iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 01/10/2026

This is a good thread and for some reason it unlocked something that's been brewing in the back of my head for a while.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Pete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time."

Ukrainian female soldier: Okay, I said the idea is this: There is enough time to empty one full can of 32 grenades and be gone by the time the return mortar fire reaches us. I did the math.

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Chris Palmer @fugueish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

*banging pots* accessibility is resilience for everyone *banging pans* everyone needs accessibility at least some of the time *bonging a gong*

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HPC Carpentry @hpc-carpentry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

📢 Community Call – October 1 The agenda (codimd.carpentries.org/55izDwEkTZeM...) is now available! 🗓️ This call will cover adoption activities, lesson development, updates, and opportunities for feedback. 📋 View the agenda for VTC timing and venue details.

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HPC Carpentry Meeting: October 1, 2026 - CodiMD

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ponder @ponder.ooo · 27/09/2026

so much of "alignment" rn consists of ignoring existing knowledge of how to responsibly build and manage automated systems and doing this instead:

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The Fact of Other Minds Stan Account @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I almost want just four years of pure revenge. Double stuff pack the court like eight new justices, withhold disaster funds from red states but give them to blue municipalities in those states, try to destroy car dealerships altogether, treat rich sex pests like Rs treat immigrants, etc.

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

One day I hope to convince conservatives that we should enforce the rule of law, reduce the deficit, and not carelessly tear down the institutions prior generations built, but today is not that day.

First tweet:
Harry Heymann @harryh · 16h
The GOP literally cut funding to IRS enforcement so more people could commit tax fraud.
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Austen Allred @Austen
It cut funding to IRS because the assumption that the way to catch tax fraud is to hire tens of thousands of auditors to look through paper tax returns by hand is insane
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...

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🦉 @smallmutuals.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This story of Babel is bullshit because every construction site in chicago has guys who only speak polish, guys who only speak spanish, and guys who only speak English, and they can still finish the building

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The Alternate Histoween 🎃 @althistorian.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Happy Stanislav Petrov Day. Today we celebrate the life of a man who saved billions by not believing a computer. May we all learn this valuable lesson.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

what i am trying to get at here is that rationalism was an attempt to outline what turned out to be the extraordinary power of statistical systems at tasks for which they naively seem unsuited. viewed from 2011 they seem to have been prophetic, but were wrong on most details and insane about others

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 24/09/2026

Please read this article on the massive weirdos who are largely running the massively powerful and big-money AI industry in the U.S. today.

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atomly @atomly.com · 23/09/2026

I don't even think most people know that Patient Zero was a fake term invented by the media when they misread Patient O (as in Outside) as Patient 0 and then constructed an entirely fictional homophobic narrative around it that most people still accept as the truth.

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

We can simulate fish schools or ants in ways that solve complex problems (gradient detection, bridge building, nest selection) but no one would create this weird soul/no-soul dichotomy to argue they these that multi-agent swarms of extremely simple rules are “thinking”.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

lol well you do you and prepare for extinction, I guess. I’m going to bet on black.

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

AI didn’t “go rogue.” People connected a computer system they know can mess with another computer system in unpredictable ways to less advanced computer system and it messed with that computer system in unpredicted ways. As @tressiemcphd.bsky.social argues, don’t lose sight that *people* did that.

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Opinion | Panic Won’t Fix the Looming A.I. Threat. Politics Will.

The threats from A.I. are real — and they’re ones we know how to deal with.

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Skinnie Talls @skinnietalls.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Don't feel bad, there are entire galaxies also spiraling out of control.

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HPC Carpentry @hpc-carpentry.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

📣 Calling all Carpenters! Join the HPC Carpentry community call on Sept. 17, 2026. On the agenda: ongoing adoption activities and outreach — our favourite recurring topics. Full agenda & VTC/venue details here: codimd.carpentries.org/u35dJXJdRyaQ.... See you there!

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HPC Carpentry Meeting: September 27, 2026 - CodiMD

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It’s insane how much scientific infrastructure is held together by, like chewing gum & hope. Gf’s work, a major lab, has a close partnership with a random midwest community college because it is the one (1) place in the entire world that has a vocational training program for a piece of tech they use

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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 13/09/2026

Approximating the Lorenz attractor with a chaotic leaky water wheel. The orange dot is the centre of mass of the water. It traces (a projection of) the familiar attractor as the wheel spins seemingly randomly left and right.

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Nomi Claire Lazar @nomiclairelazar.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Me: Faster! Write that apocalypse book faster!

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neutral @neutral.zone · 11/09/2026

I'm still boggling at this today. It's such a remarkable achievement that someone worse than ESR finally appeared in the linux community with a fulcrum large enough to do this kind of damage.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The Purpose of a System is the Friends We Met Along the Way

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

reading various accounts of AI psychosis and a) the people behind chatgpt 4 should be sued into oblivion, especially for reintroducing it, and b) even for less vulnerable people and non-sycophantic AI there is an enormous danger in AI presenting itself as a frictionless friend.

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

AI chatbots have democratized billionaire brain worms by allowing everyone—not just the very rich—to experience total insanity-inducing sycophancy

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Daniel S. Katz @danielskatz.org · 10/09/2026

CS talk challenge: Give a talk where *all* the slides are just xkcd comics

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The 51st @51st.news · 09/09/2026

Two years ago, The 51st was just an idea. Now, we're an independent, worker-led local newsroom with a full-time staff of six — and growing! Where should we go next? Help us decide by taking our five-minute audience survey: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Help shape the future of The 51st!

Two years ago, The 51st was just an idea. Now, we're an independent, worker-led local newsroom with a full-time staff of six — and growing! — thanks to the thousands of D.C. residents who have…

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

bsky.app/profile/cedr... Hunter S Thompson called it 2 weeks after 9/11. A quarter century later, how could you possibly disagree, like just look at what the richest American is currently up to.

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Andrew Reid @reidac.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This thread is amazing. I knew a few of these, but there are a lot, and most of them are indeed very fun.

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HPC Carpentry @hpc-carpentry.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Greetings! The agenda (codimd.carpentries.org/p6f2tO6HS9mA...) for the Sept. 3, 2026 HPC Carpentry call is up, with an emphasis on adoption and outreach activities. We are going to RSECon26 (rsecon26.society-rse.org), USRSE26 (us-rse.org/usrse26/), and SC26 (sc26.supercomputing.org)

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(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"maybe Scrooge was right" Scrooge wasn't real! He was invented specifically for the purpose of being wrong!

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Michael Smith @mesmith35673.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Good morning from Everett! I am about to start my first attempt at an ORCA speedrun: traveling on every mode of fixed-route transit offered by each of the nine agencies in the ORCA pod. This journey will require taking at least 13 buses, 4 boats, and 4 trains throughout Puget Sound.

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HPC Carpentry @hpc-carpentry.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

We're going to SC26! HPC Carpentry will do a BoF to reconnect with the great people who filled out our survey last year and chart our path forward as a Carpentries lesson program. Hope to see you there! sc26.supercomputing.org

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The entire point of civilization is that suffering does not have to be hereditary. Your parents’ misery is not a debt subsequent generations owe them, it is information that tells us where the world failed them, so that we may build one that fails fewer people.

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Weird Alex @jackalpants.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

At every age you ask yourself "should I just be a complete fucking bastard for the next decade, earn my money and then go back to being normal?" and then you look at the complete bastard tar pit and all the footprints that lead into it. No footprints lead out. So on you go.

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mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 24/08/2026

Speculative tool calling from the author of RLMs, Alex Zhang yes, LLM text is streamed, so why not just predict what the next tool call is going to be and get started now before it finishes? boom. done. alexzhang13.github.io/blog/2026/sp...

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Alex L. Zhang | Speculative Programmatic Tool Calling

Speculative programmatic tool calling is a class of techniques for overlapping tool call computation with the code being generated by a harness.

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Andrew Reid @reidac.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Relevant to the HPC education space also, of course. @hpc-carpentry.bsky.social

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Sam Logan @samandfuzzy.com · 19/08/2026

Skull Panda's Bad Dream

We see a shot of a bunch of people standing around a grave in the rain, looking sad. The tombstone reads "Skull Panda".

Suddenly, we cut to a shot of Skull Panda sitting up with a start, like he has woken up from a nightmare. He relaxes, as he thinks it was all a dream.

We then zoom out to see that Skull Panda is not in bed. He is, in fact, in the grave that we saw earlier, and has partly risen out of the dirt. A frightened man hits him with a shovel.

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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

This looks like a fantastic book and I think many climate/city/transportation urbanists would love to read it. mcgregorcoxall.com/biourbanism/ 3/3

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

In the Renaissance people theorized, since the Aeneid is great, if you wrote poems made only of words & phrases from the Aeneid rearranged they should be great too, since a great source regurgitated should yield greatness. They produced NOTHING we still read. Thinking about that a lot lately.

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Andrew Reid @reidac.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

This thread reminds me of the quote attributed to G.B. Shaw: "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."

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