iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Seems to me like we're due for a reconsideration—and perhaps even an exhibition?—of the mostly forgotten illustrator Boris Artzybasheff, whose hallucinatory mid-20th-century automation drawings seem eerily prescient right now. "Executive of the Future," 1952 onlinecollections.syr.edu/objects/1223...

Drawing of a robot-like figure at a keyboard

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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A few weekends ago I went to Miami and attended 9 open houses in extremely high-risk flood areas to see what agents are telling prospective buyers about them. Here is my journey

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The open houses at the edge of disaster

What are buyers being told about climate risk in Miami? I posed as one to find out.

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Trolley Problem

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Andy Mackenzie @andymack.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

There used to be a twenty four hour potato vending machine in the Kings Road. And they say we're more advanced these days

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Donald Crabtree was a master flint-knapper & a subject expert in traditional stone-shaping. On two separate occasions, he fashioned obsidian knives to be used by surgeons operating on him: a partial lung removal & open heart surgery. Let's talk about the how & why of obsidian blades!

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A photographic slide of Don E. Crabtree flintknapping with obsidian while seated inside. He's wearing a violently 1970's outfit of red hawaiian shirt and burgundy pants. He holds a piece of rock in both hands, but admires the knapping work he's just done.

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Annie Wu @anniewu.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Always kind of thinking about Marisa Tomei's 3/4 length sleeve (?), mock neck (?), lightly shoulder-padded (?), floral catsuit from MY COUSIN VINNY so I sketched it.

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Goodnews @goodnews.computer · 04/09/2026

Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.

A hand holding a model train with a replica of the same graffiti on the full scale train car behind it.

A model train with two graffiti pieces on opposite sides.

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Robert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I am having a particularly frustrating week, so here’s one of the best things I’ve ever done. The eruption of Sarychev Peak in the Aleutian Islands, seen by the crew of the space station. www.nasa.gov/image-articl...

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 30/08/2026

Watch what it's like to sample an asteroid. On 20 October 2020, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft positioned itself above asteroid Bennu and used its sampling system to grab material for return to Earth. Rather than being a solid chunk of rock, Bennu turned out to have the cohesion of a ball pit.

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PickledRedOnions @pickledredonions.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Under-acknowledged feature of living in Southern California is that there is no day so hot and miserable that it can't be made worse by discovering a line of ants in the house, hunting for even a single drop of water.

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Katie Aki ✶ @katieaki.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

I don’t know if they let cowboys in 👼🏻😈 #art

A digital drawing with fairly flat, textured colors in a limited palette of pink, red, yellow, and cyan. A curvy cowgirl in super short shorts looks over her shoulder at the viewer as she stands before the coffin-shaped white gate to heaven. It’s locked with heavy chains and two little naked kewpie cherubs yell at her “No fucking way”, “get lost sister”, and “god said no. She holds a dead copperhead behind her back. Two imps flying overhead tell her “that’s okay” and “we’ll take you.”

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Ukrainian French artist Sonia Delaunay's 1920s - 1930s dress designs #WomensArt

Twelve stylised painted images of figures in angular or rounded colurful art deco style costumes against a white background

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Louie Zong @everydaylouie.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

queen of hearts 💔

a stylized 3d render of dolly parton playing the banjo. the queen herself.

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Dr. Fim @fim.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Ansel Adams on assignment for IBM - one of my favourite shots. Not the usual landscape but the skill of a woman weaving magnetic core memory. The beat up nails captures total “woman in STEM” vibes.

A woman with extremely short painted nails weaving magnetic core memory. A series of rows and columns of wires in a grid.

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Équipe Radar Love @midnightdorifto.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

oh, okay, so, that’s just going to be Tuesday then www.iconicauctioneers.com/2000-lotus-e...

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 15/08/2026

now celebrating 83.5 million years of winning

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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

From: Film Noir (2006), dir. Osbert Parker

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Joshua Bowman @thalesdisciple.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Working on an A.I. policy for my calculus classes. Decided to be upfront about the current situation with LLMs and to give a heartfelt explanation for why the course still matters.

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Artificial Intelligence, or "A.l.," Is a broad term used to refer to several different kinds of technologies. The kind most relevant to this class are Large Language Models (LLMs), which use mathematics to analyze large amounts of human-produced text and then generate new text that simulates what a human might write in response to prompts or questions. Some examples of LLMs are OpenAl's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, and Google's Gemini.

Current LLMs can provide a solution to any calculus problem I give you. So why should we work on them, you might ask? Here's the thing: for the most part, the problems were already solved anyway. Calculus as a subject is nearly 400 years old. It has reached into virtually every modern scientific and economic field. And while I would like to believe that I have crafted a few new problems with some small amount of originality tailored to this class, for the most part I have curated a collection of exercises drawn from my years of teaching calculus. Those exercises come from textbooks, workshops, friends, and other fields of study, as well as my own invention.
And they nearly all have known solutions, often with fairly standard approaches.
Before A.I. became widely available, you could find those solutions in another textbook, or from a friend's notes, or through a repository on the internet.

The point of this class is not necessarily to solve problems that have never been solved before. It is for you to develop habits of thinking that are used by mathematicians, scientists, and policymakers-to develop a sort of mental toolbox that can be applied to new problems. If along the way you happen to find a new way of solving one of the class exercises, that's great! I am constantly learning new things from my students. But you will be bereft of discovery if you rely on a LLM for solutions to the calculus problems before you. Here I mean the discovery of having your own realizations, crystallizing your own internal understanding, claiming the knowledge in a way that cannot be taken away from you.
That ownership is what I want for you, and that is what the course is built around.

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explore.org @explore.org · 09/08/2026

Snooze Sunday.

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Resister Sister Nicki Smith @worldtraveldiva.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The research team at the Pacific Whale Foundation captured this incredible photo of a pantropical spotted dolphin leaping approximately 15 feet in the air off the coast of Maui on March 4, 2026. They named it ‘Air Dolphin’. 🤩

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

gets incredible air here

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Today is the day the story There Will Come Soft Rain is set. An amazing and heartbreaking work of fiction for our modern age. Read it here:

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Greg van Eekhout @gregvaneekhout.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Wikipedia remains one of the most useful things online. No subscription fees, no ads, no stupid pursuit of AI, all curated by relentless nerds. Maybe remember to throw them a few bucks every now and again.

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Ethan Hein @ethanhein.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Once you get past the clickbait title, this is the best explanation of pedal steel I've ever seen www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIoA...

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This Instrument Is the Sound of Spongebob

YouTube video by Rob Scallon

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

New York Movie, Edward Hopper, 1939.

Painting of a movie theater, a female usher on the right waits by the exit, lost in thought

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

This is my personal Sistine Chapel. Photo from my collection, no date/info.

Black-and-white photo of a light skined man laughing while lying on a carpeted floor. He is reaching out one arm to a short haired black cat, which has clamped its paws and mouth down over his hand in an attack.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 31/07/2026

I used to do some work on the ethical use of satellite and drone imagery for aid and disaster response, and it is genuinely hard to express in words what a dangerous, stupid thing Google is doing by making it easy to use GenAI to create faked satellite imagery:

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How to plant a nuclear plant in Iran

The question is: what on earth is Google doing?

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John Bistline @bistline.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Not every grid is fading. Texas went the other way: clean won 8% of days in 2019, 56% so far in 2026. Clean Energy Stripes are now live, an interactive site covering different U.S. grids, plus open-source code so anyone can make their own: johnbistline.com/clean-energy...

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m @mjjii.com · 23/07/2026

glued an old doodle to a drawing i didn’t like and now i love it

photo of some art. buildings with some scribbles around them. a doodle of a hollering cat is glued to the bottom of the paper

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James McLeod @jamespmcleod.ca · 22/07/2026

It's safe to assume that all major LLMs are scraping Bluesky data to train future models. As an open protocol, Bluesky is one of the few sources of fresh human-generated content that anybody can gobble up. So all this is probably going in the models. There are submarines in the Great Lakes.

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

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LifuX @lifux.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Just a masterpiece sitting in front of his own masterpieces. 👑 #Cat #Caturday #Catsofbluesky #LifuX

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Hagai Palevsky (he/him) @dialhforhagai.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Wile E. Coyote, despaired, takes a bucket of paint and a brush and paints a beautiful two-bedroom house on a mountainside. He paints a beautiful coyote wife in the window, and two adorable coyote kids running around in the yard. He tries to enter this new coyote life, but it is inaccessible to him

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Discontinued FoOoOods! 👻🎃 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Things aren't great, let's have some fun

A chart of food mascots. Pick four to protect you, while the rest try to kill you. The choices are:
Kool Aid Man
Ronald McDonald
Chef Boyardee
Mr. Owl
Jack in the Box
Wendy
Burger King
Chester Cheetah
Colonel Sanders
Jolly Green Giant
Little Caesar
The Noid
Big Boy
Mr. Peanut
Charles Entertainment Cheese
Pop N. Fresh

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@LAhistory @lahistory.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Saul Bass also redesigned LA's RTD logo in 1980. “I viewed it as a personal project. Los Angeles is my home. We all know that #publictransportation is one of the major issues that confronts society generally—and Los Angeles in particular," #SaulBass. RTD mug via @metrolosangeles.bsky.social store:

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 22/07/2026

It’s not hard to see how fragile the AI industry is, and how primed it is to explode, and how damaging that explosion will be — and the media will be partially to blame for championing AI companies and ignoring the risks until it was too late. www.wheresyoured.at/the-subprime-data-center-crisis/

As I hope I’ve made clear, I believe the vast majority of AI data centers are the AI bubble’s subprime loans, and will collapse when they face the cold, harsh reality of “someone actually paying money for AI compute,” much like subprime mortgages collapsed when teaser rates ended and homeowners were forced to pay their actual bills.

This is an inevitability — and something that’s very obvious when you sit down and actually try and work out how much capacity there is versus how much people are actually paying for AI compute. The fact that I, a random guy, albeit with a (recently-acquired) Bloomberg Terminal, am the one to say this is a sign that the media is not trying hard enough to protect consumers.

Every time that the media has accepted a spurious announcement or a questionable run rate or a circular deal or the outright refusal of hyperscalers to disclose their AI revenues, they help inflate the AI bubble and endanger the futures of millions of people, especially those tied up in a stock market increasingly-dominated by NVIDIA and other tech stocks.

Unlike the great financial crisis, the calamity to follow will be easily-traced to a complete failure of anybody to measure or demand measurements of the actual demand for AI services and AI compute.

There will be attempts to claim it was too complex or multi-faceted to pry apart, and those attempts will likely be made by media outlets that failed their readers, viewers, listeners, and the general public.

Bubbles can only inflate in an information-poor — and information-deprived — environment.

They inflate much faster and more-dangerously when that information is poisoned by marketing spiel and misinformation peddled by those who are meant to tell people the truth.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 18/07/2026

This is Comet Leonard during its approach to the Sun, imaged by Gerald Rhemann on Christmas Day 2021. The comet had been discovered earlier that year, and broke apart in 2022. This photo won the overall prize for Rhemann of the Royal Observatory Greenwich's Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2022.

A bright point of light at the top of the image is the comet's nucleus; the comet's gas and dust tails trail from the nucleus to the bottom of the image. Complex structures in the dust tail result from outbursts from the nucleus as it undergoes solar heating.

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Jim @jimstewart.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Jaws - Canada version

A moose swimming in a body of water spies a person in the background.

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Momo @heyheymomo.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Rise and grind

4 panel momo comic:

Panel 1: momo in bed. We see the sun has risen through the bedroom window. Text reads “I wake up”

Panel 2: momo behind his table. There’s a coffee pot and a pink cup of coffee on it. Text reads “pour myself a little coffee”

Panel 3: he’s in a chair behind the table with an opened laptop and a glass of water. It says “check my little emails”

Panel 4: we see he left his house. Door still a little bit open. Text: “ignore them a little bit” as momo gleefully goes to play outside rather than answering his work duties

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Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

This morning in 1945—at 5:29 AM (Mountain War Time)—about 35 miles southeast of Socorro, New Mexico, the nuclear age began with a big bang. Contrary to later widespread assumptions, the area surrounding the remote TRINITY test site was not uninhabited, and the fallout did not drift away harmlessly.

A black and white, high-speed photograph of the Trinity explosion at 0.025 seconds, showing what looks like a very large, slightly irregular bubble with a curtain of dust all around its bottom edge against a pitch dark sky. A scale indicating “100 meters” shows that the fireball was already approximately three times that size.

Another black and white photograph of the Trinity explosion a few milliseconds later, showing an almost ghostly mushroom cloud with glowing tendrils rising from the ground above the very bright fireball.

A black and white photograph of the Trinity mushroom cloud with the same 100-meter scale, this time at 60 seconds post-detonation, showing a very large and billowy mushroom cloud rising high into the sky. The sky is less black and more gray, illuminated by the light from the cloud.

Another black and white photograph of the Trinity mushroom cloud taken some minutes after the previous photograph and showing the ominous looking mushroom cloud at a distance, its top spreading out and merging with regular clouds. With the sun rising, the sky is beginning to illuminate.

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Eric Ansley Díaz 🏳️‍🌈 @geekboyeric.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

RIP Bonnie Tyler. And RIP Tandi Iman Dupree. This remains the best stage entrance by a drag queen of all time, even some 25 years later, and the best use of Tyler’s “Holding Out for a Hero” ever. youtu.be/IHQA5vqn6rw?...

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 11/07/2026

DID YOU KNOW IF YOU FIND A HORSESHOE CRAB THATS BEEN TAGGED BY THE FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE AND SUBMIT THE LOCATION YOU SAW IT USING THE FORM ON FWS DOT GOV SLASH CRABTAG THEY SEND YOU A BEAUTIFUL CRAB PIN

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 08/07/2026

My favorite NYC building almost collapsed story is the old Citicorp building in midtown that failed to factor in cornering winds until an MIT grad student emailed them to ask about it, and then they had to secretly fix the building at night

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Structural Integrity - 99% Invisible

When it was built in 1977, Citicorp Center (later renamed Citigroup Center, now called 601 Lexington) was, at 59 stories, the seventh-tallest building in the world. You can pick it out of the New York...

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