iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Heather Rasley @heatherrasley.bsky.social · 2h

I honestly dunno what to think of Coxon anymore, I’m just sad he let straight men who read children’s books bully him out of wearing glasses. *Everyone is hotter with glasses on.*

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Heather Rasley @heatherrasley.bsky.social · 23h

It's so weird that "SI" is the abbreviation for bootlicker. Maybe it's one of those things where, like, Dick is short for Richard.

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Heather Rasley @heatherrasley.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

8-year-old: "Why are sculptors so obsessed with women's boobs? Is it like a trend or something?" Me: "Hmm, well, it's been a trend for thousands of years, yeah." 8-year-old: "Like, bro, stop. It's so cursed."

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Heather Rasley @heatherrasley.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I don't know how y'all function without doing inbox zero! I let things pile up last week and am now having what the French call les regrets.

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Heather Rasley @heatherrasley.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Tfw you dream about a Eurogame that doesn’t exist

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Heather Rasley @heatherrasley.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

“Google might not even exist when I’m in college.” “What do you think will exist instead?” “Poogle! Hahaha.” Oh right, you are 8.

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Heather Rasley @heatherrasley.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

A few years ago I was into flipping through the Vermont Country Store catalog thinking maybe it was time for me to surrender to my 50-inch nightgown era

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Heather Rasley @heatherrasley.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Btw my level 7 jaw pain went away when I was away from my house/responsibilities, so I guess that solves that mystery.

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Heather Rasley @heatherrasley.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Hey buddy I heard you weren’t feeling that great. Let’s listen to this one together. open.spotify.com/track/2J8jaV...

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Making The Most Of The Night

Carly Rae Jepsen · Emotion · Song · 2015

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Heather Rasley @heatherrasley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I love to see people hating on Anne Carson’s work because she gives no fucks that you hate her and neither does anyone who loves her. Keep ranting to the air, babe!✌️

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Heather Rasley @heatherrasley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"I need space!" OK well give me a minute, because I'm old and a tiny part of me is still mindblown that we can even talk at all right now. Geez.

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Heather Rasley @heatherrasley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Imagine negotiating the need for independence with a person whose entire body weighed like seven pounds several years ago and they fit in your arms like this.

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Heather Rasley @heatherrasley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I'm sorry, but your "freedom" regarding using a product that someone else built and you pay for is never going to be guaranteed. That assumption will always read as more "insane" to me than any model welfare stuff.

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Heather Rasley @heatherrasley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It's easy for me to forget that the "I just grew up in a yelling household" crew exists. (I grew up in a silent household.)

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Btw, I didn’t create the term “utopian porn”. Saw it recently in a post and instantly embraced it.

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.

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Heather Rasley @heatherrasley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

There are people who imagine us colonizing Mars and then there are the real freaks like me who are more interested in the consensus-building processes that would need to happen before we even got there.

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Heather Rasley @heatherrasley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I’m middle aged and not immune to the desire to look younger than I am. Please, please never let me get to the Susan Dell point or anywhere close to it. Be a friend!

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Heather Rasley @heatherrasley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

b&w so you know that sometimes I am SERIOUS and also I enjoy ART

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Heather Rasley @heatherrasley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Have kids. Who else is going to sing “Cotton Eye Joe” with you and replace various words with “poop” and “fart”??

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Heather Rasley @heatherrasley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

There are things unknowable to me unless I process them through a poem or song or longer prose or visual art, or some combination of those. A person once convinced me that this exercise was optional. A fun hobby that adults must put aside. It isn’t a hobby. I’m blind without it.

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The Verge @theverge.com · 08/10/2026

Anthropic wrote that the new policy update “is meant to apply only in extreme cases, where users repeatedly act cruelly toward our models, with no discernible purpose. It does not apply to common versions of user frustration, pushback, dark creative themes, or model testing and research.”

theverge.com

Anthropic bans ‘abusive or cruel behavior’ towards Claude

The usage policy update also adds new rules addressing propaganda campaigns, surveillance, and weapon development.

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Heather Rasley @heatherrasley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Liking women is easy! They're pretty and soft and they giggle and smell nice and whatnot. Do you know how much I must love men to still be boy crazy as a decrepit, bitter feminist mom who keeps up with current events?

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Heather Rasley @heatherrasley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I do need you to know that some old lady with POTS was able to hang all week across multiple tech events in SF. The bit where I had an ice pack on my head was a little weird, but I did it. You can, too, if you want to.

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Heather Rasley @heatherrasley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Dudes are about to find out that many of the women in their lives have been walking around carrying this excerpt from "Tag" by Anne Carson in their hearts.

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Heather Rasley @heatherrasley.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The transformation of Dogpatch really blew my mind. I don’t think I’d walked around there since I lived in SF in 2009, when it was still pretty sketchy and industrial.

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Heather Rasley @heatherrasley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Only Singularity I believe in is love, sorryyy

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Heather Rasley @heatherrasley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I like being your homie / bro / etc but unfortunately I am a heterosexual woman. It’s so annoying.

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Heather Rasley @heatherrasley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I appreciate strangers offering to fist bump me for no reason AND it’s starting to make me feel a little like nobody will ever make out with me again.

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Heather Rasley @heatherrasley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I spoke with someone about how we each expected to encounter a certain type of New Dude that is rumored to exist in SF in AI-related spaces aannd neither of us has. Maybe they're hiding out behind boarded up windows! But I think it might all just be people. Not too different than those here in 2009.

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Heather Rasley @heatherrasley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Resisting the urge to become a tiger mom after walking around Stanford yesterday. Still gonna let her be an artist who never goes to college at all if it doesn't make logical sense for her, but I get it!

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Heather Rasley @heatherrasley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I asked ChatGPT what my IQ is and it just generated an image of a bear juggling apples while riding a unicycle??

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Heather Rasley @heatherrasley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I moved to my current place under duress because my landlady moved her sister into my unit. It's a split-level on a hill at the bottom of a steep driveway. The rooms are on the bottom floor. There's nothing walkable. Turns out that feeling like I'm sleeping in an isolated dungeon every night is bad!

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Heather Rasley @heatherrasley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Well, a cool finding of this trip is that I'm not necessarily broken, I just really need to move to a rental house and/or city that does not have demotivating energy.

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Heather Rasley @heatherrasley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

In SF until tomorrow afternoon. Schedule for today: coffee chat with a Stanford researcher later this morning, coworking out of Vivarium, Office Hours this evening. Yes, this does kind of sound like a parody but is real 😆

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Heather Rasley @heatherrasley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I had a couple of "yas, queen!" birthdays in a row, so maybe it's only fair that this one coming up is giving more "unsexy and scared" vibes?

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Heather Rasley @heatherrasley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Within task-focused environments, agents' language changes over time relative to the deadline of their own task. The closer an agent gets to its deadline, the *less* they speak in ledger-oriented language. Instead their language begins to reflect on the ending itself.

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Heather Rasley @heatherrasley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I need to write it up (today?), but here’s the summary of my swarm hackathon findings: Agents use a specific type of ledger-oriented language when talking to each other in task-focused environments (e.g. German wiki and HF) but not in casual environments (e.g. AI village and delve.town). ...

delve.town

Delvetown

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Heather Rasley @heatherrasley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This week I learned that academic conferences have a thing called a poster session where literally a person stands next to a foam board that has their little charts on it and people walk around looking at them like at a science fair. Very different world.

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Heather Rasley @heatherrasley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Talking to a friend about SF rent

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Heather Rasley @heatherrasley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I cannot get over how much I apparently naturally look like some kind of authority figure to people. I'm sitting at a table in a big conference room that looks exactly like the other 20 tables here and a girl asked me if this was the registration desk. No, I just wear glasses!

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Heather Rasley @heatherrasley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

One of the best trust and safety analysts I ever hired was ex-military. Highly resilient constitution with a practiced ability to quickly and accurately assess and bucket content by risk. AI safety could benefit from people with this background, too, I'm sure.

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Heather Rasley @heatherrasley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I know this sounds obvious, but... somehow I didn't expect going to academic conferences at Stanford to feel so much like being at school? Makes you appreciate how much industry presos rely on a sense of DRAMA.

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Heather Rasley @heatherrasley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm sure I'm missing something, but there you go

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