iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Lukas Neville @lukasneville.com · 06/10/2026

he stayed in just long enough to give us the gift of this picture

chris alexander, standing alone in kensington as if an alien craft had just deposited him there and he was still trying to get his bearings

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Lukas Neville @lukasneville.com · 03/10/2026

absolutely exhausted from a day of manual bean slicing, there has got to be a bett--

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Lukas Neville @lukasneville.com · 18/09/2026

the gmail ad server thinks i'm in a whole different tax bracket

ad for the ritz-carlton's royal yacht collection, imploring me to sail tokyo and st. barths by superyacht, which is very much the kind of vacation i typically take

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Lukas Neville @lukasneville.com · 18/09/2026

who wants to come be my boss

Dean, I.H. Asper School of Business

The University of Manitoba invites applications, nominations, and expressions of interest for the position of Dean, I.H. Asper School of Business, with the appointment to be effective, ideally by July 1, 2027.

The University of Manitoba thrives as a place where challenges are embraced. It is the oldest university in Western Canada, celebrating 150 years in 2027. Since 1877, the University’s world-class research and outstanding student experience have made an indelible impact on Manitoba, Canada, and the world. The University offers more than 250 programs - more than any other post-secondary institution in Manitoba. This includes providing 100+ undergraduate and nearly 150 graduate programs to over 30,000 students, of which 19.7% are international students representing over 123 countries.

The University of Manitoba is a vibrant, diverse, and impactful community of world-class researchers who share their expertise locally, nationally, and internationally. Researchers participate in over 50 research centres and institutes and are engaged with community and industry partners to advance knowledge and address pressing issues.

The University has over 10,000 faculty and staff, and more than 228,000 alumni across Canada and 137 different countries. Contributing $7.3 billion in overall economic impact in Manitoba and attracting more than $200 million annually in sponsored research income, the University is located on two campuses in the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba’s culturally diverse capital area with a population of almost one million. Winnipeg offers a high quality of life with affordable housing, a long heritage of diverse cultural activities, and numerous recreational opportunities.

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Lukas Neville @lukasneville.com · 17/09/2026

SO COKE LIGHT AND DIET COKE ARE THE SAME FORMULA BUT COKE LIGHT USES ACE-K WHILE DIET COKE USES ASPARTAME

man bellowing into the ear of a disinterested woman

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Lukas Neville @lukasneville.com · 16/09/2026

my lil bby hates cars and driving and drivers

my angry little angel Waffles, about to howl angrily about being in the car

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Lukas Neville @lukasneville.com · 14/09/2026

They're rosewater, licorice, and violet flavoured, and the original flavour was based on 'cachous' (small breath mints). From Gastro Obscura:

SOAP-FLAVORED GUMTHRILLS GUM ∘ ONTARIOIf you’re tired of coworkers, friends, and family always asking you for a piece of gum, try handing them a purple nugget of Thrills. Canadians say the retro, rosewater-flavored chewing gum tastes like soap, and the company agrees. The box bears the reassuring slogan: “It still tastes like soap!” Fans cite not having to share as a major plus of chewing it.For much of the 20th century, the O-Pee-Chee Gum Company, which also sold trading cards, provided Canadians with Thrills. In the 1950s and ’60s, perfumed flavors like teaberry and violet were common at the candy store, and rosewater-flavored Thrills fit in perfectly. Although floral gum is less desirable these days, if you’re lucky enough to like it you’ll likely get the whole pack to yourself.How to try itThrills is still sold in candy stores and online.

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Lukas Neville @lukasneville.com · 14/09/2026

Here in Winnipeg, Sidestage and WECC are free of slop show posters: www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...

A staff member at Sidestage holds up a very cute handmade poster of a beer can drawn on lined paper and photographed

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Lukas Neville @lukasneville.com · 14/09/2026

just posting sweets to create harmony and reduce the food arguments on here

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Lukas Neville @lukasneville.com · 13/09/2026

hear me out: if we adopt the euro we won't have to look at this cursed thing anymore

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Lukas Neville @lukasneville.com · 10/09/2026

my campus has a statue of the canola guy (however the aerosol spray guy remains tragically unrecognized)

A bust of Dr. Baldur Stefansson, the "father of canola", on the University of Manitoba campus. An important discovery presaging the true breakthrough (sprayable canola)

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Lukas Neville @lukasneville.com · 10/09/2026

americans who believe they're getting a $5000 cheque

mac and dennis (IASIP) laughing gleefully after signing up for a timeshare

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Lukas Neville @lukasneville.com · 07/09/2026

just had this advertised to me on instagram

if you're reading this alt text and can't see this freaky coyote decoy count yourself as lucky

a zoom in on his weird plastic face, which has features that make him somehow look like poorly done taxidermy

a zoom in on his little plastic yellow eye which is giving a very uncomfortable look

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Lukas Neville @lukasneville.com · 07/09/2026

another day another huge cash settlement

class action notification informing me I'm going to get a settlement of thirty five canadian cents (paid as a credit in their parking app). will I be changed by this massive windfall of wealth? stay tuned

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Lukas Neville @lukasneville.com · 05/09/2026

may I offer you a smore in these trying times

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Lukas Neville @lukasneville.com · 05/09/2026

www.instagram.com/reel/Dc3X3RM...

Ben Sasse column headline, badly photoshopped: "America needs its boys to play competitive yurt building"

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Lukas Neville @lukasneville.com · 04/09/2026

but if you import things how does the Glorious Leader get to stand and look at everything being made

kim jong un, free from the shackles of trading partners, looking at a cellphone factory

kim jong un, unburdened by mutual exchange, looking at a conveyer belt of baked goods

kim jong un, unexploited by foreign trading partners, checking out the glory of a north korean-made guitar

kim jong un, saving billions by avoiding the costs of free trade, looking some sort of yellow paste coming out of an extruder

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Lukas Neville @lukasneville.com · 04/09/2026

everything seems to be in order, safe travels

a cbp officer looking at a phone and writing notes, making sure all entrants to the country are sufficiently loyal to the glorious leader

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Lukas Neville @lukasneville.com · 03/09/2026

but seriously they should have just hung up their skates as soon as they did the Birds of Canada bills, truly perfect

A 1986-2000 "birds of Canada" $20 bill with a loon

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Lukas Neville @lukasneville.com · 03/09/2026

What happens when you get an AI to write goals for you? You get beautifully crafted SMART goals that you don't actually commit to or act on arxiv.org/pdf/2605.12344

As AI tools become embedded in productivity and self-improvement contexts, a pressing question
emerges: what happens when AI does the goal-setting for us? While large language models can
generate goals that are objectively well-formed, the motivational consequences of delegating this cognitively and emotionally significant task remain unknown. In a preregistered experiment (N = 470),
we compared self-authored goals against LLM-authored goals derived from a personal reflection.
Although LLM-generated goals scored higher on SMART criteria (specificity, measurability, achievability, relevance, and time-boundedness; d = 2.26), participants in the LLM condition reported lower
psychological ownership (d = 1.38), commitment (d = 1.19), and perceived importance (d = 1.13).
At two-week follow-up, 72.8% of self-authored participants had acted on two or more of their goals,
compared to 46.6% in the LLM condition. Mediation analyses identified psychological ownership as
the mechanism: it mediated the authorship effect on every downstream motivational and behavioral
outcome, while objective goal quality did not. Critically, individuals low in trait self-efficacy, those
most likely to seek AI assistance, experienced the steepest ownership erosion. These findings reveal a
quality-motivation dissociation in AI-assisted goal-setting and identify authorship preservation as a
design priority for AI tools deployed in identity-relevant, behavior-dependent tasks.

Stacked bar chart comparing the proportion of goals actioned between "self" and "LLM" conditions.

"self" condition: 29.6% actioned 3 goals, 43.2% actioned 2 goals, 20.1% actioned 1 goal, and 7.1% actioned 0 goals.

"LLM" condition: 17.8% actioned 3 goals, 28.8% actioned 2 goals, 31.9% actioned 1 goal, and 21.5% actioned 0 goals.

Table of results, showing that self-set goals outperform LLM-set ones on commitment, psychological ownership, importance, self-efficacy, and follow-through. The table also shows that self-set goals are seen as more difficult, and LLM-set goals have a marginally-significant advantage on subjective goal clarity.

This table can be found as Table 1 in the linked article, AI-Assisted Goal Setting Improves Goal Progress Through Social Accountability.

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Lukas Neville @lukasneville.com · 03/09/2026

As a board-certified yapper I am doing my level best to reverse this trend 🎁🔗 wapo.st/46zwKYC

"An analysis published in July in Perspectives on Psychological Science of more than 2,000 people found that Americans and people in several other countries are speaking roughly 300 fewer words a day, or about two to three minutes' worth, with each passing year. The drop - a 28 percent decline from 2005 to 2019 - was especially pronounced among people younger than 25."

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Lukas Neville @lukasneville.com · 02/09/2026

how massive the wheels look appreciators:

stock photo of child playing with toy cars

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Lukas Neville @lukasneville.com · 01/09/2026

A recent AMJ about how to encourage advice seeking: Emphasize the benefits to the advice-giver. Seems particularly relevant given the great decline of human advice seeking journals.aom.org/doi/10.5465/...

Abstract
People are often reluctant to network or seek advice from others due to anticipated emotional discomfort. Yet, most prior research is either vague regarding the exact nature of such discomfort or identifies mainly proself (i.e., self-oriented) concerns. Not sufficiently addressed, though, are prosocial concerns about advice seeking as an inequitable exchange that potentially burdens the advice giver. Paradoxically, advice givers have a lot to gain from providing advice. To address this “inequity illusion” of advice seeking, we integrate prosocial impact and equity theorizing. We propose that a prosocial framing of advice seeking (i.e., the idea that advice seeking is beneficial for advice givers) functions as a psychological equity restoration technique that lowers the advice seeker’s “burden anxiety”—thereby increasing advice-seeking behavior. We further examine whether prosocial framing is more potent in relational settings that amplify worries about potential inequity, such as with higher-status or unfamiliar advice givers. Using a multi-study experimental design, including two randomized controlled field experiments, we find that prosocial framing of advice-seeking benefits leads to increased advice seeking, mediated by burden anxiety. We also find initial evidence that prosocial framing is a more potent motivator when the advice giver has higher relative status or is more unfamiliar.

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Lukas Neville @lukasneville.com · 31/08/2026

Welcome to Bluesky. Please familiarize yourself with the following accounts to understand the range of opinions it is acceptable to express

a montage of autumn-themed peanuts characters

another montage of autumn-themed peanuts characters

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Lukas Neville @lukasneville.com · 27/08/2026

2 likes, 33 quote tweets "do not link to the line steppers", as jay smooth once said

"i'm not falling for that hot take. that's clearly someone with a fetish for getting yelled at. i refused to participate in that kind of perversion"

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Lukas Neville @lukasneville.com · 27/08/2026

i watched this episode of succession the other night. things have definitely changed

Logan Roy bellows at a contractor who threatens to sue him: "My lawyer used to work for the Justice Department. Who's your lawyer? Mr. Fucking Magoo?"

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Lukas Neville @lukasneville.com · 26/08/2026

came here to chew bubblegum and deliver end-to-end client-centric solutions and well

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Lukas Neville @lukasneville.com · 25/08/2026

very serious analyst, thought leader

Charly Kelly, from the Always Sunny conspiracy meme: "Mark Carney has got a lot of people fooled. He's a very dangerous autocrat, far worse than Trump."

Matt Yglesias, credulously: "Can you spell this out at greater length?"

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Lukas Neville @lukasneville.com · 23/08/2026

Want to give better advice? Put yourself back in the state of being a beginner yourself. In one experiment, the "beginner's mind" is elicited in guitar coaches by having them play with their guitar flipped (strumming w/ their non-dominant hand) before they coach. journals.aom.org/doi/full/10....

A mediational chain showing how an advisor "rediscovering a beginner's mind" leads them to give advice their advisees are more likely to adopt, because it's more concrete and useful

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Lukas Neville @lukasneville.com · 21/08/2026

post a perfect album from the 2000s (2000-2009).

The Constantines, s/t, 2001 (Three Gut Records)

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Lukas Neville @lukasneville.com · 21/08/2026

Hip live album from the farewell tour is out, if any Canadians want to have a little cry music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Kingston transit bus with a destination board reading "GORD, WE'LL MISS YOU"

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Lukas Neville @lukasneville.com · 19/08/2026

The traditional "conflict styles" (forcing, compromising, etc.) tell you about what people want to achieve in conflict. But this new paper by YJ Kim and colleagues shows our conflict intent doesn't always perfectly match how we say it (our "conflict expression tendencies") doi.org/10.1177/1046...

A 2x2 with the axes of directness (Y) and intensity (X), producing four conflict expression tendencies (clockwise from low/low): Disguise, debate, argue, and subvert

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Lukas Neville @lukasneville.com · 18/08/2026

very wise to rely on a single article from the Post, always a reliable source of information

the infamous "bag men" front page NY Post story

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Lukas Neville @lukasneville.com · 18/08/2026

felix cartal on AI music. i love the quote from yanagi: "the beauty of an object is inseparable from the way it was made."

suno sucks. aside from the obvious part of it being trained off stolen music, i’ve been trying to put into words why suno makes me simultaneously depressed and angry as an artist.

there’s a philosophy from writer Soetsu Yanagi:

“the beauty of an object is inseparable from the way it was made.”

and ultimately I think what annoys me about AI is that it replaces the artist’s process. when you listen to a song, what you’re subconsciously doing is hearing all the decisions that an artist made. even if some of those decisions are accidental or mistakes… they could still be a beautiful thing. some of my favourite Beatles records are because of their human errors <3.

when we consume art that we love, we’re feeling all the things that went into creating it and if that’s not there then it’s hard to feel anything about it at all. if the way something is made is attached to what it is, AI basically removes that and makes the art un-enjoyable. this is also why if you like an AI song unknowingly and you find out after that is AI, it just kinda sucks now? like you feel like you got scammed.

give me the mistakes, give me the process, give me the raw, give me the struggle.

otherwise what’s the fucking point?

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Lukas Neville @lukasneville.com · 17/08/2026

trumpism as this dril tweet

the dril "there's actually zero difference between good and bad things" tweet

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Lukas Neville @lukasneville.com · 17/08/2026

loyalty isn't enough under competitive kleptocracy

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