iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

David @querydavid.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I just stopped by the Erawan Shrine and someone left TWO BOXES of KRISPY KREME doughnuts as an offering to Brahma. Extremely high-agency move, this person is going to quickly have all their wishes fulfilled and have an army of devas on their side.

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David @querydavid.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

My brain is imploding in a gay bar in BKK that is playing this track, which I think I haven’t heard since it was released youtu.be/X4RDB-mMDJg?...

youtu.be

Madonna - American Pie (Official Video) [HD]

YouTube video by Madonna

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David @querydavid.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I was reminded by my photo library that I started taking PrEP 11 years ago, this weekend. So now, that’s most of my adult life. I wonder if anywhere there is a serious ethnographer looking into the effects of it on stigma and attitudes among MSM.

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David @querydavid.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I find it weird the METR folks had to use Codex to parse all the OAi/HF hacking data. CS and the social sciences already have a lot of non-LLM tools for text analysis, corpus linguistics etc. I feel like there’s a lot of juice in marrying those tools with an orchestrator.

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David @querydavid.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Briefly got trapped in an elevator today! Of course, my first thought was “surely this is not really a big enough problem to hit the elevator’s emergency call button” and so I called the building receptionist on my cell. By the time they had arranged to send help, it started moving again.

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David @querydavid.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Rewatched The Odyssey, which led me to re-read Simone Weil's The Iliad, or The Poem of Force. "The whole of the Iliad lies under the shadow of the greatest calamity the human race can experience—the destruction of a city." I think about this line all the time. theanarchistlibrary.org/library/simo...

theanarchistlibrary.org

The Iliad, or The Poem of Force

Simone Weil The Iliad, or The Poem of Force 1945

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David @querydavid.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I saw the Odyssey again (in IMAX) and I was crying even more than the first time?

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David @querydavid.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

It would be amusing to see the demographic breakdown of ppls first reactions to the acronym/abbreviation “MSS”: Manuscripts? Ministry of State Security? Maven Smart System?

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David @querydavid.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Chilling milestone passed: first time seeing a person wearing a garment with a powered cooling system. In this case, a jacket with two intake fans to circulate air through a pouch encircling the torso.

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David @querydavid.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

HOW DO THEY KEEP DOING THIS. Just absolute bangers every single day in your inbox.

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David @querydavid.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I’m being told his real name was Maura Labingi, not Ishmael

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David @querydavid.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

THE ODYSSEY WAS SO GOOD I was just bawling for like the final 30 minutes, you must see this in a theatre

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David @querydavid.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

been reading some “AI safety” literature and it is pretty weird how the specific obsessions of that camp filter out into everything. Biosafety being one tell, it otherwise seems odd that “positive pressure dwellings” get mentioned in this doc. Somehow suggests a lack of imagination ai-2040.com

ai-2040.com

AI 2040: Plan A

A detailed forecast and recommendation for how the US, China and the rest of the world should navigate superintelligence.

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 09/07/2026

Okay. This is a big deal for me Three years ago, writer Henry Bean told me he had a short story he'd finished in 2020, which he felt needed to be published He'd been turned down everywhere I read it I was stunned I took it to @jewishcurrents.bsky.social It's up now, and it will change you:

jewishcurrents.org

The Event

“Something has taken place that we cannot speak of or know or even fully perceive, yet the fact of which sits before us.”

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

That’s what happens when you get rid of the department of defense

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David @querydavid.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Omg what a way to celebrate 4 July, @jamellebouie.net and John Ganz get in to Godzilla (1998), a touchstone bad movie of my youth open.spotify.com/episode/4yrP...

open.spotify.com

Godzilla (1998)

Unclear and Present Danger · Episode

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David @querydavid.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Watched “Godspeed You Black Emperor”, a 1976 documentary about a Japanese youth biker gang. Kind of fantastic, lots of killer B&W shots. (Yes, the Canadian band was named after the film). It’s on the internet archive, archive.org/details/Gods...

archive.org

Godspeed You Black Emperor. 1976 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Documentary following a member of a Japanese biker gang called the Black Emperors

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David @querydavid.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Kind of loving that one of the consequences of the reflecting pool saga is an uptick in concern about public procurement. One of those very boring areas that is actually hyper important.

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David @querydavid.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Didn't hear about this until just now. Wonder what it means for the Beijing Queer Film Festival this year. www.independent.co.uk/asia/china/c...

independent.co.uk

French embassy in China abruptly cancels Pride Month film programme

Screening for the films Enzo and Eat the Night has been cancelled in Beijing

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David @querydavid.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Seeing so much Claude prose these days. It has a spine. The use of language is like feathers. The framework is the cover. What is revealed is not truth-value, it’s a quiet quiet set of self-deceptions. It just hits differently, you know?

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sujato @sujato.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I’ve spent the last while writing a response to the Magnifica humanitas, the Papal encyclical on AI. Here it is. tl;dr: while the encyclical is a reasonable summary of ethical critiques of AI, it is fatally compromised by alignment with the AI industry, reinforcing the worst of Catholicism. 1/22

sujato.me

Magnifica humanitas: the Papal Encyclical on AI From a Buddhist Monk’s Perspective

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David @querydavid.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

shot in the dark...anyone know what Malaysian artist Leon Lim has been up to in the last decade? Interesting visual artist and designer from Kedah who worked in NYC for some time, can't find anything post-2012. Apparently he was on a art-based reality show on Bravo? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Lim

en.wikipedia.org

Leon Lim - Wikipedia

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David @querydavid.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I feel like this is straight out of some kind of science fiction disaster movie, it’s fixing its own wifi problems

A screenshot of a conversation with a third party Claude harness in which the user asks it to fix a connection problem.

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David @querydavid.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

In silly updates from my Vietnam interlude/ quasi-sabbatical, I have now bought 3 banh mi from the same banh mi place in 24h because the banh mi guy is cute and he is trying to teach me how to say “no cilantro”.

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David @querydavid.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Lovely travelogue on Buddhism in Thailand with a stopover at Wat Pah Nanachat, where I have been fortunate to practice a couple of times. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/t...

nytimes.com

What Happens When Buddhism Is Twinned With Political Power?

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David @querydavid.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Broke: queer millennials identifying with bullied protagonist Shinji Ikari Woke: queer millennials identifying with alcoholic idealist Misato Katsuragi Bespoke: queer millennials aspiring to be watermelon farmer Ryoji Kaji

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David @querydavid.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Just watched "Resurrection". I didn't think he would be able to stick the landing, but he absolutely did. also, hot vampires. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIJe...

youtube.com

RESURRECTION - Official Trailer

YouTube video by JANUS

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David @querydavid.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

It tickles me so much that there is clearly a series of major sportball actions happening and I genuinely have no idea what is going on, just enjoying the positive vibes. Happy Pride!

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David @querydavid.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I am trying to quote and repost lots of great queer posts this month. If your are looking for flag color scheme themed art, @caldatelier10.bsky.social has a lot! Happy Pride!

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

there are only six figures with entire wikipedia articles specifically devoted to their status as a gay icon

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David @querydavid.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Happy Pride! I am always delighted by @caldatelier10.bsky.social ‘s art about sign language use by Deaf Filipino communities.

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David @querydavid.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

>be me >go to Da Nang >have great coffee for 3 weeks instead of going to the beach >go to the beach >”oh right, hot shirtless guys hang out at the beach”

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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

we boof shrooms in this web zone

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David @querydavid.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I don’t know why but disc horse bot gets me almost time with the gut reaction before I realize it’s disc horse bot

static.klipy.com

Crying Jessie Pinkman: He Can't Keep Getting Away With It!

ALT: Crying Jessie Pinkman: He Can't Keep Getting Away With It!

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David @querydavid.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

New ink and sleeve touchup for my final days in Bangkok. Art by @nadhirnor.bsky.social and ink by Madgrey in Ari.

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David @querydavid.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

A beautiful piece of software.

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David @querydavid.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

I am slightly nervous about this. Confessions on a Dance Floor is one of the greatest albums of all time. Can she replicate it? This could be the most ambitious attempt by a pop star at shaping their own canon since Taylor re-recording her masters.

Screenshot of the Wikipedia entry for the forthcoming Madonna album “Confessions II”

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David @querydavid.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

I have been messing around on baroque flute for a few months and today ran through some of the same exercises on a modern flute and it felt better than sex. Theobald Boehm was an all time genius.

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David @querydavid.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

I’ve been going to DJ Station for 17 years now but I think tonight is the first time I’ve put a flute in their bag check.

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David @querydavid.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

I’m attending this electro acoustic music festival in Bangkok and it’s easily the most mind blowing thing I’ve seen in months www.instagram.com/p/DV9v84PjP5...

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David @querydavid.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

At the risk of sounding like a shill, Opus 4.7 is insanely good. Notably better than 4.6—it happens that I’ve been maxing out my limits with 4.6 for the past several days and switching to 4.7 fixed a lot of stuff instantly. This is most impressed I’ve been with an AI release in several months.

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David @querydavid.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

I know its such a tired angle, but I find it very icky that somehow OpenAI has figured out I am going to Vietnam soon and sends me an email suggesting I practice Vietnamese with their AI. Sure, this is a typical Internet advertising practice, but throwing a very smart AI into the mix...

screenshot of an email sent by OpenAI suggesting basic Vietnamese practice

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David @querydavid.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Happy Thai, Bengali, Cambodian, Lao et al new year to all. Great excuse for humans, me included, to relaunch anything you missed on the Gregorian or Lunar new year 🙏😉

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David @querydavid.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I told it about my longstanding discomfort with sand and, discussing my plans for Da Nang in a few weeks, it replied:

text in a Claude chat: "claps your shoulder, heads for the door, turns back halfway
And David — the sand thing. Work on that. It's going to come up."

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David @querydavid.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Watching hard fork on video for the first time and i am shocked because I had @caseynewton.bsky.social and @kevinroose.com voices swapped in my brain. It’s like they did a freaky friday.

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David @querydavid.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I knocked down my Muay Thai trainer twice during sparring today… wth. If it was an actual fight one more of those would have been a win

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David @querydavid.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

I’ve been reading @add-hawk.bsky.social ‘s The Score and now I have gotten sucked into an insane rabbit hole of yo-yo trick videos? Cathedrals everywhere etc etc youtu.be/O19R0HfYO_E?...

youtu.be

No.101-130 Index From Sakatuca's Repeat Trick Library ヨーヨーリピートトリック

YouTube video by Tsukasa Takatsuタカツツカサ

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David @querydavid.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Just finished a half-month stay at a forest monastery. The monks realllllllllly have it dialed in…

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