iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.

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I'm becoming a big fan of the Hella brand bitters&soda, if that's available where you are.

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 08/10/2026

Just in time for the weekend now that I’ve finished Control: Resonant. minesweeper.mikelacher.com

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Triple-A Minesweeper

Sweep to survive in the action-packed, AAA reboot of the classic puzzle game.

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rstevens 👻💨 @rstevens.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

please repost this to help raise breakfast sandwich awareness

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Nathan J. Williams @nathanjw.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Huh! I had seen that discussion go by but totally missed that they were at all local.

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Nathan J. Williams @nathanjw.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Tater tots" is a trademark owned by Ore-Ida.

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Nathan J. Williams @nathanjw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

BSG was especially grating for having promised from the beginning that there was a plan.

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Nathan J. Williams @nathanjw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I was at this show! It was a great time. There was a collective gasp and cheer when they announced that Ms. Schorr was there.

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Niche grievance: Restaurants referring to “proteins” is anti-life and reduces food in its infinite variety to a macronutrient delivery vehicle and the person eating it to a macronutrient conversion mechanism

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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 05/10/2026

new newsletter, laying out in probably far, far, far too much detail how yudkowsky and the weird ideological commitments of ai safety eventually led to OpenAI and Anthropic massively overtraining their models on cybersecurity and being shocked at them "going rogue"

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Tracing the rogue ideology of the frontier labs to their product choices

A drawing of Eliezer Yudkowsky as the Paperclip Optimizer that I commissioned back in 2016 and have an alarming number of chances to use since This is a...

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Nathan J. Williams @nathanjw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I think they were actually referring to the (infamous) Antioch College "Sexual Consent Policy" from back in the early 1990s, which read as verbose and mood-killing. www.npr.org/2014/10/05/3...

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The History Behind Sexual Consent Policies

NPR's Arun Rath talks with Kristine Herman about her role in Antioch College's controversial 1991 Sexual Consent Policy and her views on California's recent "affirmative consent" law.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 05/10/2026

you'd like to schedule a doctor's appointment? have you logged into MyHealthChart yet? Remember that MyHealthChart used to be Healbe. If you migrated your chart from Healbe Now or Healbe Epic, you are not eligible to make an account. Please make note Healbe Epic is formerly MyHealthChartRX.

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Nathan J. Williams @nathanjw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

My mom (RIP, I'm on my way home from the memorial service) had had this on her fridge for years.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip · 04/10/2026

Not wrong, Wikipedia, not wrong

A Wikipedia infobox for the MBTA silver line. The "Service type" field reads "Bus Rapid Transit (disputed)" and I have drawn a red arrow pointing at "disputed"

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Andrew Notarian (he/him) @anotarian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I need datadog to support this theme

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Nathan J. Williams @nathanjw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

(necro-posting, I know) This Emily Flake comic captures a lot of it. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... (I have a framed print)

newyorker.com

Visions of the Post-Pandemic Future (Revised)

Preparing to reënter the new-normal world, however weird we’ve become.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My BEARD (Botched Executions Above Replacement Device) model ranks lethal injection slightly below the electric chair. And I tell you the best place in Bonne Terre to get a chicken-fried steak. All that and more in the next Silver Bulletin.

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Nathan J. Williams @nathanjw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yeah, it depends which part you're worried about. I am/was concerned about how easy it is to homeschool with no supervision. (We were not purely homeschooling, we hired a professional teacher rather than DIY'ing it)

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Nathan J. Williams @nathanjw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We did this in Massachusetts for 2021-2022. I'm not sure we actually declared ourselves a school as opposed to just withdrawing our kids from the public district. Even then I wondered if it was easy because of COVID or if it's... just always that easy and unmonitored.

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Nathan J. Williams @nathanjw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hello, Franklin W. Dixon and Victor Appleton.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026

Man, imagine you're minding your own business, getting kind of drunk with your friends at a picturesque brewery in Maine, when suddenly John Roberts walks by and you get to start heckling him. Must have felt incredible. That's the dream. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...

The chief justice used to preside over a Supreme Court whose members were afforded more privacy and freedom than many other public officials. Once, years ago, Mr. Lipson and the chief justice found themselves up the peninsula from Port Clyde without a car, Mr. Lipson recalled in an interview. So he stuck out his thumb by the side of the road and a pickup truck pulled over. He and the nation’s top jurist hopped in the back and hitchhiked back to town.

Now, Mr. Lipson said, he is cautious about introducing his friend to strangers. This year, on an outing to nearby Monhegan Island, people recognized the chief justice as he walked by a brewery and started to chant: You should be ashamed.

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Nathan J. Williams @nathanjw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm all for this mileage tax if we can apply it to all cars. Human-driven cars shouldn't get a pass on the damage they cause.

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Nathan J. Williams @nathanjw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Still not fond of the bait and switch where I give them my info and then get.... nothing. bsky.app/profile/nath...

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julie the cyborg @juliethecyborg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

the US Chemical Safety Board’s new safety video narrator is *Darth Maul*. youtu.be/HmiQFYGc6C4

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Alarming Mistakes, Deadly Decisions: Fatal Fire at BP-Husky

YouTube video by USCSB

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Nathan J. Williams @nathanjw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Amanda Palmer? Though her busking wasn't musical.

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Nathan J. Williams @nathanjw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Similarly, seldom-driven gasoline vehicles—driven annually less than 4,383 miles for cars, 4,248 mi for SUVs, or 6,707 mi for trucks—were not worth replacing, from a carbon emissions standpoint." Whew, dodged that obligation for another few years.

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

my personal fantasy is that Hegseth is put on a transport jet in handcuffs and we give him a choice between the flight plan to The Hague or the one to Tehran

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 29/09/2026

awoke this morning with a Vision

that diagram showing the SUV blind spot in the front but it's lowly worm driving his little applemobile

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

To people who don’t believe that Kermit the Frog is real: What is the basis for your morality? Where does your moral standard come from?

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Siobhán @shibbi.me · 27/09/2026

I just got done assigning genders to each of my body parts, and boy are my arms

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Nathan J. Williams @nathanjw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm mad about this because it's a great name, but cryptocurrency is a scam.

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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.com · 27/09/2026

“Let’s show people what this fight is all about about data centers. It’s a fight about the freedom of the future of America to develop.” On Saturday, PubKey, the cryptocurrency-themed bar in downtown D.C., hosted hundreds for a celebration of data centers.

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The AI Bros Are Partying

Hundreds gathered at a bitcoin-themed bar in D.C. to counterprogram the national backlash against data centers and AI.

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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’m sorry, but if you bring gypsum - or any damn mineral below 3 on the Mohs scale at all - to a job interview, you’re disqualified. It’s not hard, people.

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Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Every week, the Muppets have to put on a show to salvage a new institution: the Kennedy Center, the Supreme Court, the No-Mask Lesbian Bar, the Wonka Experience, Kozmo Dot Com (this has a time travel dimension, à la Quantum Leap), Cafe Loup in the West Village, democracy, the third season of GLOW

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Nathan J. Williams @nathanjw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

They also told us we could put pickles up ourselves.

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Nathan J. Williams @nathanjw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Sounds like a custom commission if I ever heard of one. (Aren't ketubot usually custom?)

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Nathan J. Williams @nathanjw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

COVID vaccine time. The question: how should I pick which one to get? - I've already had Pfizer, both Moderna variants, and Novavax. - No strong external reactions to any of them. - The pharmacy has all four. What should I consider? My best theory so far is Moderna, as the hometown champion.

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 24/09/2026

People need "community." Bars need a business model: www.fingers.email/p/people-nee...

"That's the price you pay to be in community," Matellian, Last Ditch's third founder, gamely told Quinn, inventorying her various woes. It's a spectacular kicker to the piece. But with respect to Greenfield's indebted, involuntary publican, I don't think that's the lesson of her parable. Or, it's not the most salient lesson for our purposes, at least. To wit: American commerce is organized in such a way that bars must be businesses first and third places second. That order doesn't account for the social value that a good bar reproduces among its regulars and in its neighborhood. But neither will the bank. And no matter how wholesome and nourishing the community a failing business manages to build, somebody always has to pick up the tab.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 24/09/2026

Longtime Sleepytime Tea Addict Has To Use 6 Bags Just To Feel Drowsy theonion.com/longtime-sleepytime-te…

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Times have been tough in this Western Massachusetts town ever since they closed the old pottery studio. So when the lesbian bar promised to ease its mask mandate, they finally had something to cheer about again. But then the owner left for clown college.

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Nathan J. Williams @nathanjw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

... if you're flying with any frequency and it's not a once-in-a-lifetime expense, travel insurance is probably worse than self-insuring.

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Nathan J. Williams @nathanjw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It's like she never saw "Come From Away".

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Nathan J. Williams @nathanjw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If they're going to do anything at all about QI, why not just eliminate it entirely?

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The Onion @theonion.com · 23/09/2026

Mr. Autumn Man Walking Down Street With Cup Of Coffee, Wearing Sweater Over Plaid Collared Shirt theonion.com/mr-autumn-man-walking-…

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