iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

May-Li Khoe✨ @mayli.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

today’s delight: seeing my friends’ unfettered happiness with the analog photos I snapped of them together some of life’s best moments are the ones that reconnect you with why you started doing the creative act in the first place

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May-Li Khoe✨ @mayli.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

the way people talk about MIT makes me think I should just start talking about myself as an MIT grad in the third person “An MIT grad spent half their life experiencing existential angst. Now they’ve distilled everything into a work of speculative nonfiction. Here’s the result.”

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sailor mercury @sailorhg.com · 16/05/2026

this weekend is the last weekend of the indo net cafe! come watch award-winning indonesian film "daly city", and read pieces by @aprilsoetarman.bsky.social & @mayli.bsky.social! 78 gough st, sf sat & sun 1-6pm

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 05/05/2026

While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.

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sailor mercury @sailorhg.com · 27/04/2026

last month, i hosted in internet cafe at my studio. next month, which is aapi month, i'm hosting an indo-net cafe—a showcase of digital narratives by indonesian american artists, alongside indonesian snacks! luma.com/zp9dqquy

Indo-net cafe

Saturday 5/2, 1-6pm
78 Gough St.

3pm viewing of short film Daly City
Q&A with director Nick Hartanto

digital narratives by
May-Li Khoe
April Soetarman
Amy Wibowo

Indonesian food
by Reculture Foods and Nusa

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sailor mercury @sailorhg.com · 01/05/2026

happening tomorrow!! with pieces by nick hartanto, @aprilsoetarman.bsky.social, @mayli.bsky.social, and myself!

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

if we don't get to the ROOT of the issue , the actual source.. we'll be back here doing this again and people are upset because they told you that five years ago ... and those are the people most targeted and history told you 60, 100 and yes 500 years ago

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May-Li Khoe✨ @mayli.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

No cheating. Your last saved picture of a celebrity is your therapist.

photo of prince
lavender rafters blazer with raised black velvet print of curling vines, left gently open to expose bare chest, two gold chains, one with a coin pendant the other a cross. a single curl left to dangle and swoop left across his forehead, complements by the swoop of those eyelashes and the movement in the ambient brushstrokes on the backdrop

my text overlaid,”imo thrrrbhad only ever been one true prince anyway”

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May-Li Khoe✨ @mayli.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

“visual elevator music” is a brilliant way of putting it aka musak so… vizools? anyway we are so surprised! who woulda thunk

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May-Li Khoe✨ @mayli.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

I want to know what the trials will look like when the tables turn.

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Seeing lots of folks incorporating "critical university studies" lessons into their spring classes. For what it's worth, my 2022 Redesigning the Academy class site is totally open, and I've got a bunch of relevant (open) Arena channels, too... [1/2] redesigningacademy.wordsinspace.net/spring2022/

Screenshot of class website, a grid with an image embodying the theme of each week.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Wrote a thing: The carnage associated with fossil fuel is why speeding the transition to renewables is good for international stability as well as everything else. Fossil fuel is inseparable from violence, and dependence on it it has created a brutal world order....

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Five Facets of the Attack on Venezuela by the Rogue Nation the US Has Become

1 They are saying it baldly: this is an oil grab. There is a history of oil grabs going back to British imperialism in the middle east in the late nineteenth century and murders of Osage Nation triba...

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May-Li Khoe✨ @mayli.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

I can at least confirm that when you don’t have other ambitions (like ladder climbing, empire building, endless wealth hoarding, or a bottomless pit of an ego to fill), as a leader it really does open space and clarity to just focus on what needs to get done

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Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.

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Danai Christopoulou | VILE LADY VILLAINS out NOW @danaiwrites.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

You’re going to be okay. Someone will hate your book. You’re going to be okay. Someone will not get what you’re trying to do with your art and judge you. You’re going to be okay. You’re going to keep creating, in 2026, because you need it and because the world needs you to. Okay?

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May-Li Khoe✨ @mayli.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Para todo el mundo: porque no los dos? Feliz año y feliz ano!

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anthony ocampo @anthonyocampo.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

you know who you won’t see in the epstein files tomorrow? drag queens and trans athletes.

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May-Li Khoe✨ @mayli.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

louder for ppl in the back 📣 the Luddites were not inherently anti-tech!

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May-Li Khoe✨ @mayli.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

OH from parent to child “you know i have shoes older than you?”

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May-Li Khoe✨ @mayli.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

to spell this out bluntly: 1. cut / forbid new idea formation and practices that support it 2. tell you you don’t have new ideas

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Thank you majority: "According to the most recent edition of an annual Harris Poll, for the first time, a majority of Americans believe billionaires are a threat to democracy." You're right.

nytimes.com

Opinion | The Billionaires Have Gone Full Louis XV

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 15/12/2025

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

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May-Li Khoe✨ @mayli.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Again, even LLMs will tell you this is their limitation, but I keep finding people of all stripes who don’t get it. Will ppl listen to me more if I tell them about my two MIT CS degrees 🫠 www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

we'll have AGI. Scaling is all we need.
But this theory is seriously scientifically flawed.
LLMs are simply tools that emulate the communicative function of language, not the separate and distinct cognitive process of thinking and reasoning, no matter how many data centers we build.
WE USE LANGUAGE TO THINK, BUT THAT DOES NOT MAKE LANGUAGE THE SAME AS THOUGHT
Last year, three scientists published a commentary in the journal Nature titled, with admirable clarity, "Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought." Coauthored by Evelina Fedorenko (MIT), Steven T.
Piantadosi (UC Berkeley) and Edward A.F. Gibson (MIT), the article is a tour de force summary of decades of scientific research regarding the relationship between language and thought, and has two purposes: one, to tear down the notion that language gives rise to our ability to think and reason, and two, to build up the idea that language evolved as a cultural tool we use to share our thoughts with one another.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 25/11/2025

Gender-affirming care saves lives

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May-Li Khoe✨ @mayli.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

tbh I’m wondering who this “we” is because nobody I’m spending time with by choice is defending the social order they were born into, and I have an inkling about who is ? most likely I have chosen to be in a bubble but it is not small, point still stands whenever i see a “we” i’m like whooo is weee

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May-Li Khoe✨ @mayli.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

always pay attention to the incentive system

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

happy Jair Bolsonaro got arrested after failing to cut off his ankle monitor day

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May-Li Khoe✨ @mayli.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Eventually, the few who remained wandered out of the cities on foot, leaving the bots to hit each others’ buttons and empty self-driving cars circling, charging, circling, charging. Moss crept over the concrete and tall grasses sprung up through cracks, waving golden goodbyes in the wind

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May-Li Khoe✨ @mayli.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

i’m fairly sure it’s by design (that they don’t know)

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 21/11/2025

There are indignities to living under authoritarianism, and compromises that power will demand, but there’s no excuse for seeking out, and pandering to, the worst of the transgressors.

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May-Li Khoe✨ @mayli.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

I only ever attack poetically, tbh

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Playdate @play.date · 17/11/2025

🟨 It's still November, and our offer still stands: buy a Playdate, skip the pesky tariffs and domestic shipping charges. US orders placed soon should arrive by Christmas! 🎁 ⚠️ play.date/shop

play.date

Playdate Store

It’s yellow. It fits in your pocket. There’s a crank. It comes with 24 free games to get you started. Say hi to Playdate from Panic.

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May-Li Khoe✨ @mayli.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy (oh dear, i didn’t cheat and…)

white marble statue of christ face palming

“This.
This is exactly why my middle name is
Fucking.”

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Bingo. Corporate welfare is the real welfare you should be talking about.

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May-Li Khoe✨ @mayli.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

tbh don’t know any women with advanced degrees or high achievements in my generation who didn’t suffer through shit like this

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Ken Caldeira @kencaldeira.com · 16/11/2025

Actual causes of death in the US and media coverage of same. And then we wonder why people have such a skewed understanding of the world. @ourworldindata.org is a treasure. Thanks, @hannahritchie.bsky.social and colleagues. ourworldindata.org/does-the-new...

Two largest causes of death in the US are heart disease and cancer, but the media focuses on homicide and terrorism.

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 15/11/2025

‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’ —Alice Wong

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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”

Black text on a yellow background - This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing.
Hi everyone, it looks like I ran out of time. I have so many dreams that I wanted to fulfill and plans to create new stories for you. There are a few in progress that might come to fruition in a few years if things work out. I did not ever imagine I would live to this age and end up a writer, editor, activist, and more. As a kid riddled with insecurity and internalized ableism, I could not see a path forward. It was thanks to friendships and some great teachers who believed in me that I was able to fight my way out of miserable situations into a place where I finally felt comfortable in my skin.
We need more stories about us and our culture.
You all, we all, deserve the everything and more in such a hostile, ableist environment. Our wisdom is incisive and unflinching. I'm honored to be your ancestor and believe disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future. Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.

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May-Li Khoe✨ @mayli.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Insider fact: we (and Jack) should all be thanking @hannahdonovan.bsky.social for Vine’s archive. It was *her* idea to archive Vine when she was told to shut it down, and she took the initiative, on behalf of the internet, to figure out how and then build and ship the archive

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Well well well, if it isn't the thing literally everyone whose brain is functioning properly saw coming.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

“the kindest person in the room is often the smartest.” JB Pritzker is a mensch.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 10/11/2025

I just want everyone to have the experience of living in dignity with access to sufficient food, safe housing, needed medical care, high quality education, and time to engage with what sparks their curiosity and spirit this should not be controversial 🫠

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

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