iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

raph @raph.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

the universe probably lends itself in some way to human conscious experience, as in our conscious experience is not an arbitrary construction but somehow easier for the universe to create than other ones. emotions & sight w/ optical illusions might be low hanging fruit

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 24/01/2024

you're onto something

holy trinity meme. pipe is not device node is not socket. they're all file descriptors

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raph @raph.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

incredible - first letters found in the vesuvius challenge

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raph @raph.bsky.social · 11/10/2023

if you are interested in hearing firsthand accounts from survivors of the nova massacre take a look at instagram.com/survived.to....

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raph @raph.bsky.social · 11/10/2023

posted to my instagram last night. 1/3

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raph @raph.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

writing out my take on why people who support the recent terror attacks because "gazans live in horrible conditions" are wrong to do so:

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raph @raph.bsky.social · 08/10/2023

Unlikely that digital computers experience relevant levels of consciousness Computers are v constrained physically. Consciousness dust. If we calculated GPT4 output by hand, the only experience there is ours (relevant) and the pen+paper (irrelevant). Not "GPT4" / "information processing"

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Yamir Moreno @ymoreno.bsky.social · 07/10/2023

Just out "Robustness and complexity of directed and weighted metabolic hypergraphs" (arxiv.org/abs/2310.03623). We propose a new hypergraph-based representation of metabolic networks that captures HOI among metabolites and reactions, preserving all essential information.

arxiv.org

Robustness and complexity of directed and weighted metabolic hypergraphs

Metabolic networks are probably among the most challenging and important biological networks. Their study provides insight into how biological pathways work and how robust a specific organism is...

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raph @raph.bsky.social · 08/10/2023

conscious {point, fuzz, trajectory} vibrations flowing through it a jazz, smooth, chaotic, sharp, mellow hertz, terahertz, low amp, high amp what's the shape of a vibration through a point? what about a point-looking-at-a-{point,line,volume,hands} every shape, infinite res-and-dim?

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raph @raph.bsky.social · 03/05/2023

Words are an extremely lossy projection of reality Demanding legibility is telling people to exist in a way that minimizes that loss. To conform to lives that can be easily fully described in a few words. It’s anti-cozy, anti-emergence, anti-life

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raph @raph.bsky.social · 05/05/2023

returning to twitter after the bluesky instrumentality project is complete

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Stephen Wolfram @stephenwolfram.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

Hard at work on a problem I got part way with in 1981 ... and am now finally getting much further with thanks to ideas from our Physics Project!

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Stephen Wolfram @stephenwolfram.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

Hello, Bluesky. What should I post here? Maybe about the livestreams I do every day or two? Maybe about ongoing work I'm doing? Events I'm going to? Let me know what you think...

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 26/09/2023

thinking about this tweet again

Avery Edison: I wrote "I am alive" on a piece of paper, and placed it into a photocopier. What I saw next has shocking implications

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 27/09/2023

📢 1.51 (cont.) • Opt-in experimental feature #2 🧪: Improve readability of threads by toggling on Settings > Thread Preferences > Threaded Mode. Send us your feedback on this!

a screenshot showing where to find thread preferences in the settings

a screenshot showing the threaded mode preference

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raph @raph.bsky.social · 18/09/2023

Very exciting - API Routes in Expo Router - Less context switching 😌 - Backend typescript in your app repo that "just works" will be huge for new devs vs firebase headaches. With snack.expo.dev, much easier for kids to get into app dev - React Native Server Components?! 🤯 S/O @bacon.bsky.social

blog.expo.dev

RFC: API Routes

Bringing server-side development to React Native with Expo API Routes

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raph @raph.bsky.social · 15/09/2023

Welcome @stephenwolfram.bsky.social!! 😊 a cool recent post of his - minds, ai images, perturbations - vast interconcept space - {points,movement} in concept/rulial space - mind2mind concept transfer/loss - symbols - attractors, denoising, feature vectors, latent space ops - diffusion vs automata

writings.stephenwolfram.com

Generative AI Space and the Mental Imagery of Alien Minds

AI and the ruliad in the Wolfram Physics Project provide a new way to consider how alien minds might perceive the world. Stephen Wolfram explains how this artificial neuroscience experiment works.

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raph @raph.bsky.social · 12/09/2023

My custom instacart usability script - Gives sponsored items low opacity - Gives out of stock items a pink background - Clicks sort by price automatically on every page load Most interesting thing here imo is just how much sponsored items ordinarily completely mess up sort-by-price

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raph @raph.bsky.social · 12/09/2023

Took apart a speaker and it was full of fiberglass Probably secures the speaker, prevents case buzzing, is fire resistant Puny glass rods that go everywhere and permanently lodge themselves in your body. What a concerning material. I put on gloves and wiped stuff down a ton.

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raph @raph.bsky.social · 08/09/2023

exorcising that dog in me

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raph @raph.bsky.social · 06/09/2023

do other people see these hyperbolic-cell-like squiggles when they scrunch up their hand and look through the aperture? I find it easiest to see when I make an okay-hand aperture then slowly narrow the diam to ~2mm, right by me eye, other eye cupped closed

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raph @raph.bsky.social · 03/09/2023

Taking apart a big LCD TV

open back of a "TCL 55-inch 5-Series 4K UHD Dolby Vision HDR QLED Roku Smart TV - 55S535"

sheets of matte, glossy, and yellow paper for diffusing light

backlight grid with paper with a glossy film on it

the two front panels and a thick plastic sheet that was in front of the backlights that has a cool hexagonal circle pattern on it

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raph @raph.bsky.social · 02/09/2023

domain architecture domain landlord, tenants, sublets domain landscape design domain "on this site" plaque domain property tax domain estate tax domain pillaging domain governance domain title domain protest, revolt, revolution domain military domain intelligence agency domain empire, commonwealth

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 01/09/2023

Nothing makes you appreciate the social value of your job like seeing your org screw something up and then watching the whole world complain about it. "I am sorry you are having that problem I will try to type faster."

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words @words.bsky.social · 31/08/2023

just because you are willing to burn the library of Alexandria because the books are free doesn't alter the fact that existing copyright laws are not protecting creators but rather corporate interests look at internet archive lawsuits over archives of out of print 78s Who benefits from this & why?

rollingstone.com

Record Labels File $412 Million Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Against Internet Archive

Several music labels have sued Internet Archive for copyright infringement over its 'Great 78 Project,' which comprises works from late vintage acts.

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raph @raph.bsky.social · 31/08/2023

tis sidewalk christmas season in boston. i have picked up - 12 blocks of wood - 11 cubbies worth of clothing - 10 hangers - 9 questionably dirty things - 8 pots for plants - 7 shelves - 6 neighbors' names - 5 nice bags - 4 mirrors - 3 kitchen appliances - 2-cassette player - 1 really massive CRT tv

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raph @raph.bsky.social · 27/08/2023

from googling "ratatouille evangelion"

Evangelion style title slide saying "Anyone can be a pilot / A Ratatouille crossover / Wait what was that other crossover? The rat is actually piloting the-"

Linguini pierced by the Lance of Longinus, Remy screaming like Asuka in End of Evangelion

Giant ghostly Linguini above a pool of pink water, Remy and his brother Emile on an icy surface looking on, recreation of last scene from End of Evangelion

Official Mecha Alignment Chart. Left to right: technology purist / neutral / rebel. Top to bottom: size purist / neutral / revel. From top left to bottom right, each row:
Gundam, Evangelion, Attack on Titan
Iron Man, Kamen Rider, Humans
Custom Robo, Beyblade, Pokemon

Ratatouille would likely be Tech rebel / Size purist.

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raph @raph.bsky.social · 27/08/2023

shinji, shinji's dad, and the noticeable absence of shinji's mom. a question remains: who was piloting chef gusteau?

Remy on a Parisian rooftop saying "All this time I've been underneath Paris?"

Remy standing atop Linguini's head, holding two thick strands of Linguini's hair, one in each hand

Remy's dad saying "What's taking those kids so long?", in a musty, dark area, maybe an alley or pantry, light penetrating thick air, food in the background, several other rat "extras" in frame

Remy smiling, holding a bottle, with text/caption overlaid on bottom saying "Your only limit is your soul"

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raph @raph.bsky.social · 22/08/2023

davinci shutdown date of Jan 1 2024 :/

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Max @maxbittker.bsky.social · 18/08/2023

Check out "Surf", an experimental new feed for visually surfing Bluesky. ☁️🏄☁️ Surf is powered by images you've recently liked - I've been discovering really cool artists posting work here with it. Let me know what you think! bsky.app/profile/did:plc:wmhp7mubpg…

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raph @raph.bsky.social · 17/08/2023

my friend who does uni research on the bible says probs not said this passage is for an audience who knows what's up, obtuse wording reflects confusion of people in it said 18th/19th c my thoughts here were more popular but reflected biases moreso than what John meant here just sharing his take 🤓

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raph @raph.bsky.social · 16/08/2023

science is knowledge-pagerank with the base authority being your own observations. in religion the base authority is scripture/priesthood authority of unobserved facts is related to your perception of people/institutions' obsession with / accountability to reproducibility, falsifiability, citations

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raph @raph.bsky.social · 16/08/2023

Yes, nullius in verba, take no one’s word Aggañña Sutta has big bang, origins of life, evolution, intelligence, private property, society But doesnt say whats literal or figurative, how to reproduce, how to alter it. A burden to pass on unchanged. Random dreams mixed with moments of deeper insight

en.m.wikipedia.org

Aggañña Sutta - Wikipedia

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raph @raph.bsky.social · 16/08/2023

found a spot in SE new jersey with a 30milligal gravity anomaly, 400nT magnetic anomaly, low population density, and general weirdness when I zoom in (for ref, not adjusted for height, everest has a 2 gal anomaly vs perfect oblong sphere, & magnetic anomaly probs insignificant, but idk)

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raph @raph.bsky.social · 16/08/2023

Ascent of Man cont. - Erasmus: "St. Socrates, pray for me!" - "establishment in which religion was simply an arm of the government" - von Neumann, who author seems to have known personally, selling out; need for a democracy not aristocracy of intellect - on intellectual integrity

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raph @raph.bsky.social · 16/08/2023

The Loom of God

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raph @raph.bsky.social · 16/08/2023

more newton - other being easier to study than I; perpetual magnet - more perpetual motion; how water rises in vegetables and how vegetables grow/stop growing - light sails, measuring light's speed; location of the "common sensorium" - sense is preserved anterior to tied up limb; light field stuff?

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raph @raph.bsky.social · 16/08/2023

great bookshelf in harvard's widener library

books on philosophy/history/religion of science

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raph @raph.bsky.social · 14/08/2023

what is pleasure and pain? (consonance/dissonance?) what level of pain/suffering do dish-grown neurons feel? it's probably not zero are there experiments that could test this? grow a brain on a dimply dish, eventually it learns to talk to us, and maybe it'd be down to examine this with us

youtu.be

Growing Living Rat Neurons To Play... DOOM?

Head to https://squarespace.com/thethoughtemporium to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code: thethoughtemporium_________________...

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raph @raph.bsky.social · 14/08/2023

the wave-particle duality but wrt a consciousness field our brains are signal processors eye afterimages are destructive interference psychosis, tinnitus, phantom limbs are failures of noise cancellation, signal tuning/creation sleeps help cancel the haywire circuits that go off in our dreams

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michael röbbins @alienvsrobbins.bsky.social · 12/08/2023

On this date in 1854, Henry David Thoreau noticed a cow "gazing upward steadily at an angle of about 45°. There were only some downy clouds in that direction. It was so unusual a sight that any one would notice it. It suggested adoration."

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raph @raph.bsky.social · 13/08/2023

feeling a bit epistemically ungrounded realizing altered states can point to weird truths about the universe that'd be hard to understand and would've propagated noisily via religion afterlife/rebirth ideas could be meant more literally than just "we're all atoms" may be related to the "ruliad"

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raph @raph.bsky.social · 12/08/2023

sounds like he was just trying to describe atoms?!! given language constraints of the time you kinda just had to know him to get what he meant and then after he died it just became an entirely different thing ? www.bibleinsight.com/supper.html

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