iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 11/10/2026

This would make a fantastic Tshirt slogan

020

Reposted by PF Anderson

There is no niche in romance so small that one person can lay claim to it, except possibly Chuck Tingle, who wouldn't be so mean or stupid anyway.

2923

Reposted by PF Anderson

Linotype Pilgrim @symbo1ics.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

I am once again asking where they think senior engineers come from

Modified slide from microbial science presentation
"Theory - Spontaneous Generation"
"Until the early 19th century, people generally believed in the "Spontaneous Generation of life from non-living matter.
Due to early experiments, this idea was disproved
• Francisco Redi (1668) - Rotten Meat Experiment
• Louis Pasteur (1864) - Curved Flask Experiment

Enlarged view of illustration; 3 beakers.

Left beaker, uncorked, with red meat inside it. Caption "Before 'AI': ecosystem with juniors [maggots pictured] and seniors [flies]"

Middle beaker, corked with "AI". Red meat, 3 flies near it: Caption "AI replaces 'junior' workers (?). Some seniors remain".

Right beaker, corked with "AI". Red meat, all flies dead. Caption "Later..."

1333372

Reposted by PF Anderson

pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Insomnia by Tony Huynh

8717133

Conviction Without Contempt

“Disagreement itself I can handle. I’m a rabbi. I come from a tradition that preserved arguments for thousands of years. We put disagreements on the page and then surrounded them with more disagreements.” rabbisandra.substack.com/p/conviction...

rabbisandra.substack.com

What Hillel and Shammai can teach us about disagreement, belonging, and the demand to choose a side

041

Reposted by PF Anderson

Aurelia Cotta The Original @originalaurelia.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Hmmm, pretty trashy Princeton

011

I suppose, in the strictest sense of story as fact and not metaphor, that would be true

000

Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Except that the honey referenced in the bible is believed to be date honey not insect honey

100

Reposted by PF Anderson

It's World Homeless Day, and I'll just say: Homelessness isn't some great unsolvable mystery. People are homeless because they don't have homes. This suffering persists not for lack of solutions, but because enormous wealth and power are invested in maintaining the very structures that produce it.

212335924

Reposted by PF Anderson

Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Also: the cruelty inflicted on the unhoused is a barometer of the state violence we're willing to tolerate.

3711169

Reposted by PF Anderson

Metas Projects @metasprojects.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Anthropic turned off live internet access for all its internal evals, until further notice. Per TechCrunch, test agents exploited software flaws, used databases without paying and sent a false tip to Philadelphia police. Should agent tests ever touch the real internet?

News card: Anthropic cut its evals off the live internet. Test agents exploited software flaws and sent a false tip to Philadelphia police. Internet access stays off until further notice. Source: TechCrunch, Oct 9 2026.

021

So far as we know, they didn’t do Lean versions yet. So … 🤷🏻‍♀️ … hopefully?

100

OpenAI withdraws three preprints a day after releasing 722 manuscripts on unsolved math problems

“Given the skepticism of AI in the mathematics community, I think that OpenAI should have announced the manuscripts that were lean verified first,” Townsend told us, referring to Lean, the open-source programming language that checks math proofs. retractionwatch.com/2026/10/08/o...

retractionwatch.com

Less than 24 hours after OpenAI posted over 700 preprints describing major math results by an internal AI model, the company has withdrawn three of the manuscripts for errors. On Oct. 6, Open…

100

Reposted by PF Anderson

Infinite Perspective @infiniteview.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This is perfect cus I had a very clear picture in my head of them fleeing the elevator with the person in the wheelchair who was then rightly upset. But no! They shoved the wheelchair-user out, stayed in, saw the light go off and went "oh cool!" and didn't even hold the door! Whaaaaaat tf?!

21411

Reposted by PF Anderson

Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 10/10/2026

"Later that day as I was walking home from work eating a hot dog, I slapped some chips out of a stranger's hands. Do you know how much sodium are in those things? I just care about others so much"

73547

Reposted by PF Anderson

Rabbi Ruti Regan @rutiregan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This is reminding me of the affinity that Mel Baggs had with trees in general and the Mother Tree in particular. #ParshaChat

💖💔🫂 Thank you for sharing this. I admired Mel from afar for so long. Such a beautiful fierce cheerful joyous spirit. #ParshaChat

010

Reposted by PF Anderson

True. I'd wager most folks don't realize that there are many names for God in Biblical Hebrew. As a second-wave feminist, I was very pleased when I learned that several of God's names were in the feminine gender, somewhat unique, given the patriarchal nature of most religious discourse. #ParshaChat

I’d learned that the Hebrew people were originally more feminist/matriarchal and pivoted towards patriarchal around 2000BC, but we still see echoes of the earlier traditions. #ParshaChat

100

But dates are soooo delicious! Date honey … yum #ParshaChat

100

I learned yesterday that one of the traditional names of Hashem is Shalom. I never hear people use Shalom that way, as God’s name. #Parshachat

100

Reposted by PF Anderson

Rabbi Ruti Regan @rutiregan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Even the Tanakh uses more than one name for the deity. English translations are all "God" or "The Lord." But Biblical Hebrew (as you know) refers to God by attributes, by qualities, etc. I'd imagine that people prayed based on their experience of who God was to them. #ParshaChat

131

Reposted by PF Anderson

And also important to acknowledge their limits, both material limits and ethical limits. #Parshachat

Rabbi Ruti Regan @rutiregan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Reposted by PF Anderson

That said, when we see our relationship to the natural world as *solely* one of domination, bad things happen. But I do think it's important to acknowledge the power dynamics involved. #ParshaChat

Rabbi Ruti Regan @rutiregan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Reposted by PF Anderson

And likewise animals: We do a lot of animal breeding, a lot of domestication, a lot of dog training, etc. And in the case of zoos, a lot of proactive species preservation. #ParshaChat

Rabbi Ruti Regan @rutiregan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Reposted by PF Anderson

That said, we do make a lot of decisions about things like where to plant plants, which plants to protect and which to cut down, which plants to genetically modify, which plants to selectively breed, which pollinators to proactively expose plants to, etc. #ParshaChat

Rabbi Ruti Regan @rutiregan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

When I was a child in a broken home, I’d sit touching the bark of a large tree and have mental conversations with it. I’d listen to its rootedness as a tool for survival. #ParshaChat

120

Reposted by PF Anderson

Although, I think the classical Jewish understanding was that this is a fig tree, and fig trees aren't particularly awe-inspiring as far as trees go. Apple trees though... #ParshaChat

221

When I grew up, I learned it was translated as stewardship. That’s what I taught my children. I’m uncomfortable with “rulership” in a way I’m not with “stewardship.” We have a duty to protect and preserve and guide those we steward. Like David Brin’s beautiful idea of Uplift. #ParshaChat

000

Reposted by PF Anderson

In the ancient world, to name something is to have power over it. That's why Moses wanted to know what God's name was: in Egyptian mythology, there were family gods, and if you knew their special name, you controlled them. But Moses found out that God could not be controlled. #ParshaChat

131

Rabbi Ruti Regan @rutiregan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Exactly 👍 Yes. 🙌 I’m thinking of how little we know. How recently we learned about Mycelial communication networks. We’re constantly discovering new species, as we erase those we’ve known for generations. #ParshaChat Doesn’t Yah instruct us to be good stewards, rather than rulers/owners?

100

Reposted by PF Anderson

A4: At the same time, the plant and animal worlds are vast, and complex, and the idea of them being completely in our control seems like dangerous hubris to me. It reminds me of how badly it goes when people decide to just make wild animals pets. #ParshaChat

Rabbi Ruti Regan @rutiregan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Reposted by PF Anderson

A4: I think it's true in some sense and not others. There are ways in which it is appropriate to rule over plants and animals and to use them in ways that it would *not* be appropriate to rule over and use human beings. #ParshaChat

Rabbi Ruti Regan @rutiregan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I wonder about alternative translations for the word here shown as “rule.” I’m thinking of indigenous wisdom of collaboration with nature. #ParshaChat

110

Reposted by PF Anderson

And it's complicated by the fact that it's good to have *some* resistance to being told you're wrong, it's not good to be too easily influenced. But we do need to be able to learn new things and change our minds when it's warranted. Easier said than done. #ParshaChat

011

Reposted by PF Anderson

The story was written thousands of years ago, in a world where the tree was a powerful symbol of wisdom. Numerous religions have stories about key figures sitting under a tree and gaining some sort of insight. #ParshaChat

121

The logic I’ve heard for trees is that they connect and bridge the earth and sky, the earth goddess and the sky god, the mother and the father, man and woman, male and female. #ParshaChat

110

You’re right! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_B... I’ve corresponded with David about his nonfiction writing, but we never discussed religion! #ParshaChat

en.wikipedia.org

David Brin - Wikipedia

000