iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

99% of monkeys abandon their typewriter just before they've typed the complete works of Shakespeare

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Michele Bannister @astrokiwi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"A crucial aspect of our strategy has been moving away from the traditional, and often counterproductive, expectation that scientists must personally drive technology transfer while carrying out cutting-edge research. "

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Josh Hadro @hadro.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

You: "OCR is a solved problem" Me:

A screenshot of a page from The New Hampshire gazette, September 23, 1800, with text going in every possible direction, and brackets, and numbers

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

When fascists win, centrists get to feel good about themselves because they are kinder and more tolerant than those people. When progressives win, centrists find themselves cruel and narrow minded by comparison, and can't bear that feeling.

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Robert Brewer @manchufu.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"Olde English" just means Ye slap an extrae "e" on the End of everye Adjective and capitalize the firste letter of eache Noun.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Part of research is wandering in the literature and making unexpected connections, finding the questions you didn’t know to ask. I don’t see a good way to do that while relying mainly on LLMs to do literature searches.

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Robert Brewer @manchufu.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Let us be thankful we have an election to fill. Vote hard, increase representation, prevent fraud, and be happy.

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Robert Brewer @manchufu.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

There's an East *between* Middle and Far?

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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

anybody who's ever had a plum tree knows it's more like, please eat the fucking plums in the god damn icebox

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Rev. Prof. Matthew J. M. Coomber @mjmcoomber.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Never mistake a Christian honoring the command, “love your neighbor as yourself,” for neutrality

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JK @miniver.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Hiring tip: If you want very smart people, the best inducement you can offer is colleagues smarter than they are.

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Robert Brewer @manchufu.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

But coding IS largely solved AND we don't know how to program.

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

WA state folks, actual good news for once!

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Robert Brewer @manchufu.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I just realized Coldwell Banker is not a bank.

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Robert Brewer @manchufu.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Many coiling arms seized the doors on either side, and with horrible strength, swung them round. With a shattering echo they slammed, and all light was lost. GOLLUM: fuck.

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Robert Brewer @manchufu.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Boromir after cutting his finger on Narsil.

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Robert Brewer @manchufu.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Why am I so tired of rhetorical questions?

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The sole, solitary, unitary reason the Bay Area became the center of the US startup world is because at the time today's current startup model formed, California was the only state that completely banned noncompete agreements in all forms of employment, period.

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Robert Brewer @manchufu.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

magical, adj. producing an effect without apparent corresponding affordances

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Robert Brewer @manchufu.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

If you're on the spectrum you do NOT need to feel obligated to be the one to persuade all your allistic friends and family to adopt your political beliefs. If that's your strength, feel free, but if not, find other ways to contribute. (Someone please offer other ways to contribute)

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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 09/07/2026

A scientist, a philosopher, and a poet walk into a bar. They all drink heavily to try to forget the state that society is in.

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Robert Brewer @manchufu.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

"Theologians need preachers to disseminate their research and yet nearly universally look down on them" vibes

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Robert Brewer @manchufu.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

The country lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping. Why is that, Elon?

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Robert Brewer @manchufu.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

We need to get private money out of elections so our representatives are forced to do what the majority wants if they want to be reelected. Unless the majority is wrong. Then we need to elect a billionaire who agrees with me.

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Robert Brewer @manchufu.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

So tired of stories about the Pool. Just frickin move the goalposts already.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Your periodic reminder that people are *more* abusive online when they're using their "real names" than when they're using a persistent pseudonym and this effect has been replicated in literally every study that has ever been done

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olive consumer's floating skull @machete.gay · 31/05/2026

It is a thing that takes on the guise of man, speaks in our language in ways foul and wrong to those with eyes to see, and beguiles the weak of mind and will with shallow praise. There's a word for that, you know.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

there are few things more demeaning that being subjected to the "judgment" of a machine

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Robert Brewer @manchufu.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

May this become another epic thread

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dorian @doriantaylor.com · 08/05/2026

i liked what he said about "you should write software that reflects your current understanding even if that understanding is partial" and then "refactor the software later on to reflect what you've learned and how you come to understand it" code as a reflection of your understanding, who'd a thunk

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Robert Brewer @manchufu.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

It's pretty obvious that ancient Man didn't bother with bearskins at night; they just used the whole bear.

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 01/05/2026

The Secret to Success Is ‘Monotasking’. “We find that in real‑world work, the more switches in attention a person makes, the lower is their end‑of‑day assessed productivity.” [theatlantic.com]

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The Secret to Success Is ‘Monotasking’

In a world full of distractions, getting your brain to focus on one thing at a time requires radical measures.

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Robert Brewer @manchufu.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

I'm somehow INRI under both assessments

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Alan Au @alanau.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

As I like to quip, "you don't always get what you pay for, but you definitely don't get what you don't pay for." If the price is low, ask yourself why that is.

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Robert Brewer @manchufu.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

My current low bar for "high impact" is "knows the runtime is not the code" :/

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Eric Haywood @erichaywood.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

U.S. foreign policy:

Principal Skinner: “Are we the evildoers? No. It is Jesus who is wrong.

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dorian @doriantaylor.com · 03/04/2026

moreover the bot can (and does) bang away on representations of code against linters, compilers, unit tests, because code is relatively cheap to systematically verify* that it exhibits the behaviour you want (* positively—it's mathematically impossible in general to prove code *won't* do something)

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

this is your website on vibe coding.

IT'S HAPPENING.

GITHUB, THE FIRST ENTERPRISE CLOUD SOLUTION TO REACH ZERO NINES RELIABILITY.

Screenshot shows 95 incidents in 90 days, with 89.91% uptime.

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srrrse @without.boats · 01/04/2026

I really do hate how in silicon valley believing surprising or counterintuitive things has become culturally valorized. Actually beliefs that sound wrong are usually wrong, and if you hold some you’d better have good evidence you aren’t just subject to confirmation bias.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

When we build, we want to be right. When we learn, we want to be wrong. When we try to do both at the same time, we become indifferent to whether we are right or wrong, and end up achieving neither.

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