iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Productivity as an adult is just an endless process of applying new psychological tricks and operant conditioning to yourself until an acceptable number of tasks are completed.

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cara giaimo @cjgiaimo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

i was fortunate enough to profile Margaret Hamilton in 2019. A really kind and curious person. This was my favorite story she told me:

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Micah @rincewind.run · 07/10/2026

rip to one of the coolest software engineers who ever lived

Margaret Hamilton standing next to a printout of code she and her team wrote for the Apollo program, which is as tall as she is

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Michael Fantasm @michaelfan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yes, I took a picture of it. www.moma.org/collection/w...

Snow shovel hanging from the ceiling in MoMA. It is entitled "In Advance of the Broken Arm" by Marcel Duchamp.

August 1964 (fourth version, after lost original of November 1915).

He bought a snow shovel, signed it, and hung it from the ceiling.

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Michael Fantasm @michaelfan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I remember seeing this hanging from the ceiling at MoMA and wondering why it was there. I read the label and thought, "Of course, it's f*cking Duchamp." (Shout out to Glenstone Museum for introducing me to the work of Duchamp)

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Michael Fantasm @michaelfan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

My favorite thing about going to music concerts on a weeknight is when the artist constantly thanks us for coming out on a MONDAY. Thank you for acknowledging the struggle we're all going to face tomorrow.

A picture taken at Capital One Arena with all 5 members of Le Sserafim sitting on the stage with a large screen behind them showing a close up of one of the members.

The screen also says 2026 Le Sserafim Tour Pureflow.

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Michael Fantasm @michaelfan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I haven't done it in years, but I like crowd pleasers like "Don't Stop Believing" or "Livin' on a Prayer". I'm on a a Les Mis kick, so maybe "Do You Hear the People Sing?" which is the last song I sang in public. We're getting a home karaoke machine, so I'll have more chances to figure it out.

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BrianMcLachlan @brianmcl.com · 02/10/2026

I was going over some of the trends/eras of illustration with my students today and Corporate Memphis created the most conversation. It was compared to a business man in a happy face mask, Arial & pop music. Good in contexts like brightening up a train station, bad in masking the cruelness of tech.

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Michael Fantasm @michaelfan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I just listened to the Cold Open and I have so many questions. Was it a requirement you sing to get back on the pod? Have you and Matt ever gone to karaoke? What's your go-to song?

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Michael Fantasm @michaelfan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

ooo, ooo, when does he reciprocate? I would love to hear him on Mary in America.

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Michael Fantasm @michaelfan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Fever / Aces Game 3 is on USA Network / CNBC (Google Search was wrong). Braves / Phillies Game 3 on NBC / Peacock.

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Michael Fantasm @michaelfan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula. My then-girlfriend, now wife, made the hilarious observation that maybe vampires wore a lot of leather because they need clothing that lasts.

Kate Beckinsale as Selene in Underworld. She is holding a pistol and is dressed in a leather long coat with patterns and tight fitting clothes.

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

oh shit it's october?

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Michael Fantasm @michaelfan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Periodic reminder that literally everything with a stitch on it was made by a human. We have yet to make a robot that can sew even with a sewing machine.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.

From DISCVR blog's Facebook page, a momma bear & a yearling cub on her back in the shallow water. I think the background has been swapped out, and I can't rule out some AI use there? God, Facebook has become the social media for AI slop : (

The title of the article, which I link below, is "How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack"

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Michael Fantasm @michaelfan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you're a center, the Ravens would like to speak with you too.

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Michael Fantasm @michaelfan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Tethus, Lord of the Lower Air, is just having a little fun.

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Michael Fantasm @michaelfan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Oh, so the fancy ones. They were $40 for a box of 4 plain mooncakes at my local 99 Ranch.

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 26/09/2026

happy mid-autumn festival! 🍂🌕

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Michael Fantasm @michaelfan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I love that this is a really simple reason to tear down the ballroom afterwards. "Sorry, it was unsafe."

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Michael Fantasm @michaelfan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It's Yellow 😆 It goes through loess upstream, so it picks up a lot of dirt and deposits it down the river. It's the birthplace of Chinese civilization because the land was fertile, similar to the Nile for Egypt.

A picture of the Yellow River in China taken from the Wikipedia page. It shows a green mountain in the background, a bridge spanning the yellow river.

It's more of a really bright tan color than yellow, from all the loess it picked up upstream.

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Michael Fantasm @michaelfan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The two major rivers in China are named "Yellow River" and "Long River". Shanghai means "On the Sea". Beijing means "North Capital".

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Michael Fantasm @michaelfan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Given how much fighting there's been over a high school being moved to a brand new building 2.5 miles away and adding one poorer, browner elementary to the cluster, yes, there'd be actual blood in the streets here.

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Michael Fantasm @michaelfan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I'm a combination of face blind and really bad memory for names and I'm bluffing all the time. People with good social memories have a super power as far as I'm concerned.

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Michael Fantasm @michaelfan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

As a Ravens fan, this hurts Mina.

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Michael Fantasm @michaelfan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I remember ME1 combat mechanics were janky and were much improved in ME2.

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Michael Fantasm @michaelfan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"If you look at this loaf of bread as a loaf of bread, you’re making a category error. The thing that people are spending their $60 on doesn’t belong under goods, it belongs under services." (Or really an experience) It's a Veblen good targeted at tourists or the wealthy.

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Michael Fantasm @michaelfan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Brought my toddler daughter to Jaleo. She was super well-behaved, sits happily in the booster seat. Servers set the table and she takes both hands and slides the plate right off the table and breaks it.

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Michael Fantasm @michaelfan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Good luck! May the servers be stable.

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Michael Fantasm @michaelfan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I overheard my daughter singing "Nervous Breakdown". She said she has it in her "Relatable" playlist 😆

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Michael Fantasm @michaelfan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

31/365 Off of Sara Bareilles' new album, Good Grief. This song in honor of Gavin Creel is a highlight and this performance is so raw. I saw the two of them in Into the Woods on Broadway and Sara recently at the Anthem. Amazing artists. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFFq...

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Sara Bareilles — Forever [Live @ SiriusXM]

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victoria zeller🫛 (RISEBALL, summer ‘27) @dirtbagqueer.rocks · 17/09/2026

shoutout to this king who discovered a new kind of cat and thought "i think bro need some top ramen'

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Michael Fantasm @michaelfan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I love the Kennedy Center, I'm so mad about it. Thankfully, there's so many good theaters in our area and I'm going to a lot more regional theater. I'm so glad no one's told him about Wolf Trap.

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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

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