iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18h

Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?

Elon Musk: “Zelensky has gone too far”

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2109033017184338141

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Adam Lytle @nerdburglar.bsky.social · 18h

Interesting. Citroën, please do a modern DS next.

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Adam Lytle @nerdburglar.bsky.social · 20h

...but it might have been interesting if he could also digest carbohydrates to chemically power himself when needed. Maybe combined with photovoltaic hair that he could grow out to maximize light/radiation absorption.

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Adam Lytle @nerdburglar.bsky.social · 20h

It's interesting that they never addressed Data's power needs. I guess leaving it ambiguous didn't paint them into a corner. The TNG tech manual describes wireless power transfer for combadges & tricorders. Could be Data takes advantage of that system when on the Enterprise...

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Adam Lytle @nerdburglar.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Holy guacamole the Future Boy Conan dioramas are incredible.

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Adam Lytle @nerdburglar.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It will never not be funny to me that Republicans tried so hard to brand themselves as the party of rugged individualism and then ended up with this whiny man-baby as their ultimate avatar.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 08/10/2026

Does anyone have any good coping strategies for the amount of anti-AI content out there that is blatantly AI generated Like what do you do, is there a dedicated pillow to scream into or something

a really furry front of a car with a huge yellow blob

a blurry and physically impossible rooftop gutter

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Adam Lytle @nerdburglar.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hmm! The new condo in midtown Toronto appears to use a "scissor stair" in what is really a single stairwell.

A roundish building floor plan with a central elevator/stairwell core. It has a bank of 4 elevators to the left, and on the right is a single stairwell 2 intermingling staircases, accessed on either side of the central core.

Render of the currently under construction condo at One Deslile in Toronto. It is a rounded tower with varying geometry structure that mimics scales.

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Paulrus of West Bumblefrick @paulrusof.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Short of far-out sci-fi solutions like programmable matter, there is no way to solve the space problem in cities. Cars simply take up way too much space. There no reason why one or two people need a 2-4 ton living room to get across town.

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Adam Lytle @nerdburglar.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Okay hear me out: Pizza Rat Blvd

A rat enjoying a sloce of pizza on some stairs.

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Adam Lytle @nerdburglar.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Always thought it was a missed opportunity not to have Homn & Grand Nagus Zek's servant Maihar'du get up to some silent shenanigans together. Maybe as a C plot to a Zek & Lwaxana story.

Grand Nagus Zek and his servant Maihar'du. Zex is a wrinkly Ferenghi, Maihar'du is a mostly human looking alien character with jowl like prosthetics on his vhrrkbones and wrinkles on his forehead

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Adam Lytle @nerdburglar.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The TNG technical manual states a transporter range of 40,000km - I presume to account for geostationary orbit.

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Adam Lytle @nerdburglar.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I have no idea if they ever mentioned the transporter range in TOS, but I think it was pretty strongly implied that the Enterprise was always above the away team? I don't think they ever had to contend with the ship being on the other side of the planet due to orbital mechanics?

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Adam Lytle @nerdburglar.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Just caught up with the puppet episode of Strange New Worlds, and i have a bit of an issue with the transporter distance record Scotty is trying to break at the start of the episode. The record was something like 27,000km. Geostationary orbit (for an earth sized planet at least) is ~36,000km.

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Adam Lytle @nerdburglar.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This would have made a killer VHS cassette rewinder back in the day.

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Adam Lytle @nerdburglar.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Perhaps not from a production stability standpoint, but can't argue with the results.

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Adam Lytle @nerdburglar.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I love that guy's videos. His MS Paint style floorplans are so wholesome in an age of AI slop.

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Adam Lytle @nerdburglar.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Oh yes, that's quite possible.

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Adam Lytle @nerdburglar.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Reporting this to the Department of Redundancy Department.

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Adam Lytle @nerdburglar.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I suppose the only substantial disadvantage compared to a cable company PVR was that it had an old fashioned clock-based recording timer. So wouldn't dynamically adapt to changes to a broadcasting schedule the way a cable box would (?)

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Adam Lytle @nerdburglar.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

It was a pretty nifty bit of home a/v tech. You could record shows to the HD, edit out commercials, and then burn to a DVD. You could use it to rip VHS to DVD, though probably not through copy protection.

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Adam Lytle @nerdburglar.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Circa '04 I bought a combo VHS/DVD recorder with a built-in HD. At the store it was tucked out of the way on the lowest shelf, and the sales clerk practically begged me to instead just sign on for a cable company PVR. It was pretty obvious what was happening!

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William Peter MacMason @wpmacmason.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

the way he consistently talks about territorial acquisition for the US is frightening and an important way to categorize these times historically he's a real estate bro trying to impress the ghost of his dad and that is humanity's problem and that effin blows

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august 🍂 @auguststreet.ca · 18/08/2026

now if we had decided to elevate the whole line west of mount dennis, this train would be up and running *a lot* sooner, but protecting doug ford's backyard takes precedence. so it dives back underground pretty quickly, and unnecessarily

rendering of the line 5 extension's elevated scarlett station. the rail line then dives back underground west of the station

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Adam Lytle @nerdburglar.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I thought I had seen one but it turns out it was a self portrait (left), and he used himself as a model for the cover of this 70s edition of Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov.

Left: A self portrait of artist John Berkey. A balding white man wearing a white button up shirt. His arms are crossed across his chest.
Right: the John Berkey cover to an early 70s edition of The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov. Berkey has used himself as the model for the figure on the cover, a man whose arm has the skin removed to reveal it is robotic.

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Adam Lytle @nerdburglar.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Well, I feel like the thing he needs to come back for is resolving the bi-generation extra Doctor that is just living it up in retirement. That's just a wholly unnecessary thing to leave dangling.

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Adam Lytle @nerdburglar.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Super fun that EVs arrived at roughly the same time as all this enshittification so that dimwits would assume a causal relationship.

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Adam Lytle @nerdburglar.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Lol, it lists two coal fired plants in Ontario, Canada. One of them shut down in 2013, the other in 2005. Oh well, only off by a couple decades there.

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Adam Lytle @nerdburglar.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I think it's the elevation. From what I've heard the docks near St. Clair & Bathurst empty out in the morning, but no one is riding them uphill later in the day.

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Adam Lytle @nerdburglar.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Every time I have to take my bikes on the subway I wish I had one.

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Adam Lytle @nerdburglar.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Sounds like "Ten Forward", a cable access call-in show from the Toronto area in the early 90s youtu.be/_lGlg-XfwdU?...

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TEN FORWARD CLIP 3 1993

YouTube video by Retrontario

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Adam Lytle @nerdburglar.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Oh this is great. Much prefer the nacelle / module arrangement on this to the classic Ptolemy class where the nacelles straddle the module.

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Adam Lytle @nerdburglar.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Do we know for sure that it comes with just one figure? It's not a "collect them all" type bonus spread out over multiple figures?

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Adam Lytle @nerdburglar.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Lol believe it or not there is a Doctor Who episode about the moon as an egg with an even dumber resolution: the recently hatched space lizard (or whatever it was) IMMEDIATELY lays a replacement moon egg of identical size and mass of the original moon egg.

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Adam Lytle @nerdburglar.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Watching the Sean Connery movie Outland. Enjoying it so far. Gotta love SF movies from the era of everyone smoking everywhere. Sealed artificial atmosphere? Sure, light 'em up!

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Adam Lytle @nerdburglar.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

This still sets the standard for "super advanced spaceship" to me. It's how I pictured some of the ships in Iain M. Banks' Culture novels. I feel like current VFX would lead to textures and greebling in the name of scale and visual interest, but that's not the right choice for a ship like this.

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𝕭illy Gui.¶ @guibilly.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Encore plus qu'une métaphore : le slogan de 2026.

Sunken Nazi warships resurface as water levels drop
(Des bâtiments de guerre nazis ressurgissent [ici du Danube] en raison de la chute du niveau des eaux dûe aux canicules.)

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Adam Lytle @nerdburglar.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I also like the question he asks about Musk in his YouTube video today (Yes. The answer is yes.) youtu.be/oX8fdVyktS0?...

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Is Elon Musk the world's biggest billionaire piss baby?

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

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Adam Lytle @nerdburglar.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Imagine living in the parallel universe where Robin Williams did this episode of TNG and Tom Hanks played Zephram Cochrane in First Contact.

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Adam Lytle @nerdburglar.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

We live in the stupidest timeline. I want to break down just why this is so stupid and infuriating but it's just too much. youtu.be/sbDmcAqXjRo?...

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Ontario rethinks high-speed rail support after Billy Bishop rejection | Hanomansing Tonight

YouTube video by CBC News

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Adam Lytle @nerdburglar.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Wow that is quite the selective framing in the headline. Would bet a sizeable portion of right-wing Sun readers would be okay with no taxes=no vote, but wouldn't actually support the rich having extra voting power.

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Adam Lytle @nerdburglar.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The corporate hurdle may have been as simple as "We don't know who will be playing the Doctor by the time this would go into production"

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