iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

jimray @jimray.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

My wife can go from every light on in the house to dead asleep as if she’s been clonked on the head by an ACME mallet. I have to spend 90 minutes titrating existence to nothingness via progressively dimmer lights and wordless Japanese woodworking ASMR videos. And somehow we make it work.

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jimray @jimray.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Our local mid-range grocery chain recently updated their house brand and it’s honestly been enough to convert me. We drink generic fizzy water in this house now! Design truly can change the world.

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jimray @jimray.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

I also feel like I am losing what’s left of my mind when smart people who work in media use Facebook’s apps and discourse about it on Twitter as if they have no theory of how media has worked for two decades or agency in the process.

Katie Notopoulos
@katienotopoulos
This makes me feel insane! This is faux-hallmark pap
and if you believe for 1 sec that he cares about
helping people "spending more time with family" or
"opening a bakery" you don't need to wait for Al to kill
us; you're stupid enough to drown from looking up at
the rain

Quote post from Alexandr Wang
@alexandr_wan • Sep 25
Here's to the wanting. Here's to the dreaming.
Here's to everyone.

Katie Notopoulos • @katienotopoulos
To be clear: I am very much enjoying using
Muse and find it helpful but I do not believe it
is born form some idealistic self-help dream of
empowering aspiring bakery operators

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jimray @jimray.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

It’s not that surprising we’re doing Discourse about mediocre country-inflected pop having a moment after twenty years of dominance by mediocre hip-hop-inflected pop, I suppose I am surprised it’s coming from Rolling Stone not The Daily Caller.

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jimray @jimray.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

This reads like a pitch for an Apple ad from 1994 that was ultimately passed on for being too maudlin. That it includes a ripoff Miyazaki as the lede art is a perfect fit for how cheap it is. x.com/alexandr_wang/status/21035517…

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jimray @jimray.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Angel: Boss we did it, the perfect nutrition for kids. We call it “milk” God: EXCELLENT. NOW MAKE THEM SPILL IT. Spill? Like the parent just… NO. THE CHILD SHALL AT RANDOM SPILL THE MILK. WHILST THE PARENT IS DOING SOMETHING ELSE FOR THE CHILD. Why on earth… I COMMAND IT. jfc WHAT. What?

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jimray @jimray.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

The obvious solution is to just ban the gambling apps but I’m pretty sure that’s how we end up with President Dave Portnoy so I propose we tax their revenue at 100% for every dollar over $1,000 they make off a gambler.

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jimray @jimray.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Larry “Friend of Jeffrey Epstein” Summers refused to kick Zuckerberg out of Harvard for the most blatant violation of his classmates' privacy (women, natch) and now we regularly have to deal with credulous news stories from actual journalists about some obvious, awful bullshit he’s foisting on us.

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jimray @jimray.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Big tech gets all the attention but there are thousands of VC and PE backed companies using AI as a classic arbitrage against bewilderingly complex systems they helped bring into existence to make your everyday experience of the world worse in every way […]

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jimray @jimray.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Lotta middle aged dudes with teenage kids and gray beards at this Gorillaz concert. Wonder what that’s like (to have a beard)

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jimray @jimray.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

Design Twitter decamping to Threads now arguing about one of their own creating a logo for Meta’s AI like it’s 2012 is a perfect encapsulation of the rot of that industry and also why Threads (and Instagram) are the worst networks because they force you to perform the most obvious self-deception.

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jimray @jimray.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

It’s been at least twenty years since the last time I saw The Roots and tonight they were Hijo Uno’s first concert. Their show’s definitely evolved, still one of the best live bands on the planet.

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jimray @jimray.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@jimray/11713879202… Y’all @lexfri is a madman. He sent me a test flight a few weeks after this post and it recently passed my “waiting to take off” test and now it’s a thing. lexontech.org/strategery-is-back-an…

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jimray @jimray.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

Last night the preteen asked if we could talk and sat down for an hour of genuine conversation about what’s going on his life that I’m pretty sure was only 10% motivated by wanting to extend bedtime and man. That’s the good stuff right there.

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jimray @jimray.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

First event post Tim Cook and the new phones come in Alabama Crimson and Carolina Blue that’s stone cold.

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jimray @jimray.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

I expected to laugh like an idiot during COYOTE V. ACME I did not expect to have a much deeper emotional response like what the hell. What a picture, great time at the movies y’all.

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jimray @jimray.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

Until I get airtag-like findability for every object in my life I’ll have to stick with the tried and true: • Lose Thing • Look everywhere for Thing in increasingly exasperated and embarrassing fashion • Purchase replacement Thing • Establish home for replacement Thing only to find… original Thing

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jimray @jimray.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

Minor league baseball is such an awesome feature of America

Pano shot from a minor league baseball stadium

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jimray @jimray.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

I’m looking for a HomeKit compatible table lamp retrofit kit. Specifically NOT a box I plug into the wall and then have to use my phone or a remote fob (got that already), I want a button on the lamp for on/off/dim that I can schedule with HomeKit. Surely such a thing exists?

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jimray @jimray.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

In a remarkable bit of weekday breakfast harmony, Hijo Uno declared he only likes the bacon sous vide egg bites (aka “huevos yummies”) while Hijo Dos proclaimed he’d only eat the spinach ones so they orchestrated a trade and finished breakfast and everything was fine.

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jimray @jimray.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

Devastating news: returning to a regular schedule where — crucially — I am required to wake up at the same time has made for overall smoother mornings at the Raysidence. Who knows what possible lessons could be drawn from this inscrutable and arcane new reality.

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jimray @jimray.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

Fellow parents who feel the need to speed past me IN A SCHOOL ZONE to be one car ahead in the drop off line we all still have to wait in are gonna be what’s causes me to Falling Down (1993)

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jimray @jimray.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

Not trying to tell anyone how to do their job but if *I* were the one designing the colonoscopy prep medication, I would typeset the instructions large enough for the target demo to peruse without needing to seek out a pair of reading glasses.

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jimray @jimray.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

Well. We had a good run. Quite possibly the greatest return on a $0.99 investment I’ve ever made, the fidget toy and security blanket that’s been ride or die since 2009, doesn’t seem to load on iOS 27. RIP Strategery, you were a real one.

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jimray @jimray.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

Little girl to Hijo Dos on the last day of camp: “Is he your grandpa?” First of all, rude. Also, the silver hair is called gravitas look it up. “Well then why are you different colors?” Alright, now that’s an interesting question and a learning opportunity let’s talk about adoption young one.

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jimray @jimray.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

Does anyone follow me via Threads?

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jimray @jimray.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

The once gray market of infinite resale marketplaces, Discord cook groups, script kiddie bots, online hype amplifiers, supply uncertainty, and scumbag scalpers that’s now just How We Buy Shit and also Why It Costs 10-30% Too Much is about to get so much worse […]

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jimray @jimray.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

I’m occasionally forced to hang with parents who says things like “We’ve got Timmy in a pitching clinic this summer, he’s a head taller than every kid on his team” about their six year old and I can’t help but see the phrenologist’s gaze when they look at my own children.

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jimray @jimray.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026

I took today off to work on the interminable home project however, for mundane reasons, Hijo Dos didn’t have camp today. And I gotta say, spending the morning singing silly songs and making banana bread instead is some life-affirming, soul-fulfilling shit y’all.

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jimray @jimray.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

Happy “There Will Come Soft Rains” day, a short story by that plucky midcentury writer Ray Bradbury. It’s been a minute since I read this one as I recall it’s a heartwarming tale about the joys of home automation tech. gosafir.com/mag/wp-content/uploads/…

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jimray @jimray.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

I'd happily talk to @beep for any amount of time about pretty much anything, it was a real pleasure to get to do it for work. atproto.com/off-protocol/2026-08-03…

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jimray @jimray.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

“I forgot how many fiddly bits go into putting out a podcast. I know I’ll throw together a little CMS, that’ll help” The ravings of a mad man. An imbecile. A man unfit to walk this earth.

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jimray @jimray.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026

Added a cheap pair of readers to the tool bag. One step closer to my final form, I can feel it.

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jimray @jimray.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

“Papá, who are McLuhan & Postman & Franklin & Haraway?” he reads off my tshirt as we’re gluing up foam insulation in the basement and I’ve never felt more prepared to Dad.

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jimray @jimray.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026

The Irresistible Urge to Asses One’s Surroundings After a Big Storm Rolls Through (All good here, boys and dog had a small Helene antibodies cortisol spike)

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jimray @jimray.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2026

Scheduled back-to-school haircuts a full month before school starts, just marking this in case it’s too early for Father of the Year nominations.

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jimray @jimray.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

I got to chat it up with the inimitable @kissane about the history and current state of the social web, and how we make sure we make better mistakes on our new decentralized networks. My job is to talk up atproto but we didn’t get into protocol specifics, I’m certain my Mastodon pals will enjoy […]

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jimray @jimray.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

RE: hachyderm.io/@baileytownsend/116952… ActivityPub friends, Bailey is that rare combination of deeply knowledgeable protocol nerd and incredible generous human. I know him from our work together on AT Protocol, he's exploring this side of decentralized protocol land, give […]

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jimray @jimray.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026

Hijo Dos proposes instead of cleaning the bathrooms this morning, his big brother can clean them tomorrow while he (Dos) is at camp. I agree knowing there’s no way Hijo Uno accepts this, which backfires spectacularly, and they are now practicing taekwondo? What’s happening here.

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jimray @jimray.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026

It’s difficult to express how much I, as someone with a degree in visual journalism, viscerally loathe the AI features Apple added to the camera app in os27.

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jimray @jimray.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2026

“Well, well, well. What have we here!” Opens a brown paper bag emblazoned with THE ORIGINAL FUDGE KITCHEN to discover … an unripend tomato.

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jimray @jimray.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/06/2026

Does the New York Times know you can say what actually happened, in the headline? variety.com/2026/music/news/vanilla…

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jimray @jimray.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/06/2026

Happy Father’s Day from the domestic bliss of one child teaching himself Ode to Joy on a steel drum and the other banging a maraca to a heretofore unknown time signature.

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jimray @jimray.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/06/2026

“You don’t underSTAND this couldn’t HAPPEN there are NEW. PARENTAL. CONTROLS. in iOS twenty SEVEN” I insist as I drag my sobbing child out of a Toy Story 5 birthday party.

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jimray @jimray.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/06/2026

Tech boosters when democracies propose the most basic regulation against Uber or Facebook: this is an affront to basic freedom and I literally can not imagine a great tyranny. Tech boosters when Trump targets Anthropic: lol woke ai got what they deserved so based

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jimray @jimray.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/06/2026

Exceedingly, perhaps a bit *too*, proud of this plywood sheet-cutting benchtop I put together to fit on my Bora Centipede workbench. Broke down TWENTY SIX full sheets of plywood by myself his weekend thanks to this bad boy

A 4x5 sheet of plywood with two pieces of rigid foam attached and a jig hanging in the center about a foot off the ground. A full sheet of plywood slots into the hanging jig and then lets you tilt the full sheet onto the table

Two dowels on the underside at either corner allow the tabletop to fit into the dog holes of the portable workbench.

A view of the portable workbench with the benchtop taken off. You can see two clamps on the underside made from some scrap boards, they secure the benchtop to the workbench via a 2½” bolt and a couple of wingnuts

The bench with a full sheet of plywood, a cutting guide for size, and a track saw

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jimray @jimray.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/06/2026

Raysidence World Cup ranking Personal Connection > Formerly Colonized > Underdog > Mexico > Spain > Japan > USA > Everybody Else

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