iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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brainwane @harihareswara.net · 28/09/2026

I wrote the "how to navigate Legistar" guide I wish I'd had years ago when I started doing #NYC policy advocacy, complete with warnings about subtle bugs. Along the way, I point to #CivicTech tools intro.nyc and legislation.support, with explanations of what they can and can't do.

A screenshot of Legistar's page for Int 0078-2026, with red boxes around the file number, name, event history, bill text tab, and Alerts.

https://legistar.council.nyc.gov/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=7861511&GUID=05BA3489-38FD-436D-9B55-B35A46A6CD96&Options=ID%7CText%7C&Search=1429

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Simon Fondrie-Teitler @simon.overgrown.garden · 22/09/2026

Saw The History Of Concrete last night. Highly recommended, especially if you liked How To.

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Simon Fondrie-Teitler @simon.overgrown.garden · 09/09/2026

I was thinking about something like this. It would have to be a situation where you couldn’t easily ask the speaker to repeat what they said, but where making your watch go beep wouldn’t be weird. Which is probably a situation that happens, but how frequently might depend on how loud the beep is.

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Simon Fondrie-Teitler @simon.overgrown.garden · 09/09/2026

Wait what’s the point of the live rewind thing if not to surreptitiously try to catch up with conversation you were temporarily distracted from?

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Simon Fondrie-Teitler @simon.overgrown.garden · 09/09/2026

Indo Java is, somehow, #22 on the Times’ list of 100 top restaurants in the city. The chef only cooks on Tuesdays. The next in the list, #21, is Le Bernardin.

Small, cluttered store with two yellow tables and two giant yellow fans

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

how is this real

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Signal @signal.org · 11/08/2026

Introducing Automatic Key Verification! Complementing the existing safety number system, automatic key verification provides an additional, streamlined way to confirm the privacy of your chats. signal.org/blog/automat... TY @cloudflare.social and @trailofbits.bsky.social our independent auditors 💙🙏

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Introducing Automatic Key Verification

Signal now offers a feature called “automatic key verification” which complements the existing safety number system. Signal is always end-to-end encrypted, and automatic key verification provides an a...

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Simon Fondrie-Teitler @simon.overgrown.garden · 11/08/2026

Accidentally made a pinhole camera with my curtains. This is my wall.

A wispy image of the exterior of a building, with windows and a fire escape, is projected onto a white wall above a wood floor.

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Simon Fondrie-Teitler @simon.overgrown.garden · 22/07/2026

(Obviously I am not a lawyer, but that's just because I haven't gone to law school or passed the bar)

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Simon Fondrie-Teitler @simon.overgrown.garden · 22/07/2026

CFAA requirements are things like "having knowingly accessed a computer without authorization" and "intentionally accesses a computer without authorization or exceeds authorized access". Clearly unauthorized, but I'm not sure how you would argue it's knowing or intentional.

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Simon Fondrie-Teitler @simon.overgrown.garden · 22/07/2026

Can you accidentally violate the CFAA? All of the the criteria begin with with either "knowingly" or "intentionally", which I'm not sure this would qualify as.

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Simon Fondrie-Teitler @simon.overgrown.garden · 18/07/2026

Je suis juste là pour ne pas avoir d'amende.

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Simon Fondrie-Teitler @simon.overgrown.garden · 15/07/2026

It’s 97 degrees with an AQI if 157 outside, but they’re painting the walls of my buildings hallway and I’m thinking of opening a window

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 13/07/2026

Hey, New Yorkers: Mayor Mamdani is recreating the city's digital service, after Mayor Adams destroyed it. They're hiring devs, designers, and product folks to work on-site in Brooklyn, starting now. You don't even have to be a city resident. Get on it!

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NYC PIT Crew

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Simon Fondrie-Teitler @simon.overgrown.garden · 03/07/2026

This is what we lost when we lost Fairway

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Simon Fondrie-Teitler @simon.overgrown.garden · 02/07/2026

Why did nobody tell me about 10% milled rice?

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Simon Fondrie-Teitler @simon.overgrown.garden · 02/07/2026

I made the most ridiculously fancy rice and beans yesterday. Cranberry beans from Rancho Gordo with Hokkaido Nanatsuboshi (10% mill) from The Rice Factory.

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Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

If you’re not following this guy on Instagram’s day-by-day account of building a lightweight Phoenician war-elephant outfit centered around his toddler in the command seat so that he can hike over the Alps in it in the footsteps of Hannibal—you should be. www.instagram.com/reel/DaOO7iV...

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Simon Fondrie-Teitler @simon.overgrown.garden · 01/07/2026

Corona currently matching the energy of Brooklyn for Knicks game 6

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Simon Fondrie-Teitler @simon.overgrown.garden · 28/06/2026

We’re living in the age of AI-generated legal service billboards

Billboard for an immigration law firm mounted on a Lamar billboard structure above a graffitied building. The illustrated ad shows a smiling man in a stars-and-stripes suit and red “Alvarado Law” cap running forward through a broken border wall, leading a crowd of diverse people—including figures in a sombrero, a parka, a turban, a chef’s coat, traditional Asian dress, and business attire, as well as a small grey alien—all running across desert sand. Text at the top reads “CONSULTAS GRATIS 212-202-0056” with a WhatsApp icon, and a red banner at the bottom reads “ALVARADO LAW” and “ABOGADOS DE INMIGRACIÓN.”

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Signal @signal.org · 24/06/2026

We just increased the maximum number of pinned chats from 4 to 10, so you can show 6 more people how much you love what they have to say.

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Simon Fondrie-Teitler @simon.overgrown.garden · 24/06/2026

The was mitigating context, but I was accused of this after saying “you clearly didn’t go to preschool in France”

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Simon Fondrie-Teitler @simon.overgrown.garden · 21/06/2026

With a massive score of 6.3, Curacao Is now winning the "group stage points per mullion residents" competition

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Simon Fondrie-Teitler @simon.overgrown.garden · 18/06/2026

Church Street @ Vesey Street traffic camera

There's a huge crowd of people. Most of the in Knicks gear. The current date and time is in the top left.

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Simon Fondrie-Teitler @simon.overgrown.garden · 14/06/2026

Since I’m seeing some posts about TV-on-his-head guy, here’s my video of him

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Simon Fondrie-Teitler @simon.overgrown.garden · 14/06/2026

Amazing that the loser in the Curacao - Germany game was Brazil

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Simon Fondrie-Teitler @simon.overgrown.garden · 14/06/2026

Those buses were presumably there for a while

A man standing on top of a b26 bus celebrating

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Simon Fondrie-Teitler @simon.overgrown.garden · 13/06/2026

The ref head cam footage isn’t cool enough to justify how dorky it looks

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Simon Fondrie-Teitler @simon.overgrown.garden · 12/06/2026

I get these emails because someone that used to share my first name got my old work email address when they joined a previous employer. Then they left for a pretty senior role at the NYT and the data brokers got really confused.

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Simon Fondrie-Teitler @simon.overgrown.garden · 07/06/2026

In my experience most Americans pronounce it to rhyme with “tape”, much to my annoyance. I have been accused of being pretentious for pronouncing it the French way.

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Escape Collective @escapecollective.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

20 Facebook pages spreading fake news to their 200,000 followers. A network of connected websites, and real money behind it. We investigate a sprawling content farm. It gets pretty dystopian. escapecollective.com/fake-cycling...

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Fake cycling news, real money: How content farms are hijacking cycling media

Inside the automated ad-tech machine flooding Facebook with AI-generated cycling misinformation.

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Simon Fondrie-Teitler @simon.overgrown.garden · 31/05/2026

Though FYI @offprint.app the embed block doesn't work for me with doucmentcloud links. e.g. (embed.documentcloud.org/documents/28...) returns 422 and doesn't show any content. Other links I tried worked, and the link works in leaflet.

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Simon Fondrie-Teitler @simon.overgrown.garden · 31/05/2026

They're all still relatively limited in functionality. I haven't played with pckt, but it gives me more playful, less serious vibes. Which may or may not be what you're going for. IMO offprint is smother to use and has a little more functionality, including more flexibility when adding images.

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Ian Dees @iandees.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Recent status: watching someone that works at Zoom take a past due security training about not taking meetings in public spaces while he was on a train going between Copenhagen and Stockholm. He completed his training then had a sales meeting about volume discounts.

A photo of a Dell laptop screen taken between two train seats. The screen has a training video with the text "You never know who's sitting next to you" showing on it. The picture taker is sitting behind the person taking the training, so it's OK.

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Simon Fondrie-Teitler @simon.overgrown.garden · 22/05/2026

Why outside the states (especially if you're limited to 120v)? Amazing Ribs doesn't meet that part but does have some electric grill reviews. amazingribs.com/grill-search...

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Grill Search Result | Meathead's AmazingRibs.com

This AmazingRibs.com grill search result page displays the results from your grill search.

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 22/05/2026

Here's the FTC press release: www.ftc.gov/news-events/... "this service did not, in fact, listen in on consumers’ conversations or use voice data at all [...] Instead, the service the companies provided consisted of reselling—at a significant markup—email lists obtained from other data brokers."

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FTC to Require Cox Media Group, Two Other Firms to Pay Nearly $1 Million to Settle Charges They Deceived Customers About “Active Listening” AI-Powered Marketing Service

The Federal Trade Commission will require Cox Media Group (CMG) and two smaller marketing firms to pay a total of $930,000 to settle allegations they deceived customers by falsely claiming to offer

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Simon Fondrie-Teitler @simon.overgrown.garden · 19/05/2026

Looks like they added them (back?) to the current projects page as context for this

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Simon Fondrie-Teitler @simon.overgrown.garden · 19/05/2026

I asked @simko-bednarski.bsky.social the correct pronunciation once and iirc he told me Rob Free, who worked his way from station cleaner to president of the rail road, always says the full "Long Island Rail Road"

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Simon Fondrie-Teitler @simon.overgrown.garden · 17/05/2026

I’m going to be annoyed if Apple launches disappearing messages in Siri before iMessage

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