iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Matt Policastro @mattpolicastro.com · 36m

Introducing the VC class to Factorio or Satisfactory is now a matter of national security. I promise guys, it’s plenty cool when you can use your jet pack to watch the fuel rods on the conveyor belts.

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Matt Policastro @mattpolicastro.com · 20h

God help us when the models figure out dog dares.

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Matt Policastro @mattpolicastro.com · 29/09/2026

Every public beach in Chicago should have at least one of these.

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Matt Policastro @mattpolicastro.com · 29/09/2026

Decided to play Zero Parades while taking some time off this week; any particularly good reviews or discussions about?

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Matt Policastro @mattpolicastro.com · 25/09/2026

I’m a pretty good cook and yet I just screwed up some cod filets so badly I’m more fascinated by the failure mode than upset.

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 24/09/2026

lol lol lol lol lol lol lol

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 24/09/2026

and there it is: regulatory capture

6 SEC. 12. CHARTERS FOR ADVANCED ARTIFICIAL INTEL-
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(a) AUTHORITY TO ISSUE.—The Secretary may issue

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(b) CHARTER REQUIRED.—No person may develop or

12 distribute an advanced artificial intelligence model without
13 a charter issued by the Secretary under subsection (a).

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Matt Policastro @mattpolicastro.com · 23/09/2026

On a short course of steroids to hopefully kill off the last of a lung infection and I didn’t remember just how insane they make you feel? I cannot stop sweating and crave lacto-fermented foods like I’ve never felt before. I would strike a man down for a Reuben. I would steal kimchi from a baby.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I don't think anywhere near a majority of men want the kind of ubiquitous gambling that now permeates everything.

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

One of my favorite cases of someone being Wrong on the Internet was a very earnest, very confused vegan who was telling people how cruel honey is; and it eventually turned out they thought honey was made by putting bees in a centrifuge and spinning them around until they threw up.

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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

this is fantastic and I learned something new

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Matt Policastro @mattpolicastro.com · 22/09/2026

Celebrated getting a giant air purifier which seemed to immediately boost my mood by making a distressingly decadent fridge tidbits burger

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Matt Policastro @mattpolicastro.com · 20/09/2026

Had a blast at Chicago MeasureCamp yesterday; fun talks and great chats with friends old and new. (But good heavens I am exhausted and this steady rain heralding fall is not helping in the slightest.)

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EROCY @erocy.world · 16/04/2026

*trent reznor voice* my whole existence is claude / you help me break things in prod

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Chatham Harrison dba TRUMP DELENDUS EST @chathamharrison.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Voters elected Trump to make them rich

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Matt Policastro @mattpolicastro.com · 19/09/2026

This is almost disgustingly me-coded, let’s gooooooo

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donni saphire @donni.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I respect my haters and share their concerns

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Key 🗝 🦊✅ @keytryer.net · 16/09/2026

That's right, it goes in the JSON hole

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Matt Policastro @mattpolicastro.com · 16/09/2026

@rangedtouch.bsky.social I am playing catch up on Shelved by Genre, anf regarding the modernizing forces in Mordor and orc specializations in Return of the King: Hundreds of Beavers should be a bonusode because (spoilers) the enemy is doing society

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Matt Policastro @mattpolicastro.com · 16/09/2026

I know I am a real weirdo because despite being significantly more internet-brained than most people in my day-to-day I still feel FOMO when I log on and see people talking about how hellacious the discourse has been.

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Matt Policastro @mattpolicastro.com · 16/09/2026

*Spirals in precision/recall* Weird stuff, but potentially really neat

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Matt Policastro @mattpolicastro.com · 14/09/2026

I infected my YouTube recommendations with Let’s Play edits of some game called Moonbase Alpha with a charmingly janky STT so now instead of music i just have a chorusing “uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh” robot voice stuck in my head

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Matt Policastro @mattpolicastro.com · 13/09/2026

Went to Knobcon, bought shelves at IKEA, am now in repose with a canned cocktail and a cat. Good day.

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Matt Policastro @mattpolicastro.com · 10/09/2026

I’m more amazed that we aren’t seeing more litigation around the rampant IP misuse/theft?

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Matt Policastro @mattpolicastro.com · 10/09/2026

A solid sub sandwich remains undefeated as a mood lifter, praise be

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

for a banal example, the fact that anthropic will simultaneously publish long diatribes about the risks of AI surveillance and then contract out Claude for Palantir to resell to CBP is psychotic, and there is no reason why i should take any of their moral protests seriously while they do that.

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Matt Policastro @mattpolicastro.com · 07/09/2026

Idk, I spend a lot of time these days thinking about most of the ethics trainings I’ve been in hammer on “it doesn’t matter if it’s all above-board, it’s how it looks”

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Henry Snow @henrys.now · 07/09/2026

the greatest power you can have in a cruel and cynical world is earnest belief

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Matt Policastro @mattpolicastro.com · 07/09/2026

“Oh, inspired by the Starship Troopers uniforms? Well those seemed like some nice kids, this sounds great”

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Matt Policastro @mattpolicastro.com · 07/09/2026

Got some really sad news today. Life is too short. Gonna go tear up at the pothos cutting I’ve been nursing back to health after somehow killing its original planting

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dame @dame.is · 14/07/2026

not sure if anyone noticed this, but Zohran Mamdani’s new PIT crew is specifically hiring for candidates with agentic coding experience — we need more leftists leveraging AI for the public good, so this is encouraging to see!

mainframes, FTP-based data feeds, undocumented APIs, or workflows that egin as PDFs and spreadsheets. - Practical, day-to-day experience using generative and agentic coding tools in real production workflows, and clear opinions on where they heip, where they get in the way, and how to use them responsibly. - Familiarity with

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Let’s bring out the classic

Spidey_ElonFan @spideycyp_155 • 7h
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I did as a child, but found it to be too simple to be useful in real life: a mere 8 by 8 grid, no fog of war, no technology tree, no random map or spawn position, only 2 players, both sides exact same pieces, etc.

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Fortunately, there is no precedent for destructive ideas spreading quickly through text so we're safe.

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Matt Policastro @mattpolicastro.com · 03/09/2026

I’ve had a weird/hard week and stumbled on ReBoot of all things on YouTube, both in godawful VHS rips with original ad spots and the shockingly pristine restoration they’ve been doing. Nostalgia is a weird, wild thing

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Matt Policastro @mattpolicastro.com · 02/09/2026

Practicing sight reading and woooof. I’m choosing to blame this ear infection rather than actual, you know… plausible reasons

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journeyman folklorist @aniceburrito.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

I found where they’re conserving you

Google Maps image of “Chuckle Head Conservation Area” in Tasmania

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

logging on to the earnest high-info neurotics website every day during the everything going wrong decade: 'you know, the vibes here could be better'

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Matt Policastro @mattpolicastro.com · 29/08/2026

Glad to have confirmed that rather than some persistent malaise I just have an ear infection after a bad bug. But also. What am I, some sort of large baby man? An ear infection?

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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Not joking: I think this is a legitimate form of living history for online games. It's like an old-timey pioneer town where people pretend to be blacksmiths. This is a more accurate way to experience what WOW was like 20 years ago than being in an empty server

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Matt Policastro @mattpolicastro.com · 29/08/2026

Been on the computer way too much this week so tonight I made more Detroit-style and prepped an alarming amount of butter chicken. The cat and I are swooning on our couches in tomato-fragranced fugues

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Matt Policastro @mattpolicastro.com · 27/08/2026

I don’t feel great using Claude these days and god, its tone is exhausting, but then every once in a while it drops a nonsense banger.

Screenshot of a Claude response:

Fair - "your upstream was sick" reads as either
"critically degraded" or "absolutely rad" depending on which decade you parse it from. To be unambiguous: your upstream was unwell. It is now neither sick nor sick, just fine.

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Matt Policastro @mattpolicastro.com · 27/08/2026

Pretty bonkers, but more importantly they gave me a new cyberpunk OC name: Wow Crucial

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Hot Flash Dance Party @misscurly12.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The Dolly Parton mural in Edgewater.

A mural of Dolly Parton. Flowers have been placed on the sidewalk as a memorial. The sun is shining on her face

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Matt Policastro @mattpolicastro.com · 26/08/2026

It sucks because it’s hard not to feel the draw of nostalgia sometimes with *waves arms* Dare to imagine something better instead! What could give you a glimpse of that feeling, to chase and dream?

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