iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

~ @modulusshift.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Though actually one more note: I have no context for how it was used in 1.0 but I can’t imagine it worked half as well as it did in End of an Era lol

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~ @modulusshift.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

…are you upset about Susan’s performance specifically? The main thing I dislike about Answers is that the third verse lyrically comes from the chorus again but instead they gave it to Susan and the dialogue is broken now But other than that, it’s basic and plodding but kinda needed to be?

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~ @modulusshift.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Happy (US) Labor Day to all workers. It’s my first one as a union member, and I’m really grateful for it.

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~ @modulusshift.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Wow. I mean I absolutely saw this conference, and somehow was so enamored of the iPhone halo of “wow what’s possible” that it hadn’t occurred to me yet that location sharing as social media is actually creepy as hell. It’s good I couldn’t afford a phone yet lol

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~ @modulusshift.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I get what you mean though to be clear

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~ @modulusshift.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Well to be fair that is a transformer model these days, but not a pretrained transformer, let alone a large language model

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~ @modulusshift.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Oh! Wait I remember a contact tracing interview now. So it came closer than I remember, clearly.

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~ @modulusshift.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Huh. I don’t think I know anyone who died of COVID. Maybe it was just that I was in social circles that took it seriously and followed all health official advice for the entire lockdown period, I didn’t even know anyone who tested positive for the first year or so.

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~ @modulusshift.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

If I remember correctly, this secretly only gets you the drivers slightly faster than Windows would if you didn’t. Like a matter of days.

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~ @modulusshift.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Support the post office! Make them pay postage on these things!

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~ @modulusshift.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Also occurs to me that actually it’s the hairstyle that’s most strongly maiden-coded

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~ @modulusshift.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

I do want to note that the game explicitly states she was summoned into “the fragile body of a maiden” to try and depower her. Of course if your point is simply that this is a false dichotomy, and she can be both, I wholeheartedly agree.

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~ @modulusshift.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

lol I don’t think that’s exactly what they meant but I bet it’s tasty anyway. If you go for another one of these, the mandarin flavor is my favorite Another banger that’s probably on the shelf near this one is cidral, which is apple soda.

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~ @modulusshift.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

I’ve known Jigglypuff mains. They were sleep KO junkies, losing 99% of the time for the rush of getting the *sound*

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~ @modulusshift.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

I mean, how many strikes could an out cost? Twelve?

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~ @modulusshift.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Shit I can’t remember if I watched this one. She had a fantastic one a while back about how music can be autistic, which, while avant garde, definitely had some real points I was fascinated by

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~ @modulusshift.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Also full disclaimer I’m half-remembering and talking out of my ass, this is only one notch more reliable than an LLM, though you’re tempting me into actually becoming a CPI nerd lmao

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~ @modulusshift.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Yeah they call it “baskets” or something. Any reasonable selection of goods that meet the needs of a household qualify, so as long as *something* is available, it’s fine. (Open question as to whether that selection of goods is actually possible at the average grocery store.)

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~ @modulusshift.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

If you do wish to mail parcels without talking to anyone, Click-N-Ship collects enough information about you that it’s no issue to drop it in the bin.

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~ @modulusshift.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

At the counter, someone has actually seen you and you’ve answered the questions as to whether it’s safe to mail yourself. There were some issues with hazardous mail and not having anyone to blame it on

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~ @modulusshift.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Wow I’ve always wanted a bean of my very own to flick

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~ @modulusshift.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

I usually say “rhymes with minestrone” lol

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~ @modulusshift.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I could believe that gacha *should* have more uproar, but genAI is basically perfectly tuned for creating uproar beyond what it deserves for its *currently* existing effects.

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~ @modulusshift.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I suppose there’s also the usual problem with addictive capitalism things where people who aren’t affected just go “well I simply wouldn’t be caught up in that”, whereas genAI is affecting everyone, whether they use it or not, and those who use it are making it worse for everyone else

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~ @modulusshift.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Gacha is “just good capitalism”, it’s MLM level, with better PR. Absolutely ruins lives, for sure. I’d be willing to hear arguments that it does it more efficiently than anything before the internet could. But genAI is poisoning the entire public sphere and threatens to do worse.

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~ @modulusshift.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Honestly not sure that’s the correct take but I’m not upset about it either, that’s a good team lead for sure.

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~ @modulusshift.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Oh forgot the relevant part: really happy for you and I’m sure you’re going to do a fantastic job! Always remember what it was like to compete back then, these kids are going through it!

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~ @modulusshift.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Despite striking out on “percolator” on my best run, I still have lots of love for the Bee. (That style of coffee maker went out of fashion twenty years before I was born lol)

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~ @modulusshift.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

This feels like calling open container laws Prohibition lmao

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~ @modulusshift.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Based on the interaction between YoshiP and the SE president Kiryu at the end of the presentation, it sounds like there were quite a lot of discussion on whether it was worth actually investing in XIV for another ten years or not. YoshiP won the argument and they’re running wild with promises now.

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~ @modulusshift.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

I have concerns about pushing genAI usage inside and outside the company in ways that may not help and may not be welcome in either sphere. For one, is spending money on Claude over new hires actually helping the company in the long run? If I open Numbers, why is my launch screen a full page ad?

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~ @modulusshift.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

First off, congratulations on an inarguably successful tenure as Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook. Apple has been first and foremost about craftsmanship, skillfully making precise and beautiful tools on the inside that empower human creativity on the outside. Please keep focused on that, John Ternus.

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~ @modulusshift.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Lmao just Fox’s move set but slower and with a larger hitbox

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~ @modulusshift.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Oh, Dollar Shave Club mostly sells cartridge razors. That makes more sense. I thought it was a reference to the old “dollar per blade” thing that was commonly said about the safety razors

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~ @modulusshift.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Didn’t safety razors make a comeback in the US because someone found a vintage razor in their grandpa’s stuff and realized Germany was still using compatible blades? How did we get from there to here?

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~ @modulusshift.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Heavensward!? My goodness

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~ @modulusshift.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

it's not quite as stupid as it sounds: Iran is charging fees to get through *their* blockade, and the US is taking that as funding their enemy and not letting those ships through *this* blockade. that said it's certainly not a step forward on our part.

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~ @modulusshift.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

I swear I had a chocolate pikachu once like 25 years ago lol

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~ @modulusshift.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

I mean, just to name one thing, the moderation load for ~1 million active users has got to be insane.

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~ @modulusshift.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

oh wow. Having been part of an internet community that was boisterously celebrating Rosa’s birthday each year for a while, checking out a more sentimental take on the topic sounds really nice actually. I’ll put in for this at my local book store.

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~ @modulusshift.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Ooooh I always wondered if there was a way to game that

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~ @modulusshift.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

@ff14.norirow.com I’ve come across your website a couple times now! It’s helpful and very cute! Thank you!

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~ @modulusshift.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

I feel like you have to say Paris the French way so it rhymes with prairie

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~ @modulusshift.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Well, I expect him not to use an auto pen or printed signature lmao

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~ @modulusshift.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

All of the earlier green initiatives got buy in from Republicans on “energy independence” grounds. I’m not *happy* that they have to feel the threat of war to go for this? But soon they may be solid allies in going for green energy again.

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~ @modulusshift.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

If you find this assertion that “the penalty for sin is death” shocking, then you *really* don’t understand what the Protestant majority hears when they’re accused of carrying the guilt for slavery, and why they still squirm about it to this day.

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~ @modulusshift.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

The *immediate* splintering into multiple different camps each headed by a new figure attempting to provide “clarifications” which disagree with each other, that’s mostly aesthetic but still very reminiscent.

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~ @modulusshift.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

The other side of it is working from an evangelium-like principle “actually I am handing down from on high that humanity is good by nature” which is seemingly not possible to convince anyone of unless they were predisposed to accept it. Do I find that tragic, absolutely.

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