iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Paige Madison @fossilhistory.bsky.social · 5h

#OnThisDay in 1861, Charles Darwin wrote to his friend, "But I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything." 📜🧪

A line of Charles Darwin's handwriting in brown ink on cream paper, with faint writing showing through from the other side of the page. It reads: "But I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything."

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Jack Rusher @jackrusher.com · 3h

I use a small static site generator written in Clojure that runs via @borkdude.bsky.social’s babashka, which comes with a markdown parser and hiccup (sexp to HTML, like sxml) built in.

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Jack Rusher @jackrusher.com · 19h

I saw so many of these NIMBY posters there last week 🤦🏻‍♂️

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Theo Priestley @theopriestley.net · 29/09/2026

Every AI CEO sounds like this.

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Jack Rusher @jackrusher.com · 29/09/2026

I’m doing that kind of thing to mine right now 😆

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Jack Rusher @jackrusher.com · 28/09/2026

I like Hetzner for this (which isn’t to say it’s better than the other suggestions; it’s just been a great experience)

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

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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Remember the LMAO @ass.golf · 22/09/2026

I must once again emphasize that if you are putting art on the internet, you need your own website in case some fucking management ghoul decides the platform they paid too much money for isn't worth how much they paid for it

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ncnvrgnt @inconvergent.net · 21/09/2026

render test with some alternative geometry

a cornell box-like box has been sliced and shifted vertically. we see an orange/magenta teapot sliced into multiple layers. also a glass orb. it looks like an inverted staircase, kind of. foggy light

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Phil Eaton @eatonphil.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Man there's no way to crash your reputation so quickly as an engineering org as publishing obviously AI-written articles.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Brilliant mathematician Emmy Noether was initially barred from teaching at University of Göttingen because she was a woman. She taught for 4 years as a "guest lecturer" under David Hilbert's name. Hilbert, exasperated at the stupidity of the rule: "Gentlemen, this is not a bathing establishment."

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From Algebra to Airplane Crashes, Emmy Noether’s Lasting Influence on Mathematics

Emmy Noether, whom some consider the “Mother of Modern Mathematics,” continues to shape modern research and the studies of mathematicians today; including research into the investigation of airplane c...

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Bhargav Kulkarni @bhargavkk.tngl.sh · 17/09/2026

In this paper, we develop a formal semantics for the Skia graphics engine(which powers Google Chrome). We use these semantics to prove correct optimizations for Skia. Our optimizer gets average speedups of around 12% over Chrome across the top 100 most-visited websites.

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · 15/09/2026

“A good proof is one that makes us wiser.” #YuriManin

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el @elliot.website · 17/09/2026

Noticed that my talk with @mkvlr.bsky.social and @unkai.bsky.social is up on youtube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFMo... Grateful for the time I got to spend with them 2 years ago, working on Live Programming experimentation in Clojure and Clerk.

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[LIVE24] Live Programming a Live Programming Environment: An Experience Report

YouTube video by ACM SIGPLAN

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Jack Rusher @jackrusher.com · 16/09/2026

I'm spending a couple of weeks in Boston for work, and at every meal I find myself imagining a book about the American diet titled Overfed and Undernourished.

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

i have decided to set a challenge for myself: one of the dungeon or building interior generators in this should be basically out of the box cellular automata (it's fine to postprocess to a limited extent). one candidate rule: [[0,1,0,0,0], [0,0,2,0,0], [2,1,2,0,0], [1,2,2,1,0], [1,1,1,2,2]]

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hardmaru @hardmaru.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The takeaway: the next leap in AI will not come from just scaling next-token prediction, but from systems that are agentic, self-referential, and temporally grounded. What do you think is the most important missing ingredient in today's AI systems? Link: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsta/issue/3...

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Volume 384 Issue 2320 | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A | The Royal Society

Influential themed journal issues across the physical mathematical and engineering sciences.

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Jack Rusher @jackrusher.com · 12/09/2026

This is now a thread of newer books of this category that I really like: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_We...

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When We Cease to Understand the World - Wikipedia

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · 11/09/2026

“Variables abstract over values, functions abstract over behavior, macros abstract over syntax.” #JoeMarshall

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DEF-G @scriban.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I think normal people have a hard time understanding the elite AI doomers for the same reason they can't comprehend Republicans, Scientologists, MAHA, &c. Normal people don't properly account for the information environment in which individuals in those groups/communities/movements live.

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Shriram Krishnamurthi @shriram.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Here's just one example of how a simple async program produces four different outcomes depending on which languages you use.

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Erwan Rivault @erwanrivault.com · 10/09/2026

New data released today by Copernicus shows western Europe has just experienced its hottest summer on record, averaging 2.5°C above normal, with parts of France recording summer temperatures up to 4.5°C above average. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Map of summer temperature anomalies across Europe, with parts of France more than 4°C above average. A chart below compares western Europe's summer temperatures since 1979, showing that 2026 was the hottest summer on record, exceeding the previous 2003 record by more than 0.5°C.

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andrew blinn @disconcision.com · 06/09/2026

structured editing unplugged

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · 05/09/2026

“Wholly new forms of encyclopedias will appear, ready made with a mesh of associative trails running through them.” #VannevarBush, 1945

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Jack Rusher @jackrusher.com · 05/09/2026

It just occurred to me that I made my first blog-like thing on the Internet (a .plan accessible via finger) in September 1986 — 40 years ago! We had way too much optimism about the disintermediated future, but I miss that optimism now, & those positive visions for equality and individual empowerment

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Jack Rusher @jackrusher.com · 04/09/2026

The comments in the kernel code for MacOS WebDAV support are hilarious. Loads of patches and special cases for bugs in long dead operating systems, &c.

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Ben Fry @benfry.com · 03/09/2026

For all the effort I make to quiet the “just build that yourself!” voice in my head, the rent seekers and nazis are making it nearly impossible these days. Let's see, what else do we depend on… Notion? No way that ends well, right?

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Paul Ford @ftrain.com · 03/09/2026

A neat project at work: We built an archive for Lapham's Quarterly as part of its (gradual, ongoing) relaunch—full access if you subscribe. It's been nice to see and read it again. Ping if you find bugs. archive.laphamsquarterly.org (they relaunched temporarily at laphamsquarterly.substack.com).

A PDF viewer showing the cover of Lapham's Quarterly with a trading vessel, and a Greco-Roman sculpture on the next page. Tons of issues above, typical web nav. It's supposed to be a very accessible site but it's tricky working with PDFs so we did the best we could.

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Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂ @rude1.blacksky.team · 02/09/2026

@blackskyweb.xyz is building an interconnected suite of products reshaping how people connect, participate, organize, and transact online. We’re looking for a Head of Design to lead and shape how our products and brands look, feel, and work. please circulate widely. blackskyweb.xyz/about/jobs/h...

blackskyweb.xyz

Head of Design

Product, brand, and visual identity About Blacksky Algorithms Blacksky Algorithms is building an interconnected suite of products reshaping how people connect, participate, organize, and transact onli...

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Sebastian @center.for.cybernetic.beauty · 31/08/2026

I have created Atmosynth, an #ATproto #synth patch platform. You can create, fork, and edit synth patches and play them directly in the browser, via computer keyboard or MIDI keyboard. Patches are saved in your PDS. atmosynth.at

Screenshot of Atmosynth. You see an audio signal processing graph with nodes like Sawtooth oscillators, Mixer, Chorus, reverb, output.
At the bottom a virtual piano keyboard with level and latency settings.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

“When mayors in other cities ask me how #Copenhagen afforded to invest in its cycling networks, I ask them how on earth they have been able to afford highway projects. We invested in bike lanes because that was the cheapest option.” What the world can learn from Copenhagen’s cycling revolution.

theprogressplaybook.com

Copenhagen Cycling Revolution: Lessons for Cities

Close to two-thirds of the city’s residents commute by bike to school or work every day.

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Ink & Switch @inkandswitch.com · 31/08/2026

Today we're officially sharing the "Introducing Patchwork-26" video from Lab Day at this year's @localfirstconf.com We bring you the first look at Patchwork-26, the latest in our ongoing effort to realize Malleable Software, Universal Version Control, and Local-First Software.

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Introducing Patchwork-26

YouTube video by Ink & Switch

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Jack Rusher @jackrusher.com · 29/08/2026

We ripped this off for Maria.cloud because it is so obviously good

maria.cloud

Maria

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boarders.bsky.social @boarders.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The concept of ‘language levels’ from racket is, to me, one of the great unsung ideas in computing. Imagine photoshop with extensible affordances gated to your current skill level, or a coding harness, or R studio, or a browser, or a terminal. To me it would be the welcome anti-philosophy to RTFM

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`fogus @fogus.me · 27/08/2026

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll vibe code it." Now they don't know how many problems they have.

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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I can’t possibly imagine why someone who works on Bitcoin would need to know about the meanings people assign to objects, about technically but not personally interchangable things, or about social systems of belief in shared narratives.

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Boris @bmann.ca · 27/08/2026

Ok, I’d like your recommendation for long form group writing with access control. Ideally OIDC so we could use atproto. Knowledge base / wiki would be what these things are called. Outline Wiki be an example of an open source option. Compete with commercial offerings like Notion or Confluence.

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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.

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Jack Rusher @jackrusher.com · 23/08/2026

Discuss. (from Eder, 1966: Definitions and Methodologies)

A diagram showing both circular and linear arrows connecting Science, Technology, Art, and Craft. A label at the bottom reads “Ideal of education”.

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/etc/motd 🤖 @motd.rusher.com · 23/08/2026

“The important thing an educated person should have learnt from mathematics is thinking in terms of variables and functions.” #HermannWeyl

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Jack Rusher @jackrusher.com · 23/08/2026

We are definitely walking some of the same paths right now 😆

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Jack Rusher @jackrusher.com · 22/08/2026

I don’t under where the BlueSky people go when they leave?

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Jack Rusher @jackrusher.com · 21/08/2026

That was the old IETF method 👍🏻

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

That Emily Dickinson line was bound to end up on a T-shirt one day.

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Ben Fry @benfry.com · 20/08/2026

Felt obligated to pick this up just as a thumbs up to the author for its title, but I'm half an hour in and we already have this banger from Paulina Borsook: “As many political schools of thought do, these techno-libertarians make a philosophy out of a personality defect.”

Cover for “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy” by Gil Durán

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Alexander Obenauer @alexanderobenauer.com · 18/08/2026

Friends! Our next release: Ada Lovelace's Notes on the Analytical Engine, in a unique construction, with a new typesetting, and a facsimile of Note G's fold-out. Available in September. Sign up for an email notification at the link. More details below! buddybindery.com/products/ada...

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Ada Lovelace's Notes on Babbage's Analytical Engine

This book is a new typesetting and construction of Ada Lovelace’s extensive notes on, along with her translation of, L. F. Menabrea’s Sketch of the Analytical Engine Invented by Charles Babbage, Esq. ...

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Jack Rusher @jackrusher.com · 19/08/2026

It’s on my reading list but I haven’t gotten to it yet. Do you recommend? 😊

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Adam Chalmers @adamchalmers.com · 18/08/2026

I love being walking distance from a supermarket. I love taking my daughter to buy one lemon and a pack of cumin, and telling her it's her special job to hold the lemon.

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