iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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John Herrman @jwherrman.bsky.social · 20h

not to downplay what my math friends are going through but I think this metaphor applies to so much of modern life for so many people www.quantamagazine.org/is-ai-the-en...

It's as if you were teleported to the peak of a tall mountain. Surrounded by fog, you have no idea where you are, or what's around you. You do not know how your mountain connects to others, and you have no equipment to help you explore, no way to help someone else join you. If you had climbed the mountain yourself, you would have experienced how the human body adapts to altitude and changes in oxygen levels. You might have had to invent tools to navigate, to climb steep cliffs, or to make a shelter. You might have encountered a fellow explorer, gotten lost together in a hidden valley, and found a plant that could be turned into a life-saving medicine.
Instead you're perched on the peak but in the dark, while the maker of the teleportation machine tells you that it can explore the wilderness better than any human.

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending

a graph of roadway and mass transit lights

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I Need a Cocktail @iantuck.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My company was built around C++ Builder decades ago. I'm so glad there are other developers out there trying to figure out how to make it fully integrated with the current C++ clang open-source movement. Thanks, Volker Hillman!

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How Exotic Is C++Builder 13?

C++Builder is often treated as something of an exotic species within the wider C++ world. Sometimes that is said with a smile, sometimes quite seriously.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.

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AgonyFlips @agonyflips.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

When you're ticked off and a friend sends you something to make you feel better. 🐑🔊

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Cycle Toronto @cycletoronto.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Ontario Society Of Professional Engineers (OSPE) continues to speak out against the province's reckless and arbitrary scheme to rip out 19 km of protected bike lanes. Now will engineering firms heed this message before bidding on Ontario's RFP?

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OSPE Statement: Where Things Stand on Bill 212 and Toronto's Bike Lanes

Explore the OSPE Statement on Bill 212 and its impact on Toronto's bike lanes and transportation planning.

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I Need a Cocktail @iantuck.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

#TIFF Movie #5 - The Spiral - 5/10 I dunno, man. After the way Obsession blew-up last year after its screening at Midnight Madness, I don't know that they needed to schedule yet *another* Monkey's Paw type horror, albeit more of a psychological one. I had high hopes for this one nonetheless, but ...

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I Need a Cocktail @iantuck.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

#TIFF Movie #4 - The Beloved (7/10) I really enjoyed this character study about a long-estranged father (Javier Bardem) and his daughter (a compelling Victoria Luengo) by an actress who worked in a film he had directed. You could see this movie just for the first scene of their rapprochement.

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I Need a Cocktail @iantuck.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

#TIFF movie #3 - Dorothy (7/10) THIS is why I love @tiffnet.bsky.social. I get to see a movie from a culture I don't understand very well, in Tamil, using film conventions and vocabulary that I'm almost completely unfamiliar with, and yet I walk out knowing I'm going to think about it for days.

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I Need a Cocktail @iantuck.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

#TIFF movie No. 2 - Being Heumann. (8/10) Director Siân Heder follows up her Oscar-winning movie CODA with this fantastic biopic about Judy Heumann and her diverse band of collaborators protesting to bring about accessibility legislation in America in the mid 70's.

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I Need a Cocktail @iantuck.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

#TIFF2026 Movie No. 1 - Salvation. (6/10) Tom Nicoll's 1st feature-length film about a purposeless young man who takes a short MLM-style course on becoming a life coach and goes all-in on his new venture really speaks to the current manosphere/influencer economy.

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I Need a Cocktail @iantuck.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The stories of that day are so often of the (authentically!!) heroic efforts of first responders saving civilians, but there are so many stories of individual bravery that I'd never heard of in the intervening 25 years. Incredible stuff.

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Matt Blair @mjmbca.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Everybody’s going to make “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)” jokes about this, and rightly so, but allow me to me the one guy saying “I'm on my way from bigotry to irrelevance today, Ah-hah (Ah-hah), ah-hah (Ah-hah).”

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Daniel Reynolds @akareynolds.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Science Centre laying off entire science department.

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I Need a Cocktail @iantuck.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I heard someone describe Diet Coke as "fridge cigs" the other day and well I never.

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I Need a Cocktail @iantuck.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Essential reading, from The New York Times no less. Occasionally they let one slip through. Susan Faludi w/a trenchant perspective on the fate of women under this administration's policies.

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Opinion | The Barbie Backlash (Gift Article)

‘The Odyssey’ and ‘Barbie’ show a zeitgeist shift that goes beyond Hollywood: The hero’s narrative is corroding our political and public life.

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Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Republicans have spent the last year trying to defund Dolly Parton

article about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Indiana

article about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Kentucky

article about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Missouri

iarticle about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Washington

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I Need a Cocktail @iantuck.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is excellent. And it would be nice to have it liaise with a single department responsible for any work that would require the tearing up of transportation lanes. We don't need more bureaucracy, we just need it allocated in better ways. #ToPoli

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OP-ED: Can Toronto give itself a green light? - Spacing Toronto

This op-ed launches our pre-election discussions of key issues ahead of Toronto’s October 26 municipal election. Our election issue will be published later in September. On an icy day last December, M...

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com

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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.

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Steffani Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I had no idea CBC had an app for learning French that uses real shows and stuff to help with learning it. One way to ensure Canada protects French is if we all make an effort to truly be bilingual — and we can make Quebec feel like we understand their struggle too. “Mauril” app from CBC:

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I Need a Cocktail @iantuck.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

One of the best ways for the rest of the world to support Canada right now would be to shift some of their buying of the affected commodities (softwood lumber, electronics, aluminum, steel) to Canada, or to offer us well-priced products that we usually buy from the US.

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I Need a Cocktail @iantuck.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Trust an Australian to tell it like it is.

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I Need a Cocktail @iantuck.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This was a pleasant distraction. Torontonians sharing things that have gotten *better* in this city over the last 5 years. Anyone have others? #ToPoli

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From the askTO community on Reddit

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I Need a Cocktail @iantuck.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I....had no idea. This entire thread is mind-boggling.

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Robert Zaichkowski @rzaichkowski.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Awesome news while on vacation! The federal government has delivered a defeat to Doug Ford by grounding the Billy Bishop Airport expansion! Thanks @normsworld.bsky.social of #NoJetsTO and others for mobilizing on this matter! #TOpoli #ONpoli #cdnpoli www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

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Federal government grounds Billy Bishop airport expansion

The just-concluded public survey suggested strong public opposition to the project, according to a federal government official.

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I Need a Cocktail @iantuck.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

They should have played this on the Plains of Abraham.

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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

England and France are only playing for third place, but the winner does get to reclaim the North American fur trade

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I Need a Cocktail @iantuck.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Have any of the MLB All-Stars promised to win the home run Derby for Lindsey Graham?

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

*pinches bridge of nose, eyes closed, takes a deep breath* so do we have ANY idea how many living US Senators there are right now?

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I Need a Cocktail @iantuck.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

This is incredible. I'm not generally in favour of humanoid robots, because I think the only reason to build them in human form is ego. But now that I've seen this, I'm not so sure. If the robot can adapt to our existing environment, Iit fast tracks adoption. www.1x.tech/discover/neo...

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NEO’s Hands | An API to the Physical World

We're an AI and robotics company based in Palo Alto, California. We create safe humanoid robots that do your chores and offer personalized assistance.

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I Need a Cocktail @iantuck.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

After the way the panel shat all over Canada when they got knocked out in this round, I'll be interested to hear what they say about this game. I'm sure it won't be near the same.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Very thankful for this letter to Becky Pepper-Jackson (the 16 year-old trans girl SCOTUS ruled against yesterday) from James Dale, a gay man whose expulsion from the Boy Scouts was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2000.

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To the Trans Girl Who Just Lost at the Supreme Court: So Did I 26 Years Ago

A letter to Becky Pepper Jackson about her trans sports case defeat at SCOTUS yesterday

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I Need a Cocktail @iantuck.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Nothing says "let's bring the world together in competitive sport" than Alexi Lalas shit-talking the Canadian coach and Landon Donovan smugly downplaying the MNT's accomplishment while a bunch of fans dressed like MAGA in the background scream "USA! USA!"

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Dennis @dennisf.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

@netw3rk.bsky.social Heard y’all talking about the residential proxy thing on this week’s pod. That problem is *massive*. Millions and millions of hacked home routers, IoT devices etc. Google and other security firms are tracking/disrupting them. cloud.google.com/blog/topics/...

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Google’s Continued Disruption of Malicious Residential Proxy Networks | Google Cloud Blog

Google disrupted the NetNut malicious residential proxy network, protecting over 2 million hijacked consumer devices from cybercriminals.

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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

The price of eggs—the thing that launched a thousand vibecession headlines… was a lie.

The federal government began its investigation as the average wholesale price of a dozen eggs in the United States reached a record high of about $6.23 in March 2025, exacerbated by an avian flu outbreak and elevated fuel, feed and packaging costs.
"No product more quintessentially represents affordability than the price Americans pay for eggs," Stanley E.
Woodward Jr., the associate attorney general, said in a statement on Tuesday.
Investigators said the companies conspired from June 2022 to March 2025 to limit the production of eggs so they would not meet demand and then placed a high volume of bids with the Egg Clearinghouse Inc., a national egg exchange, to drive up prices.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Mamdani and Trump giving speeches on the same day where Zohran will be like “the philosopher George Santayana once said that To be an American is of itself almost a moral condition, an education, and a career” and Trump will be like “Keebler Elves…they live in a tree and they make food, yes they do”

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I Need a Cocktail @iantuck.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

BlueSky has the juice, man. I can finally get sports here, Kawhi trades, fake Beastie Boys lyrics and 99% less nazis.

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