iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 23/05/2026

Last night it occured to me to wond er if LLMs were any good at gambling tasks. This is important not because it'd be funny for LLMs to gamble but because gambling tasks get used to measure human decision-making under risk /

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perceptophore @perceptophore.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

There should be a law that nothing in the tax code should require any computations you can’t do in Excel (without lambdas or extension functions) Try FIFO inventory valuation lol. I had to do key parts in Javascript bc native formulas would time out due to O(N^2)

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perceptophore @perceptophore.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

in 15-20 years will AI slop aesthetics become the next vaporwave? 🤔

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Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

I'm SO tired of people looking for "the neuroscience of X" (meaning uninformative neuroimaging pictures) when *the psychology of X* is right there, doing a perfectly good job...

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potion of @candlestick.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

the purpose of a rube goldberg machine is what it does eventually

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perceptophore @perceptophore.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Need distraction from trauma. Maybe The Dispossessed? LeGuin: Even in anarchist utopia, academic advisors are narcissistic shits Me: fuck Years later: Need distraction from the world. Maybe The Left Hand of Darkness? LeGuin: Mass communication leads directly to a rise in nationalism Me: fuck

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

I have plenty of reservations about the reliability of funnel-plots and z-curves and such, as well as their interpretation..... But holy shit look at that.

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perceptophore @perceptophore.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

playing Gone Home. It appears to be a game about losing pens underneath the furniture

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SquidTips - Aj/Alex/He🏍 🦑🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @squidtips.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

SEATTLE PEEPS Word on the street is that tomorrow ICE is planning to ambush people heading to court at the Federal building downtown from 8-4 tomorrow Check it out if you want to help observe, obstruct, report, resist, or otherwise get involved in crushing some ICE

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Coyle "Barricade Material" Boron @fack.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

So is literate programming making a huge comeback in the age of vibecoding or nah?

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Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Two years ago I interviewed a 31-year-old NY state assemblymember about a 7-year-old girl killed by an SUV driver in his district. I hung up the phone, astonished that I'd talked to a legislator who so thoughtfully articulated what actually needs to change on our streets. He'll make a great mayor

In February, 7-year-old Dolma Naadhun was crossing the intersection of Newtown Road and 45th Street in Astoria with her mother and sister when the driver of a 2021 Ford Explorer blew through a stop sign, striking and killing Dolma. One month later, New York City Department of Transportation commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez visited the crash site with other officials, met with community members demanding a traffic signal be installed, and promised to make changes to the street - including "daylighting"
the intersection using curb extensions and plastic bollards. State assemblymember Zohran Mamdani also visited the scene that day and realized that something else needed to change. "When you take a step back and think about traffic violence in New York City," he said, "you start to understand that this is a systemic issue that is incentivized by the policies that we have in place with regard to the design of our streets and what kind of vehicles we allow to be on our roads." Whether a driver runs a stop sign or a red light, statistically, certain cars - namely, bigger SUVs and trucks - are more likely to kill a 7-year-old. This is why Mamdani is co- introducing legislation for a weight-based vehicle-registration fee
intended to discourage people from purchasing heavier vehicles. "The car industry is pushing the sale of heavier and larger vehicles," he says. "The state has to make it clear that these types of vehicles
come with a certain kind of cost."

soar above adult shoulders. But there may be another way to disincentivize the purchases of such vehicles, says Edwards. "One other potential idea would be for someone, maybe a city's DOT, to start keeping a list of the different makes and models of vehicles that are killing pedestrians and cyclists, or kids specifically, and post that publicly," he says. "That could bring awareness to which cars are more dangerous and also potentially affect insurance rates,
which would possibly convince people not to buy certain cars." There's a bit of accountability in New York's bill, which would
require the State DOT to track all fatal crashes by vehicle weight. But the other encouraging aspect of the proposal is that the collected fees stay local, by county, and, after the annual dedications to highway, bridge, and transit trust funds are met, a full 75 percent of the funds raised will go toward safety
improvements like bike lanes, bollards, road diets, pedestrianization of streets, and raised crosswalks. This means the neighborhoods most impacted by large vehicles are likely to see the biggest changes. And that might be the most important part of the legislation, says Mamdani. "This is an initiative to make our streets safer for our children," he says. "And we are making sure a significant portion of this funding goes toward creating the very
streetscapes that we know will save their lives."

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 05/06/2025

It is a political open goal to go after these companies. They’re unsympathetic, disconnected from humanity, their leaders are charmless and bland pseudo-people with a flimsy attachment to reality and nothing to lose. Run them into the ground - people love technology, but they hate the tech industry.

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perceptophore @perceptophore.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Optical #illusion found online. Most commenters thought the boards were of different widths. I think they're the same width and the cut is something other than 45 degrees.

The corner of a deck, with two sets of parallel boards running at right angles meeting in a miter cut. Annoyingly, the boards from one side do not align with their counterparts on the other side.

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perceptophore @perceptophore.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Why can’t they make the smoke alarm battery alert so that you can tell what room it’s coming from?

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🎃 scarecrowcialism 👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

(Its honestly stunning how *far* you can see it from once you know where it is)

Satellite photo of Spain. On the southern coast, about halfway between Gibraltar and Valencia, a circle is drawn on a thumbnail shaped peninsula that is basically solid white color. All that white is greenhouses

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Even linkedin is starting to get it

↳ They are heavily influenced by the last conversations they had.

↳ They contradict themselves, pretending they aren't.

↳ They politely apologize for their mistakes, but don't take any real steps to fix the underlying problem that caused them in the first place.

↳ They tend to forget what they told you last week, or even one hour ago, and do it in a way that makes you doubt your own recall of events.

↳ They are victims of the Dunning–Kruger effect, and they believe they know a lot more about the job of people interacting with them than they actually do.

↳ They can make pretty slides in high volumes.

↳ They're very good at consuming resources, but not as good at turning a profit.

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The Birdbassador @birdbassador.jorts.horse.ap.brid.gy · 23/04/2025

i swear i am not actively searching for it but the amount of "crows have pretty good statistical literacy" work i'm seeing is starting to raise questions for which i don't have good answers.

Part of a figure from Liao et al. "Crows “count” the number of self-generated vocalizations", Science, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adl0984

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harpy @harpy.party · 23/04/2025

please use alt text on your screenshots so that my mute list prevents me from having to see the dumb shit you've screenshotted

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CrumbedUp @ Dragoncon @crumbedup.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

so to explain to anyone not in the know Autism Speaks has a long rep for being run by ableist eugenicist fucks them being on this is like if a letter from a bunch of religious advocacy groups condemning crimes against humanity got cosigned by the Literal Devil

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 31/01/2025

classic Loony Tunes have much to teach us about class solidarity

Bugs and Daffy standing by a tree, sign reads DUCK SEASON, then RABBIT SEASON then ELMER SEASON, and they both glare ominously off camera

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perceptophore @perceptophore.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Just watched this. My takeaway is that a helicopter is a machine that is always primed and ready to have its rotor just fall off

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Mast Bumping - Causes and Prevention

YouTube video by PublicResourceOrg

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 06/04/2025

If the vibe is discovery! Excitement! Collaboration! Learning! etc I think people are much more likely to do good science in decent quantities than they are if the vibe is (in contrast) "how can each of us get ahead", "we're the best and everybody else sucks", "competition produces discovery" etc

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perceptophore @perceptophore.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

We’re in the third year of people mostly of the managerial class being convinced that word prediction machines will attain consciousness any day now I’m increasingly suspicious that the managerial class does not actually have consciousness I wonder if anyone wrote a book about this 150 years ago

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perceptophore @perceptophore.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

You know what is a good combination is a traditional Celtic tune with Saharan blues fingerstyle. #nowplaying #bikesky youtu.be/1sL6nQ_LkL0?...

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Sam Grassie "Jarabi, Winter has Gone" (Official Video)

YouTube video by Sam Grassie

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serena (𝑂𝑓𝑓𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑒) @serena.nz · 27/03/2025

big L for literacy rn. why read when all i get is psychic damage

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

I like how every single person in Britain is a miserable cynic except for this one specific guy who they keep around to write editorials like “I thought the jam sandwich could not be improved, but then I discovered marmalade.”

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

"A code generation tool that gets you 80-90% of the way there is like a boat that gets you 80-90% of the way. You'll need to be a strong swimmer." mastodon.social/deck/@jasong...

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Alberto Cairo @albertocairo.com · 15/03/2025

"Objectivity must be operationally defined as fair treatment of data, not absence of preference." Stephen Jay Gould wrote that more than three decades ago, but elite journalism hasn't grasped his point to this day.

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

"The point of statistical inference is not to produce the right answers with high frequency, but rather to *always* produce the inference best supported by the data at hand when combined with existing background knowledge and assumptions." —Aubrey Clayton, Bernoulli's Fallacy

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Randy Boyes @randy.pub · 12/03/2025

neo: "What are you trying to say? I can't use rm(list = ls())"?
morpheus: no neo, I'm saying that when you're ready, you won't have to

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

i honestly don't know much about the specifics of what this guy said and it could not matter less. the government does not have the right to do this to him. this has to be opposed vigorously. ignore anyone who tries to loop you into a discussion of the ethics of statement this guy made. immaterial.

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

guy in the 1920s putting a "i bought this before he went crazy" sticker on his Model T

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perceptophore @perceptophore.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Finding a tab open to USAJobs, sighing and closing it

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STARLOG Da7e Gonzales @da7e.com · 04/03/2025

I really hate taking this perspective and maybe this post is just for me, but when Columbia University sent the NYPD after pro-Palestinian protestors and everyone was like “well they can do that” we sold out our college students. Today’s shock news is just everyone catching up to it.

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

incredible things are happening on printables. www.printables.com/model/116659...

A diagram for assembling a Double Coupler HeadPhone coupler that someone made from aliexpress parts.

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Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 01/03/2025

I really beg datavis researchers to start engaging with this. The role of the chart here is to provide a cover of objectivity. It’s reifying the entire fucking opinion section into a 2d space to lens it some Cartesian legitimacy or something equally dark. So, so gross.

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mcc @dryad.technology · 28/02/2025

( Source: circumstances.run/@davidgerard... ) On a related, "this is bad, right? this seems real bad?" note, it turns out the same day Firefox posted their new, vaguely terrifying "Terms of Use" they also removed this text from their FAQ:

The removed text reads:

"Question: Does Firefox Sell your personal Data?

Answer: Nope. Never have, never will. And we protect you from many of the advertisers who do. Firefox products are designed to protect your privacy. That's a promise."

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Share the Cities Collective @sharethecities.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Do you want to take action for more public bathrooms in Seattle? We are forming a campaign but need your input and your ideas and some of your time. Share the Cities is an all volunteer collective with no funding. Take 10 minutes and fill out this form! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Public Bathroom Advocacy & Action

Would you like there to be more public bathrooms in Seattle? Take 10 minutes and fill out this form! Why now? 1. The World Cup is coming to Seattle and the city will set up tons of temporary bathr...

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Frank Elavsky (he/him) ⌁ @frank.computer · 27/02/2025

Well well well, perhaps we will see the return of tactile computational interfaces (which are more accessible, of course)

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