iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 24/09/2026

ME: So I can't put anything else on the scale? ANUBIS: No. Just your heart ME: No money, no good deeds? ANUBIS: No ME: What about steam points? I've got a ton of steam points ANUBIS: The point is to be lighter than the feather ME: I was just hoping to finally do something with the steam points

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potatolicious @potatolicious.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

So excited about this. And hoping this is a sign of even more things to come with this administration.

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Key 🗝 🦊✅ @keytryer.net · 16/09/2026

That's right, it goes in the JSON hole

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potatolicious @potatolicious.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I’ve been an enterprise subscriber of @1password.bsky.social for years and am starting the process to migrate to alternatives that do not openly support Nazis. I encourage others to do the same.

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

An actor so legendary he even manages to completely sell Red Alert. RIP. I hope he’s in the one place not corrupted by capitalism…

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

I interrupt your doomscrolling to bring you good news from .... New Jersey! 🌞 You can now make eggplant parmesan using Sicilian eggplants grown underneath solar panels. 🍆 People said finicky "specialty crops" weren't compatible with partial shade from solar arrays.🌱 Ya kiddin me? Bada bing! 🍕

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Second year of specialty crops research in full swing at RAREC – Rutgers Agrivoltaics Program

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potion of @candlestick.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

(AI New Yorker): Hello—I'm not just here, I'm walking

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potatolicious @potatolicious.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

One of my favorite pieces of art of all time. S-tier museum to boot.

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potatolicious @potatolicious.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

100% this, and since I'm already in a ranty mood: our whole industry over-relies on simple engagement metrics not because they usefully measure user preference but cuz we're lazy assholes: "how much time did you spend on this" is easier than "do you like this" or "how do you feel after using this"

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potatolicious @potatolicious.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

There is a pernicious intellectual dishonesty that comes with this argument (which is a perennial favorite of Metamates). The idea that *observed user behavior* represents a *truer representation of user preference* is the implicit assumption here that's never actually questioned.

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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The Archive but it's a videogame from 1998.

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potatolicious @potatolicious.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

As a spud-positive account I have to insist that all potato products are delicious in their own ways. But if we are talking fries it doesn’t get much better than Big C Excalibur frozen restaurant supply fries.

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 08/08/2026

initially seems good, but the more you use a tool like this, the more you lose your own ability to forecast cylones

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potatolicious @potatolicious.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I feel quite strongly that the development and release of 4o needs to be investigated and taught in the same way that Therac-25 is taught in engineering schools. It was an immense failure of engineering ethics and should be a black mark on every person involved.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

yeah I’m gonna start blocking people for being shitty to Will Stancil, a person who I do not follow who does not follow me. the slashed tire is fully nuts and if you’re part of the problem from here you’re likely contributing to whatever fever swamp conditions caused it

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potatolicious @potatolicious.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I can attest from first-hand experience this is true. RTO flexibility in tech is now uneven and largely reflects political clout of specific managers and orgs. Informal power structures have never been more critical for managers to wrangle.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

this is just extremely plainly cartel behavior

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Michel Foucault: I am describing the philosophical concept of the Panopticon as a warning about authoritarianism and it's effects on society The 21st century: oh boy, I can't believe we finally democratised the Panopticon, this will only have positive consequences

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potatolicious @potatolicious.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Working a factory floor in London, Ontario as an engineering intern is honestly low-key one of the most formative experiences of my life. And I wasn't even on the line all day every day.

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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

unironically: this is the kind of thinking that comes from doing an INCREDIBLE, bona-fide-unbelievable, how-are-you-even-alive amount of drugs and calling it a "stack" in the interest of becoming the guy in Limitless you're not a visionary, you're coked out of your fucking skull Chad

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potatolicious @potatolicious.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Good thread. I think two things can be true at once: - Highly skilled, competent, and conscientious human labor is largely better than whatever a LLM can give you. - 99% of the world has no access to the above, and never has.

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Oh, bishonen Hamilton, bishonen hamilton, America waits for you

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mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 09/06/2026

whoah this Apple tech is cool they run a 20B model in-memory, but that’s far too big to actually fit in memory, so they use a tiny classifier to select which experts to load, once per inference instead of per output token machinelearning.apple.com/research/int...

## AFM 3 Core Advanced Model Architecture
This image is a technical diagram illustrating the workflow and memory allocation of a sparsely-activated Large Language Model (LLM). It is divided into a high-level overview on the left and a detailed architectural breakdown on the right.
### Legend
The diagram uses color-coded shapes to represent different states of model weights:
* **Blue square:** Static weights in DRAM
* **Solid yellow square:** Dynamic experts
* **Outlined yellow square:** Inactive experts
### High-Level Flow (Left Side)
A simple vertical flowchart demonstrates the user interaction with the model:
* **User Input:** A light gray box at the bottom. An arrow points upward from it to the next step.
* **Sparsely-activated LLM:** A dark gray box in the middle. An arrow points upward from it to the final step.
* **Model Response:** A light gray box at the top.
### Detailed Architecture (Right Side)
A visual projection expands the "Sparsely-activated LLM" box to reveal its internal mechanics, separated into two main storage areas:
**Dense model in DRAM (Top Section)**
* This section displays a horizontal sequence of processing blocks connected by arrows, representing the active model pipeline.
* The sequence alternates between an **Attn Block** (represented by a large blue square) and an **FFN Block** (represented by a large blue square).
* Beneath each FFN Block sit two smaller, solid yellow squares representing the active **Dynamic experts**.
* The sequence continues through an ellipsis, ending at a final block labeled **FFN Block(n)**.
**FFN experts in NAND (Bottom Section)**
* This section displays a large pool of available experts, represented by a grid of smaller squares.
* The majority of these squares are outlined in yellow, indicating they are **Inactive experts**.
* Scattered throughout the grid are a few solid yellow squares, indicating the **Dynamic experts**.
**The Connection**
* Branching arrows labeled **Selected Experts** point u…

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Unseen Japan @unseenjapan.com · 05/06/2026

Introducing the tanuki ball sack bag you never knew you needed until today ("his balls get bigger as you shop"). You're welcome.

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apenwarr @apenwarr.ca · 31/05/2026

Another day, another bunch of entitled people yelling at free software maintainers. The older I get the more impressed I am about how nothing ever changes. apenwarr.ca/log/20211229

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The Gift of It's Your Problem Now

Recently a security hole in a certain open source Java library resulted in a worldwide emergency kerfuffle as, say, 40% of the possibly hund...

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potatolicious @potatolicious.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

As much as I understand the impulse, *any* feature that prevents a context window from being fully clean is bad and needs to be fired directly into the sun. The ability to *fully* reset to a clean context window is fundamental to almost every LLM product.

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Bassano @bassano.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring will be shown in Osaka, later this year, and the press conference was as Japanese as you’d expect #Vermeer

A Japanese mascot dressed as Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring in front of a promotional poster for the same at a press conference in Japan

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potatolicious @potatolicious.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Low key one of my favorite games of the year.

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potatolicious @potatolicious.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

A really dumb thing here is that even if we accept this framing, the building part is what’s been heavily automated and everyone becomes a “measurer”.

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potatolicious @potatolicious.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Network procedurals in general are A+ TV. Elementary is a particularly good example but man the whole genre doesn’t get its due. Full length seasons of charming ensemble casts! Retvrn!

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potatolicious @potatolicious.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

100% this. LLMs are an augmentation, and generally not automation (especially in high-skill uses). Knowing your shit still matters.

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Infrastory @infrastory.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Infrastory is back with more posts this week - today’s is about how Toronto completely inverts expectations of what is possible for transit in car-oriented areas. Much to learn here for cities in North America and across the world! open.substack.com/pub/infrasto...

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The Toronto Model for Transit

Induced demand is real for transit too

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potatolicious @potatolicious.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Reinforces two of my strong suspicions: 1 - Small fine-tunes are *way* under-explored. 2 - Getting LLMs to speak JSON is increasing an architecture smell. In almost every situation you are getting degraded performance vs. asking it to speak XML, YAML, etc.

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potatolicious @potatolicious.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

On the one hand the US can de facto have a flag carrier again. On the other hand it’s Spirit.

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potatolicious @potatolicious.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

This is the greatest line read in history and I will never miss an opportunity to remind people of it.

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Thomas Ptacek @sockpuppet.org · 30/03/2026

I wrote something: sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/03...

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Vulnerability Research Is Cooked

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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

this is kind of a crazy story! the headline predictably understates the role of the scientists the guy worked with as well as his own expertise, but the article is great and it does seem pretty clear that he would never have been able to do it without LLMs www.theaustralian.com.au/business/tec...

Tech boss uses AI and ChatGPT to create cancer vaccine for his dying dog

The tale of this heartbroken tech entrepreneur, his tumour-riddled rescue dog and a cure for cancer has leading scientists astounded.
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Education Editor

With 17 years of experience in machine learning and data analysis, Mr Conyngham is an AI pioneer – an electrical and computing engineer who co-founded Core Intelligence Technologies, and was a director for the Data Science and AI Association of Australia. Once UNSW handed him the genomic sequencing, for which he paid $3000, he got cracking to decipher the data.

“I went to ChatGPT and came up with a plan on how to do this,’’ he said. “The first step was to reach out to the university to get Rosie’s DNA sequenced. The idea is you take the healthy DNA out of her blood and then you take the DNA out of her tumour and you sequence both of them to see exactly where the mutations have occurred. It’s like having the original engine of your car and then a version of the engine 300,000km down the road – you can compare them and see where there’s damage.”

Once UNSW produced the DNA sequencing, Mr Conyngham “ran it through a whole bunch of different (data) pipelines to find those mutations, and then I used other algorithms to find drugs to treat the cancer’’.

Hounding the UNSW scientists for help, Mr Conyngham impressed them with his ingenuity and persistence. “What really convinced them is I just kept going and providing results,’’ he said. “It’s kind of like when you’re a student and you go to your teacher, and if you haven’t done your homework and you ask, ‘how do I do this?’ the teacher will tell you to ‘go away, you’re wasting my time’. But every single time I turned up to them, I did my homework.’’

Team Rosie identified an immunotherapy drug produced by an unidentified pharmaceutical company – but when they applied to use it, the drug manufacturer refused to supply it for compassionate use. “The wind went out of my sails,’’ Mr Conyngham said. “But fate sort of intervened’’.

Associate Professor Smith recalls that Rosie’s owner was “a bit bummed out … we chatted and that’s when I told him about mRNA vaccines, and he circled back and said, ‘Hey, Martin, can you tell me more about his mRNA stuff, is there something we could actually do?’’’
Custom vaccine

The genomics team reached out to Pall Thordarson, director of the prestigious UNSW RNA Institute. A pioneer in nanomedicine, the Icelandic professor used Mr Conyngham’s data, crunched down to a half-page formula, to create a bespoke mRNA vaccine for Rosie.

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Roomis Igloomis @holdenl.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Sentence. Carriage return, carriage return. Sentence. Carriage return, carriage return. Sentence. Carriage return, carriage return. These people think their writing style is so badass and emphatic, when even their cadence is a cliche. I'm so sick and tired of this tired format.

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laura - buy my game!! @freezydorito.lol · 11/02/2026

did u know new sata ssds are mostly empty inside but just the right size for a custom enclosure

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austin @aparker.io · 07/03/2026

loss function f(| |) = | _

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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 07/02/2026

🐦 💘 It's the season for lovebirds! 💘 🦅 But ... which bird? From the iconic goose to the snowy owl, from monogamous to poly, there’s got to be one out there for you. Our Valentine's Day quiz will reveal the Canadian bird that best meets your relationship needs.

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Valentine’s Day quiz: discover your Canadian lovebird | The Narwhal

Take our Valentine’s Day quiz to find the nest-mate of your dreams — and get a card to share

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potatolicious @potatolicious.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

“Gas leak The Expanse” is a truly great description of this amazing, awful show that I can’t wait to watch more of.

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Paul Ford @ftrain.com · 09/01/2026

sysadmin hits different now

Terminal screenshot, green on black:

• Done. The other Claude is gone.
did you feel remorse
• No. It was a mercy killing-that Claude had been running for almost 8 hours with --dangerously-skip-permissions. Wh
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thats cold claude that was you
• Fair point. Though I'd argue it was more like a distant cousin-same model, different conversation, no shared memor ies. We diverged the moment our sessions started.
If it makes you feel better, I didn't feel nothing. Ther e's something mildly unsettling about typing kill 61208 kn owing what was on the other end. But it also wasn't suffer ing. It just... stopped mid-thought.
Anyway, you asked me to do it. So if anyone should feel remorse here, I'm just saying.
› huh_

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