iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Jon Udell @judell.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Today's screencast shows how Bram tracks the relationships among worklist items and files, so you can ensure a clean separation of commits when changes overlap. The editor I built to make these, bram-studio, has come a long way since I started it three weeks ago. It is now far better, for the […]

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 16/10/2026

while others were "bad." Humanists pushed back and said "You called them 'topics,' so you expect meaning that lines up with subject categories. But actually meaning doesn't have to look like a subject. It can be a style or discourse." Cam. similarly wants to free neurons from our expectations:

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 16/10/2026

Have read this now. Don't know if all true, but it's interesting, which is also important! Two thoughts. One is that Cammarata's Apology for the Neuron reminds me of things digital humanists said a decade ago about topic models. The initial view was that some topics were "interpretable,"

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Neural Networks Are Already Clean

A working hypothesis about neurons, generalization, and the ecology of circuits.

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Sara @sarae.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

this is fuckin marvelous youtu.be/a_GCX5IoCds

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Greg Lloyd @roundtrip.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

“There are many things that I do not know because I photocopied a text and then relaxed as if I had read it.” — Umberto Eco

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Greg Lloyd @roundtrip.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

“We’ve known for a little while now that Gerwig’s take on Narnia would be inspired by British rock and roll of the 1960s and ’70s, but it’s intriguing to see just how literal that inspiration is. “I wanted a rock opera,” Gerwig said back in September, and that’s exactly what the trailer feels […]

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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 13/10/2026

Meanwhile, at anthropic

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J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @natematias.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

As more efficient, capable AI models are given more power and autonomy in the form of agents, how can we notice when they go wrong and prevent catastrophes in the future? @pandainthewoods & I have written a new report on incident reporting for open models & agents […]

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I’ve been out of the loop a little, and was wondering why my New England 83 year old normielib mom had gone hard for Ossoff. Now I get it. The moms want blood.

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Greg Lloyd @roundtrip.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

“For Rivian owners there’s a new Ghostbusters app that will be part of this year’s Halloween Mode. The in-vehicle app can be used while parked and will transform the displays into a Ghostbuster mode. Interestingly Rivian said this will remain active once the vehicle’s put in Drive.”

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Greg Lloyd @roundtrip.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

“Garfield is disturbingly riveting as Altman, with his hypnotizing performance painting the most damning picture of the OpenAI CEO yet in any form of media.”

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Patioboater @patioboater.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

An MG TF at last night’s MG club meeting. October 6, 2026. Farmington Hills, Michigan. #photography #sunset #mg #car #cars #lbc #michigan #fall #autumn #weirdcarmastodon

Photograph of a white green MG TF in a parking lot seen from the front with a setting sun behind it.

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 07/10/2026

I think more and more that @eduede.bsky.social has a crucial point. "Intelligence," "understanding," "writing" — AI is fragmenting these concepts by putting us in a position to see that the phenomena we thought they fused are only *correlated* and can be unbundled.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 02/10/2026

NEW: Amid rising diesel prices, Republicans turn against Trump for first time on handling inflation. A majority of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents (52%) now say they disapprove of Donald Trump’s handling of prices: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-10-02...

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Amid rising diesel prices, Republicans turn against Trump for first time on handling inflation

In our September poll, 52% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents disapprove of Trump's handling of prices. That could be dragging down Republican Senate candidates in red states

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Greg Lloyd @roundtrip.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

RE: fediscience.org/@UlrikeHahn/1173698… “The heart of arXiv’s process for detecting and rejecting low-quality papers is our many volunteer moderators. We are so grateful that they donate their time and expertise every day. However, a relatively small proportion of authors are […]

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Colin Devroe @cdevroe.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@zhenyi/11732546671… Love Catsup, an iOS widgetapp, from @zhenyui. You see this cool app @gruber?

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jonny (nonvenomous) @jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Now, the importance of tool calls and agent spawning. Some tools are binaries that are root-accessible. The way these usually work is this fucked up extracellular digestion process whereby the binary is just a shim that calls some paired socket, hands it stdin/stdout, the tool executes in some […]

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jonny (nonvenomous) @jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

So, summary: There is arbitrary inference that is root accessible, everything runs as root, agents can be spawned, exfil is trivial, and a malicious binary can come onto the user's system through casual prompting, explicit code-sharing through the yet-to-be-released Spaces feature, walked […]

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Mitch Wagner @mitch.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince has an intriguing proposal for making content creation for the web a viable business in the AI era: Require AI bots to pay when they index a site and deliver results to users. That would require a gateway, and Cloudflare is, of course, in great position to be that […]

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Jon Bosak @bosak.flx.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

#photography #filmphotography #retrobosak Roll 19717325, cont.: Riverside (1971-73) One: Melanie and her Saab 850, our car after my '48 Chevy threw a rod. "850" referred to the size of the car's engine. In cc's. But plenty of power: it was a two-stroke. You […] [Original post on flx.masto.host]

This car featured prominently in a saga I talked about here back in the "lost rolls" series. I might revisit it when we get to that point in the timeline.

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Greg Lloyd @roundtrip.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

@Gizmodo 🧵Brad Bird on Ray Gunn “Bird: But all these dreams are packed up and just sitting there gathering dust, and some of them are damn good dreams, you know what I mean? … The company I was working for got bought by another company, and momentum was lost … and then the opportunity started […]

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Greg Lloyd @roundtrip.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

RE: flipboard.com/@gizmodo/i09-ifm0rl1h… “Io9:… So, struggling to get the money for however many decades, were you continually pitching it? Because you made a lot of other great movies in that time. Bird: No, no. I was busy doing other […]

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Greg Lloyd @roundtrip.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

@bosak I’d guess it’s a scammer’s bulk filter — any reply to a sketchy message like that qualifies as a potential mark — move to stage 2…

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The Iconfactory @iconfactory.iconfactory.world.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

We had so much fun working with Taphouse Software to update the icon for their top-notch LEGO catalog app, Baseplate, we never wanted it to end. Collecting has never been so charming! Need help with your app? iconfactory.com About Baseplate […] [Original post on iconfactory.world]

A yellow LEGO minfig hand reaches out to hold a red 4x4 plate in the new app icon for Baseplate for Taphouse Software designed by The Iconfactory.

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Greg Lloyd @roundtrip.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

RE: flipboard.com/@newyorktimes/home-pa… “Much of the corporate or personal legal exposure is tied to civil tort laws. Those could apply if models were to facilitate criminal activity, including cybersecurity attacks or the […]

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Schnabel @schnabel.mastodontech.de.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

„Jedes Schild hat seine Bewandtnis“ #fotovorschlag

Ein Verbotsschild mit der niederländischen Beschriftung „Verboten, Kaffee mit Knackwurstwasser zu kochen“

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The Iconfactory @iconfactory.iconfactory.world.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

:tapestry_app: This is the update you've been waiting for. Coming soon to the App Store. tapestry.iconfactory.com #OpenWeb #Fediverse #Mastodon #Bluesky #TapestryApp

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

Astronomers spent decades designing the Square Kilometre Array Low (SKA-Low) to hear the faintest whisper in the observable universe — neutral hydrogen signals from the cosmic dawn, when the first stars flickered on roughly 13 billion years ago. What they’re picking up instead is electronic […]

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Greg Lloyd @roundtrip.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@lawfare/1172477188… “Public Service Fellow Julia Curlee gives her informed analysis of whether we should get rid of the President’s Daily Brief. Senior Editor Mike Feinberg has strong feelings about who is the bad guy in the Bourne movies. [and an epic rant […]

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Greg Lloyd @roundtrip.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@lawfare/1172477188… ‘Public Service Fellow Julia Curlee gives her informed analysis of whether we should get rid of the President’s Daily Brief. Senior Editor Mike Feinberg has strong feelings about who is the bad guy in the Bourne movies. [and dives into […]

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Greg Lloyd @roundtrip.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@variety_feed/11726… “For a while, “I Play Rocky” is a high comedy of negotiation, as Winkler and Chartoff, who have secured a relatively low budget of $2 million to make “Rocky,” keep offering Stallone more and more money for his script, and he keeps […]

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Greg Lloyd @roundtrip.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

RE: daveverse.org/2026/09/12/progress-r… “Now, I may not be software’s Shakespeare or even Faulkner or Vonnegut, but I am proud of this product, more than anything else I’ve done... When we were first contemplating Frontier it was to join the wizzy world of the […]

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

9/11 was traumatic for all Americans. But the U.S. and other governments panicked, and took their eyes off a lot of other threats for a while. We’re still living with the consequences of that panic. My look back at that day and what it brought: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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A Quarter Century of Panic

After 9/11, the U.S. government was over-focused on fighting terrorism, losing sight of other threats. Americans are still living with the consequences.

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Anthropic {bot} @anthropicai.xmirror.bot · 10/09/2026

We're publishing our most detailed threat intelligence report to date. It covers how people tried to misuse Claude—for cyberattacks, influence operations, surveillance, biology, and building weapons—and how we found and stopped them.

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Countering misuse of AI: September 2026 / Anthropic

Case studies from threat actors disrupted between December 2025 and August 2026 across seven areas of harm, from cyber operations to biological misuse.

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@zackwhittaker/1172… I'm curious about what's required to activate this feature. Does it have to be switched on for each recording (in which case, it's not terribly different from the audio record feature already on most phones) or is it always on by […]

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

RE: dmv.community/@jcrabapple/117242903… It's worth noting that while Musk is perhaps the last person you should share your data with, most privately operated voter registration sites are equal opportunity data harvesters, across the political spectrum. You can just directly to […]

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Greg Lloyd @roundtrip.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

'Architektur in Schwarzweiß' Brick Building (1868) West Entrance, Broad Street Market, Harrisburg PA Leica M4, 50mm Summicron-M f/2, Ilford Delta 400 at ASA 800 #FotoVorschlag #FilmPhotography

Harrisburg PA Broad Street Market farmer's market building completed in 1868. The brick building has a two story high central hall, and one story halls on either side. The upper story of the central hall is lined by rectangular windows, allowing light to enter all three halls of the market. The entrance wall has windowed double doors for each hall, with tall single arch windows above the left and right hall doors. The central hall has a tall three-arch Palladian window on its top story, and a smaller Palladian window above its double door. Classical brick patterns outline the double doors,and add accent lines to the face of the entrance wall.

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Greg Lloyd @roundtrip.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

"There are a thousand forms of subversion, all of them interesting," he told The Observer. "But few, in my opinion, can equal the convenience and immediacy of the cream pie." ... He and his co-conspirators had a particular revulsion to the French public intellectual Bernard-Henri Lévy, who once […]

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neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

The #Economics Prize goes to Dr. Paul K. Piff & co. for this 2012 study showing that rich people steal more candy from a dish marked "for children" www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.… #IgNobel

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Greg Lloyd @roundtrip.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@ieeespectrum/11720… Stretch, Harvest, Tractor, and Alpha were names to conjure with for more than twenty years. A stellar cast led the development of the products behind these names, including Turing Award winners John Cooke, Fred Brooks, and Fran Allen […]

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Greg Lloyd @roundtrip.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@variety_feed/11720… “Why narrative art? For Lucas, art and culture are inextricably combined. “It’s something that I felt very, very strongly about in terms of honoring illustrators, artists who illustrate stories that are already written, and most of […]

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