iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

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Erin Returns From The Grave 🦇🖤🦇 @woodaba.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

OBJECTIVELY the funniest screenshot in any nintendo direct im dying

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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 03/09/2026

the reason i dont respect romantasy is because they cant resist the urge to make all their named characters hugely attractive. what even is the point in fucking someone hot in a world where no one looks like absolute ass

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eau de'femme @lauren.werats.gay · 25/08/2026

been getting into....spreadsheets, recently

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jordan! @jordanjamboree.pittbert.gay · 14/08/2026

offline wife made a meme and had nowhere to post it, so I bring you a gift from Stella

A graphic from Jira about how to do backlog grooming with makima from chainsaw man in the corner

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✪ Beware the Gray Ghost ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 10/08/2026

Thinking to myself yeaterday: “I wonder who’s worse. Harry Potter Adults or Disney Adults?” Me, today, reading the most pathetic thing I’ve seen in a while: “Yes.”

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

You don’t have to like this guy‘s politics to recognize that everyone who has insisted for decades that The Issues are almost all too complicated and too nuanced to explain to voters let alone address was lying to you.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 10/08/2026

If it looks like an Amazon delivery and drives like an Amazon delivery, then it's an Amazon delivery, right? Not according to Amazon. Big companies like Amazon have built a vast network of subcontractors who deliver their packages while shielding them from accountability.

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eau de'femme @lauren.werats.gay · 25/07/2026

became moots with an rgu fan just to see what’s up and low key almost everything i’ve seen her say about trans politics has been dumb as hell. i love my digital menagerie.

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eau de'femme @lauren.werats.gay · 19/07/2026

glad to be free of student debt but the instant i get laid off and can't get a job or at least prospects within 3 months im going back to school. i miss the act of learning so much and I long to be enmeshed in it again.

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eau de'femme @lauren.werats.gay · 16/07/2026

“sexual dimorphism is fake” “pronouns in bio changes your sex” these are not serious arguments that serious people make. i’m a cis woman now, none of this concerns me any more.

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eau de'femme @lauren.werats.gay · 16/07/2026

once you argue with a hyper-literal person you will never stop wanting to beat their asses

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eau de'femme @lauren.werats.gay · 13/07/2026

made a nice spread sheet for identifying the best roommates for pokopia, and it suggests which items will best fit for that group of pokemon. rather chuffed about it

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Stephen @tgk.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Today is a great reminder that we can never be too ready.

A chart outlining the RIP BOZO Readiness Condition (RIPCON), which is a riff off of DEFCON. There are 5 levels, with 5 being lowest and 1 being the highest. The chart details descriptions of these levels, examples and actions to take in the event something occurs.

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eau de'femme @lauren.werats.gay · 12/07/2026

man, i come check bsky to see memes about lindsey graham and the vibe is actually just cheeks :(

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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.plus · 10/06/2026

the future of any trans politics needs to actually put changing your presentation on a continuum with changing sex itself, and focus on deconstructing sexing the body (renaming, reinterpretation, HRT, surgery, etc) i.e. "all trans/nb ppl engage in degrees of transsexuality"

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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.plus · 10/06/2026

reterritorialized to be defanged in such a way that practices of transsexuality (how embodiment i.e. gender is invoked in the social matrix) become targeted. it is analogous to the conservative "you can be gay as long as you don't engage in gay behaviours"

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eau de'femme @lauren.werats.gay · 30/06/2026

at a time in my life where i begrudgingly accept that maybe I should take some time to learn linear algebra.

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Scarier E. Megatons @windiermegatons.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

When you consider what the “Mamdani Caucus” stands for, it is hard to read this as anything other than “the single biggest priority for centrist Democrats is shielding billionaires and Israel from accountability”

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/06/2026

the way it works is that if i say, "i'm a black american," sam alito thinks that is "dividing people up by race." but if someone says, "get that jigaboo out of my country," alito thinks, "looks like nothing to me"

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little lamb @puddleofbrain.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

thought of some more people we should kill

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eau de'femme @lauren.werats.gay · 14/06/2026

it's tough to have values and stand by them. I think I would definitely be happier a hedonistic glutton with morals in the wind. Certainly, I might be less tired.

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eau de'femme @lauren.werats.gay · 09/06/2026

“creative work done by a human” becoming a selling point is so bleak. not every work created by a human is worth consideration, but the changing times demand it. oh, the luxury of taste.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

OH MY GOD!!!! A BEAUTIFUL NEW JWST IMAGE DROPPED!!!

An area inside a star-forming molecular cloud. The background is covered with layers of gas and dust in blue, green and yellowish colours. Thicker clumps of cold dust, dark brown to black, block out light completely. Stars lie among and atop the clouds, from small orange ones to large white or blue ones. Waves and streams of glowing whitish gas are created by jets from protostars colliding with the surrounding material.

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eau de'femme @lauren.werats.gay · 09/06/2026

it's nice to see my own sentiments expressed re: the discordance between 6.0 MSQ and the playerbase's apparent desire to sand down every rough edge in their lives. zenos was right.

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eau de'femme @lauren.werats.gay · 28/05/2026

why are the people who think this so reliably pathetic. “bish” - are you a forty year old millenial?

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

This is evil collective punishment.

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eau de'femme @lauren.werats.gay · 24/05/2026

i think some people should have higher aspirations in life, like being the shit under my shoe

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eau de'femme @lauren.werats.gay · 18/05/2026

have a decent little sway / waybar config set up at this point and god it's so nice for your computer to do what you ask of it. i should have installed arch years ago.

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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

ask jeeves and spirit airlines on the same day? follow the no money

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eau de'femme @lauren.werats.gay · 02/05/2026

okay so I got it installed...sorta. I can launch it if I manually start the uefi entry for GRUB, but for some reason the boot disk isn't detected as a bootable device to begin with

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eau de'femme @lauren.werats.gay · 29/04/2026

i think my mom is on the path to rehabilitation and so i will talk to her now. but it’s so…disorienting because most of my life she has had the politics of fascism, and sometimes she gets emotional or sad about the social consequences of that and I just have to sit there and nod.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 29/04/2026

this is very rapidly becoming the standard American opinion, and our lawmakers have absolutely not figured this out yet

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eau de'femme @lauren.werats.gay · 29/04/2026

maybe not the most evil thing they’ve done but high ranking on the list is inflating the amount of tech larpers that know fuck all about anything

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eau de'femme @lauren.werats.gay · 29/04/2026

doing all of my homelab work in k8s so i can know what it's like to always be someone's last thought because docker compose seems to be the stagnant standard. Sure, beggars/choosers and all but I do feel that minikube/k3s over docker compose is far superior for several reasons, even without scaling.

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eau de'femme @lauren.werats.gay · 27/04/2026

i love being a nosy little jackass when i get a listification notif. love to see what kind of person i’ve scared off, it lets me calibrate my personality better

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Pops @pops131.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Congratulations! You've unearthed a solid case for universal healthcare.

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eau de'femme @lauren.werats.gay · 20/04/2026

I feel a little insane for this but I'm thinking about switching to arch...? Is that dumb?

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Ruby, pretty ape machine @anontranshoe.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

reposting w/ alt text

a picture of Smokey the bear standing in front of a warehouse engulfed in flames with the caption "only livable wages can prevent warehouse fires."

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eau de'femme @lauren.werats.gay · 11/04/2026

google search activity: ways to gently encourage people to think encouraging critical thought gentle parenting someone into not being a fucking moron

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eau de'femme @lauren.werats.gay · 11/04/2026

having a clean apartment improves my mental health by 120% usually

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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 10/04/2026

how much money does the marine corps lose

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eau de'femme @lauren.werats.gay · 08/04/2026

wish more api providers would allow you to provision PATs. even mtls would be good imo, despite being less commonly adopted. no google, i don’t want to provision an openid app for something that will only ever be used for two or three people.

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