iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

lonvienris @lonvienris.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Try to sing a song of your choice while using a speech jammer. You have to do a good job

lonvienris @lonvienris.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Reminds me of a great quote from Kaveh Akbar - “There’s no difference to the outside world between a good guy and a bad guy behaving like a good guy.” Externally, performing decency is exactly the same as being decent

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lonvienris @lonvienris.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Maybe it’s more like fossil fuels—it has distinct utility while also causing immense harms, and it cannot simply be abandoned without other, better things in place. Idk, I just don’t know if abstinence is ultimately possible or effective

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lonvienris @lonvienris.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

in a very oversimplified nutshell: the problems inherent to inductive reasoning. The tools we’ve developed that we call “science” are our best effort to overcome those problems when seeking general truths abt the world

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lonvienris @lonvienris.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

dick = a jerk prick = an arrogant jerk

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lonvienris @lonvienris.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

The idea that trade is a zero sum game in which one trade party is the ‘winner’ and the other is the ‘loser’

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lonvienris @lonvienris.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

3/3 Also, w/r/t Hank’s original point, how could genAI be leveraged to be addictive? One answer, I think, is reliance. the reliance on a problem-solving tool is the mechanism to achieve an addicted user base. You are welcome to disagree tho!

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lonvienris @lonvienris.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

2/ if you rely on genAI to do cognitive work so extensively that it results in the atrophy of your cognitive capacity or will to use that capacity, is there a level of addiction present? My provisional answer is yes—I think in this context, reliance starts to look a lot like addiction.

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lonvienris @lonvienris.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

What I’m thinking about is whether those distinct concepts actually start to collapse into each other w genAI specifically. I’m thinking there may be a point at which reliance or dependence on something becomes a kind of addiction. Could a tool seem so useful that it is turned to compulsively? 1/

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lonvienris @lonvienris.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

I wonder if there’s a difference between ‘addicted to’ and ‘reliant on’ in this context

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lonvienris @lonvienris.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

I read Looking for Alaska many years ago when I was 16. it was given to me by my best friend. It was incredibly formative for how I’ve gone on to make meaning in my life, & it introduced me to ideas that I desperately needed, especially at that time. It’s very dear to me! Happy 20 years

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lonvienris @lonvienris.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

I think this is a genuinely significant observation that’s more than just ‘oh they have bad taste/no artistic appreciation.’ There’s something going on here with visual language/semiotics that says something important abt right-wing voters. I’m not smart enough to know what it is tho

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lonvienris @lonvienris.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Noooo this was my task suggestion lol I’m so sad it got lost 😂 oh well, the P4A fates intervened to spare Hank from dry tea leaves

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lonvienris @lonvienris.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Eat some of the dry tea leaves from your favorite Good.store tea

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lonvienris @lonvienris.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

What has helped me stay closer to hope in desperate times is redefining my hope. rather than being oriented around belief or faith in a good outcome, my hope is a categorical refusal to give up. I continue not because I believe I will succeed, but because even a 1% chance is worth fighting for

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lonvienris @lonvienris.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

NPR reported that because the ERA was ratified after the deadline in the amendment’s preamble, there is an open legal question as to whether the deadline is binding or not. If binding, ratification was too late. If not binding, ERA is law. Archivist is currently arguing the former & not publishing

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lonvienris @lonvienris.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

‘People experiencing homelessness’ is also used to communicate the fact that homelessness is not a static state, & that people go in & out of homelessness. It’s kind of an unwieldy term tho, & from my experience working with people who have been homeless, preferences vary w/r/t preferred terms

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lonvienris @lonvienris.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Given that many of our best scientific theories were initially discounted & considered fringe/not supported by evidence (heliocentrism, germ theory, continental drift), how should we determine what current “outside-the-norm” scientific ideas to pursue & which to reject?

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lonvienris @lonvienris.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

I do know that, but I don’t know where letters are in the alphabet and have to sing the abc’s every time so you know we all have our strengths

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lonvienris @lonvienris.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Look into going to Doolin! It’s the most magical little town on the west coast :) close to the Cliffs of Moher also

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lonvienris @lonvienris.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

What are you most excited for in 2025? What are you most concerned about?

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lonvienris @lonvienris.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

I found that article to be quite odd & contrary to my memory of 2016 & the contrast between then & now. the vibe has certainly shifted, but the idea that only now is there cultural acceptance of trump’s “off color” persona seems bizarre & does not fit w/ my memory. Ppl loved that abt him in 2016

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lonvienris @lonvienris.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

That’s a scene of pure Christmas magic 💚🎄

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lonvienris @lonvienris.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Yes! And this leads to ppl attributing poorly understood diseases to psychiatric problems, i.e. physicians attributing ME/CFS to psychological issues rather than acknowledging the reality that we don’t yet understand the pathogenic mechanisms and underlying biology of ME/CFS

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lonvienris @lonvienris.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

It’s not surprising to me that anger/desperation in response to a fundamentally immoral system (for-profit healthcare) is more widespread than support for an individual policy to fix that system

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lonvienris @lonvienris.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

1000%!! If ppl are looking for something mysterious and mind-blowing, contemporary physics has so much more to offer than the paranormal imo

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lonvienris @lonvienris.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

The idea that something considered inexplicable is best explained by the paranormal is very human—we love compelling explanations! That said, I also have very little patience w ‘ghost encounter’ stories, but I am usually in the minority on that it seems

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lonvienris @lonvienris.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

I think a question as consequential/complex as this maybe can’t be responsibly handled on this type of social media platform? I realize I’m fighting a losing battle here, but keeping this one in some kind of longform might be better

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lonvienris @lonvienris.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I think about this all the time. It’s kind of lonely that we’re the only one left

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lonvienris @lonvienris.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I think chronic illnesses do not capture the imagination/cause fear in the same way as acute illnesses, even if the chronic ones are deadlier

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lonvienris @lonvienris.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I don’t have anything specific, but I know this: people who care about maximizing human (and environmental) wellbeing will continue to work very hard to solve very hard problems, and there will be successes. The fastest way to ensure a dark timeline is to believe a rosy one is completely impossible

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lonvienris @lonvienris.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

It’s remarkable that, beyond vaccination, this article makes no mention of avoiding infection or limiting the # of infections an individual has. I know that most ppl are unable to withstand the stigma associated with wearing masks, but atm, avoiding infection is the best way to avoid COVID sequelae

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lonvienris @lonvienris.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Coffee + lemonade is *delicious*

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lonvienris @lonvienris.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

I think there’s an argument to be made that twitter and podcasts are different enough as communication mediums that there is a meaningful difference between abandoning one vs the other. Ceding one type of communication medium may be more justifiable than ceding another

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lonvienris @lonvienris.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Idk if this will be helpful, but I wonder if an adhesive n95 would help? They don’t have straps so no pressure on the face. Readimask is the brand I’m most familiar with!

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lonvienris @lonvienris.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Having read Jennifer’s piece, it seems the value of spending time on that question is precisely what the essay is addressing. Combatting what we’re up against requires (in part) figuring out how to win in the future, which requires reflecting on what didn’t work. I’m open to being wrong tho!

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lonvienris @lonvienris.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

My smoke alarm went off at 2:30 AM last night for no reason, so I also had a restful and stress-free pre-election night lmao

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lonvienris @lonvienris.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

I don’t think they could answer that and define a category of “elites” in such a way as to include who they want in that category and exclude who they don’t. Doing so would require a level of internal consistency in the conceptual framework that they don’t possess or care to achieve

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lonvienris @lonvienris.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

Deleted the app from my phone two days ago. It does no good for anyone of us to have any of that in our brains

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lonvienris @lonvienris.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

Partners in Health—they do super important and super effective global health work

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lonvienris @lonvienris.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

My affective response to art, & thus whether I like it, is inextricably linked to its context (who made it? Why? What were their intentions? What did they want to elicit/convey for the viewer? Etc). AI art is entirely devoid of that context. Pure visuals=meaningless. I don’t like meaningless art

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