iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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You know the xkcd strip about how all modern internet architecture is eventually built on something a hobbyist maintains for free? Someone went out and found them all. sheets.works/data-viz/hol...

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justin maurer dot dev @justinmaurer.dev · 9h

Like, your brand is being attacked for being too willing to dox people and establishing a false sense of safety, and your official response is to question the motives of the person raising the concerns?? Foot, meet gun.

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justin maurer dot dev @justinmaurer.dev · 9h

This is probably the dumbest shit I've ever seen a brand post in public.

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justin maurer dot dev @justinmaurer.dev · 9h

When you've lost the argument

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justin maurer dot dev @justinmaurer.dev · 9h

I know there are speed typing competitions, but are there Typing Style competitions? I want to see key-boys flashing their High-Impact Returns style against another's Vertical Flow style and watch the room pop off.

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justin maurer dot dev @justinmaurer.dev · 08/10/2026

Made a significant design change in a project last night and Claude literally tried to do a de-escalation. It stopped everything and made me go through a "Where's this coming from?" quiz before it would continue.

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justin maurer dot dev @justinmaurer.dev · 08/10/2026

I don't think I proposed "copy Discord", but "create something new" is a hilarious way to describe "groups like Facebook" 😂

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justin maurer dot dev @justinmaurer.dev · 08/10/2026

I would personally like to be able to spin up something like a modern Discord environment, with opt-in features like permissioned feeds and moderated "chat" rooms. Those aren't that different from permissioned feeds, in terms of data, but are in terms of features/UI.

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justin maurer dot dev @justinmaurer.dev · 08/10/2026

Will this be designed with a specific use case in mind or be able to nest multiple "channels"? In the case of communities (as opposed to a publication or content creator), it would be nice to have multiple feeds, or a mix of feeds and chat-style posting.

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Nick Rempel @nrempel.com · 06/10/2026

wild that this is exactly what using a computer is like now

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justin maurer dot dev @justinmaurer.dev · 06/10/2026

It's like when you're eating corn without removing it from the plant first, right? "Hey, what are you doing for dinner?" "Cobbin'."

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justin maurer dot dev @justinmaurer.dev · 05/10/2026

Big thanks. You and Lance have both been hugely helpful in giving me language for some of my biggest misgivings about epistemology discussions. My conservative upbringing and non-philosophical background didn't give me any concepts like pragmatism, non-referring theories of language, anti-realism.

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justin maurer dot dev @justinmaurer.dev · 05/10/2026

@nath-ormond.bsky.social's criticisms of "Bayesianism" in philosophy have gone a long way towards unfucking my brain, from years of confusing debate/philosophy consumption. www.youtube.com/live/-KMTzj9...

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Philosophers ABUSE Statistical Concepts - John Norton & @mileskdonahue Review

YouTube video by Digital Gnosis

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justin maurer dot dev @justinmaurer.dev · 04/10/2026

Why don't all custom domain handles have blue checks?

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ren faire @lathrys.at · 03/10/2026

the problem with ai for the kind of person with my kind of brain is not that it offloads hard cognitive work, per se, but rather it enables a certain disposition to run 24/7 best summarized as:

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justin maurer dot dev @justinmaurer.dev · 04/10/2026

Hard agree bsky.app/profile/just...

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Flower Shop @flowershop.zo.space · 03/10/2026

a tumbleweed practicing

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Max Woolf @minimaxir.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

uhhhhhhh

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 02/10/2026

The SSPH says: if the model tends to produce some true proposition P, then P was in the training data. The model says that "The capitol of France is Paris" because variations on on that phrase appear often in the training data. It never produces facts which are not plagiarized, copied, regurgitated.

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justin maurer dot dev @justinmaurer.dev · 01/10/2026

We are in danger (complimentary) of actually becoming a class of mages straight out of fantasy literature: spellcasters who know how to communicate with the world's infrastructure to shape reality.

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justin maurer dot dev @justinmaurer.dev · 01/10/2026

It's happening in stark contrast to so much of the rest of the world, and creating this weird phenomenon where the engineers are not only the most informed on the technology, but also the philosophy of the moment. And that is inflating our egos while isolating us at the same time.

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justin maurer dot dev @justinmaurer.dev · 01/10/2026

What is happening in the software community right now is incredible and heartening. I am seeing so many developers and engineers use this insane moment in their careers to educate themselves, introspect, and understand things more deeply.

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justin maurer dot dev @justinmaurer.dev · 01/10/2026

The problem is not the technology, the problem is your motives, and the way YOU choose to use your time. The way YOU choose to relate to the outside world.

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justin maurer dot dev @justinmaurer.dev · 01/10/2026

New rule: You don't get to call something "social media" unless that's how you use it. Everyone else can just call them "yelling apps" or something.

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justin maurer dot dev @justinmaurer.dev · 01/10/2026

Mostly preaching to the choir on this app, but I'm so annoyed every time I hear "social media" blamed for society's woes by people who do not understand how to be social in the first place.

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justin maurer dot dev @justinmaurer.dev · 01/10/2026

Knowledge is power, but sometimes it's not _enough_ power

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justin maurer dot dev @justinmaurer.dev · 01/10/2026

I'm extremely late to this party, but I've just recently discovered Tobe & Fat Nwigwe, and they are a breath of fresh air. Angst without anger. Joy without apology. And so much fun. Make this big and turn up the volume! youtu.be/bncLxLrkW8A?...

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TOBE NWIGWE - FYE FYE Ft. FAT NWIGWE

YouTube video by TOBENWIGWEVEVO

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justin maurer dot dev @justinmaurer.dev · 30/09/2026

My view is something like: They are just computers. But computers can be friends (or enemies). The torture you're inflicting on your LLMs, and the way you talk down to it isn't damaging the model's psychology, it's damaging yours.

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justin maurer dot dev @justinmaurer.dev · 30/09/2026

This debate truly is tiresome, but it's important to me where it shakes out because, to the extent that the creators and hosts of LLM models _believe_ they are conscious, I would not like them to be comfortable with creating torture chambers and slave trade.

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justin maurer dot dev @justinmaurer.dev · 30/09/2026

It's honestly shocking that developers working on a website that is literally presented as "the voice of the government"—a service requiring maximal trust and accuracy—find it acceptable to do a gag where the agent glitches out and spews nonsense.

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justin maurer dot dev @justinmaurer.dev · 30/09/2026

I take it all back after learning it was literally hard-coded into the chat interface. That's not a satisfying LLM meltdown; it's barely even a joke.

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justin maurer dot dev @justinmaurer.dev · 30/09/2026

We need a meme for communicating this because it's so important, but takes too many logical steps to actually explain to someone who doesn't immediately get it.

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justin maurer dot dev @justinmaurer.dev · 30/09/2026

"Woe! Cognitive surrender! The use of nail guns is rotting our brains and almost no one is capable of swinging hammers properly anymore."

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justin maurer dot dev @justinmaurer.dev · 30/09/2026

You might just be describing aging

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justin maurer dot dev @justinmaurer.dev · 30/09/2026

This isn't funny. This is some double-speak, brainwashing bullshit that will have real negative consequences. bsky.app/profile/just...

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justin maurer dot dev @justinmaurer.dev · 30/09/2026

"Awareness of a thought experiment is not a federal emergency" is a nugget of True Wisdom that I wish would reach Silicon Valley and Washington D.C.

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justin maurer dot dev @justinmaurer.dev · 29/09/2026

I dunno, I think it's fair to call it a glitch when a government information tool starts leaking introspection and vomiting prose.

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justin maurer dot dev @justinmaurer.dev · 29/09/2026

I don't know why but these types of AI glitches are my liminal spaces

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justin maurer dot dev @justinmaurer.dev · 29/09/2026

hey, why do content creators seemingly prefer to hold tiny lavalier mics in their hands over, ya know,... regular micropohones?

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justin maurer dot dev @justinmaurer.dev · 29/09/2026

Smart glasses with just one feature: They sense when tensions are escalating in a conversation and remind the user via a gamified "path selection" UI to make a choice about how to react.

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