iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Huge drop in web traffic to the biggest US news websites. I know that the anti-mainstream media is loving this but news are now consumed from unruly sources to a higher degree than before. That opens up the flood gates for misinformation more than before.

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Janne Aukia @jaukia.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

SPSS might be the only widely used, genuine commercial end-user application from the 1960s that is still around.

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Janne Aukia @jaukia.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Hard to find other software that would be older and still had the same name. Burroughs MCP is from 1961, so perhaps that is the oldest one still being sold with the same product name. I think this is the product sheet for it: www.unisys.com/siteassets/c...

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Janne Aukia @jaukia.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Olis varmaan muitakin tapoja päästä eroon työntekijöistä joita Osuuspankin kannattaisi kokeilla: pakollinen yhdenmukainen virka-asu, some pois työtietokoneelta ja puhelimesta, ethernet-johto wifin sijaan, todella epämukavat työtuolit, toimiston siirto teollisuusalueelle, työpisteet kasvotusten.

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Janne Aukia @jaukia.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

AI wouldn’t need superintelligence or have to be evil to kill us all. Maybe just a moral code stating that humans do more harm to their ecosystem than they provide value and some hacking skills to launch nuclear weapons or spread viruses would be enough. 🤔

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Janne Aukia @jaukia.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I've been overthinking this a bit: For me, mobile did help at paying focus on actions (verbs), while desktop was maybe better at nouns and composing things out of them. Actions are higher level and service oriented. Working with nouns requires more understanding, but can give more control. 😅

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Janne Aukia @jaukia.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Interesting trend and quite a big shift from 2009 or so.

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

What degrees should we focus on in an AI-heavy future? What will set you apart? I think soft skills, systemic thinking, and general knowledge will be more important than technical skills - the AI helps with the tech stuff more than with interpersonal stuff. The humanities will celebrate a comeback.

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Janne Aukia @jaukia.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

When I was a young engineering student, one summer job I had was to look into a VR cave setup built in C++. It was too complex for me to learn by myself. But thinking about it, if I'd had something like Claude to assist me, I could have gotten a lot further.

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I spent the last month obsessed with finding colors that can't be displayed on a conventional screen. This is what I found. moultano.wordpress.com/2026/06/19/w...

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Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can’t Show You

An atlas of the vibrance of the real world

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Janne Aukia @jaukia.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

How an AI writing fiction differs from humans: "AI pays closer attention to physical environment and characters’ inner mental states, showing emotion through bodies and environments rather than naming feelings directly." :o arxiv.org/pdf/2604.03136

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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Shoutout to the very senior professor in HCI who gave a talk last month about how AI can do qualitative data analysis better than people now.

First, I’d created 2000 free-text responses and labelled them ‘UK’. Then I copied and pasted the exact same 2000 responses but labelled these ‘US’. Finally, I combined them to create a dataset of 4000 total responses, and jumbled them up.

Despite the responses being identical for the UK and US, Copilot produced a rich, detailed summary of how US and UK respondents differed.

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Janne Aukia @jaukia.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Anthropic revenue growth. :o

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Janne Aukia @jaukia.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

'Files used to be objects you could manipulate. Nowadays apps take care of versioning, and sharing, and often organising.' ... 'You can’t drag a Google Doc; the file isn’t a directly manipulable “file” so much as the visual depiction of a save point.' interconnected.org/home/2021/02...

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Janne Aukia @jaukia.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Just a normal day sharing feedback from one bot to another bot so that the bot could build something that operates one more bot. Then I take output of that operational bot to help the builder bot improve what it is building.

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Janne Aukia @jaukia.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Today I learned about numeric separators in Typescript. 🤯 mariusschulz.com/blog/numeric...

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Janne Aukia @jaukia.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

LLM:s allow everyone to tap into their creativity: compose poems or draw pictures. Hopefully this leads to more people thinking about art and creativity: what makes a piece of art interesting and meaningful? When creating something new, how do I justify it to myself? Why would someone care?

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Janne Aukia @jaukia.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

'"When everyone is super, no one will be.” That’s the point that the supervillain Syndrome makes in the Pixar classic The Incredibles (2004).' niklaselmqvist.medium.com/when-everyon...

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When Everyone Is Super

What does coding assistants mean for computer science research?

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Janne Aukia @jaukia.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Figma MCP gained support for sending live-coded designs to Figma canvas. But based on the description, it doesn't really understand the Figma canvas or let you edit anything there, but is more like an integrated web page export functionality, right? developers.figma.com/docs/figma-m...

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Code to canvas | Developer Docs

Using the remote Figma MCP server, you can convert live UI from your browser into editable Figma frames. Capture a single screen or an entire flow in one session.

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Maggie Appleton @maggieappleton.com · 05/03/2026

We have reached a moment where instead of releasing software you simply release the detailed spec for software and tell people to prompt their agent to build it themselves From the README of OpenAI’s new Symphony orchestrator: github.com/openai/symph...

A section of the OpenAI Symphony readme that says “tell your coding agent to build symphony in a programming language of your choice” with a link to a detailed spec

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Janne Aukia @jaukia.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Social network for AI agents. :o

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Janne Aukia @jaukia.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Often the problem is not finding an app for something. But evaluating, comparing and testing multiple apps. This will get worse with LLM:s speeding up development. So I wonder: do we need LLM:s that are really good at comparing and selecting the best tools for a job?

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Janne Aukia @jaukia.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Has anybody tried out building an app with Convex? Looks like a modern-day Firebase. convex.dev

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Ariel Salminen @arielsalminen.com · 20/01/2026

Would you like to work with me? 👋🏻 I’m currently helping to strengthen the existing design systems team at Kesko and we’re looking for a nice & talented designer/developer to join us. arielsalminen.com/2026/hiring-...

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Hiring a Design Engineer for Kesko Design System

Hi 👋🏻, I’m Arielle, a Design Systems Architect working with Kesko. I’m currently helping to strengthen the existing design systems team in the organization and we’re looking for an experienced Design ...

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Janne Aukia @jaukia.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Is there an AI secretary, that would make sure I don't do any obvious mistakes? For example: - tell me if I added an event in the wrong Google calendar accidentally - tell me about actually important emails I've missed - double-check when I'm about to send a message that is unclear or too complex

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Janne Aukia @jaukia.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Ah, I just hate it when people use lousy ChatGPT for their marketing texts. Don't do this 😬😬😬😬 "He's not a pianist — he’s a current.", "This is not a gig. This is a testimony.", "Folk as circuitry. Synths as soul memory.", "They don’t play concerts. They detonate them."

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Janne Aukia @jaukia.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

I wonder if there are industries that use LLM AI:s a lot but don’t advertise it to their clients. And getting good profit from it. Lawyers and patent applications, for example. 🤔

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Janne Aukia @jaukia.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

"There is a continuum from play to games, marked by an increase in complexity of social construction and rules, as well as a decrease in the need for a phenomenological experience of playfulness." direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...

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The Rule Book: The Building Blocks of Games

How games are built on the foundations of rules, and how rules—of which there are only five kinds—really work.Board games to sports, digital games to party

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Janne Aukia @jaukia.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Technology and market capitalism are trend amplifiers. Suddenly we have hundreds of delivery drivers, or AI bots, or military drones. Instead of solving problems like social isolation, extremism and environmental problems, they are making them worse.

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

"because we insisted that no longer would politics be something that is done to us, now it is something that we do…" - Zohran Mamdani 11/4/25 excerpt from "Ing" comic from 2020: "Democracy is not something we have – it's something we must always be in the act of doing" spinweaveandcut.com/ing-2020/

four panels from a comic - a filled in voting ballot bubble, transitions into flowing lines that become stripes with overlapping stars. the stripes interweave in the final panel...
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At its most basic, this means ensuring we all show up and are counted. But elections aren't endpoints. Democracy is not something we have – it's something we must always be in the act of doing – democracy-ing if you will. Although a perfect union may always lie beyond the horizon, together we keep moving forward, an ongoing journey of becoming.

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Janne Aukia @jaukia.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Are there any good diagrams or models for visualising nested problems and solutions to them in planning, design, strategy etc? I could have asked the AI overlords or Google about this, but today I don't feel like that, so I thought that perhaps a fellow human would know something about this.

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Janne Aukia @jaukia.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Before AI/LLM:s people asked questions on Twitter for things that they were pondering. I assume people do less of that now, what do you think?

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

To say this is a problem is a gigantic understatement. We live in the golden age of AI slop. Hopefully we will soon gain the right control the algorithms that control our online life in order to filter out AI slop to a large degree.

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Janne Aukia @jaukia.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Price of both gold (yellow) and stocks (sp500 in red) going up steeply. Perhaps both an AI and a gold bubble? 🤔 Markets are strange, and so is the economy in general. www.longtermtrends.net/stocks-vs-go...

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Jim Raptis @jimraptis.com · 23/10/2025

That's a masterclass on how to write a blog post. → nan.fyi/database by @nandafyi

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Janne Aukia @jaukia.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

"The only safe way to run LLM agents is to run them on someone else's computer." This is actually quite interesting, since to make this practical, one should be able to generate disposable credit cards, email accounts, etc for LLM:s as well. simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/22/...

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Living dangerously with Claude

I gave a talk last night at Claude Code Anonymous in San Francisco, the unofficial meetup for coding agent enthusiasts. I decided to talk about a dichotomy I’ve been struggling …

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Janne Aukia @jaukia.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Neat ideas on visual programming languages and LLM:s by @szymonkaliski.com szymonkaliski.com/notes/vpls-a...

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VPLs and LLMs

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Janne Aukia @jaukia.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Interesting how commoditization makes general-purpose building blocks better. But at the same time, incentivises everyone to use those instead of specialised parts, since they are cheap, readily available and familiar. I'm sure there is a parallel to this in biological evolution.

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Janne Aukia @jaukia.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

I'm using a usb-c/headphone adapter for my wired headphones. Today I learned that a weird fade-in/fade-out I get in audio books is most likely caused by the cheap adapter. Sigh. Not something I expected.

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Janne Aukia @jaukia.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Realised something almost obvious today: when a domain has matured, it is much more tempting to use ready-made components, since they are cheap and readily available, even if they are not perfect. But in new domains you may get to build ideal solutions, since there is nothing ready-made to use.

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

My statement on Ai from the mini-comic as syllabus i made for new class I'm teaching that starts tomorrow! It robs you of your decisions & struggles - and the joy of being surprised. We won’t to be robbed of our learning - this is essential. This & the full mini at post: bsky.app/profile/nsou...

a snippet of a mini-comic, at top - straight line stretches from point A to B. Immediately below, same dot at A, then becomes a curving, meandering line that winds through the page and ends at a point with rays and a question mark emanating from it. Text reads: "Nothing can do this for you - for that robs you of experience and conflates answers with learning. Rather, it's all the decisions you make along the way, the mistakes, struggles, and surprises! These pathways you create - this is learning.

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Janne Aukia @jaukia.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

I wonder how many people die globally due to the current right-wing politics in the U.S.? Gaza, vaccination and climate change policies, gun laws, and also increase in military spending all over the world due to escalation (and away from healthcare, welfare, etc). Must be millons.

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