iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Matthew Kay @mjskay.com · 30/09/2026

every 17-year-old boy who reads The Fountainhead will follow one of three paths: Eliezer Yudkowsky, Ron Paul, or growing the fuck up

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 29/09/2026

Some human optimism to fight the dominant (bought and paid for) techno-narrative.

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 29/09/2026

Me when the cat jumps on me in the middle of the night.

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 25/09/2026

Radical transparency: the more the marketing surveillance apparatus knows about me, the easier it will be for it to upload my personality into the cloud.

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 24/09/2026

Where I talk about muddling about with Incus and bridged networking: jws.sh/the-network-...

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 23/09/2026

#3GoodThings Fresh roasted specialty coffee Key Lime Pie Sleeping with the windows open in autumn

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jack @jackalltogether.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I would love an ibreakit dot com that showed you how to physically clip the cameras, mics and outbound telematics out of all sorts of things like TV’s and cars

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 16/09/2026

I would love a 7"-8" modern tablet that runs Linux. I feel like the market should be flooded with them.

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 14/09/2026

But the stilettos tear the rolling papers! I'm going to need a bigger pipe

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 14/09/2026

Re-upping reccomedation: Everything @kbspangler.com has put out. There's something there for everyone. From cyborg detective novels to sword and sorcery comics to manic ninjas hanging out with ghosts across multiple formats. The Rachel Peng novels were my favorites, and a good starting place imho.

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 13/09/2026

There seems to be an even split between "neat, the always on ai listening features are fab!" And "I just bought a computer with no network capabilities. Looking for a non-multitasking OS recommendation"

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francis @dilfkink.kindboys.online · 16/11/2025

my "I ❤️ GATEKEEPING" shirt has people asking questions that they frankly would never even understand the answers to

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 04/09/2026

The Antelope's shell was a sickening sight How I wish I was on efnet now With an unpatched kernel and exposed low ports, and no spf in it's `dig txt +short`

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 03/09/2026

When I read the title, I thought "clickbait nonsense"; Then I saw what books they were talking about, and thought "No, that actually checks out, I agree with the clickbait nonsense this time" :D You definitely should read Infomocracy and the Centenal Cycle trilogy by Malka Older

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 03/09/2026

Agentic Monkey's Paw: "You wanted a long weekend, so I shut off the internet for you"

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 03/09/2026

I think, having caught the last SideQuested, that I've finally read everything that @kbspangler.com has released. What a ride! Genre and medium-hopping madness! But all of it was solid, fun, and worth the time. I recommend starting with the Rachel Peng novels. Digital Divide is the first one.

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 03/09/2026

If you missed the Tailscale webinar yesterday, *and* you missed TailscaleUp, you can see Kartik Ram Bharath and I recap the announcements through the webinar recording here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-rF...

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Tailscale Up Product Updates - September 2026

YouTube video by Tailscale

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 02/09/2026

I'm going live at 2pm Eastern today to talk about the Tailscale features that dropped at our TailscaleUp conference. tailscale.com/webinars

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Webinars and virtual events

Attend an upcoming webinar or view one of our on-demand webinars to learn about the latest trends in secure connectivity.

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Tailscale @tailscale.com · 01/09/2026

Aperture GA, Tailscale PAM, tailcat, DNS filtering, building with and on Tailscale, and tailcat. What a week. Missed something at #TailscaleUp26? Join us tomorrow for a live recap of what’s new, what’s available now, and what’s next → tailscale.com/webinars/tai...

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 01/09/2026

Gummies are either candy, vitamins, drugs, or fibre. They're a very versatile food group.

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 30/08/2026

Just finished Persona by Genevieve Valentine tl;dr is read it, very good.

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 29/08/2026

Not to be confused with Toast and Coffee Club

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 29/08/2026

Just watched My Stepmother is an Alien. I appreciate a good, silly, kind of bad movie. Sometimes I forget how strange the 80s were. The past really is a foreign country. Which makes this a foreign film, I suppose. Sounds very high-brow when you frame it like that.

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 28/08/2026

I think airlines should ask passengers for their breadth measurement, so they can stagger wider and narrower people. As a wide fellow, a 4h flight next to another wife person is quite uncomfortable, especially when the cart comes through. Or maybe stagger the seats a bit. Or anything really.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I want to expand on this in a short thread. Fascism sucks. It is also not going away: it is an effectively permanent part of modern representative politics because it is an effectively permanent part of human nature. We have to be prepared to push back against it, basically forever.

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 22/08/2026

Just spent an hour debugging a program that wasn't behaving. Then rebooted, and everything started working again. I've been fixing computers for 33 years, and still sometimes forget to start at the beginning.

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Andrew Curry @andrewcurry.com · 11/08/2026

The man's skeletal injuries looked like a train hit him, but he died in 1304 CE. At #ppa26Berlin last week, @uniofbradford.bsky.social scientist Jo Buckberry concluded he was likely whacked by a flying boulder, making him the first confirmed trebuchet death in the archaeological record. @science.org

science.org

Shattered skeleton in Scottish castle is first confirmed death from trebuchet

“Devastation” across body of 14th century warrior indicates horrific demise from flying boulder

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 07/08/2026

I was only ~30 years ahead of my time! Kids these days will never know the thrill of getting your X clock values wrong and smoking a monitor. But at least they still get to struggle with video card drivers.

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 05/08/2026

I like that the Tailscale team let's me be a bit silly sometimes youtu.be/GasFS-qO2Os

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Smarter Tailscale Subnet Routing

YouTube video by Tailscale

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 04/08/2026

Watched a bunch of 80s movies, and I think the reason that society is crumbling is because it's being run by the sort of people that William Atherton would have played. Real Genius and Ghostbusters at least

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 04/08/2026

This is where I pull the fuse on the whole thing

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Look, I don't know much about this issue, but according to the media I consume which is carefully engineered to piss me off,

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 26/07/2026

Okay. Yes. I am here for this.

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 24/07/2026

jws.sh/breath-of-fr... Where I try to get better at breathing.

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 23/07/2026

Weird Al is an example of how someone can be funny without being cynical, without punching down. He has fun being funny. He told us GenX brats that it's okay to enjoy things. The cultural impact of that is lost to time I think. But the cynicism of the 89s/90s was pervasive. Joy was revolutionary.

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 22/07/2026

Today I tore down a theatre set, so I can build another one for free

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 22/07/2026

I'm a sheep in this wolf's clothing, I'm a picture that I'm holding of someone who is cool.

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I was happy to participate in this video from Chris the Producer. He created an LLC, hired an actor who built a miserly profile online, and flew a phone via drone into a ritzy area to try to influence the prices derived from data collection. And it worked! www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCSw...

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I beat BIG TECH'S new predatory pricing tactics (and saved $6,593)

YouTube video by Chris the Producer

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 16/07/2026

Can barely see Detroit across the river.

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 15/07/2026

This is what it's like in Northwestern Ontario. I'm heartbroken and worried about my family and friends. The fires are everywhere, and the smoke is nearly opaque for many of them.

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Crisp @crisp91.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The Antikythera Mechanism, recovered from a Greek shipwreck dated to ~60 BCE, is the world’s oldest known analog computer. Built around 100 BCE with 30+ bronze gears, it accurately predicted eclipses and tracked the Sun, Moon, and planets over 2,000 years ago. ⚙️🌍

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Neon Chinchilla @neonchinchilla.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

# life goals (timeline cleanse)

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Nicolas Fulghum @nicolasfulghum.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Solar's sharp rise continues. As of April 2026, global solar capacity now exceeds 3 terawatt. 1 gigawatt → 1 terawatt: 20+ years 1 terawatt → 2 terawatt: 33 months 2 terawatt → 3 terawatt: 19 months

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Jay Stapleton @jaystapleton.ca · 08/07/2026

I was second in line at a store the clerk was stressing, the woman in front of me just wanted to leave, the receipt printer wasn't working. I said "I'm a computer tech, I know the trick." Yelled "DEMONS OUT!" and slapped it. Immediately started working. Inspired by The Far Side, naturally.

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Boring Manager Rob 🅅 @bourboninexile.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I couldn't help myself

Rocky Horror Picture Show montage: "Janet!" "Dr. Scott!" "Janet!" "Brad!" "Rocky!" "Absolute amaze!"

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