iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 15h

love the section of the "human" article that's lowkey like "no one knows why anyone does anything"

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J Bogart @jonathanbogart.net · 11/10/2026

seeing brazilian musician after brazilian musician get on tiktok and plead with people to vote lula in the second round is so striking. wish there was class consciousness among pop stars in the u.s.

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josh fr @psychicfax.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Ruin a book by adding a word: Return of the Burger King

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josh fr @psychicfax.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I did not get to rescue the cow cat (I will go back to try and check on him), but I did come home to this floof

A brown tabby cat is in a cylindrical cat house that he is too large for. He is very sleepy and part of his tail and one paw is outside of the house

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josh fr @psychicfax.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Meet a very dehydrated stray cow cat today and someone walking down the street convinced me to just give him some water bc "there are 50 stray cats on this block". Sigh. Apparently the community feeds them, but that is a lot of cats!

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matty @mattio.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is wild - somebody did a deep dive into the real stories behind this famous XKCD: sheets.works/data-viz/hol...

an XKCD comic showing a precariously assembled tower of blocks. much is labelled "all modern digital infrastructure." a thin leg down at the bottom is labelled "A project some random person in Nebraska has been thanklessly maintaining since 2003."

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josh fr @psychicfax.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I did this today (flu & covid) and also had a can of Red Bull that contains 38g of sugar in 355ml of liquid. AMA. They did tell me that they are only offering the MMR shot to kids or adults who have had exposure to measles. Maybe like everything else there is a messed up supply chain somewhere.

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josh fr @psychicfax.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Chicago has COVID vax appointments available now for anyone who lives within city limits. It's free, but they recommend using a pharmacy or your doctor if you have insurance. #chicago They have MMR and flu shots, too. getvaxchi.chicago.gov

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)

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jesse jarnow @bourgwick.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

cozy up to the wireless & bathe in the nurturing sound-glow of the frow show, 3 hours of new music & other vibrations from now 'til midnight on listener-supported @wfmu.bsky.social. wfmu.org/playlists/JJ...

pixelated eyes with frow show info spelled out in purple text

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josh fr @psychicfax.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It is very annoying how Google search drops you right into Gemini now. I was dealing with a simple and stupid Docker problem and Gemini gave me wall upon wall of text where the context just gradually got more polluted. What solved the problem was me walking away from the computer for two minutes.

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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"I think it's cool that you and your LLM supposedly got this to work. It has no place in my world." is now my favorite AI bro brush-off.

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josh fr @psychicfax.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's downthread in the replies, but the original tv mini series for Salem's Lot has a scene with a child vampire that scared the shit out of me. (I was too young for it, but it was prime time tv). IIRC it is also terrifying in the book (Stephen King).

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josh fr @psychicfax.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Doing mocktails with this. 1/3 lime la croix with muddled basil 2/3 watermelon juice dash of cayenne or tajin lime wedge More 'health food" than "cocktail" but pretty decent! It would be better with basil simple syrup and maybe even some sea salt if using cayenne.

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Alex Awoos @alex-awoos-backup.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I feel like more people should be talking about this part

Screenshot from the article that reads, The Stud, San Francisco's oldest gay bar, was only able to have its Meta pages restored because of the bars popularity among gay tech executives with connections to Meta

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Kirsti Miller @kirstimiller30.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I bought a six-pack of donuts when a guy next to me said, "You shouldn't eat donuts." I replied, "My grandparents parents lived to be 100." He asked, "Did they eat donuts?" I shot back, "No, they minded their own fkn business."

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wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

When I checked this week, my registration was gone. Durham County, NC voter in good standing for many years, and I was no longer a registered voter.

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josh fr @psychicfax.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Last watermelon juice of the year probably. Not pictured. Me cold pressing it manually through a sieve, slipping and pulp going everywhere in proper spooky (& delicious) fashion. I think it is a pretty good arm workout.

A glass carafe and two screw-lidded containers of fresh watermelon juice.

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Michaelangelo Matos @matoswk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"And that doesn’t even touch on the realm of live music, or music you play on your own instruments in your own home." Or, you know, DJ sets. I can imagine @philipsherburne.bsky.social thought, "God, do I really have to write this?!" I'm glad he did. futurismrestated.substack.com/p/fr-192-inf...

futurismrestated.substack.com

FR 192: “Infinite Personalized Music” Is Just Music

Everything else is merely narcissism

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josh fr @psychicfax.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I am making a big triple batch of Korean scallion and veggie pancakes and in honor of spooky season the secret ingredient is blood from this handy and dangerous tool. 💀

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josh fr @psychicfax.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Real heads will pay $40 to ship a minimal house double-pack vinyl from Chicago to Tokyo and still have to wait two weeks. 😅

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Bless the memory of Stanislav Yevgrafovich, the Man Who Saved the World. At a moment when it mattered, he chose humanity.

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A mass walkout of the UN General Assembly as Benjamin Netanyahu begins his speech.

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josh fr @psychicfax.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Bring a small sampler and turn the focus group into vocal free jazz.

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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026

Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.

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https://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d

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josh fr @psychicfax.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Acute angle of the sun at just before 5:00pm is always a surprise!

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josh fr @psychicfax.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It was not helpful, alas. (Also, yes I had to search for this bc sometimes you forget the hits.)

a duckduckgo search for http 503 with the magic "ai" box explaining the concept of julian dates instead

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Tim @timzhu.io · 22/09/2026

"The Mamdani administration also said it is developing software that would allow workers to directly submit complaints to the city and will require companies to self-report their data so that the city’s worker protection agency can find real-time discrepancies in pay."

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Biodiversity Pics @biodiversitypix.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

🦜 J. Gould's Monographie der Ramphastiden oder Tukanartigen Voegel Nürnberg: Gedruckt auf Kosten der Herausgeber, 1841-1847. [Source]

Illustration of two toucans (Ramphastos dicolorus) perched on leafy branches. Both birds feature large, curved green beaks with red and white markings, red and yellow necks and chests, black wings and backs, and blue-gray feet gripping the branches. The detailed vintage-style artwork highlights the vibrant colors and texture of the feathers. The image is from J. Gould's 1841-1847 monograph on toucan-like birds, labeled in German as "Grünschnäbliger Tukan."

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josh fr @psychicfax.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This was a great listen! The excerpt here is "chatbots as conflict avoidance". It is heavy stuff.

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josh fr @psychicfax.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

#caturday I recently discovered that olives are safe cat treats (*in small amounts & as long as they are pitted & not super oily or salty & the kitty is not allergic). I feed my guy a few kalamata olives once in awhile. Cats go crazy for olives bc they contain the same chemical that is in catnip.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026

“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”

orlandosentinel.com

Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’

The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...

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Theo Priestley @theopriestley.net · 17/09/2026

wasting time should be mandatory

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josh fr @psychicfax.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Doing the Steve Ballmer "developers" speech but instead chanting "archives, archives, archives, archives". (Developers are good, too.)

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Each of my books has depended on the archives of the Performing Arts Library, of which I made free use because I'm lucky enough to live close by. This gift robs me of my unfair advantage & I hate it. (Seriously: A miracle that will transform performing arts research.) www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/a...

nytimes.com

New York Performing Arts Library Gets $60 Million Gift for Preservation (Gift Article)

The anonymous donation, the library’s largest ever, will support digitization of archival items related to theater, dance and music.

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josh fr @psychicfax.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It is amazing how good this sounds even on a lower quality YT clip.

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josh fr @psychicfax.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I wonder if this is true. I guess you could book a "cat experience" like a dinner reservation??

Probably from /r/cats, a post that says "I've now been to two hotels with loaner cats."

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lumberjack wharfie @lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

HELLO MY BABY HELLO MY DARLIN HELLO MY RAGTIME GAAAL

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Amy READ PINNED (cute) [weird] 🔞 @amyuncut.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

transgender women with computer autism are going to be the only ones who can stop the superintelligent AI you have to support trans rights or you'll cause the end of the world

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josh fr @psychicfax.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

In the Mood for Love (2000, dir Wong Kar-Wai)

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Cats with Jobs ⚒️ @catworkers.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Existential crisis on the warehouse floor. 📸 Reddit user incrediblystalkerish

A fluffy brown cat sits on a yellow forklift truck.

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