iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 4h

i see arguments like this sometimes and ... what's the thing. what is this "everyday annoying task" that an AI could actually do and that you could trust it to not totally fuck up? i cannot imagine the things. and tech/robots have made a lot of tasks more efficient but there's always more shit

there are so many everyday demos that could make ai, personal agents, & agents in general feel insanely powerful to normal ppl & yet ai companies keep choosing things like booking flights, planning travel, or god forbid planning a god damn wedding.

these are not everyday problems. they're relatively rare events & worse for a lot of ppl they're actually part of the joys of life. the best demo should make someone feel pain they already are familiar with disappearing. almost every company gets this wrong. they optimize for spectacle instead of relief which is fine in some cases but it doesn't last.

one of my favorite historical examples is a product called head on.

the ad showed someone with a headache, then showed them applying the product directly to their forehead while repeating:

"head on. apply directly to the forehead."

beautifully simple. you instantly understood the product, the problem, & the value. ai companies should be doing the same thing.

show me the annoying thing i deal with every single day then make it disappear. it's not sexy, i guarantee it will work. when jobs demo'ed the iphone he picked universal simple problems that the iphone did better than anything else on the fucking planet.

anyway, thanks for coming to my ted talk.

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Matt Largey @mattlargey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ah yeah I love when my kid is watching computer

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Matt Largey @mattlargey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

All the guys who complain about how men don’t hunt wild boar anymore: We should definitely outsource thinking to Computer.

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Matt Largey @mattlargey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

these people are completely divorced from real life

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Matt Largey @mattlargey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

this "economic alternative" shit is so bizarre. these guys are already in charge!

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Matt Largey @mattlargey.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Weird to demand that someone delete a post, as if that means they didn't mean it in the first place.

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Onboard Navvy @onboard-navvy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Always remember this one from the archives.

A Nate Silver Tweet from 4 Feb 2021 (referencing the Johnson and Johnson covid vaccine): "Why should this take three weeks though? Is the data intrinsically that complicated? Is there any doubt that J&J will be approved?"
@forgethewings replies: "Hi Nate - if it helps think about how unimportant your work is and how you still manage to get it wrong, and then imagine it was important work and you had to get it right"

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"GE warns its toaster may grow human arms and shoot you with a gun" Ok that sounds like their fault. They should do something about that

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Matt Largey @mattlargey.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"Computer, please solve 'fun' for me"

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Increasingly convinced this is the most important post

Twitter post from January 24, 2019, from @Merman_Melville reading

"Being a billionaire must be insane. You can buy new teeth, new skin. All your chairs cost 20,000 dollars and weigh 2,000 pounds. Your life is just a series of your own preferences. In terms of cognitive impairment it's probably like being kicked in the head by a horse every day."

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Matt Largey @mattlargey.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I live here and have seen only a handful. Always with a driver.

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Matt Largey @mattlargey.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I say with pride: I have never heard Mr. Beast's voice.

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Matt Largey @mattlargey.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

You know what feels good? Asking your city government to fix something and it getting fixed. I put in a 311 request to change the stop light timing at a really annoying intersection. And they actually did it! Within a couple days! Anyway, thanks City of Austin!

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Matt Largey @mattlargey.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

That’s the Public Radio Promise™️

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Matt Largey @mattlargey.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Hi, Normie here. Every day I ask myself “who the fuck is Hasan Piker?” I do not care enough to find out.

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Matt Largey @mattlargey.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Sending my burrito back over and over, insisting they make it look like the one in the picture.

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Spiteful Matt @realmfresh.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Person who has seen 100 movies: The best movie ever made is Citizen Kane Person who has seen 1000 movies: The best movie ever made is 8 1/2 Person who has seen 10,000 movies: The best movie ever made is Crank 2: High Voltage

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Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · 20/08/2026

Antiquing find

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

im sorry but there is no bigger loser behavior than making a fake computer generated image of yourself as something cooler than you are, this should be among the most embarrassing behavior in our society

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 13/08/2026

I feel like an issue that would connect well with voters would be doing anything at all to slow the current progression toward "absolutely everything now is a scam"

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Matt Largey @mattlargey.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Maybe now we can have a real conversation about how Thanksgiving does, in fact, suck shit as a holiday.

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Matt Largey @mattlargey.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Hi, Normie here. Every day I ask myself “who the fuck is Hasan Piker?” I do not care enough to find out.

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Matt Largey @mattlargey.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

They canceled Strip Law, but greenlit this shit?

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Matt Largey @mattlargey.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

This is what gets me about the AI food pictures. They look nothing like food. And I’m pretty sure humans are programmed at, like, a basic, biological level to recognize “food” and “not food”.

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ʤan~ʤɑn~ʤɔn @languagedoodad.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

another day guarding the river you can't go into twice. everyone keeps asking me if they can go into the river again. buddy, you aren't the same man.

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Matt Largey @mattlargey.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Roads might sound appealing, but it’s taxpayers who subsidize streets they may never even drive on.

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Matt Largey @mattlargey.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Tired of having to see weird little guys in the news all the time

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Matt Largey @mattlargey.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I mean, this is just fucking weird

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

It is amazing that the 250th anniversary of America was pretty much just not a thing. You could tell all the companies thought it would be, they had 250th ketchup and ice cream and energy drinks but all we got was a shit ass fair that no one went to

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Matt Largey @mattlargey.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Texas' grid hit an all-time record for power demand today at more than 91GW.

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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Shooting reported in Biddeford Maine, potentially involving federal agents - ICE to be specific Local coverage via @pressherald.com (gift link) www.pressherald.com?p=7684961&uu...

pressherald.com

Live updates: Shooting reported in Biddeford, potentially involving federal agents

One person may be dead after a shooting that may have involved federal immigration agents.

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Matt Largey @mattlargey.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Once again, the only Texas brand worth your affection is HEB.

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Matt Largey @mattlargey.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Watching people use ChatGPT in the wild is very unattractive.

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Matt Largey @mattlargey.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

As a Mainer, I find this metaphor offensive.

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Allan “Ransomware Sommelier” Liska @ransomwaresommelier.com · 06/07/2026

What kind of sociopath has EVER looked at a PDF document and said to themselves, "This could be a podcast?"

A screenshot from Adobe Acrobat showing the toolbar which includes the following options:
Edit a PDF
Generated Podcast [New]
Create PDF Space
Export a PDF
Create a PDF

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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

The founder we should talk more about is Thomas Paine, who will fuck your shit up every time. Here he is in The Rights of Man just ripping into any ideas of "originalism" and that kind of garbage.

Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself, in all cases, as the ages and generations which preceded it. The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave, is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies. Man has no property in man; neither has any generation a property in the generations which are to follow. The parliament or the people of 1688, or of any other period, had no more right to dispose of the people of the present day, or to bind or to controul them in any shape whatever, than the parliament or the people of the present day have to dispose of, bind or controul those who are to live a hundred or a thousand years hence. Every generation is, and must be, competent to all the purposes which its occasions require. It is the living, and not the dead, that are to be accommodated.

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Matt Largey @mattlargey.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I have no interest in your buzziest scoops.

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nick andersen @nicktheandersen.com · 02/07/2026

america has a fun shortage and it's important we talk about it (decline in third spaces, etc etc)

a bloomberg info graphic showing four different dramatically declining types of spaces in order 'Bars and Nightclubs' 'Bowling Alleys' 'Marinas' and 'Movie Theaters' from 2001 to 2025 text on top reading 'Fewer Places to Relax and Socalize' 'US establiments per 100,000 people' 'Note: movie theaters includes dirve-ins.' 2025 population data based on US Census. Sources US Bureau of Labor Statistics, World Bank, US Census'

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Matt Largey @mattlargey.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Welcome to Texas before renewables exploded

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Matt Largey @mattlargey.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Cool things are happening when the Public Editor’s story about this massive fuckup also has a correction appended.

Correction
June 30, 2026
This story was updated to include Totenberg's description of her error, as broadcast on ATC. She did not personally hear the announcement from the chief justice.

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

TMZ DC with perhaps the most brutal video from Trump's Great American State Fair, showing Dr. Oz on stage bragging to Dean Cain about how big the crowd is, only for the reporter to pan around and show absolutely nobody is there. Original post: x.com/i/status/207...

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

People who remain on twitter increasingly talk and think like chuds no matter where they believe they fall politically.

Rando Calrissian III 🍉
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It’s extraordinarily difficult to get any candidate in the kind of position for a presidential run that AOC is in right now. There is only one lefty pol in America who could be stronger than her but I will not say who they are because it is the subject of an upcoming article.

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AOC isn’t left. She’s a pro-Israel, pro-NATO libtard with Pelosi energy.

She’s a Pelosi of color except way more unserious.

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@retardspeeking
That is left, actual leftists are ridding the party of disgusting genocidal piggy commies like you, fascist

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