iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

*Should we, maybe, be pondering some kind of moral framework for the way we treat maps of fruit-fly brains *Maybe as a cautious lab rehearsal for what might reveal itself as a big issue some day interconnected.org/home/2026/09...

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A new prayer for the fruit fly connectome

Posted on Saturday 26 Sep 2026. 1,568 words, 10 links. By Matt Webb.

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Arthur Clune @arthur.clune.org · 26/09/2026

One I missed earlier this month. Google mapped a fruit fly brain. You can now run a fruit fly brain in a simulator. I feel the queasiness that this post (interconnected.org/home/2026/09...) does. Esp given their intent to do the same for the human brain (sites.research.google/gr/neural-ma...)

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Google Research and partners mapped the complete brain of fruit fly. (3 September).
It's a common bug and common in scientific research. The male fruit fly has 166,000 neurons across the brain and main nerve cord; the map is called the connectome.
Long story short, the connectome is now available for free download, you can get a simulator of the different types of neurons, it caught the imagination of the internet, over September there has been all kinds of wild nonsense (impressive

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fry69 @fry69.dev · 24/08/2026

Apropos "Center of Gravity" ->

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Alasdair McCall @alasdair.md · 28/08/2026

You could fit @genmon.fyi weather app on a single stiffy disk 🤯 apps.apple.com/app/id676809...

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Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · 21/08/2026

This green arrow points directly at the central black hole of the Milky Way, 26,000 light years away Galactic Compass 2, now available on the App Store apps.apple.com/gb/app/galac...

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Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · 21/08/2026

This green arrow points directly at the central black hole of the Milky Way, 26,000 light years away Galactic Compass 2, now available on the App Store apps.apple.com/gb/app/galac...

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Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · 17/08/2026

chapter 1 of Greg Egan’s DIASPORA is the realest depiction of the birth of a continuous learning AGI that we’ll have until we actually have AGI and it can tell us he shared it for free on his website. Read it (then buy the book) Orphanogenesis www.gregegan.net/DIASPORA/01/...

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Orphanogenesis (excerpt) — Greg Egan

Diaspora by Greg Egan

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Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · 13/08/2026

Ok clock solid advice but look we’re all just trying to get through the day here

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Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · 11/08/2026

my hunch is that AI alignment is a red herring, and the way to protect against a crazy powerful AGI mulching the earth into infinite paperclips is to release ANOTHER crazy powerful AGI that will hopefully stop it blog post: interconnected.org/home/2026/08...

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AI alignment is a red herring

Posted on Saturday 8 Aug 2026. 1,468 words, 9 links. By Matt Webb.

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Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · 26/07/2026

Added a cute extra font to Poem/1 as a treat for backers who do the firmware update 🌼 (See today’s Kickstarter email for how)

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Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · 26/07/2026

Added a cute extra font to Poem/1 as a treat for backers who do the firmware update 🌼 (See today’s Kickstarter email for how)

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Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · 26/07/2026

finally updated braggoscope.com with ways to listen to In Our Time outside the UK

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Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · 24/07/2026

I need a macroeconomist to explain this to me: I don't get why the govt council house building programme is a "cost" that needs to be budgeted for cash is converted into an asset: housing. it's moving numbers around on the balance sheet. the govt still has the asset, can still borrow against it

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Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · 23/07/2026

Remember when you could pay like $20 and a goat would join your zoom call? I don’t think we talk enough about how weird it all got in covid

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Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · 21/07/2026

Pleased that UK govt has scrapped the single digital ID scheme. IMO: illiberal and a single point of failure Instead: create a wallet of the various IDs we use — council tax per household, road tax per car, NHS per patient The only place they should connect is my private phone

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nephariuz.bsky.social @nephariuz.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

"we should put MASSIVE weight on death and calamity! Because it’s a big deal! Especially violent death and collective danger. And when we don’t give it weight, it gets assumed as part of the normal order of things. Which it is not." interconnected.org/home/2026/07...

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Frozen 2 should be rated R

Posted on Friday 17 Jul 2026. 1,024 words, 3 links. By Matt Webb.

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Joe @joeinn.es · 18/07/2026

There has been considerable "jeopardy inflation" in movies between the 1980s and today. interconnected.org/home/2026/07...

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Frozen 2 should be rated R

Posted on Friday 17 Jul 2026. 1,014 words, 2 links. By Matt Webb.

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Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · 13/07/2026

went spelunking the sci-fi stacks for voice UI that is NOT general purpose and here's what I found (new blog post) interconnected.org/home/2026/07...

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Examples from sci-fi of voice interfaces that stay on task

Posted on Saturday 11 Jul 2026. 1,204 words, 15 links. By Matt Webb.

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Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · 13/07/2026

Weirdly this is one of my top blog posts ever

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

"I don't like those videos of factories that are supposed to inspire awe. Factories are just rooms. I want these kids to understand that. Sure, it's sometimes complicated, but we can handle complicated." interconnected.org/home/2026/07...

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Factories are just rooms

Posted on Friday 3 Jul 2026. 725 words, 2 links. By Matt Webb.

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Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · 30/06/2026

this is awesome ben brown used Resident to vibe code his new ESP32 watch best quote: > this thing starts off with nothing and you just wish your features into being one by one www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAUz...

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Resident Sandbox on an ESP32 Watch

YouTube video by Ben Brown

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Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · 29/06/2026

blogged some thoughts about form, and why the best product design in the world is this egg timer shaped like an egg interconnected.org/home/2026/06...

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Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · 25/06/2026

Free concept: AirPods with built-in Peltier thermoelectric coolers so the buds are ice-cold in your ear holes

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Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · 25/06/2026

Free concept: AirPods with built-in Peltier thermoelectric coolers so the buds are ice-cold in your ear holes

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Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · 24/06/2026

Everyone should build their own weather app. This is mine, it has approximately two users, and we both check it every single day

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Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · 23/06/2026

Took the afternoon off to do kid wrangling because the school is closed from the heat (trading with other families who take over kid wrangling other days this week) and I think that is my first “climate day” as a reason for not working?

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Paco Hope @paco.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 20/06/2026

Wow. This is such neat way to frame it. > these ads are laser-targeted streams of signifiers treating my psyche as a combination lock to be picked. interconnected.org/home/2026/06/19/…

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I am obsessed with these two ads

Posted on Friday 19 Jun 2026. 618 words, 1 link. By Matt Webb.

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Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · 17/06/2026

I can’t stop thinking about this ad, absolutely wild aesthetic

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Coté @cote.io · 13/06/2026

Words that are wet. interconnected.org/home/2026/06/12/…

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Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · 12/06/2026

Wet lab, wet market, wet-bulb temperature, wet ware. New blog post: wet thoughts. interconnected.org/home/2026/06...

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Wet thoughts

Posted on Friday 12 Jun 2026. 548 words, 5 links. By Matt Webb.

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Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · 10/06/2026

somebody put this on sir keir's desk

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Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · 10/06/2026

can we put Fable in charge of inventing + commercialising a space elevator? writing a plan is my regular eval for new models reading Fable's attempt, I feel like - enough with the vending machines, let Fable run R&D - the UK govt should fund this! claude.ai/public/artif...

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The Gated Ascent: Space Elevator Investment Plan

Detailed investment memorandum for a staged, kill-gated space elevator program. Explores physics, materials science, architecture, and five-tranche funding strategy for Earth-to-GEO transport.

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Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · 10/06/2026

Another run at plotting mass vs flops of all the intelligence things in the universe, this time made by Fable claude.ai/public/artif...

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Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · 08/06/2026

Any of my mutuals on Strava? 🏃 I recently went private on there for reasons and would like to see a bigger gang

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Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · 08/06/2026

Anyone I know popped up on the Apple Keynote yet?

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Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · 06/06/2026

I somehow convinced myself that we will outsource individual body parts to AI via electrical muscle stimulation, and wrote a blog post to figure out the implications interconnected.org/home/2026/06...

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Self-driving legs to walk me to the office

Posted on Friday 5 Jun 2026. 1,229 words, 5 links. By Matt Webb.

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Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · 06/06/2026

this is a very satisfying map on my personal stats page

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Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · 06/06/2026

Push-to-talk vibe coding, direct to device 👌 It's a 2 min proof of concept vid but I was out so no time to edit haha Device → gpt-realtime-2 → Resident device sandbox Beginning to close some loops that we've been developing at Inanimate for a while... (It'll get quicker as models get quicker etc)

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Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · 05/06/2026

playing with gpt-realtime for transcription + tool-calling from the m5stick... interesting to see the model listening and working at the same time example code in the Resident repo: push-to-talk, binary websockets, and a simple server back-end github.com/inanimate-te...

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Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · 02/06/2026

Have you ever run across an old pair of sneakers and you just gaze at them, it’s like they are from another time, a whole other life, a whole other you You slip them on. How could I have ever been that person? but it’s been like ONE MONTH, how does that happen

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Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · 01/06/2026

why I'm cautious about having a personal AI agent... and why I've got one anyway (tl;dr global logistics is a total grind) interconnected.org/home/2026/05...

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How global logistics got me over my fear of personal agents

Posted on Saturday 30 May 2026. 1,624 words, 5 links. By Matt Webb.

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Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · 29/05/2026

If your device doesn’t have wifi details, Resident will make an access point so you can configure easily from your phone It didn’t display the name of that network before — now it does ALSO: welcome Zac to Inanimate! first employee! code on main in week 1 🙌

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Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · 28/05/2026

new example of how to use binary websockets with our device messaging library e.g. stream audio and get a real-time music viz in the browser github.com/inanimate-te...

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