iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

“Why do you need me to understand that? What difference does it make? Whether it’s casual or serious, whether you love her or you don’t, the result is the same. You’re sleeping with my wife.”

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joseph abiola @josephabiola.substack.com · 24/09/2026

"It is a psychic wound not to be able to pass on advice, and to doubt whether anything from your own experience will be relevant to the world your kids will inherit. AI progress has created the moral and psychological equivalent of trying to drive in a dense fog."

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joseph abiola @josephabiola.substack.com · 24/09/2026

'Social media already abundantly features people who act as if advocacy of any restrictions on deployment of a technology that originated less than a half-decade ago is tantamount to trying to ban fire. Such figures are more than ready to “force you to be free+

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joseph abiola @josephabiola.substack.com · 24/09/2026

AI is a placeholder name, by the way. AI isn't "intelligent". That would imply a kind of personhood.

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joseph abiola @josephabiola.substack.com · 24/09/2026

*Hawker pushing bales of clothing in a wheelbarrow, yells suddenly: I dey see people, I no dey see money. *Random ice-cream seller pushing bicycle: You go see money. Hawker: Okay. True story.

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joseph abiola @josephabiola.substack.com · 24/09/2026

The literary space belongs to those who want to be writers, not those who want to be authors, those who want to prompt.

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joseph abiola @josephabiola.substack.com · 24/09/2026

Post a real photo you took, no context.

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joseph abiola @josephabiola.substack.com · 24/09/2026

Before you go into a romantic relationship, read the fine print. Thank me later.

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joseph abiola @josephabiola.substack.com · 24/09/2026

This sentence: "The parking spaces are reserved for elderly or disabled persons" is an inclusive statement, having an invisible "and/" where it could have read "elderly and/or..." which is something that popped up in mind while reading about logic.

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joseph abiola @josephabiola.substack.com · 24/09/2026

Am I the only writer-submitter that has accidentally sent "Dead Editor" instead of "Dear Editor".

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joseph abiola @josephabiola.substack.com · 24/09/2026

It's battle of the fittest for whoever can seize and monopolise our attention the best in this internet world, and tiktok is winning; you are the collateral damage.

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joseph abiola @josephabiola.substack.com · 24/09/2026

There's war in Ba Sing Se, guys.

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joseph abiola @josephabiola.substack.com · 24/09/2026

Olivia Dean's debut album is the type of sound that's best listened in the dead of night while sipping cold water.

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joseph abiola @josephabiola.substack.com · 24/09/2026

I love the emo-Ryan Gosling memes so much.

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joseph abiola @josephabiola.substack.com · 24/09/2026

I read somewhere once, in a book, (a book about the writing craft for that matter), that to be apolitical is in itself a political stance.

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joseph abiola @josephabiola.substack.com · 24/09/2026

I've made some aesthetic and structural changes to my website. I'd like to hear feedback, if you have the time: josephabiola dot wordpress dot com. Link in comments.

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joseph abiola @josephabiola.substack.com · 24/09/2026

"When success in art is defined as success in the market, the pursuit of liberty is corrupted by the pursuit of Will this sell? The relentless pressure to be commoditized—rather comically reframed as the drive to be 'professional'—pervades every aspect of the contemporary+

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joseph abiola @josephabiola.substack.com · 24/09/2026

I taught a student matrices and referenced the matrix outside of mathematics, relating it to the curved brackets, rectangular array and the rows/columns properties. It crossed my mind to also mention Keanu in The Matrix but I know my limits.

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joseph abiola @josephabiola.substack.com · 24/09/2026

When I read fiction, my mind uses a foggy placeholder picture for the character's faces and physique, especially those not filled in in the text. I however find it difficult to stay immersed in the fictive dream when I know the faces of the cast of a book I'm reading, and I know

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joseph abiola @josephabiola.substack.com · 24/09/2026

Twenty six, twenty seven and twenty eight sounds like made up ages.

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joseph abiola @josephabiola.substack.com · 24/09/2026

I fear that one day Black Mirror would be right and ads would pause and refuse to cancel until you train your gaze on the screen and keep eye contact.

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joseph abiola @josephabiola.substack.com · 24/09/2026

People that pump out children for "pensionary" purposes don't know what pit they're digging for themselves. I know someone who has at least six grown-ups, yet none of them are issuing considerable "return on investment".

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joseph abiola @josephabiola.substack.com · 24/09/2026

This is my approach to poetry: You know when you have to shorten a 1k-word story into 400 words? With poetry, I have to shorten it to 80. Or less. It forces you to make words your bedfellows so that you've said 10 things in two lines. That's poetry.

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joseph abiola @josephabiola.substack.com · 24/09/2026

Once upon a time, I was telling my brother that his pessimism is as delusional as my optimism.

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joseph abiola @josephabiola.substack.com · 24/09/2026

You gotta have a day to go through your bookmarks on your browsers and social apps. The internet is a moving current; make stops.

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joseph abiola @josephabiola.substack.com · 24/09/2026

They said the homework is too much and I said they could do it in fifteen minutes if they follow my example, but they disagreed and tried proving me wrong by asking me to do a similar amount of questions which I did in under ten minutes to which they said it's because I was the

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joseph abiola @josephabiola.substack.com · 24/09/2026

A reminder that AI results are subject to errors but yet they want us to take AI-checkers as reliable.

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joseph abiola @josephabiola.substack.com · 24/09/2026

"My old man had a philosophy: peace means having a bigger stick than the other guy." —Tony Stark

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joseph abiola @josephabiola.substack.com · 24/09/2026

I got myself pissed off just thinking about people who don't respect your boundaries and as an excuse say it's because you didn't tell them why you're setting those boundaries, and that they see no reason not to cross it because it's not justified in their eyes.

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joseph abiola @josephabiola.substack.com · 24/09/2026

You just gotta love a 5 o'clock shadow.

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joseph abiola @josephabiola.substack.com · 24/09/2026

I've been meaning to read Zoo City by Lauren Beukes for so long. Since 2020. Gotta read it before year's end.

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joseph abiola @josephabiola.substack.com · 24/09/2026

The first Despicable Me movie got me interested in understanding how to apply integral calculus to rate of change because I wanted to know the math behind the shrink ray's miniaturisation.

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joseph abiola @josephabiola.substack.com · 24/09/2026

It's the salem writer trials, I fear.

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joseph abiola @josephabiola.substack.com · 24/09/2026

A moving man does not put his phone on DND. He puts it on airplane mode and finishes a book.

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joseph abiola @josephabiola.substack.com · 24/09/2026

"Are you even listening to me" is an odd way to begin a conversation.

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joseph abiola @josephabiola.substack.com · 24/09/2026

I need hair advice. How do y'all maintain unruly, black hair? I'm shampooing and conditioning but when I comb in the morning, it's never neat and even ruffles more on its own. Help!

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joseph abiola @josephabiola.substack.com · 24/09/2026

You just gotta love a 5 o'clock shadow.

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joseph abiola @josephabiola.substack.com · 24/09/2026

I'm waiting to listen to Son Lux's score for Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother.

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