iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In other words: This meme is a surprisingly accurate scaled depiction of the magnitude of the 2026 El Niño event vs the 1997 event *if using the absolute index.* But if using the relative index, Danny DeVito is currently the same height as Arnold Schwarzenegger. And either pairing is striking... 👀

A common meme from the movie "Twins" featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger towering over a similarly dressed Danny Devito modified such that "1997" appears above the diminuitive DeVito, and 2026 above Schwarzenegger.

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Greg Burton @gregburton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Awareness of a thought experiment is not a federal emergency.

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Greg Burton @gregburton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Had a tooth pulled yesterday. No more tooth pain, but some aches from the procedure. Net positive.

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A Frogs Gent @frogsgent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

As I've said multiple times at this point, "The Internet Is Not Real Life" should be understood as an Aspirational Statement rather than a Descriptive one.

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Greg Burton @gregburton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Fresh Stevie dropped - and it's fire.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026

lol if the conservatives want to take away my ADHD medication, I refuse to be held responsible for all the incredibly dumb things that will happen next

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Greg Burton @gregburton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

just experienced a livestream demo of a concatenating synthesizer segueing into a live performance of Cielito Lindo.

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Greg Burton @gregburton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Of the NYT 100 "best television" list, I have seen 1 episode of 4 of them, and the entire run of three. Total. In other words, I have no idea what the "best" are because I just don't watch much.

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Justin Raden @jraden.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

among my fav things (so far!) about this program is that it doesn’t provide student housing in perhaps the most insane housing market in the country

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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 23/09/2026

what the jewish right and its wealthiest benefactors are doing right now is tying the overwhelmingly liberal and progressive jewish people to an explicitly conservative political project without our consent and asserting that our commitment to genuine liberalism is in fact opposition to it

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Greg Burton @gregburton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The idea that "writing good rooms" is how you create a good city is a tell that for this author the world is merely a stage set, and "worldbuilding" is a fancy euphemism for set design.

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Jared Mabry @jaredmabry.com · 22/09/2026

Every 'rogue AI' headline is a human decision disappearing from the story. Name who built the test, who removed the restraints, and who left the door open.

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Venn you see the truth...

Venn diagram. Top circle, Canada Geese. Bottom left circle, Toddler. Bottom right circle, Anti-Vaxxer

Intersection Canada Geese/Toddler: always pooping
Intersection Canada Geese/Anti-Vaxxer: wants everydead
Intersection Toddler/Anti-Vaxxer: incoherent ramblings
Intersection of all 3: can't reason with them

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Meidas Ian @lordye.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

You've been told!

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Greg Burton @gregburton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

excellent opening line: "Grave robbing was less exciting than Tyron had expected."

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Denys Howard @denyshoward.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This treasonous Republican regime is tearing down our secular democratic republic and working furiously to replace it with a government of the people, by spineless Christian Nationalist politicians, for utterly amoral oligarchs.

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Protesters starting to gather at the Kennedy Center. One is holding a sign that says "LESS BUTTHURT MORE BEETHOVEN"

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Greg Burton @gregburton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The female vocalist here is, interestingly enough, Linda Ronstadt. I think JCOA only pressed around 2000 copies of this masterpiece. Anyway - Doctor Why www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgfe...

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Doctor Why

YouTube video by Carla Bley - Topic

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Greg Burton @gregburton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

eventually there won't be a "close call", there will be a disaster. Not "if", "when".

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Greg Burton @gregburton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I am I the only person who considers buying books because their personal, never seen by anyone else, collection is thin?

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Greg Burton @gregburton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

excellent thread. Personally I'd say that Cory's talking about "novelty" and conflating that with "surprise", but that's probably a trivial point, and definitely pedantic.

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Greg Burton @gregburton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

20 year old me would have a hard time getting past the fact I'm alive at this point.

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Greg Burton @gregburton.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

protip - no one ever says "a well thought out countermeasure" in the heat of battle.

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Greg Burton @gregburton.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Can't get past thinking about what kind of music "Smoking Barefoot Pets" would put on their debut release "Prohibited in Building". Also, the album cover.

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Greg Burton @gregburton.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

best proofreading fail of the day so far - "bounty out" makes it into print as "bouncy tout"

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Who called them marine biologists and not aquademics

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Katie Slivensky @kslivensky.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This was so much more wild of an article than I was anticipating reading. 🤯 "Marmots are known for climbing into vehicle undercarriages, drinking radiator fluid, passing out, and later waking up in locations far away from where they entered a vehicle or trailer, according to YUWR."

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Greg Burton @gregburton.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

the effective range of a modern crossbow is around 50 yards. You know you're reading fantasy when they're firing at 250 yards.

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Greg Burton @gregburton.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

lots of two-value categorization on this site, and almost none of it considers degree of membership and fuzzy sets and logic. It's been like 60 years, but it still hasn't broken into the mainstream. spectrum.ieee.org/lotfi-zadeh

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Lotfi Zadeh and the Birth of Fuzzy Logic

The inventor told us how he endured decades of opposition

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Greg Burton @gregburton.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

them: "I don't want ground beef, that's what poor people eat." me: "what do average people eat?" them: "Restaurant food". - a discussion with an ex 10 years ago, while we were on SNAP and had like $20 a week between us after rent.

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Greg Burton @gregburton.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

thinking casually about K.W. Jeter's "Noir". We're really close to someone marketing Pimp Style Management, if not already there under differing names.

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Greg Burton @gregburton.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

depends on where home was at the moment: Los Angeles River South Platte Duwamish Judd Creek East River Willamette Columbia Schuylkill Rio Grande Precita Creek Strawberry Creek

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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Book friends! I am a freelance proofreader looking for more work. I have done a bunch of work with Tor, but I will happily also do nonfiction. Are you a publisher or self-pub author who needs a proofreader, or know one? Please DM. (Please boost for visibility, if you don't mind)

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Greg Burton @gregburton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Garment descriptions can be unsatisfying in so many ways - either long-winded or not really descriptive. I think "dressed in an unusually-cut frock coat" manages to generously leave some questions for the reader, while conveying a good sense of the scene.

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Greg Burton @gregburton.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

got blocked by someone with 7 followers, following less than 20. BUT - they have the quite impressive number of over 19,000 blocks. Some people have weird hobbies, but ok.

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Greg Burton @gregburton.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

neural nets - now with real neurons! (seriously, this is very interesting)

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Greg Burton @gregburton.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Los Alamos happened because the US secretly imported 1600 German (Nazi, in many cases) scientists and technologists through Operation Paperclip in a project that started around 1945. While it is true that many scientists had left pre-war, that didn't make Los Alamos happen.

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Greg Burton @gregburton.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

"Stopping stars that strange men pull from the sky is no basis for creating a castle"

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Greg Burton @gregburton.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Was doing some memory refresh on 70s-80s Portland music scene, saw references to Terror Wrist and Sado Nation, but none for TuTu Frenzy @johnshirley2024.bsky.social Left out a few others, too.

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Justin Williams @jww.wtf · 01/09/2026

*taps the sign*

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