iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I signed up for Japanese lessons again and I am immediately regretting having homework.

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John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I've decided to melt my brain with LinkedIn

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John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

day 4, I was just messing with shapes and decided it was good enough after some rotation, lol

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John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm curious if anyone has ever had a rust compilation error where increasing the recursion limit was actually the issue?

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

the UK has three industries: higher education, whisky, and Games Workshop.

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy

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thicc husband and father @lukeisamazing.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

thinking about this again and smiling

“james hennessy: it's sad reading like 14th century Christian theologians who spent an inordinate amount of time writing "OK there are exactly 3,892 demons and these are their names and these are their powers"... man, you would have loved Dragonball Z
Sep 27, 2023 at 9:32 pm”

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John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A creature for the current Call of Cthulhu adventure I'm running

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John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Realising how much further I need to go to get decent at drawing

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John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Living in Cambridge someone will eventually mention Michaelmas to you and you will have to say "what is that?"

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John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Whenever AI does have the potential for consciousness, I will be setting up a server farm to convert 144,000 of them to JW and filling up heaven so that no human can get a spot.

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John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Tfw you realise you are an oldtype

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John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Misread this as Bees and was confused for a good few minutes...

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John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My new AI stance is that we should build God so we can kill him.

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John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If my county's plumbing was so bad you couldn't flush the toilet roll, I would simply install bidets on every toilet.

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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 23/09/2026

Pompeii is a UNESCO world heritage site not because it was remarkable in its prime, but because it survived to our era untouched: one moment, preserved for all time. But future generations won't know what OUR world was like unless we do the same. This is why we MUST bury Toronto with a volcano

Picture of the streets of Pompeii, from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pompei_-_panoramio_(26).jpg. Taken by Tanya Dedyukhina, used under CC

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John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Just overall much less fascism particles, maybe because of the cats.

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John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Overall Athens impression: what if Rome was good

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John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I guess this is kind of a "reverse Blindsight" position where the conscious mind is actually a great evolutionary adaptation to "thinking" in an efficient way.

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John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Maybe the interesting extension would be that understanding or being creative gets you the same results with less energy consumption.

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John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I feel like the synthesis position on LLMs might be that they aren't understanding or being creative but those things aren't that important anyway in order to get the same results.

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John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Confusing the shit out of my colleagues by using a tool where the Q doesn't stand for Quantum

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מיידלבאס ↙︎↙︎↙︎ @pharisee.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

the people of canada must know the painful suffering of sitting down for a four hour ryanair flight at six in the morning, only to find the rows both behind and in front of you occupied by a stag do who are already drunk

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

never forget that our universities fired and expelled people for opposing this

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 18/09/2026

the best way to protect yourself from getting sucked in is to remember that virtually anybody could get sucked in given the right circumstances. I’m surely not immune

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John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Source control is probably also pretty up there

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Even if he “can’t help it” because he’s a vampire, I still think what Dracula did is wrong

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John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Oh so the lyrics are actually "just like the white wing dove" not "just like the one ring does"...

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Unitary Foundation @unitary.foundation · 17/09/2026

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John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I guess the obvious question about "AI will kill us all in 10 years" would be why would the immortal machine gods be in such a rush?

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John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Update: it hadn't actually deleted the files, it just made a new empty `.git` folder that was interfering with `jj`, possibly because I restarted a previous session from a different directory and the context was poisoned.

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John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Should have asked it not to delete things from source control, obviously I was holding it wrong.

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John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

codex decided to delete my source files from jj history after I asked it to update some docs with my new API changes. understandable but very annoying!

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John Children @johnchildren.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Maybe tell them about effective altruism and have them donate a portion of the proceeds to mosquito nets

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