iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Lol finally reading Piranesi and it’s just Platonist Backrooms and I’m very here for it. I feel like I need to put together an extremely specific course on Platonist Sci-fi. The Just City Trilogy. The matrix and Dark City. Anathem as the crown jewel obviously.

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This is a good short explainer on a really useful distinction. I see this conflation come up a lot sometimes even in academic spaces where you’d expect more clarity.

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Just had a great time talking to @michaelalewis10.bsky.social’s social worker grad class about poverty and luck. I love love love talking to students about luck. If anyone else has classes they want luckpilled hit me up, I will never pass up a chance. You can just feel the flourishing in real time.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

They’re playing 24D chess! All part of the plan!

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I have separated the art from the artist and am now whipping the art to stiff peaks, after which I will gently fold it into the artist before baking at 350 til golden and puffed

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Embrace the Void @etvpod.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I am once again encouraging people to watch Mountainhead (2025). It needs to become a cult classic given its horrible levels of prescience.

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Embrace the Void @etvpod.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Teaching Sartre on freedom tomorrow and more than ever I’m convinced existentialist freedom is an elaborate cope. #TeamCamus

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Embrace the Void @etvpod.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I don’t know what Country music is and at this point I’m too afraid to ask.

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Well it finally happened. I had to type the word “duck” and autocorrect replaced it with the word I usually mean…

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Surpassing bear discourse for the most cursed discourse of all time.

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Hard to imagine a better set of case studies on the harms of gifted and talented programs than the current crop of rationalists. Telling kids they’re special is such a blight.

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Another somewhat baffling peer review rejection. Five months for a single review back where they say they didn’t find my arguments compelling. No significant objections provided, and they claim that I didn’t make arguments where I did. The whole enterprise seems so vibes based. Pretty demoralizing.

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Claiming Buffy goes downhill in season four is such a mid-brain take. Oh, you think season 3 of Buffy, with its fan favorite baddie is the shows peak? Bold take. Meanwhile, true high-IQ fans recognize that season four is just a weak stepping stone, and that Once More With Feeling is in season 6.

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Separate from my philosophical objections to the concept, I’ve noticed that people tend to use the word “deserve” when they’re about to say something absolutely terrible.

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If you showed this to Trump it would be a plank in the GOP platform by Monday.

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“Nietzsche was dumb. Becoming a monster to fight other monsters is badass actually.”

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Can people who’s work I respect just fucking not?! For like just a minute.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

WoW: Forever content trying to bully me into ruining my life.

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I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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Embrace the Void @etvpod.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

When reviewer 2 is harsh but fair.

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Embrace the Void @etvpod.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

They gonna rename the cybertruck.

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Embrace the Void @etvpod.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Someone applied Bloom's taxonomy of learning to digital activities and I'm dying this is so funny. My brain is like "It's too late poasters, I have already depicted you as the soyjack lower order thinking skills and my podcasting as the higher order thinking skills."

Chart applying Bloom's learning taxonomy to digital activities.

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Embrace the Void @etvpod.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Calling it now we’re getting a literal Hunger Games reality show by the end of this decade.

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Embrace the Void @etvpod.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The strongest proof that woke one is over is all my leftist circles are obsessed with Dungeon Crawler Carl and there is almost zero discussion of the various “problematic” parts of it such as the male gaze, fat phobia, violence against sex workers, literal punching down etc. NYT article incoming!

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Embrace the Void @etvpod.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Reading Hayek on the problem of luck and deservingness and how it relates to free markets and this paragraph is such a tying-the-room-together banger I had to share. Turns out the meritocracy illusion was a misfortune my dude. A pretty big one.

A text image from Hayek where he suggests it's bad that rags-to-riches stories have been used to make it seem like free markets produce deserved outcomes, and that it's bad that business men have become self-righteous on this idea.

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Embrace the Void @etvpod.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“You have received a 48 hour suspension during which you are required to write a 2,000 word essay contrasting What it’s Like to be a Bat with The Intentional Stance for competing views on attributions of internality.”

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Embrace the Void @etvpod.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I’ve made my mind a sunless space: The psycholgical cost of revolutionary ethics

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Bold to attempt what another has already perfected.

John Leguizamo as Tybalt in Romeo + Juliet kneeling while he removes his jacket.

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Tempted to write an award winning history of John Brown just to troll ol’ Bedbug.

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What this should convey is that the “science” of brainwashing is garbage.

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This is the first bad thing I’ve learned about Mamdani. I’m gonna choose to believe he only likes the music and has never seen the show.

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