iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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arXiv @arxiv.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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Jacopo Bertolotti @jacopobertolotti.com · 01/10/2026

Can I introduce you to the concept of "enshittification"? (Here is where I would put a smile or wink to signify that I am saying this in good humour, but the situation is depressing enough that I can bring myself to do that. Sorry.)

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Jacopo Bertolotti @jacopobertolotti.com · 01/10/2026

Just discovered you with this post (thanks @gleefulgecko.com for sharing!) They all look like a ton of fun. I now know where to buy birthday gifts for my painting friends 😃

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Dulwich Quantum Computing @dulwichquantum.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

When everyone decides to post their paper on arXiv on the same day to ensure maximum visibility for their work.

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Jacopo Bertolotti @jacopobertolotti.com · 30/09/2026

What is with the EU and shooting themselves in the foot? Is that some kind of kink for the EU Commission? youtu.be/mQRcK9nYg9g

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This could legitimately end Stop Killing Games.

YouTube video by Stop Killing Games

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Jacopo Bertolotti @jacopobertolotti.com · 29/09/2026

As a rule, no reference letter is ever outright negative, so when you read one you must read between the lines. As a result, the more "personal" a letter is, the more I know whoever wrote it really meant it, while boilerplate letters have no value even if on the surface they are glorious.

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Jacopo Bertolotti @jacopobertolotti.com · 29/09/2026

"Do not threaten me with a good time."

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Jacopo Bertolotti @jacopobertolotti.com · 28/09/2026

One of my professors at Uni used to say that Physics works up to a 2Pi factor.

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Jacopo Bertolotti @jacopobertolotti.com · 28/09/2026

"I will definitely buy a pot of white." That is largely my feeling about the paint range too.

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Jacopo Bertolotti @jacopobertolotti.com · 28/09/2026

I thought GW made all space maids minis disappear! 😮

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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

'The University continues to make a sizeable surplus. What financial pressures exist are significantly due to spiralling depreciation from irresponsible capital spending.' University of Edinburgh Joint Unions Financial Working Group www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/blog/depreci...

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Depreciating the University of Edinburgh into the Ground — UCU Edinburgh

The University of Edinburgh has published its annual report for 2024-2025, including the audited financial statement. In this post, we dig deeper into why some of the University’s claims about expen...

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Jacopo Bertolotti @jacopobertolotti.com · 28/09/2026

Experimenting on both the skin and the axe. Not really satisfied by either, but trying out stuff is the whole point of experimenting 😉 #WH40k #MiniaturePainting #MiniPainting #ork #waaagh

Orc miniature painted with orange pieces of armor, a pale green skin, and an attempt to nmm on the axe.

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Jacopo Bertolotti @jacopobertolotti.com · 24/09/2026

I see a bucket of whey, and the only thing I can think of is how much delicious ricotta you could make 🤤

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Jacopo Bertolotti @jacopobertolotti.com · 24/09/2026

If the product you sell is behaving in a way that is non-conforming with your own specifications, is not conforming to the law, and is clearly doing damage, the bare minimum you should do is to recall said product and pay the damages.

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Jacopo Bertolotti @jacopobertolotti.com · 24/09/2026

I envision a near future where kids will just rediscover the ancient art of creating a online forum.

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is an important point. AI is not going rogue. It is behaving as it was designed to behave. The ones going rogue are the companies themselves who have violated norms, and are committing crimes daily from stealing IP to cybercrime. It did not have to be this way, but... Techbros.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon. many more here: www.newscientist.com/author/tom-gauld/

Image: A graph with lots of red dots clustered together in a curve. The are all looking upwards at a single red dot wearing sunglasses.

Caption: Mike was an outlier and would probably be excluded from the study, but all the other data points secretly thought he was really cool.

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Jacopo Bertolotti @jacopobertolotti.com · 23/09/2026

I thought my "microwave in the airplane starts emitting black smoke and the air company (japan airways) gives instructions on how to get to a hotel only in japanese" was bad, but this is on a whole different level!

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Jacopo Bertolotti @jacopobertolotti.com · 23/09/2026

I have proven 100 more theorems too! But they go to a different school, you wouldn't know them. /s

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Jacopo Bertolotti @jacopobertolotti.com · 22/09/2026

I follow you here and I follow you on Mastodon, but neither accounts seem to be a bridge.

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Jacopo Bertolotti @jacopobertolotti.com · 22/09/2026

The bag being shorter than the baguette is a feature not a bug, as it allows you to nibble at it while walking (never managed to bring a baguette home whole when I lived in Paris.)

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Jacopo Bertolotti @jacopobertolotti.com · 21/09/2026

Counter-point: aspic (properly prepared) is delicious. It is also a centuries old recipe.

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Jacopo Bertolotti @jacopobertolotti.com · 21/09/2026

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

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Jacopo Bertolotti @jacopobertolotti.com · 21/09/2026

This part is often omitted in popular science discussion of the Higgs field, and I think it should receive more attention.

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Jacopo Bertolotti @jacopobertolotti.com · 21/09/2026

To be fair, sewers are a very old technology (the Roman empire had them).

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Jacopo Bertolotti @jacopobertolotti.com · 18/09/2026

Vampiric clan where all members look like old grandmas, that give people tea, cookies and cake. Allowing them to take your blood is just a matter of being polite.

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EOS - European Optical Society @europeanoptics.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

📢 Make Your Voice Count in the Photonics21 Board of Stakeholders Election! Register as a voter by 21 September. This year, EOS Executive Director Elina Koistinen is a candidate. We encourage the photonics community to take part and help ensure EOS is represented. Learn more: tinyurl.com/mrp7xxt2

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Jacopo Bertolotti @jacopobertolotti.com · 18/09/2026

"Suffer from existential dread? Need to snap out of it? Try Skunk™! Now with a concentrated formulation and delivered directly to your door."

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Jacopo Bertolotti @jacopobertolotti.com · 14/09/2026

<Insert here my shocked face> (The moment they go public they need to declare how much money they are burning and how much in debt they are.) www.engadget.com/2256984/sam-...

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Sam Altman says OpenAI won't file for IPO this year - Engadget

OpenAI's CEO called it an “ill-advised moment to go public” in an interview with Fortune.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I wrote this quickly at a bus stop and didn't realize it would go viral, or else I would have worded it better. But the point is that the media is too credulous about AI killing everyone in 10 years (how?) when climate change is killing people now and will only get worse (we know exactly how).

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Jacopo Bertolotti @jacopobertolotti.com · 11/09/2026

Us Linux users had the ability to completely brick our computer by pasting the wrong line in the shell for decades! /s

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Jacopo Bertolotti @jacopobertolotti.com · 11/09/2026

Correction: The record labels never wanted to fight AI. They always wanted a cut.

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Jacopo Bertolotti @jacopobertolotti.com · 11/09/2026

Is this character a AI? If it is they should still use a human actor (or have we forgotten Glados?), but at least the joke would make some level of sense.

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Jacopo Bertolotti @jacopobertolotti.com · 11/09/2026

I have met my fair share of *extremely* religious people, and none of them ever claimed they could talk to god. Or better, they pray an talk *to* god, but it is understood that god doesn't talk back.

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Jacopo Bertolotti @jacopobertolotti.com · 11/09/2026

I found a renewed interest in linear algebra once I realised that almost everything we use in Physics forms a vector space (spin being the only exception that comes to mind).

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Jacopo Bertolotti @jacopobertolotti.com · 10/09/2026

Wolverine is good as the "lancer" in the 5-people team format. He would be the broody one dressed in blue in most anime.

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Jacopo Bertolotti @jacopobertolotti.com · 10/09/2026

Isn't this Spider Man, but without the swinging around the city and without the gadgets, so you are left with very little?

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Jacopo Bertolotti @jacopobertolotti.com · 10/09/2026

Elden Ring is too easy. I want this guy to play the first Megaman with this VR set on.

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Jacopo Bertolotti @jacopobertolotti.com · 10/09/2026

Just to be clear: I am not working on structural colour, and my involvement in this topic has been tangential at best. I have no stakes in this. But I still find the sidelining of a whole research community for the sake of pushing a single US group frustrating (and bad journalism).

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Jacopo Bertolotti @jacopobertolotti.com · 10/09/2026

Ideally there was a viva where the point was discussed. If the examiner misunderstood something (it happens), that is the time to say it.

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Jacopo Bertolotti @jacopobertolotti.com · 10/09/2026

Just go for a hard problem that won't make for good headlines. As long as they can't get PR out of it, their interest will just evaporate. 😉

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Jacopo Bertolotti @jacopobertolotti.com · 10/09/2026

Time spent playing games (including videogames) with your kids is always time well spent.

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Jacopo Bertolotti @jacopobertolotti.com · 10/09/2026

It is very frustrating to see articles like this completely ignore 20+ years of work on the topic from people all around the world, and present the concept of structural colours like it was the invention of a single US group.

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Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Sorry, but AI did not officially solve Navier–Stokes. Yet. It seems that someone should say that, in this AI madness. This is how rigor gets traded for virality. And it is also how propAIganda works. #ComplexityThoughts 👉 manlius.substack.com/p/no-ai-hasn...

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No, AI hasn’t officially solved Navier–Stokes. Yet

PropAIganda, now with a Millennium Prize Problem

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