iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Nicu Calcea @nicu.md · 27/08/2026

Happy Birthday, Moldova 🇲🇩 ❤️

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Nicu Calcea @nicu.md · 13/08/2026

And colours! It's either beige with orange accents or black with bright "terminal green" hax0r vibes.

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Nicu Calcea @nicu.md · 09/07/2026

Moldova has the fattest street dogs I've seen anywhere. And they say we're a poor country.

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Nicu Calcea @nicu.md · 15/06/2026

Nicu is not my official legal name, but it is the name I use everywhere. I have had to create a fake ID before in order not to have to change my name on a social media website. I guess this now means I'll have to join the millions of British teenagers having to lie to get on the internet.

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Nicu Calcea @nicu.md · 15/06/2026

Very much the opposite of my experience, my mum had to drag me off the computer so I would go hang out with my friends outside. Probably for the best tbh.

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Nicu Calcea @nicu.md · 16/05/2026

Still pleased with that.

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Nicu Calcea @nicu.md · 30/04/2026

The company that a year ago told us it has developed a tool that is equivalent to "PhD-level experts in your pocket" is struggling to make it stop talking about goblins.

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Nicu Calcea @nicu.md · 17/04/2026

Not just the UK I'm afraid, I've learned to check for it when booking hotels in continental Europe.

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Nicu Calcea @nicu.md · 15/03/2026

Looking to add more RAM on my laptop, and it really looks like it might be cheaper to buy a whole laptop and pull the memory out of it than to buy it separately.

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Nicu Calcea @nicu.md · 09/03/2026

This calls for a cuppa.

Photo of me receiving a UK certificate of naturalisation at my citizenship ceremony.

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Nicu Calcea @nicu.md · 01/03/2026

It should, it's not the first or last time it's been said.

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Nicu Calcea @nicu.md · 24/02/2026

At 15, I started skipping school to protest my home country's authoritarian regime. Shortly after, I started contributing to a citizen journalism project I co-founded, filming illegal arrests and police brutality. None of it would have been possible if I wasn't speaking to people on twitter and fb.

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Nicu Calcea @nicu.md · 24/02/2026

As an ex-child, I strongly disagree with social media bans. For better or worse, social media is where we discuss our world. Teenagers deserve to be part of conversations about issues that they will have to deal with, like AI, climate change, the rise of populism, etc.

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Nicu Calcea @nicu.md · 10/02/2026

Opus is overkill for this kind of task. I use OpenCode with a strong model like Opus for the main agent, which I then ask to spawn a smaller "explore" subagent that uses a cheap (or even free) model that goes off, does things, and returns the results. The main one only delegates and manages.

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TankerTrackers.com, Inc. @tankertrackers.com · 30/01/2026

The irony of seeing a Russian-flagged tanker sail as close as possible to a NATO coastline in order to avoid an attack by Ukrainian drones. #OOTT #Tankers #Russia #Ukraine

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Nicu Calcea @nicu.md · 29/01/2026

Picked a great time to visit family.

Screenshot of a weather app, showing a daily maximum of -12°C.

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Nicu Calcea @nicu.md · 29/01/2026

Dealing with this on a plane rn.

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Nicu Calcea @nicu.md · 30/12/2025

The most concerning thing about this is that they could only come up with four bottles of wine. Otherwise, this is perfectly fine.

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Nicu Calcea @nicu.md · 16/12/2025

I, for one, love being told I have a moral obligation to help big corporations for free.

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Nicu Calcea @nicu.md · 06/12/2025

I've heard Russians who pronounce it as "ock", with the same meaning as the English word. Here's a review of the "Всё ок" TV series (translates to "Everything's ok". It's one of the first words he says. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFat...

youtube.com

Всё ок 1 серия обзор

YouTube video by Шубин Stream

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Nicu Calcea @nicu.md · 25/11/2025

I let the building cat into my flat for a couple of hours and now it keeps meowing at my door.

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Nicu Calcea @nicu.md · 21/11/2025

We are not fighting mass shooters, we are fighting bullets from mass shooters.

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Nicu Calcea @nicu.md · 20/11/2025

Me: You are hallucinating. The AI: Oh yeah? Well, you're not.

Gemini 3 Pro tells me "You are not hallucinating".

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Global Witness @globalwitness.org · 15/11/2025

🔥 A 12% jump in fossil fuel lobbyists at COP compared to last year. 📍 Belém is seeing the highest concentration since records began. The industry causing the crisis shouldn’t shape climate solutions. #KickBigPollutersOut gwitness.org/4oA1vUJ

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Nicu Calcea @nicu.md · 29/09/2025

Despite spending hundreds of millions to steal the election in Moldova, Putin has failed spectacularly today. Here's to hoping he fails everywhere else!

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Nicu Calcea @nicu.md · 24/09/2025

This man will repeat the last thing he heard every time, without failure.

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Nicu Calcea @nicu.md · 23/09/2025

Russia is accusing "Europe" of preparing to occupy Moldova. They are anticipating a loss in the elections on Sunday, and are preparing their supporters for protests. Every accusation is a confession. Moscow has struggled to maintain control in Moldova. Old methods don't work. This too shall pass.

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Nicu Calcea @nicu.md · 18/09/2025

The Pro-China is throughing me off, but otherwise the list could describe one of several parties.

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Nicu Calcea @nicu.md · 08/09/2025

With how often my flights get delayed or cancelled and I apply for compensation, I think I'm close to breaking even on my overall flying spending.

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Nicu Calcea @nicu.md · 26/08/2025

You know what they say, nothing is ever fullproof.

Screenshot from Claude's recent announcement of a Chrome extension. One paragraph reads: "While we’ve implemented protections, they aren’t fullproof." They are using the word "full", as in "fullness", as opposed to "fool", as in "twit".

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Nicu Calcea @nicu.md · 26/08/2025

How do so many clearly AI songs have a "Verified Artist" badge on Spotify? What are they actually verifying?

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Nicu Calcea @nicu.md · 23/08/2025

My mum decided she's had enough. Understandable.

Transcript:
Mum: Nicu hi, how are you?
Me: I'm doing okay, how about you?
Mum: I am learning English.
Mum: And I'm cooking dinner.

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Nicu Calcea @nicu.md · 22/08/2025

The F1 film is almost as dull as the real thing.

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Nicu Calcea @nicu.md · 19/08/2025

As the Canyon Fire continues to burn, I found that 71% of the 242k oil and gas wells in CA are in areas with a "high" or "very high" fire hazard. When they are on fire, wells release dangerous chemicals and are difficult to put out. Around 1.6m people (including 100k children) live close to them.

globalwitness.org

Risky oil wells widespread in California wildfire hazard zones

Oil and gas wells pose risks to health and environment as climate crisis expands California's fire hazard zones

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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

The grimacing of Putin under a barrage of questions, in the room where a meeting with Trump is currently taking place.

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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 14/08/2025

wrote about the Online Safety Act, the int'l spread of age-verification laws, Reddit blocking @archive.org, and the payment-processor crackdown on explicit video games as events that point to one inescapable conclusion: the "open internet" has been closed for business slate.com/technology/2...

slate.com

We Are Witnessing the Death of the Internet As We Know It

The law threatens the open web, privacy rights, and your favorite websites.

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Nicu Calcea @nicu.md · 12/08/2025

My new go-to link to send to people who are asking me about how things are going in Moldova. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvUo...

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Moldova: Russia's next political battleground [DOCUMENTARY].

YouTube video by Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW)

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Nicu Calcea @nicu.md · 11/08/2025

A guy at my sauna said that the Americans are about to unleash a global electricity blackout so that we don't find out that the gods of all the religions are all coming to Earth at the same time. Multiple people agreed. Oh, and the latest Fantastic Four film is how they're softening us up for it.

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Nicu Calcea @nicu.md · 11/08/2025

Currently my least favourite button on the internet.

Screenshot of the Google search results page, with the "AI Mode" button highlighted.

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Nicu Calcea @nicu.md · 05/08/2025

Has an intelligent thought ever been expressed in the form of "X is so cooked rn"?

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Nicu Calcea @nicu.md · 31/07/2025

What about creating embeddings for both sets of values and then calculating the vector similarity between them?

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Nicu Calcea @nicu.md · 29/07/2025

I wrote a small Python package for AI-based research and classification tasks. It's now public. - Post: globalwitness.org/en/campaigns... - Code: github.com/Global-Witne... - Example story 1: globalwitness.org/en/press-rel... - Example story 2: globalwitness.org/en/campaigns...

globalwitness.org

Augmenta: A new tool for AI classification and research

We are making the tool behind some of our investigations available for public use

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Nicu Calcea @nicu.md · 29/07/2025

Okay, what game do you believe was the first to feature AI NPCs? What's the threshold? If you think one exists, that is.

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