iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Advertisement in Dolly magazine, September 1993. Note you could apply to do a course in "modelling, charm, personality". I'm so curious as to the course structure and contents.

An advertisement from within the September issue of Dolly magazine. The advertiser is "Pam Arnold Centre" and it is offering lessons in 'nanny finishing', inlcuding 6 or 12 month professional courses, childcare, and a correspondence offering. The 'vocational courses' include an offering of 'modelling, charm, personality', 'tv, film, acting, radio' and correspondence options.

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Jenn Wilson @thatjennwilson.com · 13/10/2026

A plant in the garden has been using the clothes line by putting out little tendrils and wrapping around the line as it progresses forward. Discovered now that it’s spring and warm enough to hang clothes outside again.

A vine from a plant in the garden has grown over winter and is now using our washing line to travel. Here you can see the tendrils wrapping around the clothes line.

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'm hiring for our interpretable world modeling effort at Percepta! The core question: how can we make an agent build a simulator, understand a company, and then design a policy, all from unstructured data? Come work with me and our amazing team. jobs.ashbyhq.com/percepta/909...

jobs.ashbyhq.com

Research Scientist – World Modeling

WHO WE ARE Percepta’s mission is to transform critical institutions with applied AI. We care that industries that power the world (e.g. healthcare, manufacturing, energy) benefit from frontier techno...

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Jenn Wilson @thatjennwilson.com · 07/10/2026

Current nighttime fiction read - there is no anti memetics division by qntm. Interesting world so far, easy to read prose, good chapter length and pacing.

The cover of “There is no anti memetics division” by qntm. The cover has a deer with too many eyes in the centre of the page standing on some water with a sunset on the horizon

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Jenn Wilson @thatjennwilson.com · 07/10/2026

Thinking more about the point in my undergrad when I became interested to know more rather than do the basics… This was the year that I was finally old enough to get “youth allowance” from the government. It was the first year I could study without working. I’m sure that’s not connected at all.

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Jenn Wilson @thatjennwilson.com · 06/10/2026

I think about this when my friends tell me about students turning in essays at uni that reek of models. The marker gets paid regardless. The person who loses is the one who is paying for an education they’re not getting. I have to assume the kids just aren’t aware of what is being traded.

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Jenn Wilson @thatjennwilson.com · 06/10/2026

This is a good point. Often people talk about language models as if only frontier models exist because that's what they hear and talk about. If you don't want to financially support the frontier labs, you can choose to use open models instead. Let's talk about the digital divide though.

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Jenn Wilson @thatjennwilson.com · 05/10/2026

Standard reminder: you can fork the repository and learn to code. It is an option. C++ is not easy, but it's doable. Get started today! www.ppsspp.org/docs/develop...

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Jenn Wilson @thatjennwilson.com · 05/10/2026

Bevmarks, in Victoria Australia, apparently charges $100 to deliver a pillow locally. I called the store to double check, because I figured something was faulty. That's the real figure. $100. I just... what.

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Jenn Wilson @thatjennwilson.com · 01/10/2026

There are a couple of terms floating around at the moment: cognitive offloading and cognitive surrender. There's also cognitive overload. Yay! None of these are the same, but they circle around a core idea. Let's discuss them.

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Jenn Wilson @thatjennwilson.com · 29/09/2026

Once again, Chloe is here to assist with study.

A calico cat has flopped herself over a pile of academic papers on a dining room table. She stares at the ceiling daring you to move her.

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Jenn Wilson @thatjennwilson.com · 28/09/2026

There’s nothing quite like setting a chapter down for the weekend, allowing your mind to rest, and then coming back to it on Monday where you now can see all of the badly structured statements that your mind concealed from you, because it knew what you meant to say.

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Jenn Wilson @thatjennwilson.com · 27/09/2026

Let's go through a useful paper on anthropomorphic outputs. DeVrio, Cheng, Egede, Olteanu, and Blodgett published a paper titled "A Taxonomy of Linguistic Expressions That Contribute To Anthropomorphism of Language Technologies". It's open access: doi.org/10.1145/3706...

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A Taxonomy of Linguistic Expressions That Contribute To Anthropomorphism of Language Technologies | Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Jenn Wilson @thatjennwilson.com · 23/09/2026

The unevenness of access to solar tech irritates me today. Plenty of people on my block are fine right now because they have solar panels. The construction over the back fence is also fine: they have a generator. Me? Had to throw my half cooked lunch away, and can’t work, because we rent.

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Jenn Wilson @thatjennwilson.com · 23/09/2026

Blackout in the portion of suburb where I live while I’m working from home. Hoping my draft saved correctly to the cloud before I came downstairs for lunch. Upside: a few hours to read a book and pat my cat Chloe?

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Jenn Wilson @thatjennwilson.com · 22/09/2026

I'm currently in editing mode for my thesis, in which I ask myself how I can have such good ideas and then write so badly about them. I think the answer is that I started writing before I was done thinking (because you have to) and so when editing I can *see that process* happen up close. Not good.

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Jenn Wilson @thatjennwilson.com · 19/09/2026

Discussion further in the thread notes this is about the impact that wfh has on juniors in the workplace - very fair. WFH removes a lot of opportunity for serendipity in particular, where a small comment or query in a shared kitchen or workspace opens up opportunities that you couldn't predict.

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Jenn Wilson @thatjennwilson.com · 19/09/2026

Today I am learning about the bears from Katmai National Park so that I may vote in Fat Bear Week. explore.org/fat-bear-week

Digital art of a fat brown bear with its tongue out, leaning over a title “about fat bear week”.

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Jenn Wilson @thatjennwilson.com · 18/09/2026

So I mean, fair. But also very funny. “We want to get to the bottom of who chooses our entrant, on what basis and whether our dismal record of achievement in recent years is the result of bad song choice, weak performance … or something else.” www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

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UK to answer for its ‘dismal record’ in Eurovision before committee of MPs

Digital, culture, media and sport committee expected to hear evidence from BBC bosses and music industry experts

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Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH) @aadh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We invite applications for a new Communications Manager! This is a supported, 1-year role ideal for an Early Career Researcher, PhD Candidate, or Postdoc who would like to develop their committee, leadership, and communications experience. Details below. Please share widely! #dh #comms #ecr

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maybe: annie rauwerda @annierau.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

be careful if you click this link because the internet archive collection of computer magazines could suck you in for hours archive.org/details/comp...

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Jenn Wilson @thatjennwilson.com · 15/09/2026

Today is “read a pile of literature” day. Chloe is helping.

A calico cat sitting on a pile of papers on a dining room table leans forward for a big head scratch

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Jenn Wilson @thatjennwilson.com · 13/09/2026

Looks like there is an exception for software engineering. I was wondering how they were gonna swing that one. Note also 15 mins is for kindergarten; it progresses to half lesson for the yr 11 & 12s education.nsw.gov.au/about-us/edu...

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Jenn Wilson @thatjennwilson.com · 12/09/2026

Okay, so some upsides: - they used a temperature of zero (pleasing) - they used different models (again, good to see) However: - Solid agree with Mike, on the dumping everything into the one prompt. - I'd be wondering about a lost-in-the-middle effect.

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Jenn Wilson @thatjennwilson.com · 12/09/2026

If you haven't had the opportunity to read Lisanne Bainbridge's 1983 four-page paper, "Ironies of Automation", I would recommend it. doi.org/10.1016/0005... I would also recommend Skitka, Mosier and Burdick's 2000 paper, "Accountability and automation bias". doi.org/10.1006/ijhc...

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Dave @dave.9000ish.uk · 11/09/2026

wanted to have an easy run slope, unfortunately

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Jenn Wilson @thatjennwilson.com · 10/09/2026

Daisy has, throughout winter, decided to snuggle underneath my knitted blanket. She tunnels under there at least once per day and then just fully relaxes.

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Jenn Wilson @thatjennwilson.com · 10/09/2026

Doing a phd has been simultaneously interesting and excruciating on the front of learning how I learn. I've known for a while that I learn through the process of writing, which is why I take notes and highlight and scribble all over texts.

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Jenn Wilson @thatjennwilson.com · 10/09/2026

An excellent short sci-fi story by Ted Chiang. Enjoy!

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Computational Communication Science Lab (CCL) @compcommlab.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

📢 We’re hiring a Postdoc in Computational Communication Science at the University of Vienna! 🔎 Text/image analysis, platform data & political communication 📍 Vienna ⏳ 6 years, full-time ⏰ Apply by 3 Oct jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi... Find out more about our team here: compcommlab.univie.ac.at

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Rough Draft vs Final Draft

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 05/09/2026

This is interesting. You get assigned to being born at a random place and time in history, to see what a typical person's life might have been like then. Unfortunately I was born in 1403 in the valley of Mexico and died at age 4 from dysentery.

anyhumanever.com

Any Human Ever

One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived.

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Jenn Wilson @thatjennwilson.com · 03/09/2026

Perhaps the instinctive response to go scream at the BlueSky Safety account about how you don’t like a dogpiling policy could tell you something about how you engage. Maybe we could learn about the self here. Perhaps we could sit with this and ponder why it might be warranted.

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Mikko Tolonen @tolonen.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

We are hiring! Permanent position for a University Lecturer in Digital Humanities at the University of Helsinki. The application period is open and closes on 3 October 2026: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki... Please read the job description carefully and feel free to spread the word widely.

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University Lecturer in Digital Humanities

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Jonathan K. Kummerfeld @jkkummerfeld.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

We are recruiting postdocs in AI at Sydney! This is through the new Centre for Sustainability, AI and Life Sciences, with flexibility to work with a range of academics. Please share with any students you know who are close to graduation! usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/USYD_E...

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Research Fellow

Full time, 2 year fixed term position. Located on the Camperdown Campus, University of Sydney Opportunity to contribute to the recently established Centre for Sustainability, AI and Life Sciences (SAI...

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Jenn Wilson @thatjennwilson.com · 31/08/2026

People are all “this is like Silo”, but nah man, it’s much more like 1999’s Blast from the Past, featuring the marvellous Brendan Fraser, Alicia Silverstone, Sissy Spacek, and Christopher Walden. … >_> so I know what I’m re-watching tonight.

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Jenn Wilson @thatjennwilson.com · 28/08/2026

Saw this in a post and immediately thought it was a computer mouse. One google image search later, I am disappointed that there don’t seem to be any custom made computer mice designed to look like a horseshoe crab. Market gap?

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Jenn Wilson @thatjennwilson.com · 26/08/2026

This is a sculpture called “Chuffing around”, which has been my favourite piece in my hometown’s art gallery for many years. I didn’t know the name of it until a month ago when I mentioned to a friend that I had been thinking about it again: she knew the name of it immediately, which felt magical.

A sculpture called “Chuffing Around” by Tony Bishop at the Art Gallery of South Australia.

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Jenn Wilson @thatjennwilson.com · 16/08/2026

I’m on holiday this week, visiting family and attending the Democracy Innovation Festival in Adelaide. I brought four books with me and zero laptops (so that I can’t work on the sly!) My first read is “The beginning comes after the end” by Rebecca Solnit. I am enjoying it.

A book is held up. Its title: “The beginning comes after the end”. It is written by Rebecca Solnit.

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Jess Rose @jesslynnrose.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Just spotted a cool open source job: The Document Foundation is hiring someone to help with marketing and comms - Global remote - Nonprofit role w the team behind Libre Office - Apply by Aug 31st I have no connection w the role, but if you get it, try and snag me a Libre Office sticker? 👀

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Join the LibreOffice team as a Marketing and Communication Professional (full-time, remote, m/f/d) - TDF Community Blog

Love LibreOffice? Got a passion for marketing, media, public relations and creating great campaigns? We are The Document Foundation (TDF), the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice. We’re passionate ab...

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

This is a lovely site which helps remind us of much of what we take for granted in material progress ordinaryabundance.com (HT @aveek18.bsky.social)

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Ordinary Abundance

A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.

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Jenn Wilson @thatjennwilson.com · 12/08/2026

Good news; passed my last milestone. General feedback was: - be a bit more choosey with my literature and key pillars; examiners will be multidisciplinary but need help - be clearer in how methodology impacts each chapter - link back to literature more - link problem and next steps Sensible.

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Jenn Wilson @thatjennwilson.com · 12/08/2026

Nerves for my milestone today despite running the presentation fine when I practiced last night. The nerves don’t seem to go away no matter how many times I’ve presented something at this point, and despite my comfort with the topic. Sigh. Bodies.

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Jenn Wilson @thatjennwilson.com · 10/08/2026

User directs model to make him first in a waiting list. It determines that it can boot others off the list and does so. Man shocked! Yes. Quelle surprise. 🙄 www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...

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How a simple request for AI to book a gym class exposed a major threat

When Andrew asked his AI personal assistant to book him a spot in a gym class, he had no idea he would accidentally initiate an autonomous cyber attack.

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Jenn Wilson @thatjennwilson.com · 09/08/2026

Worth reading into the comments; there is much amusement to be found.

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Jenn Wilson @thatjennwilson.com · 08/08/2026

I’m about to start writing my next chapter for my thesis. I’ve spent the past month doing a dive into the literature for this section, going back and forth to my data, deciding on what I am seeing and how it connects to theory. Aiming for a first draft by Wednesday!

Four piles of papers sit on a wooden desk; one pile sitting on top of a laptop. The closest is titled “Anthropomorphising AI”

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Li Chen @exocomics.com · 18/05/2026

sleep

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