iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Village of the Lambed @bradenlamb.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

You’re not beholden to the Indoor Kid label you’ve given yourself

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huck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

rip annie dillard

One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.

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Kory Bing @korybing.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The new shows, and current television in general, puts focus on the overarching story of each season told in like 8 episodes, like an 8 hour movie or something, when TNG and DS9 are like “we gotta fill time for 24 episodes this one is uhhhhhhhhhhhhh what if Quark thought he was dying”

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026

It should really bother everyone more that these "AI" companies and the people that run them are always— ALWAYS— looking for ways to trick or coerce us into giving up more and more ourselves to them.

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Thomas Cannon @thomascannon.me · 27/09/2026

Also! As a former student who very much looked up to his teachers: these letters are a LIFELINE/shining point for students. That’s arguably even more important than the college rec commendation part. Do you really want to outsource that? What message does it convey to someone you’ve taught?

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

There are lots of ways to answer this and one of them is that studying history makes you a better citizen and our public universities have an obligation to produce good citizens. History education is essential to a republican model of government. Engineering is not.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The visions that SV techbros have for is honestly so dark, so bleak, so isolated and isolating; one where any and all community and connection is pushed aside in this perverse forceful push to transcend our bodies, born of their terror of disability and death. These people decide our futures, my god

itself. Our physical bodies would be discarded, and in their place would rise robotic übermenschen. Our minds, so tragically prone to decline as we age, would be transferred to flawless, immortal code. Machines were about to mature “from the simple devices they still are, to entities as complex as ourselves, to something transcending everything we know, in whom we can take pride when they refer to themselves as our descendants,” Moravec wrote.

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Thomas Cannon @thomascannon.me · 25/09/2026

Truly incredible work by Marco & the team here; I’m so excited that we’re finally starting to leap forward to the state of the art on the frontend

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Marco Roth @marcoroth.dev · 24/09/2026

Today is a big day for Herb! It's built into Rails 8.2 by default for all HTML+ERB views. My talk at #RailsWorld in Austin today answered three questions: What is Herb? What ships in Rails 8.2? And what does this enable? Herb v0.11 and ReActionView v0.6 released alongside it.

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In a world where tech companies were altruistic and moved slowly and governments weren't afraid of strict regulation, I'd be somewhat sanguine about driverless cars and how they could help fill in transit gaps or benefit non-drivers. Sadly, we do not live in that world.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

When you hear a fantastical story about AI, you should ask yourself, "How does this serve the political project of AI?" Because, as others have pointed out, that's what AI really amounts to: a political project.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The most generous assessment is that this was shitty, lazy engineering; the more in-character scenario is that the sandbox was intentionally breakable because of the story it would generate. Whichever you believe, the story is not "OMG, they made AGI!"

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Thomas Cannon @thomascannon.me · 19/09/2026

Because I’m a glutton for punishment, stubborn, I finished Tim Berners-Lee’s memoir. It was…fascinating to analyze. Oh, the halcyon days of technocratic thinking

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evy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

the goal has always been control through theft of human labor and creativity

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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 18/09/2026

Share if you agree

Fat little chihuahua puppy (maybe?) looking extremely round and smiling lying on a tan fleece blanket

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I don't think people really understand the psychic impact of knowing that multiple times a day every day your friends, family, coworkers, neighbors, and everyone who could ever have any power over you is being flooded with agitprop designed to make them hate you

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jordhiatt.bsky.social @jordhiatt.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Maybe we are guilty of gatekeeping, but the gate swings open for everyone. It might hurt a little, take a little blood, a little vulnerability, a little you, but it will be worth it and it might be amazing. Nothing is more beautiful than a new writer finding their favorite words.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

“Do you think HUMAN CREATIVITY matters? Most people don't spend a lot of time thinking about poetry until their father dies, you go to a funeral, you lose a child, somebody breaks your heart & that's when Art’s not a luxury it's sustenance.” — ETHAN HAWKE

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Thomas Cannon @thomascannon.me · 05/09/2026

My face as I watched The Happening for the first time; and as I read effusive Letterboxd reviews for The Happening

A photo of my white, spotted dog, confused and squinting into the middle distance

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Ben Novack @titlecharacter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I’ve seen a lot of this worry but to me the core is this: data centers provide little to negative actual benefit to Normal People. Even if you like them, they’re not especially exciting to have nearby. There are very real people who are stoked to advocate for local green power, and that does matter.

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tinybaby @tiny.baby · 05/09/2026

just said "1password and the shopify nazi gave $12m to DHH for his fake linux distro" which sounds like a made up jargon sentence from 30 rock

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Thomas Cannon @thomascannon.me · 04/09/2026

If I had to parse, comprehend, and (in the most briefest window possible) imagine the phrase "Ferengi gynecologist," I must not suffer alone

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Thomas Cannon @thomascannon.me · 04/09/2026

I’ve been running OS 27 and trying to figure out all the different places to turn off “writing assistance” (buzz off, I have a brain). The inline suggestions are buried in the keyboard settings; along with the 3 other plac... microblog.thomascannon.me/2026/09/0…

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Thomas Cannon @thomascannon.me · 04/09/2026

Publish or Perish is an episode built for Columbo Screens

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Thomas Cannon @thomascannon.me · 31/08/2026

✅ Deep Space 9 rewatch is officially finished 🫡

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Thomas Cannon @thomascannon.me · 30/08/2026

The local Best Buy had a perv glasses kiosk that looked like a D-rate Warby Parker 🆒

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Danielle Ryan (Lestat Era) @danirat.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I think another lesson to take from the loss of both Dolly and Tim Curry is that neither of them took themselves seriously but they took the work dead serious that's the most important thing pour all of yourself into the craft but have fun and don't get an ego.

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

of the many things to love about Tim Curry and Dolly Parton, here's one: It's as if every time they heard someone say, "you're going too big," they went BIGGER. Big presence, big hair, big charisma, big everything. Pouring one out for two artists who just WENT FOR IT and never apologized for that.

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Kendra, normal version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people

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Thomas Cannon @thomascannon.me · 26/08/2026

This entire album is one of my favorites, and I never knew this was a Woody Guthrie song

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Timmy Jackpots, The $13,250 Diamond Dazzler @tbone.malware-virus.biz · 26/08/2026

my wife has a friend who sent Dolly Parton a painting she made & a letter explaining how much Dolly's music meant to her while she was transitioning. Dolly responded to it personally & paid for her top surgery. Sounds like an urban legend but it's real. I think we're going to more stories like this.

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Cynethryth @cynethryth.com · 25/08/2026

It was just thinking about how many books she gave away for free, and now how the tech oligarchs are destroying books not just for financial gain, but to ruin the way we interact with words forever.

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton's family asked that, in lieu of flowers, fans make a donation to the singer's Imagination Library. Here's what the charity does ⬇️ www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

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Turning Pages: Inside Dolly Parton's Imagination Library

Core team of 15 staff and thousands of volunteers and partners help the country-music philanthropist deliver books to kids around the world.

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

So many juvenile ideas about what rebellion & revolution are. Dolly put money & time into things that helped people she might never meet. She gave of herself musically AND made her fame a vehicle for generosity. Sincere, unswerving, true charity. Only revolutionary because too few w/ power try it.

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I spent a long time reporting on people w wealth & fame & protections they bring. often the excuse was "But I was injured in *these* ways." You don't think a poor child growing up in the South, a woman in country music, knew fear, want, rejection? Did she use that as an excuse to hurt & hoard? NO.

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

you can build a bunker for you and your retainers & you can hoard your power & fame, you can worship nothing but ambition or status and stand by while people you might be able to help--in big ways or small ways--go without. Or you can be Dolly. All these things are choices. She made good ones.

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I'm sure she got advice on her image, on how it might be better to reject her LGBTQ audience. She didn't. She knew what it was to be powerless & poor & she didn't want *anyone* to live that way. A lesson for people w aspirations to public life: Hurting others doesn't have to be part of the equation.

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

every billionaire & tech mogul, they all want to be adored & celebrated without doing the things Dolly did with a fraction of the power & money. What she had, she gave away. I'm sure she was comfortable (& that's good!). But she just relentlessly helped. It's not that difficult. Love. Care. Help. 💚🌸

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library gifted more than 332,000,000 books since it was first created 31 years ago.

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Thomas Cannon @thomascannon.me · 23/08/2026

“Don’t change” by INXS might be one of those all-time, best perfect tracks

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Thomas Cannon @thomascannon.me · 22/08/2026

The funniest part of James Patterson AI slop commercials is the implication that you couldn’t even pay real people to pretend to read a Patterson book

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Thomas Cannon @thomascannon.me · 21/08/2026

@panic.com @househouse.com is this very dumb Big Walk meme anything?

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

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