iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is why I'm so in favor of accessory commercial units. Just getting people in the US used to **walking** for a cup of coffee or a sandwich in the neighborhood may finally do something to rid Americans of our terminal car brain.

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Brendan Berg @gnuaesthetic.bsky.social · 17h

I’m far less interested in questioning whether LLMs are conscious than questioning the criteria of consciousness itself. You’re telling me electric meat gets to say it’s self-aware and we just take it at its word? How do we know it isn’t just repeating back training data?

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'd rather have an economy that makes 1,000 millionaires than 1 billionaire.

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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

it’s amazing to me that first apple invented the least lossy user interface ever (multi-touch) — where you interact with software controls *directly* & instantly and now the next “big thing” is writing text instructions, the slowest, most disintermediated and lossy way possible

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Brendan Berg @gnuaesthetic.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Venus may have finally shattered a cosmic glass ceiling, but she only got paid 85 cents on Saturn’s dollar.

Screenshot of WIRED article headlined, “Venus May Have Devoured Its Moon”

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Arrdem 👻🎃💀 @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 18/09/2026

Building large systems with slopbots feels like trying to mold wet sand. Maybe you can but better hope you just need a repose-shaped structure.

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Brendan Berg @gnuaesthetic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I can’t describe how exhilarating it is to finally have a proper studio. I’ve restarted old projects and initiated new ones. Just being in the space is a joy. Should have done this sooner.

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Gonna go out on a limb and suggest the loudest voices in the tech industry have very little grasp of the variety and complexity of the world outside their own industry, with a side dish of not understanding that to most people step one in furniture shopping is not "buy a CNC router and lathe"

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Brendan Berg @gnuaesthetic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Not gonna lie. When the Ed Sheeran stuff broke, my first reaction was, “wait I thought he was an actor.” It turns out I was confusing him with Charlie Sheen.

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Brendan Berg @gnuaesthetic.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

John Chaimberlain couldn’t even

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Brendan Berg @gnuaesthetic.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Work table update: clutter on horizontal surfaces can be observed to follow Boyle’s ideal gas law

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Brendan Berg @gnuaesthetic.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Blocking traffic at the intersection of Technology and Liberal Arts

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Brendan Berg @gnuaesthetic.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

In my dream I was told I’m good at debugging because I put into words before even touching the code what I could test to narrow down the source of the bug. My awake brain is like, duh, that’s how it’s done. But I also know people who don’t do this so maybe it’s not as common as it should be?

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Brendan Berg @gnuaesthetic.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Having a burn-it-all-down kind of day

A matchbox labeled “Various Small Fires” in the classic Ed Ruscha font

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Brendan Berg @gnuaesthetic.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Finally built a work table (please excuse the mess).

A work table consisting of two doors on a cross-braced frame of steel conduit and perforated square tube.

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Brendan Berg @gnuaesthetic.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I’m excited (and a little terrified) to announce that I’ve started FactoryFactory, a software development studio and product incubator. Follow @factoryfactory.us to know what we’re up to! factoryfactory.us

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FactoryFactory

FactoryFactory is the software and product incubator founded by Brendan Berg. Our expertise is in building intuitive products, resilient infrastructure, and effective teams.

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Brendan Berg @gnuaesthetic.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I’m in a structured data rabbit hole for a side project. It’s such a shame that LLMs are taking all the oxygen out of the room and asphyxiating semantic data stores.

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Brendan Berg @gnuaesthetic.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Add some packing tape and it’s very Thomas Hirschhorn coded.

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Brendan Berg @gnuaesthetic.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Come to the weird sculpture in the garden if you want an ass kicking

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boarders.bsky.social @boarders.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The concept of ‘language levels’ from racket is, to me, one of the great unsung ideas in computing. Imagine photoshop with extensible affordances gated to your current skill level, or a coding harness, or R studio, or a browser, or a terminal. To me it would be the welcome anti-philosophy to RTFM

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Brendan Berg @gnuaesthetic.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I really don’t understand what I’m doing wrong with my Claude prompts. It goes off the rails about 50% of the time. Are people having a vastly different experience with it?

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Pirijan @pketh.org · 25/08/2026

Your only career goal should be "How do I get a cool job where I'm just making a cool thing with cool people?"

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Brendan Berg @gnuaesthetic.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Help I’m still on the plane. In Kansas. I don’t know what we’re waiting for at this point

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Brendan Berg @gnuaesthetic.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

In related news, I’m pretty sure this is my first time in Kansas.

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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

*I'm only *mildly* into patches and mostly for design reasons, I'm not into patches the way Trevor Paglen is into patches paglen.studio/2023/05/10/b...

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Brendan Berg @gnuaesthetic.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

“Design is not just what it looks and feels like. Design is how it works.”

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parker higgins @xor.blue · 17/08/2026

the fact that "rare books" often means "rare texts" is a policy outcome of our copyright law and it doesn't need to be that way

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Brendan Berg @gnuaesthetic.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

What we called mountains on the east coast are “foothills” out here 😅

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Sylwia Vargas @sylwia.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

AI is a real workplace game changer. People who previously were bad at their jobs are still bad but are able to produce 15-page reports on any given topic, every day.

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Brendan Berg @gnuaesthetic.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I’m playing around with deploying an entire microservice as a Lambda@Edge. There are some questionable limitations and I might rethink some of my life choices before this is over, but I’m here to try dumb things so you don’t have to.

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Brendan Berg @gnuaesthetic.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Runners up: - “fuck him up socrates” - “who’s this clown” - me sowing / me reaping - Paris review

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Casey Lucas @bimbo.phd · 08/08/2026

Well well well,if it isn't the consequences Jealousy professor Plato: what the fuck I'm gonna need more carrots

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シャポコ🌵 @shapoco.net · 01/08/2026

らくがき

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Brendan Berg @gnuaesthetic.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

What would you put on the Mount Rushmore of all time Tweets? - also going with Jaboukie FBI MLK tweet - “I will face god and walk backwards into hell” - “I ain’t reading all that” - “moon's haunted”

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Daniel Temkin @dtemkin.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

This piece asks if LLMs are moving us toward a monoculture of code style; pic shows how it's spread the use of 42 as random seed number. arxiv.org/pdf/2607.13077

Chart showing how use of the number 42 as random number seed ramps up alongside ChatGPT

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Brendan Berg @gnuaesthetic.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I like computers, I just don’t like other programmers.

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Ky @ky.fyi · 07/08/2026

there are still human-computer interactions to be built which don't involve language models, I think

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Brendan Berg @gnuaesthetic.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I feel vindicated by the admission that things like better tooling, languages with modern type systems, and better documentation all improve agent productivity. BUT THESE THINGS ALSO IMPROVE HUMAN PRODUCTIVITY! It’s infuriating that C-suites prioritize agent efficiency over developer ergonomics.

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Brendan Berg @gnuaesthetic.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I started reading two blog posts today and stopped after a couple paragraphs, mainly because they just *felt* hard to read. I couldn’t put my finger on one specific thing wrong, but the writing just felt… off. The comments all accused the posts of being AI slop. The web is just so tedious now.

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Brendan Berg @gnuaesthetic.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Barely enough shelf space. At least I can start culling the herd now that everything can come off the floor.

A second shelving unit appears. Like its counterpart, it is unfinished pine and could probably be described as “rustic modern” or something. Even though I attached them to each other back to back, the pair of shelves are a little wobbly. Libraries should project an air of danger.

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Brendan Berg @gnuaesthetic.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Just built bookshelf 2/3. Need to run to the hardware store at some point to pick up a bit more lumber for the final one.

The library area of my studio space with two bookshelves: one plywood and aluminum extrusion shelf system against the wall, and one self-built pine monstrosity in the style of a slightly inebriated Enzo Mari.

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pistachiOoOoOo 👻👻👻 @streetlightlily.horntforgood.com · 31/01/2026

You don’t want hands free driving, you want trains. You want trains you want trains you want TRAINS

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Brendan Berg @gnuaesthetic.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Hearing people talk derisively of advertisements that “look made by AI,” it occurs to me “made by AI” is going to be a blanket criticism of anything that looks low-effort.

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Camille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com · 25/07/2026

I am not philosophically opposed to AI and I use it for a few things but I just can't bring myself to use it as a thought partner for anything I really care about being my own intellectual product

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Stalag17 @stalag17.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Time for Swatch Internet Time

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