iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/04/2025

exhibits A and B in how lying all the time makes you stupid

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Chris Doyon @nilbog3000.bsky.social · 12/01/2024

My “new phone, Houthis” joke was a hit on the group text, but it’s probably not Bluesky material

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Sam Kottler @skottler.me · 06/03/2025

you read the s-1, I drove around in secaucus in 2021. we are not the same

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Sam Kottler @skottler.me · 24/02/2025

it’s very funny that you have to go in person to renew your nyc library card, but not to renew a driver’s license

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

I'm sorry, but "they took over the whole federal payments system, fired the career staff, and won't let anybody see what they're doing" is not a situation in which you wait for more information. It's a situation in which you assume the worst. There's no explanation for it other than rampant crimes.

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

I do not think these people reflect all of America. But there is a rotten ugliness at our core that we have been trying to paper over and ignore for almost 200 years. A uniquely American indifference, hatred even, of our most vulnerable. And it is now running the country.

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Sam Kottler @skottler.me · 24/01/2025

What's up with the narrative that people are going from procurement of commercial software to using generative tools to produce it themselves? It has seemingly little basis in reality and the valuable part of off-the-shelf software is an approach and understanding to a specific problem domain.

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Sam Kottler @skottler.me · 23/01/2025

I think it's kinda fun how they oversalted NYC so severely you can taste salt while crossing the street.

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Sam Kottler @skottler.me · 22/01/2025

no one looks good in issey miyake but some of you aren't ready for that conversation

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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

NEW: Meta has quietly dismantled the system that prevented misinformation from spreading in the United States. Machine-learning classifiers that once identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach have now been switched off, Platformer has learned www.platformer.news/meta-ends-mi...

Behind the scenes, the company was also quietly dismantling a system to prevent the spread of misinformation. When the company announced on Jan. 7 that it would end its fact-checking partnerships, the company also instructed teams responsible for ranking content in the company’s apps to stop penalizing misinformation, according to sources and an internal document obtained by Platformer.

The result is that the sort of viral hoaxes that ran roughshod over the platform during the 2016 US presidential election — “Pope Francis endorses Trump,” Pizzagate, and all the rest — are now just as eligible for free amplification on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads as true stories.

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Sam Kottler @skottler.me · 13/01/2025

He’s huge on RedNote

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Sam Kottler @skottler.me · 13/01/2025

watched the b*yan j*hnson documentary last night and I can't stop thinking about it. dude wants to live forever, but has nothing to live for. I literally couldn't come up with a more sad situation and it's completely changed my view on him.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

this washes away any residual doubt. the real motivation behind Meta’s policy changes isn’t some misguided conception of free speech, it’s just discrimination.

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Sam Kottler @skottler.me · 09/01/2025

anyone have a samsung airstyler or lg styler steam closet? this is my most stupid material desire and I need someone to talk me out of it

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Sam Kottler @skottler.me · 08/01/2025

was telling my coworkers about dislocating my shoulder while jumping off a cliff this past summer. half way through I realized it was not clear it was to jump 30ft into a pit lake for fun as their eyes got progressively wider and looks more concerned

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Sam Kottler @skottler.me · 08/01/2025

It's frustrating to see people declare victory on congestion pricing so soon. I think congestion pricing is good policy and I am excited to see its impact, but juxtaposing rolling data of this week vs. last is obviously deeply flawed as a statistical approach...

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Sam Kottler @skottler.me · 07/01/2025

I love monorepo build tools because I want to constantly be on the verge of walking into the sea.

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Sam Kottler @skottler.me · 07/01/2025

something awful is afoot (I'm doing frontend work)

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Sam Kottler @skottler.me · 05/01/2025

it's kind of wild how I've been getting paid to do computer stuff for like 15 years and I still think computers are extremely fucking cool

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Sam Kottler @skottler.me · 12/12/2024

hypothesis: lots of people writing code for the first time using LLM-driven code generation is going to result in an army of people who are extremely good at debugging. and that rules

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Sam Kottler @skottler.me · 09/12/2024

notion dares to ask the question "what if we made a writing tool that's thoroughly miserable to write in" and I think that's very brave

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Novelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

ME: *writing to the group chat* I don't mind the drive, and I actually like my in-laws. It just seems like a big lift to drive 14 hours to only stay for three days WERNER HERZOG: *in the group chat* this, to me, is a thing of unspeakable madness MY FRIEND DAN: *also in the group chat* 100%

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Sam Kottler @skottler.me · 25/11/2024

I was today years old when I learned Duterte's son and Marcos' daughter are, respectively, the President and Vice President of the Philippines

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Sam Kottler @skottler.me · 24/11/2024

accidentally liking someone's instagram post while looking at their profile is one of the most adrenaline-inducing things you can do

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Sam Kottler @skottler.me · 22/11/2024

Two interrupts received. Exiting immediately. Note that data loss may have occurred.

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David Klion @davidklion.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Gaetz withdrawal is encouraging, not just because we won't have AG Gaetz but because it's taken Trump about two weeks to squander his supposedly invincible mandate and remind everyone of his staggering incompetence and dysfunction—which, per last time, are the main checks on his power.

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Sam Kottler @skottler.me · 19/11/2024

I'd forgotten the greatness of a chronological timeline!

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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 18/05/2023

A little legal realist/ law & tech inside-baseball thread about what the Gonzalez/Taamneh cases In my opinion, the narrative arc of these cases is more interesting than what was in the cases or the issues presented by the cases themselves. Here's what basically happened: 1/

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Sam Kottler @skottler.me · 03/05/2023

The FTC have proposed sanctions that would prevent Meta from monetizing users under 18 and prevent the company from launching new products without independent privacy assessments.

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Sam Kottler @skottler.me · 02/05/2023

love using the internet in 2023, very good and not at all annoying

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Sam Kottler @skottler.me · 01/05/2023

thinking about the time I got back from bhutan and was feeling like a skinny legend, but eventually found out it was because I had giardia

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 01/05/2023

my mom named her kid (me) “蓝天” which means bluesky in chinese, so i called myself “jay” to become a bird instead, and then some birdapp company named their project “bluesky” and i ended up running it.

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Sam Kottler @skottler.me · 30/04/2023

just got my first nft follower on bluesky