iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you want to know the actual best poem it's Senlin, by Conrad Aiken. Behold just a taste:

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makeworld @makeworld.space · 26/09/2026

What if I bring an AeroPress to the interview

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makeworld @makeworld.space · 24/09/2026

What is the point of creating a bot that projects anger into the world

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makeworld @makeworld.space · 24/09/2026

Much to think about vis-à-vis EA, veganism, etc.

Screenshot of tweet by Natalie Wynn (ContraPoints) reading: Ethical values must be moderated by social values such as being chill, and knowing how to hang. Morality is an aggressive impulse, if unchecked it will rip a community apart.

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blackle mori @blackle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

his name is lethargic. he's an IRC chatbot I wrote in 2011 and has been through IRC, skype, and is now on discord (in private servers with friends.) the algorithm has been unchanged since the beginning.

Lethargic’s algorithm

Lethargic’s primary response generator uses a bespoke algorithm that uses neither templates nor markov chains.
Take the user’s input:
Hello lethargic, how are you doing today?
Then pick a random message from a dataset of old IRC logs
brb throwing my computer against the wall
Then we interlace these two sentences, one word at a time, excluding ending punctuation:
Hello brb lethargic, throwing how my are computer you against doing the today wall

Lethargic's algorithm continued
Hello brb lethargic, throwing how my are computer you against doing the today wall
We replace “lethargic” with “me” and other pronouns so that they are inverted (like ELIZA)
Hello brb me, throwing how your are computer me against doing the today wall
Finally we pass this amalgamation into google translate a bunch of times through multiple languages to get our response:
Hey, wait a minute, how's your computer doing today after I hit my head against a wall?

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makeworld @makeworld.space · 20/09/2026

I've published a new blog post! It's a review of The Disaster Show, a Toronto comedy event. Hope you like it! www.makeworld.space/2026/09/the_...

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kota @maristela.org · 20/09/2026

i 🤍 imposing structures

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Sri @sri.xyz · 17/09/2026

Made a little proof of concept with @typesafeai.bsky.social 's Jev. "Jevibe Check" auto-labels posts by tone as you scroll (just in your browser). you can add your own classifiers, and use the labels to blur/collapse the posts if you want to. Jev is extremely fast and super cheap!

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makeworld @makeworld.space · 11/09/2026

commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NT...

A photograph of a tower of metal concave triangles in the desert.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

actually virtue ethics is superior to utilitarianism because virtue ethics maximizes utility

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bkmacd @bkmacd.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Canonical tweet

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annie @versary.town · 08/09/2026

yes! ive figured it out ! the reason im barely writing is because my static site generator sucks. if only i could redo it from scratch, better, nicer, with less friction, id surely write more

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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I don't have particularly strong beliefs about where the line between conscious and non-conscious beings lies, but I distrust any take too confident about where it does

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makeworld @makeworld.space · 04/09/2026

Agents having strong Schelling points (called "mode collapse" here) seems like a unique risk, an adversary that can coordinate without communication

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makeworld @makeworld.space · 03/09/2026

Posts that make me run "sudo apt update"

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makeworld @makeworld.space · 25/08/2026

Work on Nectar is progressing very well thanks to @literaryarsonist.press's hard work!

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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

A New Color (1/5🧵)

Page 1: A man is walking home, smoking a cigarette, being quietly trailed by a UFO above him. As he enters his apartment, two aliens watch from inside the ship. Alien 1, who has a large head, says, “that’s him. Let’s move.”

Page 2: The man walks upstairs as the aliens watch from the entrance of the building. The man enters his apartment and greets his little dog. Suddenly there is a knock at the door.

Page 3: he peers through his peephole, and sees the two aliens standing in the hallway. Alien 1 is holding a briefcase. From behind him, the voice of alien one: “don’t scream.”

Page 4: The aliens are seated across the room on the man’s couch. Sadie is in her bed next to them. Alien 1 says, “you’re not in any danger. Have a seat.” The man looks at his dog and thinks, “sadie is unusually calm.” Alien 1: don’t scream, or it’s a problem.

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makeworld @makeworld.space · 24/08/2026

AI discourse has made this dream more distant

Screenshot of an edited tumblr post that says "No, STEM majors and art majors are not enemies, in fact, they are kissing, sloppy style, squishing boobs together, etc." Above the post is a picture of Slavoj Zizek, implying he is saying this.

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mcc @dryad.technology · 24/08/2026

Borges once described an astrolabe of such brilliantly ingenious design that any astronomer sent to use it would instead be consumed with obsession over examining the astrolabe's construction, so it was useless for examining the world, and the sultan ordered it thrown into the sea.

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makeworld @makeworld.space · 24/08/2026

IPFS is the reason I have a software career today. R.I.P.

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makeworld @makeworld.space · 24/08/2026

Switched from XFCE on X to GNOME on Wayland. The latter isn't perfectly designed, but at least now I have nice HiDPI scaling and no screen tearing.

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makeworld @makeworld.space · 20/08/2026

This remains the SMBC comic I think about the most. www.smbc-comics.com/comic/best-l...

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 17/08/2026

mirroring existing catalog records (books, films, venues, etc) in to atproto records is tempting, but (IMHO) an anti-pattern. instead of copying that data in and referencing with an AT-URI, you should reference them by existing identifiers (ISBN, OSM identifier, etc). appviews sync the catalog.

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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 16/08/2026

Drawing all 16,777,216 possible 12 bit RGB colours in one 2D image, each exactly once. Pixels are mapped from the 256³ colour cube, following a three dimensional Hilbert curve, to a two dimensional Hilbert curve filling the square. so nearby colours stay close.

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AT Protocol Developers @atproto.com · 13/08/2026

Today we’re launching Bluesky Protocol Services, a new brand and website for the infrastructure Bluesky operates. And Jetstream v2, the best way for developers to use atproto at scale, now with network replay. atproto.com/blog/introdu...

atproto.com

Introducing Bluesky Protocol Services

A new home for the infrastructure Bluesky runs on the open network — including Jetstream v2 with network replay, a new Jetstream SDK, and a lex-based TypeScript SDK

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makeworld @makeworld.space · 13/08/2026

Has "a bicycle for the mind" done the same?

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makeworld @makeworld.space · 11/08/2026

Was impressed with Health811 today. The AI symptom assessment was actually useful. health811.ontario.ca

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vimae 🪻 @mae.wtf · 04/08/2026

got AudioMuse-AI setup on my navidrome server so now it can suggest musically similar songs from my library! so it wont go from c418 -> kobaryo also it has this visual map of my library which is really neat

a map of my music library represented by dots on two unknown axis: each dot is colored based on inferred genre

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makeworld @makeworld.space · 01/08/2026

"stainless steal saucepan"

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makeworld @makeworld.space · 31/07/2026

More like reaping night amirite

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makeworld @makeworld.space · 31/07/2026

Whenever I tell people I'm a software developer nowadays they immediately ask me what I think about AI, and (more recently) datacentres. No escape from online discourse, even at sewing night.

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alex williams @atwilliams.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

no this seems obviously good human-computer interaction work to me; got to keep the symbolic and the imaginary aligned at the same time

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makeworld @makeworld.space · 30/07/2026

I've had to mute some accounts because watching people bond with their AI bots as persons feels pretty uncomfortable in a way I find hard to explain. I think it's the same as the uncanny valley?

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makeworld @makeworld.space · 28/07/2026

Woah, what's happening the jetstream? @calabro.io is this your new backfill utility? 👀 github.com/bluesky-soci...

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makeworld @makeworld.space · 28/07/2026

Live worldwide dreamscape log

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makeworld @makeworld.space · 28/07/2026

I always go with this one

Screenshot of a tweet by @UtilityLimb or "nattie winters" that reads: it's sad thinking of all the dogs in old movies that have died, but even sadder thinking of the earth we fled because of the dogs that can't

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makeworld @makeworld.space · 28/07/2026

TIL of "sousveillance", coined by Torontonian Steve Mann en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousvei...

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eva khoury @evakhoury.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I took this weekend class, "Research as a Leisure Activity" run by Laurel Schwulst and Celine Nguyen, with 17 other really amazing and different people. One of the biggest things I took away from this was the realization that I already have a love of learning and collection and do it constantly,

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makeworld @makeworld.space · 26/07/2026

The post features a rare usage of the verb "socialize", where it's used to mean "to raise awareness of a topic within a social group". I've only heard this used in specific Toronto/co-op circles.

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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 20/07/2026

I gave pigeons.computer a spin and I have to say: those n0 kids have nailed it _again_. There really aren't many teams that can so consistently deliver.

pigeons.computer

Pigeons

SSH to any machine without an IP address, behind a NAT or firewall, with no port forwarding or VPN setup. Carrier pigeons always find their way home.

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Mags Display Name @mags.colvett.online · 16/07/2026

Raffi you’re so right

Threads post from raffi_music:
stay creative. after Baby Beluga, I didn't worry about how can I top that.. just kept growing as a person and musically. 14 years later, Bananaphone!

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makeworld @makeworld.space · 16/07/2026

What else is like this, where you can infer the content of a discussion from its shape/metadata?

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Aevee Bee @mammonmachine.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

What if we rearranged the deck chairs on the titanic so beautifully and with such subtle grace that everyone loved and believed in us forever

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