iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Jacob Pfeifer @pfeif.garden · 13/10/2026

Television! I've been using it since the release last week and I think they are onto something. Think of it as a durable surface for your artifacts. The graphical interface for your text only agents.

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Jacob Pfeifer @pfeif.garden · 26/07/2026

I've been working on converting this old boombox into a floppy disc playing cyberdeck. Lots more to do but we're making progress :)

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Nate Spilman @natespilman.at · 20/07/2026

The Atmosphere should be sold as a Community Garden. Plant your Lexicon tomatoes. Have your neighbor plant their own tomatoes using the infrastructure you planted. Grow the garden, communally. Reap benefits of the growth of the garden. Continue giving back.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

New from 404 Media: ICE plans to pay Thomson Reuters $125 million for data to investigate what it calls 'voters fraud'. News comes day after Trump laying the groundwork to undermine the midterms. ICE says Thomson Reuters can continuously track millions of people. www.404media.co/ice-to-pay-t...

404media.co

ICE to Pay Thomson Reuters $125 Million to Find ‘Voter Fraud’

A new procurement record says ICE wants access to personal data, including names, Social Security numbers, and ethnicity, to investigate in part what the agency calls “voters fraud.” It also plans to ...

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Andrew Lisowski 💻 @hipstersmoothie.com · 27/06/2026

The Atmosphere is a new open network of apps and services that all work together. It's like truly owning your Google Account. Instead of every app being its own walled garden, Atmosphere apps share a common foundation, so you only need one account to use them all, and they can easily share data.

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Sam Littlefair @littlefair.ca · 24/06/2026

After thinking about this question all weekend, I think my favorite candidate is the alchemical symbol for air: 🜁 It’s connotes both atmosphere and “transfer”. It’s a standard Unicode character. It references a capital “A.” And it’s very simple, which feels appropriate for a protocol, like 🌐 or 🛜.

The alchemical symbol for air, a triangle pointing up crossed by a horizontal line.

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Daniel Sperry @danielsperrykc.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

“There’s a lot of unnecessary anger at people who don’t look like us, and pray like us, and walk like us, and cheer like us. In Lawrence, we are wide open to embracing something new.” On the love affair between Lawrence and Algeria for The Guardian: www.theguardian.com/football/202...

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How Algeria won over a Kansas town – and became the World Cup’s unlikeliest love affair

Lawrence, a college town of about 100,000 in northeastern Kansas, has embraced Les Fennecs with a fervor that has surprised everyone but the people who live there

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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 04/06/2026

Google: Organize the world's information Atmosphere: Let the world's information self-organize

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Rudy Fraser @rude1.blacksky.team · 08/05/2026

What do streets think about being able to read long form content / blogs from within blacksky.community (powered by standard.site) @pckt.blog @leaflet.pub @offprint.app in the below rough demo.

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Jacob Pfeifer @pfeif.garden · 08/05/2026

I just switched to blacksky a few hours ago and I want to thank the designer for making the blacksky url a perfect explanation of what the post is trying to explain lol. blacksky.community /profile:did:[uuid for atmosphere idenity] /post/[uuid for post] *universally unique identifier

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dan @danabra.mov · 08/05/2026

i think this maybe deserves a blogpost. atproto is a protocol for publishing and aggregating JSON with links. “accidentally” this happens to be enough for many types for social apps

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Seb ⚛️ ThisWeekInReact.com @sebastienlorber.com · 06/05/2026

Really cool idea 🤯 - Install this web font - Just add plain text to the DOM - It renders a chart using font ligatures No JS, no hydration FOUC franktisellano.github.io/datatype/

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 22/04/2026

In honor of #EarthDay, here is a reminder that there is a bot account that posts a photo of the whole Earth from a million miles away, taken by the Deep Space Climate Observatory, several times daily. You can view all the images (and zoom in) here: epic.gsfc.nasa.gov

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B. Prendergast @renderg.host · 18/04/2026

Whoever is doing the copywriting over at @eurosky.social continues to slam dunk. We don’t need a bunch of new perfect nouns for things we already have perfectly good vocab for.

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Andy Matuschak @andymatuschak.org · 13/04/2026

⭐ New talk! Watch / read / visually skim here: andymatuschak.org/tat Coding agents might help us finally break out of two cages: the app model, which traps computing in one-size-fits-all silos; and programming as a specialization, which has crowded out cultures of imagination and domain insight.

andymatuschak.org

Apps and programming: two accidental tyrannies

On coding agents, malleable software, and the future of interface invention

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Victoria Rose Richards @aerialembroidery.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

'A simple (perfect) life' - my spring landscape is finally finished! An apple orchard in bloom, old railway, sheep with their lambs and an allotment being prepared for growing :) Zoom in to see all the other tiny details too... I think this might be my favourite aerial embroidery I've ever done!

An embroidery hoop containing a sewn aerial view landscape. It depicts an apple orchard in bloom in the centre, allotments to the left and sheep in their field at the bottom. Train tracks go past the top of the orchard and allotment.

Sewn train tracks past an apple orchard (to the left).

An angled view of a sewn vegetable allotment surrounded by rough land, trees and with train tracks to the left.

An angled view of embroidered bushes and paths going through them leading to an orchard, allotment and fields.

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Blaine @blaine.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

I stopped short of trying to coin "Ecological Computing" in my talk, but I was *very* tempted. I love that it's happening here! cc @tessa.germnetwork.com

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ben ✶ @bf.wtf · 05/04/2026

now with added `midi.cc()` (which really does make everything better)

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

The administration's budget request would cut research funding for the National Science Foundation and the Environmental Protection Agency by more than 50%. It's hard to imagine an external enemy causing more long-term damage to this country. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

nature.com

Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration

Budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing.

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warpfork @warpfork.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Desperately, DESPERATELY want to see a packaging system for "i have an application, it uses web ui tech, i want to ship it to desktop, but it DOES NOT WANT a localhost socket" that developers can pick up and run with easily. Getting shellshocked from seeing so many screenshots with localhost:3000 😮‍💨

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Everything in the first half of this post was a volunteer project. You can still build this stuff. We all just have to do it.

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Tyler Fisher @tylerjfisher.com · 20/03/2026

This shit is why I’m a Journalism On ATProto extremist. We need to own the distribution layer.

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Nearly all culture and media is an instrumental proxy whose purpose is to get us to relate to other people. The fate of society rests on everyone realizing that in time.

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Andreas Kirsch @blackhc.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

A while back, Andrej Karpathy said the app store will be replaced by generated, disposable software," and Amjad Masad predicted that the value of all application software will go to zero I think this "ephemeral software hypothesis" is wrong, though, and I want to explain why:

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wint @dril.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

thanks to AI our slow and humiliating national suicide will be punctuated by visual media that is so good even a dog could jack off to it

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Jacob Pfeifer @pfeif.garden · 10/03/2026

This is what I've been thinking about in 2026! My idea is to build a local first (data first?) substrate on top of Cosmic DE. I'm very heavily inspired by Patchwork. I'm excited to share more soon. system76.com/cosmic

system76.com

COSMIC

Impress users with the tools you build for them. COSMIC offers better performance, efficiency, and in-depth personalization to empower a wide variety of use cases.

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Jacob Pfeifer @pfeif.garden · 10/03/2026

Change is in the zeitgeist. The future is uncertain. People are primed to grapple with something new.

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Jacob Pfeifer @pfeif.garden · 08/03/2026

Loam Substrate started feeling too big for markdown files so I'm experimenting with Linear as the source of truth for the project. I've only been using it for a few hours but I understand why so people speak so highly of it.

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pckt.blog @pckt.blog · 07/03/2026

one account wherever you go ☺️ your handle isn’t just for one app anymore ! we took @hello.pckt.cafe for a walk across the atmosphere

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kepano @stephango.com · 04/03/2026

Defuddle now has a website! This means you can use Defuddle anywhere to get the main content of a page in Markdown format. You can simply add "defuddle.md" before any URL, use it via curl, Skills, CLI, or add it to your app via NPM.

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Jacob Pfeifer @pfeif.garden · 26/02/2026

Love what Hank is saying here about algorithmic social media. We are already living in a world where people trust AI output without rigorous fact checking. We have been for a while now.

Those are antisocial. They are outrage bait. I think to some extent, can we program these platforms to distinguish between those things? I don’t know if we can because then instead... It’s wild. We’re fine saying, “As long as you’re doing everything with the sole goal of making the most amount of money possible, that’s fine.” But the moment you say, “I’d like to promote stuff about pro-social behavior and not antisocial behavior,” it’s like, “Well, you got your finger on this scale, buddy. Now you’re trying to be god.” No, they are god. We did it. We live in the AI age. We are all controlled by AI all of the time already. It’s been that way for 10 years. This is it. Your brain has been taken over by recommendation algorithms that decide what you see, and what you pay attention to is what builds your view of the world. It builds your values. It builds what you think about everything. We’ve plugged our brains into a system that is all about attention and holding onto attention.

So, that’s the number one thing I’ll say. Everything is about attention.

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Jacob Pfeifer @pfeif.garden · 24/02/2026

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTnY... This shit is so cool. Open source will win.

youtube.com

The Internet, Reinvented.

YouTube video by Data Slayer

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Jacob Pfeifer @pfeif.garden · 24/02/2026

Curiosity is the death of nihilism

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Chris Plante @plante.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Something I've been thinking about since this interview: Yes, art is inherently political -- even if its creator doesn't like or claim or politics. But art is also autobiographical. And those autobiographical veins are worth mining.

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Edmund McMillen Wants You to Ask the Uncomfortable Questions

A frank conversation about Mewgenics, troubled childhoods, and anxious parenthood

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Wes Burdine @wesburdine.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

This entire piece is spectacular, but this bit is a little grenade

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

I wrote about something I've been thinking about for a long time. A kind of post-ironic collapse in our politics and culture where nihilism has become the lingua franca of the internet and beyond. It links Kirk, Clavicular, Epstein, memestock/coin stuff, mass shooters. I hope you'll read it.

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This Is What It Looks Like When Nothing Matters

Welcome to the internet’s nihilism crisis.

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Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory

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Joe Crawford @artlung.com · 06/02/2026

Web renaissance is here if you want it.

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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

ICE has weapons of war... www.nytimes.com/video/us/100... ...and surveillance: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/t... ... including face recognition app Clearview AI. In 2024, DHS was only using Clearview for child exploitation investigations. Now use includes investigating "attacks on law enforcement."

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How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are

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Mike Goodman @themlg.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

This is what it looks like when non-violence is *working.* You willingly experience violence because in committing violence the regime delegitimizes itself in the eyes of people who had previously supported it.

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Jacob Pfeifer @pfeif.garden · 22/01/2026

It's not the end of social media it's the end of algorithmic media.

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404 Media @404media.co · 15/01/2026

SCOOP: Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activities on the ground. Inside the app called ELITE—what ICE uses to find neighborhoods to raid.

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‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid

Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activit...

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