iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 18h

Hamilton is briefly mentioned in my upcoming book “Complexity and Emergence” — she programmed the computer simulations that inspired Edward Lorenz to found modern chaos theory.

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 19h

Ms Hamilton coined the term “software engineering”.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 17h

This picture will always be iconic. RIP Margaret Hamilton who wrote the software that successfully guided NASA’s Apollo missions through the moon.

Margaret Hamilton with printed computer code in 1969. Credit: NASA/Alamy

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 22h

In our Calling Bullshit course we have a whole lecture about this sort of slop. At least the MIT Sloan Management Review has higher production values.

The Elements of a Meaningfulness Ecosystem fake Venn diagram from the MIT Sloan Management Review

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Gander Social @gandersocial.ca · 26/09/2026

Running dark mode through its paces. Or, as one member of the Gander team described it: “The cozy kind of dark mode.” Right in time for fall.

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Gander Social @gandersocial.ca · 25/09/2026

Groups are coming to Gander. (Once we are done testing them). Open and invite-only communities + cozier spaces for your closest people. They'll even be able to share into the main Gander feed. We’re following the ATProto Spaces alpha design, interop groups are the goal.

Mock-up of the Gander Groups interface showing the “Buy Nothing Canmore” public group. The page lists 3.2K members and 43.7K posts, with a description inviting Canmore neighbours to give away and find free items. Below, a group post offers a solid wood coffee table for free pickup.

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Leah (Orctoberfest era) @lja.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026

Dark mode and MUTE WORDS are now live in the Gandershire! 🪿🐦‍⬛✨

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Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Space Unicorns! SPOOKY SEASON is here again! Uncanny Magazine Issue 72 Part 2 is LIVE ON YOUR INTERNET! buff.ly/39JTYSQ

The cover for Uncanny Magazine Issue 72, "Fluid" by Galen Dara: A femme-coded being stares at us with light and dark blue-green skin and red lips. A read heart-shaped organ is in front of her chest with white tendrils and green sprouts and roots with drops of red and a couple of many-red-petaled flowers. Surrounding her are splashes ofyellow, yellow-green, orange, pink, and green-blue and large similar many-red-petaled flowers. In white text is the "Uncanny" banner, "September/October 2026," Issue Seventy-Two," and the artist, writer, essayist, poets, and Uncanny staff credits.

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Polling Canada @canadianpolling.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Ontario - "What is the most important reason to support the ALTO project?" Speed/Time savings compared to VIA: 13% Provides new train service: 13% Canada doesn't have high-speed rail: 12% Traffic congestion reduction: 11% Jobs/economic opportunities: 9% Others: 42% Mainstreet / Sept 29, 2026

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 05/10/2026

I'm honored to be opening the Association of Research Libraries 189th meeting this morning in Arlington, VA with an address entitled "Information Foraging in the Digital World".

Silhouettes of airport passengers walking through a hallway with a sea-green background.

"How have we evolved to relate to information? How have our information technologies evolved in turn?"

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Didi is a trans immigrant 🏳️‍⚧️ @didichanoch.northsky.social · 03/10/2026

You know where you can find this book in Winnipeg! (It's at Other Places Books)

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Leah (Orctoberfest era) @lja.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026

It's a beautiful day in the neighbourhood 🍂

A selfie of the OP wearing new glasses and a green track jacket on a sunny day with foliage in the background.

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Leah (Orctoberfest era) @lja.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026

My dream of going on a roadtrip and seeing my beautiful-ass country is within grasp. I need to go east first, I've been west. Then, maybe if I can figure it out, north?

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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow

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Leah (Orctoberfest era) @lja.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

Been broke for so long and it feels so good to be able to splurge again on a knowledge haul for my little resource library. I have more works I want (I no longer live near an academic/research library) but these were long-overdue additions for me:

The Art of Insight: How great visualization designers think by Alberto Cairo

Living in Data: A citizen's guide to a better information future by Jer Thorp

Building Science Graphics: An illustrated guide to communicating science through diagrams and visualizations by Jen Christiansen

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paulseesequasis @pseesequasis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Named by my late aunt Ruth Seesequasis.

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paulseesequasis @pseesequasis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

35) Stella Mike, 36) Clara Bird, 37) Edna Sauve, 38) Victoria Baldhead, 39) Gladys Meechett, 40) Alice Gamble, 41) Philomene Ichmakew, 42) Marie Therese Reentach, 43) Mary Anne Seeyapussum, 44) Marie Therese Paul, 45) Irene Prosper

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paulseesequasis @pseesequasis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Madeline Sutherland, 22) Grace Seesequasis, 23) - Badger, 24) --, 25) Mary Josephine Greyeyes, 26) Flora Greyeyes, 27) Helen Peeteetuce, 28) Antoinette Arcand, 29) Clemenie Arcand, 30) Francoise Wichikan, 31) Marie Redwing, 32) Gertrude Greyeyes, 33) Esther Greyeyes, 34) Annie Bear,

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paulseesequasis @pseesequasis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Morrisette, 😎 Elizabeth Constant, 9) Irene Dunn, 10) Helen Ledous, 11) Anais Prosper, 12) Henritte Napope, 13) Florence Peeteetuce, 14) Jospehine Ledoux, 15) Florence Bird, 16) Mary Rose Seeseequasis, 17) Alice McDonald, 18) Nancy Gardipy, 19) Victoria Dunn, 20) Cecile Redwing, 21)

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paulseesequasis @pseesequasis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

On #OrangeShirtDay paying respect to generations of my family and kin who went to St. Michael’s Residential School ~ 1931. Duck Lake, Sask ~ 1) Maggie Bird, 2) Mary Rose Naytowhow (My Kokum), 3) Ada Wolfe, 4) Philomene Peeteetuce, 5) Dorothy Eyahpaise, 6) Mary Anne Seesequasis, 7) Veronique

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paulseesequasis @pseesequasis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Studio portrait of a father and child taken in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan around late 1920s, early 1930s. Almost certainly Chief Joseph Dreaver (WWI veteran, Military Medal recipient, and Indigenous leader), other photos match his appearance as a young man, of Big River First Nation. The child

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Leah (Orctoberfest era) @lja.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

I poured all of my angst into a plate and covered it with pastry.

Three glamour shots of an apple pie on a black stovetop.

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Leah (Orctoberfest era) @lja.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

A fascinating thread on masculine-coding in meat sandwich ads in Korea. Before you laugh remember that here we package sodium lauryl sulfate products in silvers and blacks and print "men" on them so that soap will seem masculine.

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paulseesequasis @pseesequasis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The utter brilliance of Chee Chee’s minimalism: ‘When I draw fish or birds or animals they have no symbolic meaning from the past. For me they are animals of the present and I draw them because I like their clean lines and beautiful shapes.” - Temagami artist Benjamin Chee Chee (1944-1977)

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paulseesequasis @pseesequasis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Paris today. The Firefighters arrive. More national strike actions this week in France. Images: Rémy Buisine

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

We desperately need much stronger disclosure, norms in academic publishing and we need publishers to step up their game in enforcing them.

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John Sundman @jsundman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I haven't read the WIRED story, but I do know one small part of what Borsook has been doing over the last 26 years: She's been deeply involved with all 3 issues of In Formation magazine. (I was part of #3, which revived the mag after a 25-year nap.)1/ johnsundman.substack.com/p/silicon-va...

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Silicon Valley über alles

Every day, computers are making people easier to use

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 26/09/2026

My top 4 Crow Full Moon shots tonight. P L E N T Y of video to edit someday! 🪶 🐦‍⬛

a crow flies in front of the moon, greyish sky, the crow is flapping their wings down

two crows fly in front and near the moon, in the middle and the bottom left, a snowy egret is out of focus below the moon, greyish sky

a crow flies in front of the moon, dark sky, the crow is flapping their wings up but not fully extended

a crow flies in front of the moon, dark purple sky, the crow is in full cruise mode

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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026

This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects. Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it. apnews.com/article/open...

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https://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d

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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026

Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.

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404 Media @404media.co · 22/09/2026

SCOOP: Meta execs announced that its much-hyped AI agent, Muse, had a new feature: It could call businesses for you to do things like make a restaurant reservation or a haircut appointment. In reality, Meta is testing having these calls being made by human beings in call centers, 404 Media learned.

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Meta Tests Muse AI Agent Calls That Are Actually Made By Humans in a Call Center

"This has potential for so much negative PR. It could portray us as ‘their AI is not good enough so they still need humans’ kind of coverage for this launch."

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Le Devoir @ledevoir.com · 23/09/2026

Le duo picoté récolte aussi le prix Polaris de la chanson, décerné en partenariat avec la SOCAN.

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Angine de Poitrine remporte le prix de musique Polaris

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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

🌊 Ocean acidification has now joined the list of exceeded planetary boundaries. That makes 7 of 9. These are interconnected Earth-system pressures, collectively eroding resilience and shrinking humanity’s safe operating space. www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...

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Gander Social @gandersocial.ca · 20/09/2026

Chef's kiss (as usual).

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Gwen Marshall @drgwenmarshall.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The Onion ran this amazing article and thought, I wanna play this! So I made it! 38 pps, PbtA, plus every mechanic mentioned in the article, and a bunch of Rodrigo song references. And it's free! Enjoy! #OliviaRodrigo @theonion.com #theonion #ttrpg #itch.io drgwenmarshall.itch.io/high-winter-...

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High Winter Elves of Girlville by Gwen Marshall

A satirical game based on an Onion article about Olivia Rodrigo making a TTRPG!

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Gander Social @gandersocial.ca · 17/09/2026

Well worth a minute of your time to watch this. This is pretty much why there’s a Gander. A quick note on "sovereignty" in the context of this speech: We want to be governed by Canadian law. We don’t want the power of government. Nobody elected us.

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

AI policy is only considered in these terms because of the vast intellectual influence of Yudkowsky specifically, and because, downstream of him, a neurotic or religious obsession with AI doom is the primary means by which people engage with these concepts.

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This industry frames its regulations in this way because it has, at its core, a millenarian death cult that worships and fears AI as the cause of the end of the world, that feels compelled to create AI, and that at least somewhat wants to destroy AI as a field.

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

No other industry has ever framed any regulation in terms of "stop", "pause", or "slow down". Those are insane ways to consider any form of policy. Policy should prevent bad outcomes and encourage good ones, it is never about some specific speed.

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

There are many regulations I would be in favor of, but they only ever want to form a cartel or a world government against the paperclipper.

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Also: Much of AI research IS medical research. They are very literally proposing to stop a pretty good chunk of medical research in its tracks so that they don't have to fear the paperclipper.

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Leah (Orctoberfest era) @lja.eurosky.social · 20/09/2026

The rabbit hole thread about rationalist cults you didn't know you needed 👇

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Leah (Orctoberfest era) @lja.eurosky.social · 20/09/2026

Do you wanna gamble? Do you wanna truck? Do you wanna gamble, tho? How about gambling in a new truck? Do you want a truck with a slot machine installed in the dashboard? Do you want to drink? Do you want to drink and gamble while in your truck? Do you have a criminal record? - YouTube, constantly

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Leah (Orctoberfest era) @lja.eurosky.social · 17/09/2026

And good evening from serene, unbothered, and free Canada ♥️

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