iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Jared @jradicalphd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Yes, AI doesn’t go rogue. It does what you asked it to do. When it does something bad, wrong, or criminal, it’s on the person who asked. The genie grants the wishes, even when someone doesn’t really understand what they’re wishing for.

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Jared @jradicalphd.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Goddamn I love the world baseball classic. The storylines are incredible. The homerun celebrations are incredible. But I love it most because baseball explains so much about America and America, despite inventing the sport, has so much to learn from baseball.

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Jared @jradicalphd.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Ada Lovelace was/is/will always be right: “The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform.” Every AI dude seems to forget that some instructions have unintended consequences. But intention isn’t all that matters.

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Jared @jradicalphd.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

New Pedal Day! Even the dog wants to know what it sounds like!

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Jared @jradicalphd.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Make a Bond movie academic Publish and Let Perish

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Jared @jradicalphd.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Every young person into modernism learning that Wyndham Lewis exists has this happen.

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Jared @jradicalphd.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Frank’s got a lot of “guys I think the stripper likes me” energy here as well.

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Jared @jradicalphd.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

I like how he lists all of the things most humans wouldn’t put up with and then says it passes the Turing Test.

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Jared @jradicalphd.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

I’ve discovered a new way to be insufferable at Thanksgiving! “Learn“ how to play ”Alice’s Restaurant” between 8 and 9 am. Then you can play it for your family, who barely tolerates your love of the song, but while saying “hold on. Wait. It’s this.” Or “I forget the next part, but then its...”

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Annie Heffernan @annieheff.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Here I was agonizing over every comma and exclamation mark in my correspondence, oblivious to the fact that an alarming number of extremely powerful, rich, and ethically bankrupt public figures (ahem, Larry Summers) were firing off emails that are borderline gibberish (with a side of ellipses).

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Jared @jradicalphd.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

It has come to my attention this story may not be true. Still stands that I think about it a lot.

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Jared @jradicalphd.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Took my 10 year old to his first concert last night. @thebeths.bsky.social. His review to his younger brother this morning “YOU DON’T EVEN KNOW HOW EXCITING IT IS!”

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Jared @jradicalphd.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

There are more important things in the world, but I would really love it if streaming services would stop animating old album covers.

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Jared @jradicalphd.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Totally! The right word for it is writing. But if we called it that, we’d have to admit that the thing people most commonly use ai for is just an extra step that makes your electric bill go up.

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Jared @jradicalphd.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

It’s Joyce by a mile. And it would still be Joyce by a mile with only Dubliners and Portrait. But it isn’t just those two.

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Jared @jradicalphd.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

I had to put in level 2 outlet, but I have a 40 ish mile total commute. I charge overnight a few times a week and never really think about it. It’s probably paid for itself in gas savings. And my super basic Bolt EUV drives better than any gas car I’ve ever owned. EVs are a no brainer.

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How Much It Costs to Drive an E.V. and a Gas Car in Every State

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Jared @jradicalphd.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

I did notice the neck pickup does get it right a bit more often. Pedal must have trouble with higher frequencies. I wonder if the eq boosting mids before it would do something similar. Tons of the songs do a quick change between synth and open notes. May tune to e flat and try the fret mute.

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Jared @jradicalphd.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Man, those things look LOUD. And I bet when they’re cranked, they’re louder than they look.

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Jared @jradicalphd.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Covers. Cars and Cake at the moment. The pedal isn’t perfect but it gets messy in interesting ways. Super fun.

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Jared @jradicalphd.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

New pedalboard set up for tomorrow night’s show. This is getting absurd(ly cool).

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Jared @jradicalphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

It does seem like it. That or the eyeball alien thing.

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Some smart publication should reach out to every single person who signed the Harper’s letter and get their comment / explicit no-comment

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Jared @jradicalphd.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Sometimes you have to remind yourself.

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Jared @jradicalphd.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

“To resist despair in this world is what it is to be free.” youtu.be/9dMVHxFzNK4

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Operation Ivy - Sound System

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Jared @jradicalphd.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

The guitar looper pedal, while an ingenious little invention for practice, is the embodiment of selfish individualism in performance. In this paper I will…

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

these motherfuckers stoked the flames of bigotry for decades for political gain. now they’re acting like someone who drove drunk, crashed his car into a tree, and wants to blame the evil dems for not taking his keys away. sorry you lost control of the beast it and ate your party whole

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Jared @jradicalphd.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

I’ve been thinking about Russian River Beers too much and immediately thought “Beers don’t have opinions.”

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Jared @jradicalphd.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Conversations with friends don’t have a real metric. If they did, American vandal would be dominating the billboard top ten of my cultural criticism conversations.

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Jared @jradicalphd.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Because I’m rewatching it at the moment. The part in Terminator where Cameron can’t leave it well enough alone and has Arnold standing in front of the flashing “Tech-Noir” sign holding an Uzi.

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Jim Furbranes @unlox.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Don’t want to lose sight of the fact that the No Kings rallies were planned specifically as counterprogramming to Trump’s parade. Imagine if you were planning a birthday party and bars nationwide announced they’d hold Fuck That Guy’s Birthday Night and like 15 times as many people showed up to those

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Jared @jradicalphd.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

PCA is so much fun to watch! MVPete!

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Jared @jradicalphd.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

You know you need the semester to end when you think, “This lullaby version of ‘Rock the Casbah’ is so relaxing.”

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Trumpism fulfilled.

2-year old US citizen deported ‘with no meaningful due processs,’ judge says

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Jared @jradicalphd.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs. (“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR *AND* if you teach or study film, nothing you’ve ever taught/studied)

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a man with a beard and sunglasses is driving a car with his arms outstretched .

ALT: a man with a beard and sunglasses is driving a car with his arms outstretched .

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Jared @jradicalphd.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

The best dissertation is a finished dissertation.

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Jared @jradicalphd.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Variations of “how so?” “Say more” are also a college teacher’s bread and butter. The other trick is “when you say [abstract word] what do you mean?”

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Jared @jradicalphd.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Who would have guessed that a company named after a communication technology which has fallen into the wrong hands and is now a dangerous surveillance tool that threatens freedom would become a company that surveils people and threatens their freedom?

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Jared @jradicalphd.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

For sale: Golf clubs. Broken shafts.

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Jared @jradicalphd.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Relatedly, there's a very clear divide between guys who bought new clubs and guys who quit golf on FB Marketplace. The quitters note "some broken shafts" in the listing title.

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Jared @jradicalphd.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

I wonder if you could predict divorce rates based on the number of listings for golf clubs and bass amps on Facebook Marketplace.

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Jared @jradicalphd.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Me in 7th grade and me yesterday:

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Jared @jradicalphd.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

A film that takes place where you're from.

A black and white image of Phoenix, Arizona with Friday, December the Eleventh written over it in white text. Taken from the opening sequence in Hitchcock's Psycho.

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sophie-okz.bsky.social @sophie-okz.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Hi. It’s me. Former child recipient of a dead parent’s social security - a program my Dad paid into his entire life + was never able to use but was critical to keeping our family housed + fed. Not fraud, just a smart way to give kids a chance to succeed. PS that helps everybody

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