iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Colin M. Henry @henryhenryhenry.com · 4h

look, i've discovered an x-risk that doesn't require me presupposing digital God. unfortunately, it's deeply conventional and boring (mad emperor in thrall to scheming vizier).

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zeu @zeu.dev · 6h

WEET, THEY CALL POSTS WEETS

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Colin M. Henry @henryhenryhenry.com · 6h

at least if you're mucking horse stalls you get some exercise and the horse doesn't threaten to beat you with hammers

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Colin M. Henry @henryhenryhenry.com · 6h

working in Trust and Safety is some thankless bullshit, i gotta say

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Colin M. Henry @henryhenryhenry.com · 7h

and you don't actually have to live this way, spinning out about "signals" and "priors" and so on. you can just vibe, eat a burrito, read a book, enjoy the ecstatic truth of human existence. i promise there's no loving God condemning you to hellfire for failing to optimize your updating strategy.

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Colin M. Henry @henryhenryhenry.com · 7h

"this guy sucks and is weird" is an actual argument, it's just that when you think Bayesian updating is the pinnacle of the human experience your brain is too stunted to comprehend anything else

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Marco @mcognetta.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🚨 [Token][ization] Paper Alert 🚨 Tokenization is a wildly understudied area of language modeling despite it having effects across all of NLP. Over the past ~8 months, 32 (!) tokenizer researchers put together the most comprehensive survey of the field. Check it out!

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Colin M. Henry @henryhenryhenry.com · 30/09/2026

relatedly if anyone has billions of dollars and a desire to replace airplanes with rigid airships, i will devote my life to helping you

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Colin M. Henry @henryhenryhenry.com · 30/09/2026

next week is Balloon Fiesta in Albuquerque, where thousands of people will get up at 4am to watch lighter than air flight while eating green chile burritos. I for one will continue to dream of the coming dirigible air travel revolution.

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Colin M. Henry @henryhenryhenry.com · 30/09/2026

posts like this are a quintessential genre on modern social media: divisive Linkedln-aesthetic nonsense meant to provoke intra-community conflict. they communicate essentially no information and are more socially corrosive than even the basest hate speech.

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Colin M. Henry @henryhenryhenry.com · 30/09/2026

this is specifically what Twitter was re-engineered to do, btw. it exists almost solely to threaten anyone at the flashpoint of a nascent social movement.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Contrary to this op-ed, we don't actually have to give up on papers! New in @chronicle.com How to Assign Research Papers Again Three ways to counter AI and restore confidence in the integrity of student writing www.chronicle.com/article/how-...

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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I wrote for @thecut.com about the Cornell case and what it says that, at my institution and many others like it, protesters are often punished more harshly than sexual assailants www.thecut.com/article/what...

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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now

As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.

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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...

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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now

As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.

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Colin M. Henry @henryhenryhenry.com · 31/10/2025

maybe so! i've been meaning to see it since so much was filmed in my home base of Albuquerque.

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Colin M. Henry @henryhenryhenry.com · 27/10/2025

I'll be damned if that isn't a harbinger of things to come

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Colin M. Henry @henryhenryhenry.com · 27/10/2025

Definitely that and a disinterest in/fear of the pedagogy of teaching research methods, which an outsider with a bit of pathos might salve

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