iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

From De Strandharker.. just lovely

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 27/08/2026

People don't hire AI agents, nor do people hire mouse and keyboards. AI agents are software tools; not people.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 26/08/2026

They are lowering US flags to half-mast for a week, but if the government really wants to pay tribute to Dolly, they should fund education, the arts, and medical research instead of trying to eradicate them.

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Fernando Montenegro (he/him) @fsmontenegro.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Poignant moment as I enjoy reading Ready Player One while on vacation and come across a reference to RHPS, today of all days. RIP, Tim Curry.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton was universally loved because she was a rich person who knew what it was like to be poor, stayed down to earth, and spent her life giving back to others who were less fortunate. The oligarchs who don’t understand why everyone hates them probably won’t learn from this. But they should

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Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Just to be clear this is like saying "for this trade deal to go through, you must eliminate college football" level ask in our politics

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Trump imposes crushing new taxes on American consumers & businesses - compounding the toll of his failed unprovoked war with Iran by escalating his failed unprovoked trade war with our longtime staunchest ally and trade partner, and advancing global disorder. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/w...

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Canada-U.S. Trade War Escalates as Talks Collapse

Intense negotiations to stave off new levies by the Trump administration ended in an impasse as Mark Carney suspended talks. U.S. tariffs on Canada, and retaliatory tariffs on the U.S., will come into...

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Orion Kidder @orionkidder.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

"Human in the loop" is another way of saying that one person will have to review the output of 10 workers' worth of LLM slop, and then that worker will be held responsible for errors made by the LLM. It's a scam.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 05/06/2026

If we confuse generative AI’s ability to produce text with consciousness, we risk assigning moral responsibility to chatbots—and not to their makers, Ted Chiang argues.

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No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious

Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning.

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Lou Mannheim @loumannheim87.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

No special treatment for Space X in the S&P 500! Just announced. Wow. That profitability requirement means it might never get in.

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Tech Field Day @techfieldday.com · 31/05/2026

Tune in to Tech Field Day at Cisco Live June 2 - 3! 📆 #TFDx #CiscoLive On Tuesday, June 2 at 11:30 AM US/Pacific, tune in to @Cisco.com 🔴 LIVE on YouTube, LinkedIn, or website. 🔺 YouTube: buff.ly/mNJIacG 🔹 LinkedIn: buff.ly/ABdRbS7 #CiscoLiveUS2026

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 18/05/2026

Martin A. Brooks 🇺🇦
@mart_brooks
“This video demonstrates….”

How I want tech stuff explained to me in order of preference:

1) A well written technical document.
2) A maintained wiki.
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998) Spray painted on the side of a cow.
999) A video.

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Fernando Montenegro (he/him) @fsmontenegro.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

“We’ll replace <app> with stuff we code ourselves!”

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Adam Frank @adamfrank4.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Great piece by astronomer and SETI leader Jason Wright on the endless, exhausting claims about 3I/Atlas by Avi Loeb. "zero planetary scientists give Avi’s claims any credence... because he’s demonstrably wrong" sites.psu.edu/astrowright/...

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Loeb’s 3I/ATLAS “Anomalies” Explained

Avi Loeb continues to claim that 3I/ATLAS has many anomalous behaviors that lead to the conclusion that it “might” be an alien spacecraft. He carefully hedges the probability that it is a spacecraft ...

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Fernando Montenegro (he/him) @fsmontenegro.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

I'm really happy that a combination of AI and Reddit led me to find the video of a short ad I was looking for. Courtesy of Computer Associates, no less, I think it perfectly captures some of the key issues with cybersecurity nowadays. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNFt...

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Computer Associates Commercial: eTrust Sector 12

YouTube video by Charles Song

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Brian George @briangeorgehfx.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

If you ask Rick Astley for his copy of the movie Up, he cannot give it to you as he will never give you Up. However, in doing so, he lets you down. Therefore it creates The Astley Paradox.

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Fernando Montenegro (he/him) @fsmontenegro.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Dad joke/humour royalty right here, folks.

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Fernando Montenegro (he/him) @fsmontenegro.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

My latest incident of dropping-AirPods-in-airplane (though not really, I had just misplaced them) convinced me to switch to over-ear-type noise cancelling headphones for air travel. Not looking to spend a fortune. What do people recommend?

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Fernando Montenegro (he/him) @fsmontenegro.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

This, a million times over. They (sellers) also don’t mind if people conflate the high precision of specialized ML models with the scale of hallucinations coming out of current models.

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Fernando Montenegro (he/him) @fsmontenegro.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

On my way to RSA Conference, looking forward to seeing old friends and making new ones. Expecting a busy schedule and good conversations on security and AI, cloud/appsec synergy, security purchasing trends, and more. Apologies in advance for my bad face-name mapping skills…

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Eric 🍁 @eroc.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Canadians, today is the last day of advance polling. Get out and vote!

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Enchantress @zzenchantress.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

It’s not about Katy Perry heading to space. It’s about how billionaires rebrand joyrides as “inspiration,” while real women in science lose jobs and visibility. Empowerment isn’t a press release, it’s opportunity, access, and recognition.

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Fernando Montenegro (he/him) @fsmontenegro.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Urging all Canadians to make their voices heard in the current election. Advance polling is open until the 21st. We can’t do much about how other countries behave, but we can do our part to influence our own. #CanadaVotes

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Nick Patience @nickpatience.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

#GoogleCloudNext was a great event, full of interesting announcements, meetings and a few surprises. Read the collective thoughts of @futurumgroup.bsky.social analyst team who were there futurumgroup.com/insights/goo...

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Google Cloud Next 2025: The Yellow Brick Road to AI Transformation

Google Cloud's road to AI transformation includes agent interoperability, application-centric tools, on-premises Gemini deployment options.

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Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 11/03/2025

I’m seeing this more and more—on any number of topics, that showing emotion is weakness. It absolutely is not. Caring is t weakness, expressing your feelings is a core part of being human.

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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Trump's entire shtick has always been "I will make you rich." It's what his TV show was, what his books and "university" were, and it's what his presidency is. It's all about the hope that if you support him and do what he does, you'll become him. It's all a con. It always was. It always will be.

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Scott Stossel @stossel.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

"Putin seemed to intuit that the idealism of American democracy might actually vanish, not just as a foreign-policy doctrine, but as the consensus conviction of its domestic politics." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Putin Won

The Russian dictator has bent the world, including the United States, to his vision.

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Scott Stossel @stossel.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

"Washington has become the court of Nero: an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers, and a buffoon on ketamine tasked with purging the civil service." www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

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Trump Is Nero While Washington Burns

‘Trump’s message is that being his ally serves no purpose, because he will not defend you.’

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

It’s not simply undignified; it’s a rejection of the values the room once stood for.

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 27/02/2025

Pedro Pascal responding to transphobia on social media: “I can’t think of anything more vile and small and pathetic than terrorizing the smallest, most vulnerable community of people who want nothing from you, except the right to exist.” (via @charliejane.bsky.social) [capitalfm.com]

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Pedro Pascal calls out “vile and pathetic” transphobic trolls after defending trans rights

Pedro Pascal, whose sister Lux is a trans woman, is a prominent trans ally and he has no time for transphobia.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

I think Americans, blessed with relatively stable government for a long time, assume there is someone, some adult, who will step in and make things right before the President does anything REALLY bad. There’s not.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Yes, exactly, this. In this as in so many other ways, Trump is *breaking* things that can’t just be un-broken after another election cycle or two. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-end-of...

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The End of North America

Trump pulls the trigger on tariffs

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Fernando Montenegro (he/him) @fsmontenegro.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

As I tiptoe my way around embracing "AI as assistant" mindset, really enjoyed this simple post on managing Claude conversations - www.mrowe.co.za/blog/2025/01... Couldn't find author here on BSky.

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Managing long AI conversations: A practical suggestion for knowledge transfer - Michael Rowe

A practical guide to managing long AI conversations by creating and organising knowledge artifacts to preserve context.

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Fernando Montenegro (he/him) @fsmontenegro.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Embracing "AI as assistant" workflows using Claude 3.5 Sonnet to help me find new tracks for my workout playlist. Really nice suggestions... :-) I know I could turn to more specialized recommendations from my music provider (Apple) but I appreciate the flexibility of using Claude...

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Fernando Montenegro (he/him) @fsmontenegro.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Just listened to a really nice episode of @cloudsecuritypod.bsky.social with @returnonsecurity.com on the broader trends of cybersecurity startups, markets, and more. Highly recommend it!

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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 04/01/2025

Terrible news today about the loss of Amit Yoran. He was a larger than life figure in cybersecurity and we will be lesser without him. May his family and friends find peace.

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Fernando Montenegro (he/him) @fsmontenegro.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Really thought provoking show with a nice framework for reflection on market changes. Definitely helps me organize some thoughts. Also loved the @swardley.bsky.social references!

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Literary Pearls @literarypearls.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all." Arthur C. Clarke

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Fernando Montenegro (he/him) @fsmontenegro.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Snarky observation: sometimes the best antidote for imposter syndrome is to listen to some podcasts about a topic one knows well. On a POSITIVE note, it was karmic justice that the next podcast I listened to was @katymilkman.bsky.social ‘s on the Dunning-Kruger effect. I love her show and her work!

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