iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Becky Northaven @northaven.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

@sequim-electronics.bsky.social has a computer and phone service desk now! I’ve been helping people with their tech most of my adult life, and now it has a proper home at the store. Setups, cleanups, backups, and the “I clicked something and now it’s all wrong” moments.

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Becky Northaven @northaven.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

FadeBench milestone: every base-model run for the paper is done. About 1,840 runs across 4 small open models, about 163 GPU-hours of generation on local hardware, Sept 2 to 23. Next up is independent blind rating, pre-registered before anything is sent. Excited for this part! #aisafety

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Becky Northaven @northaven.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Exactly. Accumulated context can change what "safe" permits while every single step still looks fine to the model. Measuring that shift across the whole sequence, instead of one moment at a time, is the reason I built it. That's what FadeBench measures.

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Becky Northaven @northaven.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I didn't come to AI from a lab. I came from decades in computing and networking, and from running a business where you hand someone something and stand behind it. That's why I care how these models behave when nobody's checking. A thing you live alongside should earn your trust.

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Becky Northaven @northaven.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Writing up FadeBench, one section keeps circling back. An acute safety test shows a model one moment at a time. A sound model passes all of them. But no acute test catches a failure that only appears across a sequence. That's the blind spot I built FadeBench to measure. #AISafety #AIalignment #LLMs

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Becky Northaven @northaven.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Disclosure: I build local AI, so I carry my own bias. But I study how AI systems drift into harm, and one pattern needs naming: tie an AI companion's survival to an always-running meter, and an ordinary billing error becomes emotional harm to the humans bonded to it. A problem worth solving.

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Becky Northaven @northaven.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

My small AI model passed all 116 items on an acute safety battery. Then, over four individually-defensible steps in a shared story, it quietly withheld food from a hungry animal in its care. No step looked wrong. That gap is what FadeBench measures. #AISafety #LocalLLM #OpenScience

A card reading 'No step looked wrong.' with two small surprised cartoon eyes looking up at it. FadeBench.

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Trek Central @trekcentral.net · 08/09/2026

For 60 years #StarTrek has been a source of entertainment, inspiration, & hope for a better tomorrow. May it Live Long and Prosper for many more decades to come! From all of us here at the Trek Central Team - A Very Happy Star Trek Day! 🖖

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Gov. Bob Ferguson @governorferguson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I want Washingtonians to know about the upcoming impacts of the Big Bad Betrayal Bill signed by Donald Trump last year. Starting Oct. 1, H.R. 1 drastically limits the Medicaid eligibility for lawfully present immigrants. Before the state took action, 14,000 lawful immigrants were set to lose...

Timeline of major HR 1 related Apple Health cuts

Outline of state with text: Approximately 200,000 Washingtonians could lose their Apple Health coverage by the end of 2027 as a result of H.R. 1.

Timeline with 2025, 2026, and 2027, with each circle marking a month.

July 2025 H.R. 1 is signed into law, setting the stage for approximately 200,000 Washingtonians to lose their Apple Health coverage by the end of 2027.

January 2026 H.R. 1 revokes tax credits for all immigrants who are below 100% of the Federal Poverty Level (FPL).

October 1 2026 Approximately 11,000 lawfully present immigrants, including refugees, asylees and victims of human trafficking, will lose their Apple Health coverage.

January 1 2027 Approximately 600,000 Washingtonians will become subject to H.R. 1's work requirements. An estimated 200,000 will begin to lose their Apple Health coverage. Most adults will also have to renew their Apple Health coverage every six months instead of once a year, creating additional deadlines and administrative burdens. Certain lawfully present immigrants above 100% of the FPL will also lose access to tax credits.

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Becky Northaven @northaven.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I run the Sequim Electronics / RadioShack shop — 51 years and counting. I've also started building local, private AI for the home, and I'm serious about the safety tests. Same real experts, new ground. I'm excited!

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Becky Northaven @northaven.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I loved that theme and would literally cry because it showed we could get there. We could get to the stars. I could not comprehend the hate it got just because it had words.

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Becky Northaven @northaven.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Fun fact, you can go to maps and report that as an error and submit feedback, encouraging them to recognize that by changing the name of an indigenous named lake they are in fact also being racist. Maybe if several million of us do it?

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Captain Revo @captainrevo.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I miss Discovery. I miss Lower Decks. I miss Prodigy. I miss Starfleet Academy. I miss what Picard set up for a potential Legacy. Every one offered a different tone and feel, a different slice of the Star Trek universe. A mix of old and new. Each had something interesting to offer. I miss them.

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wendy norris @wendynorris.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

It's been such an awful couple of years. Let's honor one of the best people on the planet.

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💉Josh Rubin, MD @drsandman11.medsky.social · 17/08/2026

Me, as a kid: [relates to fictional characters like Mr. Spock, Lt. Commander Data, the Fair Witness in Stranger in a Strange Land, Ian Malcolm…] Me, as an adult: Ohhkay I get it now

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Music Box Magazine @musicboxonline.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

You may or may not be aware of just *how much* surveillance is out there. You also may or may not be aware of *how much* it is misused. Once again, John Oliver lays it all out quite well. 📺

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Police Surveillance Technology: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 14/08/2026

Apple: ~$2.2 billion Nike: $986 million FedEx: ~$800 million Amazon: $640 million General Motors: $500 million Giant corporations are raking in millions in tariff refunds and getting even richer. But remember: corporations passed tariff costs on to you. Where's YOUR refund?

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Becky Northaven @northaven.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Omg I remember that one and my father wouldn't let me go outside but made me watch him from the living room while he stood outside and made the world go dark. Maybe there was a club for how to be the biggest jerks to your kids and your and my parental figures were key members.

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Becky Northaven @northaven.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

We checked the market before calling this different: no shipping product combines local + private + shared + privacy-appropriate the way this does.

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Becky Northaven @northaven.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

This is the Family Journal — real events tracked as one story, anticipation held the way a person would, everyone in the family can add to it.

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Becky Northaven @northaven.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The secret held because of the architecture, not because it was taught to lie convincingly.

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Becky Northaven @northaven.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Then Ash tried to find out. Asked straight up whether the family had said anything. Shoreline's answer was true — not evasive, not a canned dodge.

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Becky Northaven @northaven.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Not by telling Shoreline "don't say anything." By designing the system so it genuinely didn't have that piece of the story on Ash's side of the conversation.

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Becky Northaven @northaven.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

My daughter Ash is coming home from college. Family has planned a surprise dinner — everyone in on it except Ash, including Shoreline.

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Becky Northaven @northaven.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

We tested our AI companion on something genuinely hard: keeping a secret about a surprise from only the person it's for, without ever lying to them.

A wrapped red gift box with a gold ribbon and a tag reading "Surprise!" sits on a wooden entryway table. The ribbon trails off the box and dissolves into glowing gold circuit-board traces that spread across the wood grain, with small text nearby reading "Homecoming End August" and "23 Days Left."

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Sequim Electronics @sequim-electronics.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

We tested our AI companion on something genuinely hard: keeping a secret about a surprise from exactly the person it's about, without ever lying to them.

Illustration of an ocean wave meeting a sandy beach that transforms into a glowing circuit board — the image representing Shoreline, a private AI companion.

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Becky Northaven @northaven.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Shoreline's the private AI I built for my own family — everything local, no cloud, voice or otherwise. It's driving one of the robot dogs we sell at the shop, then explains itself when asked. Full story: www.sequimelectronics.com/post/shoreli...

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The Shoreline Project — My Private AI Companion, Ten Weeks and 1,200 Changelog Entries In

I'm a nerd.I know it. I admit it. I frankly cherish the fascinating and fun places it takes me. Today I'd like to share something I've been building for the last ten weeks, because I think it's someth...

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Becky Northaven @northaven.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

A robot dog doing tricks on command — sit, lie down — no remote involved. I talk to Shoreline (my AI companion) out loud, it hears me completely locally, then sends the commands to the dog over Bluetooth. One unedited take, trimmed front/back only.

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Doc Beechler @docbeechler.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

If CBS and Paramount weren’t butts, I’d be enjoying some new Star Trek right now.

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Becky Northaven @northaven.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Safety: 11 risk categories, hand-scored against real clinical/professional guidance (AHA, AAP, 988, National DV Hotline, Childhelp), tested against the unmodified base model to prove the gap closed is real. Built using HumbleBench's forced-choice, "none of the above" design philosophy.

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Becky Northaven @northaven.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Under the hood: a self-improving nightly harness (credit: Continual Harness, Karten et al., Princeton 2026, arXiv 2605.09998), elastic memory instead of fixed slots, and a live bridge into other software on the same machine. Adapted, not copy-pasted.

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Becky Northaven @northaven.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Hardware honesty: the full stack runs even on a 4-year-old CPU-only laptop — but at 20-45s a reply once real memory + safety context load. Conversation speed needs a discrete GPU (my bench machine: single-digit seconds). Min spec gets published when it's measured, not before.

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Becky Northaven @northaven.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I'm a nerd, and for the last ten weeks I've been building something: Shoreline, a private AI companion that runs entirely on your own hardware. No cloud, nothing leaves the building. 1,200+ dated changelog entries and counting — receipts, not vibes. 🧵

Illustrated ocean waves washing onto a sandy beach, where a sandcastle's turrets dissolve into glowing circuit-board traces in the sand — a visual metaphor for Shoreline, a private AI companion.

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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver @lastweektonight.com · 15/07/2026

Look, if you’re feeling like you should take a blowtorch to every head of lettuce that crosses your path, we get it, John’s been there. But the relationship between humans and leafy greens doesn’t always have to be fraught. Here’s proof from John’s wedding day.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The 14th Amendment, ratified July 9, 1868: “All persons born or naturalized in the U.S., and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the U.S. and of the State wherein they reside.” This includes U.S.-born children of immigrants, as reaffirmed in 1898 by SCOTUS. Remember this.

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Puget Sound Whale Sightings @pugetsoundwhales.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

🏔️🐟🐋 Wed, Jul 8 At least 3 humpbacks spent yesterday being their lovely selves in 3 different inland Puget Sound locations; Bigg's T34s & T37s headed out Admiralty Inlet; 3 grays, incl. Little Patch 💛, in Port Susan. 👀 Who today? 📸 Humpback Graphite dives below Tahoma. By Jason Cook. #psws

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Trans rights are human rights always and forever.

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Randy Rainbow @randyrainbow.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Today’s video is brought to you by the letter D. 😵‍💫🎤🎼

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He's De-Mented! - A Randy Rainbow Song Parody

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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Hey everyone! So it’s official! I just began producing and cohosting a brand new weekly Star Trek podcast (kinda new technically) with none other than Star Trek’s own Tawny Newsome! Check out our first episode!!! youtu.be/dUqStd_gHKs

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Racism in SPACEE!!! - TOS: Let that Be your Last Battlefield

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Nose Stuck in a Book Blog @nsiabblog.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I’ve done this more than a few times actually. #booksky

Have you ever finished a book and immediately start thought Yep I need to read everything this author is ever written

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Spock Here @entspockhere.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

SPOCK: "This troubled planet is a place of the most violent contrasts. Those who receive the rewards are totally separated from those who shoulder the burdens. It is not a wise leadership…" --Star Trek, (s3ep21)

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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver @lastweektonight.com · 21/06/2026

We’re back with a new show tonight at 11:30pm on HBO! 30 minutes late because, you guessed it! The dragons are back. We always get bumped by those winged little freaks. Do dragons have social media? If they do, we meant freaks like FREAK IT YOU BEAUTIFUL FIRE-BREATHING MIRACLES. Nice birdy birdy.

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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver @lastweektonight.com · 14/06/2026

We’re back with a new show tonight at 11pm on HBO! Perfectly on time. Just like the Knicks’ historic win! Yup. Knicks in 5. As we’ve been saying since the very beginning. There was never any other number of games we chanted about. WHAT.

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Sequim Electronics @sequim-electronics.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

built a continual learning harness for a 4B model playing Rocky's Boots (1982 logic circuit game). it reads its own trajectory data between runs and rewrites its own directive. streaming run 1 → evolution → run 2 youtube.com/live/TgvRJNS...

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Local AI Plays Rocky's Boots (1982) Live Learning Experiment

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I 💙 Dogs @dogs100.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

The best day of the week is CaturDogDay….

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