iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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norvid_studies @norvid-studies.bsky.social · 23h

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

you do have to respect will stancil's utterly dogged determination to teach philosophy of mind 101 to bluesky

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 18/09/2026

Being a computer scientist who refuses to find anything about LLMs interesting right now is a bit like being a geneticist who refuses to find anything interesting about the recently opened Jurassic Park

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Kyle Baxter @kbaxter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

look everyone you might not like Meta’s instagram micro personalized ad targeting, but this is what peak (ad) targeting looks like

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Kyle Baxter @kbaxter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

the thing about having a Malinois is they’re the most loving, happy go lucky, innocent psychos you’ll ever meet

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Kyle Baxter @kbaxter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I think doomer-style AI-will-cause-extinction is overstated, but folks do need to be aware that there is a significant risk of models causing significant damage. Here’s some short sketches of the risks demonstrated by the HF incident.

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Kyle Baxter @kbaxter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A significant percentage of this community has some mix of misunderstandings of what AI is and epistemic closure. And like politics, there’s a whole lot of people uninterested in trying to learn more about an objective reality, and are entirely interested in proving their preexisting views.

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Kyle Baxter @kbaxter.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

My thinking is still evolving, but I tend to think risks of concentration of ownership (both for inference and development) of foundation models in a small number of companies is a more critical risk than risks posed by use of the models, both politically and economically, and geopolitically.

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Kyle Baxter @kbaxter.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I think an under-discussed part of the OpenAI Summer of Hacks is how woefully inadequate their monitoring must have been to allow agents to not only gain external access and hack other companies, but also take over some of OAI’s own internal systems for extended periods of time.

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Nathaniel William Horadam @horadam.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Patriotic Americans have an obligation to stand with our country. Which means standing with Canada and our other G7 allies.

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Kyle Baxter @kbaxter.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

this is just anti-LA discrimination

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Kyle Baxter @kbaxter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I recently kickstarted TightWind, my weblog, again, and I am really excited to bring it back. It’s now at tightwind.io. I’m still working through some kinks, but most of my archive should be back. I’ll share some essays I still find relevant, like “Design For Purpose”: tightwind.io/design-for-p...

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Kyle Baxter @kbaxter.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Matic Cues from @maticrobots.bsky.social: maticrobots.com/hey-matic Super exciting update. You can tell your Matic what to do and where to clean, and even point to where. Matic hears you, sees you point, and does it. You can even tell it to follow you to a mess to clean. And it’s done on device.

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Hey Matic

Say "Hey Matic" and it's on it. Voice and gesture control let anyone in the family send Matic to clean any mess, any room, any time.

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Kyle Baxter @kbaxter.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I am a bit of a robot vacuum enthusiast (I’ve owned Deebot, iRobot, and Roborock vacuums), and we recently got a @maticrobots.bsky.social (maticrobots.com) to replace our Roborock Qrevo Pro. I have been really impressed with it.

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Matic

The world's most advanced floor cleaner. Your home's best helper.

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Kyle Baxter @kbaxter.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The thing about jumping off a cliff is even if you survive and recover, it’s either impossible—or extremely arduous—to get back to your original position.

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David Sims @davidlsims.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

if I ever taught film criticism lesson one would be “you being smarter than the movie is not interesting to anyone”

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Kyle Baxter @kbaxter.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Nine Inch Noize is like if BLADE RUNNER and TERMINATOR got together and had a music baby

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Kyle Baxter @kbaxter.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

It sounds silly to many until you live with an EV, but it’s true: charging it is effectively zero effort. You never have to stop at a gas station after work. Never panic in the morning when you realize you forgot to fuel up yesterday. Never have to fuel up before a trip. That weekly effort, gone.

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Kyle Baxter @kbaxter.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

The manosphere is well known at this point and is still somehow under-focused on for its cancerous impact on our politics, culture, and nation.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/07/2026

interesting to me that as the administration treats democratic-voting states like conquered or occupied territories, you don’t have pundits demanding the president respect “half the country”

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Kyle Baxter @kbaxter.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Good coffee. Figure Eight vinyl on. Sometimes life is good.

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Kyle Baxter @kbaxter.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I hope everyone who contorted themselves into pretzel shapes never before conceived in order to support Platner and tear down anyone who said anything negative about him are proud of themselves.

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Kyle Baxter @kbaxter.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Kavanaugh sitting on the Supreme Court is not just an offense to our nation but also to competence itself. What a horrid, shoddy concurrence.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

people got mad at me yesterday when i said the dems were not ready to take court reform seriously. 5-4 for non-racial citizenship is not a win, it's a reprieve bsky.app/profile/schu...

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Kyle Baxter @kbaxter.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

It’s pretty cool seeing solar panels ramp up production, charge up the battery and power the house, ramp down as the sun sets, and the battery take over. I don’t *need* to look at this every day, but I’m a dork, so this brings me immense satisfaction right now watching it work.

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Kyle Baxter @kbaxter.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

One fun rabbit hole for home solar is EV charging. EV charging without solar is simple: charge when your rates are lowest (usually overnight)—you set your charge window in your car, plug it in whenever you need to, and it does the right thing. Solar’s a little more complex.

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sarahwooders.bsky.social @sarahwooders.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Agents are now very good at writing code. Agents are also composed of code (the harness). This means that agents can self-adapt through rewriting their harness - now supported in Letta Code through *mods*.

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Kyle Baxter @kbaxter.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Culver’s is pretty variable from location to location (or region to region?) in my experience. I’ve had it in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Florida. Culver’s in Wisconsin and Minnesota was one of the better fast food burgers I’ve had. Culver’s in Florida was not worth the calories, fat, and guilt.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

there were lots of people who correctly saw that this was a double disaster - a massacre of Jews that was going to result in an apocalyptic slaughter in Gaza - and acted accordingly; the literally pro-Hamas rallies were not among them. People were fucking jubilant!

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Kyle Baxter @kbaxter.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Similar to the rapid expansion of solar production and deployment we’ve gone through, we are going through the same thing for batteries, but we are in the earlier stages of that curve. Knowledge of this is not yet evenly distributed. www.canarymedia.com/articles/bat...

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Kyle Baxter @kbaxter.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

they said if I didn’t vote for Trump there would be taco trucks on every corner, and they were right

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Kyle Baxter @kbaxter.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Solar famously produces maximal (and excess) power during the high point of the day. So much so that different jurisdictions are experimenting with free power during that window to soak up excess. Which happens to correspond when cooling is most needed. With that context, witness the anti-AC mind:

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/06/2026

yes it can

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Kyle Baxter @kbaxter.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Folks will go to great lengths embarrassing themselves to justify an obstinate refusal to save lives and be comfortable.

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Kyle Baxter @kbaxter.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

This is a good thread. The downsides and risks of AI use and systems are represented pretty well in discussions of them, but those discussions often use an idealized version of comparative human processes which ignore real downsides and harm they cause.

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Kyle Baxter @kbaxter.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Under discussed in the EV range anxiety wars is road trip destination charging: not all of it has to be DCFC. Eg on our trip to Big Sur this month, we stayed the night on the way in Pismo Beach. We arrived with ~33%, plugged into the hotel’s level 2 charging, and left the next morning at 100%.

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Kyle Baxter @kbaxter.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

This is nothing more than literal fantasy. We tried to use force to compel them into surrender in the initial wave; it failed because Iran’s government didn’t collapse and then they demonstrated they could destroy Gulf production at will. Then, we repeatedly threatened to go nuclear, and… didn’t.

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Kyle Baxter @kbaxter.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Our solar+battery system was turned on earlier this week, so I’ve been watching its production like a hawk (mostly because I’m a dork, not because I need to). Today, despite it being overcast in the morning, we produced 56 kWh. It’s so nice running everything and having it all covered by production.

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Joseph D. Ortiz @earthsciinfo.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Range anxiety is not a valid excuse to not own an EV. EVs today have 250-300 miles range & high-end ones have almost double that. Most of the U.S. is now within a 50-mile driving radius of an EV DC fast charger. And much of it is with a 10-mile radius. 🧪💡🔌☀️💨💧🔋 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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See How E.V. Road Trips Went From Impossible to Easy

There are a lot more fast chargers than there used to be. Look up what that could mean for a route near you.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 14/06/2026

New paper alert! tl;dr: parts of what we thought were the oldest rocks on Venus might in fact be among the youngest. This story involves the "tessera" on Venus, which is some of the weirdest stuff in the Solar System. A thread:

Tessera on Venus, seen with radar backscatter imagery and a colour stretch that goes from rough (yellow) to smooth (purple). Normally, radar imagery is shown in greyscale, but that's BORING

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Kyle Baxter @kbaxter.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

This story is disturbing on multiple levels. Sex trafficking gone digital; the metastasizing of misogyny into a global community-scam; the merger of it with a nihilistic right wing. What’s scarier is there’s some new version of what the Tates represent growing in the online swamps today, unseen.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/06/2026

i really, truly, find this offensive

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