York, North York, Scarborough, Vaughan, Markham, and Pickering. Large labels indicate areas where specific languages are prevalent, such as Mandarin, Cantonese, Italian, Portuguese, Tamil, Urdu, Spanish, Persian (Farsi), Greek, Bengali, Serbo-Croatian, and Ukrainian. Smaller charts at the bottom provide statistics on the number of speakers for the top languages, including English. The map also shows the boundaries of residential areas and major roads. A legend indicates the language families represented by the colors, such as Sino-Tibetan (Mandarin, Cantonese), Indo-Aryan (Urdu, Bengali, Tamil, Persian, Greek), Romance (Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, French), Slavic (Serbo-Croatian, Ukrainian), and others like Tagalog.

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 09/10/2025

One day the industry will recognize the drawbacks of AI agents and nondeterministic automation, and rediscover the UNIX philosophy of chaining together small purpose built tools in a low cost and predictable way, otherwise known as shell scripts.

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Vincent Ledvina @vincentledvina.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

MUST READ thread before Monday night's forecasted G4 / SEVERE geomagnetic storm. Auroras could be seen as far south as the U.S.-Mexico border at times. Widespread mid-latitude displays are possible. Here's what you need to know to have a successful aurora chase tonight! 🧵 #heliophysics #aurora

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Agreed on what the actual ****. This is reflected of a pretty fundamental failure to understand what historians do, because LLMs do basically none of my job and are completely incapable of most of it. But they have the ears of the people that write the checks, so this is real bad news. 1/

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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

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Game Changer @gamechanger.dropout.tv · 15/07/2025

No kings in this country! ...except a few of the nice people we found walking along the Venice Beach Boardwalk 👑

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Game Changer @gamechanger.dropout.tv · 15/07/2025

Presenting the BRAND-NEW season - @dimension20.bsky.social On a Bus! 🚌 DM'd by Katie Marovitch, and as players: Aabria Iyengar, Brennan Lee Mulligan, Jasmine Bhullar, and Mark Mercer!

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Game Changer @gamechanger.dropout.tv · 15/07/2025

Who's your favorite sexy Dropout car wash team? ❤️ 'Like' if Team 1 is your favorite 💬 'Comment' if Team 2 is your favorite!

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Game Changer @gamechanger.dropout.tv · 15/07/2025

You've never seen anything as satisfying as watching Trapp and Sam pull long strips of dried glue off of Paul...

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Game Changer @gamechanger.dropout.tv · 15/07/2025

If you love hearing oddly satisfying cracks at the chiropractor, Grant O'Brien has something special for you...

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Game Changer @gamechanger.dropout.tv · 15/07/2025

Forget having to choose between The Big Game and The Puppy Bowl - we've got the ultimate sporting event that combines them both: The Human Puppy Bowl! 🏈🐶

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Game Changer @gamechanger.dropout.tv · 15/07/2025

Can Jordan correctly identify three of their friends' breast milk? Let's find out... 🤔🍼

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Game Changer @gamechanger.dropout.tv · 15/07/2025

Now everywhere Erika goes, a roast of Sam Reich follows... 🔥

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Game Changer @gamechanger.dropout.tv · 15/07/2025

The lady said $3,000 worth of animated buttholes, Sam! 🍑

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Game Changer @gamechanger.dropout.tv · 15/07/2025

Brennan's announcement

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Eris @erisaurus.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

If there’s one talk you watch from #pycon let it be Cory Doctorow’s keynote youtu.be/ydVmzg_SJLw?...

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Keynote Speaker - Cory Doctorow

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Julia Evans @b0rk.jvns.ca · 06/05/2025

more terminal fun: canonical mode wizardzines.com/comics/canon...

$panel 1: the terminal driver: an interface that hasn't changed since the 80s person: “I pressed an arrow key and it just printed out ^[[D???” terminal driver: “what's an arrow key?" panel 2: when you're typing text, there are two situations 1. by default: the terminal driver (part of the OS) is responsible "canonical mode" 2. the program is responsible “raw mode” panel 3: "canonical mode" is a terrible way to edit text because the terminal driver hasn't changed much since the 80s, you can only do: 1. backspace 2. Ctrl+W (delete word) 3. Ctrl+U (delete line) panel 4: how canonical mode works 1. you type "helll" + backspace 2. the terminal emulator turns what you typed into bytes 3. the terminal driver passes on "hell" and interprets the backspace 4. the program gets "hello\n" In canonical mode, terminal driver doesn't send anything to the program until you press Enter. In raw mode, the terminal driver just sends “hell\xFFo\n” without changing it panel 5: how to try out canonical mode Run `cat` and type some stuff! Interactive programs almost never use canonical mode because it's so limited. But if you run into it `rlwrap $COMMAND` can help$

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 02/05/2025

oh god, it’s true, we’re living in an era of Clippy Maxing

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.doc @erebusodora.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

as a person who knows that banishing evil spirits by swearing at them is a common thing in multiple Slavic traditions, i am DELIGHTED by this tip

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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Staple this to RFK Jr’s forehead.

A screengrab from Twitter.

HeatherLhaney @heather_l... asks:
“Why do you think we have so many more kids with Autism”

David Dennis Jr. @DavidDTSS quotetweets this reply:
“Probably for the same reason there are so many more planets in outer space now than there were before the telescope was invented”

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Let’s be clear. When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is the role of Congress to remove him from office. Full stop.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

And yet Joe Rogan puts guests on who say "Vaccines aren't actually responsible for the reduction in infectious diseases.”

The image is a heatmap titled "Measles," showing measles cases across U.S. states from 1928 to 2003. States listed on the y-axis include Alaska, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, New Hampshire, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. The x-axis spans years from 1928 to 2003. A vertical line marks the introduction of the measles vaccine around 1963. The color scale at the bottom ranges from blue (0 cases) to red (4,000+ cases), with shades of green, yellow, and orange indicating intermediate values (1,000, 2,000, 3,000 cases). Before 1963, many states show frequent high case numbers (yellow to red), while after 1963, cases drop significantly, with mostly blue indicating near-zero cases.

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Pearlmania500 @pearlmania500.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

With the White House using OpenAi to make racist propaganda in studio ghibli art style there has never been apt scene in anime history:

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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 28/03/2025

Even if the technocrats were right about AI replacing all jobs (they’re not), notice they never pitch any vision for what happens to humans. “No one has to work anymore” sounds great, but the only version of it where we’re not sleeping under bridges is one where these guys pay their fucking taxes

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 13/01/2025

What's the point of being rich if you can't afford to do the right thing.

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Chris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

I have been trying to formulate some rules for giving good talks and fundamentally it’s this: tell a story. People like stories, and they will listen to you if they trust you are telling them.

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Orctober Law @orcishlaw.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Taken from user _greens_eggs_and_sam_ on reddit. The battle cry of the Nac Mac Feegle, from Terry Pratchett's Discworld series (first from Wee Free Men)

A picture of handwrieen text on a page in beautiful blue calligraphy. It reads: "Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willnae be fooled again!”

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped?

I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry.

Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto.

It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

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Eris @erisaurus.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

A dremel and a sphere bit? m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71E...

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Surely applying the word "reasoning" to what Large Language Models do is false advertising? Like claiming your microwave oven "time travels".

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Eris @erisaurus.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

You'd think the DeepSeek-replacing-OpenAI situation was kinda obvious - I don't think there's ever been a company who's "bottled lightning" and thought to themselves "oh yeah no one could ever replicate that" and had it work out well. #ai #machine-learning

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Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

LLMs aren't interesting to me as a logician because there's hardly anything to mathematically prove. "This seems to work well enough, when trained on this corpus, but sometimes it doesn't". Okay.

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Eris @erisaurus.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I love how the deepseek model is out and open source instead of this garbage closed-source proprietary approach that OpenAI has taken but it doesn’t change how fundamentally limited LLMs are at solving real problems

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Eris @erisaurus.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

AI “art” is theft and LLMs are the fanciest toy that struggles to be useful beyond inundating us all with endless spam 🙃

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Eris @erisaurus.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Meanwhile real modeling and actually interesting machine learning work is either ignored, deprioritized, or not given the appropriate attention

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Eris @erisaurus.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

My biggest pet-peeve in the current tech climate is how the term “AI” has taken over and now everything is simultaneously both AI and also just another garbage LLM

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 26/01/2025

Was speaking to someone over dinner earlier this week about all the things happening and they said something like "wow, you sound really politically charged" But here's the thing ... I don't think many of us are at all. I think its that the world around us has *rapidly* become more fascist.

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