iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Jason Smith @newqueuelure.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

darkwing duck walked so batman TAS could run

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Jason Smith @newqueuelure.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

the fire i built has "gone rogue" (burned down the neighborhood)

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Jason Smith @newqueuelure.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

has anyone ever not immediately closed the "what's new in chrome" page that appears when it updates?

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Jason Smith @newqueuelure.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

place where ai could actually be useful is detecting tax evasion and determining which audits would be most cost-effective but the billionaires tech lords will not advertise that because any such system would quickly discover the most efficient allocation of IRS resources is going after rich people

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Jason Smith @newqueuelure.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Russia (vs Ukraine) and the US (vs Iran) provided their strategic rivals with the cheapest possible way (in money and/or equipment) to degrade their capacity and geopolitical power. Unlike the US, China isn’t so stupid as to waste the opportunity.

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Jason Smith @newqueuelure.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The prior major holiday firewall precedent *in the US* has already been saturated by xmas (literally the day after thanksgiving) so Halloween (xmas for goths) should technically be allowed the day after Labor Day if not the 5th of July.

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Jason Smith @newqueuelure.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Look billionaires. None of y’all facing consequences is not long run sustainable. I’m pragmatic enough to realize seizing all y’all’s assets could cause issues. The clear compromise is some of y’all face consequences so best you get together to decide who that is and why it’s Elon Musk.

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Sagittarius A* @sagastar.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

leave me alone

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Jason Smith @newqueuelure.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

oil execs you played yourself

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Jason Smith @newqueuelure.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

feel like where the mainstream media is failing to speak to me is the lack of pointing out just how objectively embarrassing this all is

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Jason Smith @newqueuelure.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Made the mistake of trying to find that meme where the guy outsources sex with his wife to AI as commentary about where this is inevitably heading; RIP my browser history.

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Jason Smith @newqueuelure.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“You’re ignoring my lived experience of taking these drugs that help me do my job. You know—the drugs produced by fascist billionaires stealing the labor of others that studies show could be negatively impacting my own cognitive abilities over the long term.”

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 21/09/2026

We need a War on White Collar Crime. We shall fight them in DC. We shall fight them in the states and towns. We shall fight them in the courts, in the agencies, on the web, and on the picket line. bsky.app/profile/kqed...

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Jason Smith @newqueuelure.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

“When did you first become aware of these feelings of a loss of essence?”

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Jason Smith @newqueuelure.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

America at 250: Bringing back Mercantilism

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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

FOIA the prompts

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Jason Smith @newqueuelure.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

So it will have to be tightened then.

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Jason Smith @newqueuelure.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Personally thinking “Fermi paradox but for AI agents” is the stronger argument

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Jason Smith @newqueuelure.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Absolutely love when I’m about to leave work on a Friday—trying to get out early—and my computer just has to update.

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Jason Smith @newqueuelure.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

While generally I agree with this mode of analysis—if it’s global then it’s not US-specific—I’m not entirely convinced in this case. If the US is at a 10% risk of cratering under debt and mismanagement it seems like it could contaminate the entire global supply of purportedly “safe” assets.

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Jason Smith @newqueuelure.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Well at least we’re going to set up the next civilization 100 million years from now with some oil deposits formed via large scale anoxic events.

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Jessamyn Dukes @rhymeswithspecimen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

struggling with quantum superposition? don't worry! just follow this helpful diagram drawn by my kiddo

a person's hand is holding a folded up piece of printer paper on which there is a pencil drawing, ostensibly of Schrodinger's cat

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Jason Smith @newqueuelure.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Oh that just means the NPV of human annihilation is $300 trillion

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Jason Smith @newqueuelure.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

My hot take is that there should be an uncomfortable amount of space between you and the shelves for this to happen

Picture of a grocery store aisle with two shadowy expressionist figures. One is standing next to the shelves or at least not past the center line of the aisle and probably knows at least what kind of item they want. They are labeled “normal”. They took public transit to the store. The other is standing past the center line looking over a broad selection of items. They probably don’t know what they want. They probably don’t even know why they’re looking for among all the colorful product design. Maybe it’s validating. Maybe it’s parasocial. They simply command a great deal of space. They are the FOV Lord. Their field of view takes up as much space as the SUV they drove alone to the store.

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Jason Smith @newqueuelure.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Personally think they should pass the One Person on the Supreme Court Act followed by another Act restoring it to 9.

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Jason Smith @newqueuelure.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The increasing annoyance I have with software making the experience feel worse are its negative externalities on my attention. There’s always an update. There’s always a new pop-up. Interfaces change. Since I deal with about 10-20 different apps per day at least one is being needy or making me wait.

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Jason Smith @newqueuelure.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The new tech company package system at my apartment doesn’t seem to be able to achieve to even a single 9 of uptime.

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Matt Reece @mreece.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The universe is probably going to decay, but not soon, and we knew that already.

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USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

lol why do you follow me then

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Jason Smith @newqueuelure.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Fun fact: the “vibescession” now has had a larger negative impact on job openings than the Great Recession.

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Jason Smith @newqueuelure.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Good to know precedent has been set that we can decolonize tons of place names with executive orders if there is another election. Start making lists.

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Jason Smith @newqueuelure.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Fun fact: language, usage, and pronunciation changes are more often than not originated and propagated by women. And I have a hunch that complaining about them, while obviously small-c conservative, is indicative of sexism.

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Jason Smith @newqueuelure.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Whenever someone says there are always trade-offs you just need to understand that person is assuming they are at a local optimum and you should empathize. Tell them you’re there for them. Recommend therapy. There are other Pareto improvements in the sea. Things can get better.

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Jason Smith @newqueuelure.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

One of my shining moments in college was not going to my linear algebra class all semester instead copying down the homework assignments through the window. I went into the final not knowing what Gram-Schmidt orthogonalization was but made it up based on the name and got it right. Final grade: B.

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Jason Smith @newqueuelure.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Astrophysicists really dropped the ball when they called a model of a possible new object discovered by the JWST a Black Hole Star and not a Black Hole Sun.

Screenshot of the Soundgarden music video for “black hole sun” with Chris Cornell and a guitar he is not currently playing in front of a blue screen replaced with clouds midway between their change from happy fluffy white clouds to ominous dark clouds.

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 26/08/2026

Some people on here really need to go touch graph.

A graph with a green noisy line that looks like grass. X-axis label "x", Y-axis label "y"

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Jason Smith @newqueuelure.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

at home with a post-surgery puppy so have had some time to update the models; there's more data for the 'core' unemployment rate (U3 minus the temporary layoffs that went haywire in the pandemic) and we're able to make this claim a bit more robust

dynamic information equilibrium model of the core unemployment rate (U3 without temporary layoffs) showing four equilibria: 1. the pre-pandemic equilibrium (dashed gray with no error band), 2. the pandemic shock equilibrium estimate (dashed gray, gray error band), 3. the post stimulus / re-opening shock equilibrium (dashed orange, orange error band), and 4. the estimated mini-recession shock equilibrium (blue dashed line with a cloud of monte carlo lines around it); equilibria 2 & 4 are almost identical; the points since january 2025 are in black and are rising above the error band / monte carlo band of 2 & 4, now passing the "recession detection threshold" of delta log u ~ 0.17.

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Jason Smith @newqueuelure.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

My grand theory is that this is generally what motivates people who run businesses or go into management. The actions of tech leaders are just more visible and consequential.

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Jason Smith @newqueuelure.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

This one is going to become evergreen for me isn’t it

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Jason Smith @newqueuelure.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Grateful to have been able to litter train my dog (who is also small enough for litter training to be practical). However, he still gets me up at 5am because it is simply time for me to get up.

Merle Pomeranian with a short teddy bear cut sitting with this tongue out looking up at the photographer.

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Kevin Bird @stairwaytokevin.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

No. The case against Cofnas is quite clear and strong. It is simply not a matter of academic freedom. He violated his employment terms. He violated university conduct. He is a crisis for the university's ability to function and public image. An academe that includes Cofnas is fundamentally broken.

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Jason Smith @newqueuelure.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

One of the things that’s been weird to me since…well, really 2017 is that the US can no longer be trusted but many aspects of politics and economics have proceeded as if it can.

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Jason Smith @newqueuelure.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Up on the wall for the Hypergoat birthday today

Two Polaroid pictures labeled “HOBI” and “JASON” clipped to string on a wire room divider in a coffee shop.

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USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Cognitive decline is real take US for example

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Jason Smith @newqueuelure.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

think I’ve come up with a genuine use case for ai: telling me the context of the latest stupid thing that’s apparently happening i don’t care if it’s right; i just need to stop my brain from trying to figure it out

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