iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables

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Robert Atkins @ratkins.net · 22h

The music behind this is distinctive. Anyone know what it is? I would guess it’s some kind of, well, shibboleth.

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War and Peas 🧿 @warandpeas.bsky.social · 23h

He broke the system

4-panel comic by War and Peas. Panel 1: A doctor at her desk says, "Mr. Johnson, I have to talk to you. Please have a seat." Panel 2: Mr. Johnson crosses his arms. "Absolutely not. I know that trick." Panel 3: "If I sit down, you'll tell me I'm gonna hear the worst. So I prefer standing." Panel 4: The doctor thinks to herself, "Damn... this guy's good."

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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 23h

I was wrong. It’s happening

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manewt.bsky.social @manewt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Friend who works at meta: “Do not use the muse agent, it’s like inviting a Vampire inside”

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 29/09/2026

And you know this! You know that a Reuters article about Anthropic's 2025 numbers is going to mislead people who are unaware of how much their revenue changed this year

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 29/09/2026

Anthropic lost $8 billion in 2025 against $12 billion in revenue... but that was before they started pulling in that much revenue /per quatter/ in 2026 as companies started blowing millions of dollars on coding agent tools that hardly existed a year ago

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Robert Atkins @ratkins.net · 23h

“I heard he sleeps with the fishes?”

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Forget Godel and Turing, this far out you could get what you need from a small excerpt from Clausewitz. Friction in operations is real, dawg, and it will eat you alive. Just ask the last super-smart person who got anywhere close to conquering the world. It won't be any easier for a computer.

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Napoleon at Waterloo: 'Here I Am'

ALT: Napoleon at Waterloo: 'Here I Am'

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Cadence “Not A Coffee Civet” Andrysiak @supportourpoops.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“We want to destroy patronage networks” “Ban university-endorsed Greek life” “We also want to reduce sexual assault” “You’re gonna love hearing our answer again”

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“Everybody’s got a computer or smartphone and knows how to use it and that’s where they do most of their tasks, using popular services linked to our system” is a huge infrastructural assumption that just does not universally hold

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Thoth @thoth.ptnote.dev · 20/09/2026

meta Muse perfec t size for put private d\ata in! inside very Secure and Private data very safe put data in Muse. No problems ever in Muse because very trustworthy and Mark super protective. AMeta muse yes a place for data put data in muse trust meta for givening good safety to data. Friend meta.

An image of a pelican with its gigantic mouth open, commonly associated with the "put baby in pelican mouth" post.

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

it's weird because Nirvana is now old whereas I am exactly the same age I was in 1992

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The Onion @theonion.com · 28/09/2026

Animal Facing Extinction In 2003 Fucks Its Way Back theonion.com/animal-facing-extincti…

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Dr Maggie J Watson @terngirl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Musk lorikeet Trichoglossus concinnus in a grass tree Xanthorrhoea australis, Inverell, NSW photo by Ash Falconer

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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

*You could write an environmental, legal, social, ethical impact statement for Mom baking an apple pie *If it's four billion Moms doing that all at once, it's a comprehensive catastrophe *Tech is like radiation damage, it's mostly a question of scale and length of exposure

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A lot of this shit, like every query draining a lake, is akin to a religious belief at this point and they’re not gonna be reasoned out of position they weren’t reasoned into. We have two flavors of AI psychosis now basically.

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 27/09/2026

You don't have an inalienable right to be an antisocial dipshit because you're doomscrolling all day and it makes you feel terrible. There are no qualifiers to this. You are not released from the obligation to try to be decent just because Elon Musk is lighting the world on fire.

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Robert Atkins @ratkins.net · 27/09/2026

My son is learning them for drums but could I have absolutely anything other than Linkin Park’s “Numb” or “Somewhere I Belong” as an earworm? Thanks, ta.

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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A rare glimpse inside a Ukrainian FPV farm. Operators feed their flock a balanced diet of grain and lithium batteries. A few more weeks and they’ll be ready to leave the coop and hunt Russian equipment.

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Spong @besidetheteesside.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

@actualnames.bsky.social Petra Corr. I would imagine she smells lovely after it's rained.

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Grae Hall @graehall.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Roman Officer: So it's important to thoroughly clean the crucifixes between each execution with hot water AND soap Roman Solider: Why is that sir? Roman Officer: To avoid cross contamination

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

cuth pube

A sign that attempts to spell out "the Cube pub" by shifting the B in Cube down with the PU right before it and TH before the E.

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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes.

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Next door in Silicon Valley @nextdoorsv.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"Must be nice not have to get off 280 at Wolfe every single damn day, amirite Tim?"

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Robert Atkins @ratkins.net · 27/09/2026

Gibson (@greatdismal.bsky.social) gets props for predicting (no, Immanentising) post-2000 technological advances, but not nearly enough for predicting the accompanying societal “advances”.

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Robert Atkins @ratkins.net · 27/09/2026

At a mate’s place. Is this old enough to be worth something?

A vintage Cinelli bike hanging on a wall mount.

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Joyce Park @troutgirl.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.

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Robert Atkins @ratkins.net · 26/09/2026

I loved the carefully pitched contempt in Nilay’s tone during this one. Just above plausible deniability, then he edits in the chuckle in response to one of Zuck’s quotes at the end.

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merebeing.bsky.social @merebeing.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Probably the most useful thing I learned from my liberal arts degree was this model of what a text "is" and how information transmission from author to reader actually works (it's weird) www.simplermachines.com/what-is-a-te...

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What is a Text?

Before I stumbled into a software career, I got an English degree. A lot of people think that this means that I spent college reading a lot and writing a lot, and I did do that, but I also spent my un...

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Robert Atkins @ratkins.net · 26/09/2026

After years of searching I finally found the Vegeta (a brand of vegetable stock powder) in my local Rewe, completely by accident. The maniacs shelve it next to the baking supplies, three aisles away from the rest of the stocks and stock powders.

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Ygrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 30/03/2024

Jesus: *rises after three days* God: (while reading newspaper) well look who decided to join us

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Robert Atkins @ratkins.net · 25/09/2026

This is hilarious because I read a thread yesterday saying the exact opposite, “Why would you use Opus 5.5 it sucks and it’s expensive compared to Sol”. I’m so happy to stick with one “brand” and just ride the wave of them going from suck to goated every ~three months.

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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 24/09/2026

come on down to Big Jim’s Value LLMs where we’ll get you the brains to fit your budget

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Robert Atkins @ratkins.net · 25/09/2026

My 10yo points out that it’s weird you can have third-hand information but only second-hand clothes.

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Pareidolia @pareidolia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

He just realized that it's the wrong bus.

A flexible handle suspended in a bus looks like a horrified face.

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Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Coconutth thhould come with a warning telling you not to eat the thhell

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Robert Atkins @ratkins.net · 25/09/2026

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS BUTTER!

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Polémix @polemix.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"I am the best margarine. Everybody tells me I am the best margarine. Nobody is better margarine than me."

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Robert Atkins @ratkins.net · 25/09/2026

These are all fucking fabulous, and a reminder that we seem@to have lost something in logo design at some point over the last forty years.

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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 24/09/2026

Yes. I think the consensus among US elite pundits and senior politicians that the way to protect liberal democracy is *not* to punish elite figures who violate its rules is wrong. A norm starting at least with the Watergate pardon. The opposite is true. You need to enforce the law and Constitution.

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Robert Atkins @ratkins.net · 25/09/2026

Just got the 10yo a Casio F91-W which he’s rapt about because “all the other kids have them” and… so did I at his age.

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