iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

For anybody interested in philosophy and its history, this is podcast is for you. If podcasts aren’t your thing, he has been publishing book versions of the series. They are wonderful overviews and intros to philosophical texts. And the no gaps approach is real but not unreasonable.

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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

👀 Florida attorney general to OpenAI: (www.myfloridalegal.com/sites/defaul...)

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Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Having Monday trash pickup is incredible privilege because you have all of Sunday to decide when to put trash out. It’s a privilege I waste almost every week 😔

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Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

At 45k followers I will do the same. (Probably* just repost @lastpositivist.bsky.social ‘s post). * This is not probable. I will never reach this many followers.

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Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I believe we can prove the NY Times SpellingBee game wrong, BlueSky! We just have to reply and quote with pictures of all your pets’ boopable noses.

Screenshot of NY Times SpellingBee game showing that BOOPABLE is not an accepted word.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hey so Nobody actually knows exactly WHY the great stock market crash of 1929 happened, leading to the Great Depression But most folks agree "Low level participants started betting with borrowed money" probably didn't help matters

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Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I saw this and thought “You mean third quarter.” Checked bio and … “Ohhh of course”

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Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

New phone: yay! Having to do a phone transfer: boo!

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Steven Clontz @clontz.org · 18/09/2026

Trouble is, everyone wants to build the Terminator, and no one wants to build WALL-E.

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Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My running joke about Ed Sheeran is that he is the best song writer since the Beatles. This is from the film Yesterday where he challenges the protagonist to a fast song writing contest and he loses to the protagonist “writing” The Long and Winding Road.

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The class that meets right before mine in my classroom is Intro to AI. It’s followed by The American Revolution. I love the weirdness of that.

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Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I often feel conflicted by art from the 1920s. This is no exception. I like the forward facing eye projected from the (sideways) figure. The angles evoke Cezanne (good), but overall effect is somehow … I don’t know. If this speaks to you, I’d love to hear why and learn.

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Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“Cooking pasta is easy. I promise.”

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Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I’m disappointed. Not surprised, but disappointed. It was even my first guess and would be a pangram. 😢

Screenshot of NY Times SpellingBee game showing that DICKHEAD is not an accepted word.

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Chris Millard @chrismillard83.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

this is perhaps the most useful thing that LLMs and GenAI have done: to provoke people into articulating (over again) that even the 'hardest' of 'hard sciences' are human endeavours, with human meaning, and concerned with human understanding of the significance of the world we all inhabit

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Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It may be able to solve millennium problems, but can it *pose* them???

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Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Home Library h-index: The largest value n such that there are n authors for whom you own (alternatively, have read) n of their books. I believe mine are Own: 7 Read: 5 I’m curious how this compares with others. #BookSky #MathSky

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Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

“You’d got a letter, and you’d got a letter, and you’d got a letter, and you’d got a letter.” “Get on with it!!”

Two close up side-by-side of Tim Curry’s face from the movie Clue. Text above it says, “ Lord, grant me the manic energy of Tim Curry in the third act of Clue, where he re-enacts the movie in its entirety for the other characters BY HIMSELF! THREE TIMES!

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Francis Su @mathyawp.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

With the start of the semester just a week away, here’s what I decided to say to my upper division math course about how AI will or won’t change what they’re learning… francissu.substack.com/p/the-enduri...

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The Enduring Value of Math, in an Age of AI

Thoughts I’ll share at the start of my upper division math course

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Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I didn’t know De Niro’s father was Ludwig Wittgenstein!!

Photograph of Wittgenstein that looks surprisingly similar to De Niro’s father, who is (it must be said) a different person.

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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 15/08/2026

Game of Life on Penrose tiles

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Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

No cheating post your lock screen.

Screen capture of my lock screen showing a detail of the painting Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix. The photo was taken on my phone at the Louvre.

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ꭓle Ormsby 𓆙 @e-infinity.space · 04/08/2026

You know those viral fb posts that reduce to order of operations quibbling? Please deploy this associahedron-based interactive viewer in order to subvert those threads with interesting mathematics: kyleormsby.github.io/parse-explor... 🧮

said trees arranged in the pentagonal associahedron

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Hoarse Whisperer @therealhoarse.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I was up at the buttcrack of dawn this morning when it was still dark out. It had been pouring all night. Took this picture with my phone. It isn’t even a shot of something. It just captured… I don’t know… the vibe? Regardless, I like it.

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Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

About to rewatch the Odyssey episode of Ted Lasso. I’m curious if it will hit different after the Nolan version

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Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

As a non-philosopher I find the current #PhilSky discourse on flirting fascinating. More than most topics, it has seemed to open lines of disagreement that expose how philosophers actually think and engage with ideas, both on their own and in conversation with others.

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Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

This movie poster is absolutely inspired! It immediately sheds surprising philosophical insights on (our memory of) the cartoon, and sets expectations about how the film will treat the subject.

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Zoognosis with Joy! @zoognosisjoy.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

In case you were wondering WHY someone would mail their scabs, the earliest inoculation available for smallpox involved grinding up the scabs and inoculating someone with a scratch on the skin. This method reduced the fatality rate from 30% to about 1%. 🧪 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variola...

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Variolation - Wikipedia

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Jennifer Crawford @ournewhomecoach.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

As I get older the thing I think is most important to humans as a species is our relationship to one another and to nature. Everything else is secondary. This is fundamental to our survival as individuals and as a species. Call me an old hippy if you like.

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bag of moons 🏳️‍🌈 @bagofmoons.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

if you teach your child a single mathematical concept it should be this. if your child has a real math brain, they might understand this intuitively, but they might not, and in general, most people will not discover this truth on their own, but it's essential! bsky.app/profile/gro-...

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Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Look at what I found in my used book purchase today! Both book and boarding pass are from 1983. I am guessing J. Pierce bought it at the airport on his way home to the US from Italy.

A paper boarding pass from 1983 for a TWA flight from Milan to New York. It is stamped as cleared to board. Passenger: PIERCE/J. Date: 13AUG. Flight: 0843. Seat: 43-3. NO SMOKING

A yellow colored “giallo” Italian translation of a mystery by Ruth Rendell.

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I am once again begging Hollywood to stop using the Greek alphabet for an Ancient World movie, if they can't afford to even throw a couple of quid at anyone with an inkling of the language. Unless they really think audiences are dying to see THS THDPSSSSPS

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Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Oh come on! And it would have been a pangram to boot!

Screen shot of NYT SpellingBee game showing that CARYATID is not an accepted word.

Screenshot of the Merriam Webster Dictionary definition of caryatid: “a draped female figure supporting an entablature”.

It also shows a sketched rendering of a caryatid.

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Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Another historical inaccuracy from Nolan—IMAX had not yet been invented in the Mycenaean period, so this is not the aspect ratio that people saw in! Smh

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Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I guess id be Lloyd Vehicle Emissions Test. Unless I use my grandfather’s nickname. Then it would be Barney Vehicle Emissions Test.

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Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

In case you are interested in how bees know things.

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Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Gerhard Richter’s Reader. It’s among the most stunning photorealistic paintings I have ever seen. I think of it often.

A photorealistic painting of young woman reading a newspaper.

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Atlas Shvitzed @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Unfortunately, a stunned Paris is how they all got into this whole mess to begin with

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Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Sports have a unique ability to highlight age for viewers. But I’ll add, as somebody who is 45 and not just over 35, I’ve found the emphasis wanes as time goes on.

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Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

“One day I’ll be able to catch the squirrel.”

Tuxedo cat with his chin resting on a paw looking reflective.

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Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

My favorite thing about the release of Independence Day was that it was WIDELY advertised that it would be released on July 4 because… obviously. But then they “unexpectedly” announced a July 2 release with short notice. That way people could “believe” the story was about the current moment.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 03/07/2026

No disrespect intended to the author, but "Everyone should submit to voluntary keylogging surveillanceware on the blockchain to prove they're human" is not exactly the digital future I was hoping for in 1994.

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I Built An App for Authors To Prove They Did Not Use AI To Write.

Because we have to start somewhere.

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Has this been done

Marco Rubio lunging for water with the words "pausa de hidratación" over the picture

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Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I have forever thought of John Cusack as older than me (he is), but I saw this photo and thought, “wow you’re young!” Indeed, he was roughly a decade younger than I am now.

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Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

One nice thing about being older than all the sports stars is that I now get to pretend that the reason I’m not as good is solely because I’m too old.

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lynn @chordbug.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

fixed your headline

A hit song on the Billboard 100 charts is termed *$k$-good* if it is _ever_ in a weekly top-$k$, and *$k$-immediate* if it _debuts_ in the top-$k$.

An artist is *$(n,k)$-Olivian* if their $n$ first $k$-good hits are all also $k$-immediate.

*Headline 1.* Olivia Rodrigo is the first $(10,10)$-Olivian woman.

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Paul Rowe @pauldrowe.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Y’all! Another Xennial marker just dropped!

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 16/06/2026

Setting aside the absurd premise of this op-ed, I love that the WSJ social copy writer felt the need to hedge with "not that has been reported" "No one's reported that one of the most famous popstars in the world dated a man who at the time was a random oyster farmer from Maine, BUT IT IS POSSIBLE"

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Did Taylor Swift once date Graham Platner? Not that has been reported, but her songs about dissolute men do echo accounts of women who dated the Maine Democratic Senate nominee, writes Allysia Finley

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Opinion | Taylor Swift Sings About Graham Platner and Donald Trump

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