iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Chelsea Parlett @chelseaparlett.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

me when all my models assume paid marketing ROI >= 0 but I purposefully avoid brands whose ads really annoy me

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Charlie Gao @shikokuchuo.net · 20h

TokyoR enjoyed the world premiere of mizu today, and Mizu-chan stole the show: lock-free shared-memory parallelism for R, plus a Python binding on the same C core. Repos are open but pre-release, and the API will change. Feedback welcome on GitHub. github.com/shikokuchuo/... #RStats #Tidyverse

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jemsu @jemu.name · 02/10/2026

fwiw, nowadays I would also reach for a quarto->typst solution I guess.

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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago

I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Not the least bit surprising but still extremely grim to read. time.com/article/2026...

Since returning to office, Trump has marveled at AI’s capabilities. He is increasingly in thrall to the tech executives courting him. In December 2025, Elon Musk returned to the Oval Office for a clandestine meeting. Trump spent hours asking Grok, Musk’s AI chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present. At the time, Trump was ordering missile strikes against Venezuelan boats he alleged were smuggling drugs into the U.S. He asked Grok how Venezuelans would react if the U.S. captured Maduro. According to the official present, the chatbot responded that Maduro was a repressive and deeply unpopular dictator and that many Venezuelans would likely celebrate his downfall. After Trump ordered the mission to seize Maduro, the following month, celebrations broke out in the streets. Trump, according to officials, came away thinking Grok was ingenious.

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jemsu @jemu.name · 30/09/2026

The weird thing about growing up on "twitter is for shitposting and dog photos"-internet is that you still don't use your real name prominently a decade later but then you become an academic and the nice journal folks can't tag you in your publication. Anyway: I did a science! It was fun 😌 #rstats

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jemsu @jemu.name · 30/09/2026

For context: I used batchtools for every main project in my dissertation and for most of the sidequest projects on a total of 4 HPC clusters and at least 4 shared workstations. I started doing issue triage because now that I don't have to write a thesis anymore I can just... do that. #rstats

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jemsu @jemu.name · 30/09/2026

Started doing a bit of housekeeping on #batchtools, a pkg you might remember from that time you submitted a trillion Slurm jobs to a cluster and making the admin cry. Also found out none other than @masalmon.eu reviewed the JOSS paper! Small world. github.com/openjournals...

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[REVIEW]: batchtools: Tools for R to work on batch systems · Issue #135 · openjournals/joss-reviews

Submitting author: @mllg (Michel Lang) Repository: https://github.com/mllg/batchtools Version: v0.9.2 Editor: @arfon Reviewer: @masalmon Archive: 10.5281/zenodo.293835 Status Status badge code: HTM...

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Henrik Bengtsson @henrikbengtsson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Heads up. Don't submit to CRAN right now. The CRAN submission system is currently broken, because Windows checks won't complete. If you submit your package will end up in the manual "inspection" queue. You'll see the same on win-builder R devel and R 4.6.1. The R 4.5.3 still works. #RStats

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sebffischer.bsky.social @sebffischer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yesterday, we released a new version of anvl: github.com/r-xla/anvl. You can use it to implement numerical algorithms in R and run it on CPU and GPU. The R Code is compiled, so you do not have interpreter overhead, and it also allows you to automatically compute gradients #rstats

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GitHub - r-xla/anvl: Accelerated array computing and code transformations for R

Accelerated array computing and code transformations for R - r-xla/anvl

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026

It is no coincidence that rationalists and EAs tend to be straight white guys from well-off families, because for everybody else, the world usually conspires to knock some sense into you about your inherent god-emperor genius by the time you’re old enough to drink.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026

the Eliezer Yudkowsky superhero origin story is truly so intensely dorky as to defy all attempts at parody. you could not waterboard any of this out of me web.archive.org/web/20010309...

His autobiography even opens with a parable: as a small child he threw his favorite squirtgun off a third-floor balcony rather than accept that his mother could lend out what was his, and felt complete when he heard it hit the pavement. He goes on to describes himself as a specialist in the technological transformation of the human species, one of the few people alive with the standing to steer it. He identifies with Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the one person who sees the danger clearly and has to act while everyone else gets on with ordinary life.

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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 24/09/2026

Saw a woman on TikTok who said she quit corporate at age 46 to become a beekeeper because “I would literally rather get stung by 10,000 bees than write ‘per my last email’ again” and you know what? I respect that

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jemsu @jemu.name · 24/09/2026

I’m helping colleagues with DB access stuff via #Positron in both #rstats and Python. In R I can point them to the keyring pkg to store their DB pw and user so they don’t hardcode credentials in scripts, there surely is a comparable solution in Pytjon, right? Want to avoid interactive prompts.

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Katharina Nocun @kattascha.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Sellner ist schon voll dabei & bezeichnet die Ergebnisse in Berlin als „ethnische Wahl“ (weil viele Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund Linke gewählt hätten). Ergo: Berlin sei quasi verlorenes Terrain. Der AfD blieben nur noch wenige Jahre, sonst wäre DE verloren, daher fix „Remigration“, usw..

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Survey of German academics finds restrictions on academic freedom are rare and not associated with academic position, discipline or gender, but expectations of restrictions are higher among precarious academics. Hope this paper gets attention, as it does not confirm media stereotypes of academia

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jemsu @jemu.name · 20/09/2026

In case anyone was wondering: yes, the AirPods 5 fit in the case of the AirPods 4, but the case then makes a bloop and lets you know there’s a mismatch. Same the other way around with the 4’s in the 5 case.

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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.

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

Anthropic's models run on terabytes of VRAM. It's not going to "just copy itself to other computers."

Rohan Paul
@rohanpaul_ai
Jacob Coxon's next interview on CBS News (ex Anthropic+Open AI researcher who resigned)

"We can't just unplug it because it could be copying itself over to other computers. Like it's not that difficult to find yourself because an AI is just code. It could transfer itself over the internet to a different place and then you unplug it here, but it's actually still over there and maybe it makes 10,000 copies of itself and they're all cooperating."

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From "CBS News" YouTube channel, (full video link in comment)

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alexis simpson is confused by display name changes @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

yeah so we need to talk about how "screentime is bad for kids" is not really true, but "short form video on algorithm-based platforms is bad for everyone" IS true

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Jill "Bury a Friend" Pantozzi @jillpantozzi.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

What I like about the EW article is that it doesn't let her rep's lie stand, it lists several items to the contrary. More outlets could take a lesson from that.

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 05/09/2026

This is interesting. You get assigned to being born at a random place and time in history, to see what a typical person's life might have been like then. Unfortunately I was born in 1403 in the valley of Mexico and died at age 4 from dysentery.

anyhumanever.com

Any Human Ever

One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived.

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tinybaby @tiny.baby · 05/09/2026

just said "1password and the shopify nazi gave $12m to DHH for his fake linux distro" which sounds like a made up jargon sentence from 30 rock

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Remember making fun of Boomers and thinking the future would be more media savvy, and now the news comes from TikTok reaction videos.

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Paul Gross arms revival \o/ @seascribble.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

THIS is the concept conveyed by the upside down smilie. LOLP. Now we have a nice concise word for it.

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Dr Pamela L Gay @starstryder.space · 31/08/2026

A needed term in these times.

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jemsu @jemu.name · 30/08/2026

Its 3am now and for weird electrical work reasons I guess turning off electricity in the kitchen also killed the bathroom, and I won’t have hot water until I turn that back on again. I would have preferred just going to bed earlier and… not dealing with all this.

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jemsu @jemu.name · 30/08/2026

Based on my kitchen‘s water damage from the leaking ceiling I luckily discovered at 1:30am with my upstairs neighbor not answering the door and me calling the fire department: people, please check you turned off your taps. Sincerely, approximately 8 liters of water in my only bucket.

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jemsu @jemu.name · 30/08/2026

Most of my Time Machine backups are broken now and I need to clear the one target drive. Last episode of @atp.fm talked about how APFS is bad at millions of small files or so - this appears to be one of the consequences? TM essentially got stuck enumerating files, producing incomplete backups

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jemsu @jemu.name · 30/08/2026

PSA if you use #WhatsApp on macOS: Check the size of your ~/Library/Group Containers/group.net.whatsapp.WhatsApp.shared Mine is well over 200GB and has a huge number of small files which most likely is the root cause for why my Time Machine backups have been stalling and not completing for days.

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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 26/08/2026

To tell if a maze is solvable, just hang it by its corners If it tears into pieces, you’ve found a solution

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heiseonline @heise.de · 27/08/2026

Nvidia hat laut einem Bericht die zentrale KI-Plattform Hugging Face übernommen und könnte damit seinen Einfluss auf das Ökosystem offener KI-Modelle ausbauen. #Künstliche Intelligenz

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Bericht: Nvidia übernimmt Hugging Face für 12,9 Milliarden Dollar

Nvidia hat laut einem Bericht die zentrale KI-Plattform Hugging Face übernommen und könnte damit seinen Einfluss auf das Ökosystem offener KI-Modelle ausbauen.

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jemsu @jemu.name · 25/08/2026

Looking at the Zotero 10.0 release notes, and when I read --- Reading Mode for PDFs - View PDFs as clean, reflowable text with adjustable font, size, and line spacing — no headers, footers, or multi-column layouts --- I was amazed at how far we have come in our journey to make PDFs more like HTML

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Drew Scanlon @drewscanlon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at blinkingguy.com

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 23/08/2026

And an excellent chance to learn my personal favourite Australian idiom "he's not here to fuck spiders"

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Henrik Bengtsson @henrikbengtsson.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Ever run a data analysis for hours only to find it ran out of memory? Then lost hours to troubleshooting & retries? Wastes both your time and compute (GPU & RAM prices are skyrocketing). The Futureverse Resource Specification Project aims to lower such waste. 🧵 #RStats #parallel

A macOS-style alert dialog with an R application icon marked by a red exclamation badge. The heading reads 'Out of memory' and the message below reads 'R cannot allocate a vector of size 7.5 GiB.' A blue OK button sits at the bottom.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 17/08/2026

Bet you didn't imagine the Well Actually Humorless Killjoy would be one of the first Bluesky jobs lost to A.I.

lan Boudreau @ianboudreau.com • 14h
A lot of people don't know this, but when you brush a cat, you are legally required to show them the wad of cat hair that came off of them and tell them
"this is enough for another whole cat"
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Veratify @veratify.bsky.social
V found this claim is false. This is a well-known internet joke; there are no laws in any jurisdiction requiring pet owners to show cats their shed hair or say this phrase.
Real-time fact-checks on your feed:
https://veratify.ai
Errors or comments: info@veratify.ai

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