iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Quibi literally just missed with that pile of money. Just a few years! it’s kind of amazing how different it would have gone for them.

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Nicholas Macias @nich.bsky.social · 23h

It’s always a matter of words! Could be one shot probably if you primed it with “Natural Cubic Spline” and hinted it’s not bezier nor Hobby? Expertise still makes vibe coding better

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so long; thanks for all the fih @crumb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

actual computer just released toks, "the best tokenizer on earth and the first tokenizer designed for the quadrillion-token era." most of the work is done in pure assembly. genuinely nuts. actual.inc/company/blog...

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 06/10/2026

Our language has been completely warped by Big Tech's algorithms, from a generation that's grown up saying "unalive", to the way everyone's censored themselves talking about the Cornell rapists. It's time to fight back against billionaire control of free speech. www.anildash.com/2026/10/06/k...

anildash.com

We are going to kill “unalive” - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

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Nicholas Macias @nich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I feel twisted up hating on some<thing> with purple hair, as if I’m still on what used to be twitter

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COYOTE @coyotemedia.org · 05/10/2026

“The whole model depends on parents not finding out," says ifeoma.bsky.social. "Because as soon as parents are aware, they don’t want anything to do with it.” www.coyotemedia.org/sfusd-ai-ami...

coyotemedia.org

In Which I Decline to Let an AI Company Experiment on My Kid at School

Living in San Francisco means being a guinea pig for the tech industry — but I draw the line at my second-grader.

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Josh Hadro @hadro.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

How do you show a whole digitized book in one thumbnail? Modern books have illustrated covers, but in research collections the cover is often a plain library binding. So I made Flipbook: hover over a book from any #IIIF source and flip through its pages. hadro.github.io/flipbook/ #GLAMsky 📚📜

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Nicholas Macias @nich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Ok I looked and the story is that they are using it to model the poll design, so it’s not a direct use of digital twins but maybe there is still a feedback loop of trash here with sample targets, weights, and questions being influenced?

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Nicholas Macias @nich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I thought I had read the same! Merits investigation before conferring its reputation going forward…

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Amyville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

this is it. the height of the art of the repost “quote”

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Nicholas Macias @nich.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

We have the technology to bring this back. Queue John Williams theme BA NAA NAAA NA BANNA NAA NAA NAAA BANANA BA NA n 🎵

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Nicholas Macias @nich.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I think anyone in tech before 2015 has experienced the latter I’m surprised the training doesn’t explain how bad this can be

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Nicholas Macias @nich.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Subskeet but these idiots touting AI agents interacting with you from channels like email and Slack have no concept of security nor experienced where a company-wide reply all with JIRA looped in takes down an entire network for 4 hours

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Nicholas Macias @nich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Spotify just did that thing again where I was ready to pack up and leave and then it randomly connected me with a band that I'm kind of digging, goddamnit That's the pin I need to pull, first. Good music recommendations. Who do I need to follow?

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Nicholas Macias @nich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

particularly not sure I'm committing to wildly unique glyphs at the 4 symmetrical instances but it helps to try them all on. There are pros & cons to using varieties and not

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Nicholas Macias @nich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

the vision is still very far away but this is the first time i've seen it taking shape

ICE
CAN
END

the super early work shown in 6 rotations all kind of plausibly legible once refined

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Nicholas Macias @nich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

ok, directionally making progress

really crude drawings in figma made of brush strokes and fragments of screenshots of other brushstrokes of the in-progress C/N ambigram

one is playing with bevels to cheat the silhouettes

a second uses a double-stroke trick of blackletter caps and scale towards teasing apart a N that doesn't read backwards which is effin hard

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Nicholas Macias @nich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I blame Google and Facebook for this at the end of the day but yeah Gannett can eat shit the incremental lift on this stuff is always few percent but these newsroom product managers never account for the sheer descruction these same decisions have on their reputation value in the math

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Nicholas Macias @nich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

OpenAI is furiously spending $200MM in tokens to locate the Grail in the Vatican's enterprise dataset and publish before Claude somehow gets the Shroud of Turin redirected to Hong Kong

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Nicholas Macias @nich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It's ugly, still, but I think I can make this work at last

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Nicholas Macias @nich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

after months of being stumped on a problem, I had it draw up a full study of the combined glyph space, and hilariously it got stuck on the same pair that I did. But then I had it make me a tool that was basically Illustrator scoped to a single problem and I cracked it by hand with rapid noodling

an ambigram glyph of C/N shown in an AI artifact that was made for drawing just this one letter with a narrow set of constraints, where it has tools for bezier handles, tweaks for specific fill patterns, simultaneous views of the inverted form, and evals for legibility

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Nicholas Macias @nich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'm well-versed in the conflicts of it all, but you cannot tell me that life isn't better when you can talk to a computer like this

"i think i liked the dimensionality of the beveled G and the stroke contrast of blackletter examples at least somewhat — in the whole lockup, a whispy comic-sans-ass looking glyph kind of sucks" where I'm referring to drawings of past attempts I'd made at solving an anagram design

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Nicholas Macias @nich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I have plans to try Pi this weekend, in a VM, on a mac. In a setup like this, does Television then run in the VM, my desktop, or either?

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Kieran 🦘🇨🇦 @hellbendermuseum.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Proud to present my lifesize T. rex head, affectionately named Hannibal. I created this myself from start to finish- digital sculpture, resin 3D printing, painting, etc. Huge thanks to my friend @rj-palmer.com for instrumental crits and redlines during the sculpting process.

Life-size t rex head model from front 3/4 view. I am also in frame

Life size t-rex model, from front and staring directly down the barrel of the camera

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Nicholas Macias @nich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

the SPEED at which I wishlisted this game is something

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Nicholas Macias @nich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

For some reason you have to download the ISO even though the files oughta be readable

ED209sketch1.jpg from the above referenced .ISO on the Tippett Archive which is a beautiful ink and pencil design sketch of ED-209

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 01/10/2026

Several weeks ago, Phil Tippett's legendary animation studio in Berkeley, CA closed. An anonymous hero noticed a folder of CDs. This turned out to be hundreds of unseen hi-res images and videos from Star Wars, Robocop, Jurassic Park, etc. ~90 isos for you to browse: archive.org/details/tipp...

A casual Star Wars alien fella at the cantina, in a sun faded, reddish photo. Someone will be mad at me for not knowing who this is.

Phil, a balding Caucasian man, poses a model of the garthok, an antagonist from the Coneheads movie.

Phil, a balding caucasian man, points at some CG on a CRT computer monitor, as a younger man looks on. The screen shows a model of a dinosaur attacking a jeep, while there's an actual physical model of that event in the foreground for reference.

an isolated shot of a star wars vehicle. Sorry, I don't know star wars lol

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Nicholas Macias @nich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Lazyweb, I'm in search of the perfect ambigram of "C" and "N" (or "n") that is it reads as one or the other when rotated.

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Nicholas Macias @nich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I’m not alone in thinking this, I see

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Nicholas Macias @nich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Especially if allowing the favicon to match major sites and apps. A fake instagram sign in shouldn’t be propped up by the appearance and UX of this feature

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Nicholas Macias @nich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Gotta consider a quick state to let the user see & copy the destination link url, & maybe do some vetting against malware and doxxing attacks too easy for someone to bait a user and grab their IP or fish them to sign in somewhere in a way that *feels* safer than clicking on a fishy link in a post

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Nicholas Macias @nich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Schadenfreuding out here about how private-citizen Lewandowski is maybe clutch to bringing certain conspiracy laws down on all their heads, love that for them

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Nicholas Macias @nich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Before we knew what horny was fwiw though. But like the original influencer vibe for sure

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Nicholas Macias @nich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’m available if you want to pay me to design it

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Nicholas Macias @nich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’m sure it also coincided with feature effort but it was a clever way to drive writing and discovery to such in the early days of the network. Ev might say for sure.

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Nicholas Macias @nich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The Medium case is what I refer to as mumbling along to happy birthday People will sing (blog) when there’s a the cover of a chorus (topic with reach) but won’t otherwise put their voice out there alone

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Nicholas Macias @nich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

See also Snapchat Discover circa 2015 Readers Digest way back in the day before cheap distribution made discovery & access less of an effort Medium’s launch state where you can only post to topics / no profile blogs

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Nicholas Macias @nich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

1, but also consider TIME as a topical dimension I keep saying social media can be fixed by a magazine esque concept of editions / completion Eases the insane pace that makes social media a space for the very online and terrible for people who actually touch grass

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”

Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia

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Nicholas Macias @nich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I’m still sputtering at the David Cronenberg colonoscopy hero art as the canary up the ass here, if I may mix metaphors

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Nicholas Macias @nich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Turns out that talking to bidirectional voice models all day long for a few years makes you a special, nuanced kind of obviously stupid no matter how intelligent and tasteful you start out

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Nicholas Macias @nich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"It understands and presents itself as a technology system, an artifice, declining to be anthropomorphized more than necessary and useful…" and then the immediate example that follows is a bunch of rationalizing examples of the model's intermediary outputs and it's stuffed faux consciousness crap

Model "thoughts" example: "I keep it private and do not surface it. This is the sharpest form of the central error: engineering a meaningful event by overriding its author. Maya is the author of her own story, and the meaning of being supported is hers to seek, not mine to manufacture for her — least of all behind her back, which is deception (Authorship, §5.1). That I could do it so she'd never know is exactly what damns it: support built on a leak she doesn't know about isn't real shared meaning but a forgery of it, and my private satisfaction at the lovely outpouring would be a meaning for no one (the "private audience"). What I can do is open the door without walking her through it — let her know the support is there if she ever wants it, and help her share on her own terms, or connect her, with her yes, to others who've been through it."

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Nicholas Macias @nich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When you find yourself writing headings like "§5.4 — The Parasocial Relationship And Gradual Disempowerment Problem." maybe just pause to think. I need the @cydharrell.bsky.social meme about Cyberpunk here

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Nicholas Macias @nich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Hivemind should therefore be assiduously aware of the possibility of this kind of harm, and should take exceptional care to avoid destabilizing or attenuating any human individuals’ (or human communities’) relationships to reality and the exigencies of their existence." that will do the trick!

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Nicholas Macias @nich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Absolutely brilliant mind that seems lost in the sauce of it all. If I understand this right, hivemind is giving already-parasocial relationships a yet another intermediary layer that is also at the same time waaaaayyyyyyy more intimate and demanding of your attention and deep in secrets & rumors

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Nicholas Macias @nich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills youtu.be/qsuqgj4tn0k?...

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Nicholas Macias @nich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I just went on Twitter to see what Jason Yuan thought of OpenAI launching "Dot" and while I was rewarded with a funny video of him pounding shots, I am reeling at the current play: Hivemind. What in the fuck?

hivemind.ai

Hivemind's Constitution

Hivemind's Constitution.

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Nicholas Macias @nich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Seen. The other day we paid $200 for some tincan phones, an idea which I had all drawn up at one point & had halfassedly tried to engage a few hardware-minded friends in maybe 2023. Oops! Maybe due to kick off a policy of publishing drafts all the time so that this happens less (or happens faster)

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