iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy

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YACHT @teamyacht.com · 27/09/2026

Brussels • BE • 8 OCT 2026 YACHT (DJ set) + Clip Art (live) DÉRIVE opening party ᴏɴᴇ ɴɪɢʜᴛ ᴏɴʟʏ 🎟️ fienta.com/derive-openi...

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YACHT @teamyacht.com · 20/09/2026

A few blips of news on the YACHT newsletter this week, including hard details on our forthcoming @blippo.plus soundtrack on vinyl and the soft-reveal of Jona's new solo project, Clip Art. Read on: yacht.substack.com/p/hits-blips...

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Hits, Blips, and Clips

A new vinyl release for the Blippo+ soundtrack, a new solo project from Jona, and a new computer made from human brains? Whatever next!

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Claire L. Evans @theuniverse.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Wrote a short piece about my college years and the strange, ubiquitous pseudo-astrology book “The Secret Life of Birthdays” for this lovely Pioneer Works (@pioneerwork.bsky.social) “compilation” of new age-themed writing: pioneerworks.org/broadcast/ge...

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Gen Astro | Broadcast

Dispatches from the <i>new</i> new age.

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

OK no sorry it’s not using a fly’s brain to do all that stuff. It’s using a network wired in the ways the map of the fly’s brain is mapped. These are different objects. And yes, I realize this makes me a Buzzkill

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Claire L. Evans @theuniverse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

If the science paper includes an illustration like this one you just know it’s going to go hard

An amazing illustration of a human, a robot, a fly, a leaf, and a primordial-looking arthropod each peering out from within a drab brown box labeled “Physical World” into the inky mathematical realm of blobs, polygons, and equations.

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Claire L. Evans @theuniverse.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Here's one for the heads—wrote up a little TL;DR on Michael Levin's wild new philosophy paper: clairelevans.substack.com/p/trust-the-...

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Trust the Pattern

On Platonic realms, living exotica, and Michael Levin’s latest swing for the fences.

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YACHT @teamyacht.com · 13/09/2026

2026 in a nutshell

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The Conversationalist @conversationalist.org · 07/09/2026

Staff Reads from Executive Editor @ginamei.bsky.social: "Claire L. Evans continues to be one of the most infinitely readable tech writers in the game. Her latest feature is a trip!"

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AI Is Dead. Organoids Are Alive

Mini human brains are being grown in labs all over the world. Soon, they could outthink neural networks.

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YACHT @teamyacht.com · 06/09/2026

Reminder that you should follow the Clip Art Museum account I started! www.instagram.com/clipartmuseu...

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Blippo+ @blippo.plus · 04/09/2026

𝙂𝙍𝙀𝘼𝙏𝙀𝙎𝙏 𝙃𝙄𝙏𝙎 𝘍𝘙𝘖𝘔 𝙋𝙇𝘼𝙉𝙀𝙏 𝘽𝙇𝙄𝙋 2x LP out Oct 16 ★ Songs from the cult-classic "video game" 𝘽𝙡𝙞𝙥𝙥𝙤+ ★ By Rob & Jona from 𝙔𝘼𝘾𝙃𝙏 ★ Alien library music, TV themes, wonky bangers! ★ Metaphysical media ★ Double vinyl, 4 sides, 71 tracks Bandcamp Friday pre-order ↓ yacht.bandcamp.com/album/greate...

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Corey @kh0rish.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

You are out of your damn mind if you think that none of this matters/its all math and inert silicon can “replicate” what it does.

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Blippo+ @blippo.plus · 26/08/2026

Benders! Sproingers! It’s time to party music nonstop! “Greatest Hits from Planet Blip” is coming soon on TV static-speckled double vinyl, with new extended mixes of all your favorite Blippian tunes! Now available for pre-order: hologramopera.com/products/gre...

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Greatest Hits from Planet Blip

Pre-sale available now! Shipping will begin on release day 10/16/2026. Composers and musicians Rob Kieswetter & Jona Bechtolt (From YACHT) release The Greatest Hits from Planet Blip. A TV static-s...

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Longreads @longreads.com · 26/08/2026

"OI is a buzzy idea, and it has drawn a lot of media attention. But practically, it’s a long-term goal. For now, organoids remain what they have always been—glorified lab rats." @theuniverse.bsky.social for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/organo...

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AI Is Dead. Organoids Are Alive

Mini human brains are being grown in labs all over the world. Soon, they could outthink neural networks.

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Claire L. Evans @theuniverse.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

If you read my @wired.com piece and you're wondering what happens if you eat a human brain organoid, listen, I did ask...learn this and other behind-the-scenes insights from my time with the neural computers in my newsletter here: clairelevans.substack.com/p/dont-call-...

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Don't Call it a Mini-Brain!

Some impressions from an eventful trip to the land of organoids.

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YACHT @teamyacht.com · 15/08/2026

Hello I’ve started a clip art museum and also a band called Clip Art and both are on Instagzam at the following hyperlink: www.instagram.com/clipartmuseum

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WIRED @wired.com · 14/08/2026

From the multibrained octopus to the bitty brain organoid, we’re all just inference engines making flawed bets on the future. Here are the five insights your brain will need to survive. www.wired.com/galaxy-brain/

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5 Weird Tricks for Having a Brain

From the multibrained octopus to the bitty brain organoid, we’re all just inference engines making flawed bets on the future. Here are the five insights your brain will need to survive.

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WIRED @wired.com · 11/08/2026

Mini human brains are being grown in labs all over the world. Soon, they could outthink neural networks. www.wired.com/story/organo...

wired.com

AI Is Dead. Organoids Are Alive

Mini human brains are being grown in labs all over the world. Soon, they could outthink neural networks.

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Claire L. Evans @theuniverse.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

This one was a doozy to report; I visited clean rooms and wet labs, played Pong against brain cells, and talked with bioethicists, neuroscientists, toxicologists, and computer scientists about where consciousness begins and ends. It changed how I think about life, intelligence, and computing:

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YACHT @teamyacht.com · 07/08/2026

ᴀʀᴛɪꜱᴛ: ᴄʟɪᴘ ᴀʀᴛ ᴛɪᴛʟᴇ: ꜰʀɪᴇɴᴅ.ᴄᴏᴍ ☆ yacht.bandcamp.com/track/friend...

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Claire L. Evans @theuniverse.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Hello friends, I'm very excited to be taking my ideas about brainless cognition and future possibilities for non-neural computing on the road this August! 7/1 - FWB Fest: www.fwbfest.info 7/27 - MUTEK Forum: forum.mutek.org It's a hot slime summer 🦠

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7/1 FWB Fest - Idyllwild, CA
7/27 MUTEK Forum - Montreal

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Claire L. Evans @theuniverse.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

there are many small disappointments in this life, but none quite like discovering that gum is just food-grade plastic

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YACHT @teamyacht.com · 23/07/2026

One time we brought a six-story, sixty-ton "polyphonoptic" piece of public art back to life for three incredible weekends in Los Angeles. Watch us get excited about it in the latest episode of Artbound on @pbs.org. youtu.be/So7E8jX-bvM

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Why We Still Argue About This Sculpture | Artbound | S16 E2

YouTube video by PBS SoCal

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Claire L. Evans @theuniverse.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

This was such a fun and generative conversation! Thanks to all who came out!

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YACHT @teamyacht.com · 19/07/2026

Cream Show #NationalIceCreamDay

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Claire L. Evans @theuniverse.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I was lucky enough to spend a few days at the Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics recently, observing an interdisciplinary group of scientists as they grappled with the limits of language in the face of biological complexity. My scene report: clairelevans.substack.com/p/report-fro...

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Report from Goleta

An account of three days haunting the halls of the Institute for Theoretical Physics.

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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

WOIMSDAY THEY PAY ME IN WOIMS

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NANCY MEETS SLUGGO DOWNTOWN

HE HAS JUST GOT PAID AT THE BAIT SHOP WHERE HE WORKS

NANCY IS TRULY SURPRISED ABOUT HIS PAY

SLUGGO:THEY PAY ME IN WOIMS

SLUGGO IS HOLDING A TIN CAN FILLED WITH WOIMS (WORMS)

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Claire L. Evans @theuniverse.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

60 years ago, MIT computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum created a chatbot named ELIZA. Programmed to respond in the style of a Rogerian psychotherapist, it proved uncannily absorbing—to the point that Weizenbaum, alarmed by how easily people confided in a computer program, became the first AI critic.

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Claire L. Evans @theuniverse.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

You think you’re following biology closely and then they go ahead and make a synthetic cell and name it after a potato

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Claire L. Evans @theuniverse.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I sure picked a weird time to start watching The West Wing

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Claire L. Evans @theuniverse.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Popped onto the @quantamagazine.bsky.social podcast to chat with @pateljournalist.bsky.social about my “just the right level of unhinged” story about trained worms and the weird science of memory transfers: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

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Are Memories Transferable — or Edible?

Podcast Episode · The Quanta Podcast · June 30 · 32m

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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 30/06/2026

Imagine a world where memory is edible. Think “piano lesson pills” and “professor burgers.” In the 70s, a series of strange worm experiments made it seem possible. Tune in to The Quanta Podcast with @theuniverse.bsky.social: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

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Are Memories Transferable — or Edible?

Podcast Episode · The Quanta Podcast · June 30 · 32m

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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 14/06/2026

In her Nobel Prize acceptance speech in 1983, the octogenarian geneticist Barbara McClintock asked the question, “What does a cell know of itself?” Forty years later, scientists are realizing that the answer might be: Much more than we thought. www.quantamagazine.org/what-can-a-c...

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Hannah Waters @hanner.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

New video on @drmichaellevin.bsky.social's research into intelligent systems- "We are oblivious to all kinds of minds that are not like ours... You almost always win and discover something new by... [assuming] higher levels [of intelligence] until proven otherwise." www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-HD...

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What If Intelligence Doesn't Need a Brain?

YouTube video by Quanta Magazine

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YACHT @teamyacht.com · 10/06/2026

It was surreal just being at Apple Park during #WWDC26, but what an incredible cherry on top to have @blippo.plus honored as a finalist in the Apple Design Awards! To go from working in a vacuum for years to having our weirdo alien TV service honored at the highest level is truly special. 🙏📡❤️

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Claire L. Evans @theuniverse.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

just got served an Instagram reel about "upcyling" a cucumber seed into a cucumber plant. What are we even doing

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Claire L. Evans @theuniverse.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

My @quantamagazine.bsky.social story about the history of worm memory transfers is a @longreads.com editor’s pick this week! “What happened? Claire L. Evans checks in with the scientists who are trying to figure that out, her usual curiosity and low-key wit in tow.” longreads.com/2026/06/08/q...

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Are Memories Transferable — or Edible? - Longreads

"In the 1960s, worm-training experiments and their strange implications captivated the nation."

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Hannah Waters @hanner.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Planarian worms' regenerative abilities make them effectively “immortal under the edge of the knife.” This begs the question: When you chop a worm in half, do both halves remember? @theuniverse.bsky.social goes down a rabbit hole — erm, worm hole — to find out www.quantamagazine.org/are-memories...

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Are Memories Transferable — or Edible? | Quanta Magazine

In the 1960s, worm-training experiments and their strange implications captivated the nation. Columnist Claire L. Evans follows the neuroscientists who attempted to recapture the magic.

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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 05/06/2026

In the 60s, an eccentric behavioral psychologist named James McConnell pureed a bunch of worms and fed them to other worms. For years after, he claimed that the cannibal worms learned the ground-up worms’ memories. Could he have been… right? www.quantamagazine.org/are-memories...

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Are Memories Transferable — or Edible? | Quanta Magazine

In the 1960s, worm-training experiments and their strange implications captivated the nation. Columnist Claire L. Evans follows the neuroscientists who attempted to recapture the magic.

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Claire L. Evans @theuniverse.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

My latest! I promise this story has everything: cannibalism, memory transfers, generational scientific controversy, unbelievable 60s worm cartoons—even the Unabomber makes a brief appearance.

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Claire L. Evans @theuniverse.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Really proud of these screens I made for @blippo.plus! Pixels, baby!

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Blippo+ @blippo.plus · 02/06/2026

In honor of our Apple Design Award nomination we wanted to share some ‘lil details of Blippo’s design we love. Blippo+ was designed by @teamyacht.com (w/ help from Femtofax & CUBIS! designer @theuniverse.bsky.social) w/ contributing design and implementation by developer @marklacroix.bsky.social.

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YACHT @teamyacht.com · 24/05/2026

In these times of imminent collapse, we choose to hang out in semi-abandoned buildings and build stuff with our friends for all to enjoy. Won’t you join us? open.substack.com/pub/yacht/p/...

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Spring Scene-ing

A YACHT scene report: Eve Babitz redux, more award nods, Clip Art. Whatever Next?!

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