iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

John From College @jnnla.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

If more programming syntax was fun and didn't read like stereo instructions I'd be an actual programmer instead of an llm-enabled hack

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John From College @jnnla.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

The 1931 original is better as far as clarity of story and adherence to the source material... But the Bogie one has Bogie.

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John From College @jnnla.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

This makes sense when you realize that in 2016 the attention economy reoriented fully to The Influencer Spectacle paradigm and away from the Enlightenment Meritocratic paradigm of competence and reasoned civic mindedness. Wonky types have been slow to adapt to this new normal.

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John From College @jnnla.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

It's inspiring to see others share their experiments and progress, and plain refreshing to see traditional media like paper and pencils. Thanks for this!

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John From College @jnnla.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

I've yet to see a movie where a carefully planned heist is foiled because one of the accomplices phone decided to update the OS at the wrong moment and another one got locked out of her scheduling app because of a wrong password. This is the reality I know and I want to see it reflected.

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John From College @jnnla.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

They don't need people to believe it... They just need people to talk about it. So people (or the media)don't talk about more important things. Like how we make things better for everyday people.

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John From College @jnnla.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

It's not a mystery. They recognize that the Media expects a level of decorum and isn't designed to challenge outright lies. Therefore they just use schoolyard bully tactics of saying the opposite of what is true, comfortable in the understanding that they will be signal boosted and unchallenged.

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John From College @jnnla.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

What's crazy is that people think the old logo is a pre-civil rights good old boy next to a traditional ale barrel but it's actually a photo of my lesbian aunt on her Appalachian homestead with either a barrel of brine pickles or humanure compost.

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John From College @jnnla.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

25 years ago I was absolutely texting potential romantic partners on AIM. In-between playing Action Quake on DSL and listening to 'Deepest Bluest' by LL Cool J. If I were married then this would have absolutely ended it

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John From College @jnnla.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Definitely feels like you could hit Yenifer up for favors at this point without feeling awkward about it.

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John From College @jnnla.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Or how about 'how do we make sure that a teenage boy looking for romantic advice gets advice that helps him put his best self forward with tact and grace while teaching him about boundaries and rejection and interpersonal respect'

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John From College @jnnla.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

This just randomly popped up in my feed and I'm grateful - the aesthetic / design and UI of this game are amazing!

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John From College @jnnla.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Millennial Elder Statesman here to say I still have a pair of Abercrombie parachute pants from 1998 and when skinny jeans were en vogue I stayed boot-cut and straight leg. Big pants never died. You did.

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John From College @jnnla.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

The fact that only a niche, very online group of people even resonate with your critique simply underscores how far gone we are. There is no class consciousness in this country. People's psyches are numb to the injustice of their relative positions in a culture of excess. We're all cowed.

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John From College @jnnla.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

They are both world-class bullshitters *and* burying the files.

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John From College @jnnla.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

What a shame. The Grand Canyon Lodge was a very special place. I'm hoping the resources are allocated to replicate what was lost in one way or another.

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John From College @jnnla.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

I would bet my entire life savings that Matt Walsh moves on from this topic.

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John From College @jnnla.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Telling Republicans to 'wake the fuck up' is like telling a dog to use a fork when it eats.

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John From College @jnnla.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

But there *are* too many apps. That perception is not toxic at all, it is objectively correct 💯 ong.

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John From College @jnnla.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Exactly. 'Cancel Culture' was never anything but a tactic to sabotage the voicing of legitimate criticisms and genuine concerns by framing them as exaggerated or excessive in service to some (usually 'Liberal') agenda.

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John From College @jnnla.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

The AQI in Los Angeles is currently worse than when the fires were burning in January. Air IQ says we're currently third worst air on the planet just behind Kinshasa, DRC and Lahore, Pakistan. I can feel the inside of my nose stinging. Not worth fireworks IMO. Get off my lawn.

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John From College @jnnla.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Love how he's like: 'There's another way - Democrats need to speak to Americans desire for economic security and effectual social programs, but without actually doing anything to make that happen. That's how we win '

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John From College @jnnla.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Hakeem Jeffries looks like a person wearing one of those super-realistic silicone masks and Virginia Fox looks like she should be selling handmade candles on Etsy. Can they both go away?

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John From College @jnnla.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Pedo stuff aside, what if the flower shadow was a gun.

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John From College @jnnla.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

I'm no fan of Jeff Bezos but I'm a big fan of wearing whatever you want, especially if it bothers fashion-scolds, so I'm a little conflicted here.

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John From College @jnnla.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Yeah to fire a shot like 'nah, I don't really like capitalism' but then to signal boost MLK Jrs take on that point in the same breath is just masterful.

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John From College @jnnla.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Barely got a few episodes into either. Both were a 'no thanks.' For what it's worth chatGPT can barely format a list into multiple columns on a landscape sheet of paper so do take its analysis with salt.

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John From College @jnnla.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

I honestly don't feel like there should be people walking around who don't consider 250k enthusiastic.

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John From College @jnnla.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Wait, as a Democratic Socialist am I allowed to not pay taxes? Sign me up.

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John From College @jnnla.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

I wish our culture had a better way to communicate: 'I swear these clothes are clean, the stains you see are old ones that I tried unsuccessfully to remove and I'm simply not going to buy new clothes right now despite my shame'

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Janessa Goldbeck @janessagoldbeck.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

🚨 There’s a lot of horrific news out of Washington right now—but you might have missed this: Senate Republicans just introduced a plan to sell off 120 million acres of our public lands. Let me break down what’s in the bill and why it’s a full-scale land grab. 🧵

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John From College @jnnla.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Correct. And it cannot be said enough.

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John From College @jnnla.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Honestly LLMa are a vast improvement to asking a question on StackOverflow which had an institutional average persona of 'persnickety rule-obsessed gate keeper'. Sure you might get an answer if you survived the toxicity. LLMs put me back onto learning code after StackOverflow put me off

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John From College @jnnla.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

If you think of it as a weak final episode block whose primary goal is to blend into A New Hope it works out well. To jive with this perspective you have to be on board with a tonal taper that moves from the nuanced depth of Andor to the campy shallows of A New Hope.

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John From College @jnnla.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

The Andor and Rogue One teams have fulfilled the promise of the Original Star Wars Trilogy that is deeply meaningful to this 80s kid. The intention with which they layered in the transitions between legacies is nothing short of incredible and strengthens the whole while elevating what came before

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John From College @jnnla.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

They are incredibly interesting - almost less for their capabilities than for the discussions around their limits and where they belong both now and going forward.

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John From College @jnnla.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

I have the lemon tree and the grill but fr fr why we doing this?

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John From College @jnnla.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Love this. These are the attorneys I want at my back. They go hard.

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John From College @jnnla.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

No matter how depressed I am, the opening beeps and bloops of 'Fireflies' by Owl City will make me laugh because that's just the kind of guy I am.

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John From College @jnnla.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Read the room, know your audience, meet people where they are at and then add sugar to the medicine you dispense.

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John From College @jnnla.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

This is 💯 percent the strategy. From the mountain tops this is what is happening.

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John From College @jnnla.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

The global status quo elite trying to deal with Donald Trump is like the town leaders in the movie Footloose trying to deal with Kevin Bacon. He operates so far outside of their established norms that they don't even have a framework for understanding how to properly address the chaos he brings.

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John From College @jnnla.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Watching the 1981 movie "Roar" for the first time, which I learned about from the BTB podcast by @iwriteok.bsky.social, and 10 minutes in I'm already holding my own skull in my hands and saying "f*ck no"

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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Thanks to @gilduran.com for reading Yarvin's latest missive. I tapped out after about 2,000 out of 7,000 words, most of them metaphors that curl in and out of each other like a plate of spaghetti. www.thenerdreich.com/curtis-yarvi...

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Curtis Yarvin Fears His Authoritarian Fantasy Is Imploding

Dark Enlightenment guru sees his desired revolution unraveling under the weight of its own stupidity

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John From College @jnnla.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Yes. It's not being reported as the wealth-transfer that it is. 1. Wreck economy / tariff the world to pay for elite tax cuts. 2. Scoop stocks at bargain prices. 3. 'Fix' wrecked economy by proposing additional permanent elite tax cuts, austerity and tariff rollback to the Market Classes.

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John From College @jnnla.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Can't they just create AI users who are always engaged? They cook their engagement numbers anyway

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