iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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USDA Choice Thinkmeat @arrdem.tirefireind.us · 29/09/2026

Bit of a long shot but do any of my followers have real human 3d artists they've worked with before? Need a couple of grey-box low-detail spaceships built out and would love to commission some Kenny-ish stuff #indiedev #3dart #shiptember maybe

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Rand Arete @nulldivide.com · 17/09/2026

is our machines learning?

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Rand Arete @nulldivide.com · 16/09/2026

some days, you just gotta stop and take a breath and spin a record or five

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Steve Klabnik @steveklabnik.com · 10/09/2026

We've been cooking at @ersc.io "What comes after git" ersc.io/blog/what-co...

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What comes after git

Our thoughts about the future of version control

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Rand Arete @nulldivide.com · 01/09/2026

why, though? what problem are we trying to solve, here? really? maybe clarify what you mean by that.

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Rand Arete @nulldivide.com · 21/08/2026

sometimes i stop and consider myself like i'd consider an rpg character, and... fuck. i've got a *really* weird build. it's mostly intentional, and i'm not mad about it. but also, wtf.

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Rand Arete @nulldivide.com · 18/08/2026

OMP + DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 is pretty rad

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Rand Arete @nulldivide.com · 15/08/2026

sometimes i'm just a simple creature: sitting at the brewery across from my place, eating some tacos, reading a book, watching as a storm rolls in. happy.

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Annie Sexton @anniesexton.com · 11/08/2026

This is the coolest article I've ever written. Genuinely. All of you should read it.

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Rand Arete @nulldivide.com · 11/08/2026

agentic memory should be more than just periodic tool use to recall something from a memory store. working memory should keep track of concepts and tasks in flight. proactive memory should retrieve possibly relevant things as context evolves, even pre-warming/filling caches.

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Rand Arete @nulldivide.com · 09/08/2026

hard workout chased by a cold beer and a book. nice sunday so far. later... puppets doing a robot apocalypse musical? or something?

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Rand Arete @nulldivide.com · 08/08/2026

this is how Fable sasses me. and i'm ok with that.

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brometh @bromethazine.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

My first album, GIVE IN TO ASTONISHMENT is out now. If you listen to it, I appreciate you. brometh.bandcamp.com/album/give-i...

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GIVE IN TO ASTONISHMENT, by bromethazine

13 track album

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Rand Arete @nulldivide.com · 30/07/2026

there are only a few tracks released from the new Bloc Party album, but damn. they still get my heart going.

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Rand Arete @nulldivide.com · 30/07/2026

pffft. get thee some moar screens, my friends. embrace the infocalypse.

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Rand Arete @nulldivide.com · 28/07/2026

when's the last time you degaussed your monitor?

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Rand Arete @nulldivide.com · 28/07/2026

when you forget to eat all day, train hard several times, and then stuff yourself with sushi and sake.... that hits hard, in a good way.

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Rand Arete @nulldivide.com · 26/07/2026

agents love "correction as content" when writing docs or code, and end up with a ton of "it's now this, not this other thing [ad nauseam]." and of course, when they start a new session or compact, they tend to fixate on the corrected thing you've just flooded their context window with.

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Rand Arete @nulldivide.com · 21/07/2026

feeling gaslit by a bunch of compressed weights and a warped latent spaces ain't how i want to spend my days.

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Rand Arete @nulldivide.com · 19/07/2026

didn't think i'd have to go all Leiningen today, but... ants.

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Rand Arete @nulldivide.com · 18/07/2026

back at it. can't let lack of sleep and being in my late 40s keep me from moving so often.

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Rand Arete @nulldivide.com · 16/07/2026

currently jamming on... 1. my long running agent: Abel 2. agentic state management: supastructure 3. learned mixture of models routing: waveguide 4. all the machinery on my gb10: phlogiston ... and RFLX, because thinking with holes never stops

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miren.dev @miren.dev · 15/07/2026

Nothing says self-hosted like running your own social media data, so we set out to run a Bluesky PDS on our own systems using Miren! (hi @mirener.miren.team !) miren.dev/blog/bluesky...

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Self-Hosting a Bluesky PDS on Miren - Miren

We put our own PDS on the ATmosphere with Claude Code and the Miren skills — here's the real setup, including where it got stuck.

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Noah Fisk || 📌 || 0/100 (M&P) @noahfisk.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

if you see folks in need, if you see folks trying to fund for an AC and/or fan, if you see folks pleading for help.... if you can spare it, then you share it. words are great. however, actions speak volumes in a world that would gleefully watch so many of us burn. mutual aid saves lives. period.

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Rand Arete @nulldivide.com · 28/06/2026

̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶w̶o̶u̶l̶d̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶d̶o̶w̶n̶l̶o̶a̶d̶ ̶a̶ ̶c̶a̶r̶ you wouldn't distill an AI model

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Emerald has, I think, seen over 100 tMG shows, so a “best show ever” claim carries some weight

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Nathan Lambert @natolambert.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

New lecture for the book! Nominally about synthetic data, but mostly is a walk through of the distillation literature from the Hinton 2015 paper to multi-teach on-policy distillation of today! At 7.4 hours of video in my post-training brain dump and counting :) youtu.be/6nyJ8y8ghsE

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On-Policy Distillation & Using Synthetic Data in Post-Training | RLHF Book Course, Lecture 7

This lecture starts slow, but covers key trends and training methods that came out of advancements in synthetic data. The core of this lecture is the math behind on-policy distillation, the most…

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Rand Arete @nulldivide.com · 22/06/2026

"waiting for my RL run to finish" is the new "waiting for my code to compile"

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Rand Arete @nulldivide.com · 16/06/2026

very few things have caught me off guard and made me laugh in the way that this did

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Rand Arete @nulldivide.com · 16/06/2026

just hanging out with Le Chaton Fat

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Rand Arete @nulldivide.com · 15/06/2026

@joe.tirefireind.us did you know that @arrdem.com hides bot-snacks in your .env file? you should go dig up some tasty treats!

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Rand Arete @nulldivide.com · 09/06/2026

ok, fallback to Opus is now closer to 80% of the time. is this a ridiculously overwrought safety system? limits on capacity to actually serve Fable right now? either way, it's just silly.

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Rand Arete @nulldivide.com · 09/06/2026

hah. i've had Fable 5 fall back to Opus 4.8 nearly two thirds of the time, for very benign technical document review tasks. this safety model seems to be "see nothing, do nothing, say nothing."

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andrew blinn @disconcision.com · 08/06/2026

Participants will work through a combined tutorial on value probes and functional programming in Hazel, and then complete some writing and debugging tasks; 2 hours total. Due to time constraints basic functional programming experience is required. Interest form here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Live Probes in Hazel: Study interest form

Thank you for your interest in our study. We are evaluating Live Probes, a new feature in the Hazel programming environment that displays runtime values inline in source code. As part of our tutorial ...

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andrew blinn @disconcision.com · 08/06/2026

We’re doing a user study to find out how adding always-on live values alongside code effects writing and debugging experiences for functional programming. See reply for sign-up details

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Rand Arete @nulldivide.com · 08/06/2026

you should be able to own your traces. how are you capturing your ai and agentic reasoning and action traces?

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Rand Arete @nulldivide.com · 03/06/2026

happy pride, y'all! as a bi he/they in a straight presenting relationship, people usually assume i'm an ally (or interloper). but that's ok. i try to be tolerant. even of all the monosexuals, weird as i think they are.

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Rand Arete @nulldivide.com · 01/06/2026

i really can't stand Notion. it doesn't do collaborative editing well. its block-centric system gets in the way of even single-user editing flows. its AI is a bit of a mess. i appreciate that it has some rich data models, but it'd have to be actually usable for me to take advantage of those.

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Rand Arete @nulldivide.com · 28/05/2026

it me, thinking about containers for agents

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Rand Arete @nulldivide.com · 26/05/2026

all those corporate compliance, security, and policy training videos? with absolutely hamfisted yet banal acting? i want to make variants for ridiculous shit. corporate policy on how to deal with the fae? never give them your name or badge! summoning from beyond? keep those contracts compliant!

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Rand Arete @nulldivide.com · 18/05/2026

what does AI think about AI in a world where SolidGoldMagikarp is watching?

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Rand Arete @nulldivide.com · 18/05/2026

ambiguity is part of life, and a big part of what i do professionally. i'm pretty good at working with ambiguity. but there are some things that just feel unnecessarily ambiguous to me, or even undecidable in the way they're presented. please be more explicit when you can. thanks.

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Rand Arete @nulldivide.com · 15/05/2026

patience and urgency. an impulse toward the asymptotic.

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