iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

yeah, and not to make too fine a point of it, but a lot of jobs, from roads to seas to space, only got off the ground because we trusted the waves weren’t Just Us

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 2h

oh MAN, right there with you. even without confirming it, the mere Idea of other listeners tuning in is a vivid element of the medium.

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 3h

narrative art def has a more broad swathe than “mere” visual art, and visual arts imply narratives, too. but in either case, we at least know the “events of beholding” are more than just our own skull’s fabrication. Shared Responses affirm a mutual object (similar to science).

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 3h

i think that’s broadly right (tired version). like, in general, even if we haven’t recognized it until recently, a significant chunk of what we appreciate about art is that it’s not just “in our head”, that the beauty we behold has (we presume) somewhat similar responses, in other sentiences.

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 3h

now THIS is cyberpunk

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 3h

This might be the most Enneagram One-ass thing I’ve ever posted

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 3h

for me, an overthinker, I’ve reconciled sports into this concern— i think they’re a peculiarly sacred thing, humans participate and behold an event that we all focus and cherish. live tv and *some* streaming content meet this goal. But it simply has to stretch beyond my own view, mutually affirmed.

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 3h

If a piece of vivid and personally compelling media thrills me, and no one else beholds the same, or knows of its production, I believe we call those “dreams”.

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 3h

I post a lot, and watch sports alot, so I’m not trying to do a holier than thou, or crack on anyone’s particular choices. But if a near-infinite amount of private customized media choices is the horizon, we might have to investigate why we watch, more.

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 3h

if I can raise a gentler late-night philosophy question: I think the vectors of this suggest that we’ll have to eventually ask “what is the ultimate point of consuming content?”, “is it more than mere time-wasting or self pleasure?” and “should consuming content maybe have a broader point?”

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 4h

it was so good, in retrospect. wife does not consume like I do, but she said multiple times how much she loved how un-hungover her day(s) after were.

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 4h

thank you! she found a great/chill photographer to join us on the romp, it was way fun, and I am congenitally opposed to photos.

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 4h

middle name, but on the govt docs and such. i genuinely was the only Snowden I knew until Ed

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 4h

perfectly put haha

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 4h

sorry to wife guy post, but this pic of me and her waiting out some rain after the ceremony in a campground is so good

me and her smoking joints under the covered picnic area. foggy landscapes in the mountains behind us. She’s blowing smoke in my face. She’s gorgeous. I’m stupid lucky.

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 4h

this account has never told a lie

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 4h

always the king, but he is so good at drawing out all the intuitive things I feel when I read the writings of the men of those times. the words are the words, the tone is nuts

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 4h

i was already p deep into my own Mtn West amateur history stuff when I finally saw Deadwood, and it was enormously thrilling? confirming? to have the “oh yeah, this land was settled by haunted men who beat back the ghosts with bottles of whiskey, every week” feeling put to film.

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 5h

p valid athletic activity to include here, hell yes

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 24/05/2026

there are some forms of performance that cannabis does NOT enhance (quick decisions, some reactions). but there are plenty of large motor skill activities that an amount of cannabis will help you endure through, or activate into.

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 24/05/2026

also, if we want to be real: cannabis is likely a performance enhancing drug for many athletic activities

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 5h

Extremely affirming to see other millennials pick up the life

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 5h

do I have a “Stay High” shirt with “Movement Is My Drug” on the back? Maybe.

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 5h

while this COULD be a yoga/pilates studio, or a running store, or a gym, this is 95% chance of physical therapy

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 8h

i don’t feel great about it

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 9h

tonight, we cheer for Philly

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 9h

it wasn’t all bad faith, either, lots of sincere but wrong stuff. and also— when your space is necessarily driven to the shadows, all the benefits that come with sunlight and transparency disappear. rumors and legends float easier. and the transition to the light is nonpartisan and merciless to BS

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 9h

in a less fraught but still real example: “Cannabis as a Guerrilla/Illegal/Criminal Industry” up into the 90s, was full of all kinds of myths and baloney, and I don’t mean from the federal government.

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 10h

I love to see the C's, OK and NY, come together like this.

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 10h

I don't care if the Knicks won one championship, they're not winning another one until south Florida is swallowed by the sea, like in 2065. Wemby will live forever.

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 10h

Just for purposes of Discourse Patrollin', Wemby became a villain to New York, which made him a hero to much of the rest of the country

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 10h

(it's also what a lot of older meat-eater Americans will say. No, I'm not quite sure, either. But it's not that egregious.)

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 10h

Trump's been doing the "vay-gun" thing for years. He said he'd try some vay-gun food at a supporters vegan restaurant in Milwaukee, like in 2024

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 10h

i think they could change online shopping, and personal shoppers, but I don't know if "direct paths to items, marked suggested items along the way" maps or auto-filled checklists will do much for users in store. Lotta people treat their carts like barges or foraging bags, just tote them around.

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 10h

it's not a strict 1:1 comparison here, maybe cousins, but the "put computer tablets in grocery carts" moment is similar to the AI push in terms of the vastness of the gap between "developers' assumptions of users" and "actual users".

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 10h

It's called "Plato's Cave"

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 10h

Been saying it for years now, but LLMs are ultimately tools that test people's discernment. And if you'd like to see where the average person's discernment is at these days, please follow me to the basement, from there we'll take a cargo lift down to the catacombs...

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 12h

You really don’t have to agree with people to agree on this: they shouldn’t be imprisoned or deported for their political views, or for their religion.

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 12h

who knows if he wins, but Talarico's "front porch" analogy was way closer to "demilitarize our borders and immigration" than a lot of established Democrats have ever done.

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 12h

might be more accurate to say there’s just a couple clubs, and they aren’t generally too keen on swapping members very often

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 13h

This is kinda what social media is

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 13h

you will feel the same way when the lads are walking with the US Olympic team in the opening ceremonies in 2042 or whatever, no worries

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 13h

as long as Egypt and Israel stay on the right side of intel flows, all kinds of ideologies can be accommodated.

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 13h

I really think sociology has the better line here than traditional political analyses.

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 13h

(this is also some of the tragic context that informed the Rwandan genocide, which was one in a series of score settlings.)

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 13h

now THAT’s dazzle

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