iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Jared Cosulich @jaredcosulich.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Not sure if there would be any value for you in it, but would be happy to collaborate on it. Could use it myself and would be curious what you've learned from the process.

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Jared Cosulich @jaredcosulich.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Any thoughts of open-sourcing the project (or have you already)?

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Jared Cosulich @jaredcosulich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

A few from the other morning up in NH.

Early morning sunrise looking west toward Vermont from NH

Early morning fog over the Connecticut river looking west toward Vermont from NH

A fall day in NH looking west toward Vermont.

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Jared Cosulich @jaredcosulich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The use of the word "yet" is quite fascinating. By his tortured logic there is no way they could ever assimilate and yet he seems to hold in his mind that there is something they could do to assimilate while clearly believing it is not possible at all.

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Jared Cosulich @jaredcosulich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I wonder how people will respond to the gray area in between purely human and purely AI work. A person may have a vision and iterate hundreds of time with AI to try and realize that vision. How much does that invalidate such work within the realm of human creativity?

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Jared Cosulich @jaredcosulich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Yes agreed I wasn't implying that the processes are the same.

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Jared Cosulich @jaredcosulich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We clearly learn and incorporate new information in a far more dynamic way than an LLM but I’m not sure our thinking based on available information is so different

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Jared Cosulich @jaredcosulich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Do you know if there is clear evidence that our brains do something dramatically different?

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Jared Cosulich @jaredcosulich.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

That's fine with me. The phrase "type of shared cognition" seems like one of the more accurate ways to describe what is going on, but still not completely accurate. Even if there are other mechanics at play between your input and the LLMs output I don't think that completely disqualifies the output

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Jared Cosulich @jaredcosulich.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Then I simply think we need new words to capture how a machine can produce novel and useful (maybe even creative) solutions to problems or goals. I'm not sure there are any good ones yet. Stochastic parroting does not capture it and that's one of the few attempts I've heard.

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Jared Cosulich @jaredcosulich.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Not sure how you got that impression but that’s not what I am suggesting…

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Jared Cosulich @jaredcosulich.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I certainly don't think LLM are "thinking" like we "think" but I'm not sure there are very good definitions of what thinking is. That's part of the problem here. We don't have very good words to describe what we do when we "think" or what the LLM is doing.

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Jared Cosulich @jaredcosulich.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I don't think that's true. Inference is not a massive iteration across a wide range of solutions. It's a path through an explosion of possibilities (maybe there's a better way to describe it). I'm not sure our brains do something so different.

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Jared Cosulich @jaredcosulich.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ant colonies don't solve complex problems in a way that is akin to human capabilities. This is just something new. It's not human thinking clearly, but it's even less akin to an ant colony.

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Jared Cosulich @jaredcosulich.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

But that's not a relevant example. As you said the LLM output isn't random. In fact if I give it a problem it will likely solve it. That solution may never have existed before. If that was from a human you would call it creativity. We don't need to call it creativity from an LLM but it is akin to it

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Jared Cosulich @jaredcosulich.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Or maybe more specifically the novel creation of different things to create something of value. I would not consider random combinations to be akin to creativity.

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Jared Cosulich @jaredcosulich.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Isn't creativity just the novel combination of different things?

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Jared Cosulich @jaredcosulich.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I think this is a bit extreme in the other direction. LLMs have no goals so anthropomorphizing is inappropriate, but their training is potentially something akin to thinking in that it allows for novel/creative solutions to problems. We don't have very good words to describe what is going on.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

YES LET'S GOOOO

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Jared Cosulich @jaredcosulich.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I find that hard to believe. I run 10 VMs against and aggressive workflow on the $200 subscription and don't run out. I suspect these are enterprise deals and are experiencing a different price point than the subscriptions.

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Jared Cosulich @jaredcosulich.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If I were trying to gain influence on US laws because I was a powerful individual, corporation, or a foreign country I would 100% try to gain a foothold in both US political parties (left and right). I'd play a long game in both but push toward my agenda. This could account for some current behavior

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Jared Cosulich @jaredcosulich.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I think a major problem is that you need the “spec” to be unambiguous but the English language inevitably breaks down in that regard at some level of complexity. Code is unambiguous but then you’re back to writing in code.

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The right to vote is one of the most fundamental parts of our democracy. Check your voter registration at IWillVote.com and make a plan to vote early or on Election Day on November 3.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.

I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour.
But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families.

The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that.

Ed is my friend. I've known him for 13 years. We've shared late nights, studio sessions and stages. He has this infectious magic about him that I've grown to love. I consider him a brother. And because of that, we've had some difficult conversations this past week. The type of talks rooted in love and respect for one another that still end in a place of fundamental disagreement. Nothing I'm writing here is out of spite or because I want to tear down his character. But as I told Ed multiple times on the phone, our friendship can't change my responsibility to tell the truth about what happened.

Last Monday, in the middle of all the media attention surrounding Pink and what I said at MetLife, Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other
stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues.

Ed was in …

What I said at MetLife I have been saying on stages around the world for almost three years. So why is it an issue now? Because now I'm sharing a stage with one of the biggest artists in the world, in some of the biggest stadiums in America. At a certain level of exposure, "Free Palestine" becomes too much of a risk. If I kept doing the shows, saying Free Palestine, with Ed implicitly supporting it, the crowd getting loud and showing undeniable support for Palestinian liberation, what artist might speak out next? The stage becomes resistance. Maybe that's why this time it became so important to silence me.

And one of the most effective ways to enforce that silence has been to weaponize the accusation of antisemitism. Antisemitism is real. And that is exactly why the word matters too much to be used as a shield against criticism of the Israeli state. When criticizing Israel, opposing Zionism or saying "Free Palestine" gets conflated with hatred of Jewish people, it doesn't protect Jewish people. It protects Israel from accountability.

I hope this isn't the end of my relationship with Ed.
Thirteen years of friendship doesn't disappear because of one painful disagreement. I hope we both continue listening, studying what is happening in Palestine and wrestling with what neutrality means in a moment like this. My door will always be open to continuing that conversation.

When my brother Omar was doing the subtitles for the video I posted from MetLife, I thanked him. He told me there's a phrase in Arabic:
لا شكر على واجب
"La shukra ala wajeb." There is no thanks for a duty.
That stayed with me. Because that's what this has become for me and millions of others around the world. A duty. Not something deserving of praise or gratitude. Not brave. Human.

Who is winning the internet, who is getting canceled, who gets to play the stadium and who doesn't, all of it becomes so small when held against what we are actually witnessing in Gaza and the West Bank. An entire people be…

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Jared Cosulich @jaredcosulich.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Great attack - subtle but pointed - hard to counteract

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tranna scarenina @einegeniesserin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

lrt: i've talked about this before on here, but far right political movements are in fact intrinsically antisocial and criminal, and can prob be stopped in every country in which they're rising simply by enforcing existing law against them

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Spectrum News NY1 @spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The last speaker at the 9/11 remembrance ceremony lost his father to the attacks.

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Jared Cosulich @jaredcosulich.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I casually blame musk - richest man in the world lies / exaggerates constantly to gain investment and now it seems like everyone does it

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Jared Cosulich @jaredcosulich.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

As far as I know there is still not better idea on how to assess AI is there?

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Jared Cosulich @jaredcosulich.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

These dynamics aren't mutually exclusive. We only have so much time available so it seems plausible to both explore good literature and see information in context and use LLMs to find more relevant good literature.

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Jared Cosulich @jaredcosulich.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

If you ever want to try out CodeYam let me know. Works with Claude/Codex/Gemini subscriptions and puts them through a more rigorous workflow so vibe coded apps are more stable and maintainable. Goes a little slower than just using the models directly but we've found it pays off over time.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 04/09/2026

nice quote from Mandami comms person Emilia Rowland to the New York Times

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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 04/09/2026

It takes you 20 paragraphs to get to the part of the article where they admit that Mamdani isn't paying the influencers and the reason they are posting videos of the stuff Mamdani is doing is because people are interested in watching it.

The mayor’s office says that it does not pay the influencers. Still, their proximity and access to a figure as popular as Mr. Mamdani can help increase their own social media following and, by extension, potentially put them in a position to attract paid content sponsorships from commercial brands. Some influencers said that when they feature Mr. Mamdani, the videos get more likes and viewers watch longer.

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Jared Cosulich @jaredcosulich.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

How would you know if a system had become too large?

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 01/09/2026

The value of Graham Platner is that right up until all his red flags came toppling down upon him is that he is the most naked example of the amount of grace & credibility Simply Being White grants you. Compared to Abdul El-Sayed, who has to re-earn every ounce of credibility he has on a daily basis.

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Jared Cosulich @jaredcosulich.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Oh yes that's probably true. I think most big companies have that fear. It's a reasonable fear, no? I suspect the layoffs have to do with a lot more than that. Not trying to defend the guy. Certainly doesn't seem to have motivations aligned with societal benefit...

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Jared Cosulich @jaredcosulich.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I'm not sure I understand what problem Zuch is terrified of? He's terrified of MVPs?

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Jared Cosulich @jaredcosulich.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

It also has elements in it that feel more like southern music like here: youtu.be/Xh0GyxWgKPs?... - really seems like some sort of odd mishmash of music and lyrics

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Stella Lefty - Boston

YouTube video by Stella Lefty

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/08/2026

Did I miss the big open letter signed by a hundred academics opposing this?

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Jared Cosulich @jaredcosulich.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Not significantly. I've always thought it's a pretty bad use-case but it is interesting to think about it in a more nuanced manner.

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Jared Cosulich @jaredcosulich.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Not thinking about any writing in particular. Just thinking through the ramifications of the technology.

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Jared Cosulich @jaredcosulich.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Yes very comfortable with getting human feedback. I think that’s always quite valuable and I think should be paid for to hire a professional in many situations

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Jared Cosulich @jaredcosulich.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I think this discussion was particularly valuable: bsky.app/profile/pell... Even if you are only looking for help identifying confusing phrasing if the AI suggests ways to improve the writing it might be hard to ignore or forget the suggestions in order to maintain your own voice.

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Jared Cosulich @jaredcosulich.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Agreed. I’m not. I was just thinking through how appropriate or inappropriate it was to use an LLM at all in writing. People have provided a lot of good reasons to avoid it.

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton and Patti LaBelle playing their acrylics. Two icons.

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Jared Cosulich @jaredcosulich.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

That's an interesting perspective. I hadn't heard that before. Would you apply that same advice to getting a friend or spouse to give it a read and provide feedback as well? Either way I think you'd think a lot about the feedback before blindly using it (or you're not doing it well)

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