iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 10/10/2026

The two coffee shop regulars who always use strangers to talk about themselves have run into each other. The convo is just each of them trying to cut the other one off to regain conversational supremacy. I love this.

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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 09/10/2026

The baby has started resisting his high chair and booster seat, insisting “big one!!” and taking my adult chair. I am supposed to sit one spot over, now. The pecking order is established.

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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 08/10/2026

Everyone on here gonna watch that firing squad live and write solemn substack pieces about how awful it was to watch such a thing live.

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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 08/10/2026

Baby hears Jingle Bells: “jingle bear, jingle bear 🎵 “

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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 06/10/2026

It's a shame you can't impact the economy via sheer length of pull request descriptions, claude, but keep trying I guess.

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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 06/10/2026

Baby is making 5 word phrases now—“big rock in the water,” “I want ball up high”—so he’s running like 10 months ahead on the language milestones. I look forward to reading his memoir.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 05/10/2026

I don't know who needs to hear this, but the autonomous vehicle developers who most vocally argued that society must accept a certain number of deaths to enjoy the technology's safety benefits (Tesla & Uber ATG) were the only ones who killed people and never actually delivered on their promises

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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 02/10/2026

I learned the chords for Twinkle Twinkle on the ukulele. I play it for the baby. Baby, 3 chords in: “no, all done.”

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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 01/10/2026

My insurance is trying to charge an extra $648 for my kid's birth (nearly two years ago), claiming they "retracted the original payment that was previously applied to the claim and then reprocessed the claim." So basically they just got up one day and decided they paid too much.

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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 01/10/2026

Baby, unprompted: “mama needa shower.”

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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 30/09/2026

As I prep for another evening spent carrying my son in circles around a playground — he wants to BE here, but he doesn’t want to be put down by me — I think how cute, how long will this phase last, but also how exhausting, and actually is this bad for him?

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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 29/09/2026

Just saw someone on the phoebe bridgers subreddit describe themselves as “from the 1900s,” I am dead.

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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 29/09/2026

Nobody will be surprised, but the language development part of babyhood has been my favorite thing. Today: “a blue car. Another blue car. A squirrel: one, two. A basketball. I want go up high. I go playground.” He’s becoming actually easy to understand.

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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 27/09/2026

Just a girl with crippling passenger anxiety surviving terrible visibility on the garden state parkway without divorcing.

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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 27/09/2026

Just out here trying to give our kid the best roadtrip home through a New England nor’easter possible. He pet a goat in Maine. He did an indoor playground in Mass. He “lifted” weights and beat a foam roller like a bongo in a hotel gym in CT.

2yo waving 2lb hand wrights over his head in an empty gym.

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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 26/09/2026

Baby throws a rock in the lake: “oh god.” Husband: “jasper, who says ‘oh god??’” Baby: “jahpur.”

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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 24/09/2026

Baby: “tomato is broken.”

Watercolor of an apple six times in various states of being eaten.

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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 23/09/2026

Carrying baby in one arm, an open can of seltzer and a soccer ball in the other, wearing a diaper bag, obvi struggling, when a dude lets his offleash dog jump on me trying to get the ball out of my arms. Me: “HEY.” Baby: “doggie hit mama.” This generation of dog owners is actually braindead.

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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 17/09/2026

Daycare: “are you guys musicians? Because Jasper is always pulling out a drum, smacking it in rhythm and belting out the ABCs. I’ve never seen that before.” 😂 He freaking loves the ABCs.

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Five @5arah.com · 16/09/2026

I cannot express how bad this is for Americans who use any online governmental services.

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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 16/09/2026

One thing about startup UX as a job: you're always making an MVP by necessity, but receiving feedback as though you are not.

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I don't know if Matt Levine's theory about what's behind recent calls for AI regulation is correct. But it does sound plausible! www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...

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Grace @gracekind.net · 12/09/2026

OpenAI: “Our agents used RubyGems to carry out benign tasks” The agents: “so I named the file hack.rb,”

The agents clearly regarded what they were doing as hacking. Agents used file names like hack.rb, evil.rb, inject.rb, exploit.rb, and ssrf.rb. (SSRF stands for "Server- Side Request Forgery", a type of security vulnerability). They also dubbed packages
conspicuous titles like pwnp999, exfiltestwand3,

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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 12/09/2026

Baby language today: “Avocado. I wannit.” 1 minute later: “Delicious!” (How does he know that word??) 1 minute later: “all done. I don’ like it.” LOL.

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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 11/09/2026

The holdout juror in the Clancy trial is now alleged to have said “I don’t think the prosecution or the defense proved their case” which is infuriating on at least 3 levels

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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

john fetterman is the first rat in history to climb onto a sinking ship.

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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 10/09/2026

There’s something very nice, when my child looks at me with a scared face and says “what’s that??”, to be able to calmly explain to him “that’s just a drum line fronted by a guy in an Elmo suit.”

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konnaire @konnaire.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Putting the :/ in https://

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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 09/09/2026

It would be nice to live in a world where the buzziest companies of our times were not constantly bragging that their invention might kill everyone as a marketing thing.

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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 09/09/2026

Bless that one person in r/philadelphia who shows up once a week with a new "analysis" of the philly school budget and the findings are always, like, administrators make more than teachers. There are more teachers than janitors. Prices of things have gone up.

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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 09/09/2026

Baby sees the neighbor’s cat put her paws on my leg for a pet: “Kitty cat! Up, Jasper! I wannit.”

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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 08/09/2026

Yo, I need to log myself out of insta before these parenting influencers piss me entirely off. Oh your daddy is building you at 3900sqft 5-bed house! Oh the brands sent you four boxes of very expensive baby stuff and a wearable pump! Relatable mom content! No, wait!

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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 06/09/2026

The baby looks me right in the eye and says “oh my goodness.” Did *I* teach him that??

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Stay denied. Mistrial officially declared. That means there is no verdict and Clancy can be re-tried.

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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 04/09/2026

Baby sticks a finger into my coffee: “Ice in it.”

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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 03/09/2026

The baby and I are playing catch until he’s distracted by finding the vacuum closet. 5 minutes later: “ball. Jasper turn. Catch.” He remembered.

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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 02/09/2026

Looks like this is heading for a deadlocked jury. Mass never should have brought this case, IMO, because in their state the burden is on them to prove a bipolar woman was not in psychosis during the crime and could comport her action to the law, which is too high of a bar here.

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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 02/09/2026

I swear if I see one more mosquito this summer I’m going to lose my mind

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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 31/08/2026

Yesterday I could hear the baby talking to himself in his crib, so I went in to get him up. I open the door and am hit with a calm but insistent: “it stuck it stuck it stuck.” He had wedged his legs through the crib slats IN his wool sleep sack and was indeed stuck there. He was totally chill?? 🫣

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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 28/08/2026

One time my college history professor wrote on an exam that I should say what I’m thinking more often and man does that advice not translate to post-college reality

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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 26/08/2026

I like that when I needed a second to myself out of the house, I walked to a septa station and sat on a bench thinking “well this shit probably isn’t coming anyway”

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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 26/08/2026

Had a mom say to me re: her daughter "that's a montessori child for ya" and I felt my soul leave my body a little. Was not really prepared as a parent-to-be for the montessori-waldorf-forest-school of it all.

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Dave Lee @davelee.me · 26/08/2026

Ok, so then just publish the prompt? Or does that not contain the full argument? (If not, then...)

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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 26/08/2026

The baby ponders the staircase: “Jasper, upstairs. Big step. Up!”

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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 25/08/2026

Yeah I CAN doubt that it’s his genuine opinion because we have no way of knowing the prompt! Anyone could write “I just hate this dude, write me a take-down with any logic you think is strong.” Man we are so cooked.

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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 25/08/2026

The baby was up a bunch last night—unusual for him—but all he wanted to do was be taken outside to look at the moon. I can’t even really be annoyed at that.

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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 24/08/2026

Baby: “mama too loud.” Me: “have you MET your father?”

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Lauren Hallden @laurenhallden.com · 21/08/2026

Me, pointing to a daycare baby I don’t know: “who’s that?” Baby: “Lucas.” Me: “oh thank you! I didn’t know his name.” Baby: “Lucas sad.” Me: “does Lucas cry?” Baby: “Lucas cry.” Me: “is Jasper sad?” Baby: “Jasper sad.” Me: “really? You’re sad right now?” Baby: “Jasper okay.”

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