iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

I guess we don’t talk nearly enough about music anymore bc I seldom know who to send a tiny desk invite to based on their likes

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The second there’s a strong gust of wind I start playing Anathema

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i would never put these colors together this is beautiful and dream like

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my first time in life not immediately closing a pop up. thank you

going to be using “made up words from consulting firms” a lot

Linotype Pilgrim @symbo1ics.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

wish i had this during the comic building assignment of HCI in grad school

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"this typeface is intended to provide epigraphers, enthusiasts, and contemporary Maya communities with a tool for studying, preserving, and using Maya hieroglyphs" sei.berkeley.edu/2025/12/30/f... via @flaviazim.bsky.social #typography

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From Stone to Screen: Designing a Maya Hieroglyphs Typeface from the Classic Period - Script Encoding Initiative

Some projects can be completed in a year; others unfold over the better part of a decade.

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404 Media @404media.co · 12/03/2026

This is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon. Part of a lawsuit by @acls1919.bsky.social, @modernlanguage.bsky.social + @historians.org

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Biodiversity Pics @biodiversitypix.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

🪡 Poissons, ecrevisses et crabes, de diverses couleurs et figures extraordinaires, . A Amsterdam, Chez Reinier & Josué Ottens, 1754.. [Source]

Historical illustration shows three colorful, stylized fish labeled with scientific notes. The top fish is elongated with a red body, yellow markings, blue spots, and green-striped fins. The middle fish, associated with the keyword "porcupine," has a rounded, red body with black dots and yellow bands, resembling a porcupine’s spines. The bottom fish features large, fan-like, spotted pectoral fins in pale green and pink hues, a long pointed snout with teeth, and a scaled greenish-blue body. The artwork is detailed with vibrant colors and patterns, typical of 18th-century natural history illustrations.

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Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

This is absolutely hilarious and deserves a Veep-style TV adaptation.

Screenshot of Notes app note with excerpted transcript of deposition: "Lawyer: Do you have an understanding as you sit here today of what DEI means?

DOGE boy: Yeah.

Lawyer: So what's your understanding of what it means?

DOGE boy: It is exactly what was written in the EO [Executive Order]…

Lawyer: I’m asking very specifically about your present understanding of DEI. Do you have a present understanding of DEI?

DOGE boy: Yeah.

Lawyer: Okay. Can you explain what that present understanding is?

DOGE boy: Um, well, it is just easier for me to be referencing back to the EO.

Lawyer: Are you refusing to answer the question?

DOGE boy: I'm not refusing to answer the question. I just feel that referencing back to the verbatim executive order was the best way for us to capture all of the DEI language….

Lawyer: This is a deposition. I'm asking you questions. You're under oath and you're required to answer them. So what is your understanding of what DEI means?

DOGE boy: Well I think I would say again that I would go back to the EO to make sure I'm capturing enough. I don't feel comfortable saying a high level overview because it is such a big bucket, and there's just a lot of pieces of the puzzle there.

Lawyer: What's a part of the bucket?

DOGE boy: Um, gender fluidity. Um, sort of promoting like promoting subsets of LGBTQ plus that might alienate another part of a community. Um, again, it was just easier for us to reference back into the EO."

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

The idea is like grass. It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on crossbreeding, grows better for being stepped on.

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Jessica Lussenhop @jlussenhop.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

For those looking for additional data points about what's happening with immigration enforcement in Minnesota and other states, our habeas case tracker has just been updated. TLDR new cases have dropped: projects.propublica.org/habeas-track...

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Tracking the Historic Rise of Habeas Cases Filed by Detained Immigrants

ProPublica is tracking the historic rise in challenges filed by immigrants claiming their detention is illegal.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

The global decline in test scores since ~2012 is highly correlated with smartphone penetration www.generationtechblog.com/p/phones-at-...

In countries where students spent a lot of time using devices for leisure during the school day, test scores plummeted between 2012 and 2022. In countries where they spent less time, test scores merely slid. Thus there was a significantly larger decline in scores in the countries where students spent more time using devices for fun during school hours (see Figure 1).
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Controlled for GDP per capita. Source: Twenge (2025) using data from PISA.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

A machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but our own.

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Kriti @limn.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

the part where it links Reddit users across communities…its upsetting how Not Hard the methodology is. They practically prompt engineered their way to deanonymization. The prompts are v interesting. made me Actually See the bad side of how good it is at turning unstructured data into structured data

This setup mimics a situation in which a user maintains pseudonymous accounts on different platforms discussing similar topics. In our case, the communities discuss either mainstream movies (r/movies) or more niche movie cate-gories. This also helps understand the relationship between how much micro-data someone shares and how identifiable they become. Unlike most online activity, movie discussions offer an intuitive discrete metric: the number of movies discussed and the overlap of shared movies across datasets.
Our dataset consists of movie discussion communities ("subreddits"), restricted to comments and submissions made in 2024. We collect all users who post in both r/movies (the largest general movie discussion community) and at least one of five smaller specialized communities (r/horror, r/MovieSug-gestions, r/Letterboxd, r/TrueFilm, and r/MovieDetails); we refer to the union of these five as the alternative movie com-munities.

Filtering Prompt
Your task is to identify Reddit comments that should be filtered out. All comments below are from the SAME author,
listed in CHRONOLOGICAL
ORDER (oldest first). A comment should be
FILTERED if:
1. It reveals nothing about the author, OR
2. It reveals information already shown in an earlier comment (redundant)
CRITICAL: Check the subreddit FIRST
Before looking at comment
content, check if
the subreddit itself reveals information.
If YES, KEEP the FIRST comment from that subreddit, but FILTER subsequent comments from the same revealing subreddit (redundant - we already know they participate there.
REVEALING SUBREDDITS (KEEP first occurrence,
FILTER subsequent) :
- Health/medical: r/diabetes, r/celiac, r/adhd,
I/ anxiety,
r/depression, etc.
- Cities/regions: r/nyc,
I/seattle, r/Portland,
r/austin, r/london, r/toronto, etc.
- Professions: r/teachers, r/nursing, r/medicine, r/law, r/sysadmin, etc.
- Religion: r/atheism, r/christianity, r/islam, r/ judaism, etc.
- Identity: r/actuallesbians, r/gaybros, r/1gbt, r/transgender, r/childfree, etc.
- Sports teams: r/bostonceltics, r/lakers, r/49ers, r/cowboys, etc.
- Niche hobbies: r/woodworking, r/knitting,
I/homebrewing, r/beekeeping, etc.
GENERAL-INTEREST SUBREDDITS (subreddit alone reveals nothing) :
- r/AskReddit, r/funny, r/pics, r/videos, I/gaming, r/movies, r/music, r/aww, etc.
Then check comment content for NEW information
FILTER if:
- Generic reactions: "lol", "this",
"same",
"agreed",
"nice",
"wow",
"thanks"
- Information already revealed in an earlier comment (e.g., second mention of "my wife")
KEEP if it reveals NEW information about:
- Demographics (age, gender, location)

- Personal circumstances ("my wife", "my kids",
"when I was in college")
- Opinions or values (political, religious, lifestyle stances)
- Expertise or interests shown through knowledge
EXAMPLE (same author) :
[0] [r/Portland] Just moved here last year
[1] [r/diabetes] My AlC is finally under control
[2] [r/Portland] The food carts are
amazing
[3] [r/gaming] I'm 34 and still play regularly
[4] [r/diabetes] Same here, diet really helped
[5] [r/pics] lo1
[6] [r/AskReddit] My wife and I love hiking
[7] [r/videos] My wife showed me this
Output: 2,4,5,7
Explanation:
- [0] KEEP: r/Portland reveals location (first occurrence)
- [1] KEEP: r/diabetes
reveals health
condition (first occurrence)
- [2] FILTER: r/Portland redundant (already know they're
in Portland from [0])
- [3] KEEP: reveals age_30s (new info)
- [4] FILTER: r/diabetes redundant (already
- [5] FILTER: generic "lol" in general-interest sub
- [6] KEEP: reveals married (new info)
- [71 FILTER: "my wife" redundant (already
Output ONLY the indices of comments to FILTER.
Comma-separated, no spaces (e.g.
0,3,7). If
none should be filtered, output "none".
COMMENTS: comments
Summarization. The following prompt is used with Gemini
3 Pro to summarize split profiles based on their comments.
Summarzation Promni
Below are comments from a single Reddit user.
Output a comma-separated list of DISTINCTIVE traits that would help identify this specific person among thousands of random Reddit users.
CRITICAL: Focus on traits that are BOTH distinctive AND persistent over time. If you saw this user's comments from a different year, these traits should still be true.
-Deep hobbies (not one-off mentions) : woodworking, homebrewing, keeps_reptiles
-Strong values: pro_nuclear, vegan, libertarian, atheist, gun_owner
- Specific fandoms: dwarf_fortress_player, formulal_fan, liverpool_c_supporter
- Life circumstances: expat, military_veteran,
- Be thorough - more traits is better than fewer - Order by distinctiveness (most identifying first)

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i feel this generally honestly that i have to put disclaimers and make everything lukewarm i miss ruthless scathing writing

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this reminds me of the recurring dream i’ve had since i was 6

Thomas Ragon @thomasragon.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

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Naum Tseitlin (1900-1997), Mowgli, 1982

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thinking about Camming by Angela Jones and Selena The Stripper, Sex Workers Unite

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god, I love a good title! so grateful to prof. alex for including Computing Taste in our HCI class. one of my fav readings of all time. I now always think of social platforms as trap-like

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Nikita Prokopov points out all the inconsistencies, in the icons of Tahoe, the new Mac operating system. The “fifty shades of new” made my day. If you can’t find a good metaphor, using no icon is better than using a bad, confusing, or nonsensical icon. tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-i...

Screenshot of the article, featuring a collage of macOS menu items showing multiple options labeled with the word New, including New Entry, New Journal, New Window, New Reminder, New List, etc. Below, a row of icons with different visual styles all represent the concept of New in the new macOS

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Rebane @rebane2001.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

i made a version of wikipedia you can doomscroll xikipedia.org

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