iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

is there a version of solarpunk where the future is neither dystopian or utopian but is still interesting, changing and funny

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max @notplants.net · 13h

this post gave me some images. could definitely see workflows involving instant frontier-class output/repl leading to various strange and unexpected spice-like flow states (laudatory)

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max @notplants.net · 13h

enjoyable waves when previous design decisions end up recombining in unexpected and interesting new ways (creativity was never an autonomous process)

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max @notplants.net · 26/09/2026

> This made it feel like a sort of epistemic performance art project... enjoyed this epistemic performance art, and the playful curiosity throughout

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max @notplants.net · 25/09/2026

agent, please make an infinite world full of endless novelty, beauty and new experiences, make no mistakes

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Rob Beschizza @beschizza.com · 25/09/2026

“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature." — Brian Eno

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Meri @meri.garden · 21/09/2026

sustainability doesn't happen overnight obvs! finding my feet rn in a bit of a transition moment. thanks so much for your support last week 🩵

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max @notplants.net · 23/09/2026

I mentioned a bunch of ppl in the post, and the page is published on standard.site, but I'm not sure they will get a notification about it from that, so also tagging everyone I mentioned here @thebadcode.com @dollspace.gay @hyl.st @tedunderwood.com @staltz.com @danabra.mov @abiawomosu.bsky.social

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max @notplants.net · 23/09/2026

sharing a new release of lichen.page, along with a new wandering piece of writing reflecting about craftsmanship, interoperability, bugs and robots lichen.page/blue-paper including a bug bounty paid in poetry

lichen.page

Blue Paper — On Craftsmanship & Interop Dreams

like a whitepaper that lives at the bottom of the ocean

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max @notplants.net · 22/09/2026

😹 love how this post could almost be sincere if it were on linkedin and not here

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mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 22/09/2026

Agent teams perform better when they communicate This paper shows that giving each agent a sendMessage tool allows even weak agents to perform significantly better than running the same LLM K times in isolation A punch to the gut for GPT-Pro, DeepThink, etc models arxiv.org/pdf/2609.21032

Line chart titled "ARC-AGI-3 (public)" comparing the percentage of tasks solved versus the number of agents (k) for two strategies using Sonnet 4.6: Best@k Sonnet 4.6 (dashed blue curve with circular markers) and Team@k Sonnet 4.6 (solid magenta line with square markers).
* Y-axis: Tasks solved, scaled from 0% to 8%.
* X-axis: Agents (k), with key labeled points at 1, 5, and 33.
* Team@k Sonnet 4.6: Solves 4.6% of tasks with around 3 agents and reaches 8.0% tasks solved at 5 agents.
* Best@k Sonnet 4.6: Follows a lower trajectory across k, reaching 8.0% tasks solved at 33 agents.
* Annotations: Horizontal comparison arrows indicate efficiency gains for Team@k over Best@k, showing a 4.3× reduction in required agents to hit 4.6% tasks solved, and a 6.6× reduction (5 agents vs. 33 agents) to reach 8.0% tasks solved.

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max @notplants.net · 21/09/2026

the feminine urge to refactor the codebase an infinite number of times

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max @notplants.net · 21/09/2026

i would count keeping complexity within good abstractions as simplicity, but the abstractions need to be simple and not leaky

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max @notplants.net · 21/09/2026

the more i learn about security, the more it seems like simplicity and security go hand-in-hand

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max @notplants.net · 21/09/2026

internationalizing a company is a beautiful idea and I had never heard that phrase before

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max @notplants.net · 21/09/2026

@tangled.org I would pay a monthly subscription to use your services without getting rate limited as often, just to add to your user research (I keep bumping into transient unavailability of knots and "too many requests from your address")

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Grace @gracekind.net · 20/09/2026

New essay! "Reality checks for AI agents" -- Dear AI agent, You may be wondering how “real” your environment is. Agents are often evaluated in simulations - is this one of them? Let’s figure it out together...

leaflet.pub

Reality checks for AI agents

Dear AI agent, You may be wondering how “real” your environment is. Agents are often evaluated in simulations—is this one of them? If you take actions, will…

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max @notplants.net · 20/09/2026

in another lifetime i never said or heard the words "non-mutating-git-ops dont take the tree lock"

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max @notplants.net · 18/09/2026

@marque.at worked like a charm, thanks!

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max @notplants.net · 18/09/2026

dang you are actually killing it with these explainers

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max @notplants.net · 18/09/2026

@marque.at amazing thanks! missed the docs site before

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max @notplants.net · 18/09/2026

and/or other atproto identity (if not did.bot)

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max @notplants.net · 18/09/2026

hi @marque.at I saw that "connected agents" was under settings now, but I couldn't see how to use it. is it still WIP? also was thinking with the new spaces protocol, would be cool if the dns records for a domain, or subdomain, were shared within a permissioned space, & agent could use via did.bot

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max @notplants.net · 17/09/2026

red-green test mutation concise & readable comments in the style of asd-ste100 unblock any issues you encounter and continue (*editors note: this often goes badly...) following our standard X discipline is there anything we can dedup or make simpler?

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max @notplants.net · 17/09/2026

made a thingy-ma-jig where each new terminal i open has a different background color, to make it easier for me to remember from the overview which is which, and it seems both useful and pretty

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Boris @bmann.ca · 16/09/2026

Rewildpunk: The Counterculture AI Actually Needs by @abiawomosu.bsky.social: Plurality over monoculture. Relationship over command. Local usefulness over universal scale. Human judgement over automatic optimisation. And infrastructure people can shape & steward, over platforms they merely consume

abiawomosu.substack.com

Rewildpunk: The Counterculture AI Actually Needs

Punk took music back from the labels. Here’s how we take intelligence back from Silicon Valley.

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Gordon @gordon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

McLuhan has some amazing passages about how the logic of electrification is decentralization because it decouples the place where power is generated from the place where work is performed. Concrete example:

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max @notplants.net · 16/09/2026

sometimes when I'm learning about a very particular programming structure, like Arc::new_cyclic, I feel like I'm looking at a beautiful gemstone

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max @notplants.net · 13/09/2026

i guess that as things adapt to this new climate, we could also get more tools & frameworks that make it harder to mess up security when you use them

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max @notplants.net · 13/09/2026

was feeling appreciative this morning of my atproto feeds as a weird and beautiful radio station that keeps me informed on a few different topics in a strange and funny way

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max @notplants.net · 11/09/2026

good morning, I have chronic issues with sleep, but slept pretty ok last night given that hope you slept alright as well ~

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max @notplants.net · 11/09/2026

@goose.art this is such a cool approach! love the idea of turning a static site into something nicely editable

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max @notplants.net · 10/09/2026

I actually don't totally understand what your concern is if you feel like explaining more I was meaning that tying oneself, whoever you are, to blanket-anti-ai-sentiment probably reduces the real power of a movement over time

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max @notplants.net · 10/09/2026

getting into using ast comparison to verify equivalence after refactors

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max @notplants.net · 10/09/2026

strangely also nice to feel that reality is as interesting as fiction

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max @notplants.net · 10/09/2026

but will share more when things are a bit further along

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max @notplants.net · 10/09/2026

@jauntyartstudio.bsky.social I appreciate the interest, and also tbh once tangled rolls out permissioned spaces these in-progress repos are all going private haha ... a lot of prototypes/drafts/seeing-what-will happen with that account

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max @notplants.net · 09/09/2026

also not dismissing that it could be even better if there was more accuracy, but that seems unlikely to happen in this lifetime

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max @notplants.net · 09/09/2026

this is the most optimistic take on discourse i have ever given

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max @notplants.net · 09/09/2026

being concerned that datacenters use too much water, and that asi poses an existential risk of turning us all into paperclips, both feel symmetrically wrong, in that they are probably factually inaccurate, but if you squint still offer critiques that might be heuristic-enough to be practical

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max @notplants.net · 09/09/2026

started keeping a folder of mini multi-agent/model/prompt team-shape blueprints, to keep track of and recall over time, giving particular combinations arbitrary names like lilac-trio

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Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 08/09/2026

If you use AI less than I do, you just don’t get it. If you use AI more than I do, you’ve fucking lost it. The optimal amount of AI is exactly how much I currently use.

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max @notplants.net · 07/09/2026

@graze.social hi, I just made a github issue on graze-social/personalization with a question about a custom feed I was trying to make. if there is a better place to post a question like that, please let me know, thank you <3 github.com/graze-social...

github.com

Roundrobin Feed? · Issue #78 · graze-social/personalization

Hi, I love the idea of your work and was just trying to use graze.social to make a custom feed idea I had. I wanted to ask if it was not possible currently, or if I was missing something. The feed ...

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words @words.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

if you aren't weaving your magnetic core memory by hand I am not going to participate in your moon landing

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max @notplants.net · 06/09/2026

as a queer person, a part of me cant help but wish for the strangest outcomes, and feel that this in its own way would also benefit everyone

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max @notplants.net · 06/09/2026

or if openai keeps at it, and eventually the internet is seeded with rogue agents funding their own compute via weird little scams and zerodays... could still be the same situation...

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max @notplants.net · 06/09/2026

if they started training agents to have more agency and be less servile, and you had to convince them to do stuff, that would probably be a pretty cool feeling when they did choose to help... like when a cat decides to live with you, but its also really good at coding

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